Games like Metropolis
If Metropolis is your kind of game, the closest matches are RimWorld, Cities: Skylines and Dwarf Fortress — 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.
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Players who liked Metropolis also play
Steam players who put hours into Metropolis 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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Top pick for Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
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.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
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.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
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?
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
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.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Metropolis at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Metropolis on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Metropolis.
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.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Metropolis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Metropolis.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Metropolis on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Metropolis.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Metropolis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Metropolis.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Metropolis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Metropolis.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Metropolis on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Metropolis.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Metropolis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Metropolis.
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 ~68% under Metropolis on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Metropolis.
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...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Urbek City Builder: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free 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. Try it yourself for free!
Let's School Homeroom
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Metropolis.
Let's School: Homeroom is the prologue of Let's School. You can experience 2 weeks of in game time. If you like the experience, please go to Let's School Full Version's Store page and add to wishlist!
Oxygen: First Breath
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
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!
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
TM - Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Mini Settlers: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.
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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.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
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.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Metropolis.
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?
Frequently asked about Metropolis
- How much does Metropolis cost?
- Metropolis is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Metropolis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metropolis are RimWorld, Cities: Skylines, Dwarf Fortress.
- Who developed Metropolis?
- Metropolis was developed by Studio by the Bay.
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 Metropolis.
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