Games like Shane's Trains
If Shane's Trains is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crusader Kings III, Riftborne and Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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Crusader Kings III
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Top pick for Shane's Trains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Riftborne
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Second-strongest match for Shane's Trains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shane's Trains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Shop Tycoon is a store simulator. Create a supermarket, sex shop, games store or a store with good Polish vodka. Place your logo, hire employees, expand your car fleet, build offices and parking lots, create a chain of stores and more!
Driftland: The Magic Revival
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Ranked #4 for Shane's Trains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!
112 Operator
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Ranked #5 for Shane's Trains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Manage emergency services in any city in the world! Take calls and dispatch rescue forces. Handle difficult situations, now depending on the weather, and traffic. Help the citizens through cataclysms and natural disasters, becoming a better emergency number operator every day!
Hotel Giant 2
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Ranked #6 for Shane's Trains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Following its international success, Hotel Giant is back and bigger than ever. In Hotel Giant 2 you will create the hotel of your dreams and manage prestigious locations around the world. Your goal is to attract as many guests as possible and make sure they are satisfied throughout their stay.
Dummynation
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Ranked #7 for Shane's Trains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Geopolitical management game with real-time shifting borders and a streamlined gameplay, designed to minimize all burdensome chores while allowing an absolute strategic control, from military recruitment and deployment, to diplomatic and economic management.
AI War 2
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Ranked #8 for Shane's Trains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shane's Trains at current Steam store prices.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under Shane's Trains on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Shane's Trains on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shane's Trains.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Shane's Trains on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shane's Trains.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under Shane's Trains on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shane's Trains.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Shane's Trains on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~83% under Shane's Trains on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shane's Trains.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~83% under Shane's Trains on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shane's Trains.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Superflight
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Priced ~50% under Shane's Trains on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Shane's Trains.
Superflight is an intense, easy to learn wingsuit game with an infinite number of beautiful procedurally generated maps. A great game to relax for half an hour and chase your latest highscore!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shane's Trains.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shane's Trains.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Shane's Trains.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shane's Trains.
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!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shane's Trains.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Shane's Trains.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
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Frequently asked about Shane's Trains
- How much does Shane's Trains cost?
- Shane's Trains is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Shane's Trains have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shane's Trains supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Shane's Trains?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shane's Trains are Crusader Kings III, Riftborne, Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.
- Who developed Shane's Trains?
- Shane's Trains was developed by Shane Ewing and published by VerveForge.
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 Shane's Trains.
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