Games like Jurassic World Evolution
If Jurassic World Evolution is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jurassic World Evolution 2, Jurassic World Evolution 3 and Planet Zoo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campaign better than sequels, charming retro aesthetic and atmospheric. 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 →Jurassic World Evolution is a strategy and simulation game released in 2018 by Frontier Developments, priced at $44.99 USD and verified on Steam Deck. Players manage park operations through campaign-progression, creature-husbandry, dinosaur-breeding, ecosystem-simulation, and resource-allocation mechanics. Reviewers highlight the authentic Jurassic Park franchise experience, with players describing the dinosaurs as feeling alive and interactive. Players describe the atmosphere as atmospheric, immersive, and nostalgic, with reviewers noting the campaign feels better than some of the sequels. The charming retro aesthetic and satisfying creature husbandry and breeding systems draw players into managing their own prehistoric park. The game holds an 87% positive rating from over 23,000 Steam reviews.
About Jurassic World Evolution: Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Players who liked Jurassic World Evolution also play
Steam players who put hours into Jurassic World Evolution 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.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
WHY THIS
Shares park management and an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Top pick for Jurassic World Evolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
Jurassic World Evolution 3
WHY THIS
Shares dinosaur breeding, park management and an atmospheric mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Second-strongest match for Jurassic World Evolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Third-strongest match for Jurassic World Evolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Parkasaurus
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Ranked #4 for Jurassic World Evolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Jurassic World Evolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
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!
Let's Build a Zoo
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Ranked #6 for Jurassic World Evolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Ranked #7 for Jurassic World Evolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
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.
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Ranked #8 for Jurassic World Evolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Planet Coaster
WHY THIS
Shares park management and an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Reviewers of Jurassic World Evolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Jurassic World Evolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Jurassic World Evolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Reviewers of Jurassic World Evolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
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.
Parkitect
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Reviewers of Jurassic World Evolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
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!
Wildlife Park 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Reviewers of Jurassic World Evolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.
Caesar™ IV
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Reviewers of Jurassic World Evolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
Two Point Hospital
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Jurassic World Evolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Jurassic World Evolution at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Jurassic World Evolution on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
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 ~67% under Jurassic World Evolution on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
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 ~69% under Jurassic World Evolution on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Jurassic World Evolution.
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.
BeamNG.drive
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Jurassic World Evolution on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Jurassic World Evolution on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Jurassic World Evolution on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Jurassic World Evolution on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Jurassic World Evolution on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Free alternatives
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
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 Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
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.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Frontier Developments
Other recommendable Steam games by Frontier Developments, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Planet Coaster
WHY THIS
Shares park management and an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
WHY THIS
Shares park management and an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
Planet Coaster 2
WHY THIS
Shares park management and an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
Jurassic World Evolution 3
WHY THIS
Shares dinosaur breeding, park management and an atmospheric mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
F1® Manager 2022
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Make your mark on Formula 1® in the officially licensed F1® Manager 2022. Be the boss of your chosen constructor and pick from a roster of 2022 drivers and staff.
F1® Manager 2024
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Jurassic World Evolution.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Jurassic World Evolution. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jurassic World Evolution.
Lead your team to glory in F1® Manager 2024. A new Formula 1® season has arrived, and with it, the most comprehensive F1® management experience to date. Build a legacy with one of 10 official F1® constructors or create your own team for the very first time.
Frequently asked about Jurassic World Evolution
- Is Jurassic World Evolution verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Jurassic World Evolution is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Jurassic World Evolution cost?
- Jurassic World Evolution is listed on Steam at 44.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Jurassic World Evolution?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jurassic World Evolution are Jurassic World Evolution 2, Jurassic World Evolution 3, Planet Zoo.
- Who developed Jurassic World Evolution?
- Jurassic World Evolution was developed by Frontier Developments.
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