Games like Rise of Industry
If Rise of Industry is your kind of game, the closest matches are Blockchain Tycoon, Nightlife Tycoon and Good Company — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its clean graphics, intricate economic simulation and rewarding when optimized. 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 →Rise of Industry is an economic simulation and logistics management game set in the early 20th century, developed by Dapper Penguin Studios and published by Kasedo Games. Players build and optimize production lines while expanding cities and managing the flow of goods across an intricate economic system. Reviewers highlight the clean graphics and intricate economic simulation, with players noting the experience becomes rewarding when systems are optimized successfully. The game presents a challenging experience with a long session shape suited to sit-down play. It released in 2019 at $29.99 and maintains a 74% positive rating from over 1800 Steam reviews. The title is playable on Steam Deck in single-player mode only.
About Rise of Industry: 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.
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Blockchain Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rise of Industry.
Top pick for Rise of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.
Nightlife Tycoon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rise of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Good Company
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rise of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Mad Games Tycoon 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Industry.
Ranked #4 for Rise of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Production Line : Car factory simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rise of Industry.
Ranked #5 for Rise of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Festival Tycoon 🎪
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Industry.
Ranked #6 for Rise of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.
STATIONflow
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rise of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Nebuchadnezzar
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rise of Industry.
Ranked #8 for Rise of Industry fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Transport Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Industry.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Rise of Industry.
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!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rise of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
EVE Online
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rise of Industry.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Rise of Industry.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Patrician III
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rise of Industry.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
Become a fellow of the famous medieval Hanse trading association in the 13th century. Manage the politics, prestige and economic success in your city and the known parts of Europe!
Patrician IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rise of Industry.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Rise of Industry.
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.
Port Royale 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Industry.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
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.
Railroad Tycoon 3
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Rise of Industry.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Rise of Industry.
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...
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rise of Industry cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rise of Industry at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Rise of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
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 Rise of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
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?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rise of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Rise of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Industry.
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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rise of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rise of Industry on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Rise of Industry.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry.
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 Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry.
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 and Indie with Rise of Industry.
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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Frequently asked about Rise of Industry
- Does Rise of Industry run on Steam Deck?
- Rise of Industry 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 Rise of Industry cost?
- Rise of Industry is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rise of Industry?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise of Industry are Blockchain Tycoon, Nightlife Tycoon, Good Company.
- Who developed Rise of Industry?
- Rise of Industry was developed by Dapper Penguin Studios and published by Kasedo Games.
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