Games like Transport Fever
If Transport Fever is your kind of game, the closest matches are Transport Fever 2, Train Fever and Metro Architect — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and nostalgic. 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 →Transport Fever is a challenging solo simulation released in 2016 by Urban Games, set in historical eras beginning around 1850. Players design and manage logistics networks, constructing and upgrading stations, airports, harbors, and rail lines to connect regions demanding transport services. The campaign guides progression through increasingly complex objectives, while sandbox mode allows freeform network building with extensive mod support. Reviewers highlight that designing efficient routes and optimizing vehicle performance provides a deeply satisfying macro-level business simulation experience. Players also note that first-person travel through designed networks feels immersive, and the overall package delivers a nostalgic Transport Tycoon atmosphere. The game runs Playable on Steam Deck and spans a massive length suitable for extended sit-down sessions.
About Transport Fever: Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Players who liked Transport Fever also play
Steam players who put hours into Transport Fever 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.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Transport Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Train Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Transport Fever.
Second-strongest match for Transport Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.
Metro Architect
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Transport Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
In Metro Architect, you will design, expand, and optimize realistic metro networks inspired by real-world transit systems. Build stations, manage trains, reduce congestion, and keep your city moving.
Junxions
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Transport Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Answer your true calling as a traffic engineer in Junxions! Featuring comprehensive simulation, construction, and management tools, use careful planning to build roadways, railways, and walkways, and the complex interactions between them.
Sweet Transit
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Transport Fever.
Ranked #5 for Transport Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Railway Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Transport Fever.
Ranked #6 for Transport Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Cities in Motion
WHY THIS
Shares route optimization and a retro mood with Transport Fever.
Ranked #7 for Transport Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Cities in Motion 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Transport Fever.
Ranked #8 for Transport Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Transport Fever
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Transport Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Mashinky
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with Transport Fever.
Reviewers of Transport Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Transport Fever.
Reviewers of Transport Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Transport Fever.
Reviewers of Transport Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Transport Fever.
Reviewers of Transport Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Railway Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Transport Fever.
Reviewers of Transport Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Transport Fever.
Reviewers of Transport Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
In the world of A-Train, people gather around stations, gradually developing the surrounding town. What kind of railroad will you create? How will you develop the town? All these choices and more are yours to make.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Transport Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Transport Fever at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Transport Fever on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Transport Fever on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Transport Fever on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Transport Fever on Steam right now.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Transport Fever on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Transport Fever on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
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 ~73% under Transport Fever on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Transport Fever on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
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 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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Transport Fever.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Transport Fever
- Does Transport Fever run on Steam Deck?
- Transport Fever 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 Transport Fever cost?
- Transport Fever is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Transport Fever?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Transport Fever are Transport Fever 2, Train Fever, Metro Architect.
- Who developed Transport Fever?
- Transport Fever was developed by Urban Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
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 Transport Fever.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.