6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Train Valley 2. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Train Valley 2.
Release Date: 06/01/2015
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Mini Metro is a game where you create an ordered, efficient underground train system. It sounds like hard work, but the simple Tube-map visuals, calm music, and streamlined interactions make this relaxing, like sudoku. Dip your toe in this strategy...
Release Date: 04/03/2019
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Mini Motorways is by the same developer as Mini Metro but tasks you with planning a road network rather than subway. You lay down roads, traffic lights and motorways to ensure enough cars can get to the buildings that pop up in your city as time passes....
Release Date: 02/02/1998, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS2, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Open World
Age of Empires is a strategy game where you command an ancient civilisation in real-time and must develop from hunter-gatherers to advanced forms of defence and war. This is similar territory to Civilization but focuses on...
Release Date: 15/09/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid and Weather
Timberborn is a construction strategy game where you control a population of beavers, building a civilization and preparing for drought. You build waterways, storage houses, dams and more in a densely packed city as you manage resources, allocate...
Release Date: 23/09/2015
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Grid
Concrete Jungle is a city-building puzzle game. It's the follow up for MegaCity. Rather than manage resources like a traditional city management strategy game, here you place cards to create buildings, parks, amenities and services on each square. The...
Release Date: 13/07/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Urbek City Builder is a city-building and resource management game where you grow, plan and shape a city. It's like the Sim City games, but the twist is that money doesn't feature. Instead, costs come in the impact to natural...
24 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Train Valley 2. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Train Valley 2.
Release Date: 21/10/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid and Open World
Civilization is a long-running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter-gatherer to space travel. There are many ways to approach this challenge; socially, militarily, politically or perhaps by building wonders to impress other nations.
Release Date: 14/08/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Factorio is a construction strategy game where you crash-land on an alien planet and must harvest resources to create industry to build a rocket to escape (or fall in love with running your factory and stay on longer).
Release Date: 10/03/2015, updated in 2023
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Grid
Cities: Skylines is a city-building simulation. It rekindled the attention to detail and ambitious city planning of the Sim City games. You zone buildings, place roads, set taxation and provide public services and public...
Release Date: 25/02/2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Two Point Hospital is a light-hearted healthcare simulator. You take charge of a hospital, similar to Theme Hospital, where you must construct and maintain wards, machines and staff.
Release Date: 02/02/1989, updated in 2014
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Grid
SimCity is a series of city-building games, created by Will Wright. Since their inception as educational experiences in 1989, the games have enabled players to design ambitious cities. The attraction is the openness of play, where you can let your...
Release Date: 28/03/2023
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Open World
Terra Nil is a strategy game where you are using clean technology to bring back life to a barren world. It's a city building game where you aren't building a city at all, but a clean thriving ecology. It raises interesting themes of how humanity plays...
Release Date: 17/11/2016
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person and Day and Night
Planet Coaster Console Edition is a pleasure park construction and management game. It draws on games like Theme Park and RollerCoaster Tycoon. You build different theme park rides and roller-coasters in considerable detail, to score design points and...
Release Date: 30/03/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid and Open World
Evil Genius 2 is a tongue-in-cheek strategy game where you play the evil villain. You must build a detailed, functional lair from where you can take control of the world. Similar to Sim City and 2 Point Hospital, you use your resources wisely as you...
Release Date: 05/08/2016
Platforms: Android, Mac and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Balance - Power Grid is a puzzle game about power grids. You place cables, pylons and power generators to make sure there are no blackouts. Through a series of challenges you build power grids that are functional, and that produce the right amount of...
Release Date: 22/04/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Open World
Buildings Have Feelings Too is set in a city where buildings can walk and talk. Not only that, but each has aspirations, hopes and fears. Your job is to create a city that works for all the buildings, a task that will see your city planning pulled in...
Release Date: 20/02/2020
Platforms: Android, PC and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On, Hand-Made and Text
Democratic Socialism Simulator is a puzzle game where you run for office and then run a country. It offers a flow of questions with a yes or no response. Each answer has consequences in the minds of the voters and the prosperity of the country. It's an...
Release Date: 11/05/2015
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Little Builders is a city building game for very young players. You work on your own construction site and can drive a digger, mix cement, roof a building, operate a crane, drive a street sweeper or paint a house.
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Learning Factory is a strategy game where you automate an old factory. Unusually, this isn't to make money and conquer the world but a round about approach to understand cats. Peculiar backstory aside, the game tasks you with renovating the factory,...
Release Date: 06/09/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Railbound is a track-bending puzzle game where you lay track, switch points, and use tunnels to get the carriages to the engine in the right order. Although it's the puzzles that keep you playing, there's also a real joy in connecting tracks and seeing...
Release Date: 23/04/2020, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead
112 Operator and its predecessor, 911 Operator, are strategy games that put you in control of the emergency services as they fight natural disasters, crime and terrorism. You choose how to deal with each scenarios and work your way up the chain of...
Release Date: 01/01/1998, updated in 2020
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS, DS, PC and PSP
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Weather
Air Traffic Controller (Airport Hero) is a series of games where you take charge of an airport. You deal with landing planes, directing them to runways and gates while ensuring things run on time and without accidents. Each session is a unique set of...
Release Date: 01/12/2011, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
The Bridge Constructor games are a series of physics-based building challenges to make stable bridges over chasms and ravines. While it's a simple concept, the variety of locations and different geometry means that building a stable bridge requires...
Release Date: 21/02/2022
Platforms: Android, Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Max Traffic is a minimalistic puzzle game where you manage traffic flow by controlling traffic lights. You take on different traffic systems that form the flag of different countries. It's similar in style to Traffix but offers a score challenge where...
Release Date: 01/07/2021
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Factori is a puzzle game where you use factories to create letters and words by a series of interrelated processes. You start with the letter i and chain together a system of satisfying factories to form words.
Release Date: 14/06/2015, updated in 2016
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Fallout Shelter is a time management simulation game. Set in the Fallout wasteland after a nuclear war, you play as an Overseer of an underground bunker. You accrue currency to build rooms, attract people and train them to provide resources, craft...
Release Date: 16/10/2020
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Hand-Made
After Midnight is a small puzzle-style role play game where you lead a team of animal medics to contain a virus outbreak in a hospital. It's a simple game that offers a window into the life of a health worker. Subsidised by the National Centre for...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Land Above Sea Below is a calm landscape-building puzzle game where you raise an island out of the sea to keep the flora and fauna above water. You work to increase your island’s area and height by placing tiles one after one.
Release Date: 26/01/2018, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Railway Empire is a train business management simulator where you construct a railway system to connect cities of early America and turn a profit. You place tracks and stations to link rural businesses with cities for supply, processing and distribution...
Release Date: 02/03/2015
Platforms: Web
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Grid
Train Braining is a puzzle game where you lay train track to then deliver passengers to their required platforms. While sounds simple, but due to the minimal passenger room on your train and the layout of each miniature level, the solution is rarely as...
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