Games like Economicon
If Economicon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Industrial Mogul, Texas Oil Baron and Rise of Industry — 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 Economicon: Design factories, automate production and build the rail and road networks that get it to market. Every city wants something different, and every wasted tile will cost you. Grow your company in this automation-tycoon game until you have all the money in the world.
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Industrial Mogul
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Top pick for Economicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Economicon.
Build an industrial empire across vast procedurally generated maps. Create production chains, develop cities, research technologies, build powerful brands, and compete for market dominance in a dynamic economy shaped by supply and demand.
StrategySteam ↗Texas Oil Baron
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Second-strongest match for Economicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Economicon.
Build your Texas oil empire from scratch. Explore the underground, drill wells, and extract oil into tanks or barrels. Sell it cheaply at a local depot or store it and wait for a price spike on global markets. An atmospheric economic tycoon game featuring a unique cross-section view of the earth.
Rise of Industry
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Third-strongest match for Economicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Economicon.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Railway Empire 2
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Ranked #4 for Economicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Economicon.
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.
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Economicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Economicon.
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!
Train Valley World
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Ranked #6 for Economicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Economicon.
Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics. Build and manage efficient railroads across the globe, create sophisticated logistics chains, design your own levels, and become a business mogul – solo or in multiplayer!
Mad Tower Tycoon
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Ranked #7 for Economicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Economicon.
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Factory Town
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Ranked #8 for Economicon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Economicon.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Economicon.
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.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Economicon.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Economicon.
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 Indie and Simulation with Economicon.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Economicon.
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!
DOGWALK
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Economicon.
Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Economicon.
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.
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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
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Economicon.
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.
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Economicon.
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!
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Economicon.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Frequently asked about Economicon
- What games are most similar to Economicon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Economicon are Industrial Mogul, Texas Oil Baron, Rise of Industry.
- Who developed Economicon?
- Economicon was developed by Gomo Studios and published by Games Operators.
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 Economicon.
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