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Games like Airline Empire

If Airline Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cities: Skylines, Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo — 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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About Airline Empire: Skyline Empire is a turn-based airline tycoon. Found your carrier, connect 300+ real cities, and secure airport slots while competing with up to 100 AI airlines. Set fares, buy aircraft, build hubs, and form alliances to grow a regional startup into a worldwide megacarrier.

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Airline Empire — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Airline Empire 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.

  1. Cities: Skylines

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Airline Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

    2015StrategySimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Planet Coaster

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Airline Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

    2016ActionStrategyAdventure44.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Planet Zoo

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Airline Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

    2019StrategySimulationCasual44.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Transport Fever 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Airline Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Project Hospital

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Airline Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Weedcraft Inc

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Airline Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. TransOcean 2: Rivals

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Airline Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    In TransOcean 2: Rivals you face a new challenge as the boss of your own shipping line in both single-player and - for the first time - multiplayer mode: The international competition has gotten a lot tougher and the battle for the most lucrative contracts has only just begun.

    2016StrategySimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Invisible Hand

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Airline Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    Want to get rich, quick? Welcome to FERIOS, where you’ll be empowered to pursue wealth and success as a mid-level stockbroker! Your wildest dreams of wealth can come true… at the cost of everything else.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Airline Empire.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Airline Empire.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Airline Empire.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  4. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Airline Empire.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. AdVenture Capitalist

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

    2015IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Supermarket Together

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Airline Empire.

    The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

    2024IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Fallout Shelter

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Airline Empire.

    Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

    2017SimulationRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Clicker Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Airline Empire.

    Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

    2015StrategyIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Airline Empire

What games are most similar to Airline Empire?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Airline Empire are Cities: Skylines, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo.
Who developed Airline Empire?
Airline Empire was developed by KS.

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 Airline Empire.

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