Games like Cities: Skylines II
If Cities: Skylines II is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cities: Skylines, Transport Fever 2 and Transport Fever — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modding transforms rough edges, challenging and contemplative. 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 →Cities: Skylines II is a city-building simulation released in 2023 by Iceflake Studios and Colossal Order, published by Paradox Interactive, available for $34.99 USD. The game features core systems including economy management, traffic pathfinding, road infrastructure tools, service building upgrades, asset expansion, and modding support. Players describe the experience as challenging, contemplative, and immersive, with reviewers highlighting that highway-building and road-infrastructure tools feel notably tactile. Modding support is frequently cited as a significant feature, while service building upgrades are noted for adding flexibility to gameplay. The simulation currently holds a 56% positive rating from approximately 32,820 Steam reviews. The game is not supported on Steam Deck.
About Cities: Skylines II: Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Players who liked Cities: Skylines II also play
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Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Top pick for Cities: Skylines II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cities: Skylines II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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!
Transport Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Third-strongest match for Cities: Skylines II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Ranked #4 for Cities: Skylines II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Sweet Transit
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Ranked #5 for Cities: Skylines II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Ranked #6 for Cities: Skylines II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Ranked #7 for Cities: Skylines II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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.
Cities in Motion 2
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Ranked #8 for Cities: Skylines II fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Cities: Skylines II
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RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Reviewers of Cities: Skylines II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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.
Anno 1800
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Reviewers of Cities: Skylines II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Stellaris
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Reviewers of Cities: Skylines II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Reviewers of Cities: Skylines II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Reviewers of Cities: Skylines II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares modding support and a contemplative mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Reviewers of Cities: Skylines II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Reviewers of Cities: Skylines II cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cities: Skylines II at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Cities: Skylines II on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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 ~57% under Cities: Skylines II on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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?
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Cities: Skylines II on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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 ~43% under Cities: Skylines II on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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 ~71% under Cities: Skylines II on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Cities: Skylines II on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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.
American Truck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Cities: Skylines II on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Experience legendary American trucks and deliver various cargoes across sunny California, sandy Nevada, and the Grand Canyon State of Arizona. American Truck Simulator takes you on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes and widely recognized landmarks around the States.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Cities: Skylines II on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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.
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 Cities: Skylines II.
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 Cities: Skylines II.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Iceflake Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Iceflake Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Surviving the Aftermath
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Another title from Iceflake Studios, the studio behind Cities: Skylines II. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Ice Lakes
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Another title from Iceflake Studios, the studio behind Cities: Skylines II. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Ice Lakes is a modern ice fishing simulator with different single and multiplayer game modes and sandbox approach to wintertime fishing. Use and customize wide selection of fishing gear and learn how changing season, bottom topology, time of day and weather conditions affects fish behavior.
Race Arcade
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Another title from Iceflake Studios, the studio behind Cities: Skylines II.
The ultimate top down racing game with over 100 tracks, online and local multiplayer, extensive single player and a track editor to create and share your own tracks with the others.
Premium Pool Arena
WHY THIS
Another title from Iceflake Studios, the studio behind Cities: Skylines II.
Premium Pool Arena is a modern arcade style pool game with single player, online and local multiplayer modes. If you love a relaxed game of 8 ball, this is the game for you!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
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!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Sweet Transit
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities: Skylines II.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Frequently asked about Cities: Skylines II
- Does Cities: Skylines II work on Steam Deck?
- Cities: Skylines II is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Cities: Skylines II cost?
- Cities: Skylines II is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cities: Skylines II?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cities: Skylines II are Cities: Skylines, Transport Fever 2, Transport Fever.
- Who developed Cities: Skylines II?
- Cities: Skylines II was developed by Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive.
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