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Games like Skytropolis

If Skytropolis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deisim, Rolling Line and Banished — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. 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.

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About Skytropolis: Build the world's first SKYTROPOLIS, a vertical mega city where you control its design, architecture, economy, and sustainability! Play both on desktop or in virtual reality.

2017IndieSimulation24.99 USDWindows · macOSby Mythical City Games, LNG Studios
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Challenges provide clear pacing and goalsDemand based building adds strategic depthScaling up and down to place buildings is satisfyingChillCozyRelaxing

Players who liked Skytropolis also play

Steam players who put hours into Skytropolis 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.

  1. Deisim

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Skytropolis.

    Top pick for Skytropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Rolling Line

    WHY THIS

    Shares a chill mood with Skytropolis.

    Second-strongest match for Skytropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Build your own model railway tracks and scenery or explore pre-made maps, including 1000s of player-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop! Play solo and in multiplayer, both in virtual reality and on PC!

    2018IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Skytropolis.

    Third-strongest match for Skytropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Skytropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Prison Architect

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Skytropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Aven Colony

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Skytropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Skytropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Skytropolis

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Project Highrise

    WHY THIS

    Shares a cozy mood with Skytropolis.

    Reviewers of Skytropolis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

    2016StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Skytropolis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Skytropolis.

    SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

    2010StrategySimulation3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Cities: Skylines

    WHY THIS

    Shares a relaxing mood with Skytropolis.

    Reviewers of Skytropolis cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

    2015StrategySimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Skytropolis at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Skytropolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skytropolis.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Skytropolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Skytropolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skytropolis.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Skytropolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Skytropolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skytropolis.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Skytropolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skytropolis.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~68% under Skytropolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skytropolis.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Balatro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Skytropolis on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Skytropolis.

    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.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Kingdom: Classic

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Oxygen: First Breath

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  3. United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  4. These Doomed Isles: The First God

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    These Doomed Isles: The First God is a prologue chapter of the main game, These Doomed Isles. Play as Cernunnos, the Celtic god of nature, and lead the Celtic civilisation to victory against waves of invaders, curses and more!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Microtopia: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Diorama Worlds

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Build and Explore worlds with a growing library of tiles and objects. Simple to use, easy to learn, fast to build.

    2017IndieSimulationCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Pan'orama: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Pan'orama is a relaxing and soothing puzzle simulation game in which you create amazing landscapes using different types of tiles, but most of all by discovering the connections between them and finding unique combinations.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Stonies

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Stonies – Secure the survival of your kin! Play the gripping mix of life simulation and tycoon game now and accompany your Stonies through their prehistoric life. Prove your skill as a Stone Age leader in Stonies.

    2018SimulationFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Mythical City Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Mythical City Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Battle Fleet 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Mythical City Games, the studio behind Skytropolis. Shares Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Welcome Admiral! Select your fleet, assign weapons, and sink the enemy fleet by controlling each of your ships down to setting the aim and range of each weapon's shot. Features include full open world Pacific & Atlantic campaigns, cross-platform multiplayer and awesome turn-based naval battles.

    2014StrategySimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Battle Fleet: Ground Assault

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Mythical City Games, the studio behind Skytropolis. Shares Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Command entire companies of tanks across the battlefields of WW2 in turn based tactical strategy. Move without grids, skillfully aim every shot and use cover to lead your tanks to victory.

    2018ActionStrategySimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Snow Fortress

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Mythical City Games, the studio behind Skytropolis. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    SNOWBALL FIGHT! Relive your childhood by building the perfect snow fort and protecting it from getting trashed by an army of angry snowmen! Unlock tools to protect your fort and deliver a flurry of snowballs at your opponents!

    2016ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Tippy Tree

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Mythical City Games, the studio behind Skytropolis. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Christmas is just around the corner and it’s time to decorate! Tippy Tree is a virtual reality puzzle game that has you decorate the tippiest of trees. Celebrate the holiday season with trinkets aplenty, but watch out, without careful planning, all of your work may come crashing down!

    2018IndieSimulationCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Starbase Gunship

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Mythical City Games, the studio behind Skytropolis. Shares Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Starbase Gunship places you in the seat of a weapons officer on a state-of-the-art Gunship as you defend a remote outpost from an Alien invasion fleet. With access to laser cannons, missiles, miniguns and nuclear warheads, you are the last line of defense between humanity and the alien invaders.

    2021ActionSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Snow Fortress 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Mythical City Games, the studio behind Skytropolis. Shares Indie and Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Dive into a VR winter wonderland! Build your own icy fortresses, engage in epic snowball battles, and defend your village from an army menacing snowmen. Stay Frosty!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Suez Canal Training Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Mythical City Games, the studio behind Skytropolis. Shares Simulation with Skytropolis.

    Command colossal container ships that can turn on a dime and grow a scrappy maritime shipping empire. Load containers, thread tight turns, dodge traffic, upgrade your fleet and try to arrive with at least SOME of your cargo. How hard can it be? If you block the canal, that’s on you.

    SimulationCasualEarly AccessSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Skytropolis

How much does Skytropolis cost?
Skytropolis is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Skytropolis?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skytropolis are Deisim, Rolling Line, Banished.
Who developed Skytropolis?
Skytropolis was developed by Mythical City Games, LNG Studios.

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 Skytropolis.

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