Games like MapCity
If MapCity is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mini Motorways, City Rhapsody! and Can't Live Without Electricity — 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 MapCity: MapCity is a sandbox for drawing cities directly onto the map. Start with a blank canvas or import real-world map data, then draw roads, buildings, neighborhoods, towns, cities, and entire countries. Build, reshape, and customize your world with ease.
Players who liked MapCity also play
Steam players who put hours into MapCity 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.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Top pick for MapCity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MapCity.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
City Rhapsody!
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for MapCity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MapCity.
A modern, low-poly, sophisticated city-builder where you get to control (well, almost) everything. Build your dream city. Attract citizens to stay and grow your city with large construction projects. Use everything under your control, from tax rates to fire trucks, to solve your city's problems.
Can't Live Without Electricity
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for MapCity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MapCity.
Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.
Hearth and Hamlet
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for MapCity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MapCity.
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
STARIO: Haven Tower
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for MapCity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MapCity.
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Tavern Master
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for MapCity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MapCity.
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Parkitect
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for MapCity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with MapCity.
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 MapCity at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under MapCity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MapCity.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under MapCity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with MapCity.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under MapCity on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with MapCity.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under MapCity on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with MapCity.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~59% under MapCity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with MapCity.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under MapCity on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with MapCity.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under MapCity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with MapCity.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under MapCity on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MapCity.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
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. Shares Indie with MapCity.
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 Indie and Simulation with MapCity.
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 Indie and Simulation with MapCity.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with MapCity.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with MapCity.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with MapCity.
‘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 Indie and Simulation with MapCity.
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!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about MapCity
- How much does MapCity cost?
- MapCity is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to MapCity?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MapCity are Mini Motorways, City Rhapsody!, Can't Live Without Electricity.
- Who developed MapCity?
- MapCity was developed by Permadyn 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 MapCity.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.