Games like Trains & Things
If Trains & Things is your kind of game, the closest matches are Art of the Rail, Lawgivers II and Colony Survival — 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 Trains & Things also play
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Art of the Rail
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Top pick for Trains & Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Spiritual remake of the classic transport tycoon games. Build a profitable transport network and grow your worlds economy, either on your own in singleplayer or in multiplayer whether cooperatively or competitively.
Lawgivers II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Trains & Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game that features multiple electoral systems, approve/reject bills and govern a country. Start out your career from the very bottom, and perhaps one day, lead your nation to become the most influential in the world.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Trains & Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Software Inc.
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Ranked #4 for Trains & Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Mashinky
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Ranked #5 for Trains & Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.
Satellite Reign
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Ranked #6 for Trains & Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
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Ranked #7 for Trains & Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
Rising Lords
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Ranked #8 for Trains & Things fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Trains & Things at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Trains & Things on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trains & Things.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Trains & Things on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Trains & Things.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Trains & Things on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trains & Things.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Trains & Things on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trains & Things.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under Trains & Things on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Trains & Things.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Trains & Things on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Trains & Things.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trains & Things.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trains & Things.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Trains & Things.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Bloons TD Battles
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Trains & Things.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
One-armed robber
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
Blackwake
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.
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Frequently asked about Trains & Things
- How much does Trains & Things cost?
- Trains & Things is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Trains & Things have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Trains & Things supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Trains & Things?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Trains & Things are Art of the Rail, Lawgivers II, Colony Survival.
- Who developed Trains & Things?
- Trains & Things was developed by bitshift.
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 Trains & Things.
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