Games like Tropico 5 on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: Prison Architect (★ 3.7). Highest rated: Frostpunk at ★ 4.2. Quickest to finish: Railway Empire at about 4 hours.
Looking for something like Tropico 5? Our model ranked 5 games by how much they share with it. The strongest common threads are Economy, City Builder and Resource Management.
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63%
1. Prison Architect
Shares City Builder, Resource Management, Economy, achievements and RTS and 7 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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61%
2. Railway Empire
Shares Economy, Historical, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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59%
3. Cities: Skylines
Shares City Builder, Resource Management, Economy, Steam Workshop and Includes level editor and 5 more tags; rated 0.5 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 38%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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56%
4. Jurassic World Evolution
Shares City Builder, Resource Management, Economy, Open World and Great Soundtrack and 4 more tags.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 39%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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54%
5. Frostpunk
Shares City Builder, Resource Management, Economy and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14
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What is the best game like Tropico 5 on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, Prison Architect is the closest match to Tropico 5 on Nintendo Switch — shares City Builder, Resource Management, Economy, achievements and RTS and 7 more tags; released within 1 year.
Which game like Tropico 5 is rated highest?
Frostpunk holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.2/5 from 1,071 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Tropico 5 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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