Games like Sideways Motorways
If Sideways Motorways is your kind of game, the closest matches are RollerCoaster Tycoon® Wonderworks, Speed Rivals - Model Trains and Loop One: Done — 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 Sideways Motorways: Turns and corners? No thank you! In this traffic-simulation game all roads are straight and cars never brake. A smart city planner like you would do the sensible thing and move the houses around instead, to avoid intersections. Or would you rather take the thrill of a close call for a higher score?
Players who liked Sideways Motorways also play
Steam players who put hours into Sideways Motorways 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.
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Wonderworks
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Top pick for Sideways Motorways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sideways Motorways.
It’s the grand opening of a new RollerCoaster Tycoon, featuring new levels of chaos and wonder as you do whatever it takes to keep guests happy (and injury-free). Customize rides, manage guests, and build wild roller coasters in your theme parks as you boost profits and expand your empire.
Speed Rivals - Model Trains
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Sideways Motorways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Build wild railway worlds, master fast and risky train driving, complete chaotic delivery missions, and race or cooperate with friends in a multiplayer train game where every track, wagon, and second matters.
Loop One: Done
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Sideways Motorways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Record loops with drones and robots by hand, to build up an efficient automated factory in this physics-based VR game.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Sideways Motorways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sideways Motorways.
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?
Two Point Campus
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Ranked #5 for Sideways Motorways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Two Point Museum
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Sideways Motorways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Minami Lane
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Sideways Motorways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!
Block'hood
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Ranked #8 for Sideways Motorways fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Sideways Motorways.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sideways Motorways.
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 Sideways Motorways.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Sideways Motorways.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sideways Motorways.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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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.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sideways Motorways.
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?
Two Point Campus
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Two Point Museum
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Minami Lane
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!
Frequently asked about Sideways Motorways
- What games are most similar to Sideways Motorways?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sideways Motorways are RollerCoaster Tycoon® Wonderworks, Speed Rivals - Model Trains, Loop One: Done.
- Who developed Sideways Motorways?
- Sideways Motorways was developed by Gentle Citadel Games.
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