Games like Cities in Motion
Closest overall match: Cities in Motion 2 (★ 2.8). Highest rated: Anno 1404 at ★ 4.3. Quickest to finish: Railroad Tycoon 3 at about 1 hours.
Looking for something like Cities in Motion? Our model ranked 12 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Economy, Singleplayer and Trains.
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86%
1. Cities in Motion 2
Shares transportation, Trains, City Builder, Economy and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.7 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 23%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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68%
2. Railroad Tycoon 3
Shares Trains, Economy and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2003
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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65%
3. X: Tension
Shares Economy and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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65%
4. Sid Meier's Railroads!
Shares Trains, Economy and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 51%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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64%
5. The Guild II
Shares Economy and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 61
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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64%
6. The Guild Gold Edition
Shares Economy and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 41%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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64%
7. Anno 1404
Shares City Builder, Economy and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 53%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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63%
8. Terroir
Shares Economy, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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62%
9. Patrician IV
Shares Economy and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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62%
10. Stronghold Crusader HD
Shares City Builder, Economy and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 55%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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62%
11. Transport Fever 2
Shares Trains, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher; about 10h longer.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 44%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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62%
12. Tropico 3
Shares City Builder, Economy, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 79
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 40%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Cities in Motion?
On our similarity model, Cities in Motion 2 is the closest match to Cities in Motion — shares transportation, Trains, City Builder, Economy and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same developer; rated 0.7 lower; released within 2 years.
Which game like Cities in Motion is rated highest?
Anno 1404 holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.3/5 from 135 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Cities in Motion on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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