Games like Citystate
If Citystate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Citystate II, Tropico 6 and NIMBY Rails — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and dark. 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 Citystate: Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.
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Steam players who put hours into Citystate 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.
Citystate II
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Citystate.
Top pick for Citystate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate.
Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Citystate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate.
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.
NIMBY Rails
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Citystate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Citystate.
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
Urbek City Builder
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Citystate.
Ranked #4 for Citystate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citystate.
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Citystate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citystate.
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!
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Citystate.
Ranked #6 for Citystate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate.
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.
Democracy 3
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Citystate.
Ranked #7 for Citystate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citystate.
Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.
Urban Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Citystate.
Ranked #8 for Citystate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate.
Urban Empire is a ‘City Ruler’, pioneering a new breed of strategy game that combines city builder features with political scheming and adds profound social and historical events into the mix, creating a whole new gameplay experience.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Citystate at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citystate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Citystate.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citystate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Citystate.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Citystate on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Citystate.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Citystate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Citystate.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Citystate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citystate.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Citystate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citystate.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citystate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citystate.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Citystate on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Citystate.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 Citystate.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Citystate.
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 Citystate.
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 Indie and Simulation with Citystate.
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 Citystate.
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.
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Frequently asked about Citystate
- Does Citystate run on Steam Deck?
- Citystate 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 Citystate cost?
- Citystate is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Citystate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Citystate are Citystate II, Tropico 6, NIMBY Rails.
- Who developed Citystate?
- Citystate was developed by Andy Sztark.
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 Citystate.
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