Games like Project Highrise
If Project Highrise is your kind of game, the closest matches are Prison Architect, Rise of Industry and SimAirport — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Project Highrise is a strategy and simulation game developed by SomaSim and published by Kasedo Games, released in 2016 at $19.99. Players manage skyscraper infrastructure including pathfinding puzzles, tenant-needs balancing, and a progression system across scenario-driven designs. The game is playable on Steam Deck. Reviewers and players describe it as atmospheric, challenging, contemplative, and cozy, highlighting the calming music and clean art style as appealing features. Players appreciate the satisfying progression from small to massive towers, the strategic variety across residential and corporate scenarios, and the nostalgia it evokes for SimTower while offering modern depth, where infrastructure depth matters as much as aesthetics. It holds an 85% positive rating from 2,227 Steam reviews.
About Project Highrise: Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Players who liked Project Highrise also play
Steam players who put hours into Project Highrise also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project Highrise.
Top pick for Project Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project Highrise.
Second-strongest match for Project Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
SimAirport
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Project Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Project Highrise.
Ranked #4 for Project Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Project Highrise.
Ranked #5 for Project Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Project Highrise.
Ranked #6 for Project Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Another Brick in The Mall
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Project Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
STATIONflow
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Project Highrise.
Ranked #8 for Project Highrise fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Project Highrise
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News Tower
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Project Highrise.
Reviewers of Project Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
Casino Resort Tower
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Project Highrise.
Reviewers of Project Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Tower
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Project Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Tower is a top-down action game with adventure and puzzle elements. Fight out of a skyscraper full of terrorists. Find out what one motivated person can do against hundreds of thugs.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Project Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Mad Tower Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares progression system and a contemplative mood with Project Highrise.
Reviewers of Project Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Loot Tower
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Project Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Fight, loot, climb, repeat! Explore randomly generated dungeons in this ARPG Bullet Heaven. Fight through endless waves of enemies to find what lies at the top.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Project Highrise.
Reviewers of Project Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Parkitect
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Project Highrise cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Project Highrise at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Project Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Project Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Project Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Project Highrise.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Project Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Project Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Project Highrise.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Project Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Project Highrise.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Project Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Project Highrise on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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More from SomaSim
Other recommendable Steam games by SomaSim, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
City of Gangsters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Project Highrise.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind Project Highrise. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
1849
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Project Highrise.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind Project Highrise. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Rise of Industry 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Project Highrise.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind Project Highrise. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Frequently asked about Project Highrise
- Does Project Highrise run on Steam Deck?
- Project Highrise is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Project Highrise cost?
- Project Highrise is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Project Highrise?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project Highrise are Prison Architect, Rise of Industry, SimAirport.
- Who developed Project Highrise?
- Project Highrise was developed by SomaSim and published by Kasedo Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Project Highrise.
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