Games like Locomotive Works
If Locomotive Works is your kind of game, the closest matches are Transport Fever, Railway Empire 2 and Transport Fever 2 — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Locomotive Works: Build custom steam locomotives and deliver freight on a working railway. Your designs affect performance. Different jobs need different designs, and every choice has trade-offs. Balance power, size, range and cost to build anything from small yard shunters to heavy freight engines for steep climbs.
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Steam players who put hours into Locomotive Works 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
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Top pick for Locomotive Works fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
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!
Railway Empire 2
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Second-strongest match for Locomotive Works fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
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.
Transport Fever 2
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Third-strongest match for Locomotive Works fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
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!
Railway Empire
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Ranked #4 for Locomotive Works fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
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.
Voxel Tycoon
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Ranked #5 for Locomotive Works fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Locomotive Works.
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022
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Ranked #6 for Locomotive Works fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
Drive, Explore, Operate and Create the railroad of your dreams - and now you can collaborate in real time with Multiplayer Surveyor! TRS22 showcases a range of high quality routes, sessions and trains to drive, plus all the scenery you need to make your own masterpiece.
RAILGRADE
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Ranked #7 for Locomotive Works fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Derail Valley
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Ranked #8 for Locomotive Works fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Locomotive Works.
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
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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 Locomotive Works.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Railway Empire 2
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
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.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
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!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Locomotive Works.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Frequently asked about Locomotive Works
- What games are most similar to Locomotive Works?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Locomotive Works are Transport Fever, Railway Empire 2, Transport Fever 2.
- Who developed Locomotive Works?
- Locomotive Works was developed by Federation Interactive.
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 Locomotive Works.
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