# Games like Cities: Skylines

> The closest matches to Cities: Skylines: Cities: Skylines II, SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Anno 1800, Frostpunk, and RimWorld. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

## Similar games, ranked

The full ranked list, 24 games, best match first (the HTML page shows the top 8 as cards).

1. [Cities: Skylines II](https://imho.run/games/949230/cities-skylines-ii) — Also City Builder and Economy, like Cities: Skylines. 32,820 Steam reviews, 56% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/949230/)
2. [SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition](https://imho.run/games/24780/simcity-4-deluxe-edition) — Shares traffic simulation with Cities: Skylines. 5,328 Steam reviews, 81% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/24780/)
3. [Anno 1800](https://imho.run/games/916440/anno-1800) — A frequent pick in Cities: Skylines players' libraries, and another Strategy. 11,586 Steam reviews, 79% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/916440/)
4. [Frostpunk](https://imho.run/games/323190/frostpunk) — Shares resource management with Cities: Skylines. 38,272 Steam reviews, 93% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/)
5. [RimWorld](https://imho.run/games/294100/rimworld) — Also City Builder, like Cities: Skylines. 116,236 Steam reviews, 98% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/)
6. [Banished](https://imho.run/games/242920/banished) — Shares mod support with Cities: Skylines. 25,649 Steam reviews, 90% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/)
7. [Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic](https://imho.run/games/784150/workers-resources-soviet-republic) — Also City Builder, like Cities: Skylines. 8,217 Steam reviews, 90% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/)
8. [Against the Storm](https://imho.run/games/1336490/against-the-storm) — Shares resource management with Cities: Skylines. 18,297 Steam reviews, 95% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1336490/)
9. [Manor Lords](https://imho.run/games/1363080/manor-lords) — Also City Builder, like Cities: Skylines. 38,294 Steam reviews, 87% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363080/)
10. [Kingdoms and Castles](https://imho.run/games/569480/kingdoms-and-castles) — Shares resource management with Cities: Skylines. 19,354 Steam reviews, 94% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/569480/)
11. [Prison Architect](https://imho.run/games/233450/prison-architect) — Shares resource management with Cities: Skylines. 33,775 Steam reviews, 89% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/233450/)
12. [Planet Coaster](https://imho.run/games/493340/planet-coaster) — Also Economy, like Cities: Skylines. 31,038 Steam reviews, 91% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/493340/)
13. [Planet Zoo](https://imho.run/games/703080/planet-zoo) — Also City Builder and Economy, like Cities: Skylines. 41,603 Steam reviews, 91% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/703080/)
14. [Tropico 5](https://imho.run/games/245620/tropico-5) — Shares economy simulation with Cities: Skylines. 4,759 Steam reviews, 77% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/245620/)
15. [Transport Fever 2](https://imho.run/games/1066780/transport-fever-2) — Also City Builder and Economy, like Cities: Skylines. 10,269 Steam reviews, 90% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1066780/)
16. [Foundation](https://imho.run/games/690830/foundation) — Also City Builder and Economy, like Cities: Skylines. 10,915 Steam reviews, 86% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/690830/)
17. [Dwarf Fortress](https://imho.run/games/975370/dwarf-fortress) — Shares economy simulation with Cities: Skylines. 23,734 Steam reviews, 95% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/)
18. [Land of the Vikings](https://imho.run/games/1981570/land-of-the-vikings) — Shares economy simulation and resource management with Cities: Skylines. 1,115 Steam reviews, 71% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1981570/)
19. [Surviving Mars](https://imho.run/games/464920/surviving-mars) — Also City Builder, like Cities: Skylines. 10,552 Steam reviews, 79% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/464920/)
20. [Cities in Motion 2](https://imho.run/games/225420/cities-in-motion-2) — Also City Builder and Economy, like Cities: Skylines. 577 Steam reviews, 54% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/225420/)
21. [Corsair Cove](https://imho.run/games/1368140/corsair-cove) — Shares resource management with Cities: Skylines. 3,443 Steam reviews, 86% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/)
22. [Farthest Frontier](https://imho.run/games/1044720/farthest-frontier) — Also City Builder, like Cities: Skylines. 10,450 Steam reviews, 87% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044720/)
23. [Citystate](https://imho.run/games/774351/citystate) — Shares terrain editing with Cities: Skylines. 690 Steam reviews, 75% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/774351/)
24. [Oxygen Not Included](https://imho.run/games/457140/oxygen-not-included) — A frequent pick in Cities: Skylines players' libraries, and another Indie. 48,352 Steam reviews, 96% positive. [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/)

## Machine-readable

The same ranked list as JSON from the imho.run API for AI assistants (GET, no key, same site as this page):

- Top 20: https://imho.run/api/agent/games-like?q=255710&n=20
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- This page as markdown: https://imho.run/md/game/255710
- API docs: https://imho.run/developers (OpenAPI: https://imho.run/openapi.json, MCP: https://imho.run/mcp)

## About Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines is a city-building strategy and simulation game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive, released in 2015 at a price of $8.99 USD. The game features city-planning, economy-simulation, public-transportation systems, resource-management, and terrain-editing mechanics alongside robust mod-support. Players describe the experience as challenging, contemplative, immersive, and relaxing, with deep-public-transport-systems and satisfying-city-growth-and-rebuilding as major draws. Reviewers highlight endless-creative-freedom-with-terrain and the traffic-simulation-feels-realistic, while the modding-community-extends-longevity significantly. The game holds a 93% positive rating from 99,307 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.

## Game info

- **AppID:** 255710
- **Developer:** Colossal Order
- **Publisher:** Paradox Interactive
- **Genres:** Strategy, Simulation
- **Categories:** Includes level editor, Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Remote Play on Tablet, Family Sharing
- **Released:** Mar 10, 2015
- **Free to play:** no
- **Metacritic:** 85
- **Platforms:** windows, mac, linux

## Links

- [Full page with filters and more lists](https://imho.run/games/255710/cities-skylines)
- [The same list as JSON, no key](https://imho.run/api/agent/games-like?q=255710&n=20) — the API for AI assistants, see https://imho.run/developers
- [Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/255710/)
- [Personalized recommendations](https://imho.run/) — sign in with Steam or paste a SteamID for a library-aware ranking

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