Games like Railway Empire
If Railway Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Railway Empire 2, Train Kingdom and Railroad Corporation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its competitively challenging ai rivals, complex resource management and intricate economic simulation. 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 →Railway Empire is a strategy and simulation game developed by Gaming Minds Studios and published by Kalypso Media, released in 2018. Players engage in economic simulation and railway construction within a historical setting, managing resources while competing against AI rivals in competitive multiplayer. Reviewers highlight the complex resource management and intricate economic simulation, with players describing the experience as challenging and immersive. The game features a rich historical setting and is playable on Steam Deck, priced at $29.99 USD, with an 80% positive rating from over 3,700 Steam reviews.
About Railway Empire: 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.
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Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Railway Empire.
Top pick for Railway Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
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.
Train Kingdom
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Railway Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
This is a railway history simulation game.Set in the United States of the 19th century. Get a railroad network that connects cities in the pioneering America. Use locomotives to carry supplies, passengers, and get money through trade. Complete various quests and gain fame.
Railroad Corporation
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Railway Empire.
Third-strongest match for Railway Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Relive the pioneering spirit of the Golden Age of Steam by establishing your own railroad empire across 19th century North America. Bring settlements together, produce and trade goods and develop new technologies to stay ahead of the competition. Want more? RAILROAD CORPORATION 2 Out Now!
Bounty Train
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Ranked #4 for Railway Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.
Iron Village
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Railway Empire.
Ranked #5 for Railway Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.
Transports
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Ranked #6 for Railway Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Transports is a transportation business simulation game. Build your business empire by building transportation routes for trucks, trains, ships and planes to transport goods between industrial buildings and cities.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Railway Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway 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!
Cities in Motion 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Ranked #8 for Railway Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Railway Empire
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Sid Meier's Railroads!
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Railway Empire.
Reviewers of Railway Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!
Railroad Tycoon 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Reviewers of Railway Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...
Railroad Tycoon II Platinum
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Reviewers of Railway Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Railway Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Port Royale 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Reviewers of Railway Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.
Tropico 5
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Reviewers of Railway Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
Transport Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Reviewers of Railway Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
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
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Railway Empire.
Reviewers of Railway Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Railway Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Railway Empire on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Railway Empire on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Railway Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Railway Empire on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Railway Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Railway Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Railway Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Railway Empire on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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 Simulation with Railway 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.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Railway 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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
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...
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
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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More from Gaming Minds Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Gaming Minds Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Railway Empire.
Another title from Gaming Minds Studios, the studio behind Railway Empire. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
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.
Grand Ages: Medieval
WHY THIS
Another title from Gaming Minds Studios, the studio behind Railway Empire. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Port Royale 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Another title from Gaming Minds Studios, the studio behind Railway Empire. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.
Patrician IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Railway Empire.
Another title from Gaming Minds Studios, the studio behind Railway Empire. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league.
Rise of Venice
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Railway Empire.
Another title from Gaming Minds Studios, the studio behind Railway Empire. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Venice: As a young man striving for success, power and wealth and with the support of your family, you begin to build up a trading empire across Genua, Tripoli, Rome, Alexandria and Constantinople in addition to many other significant cities from the Renaissance. This is where your story begins...
Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Railway Empire.
Another title from Gaming Minds Studios, the studio behind Railway Empire. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Tortuga - A Pirate’s Tale tells the journey of a pirate captain with a lust for gold and glory who assumes command of a fleet of pirate ships to strike the Caribbean.
Frequently asked about Railway Empire
- Does Railway Empire run on Steam Deck?
- Railway Empire is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Railway Empire cost?
- Railway Empire is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Railway Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Railway Empire are Railway Empire 2, Train Kingdom, Railroad Corporation.
- Who developed Railway Empire?
- Railway Empire was developed by Gaming Minds Studios and published by Kalypso Media.
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