In Planet Coaster, you're the theme park manager, designing and running an amusement park. The game is all about building roller coasters, laying out the park, and keeping guests happy. To succeed, you need to balance creative design with operational efficiency. If you like Planet Coaster, we've got you covered. We looked for simulation and strategy games with theme park or city-building management elements. Our top picks offer detailed customization, creative freedom, and solid management mechanics. With these games, you can build new parks, cities, and scenarios, and try out fresh strategies.
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Park Beyond lets players build the park of their dreams, ignoring gravity! As the new architect for a struggling company, players build wild theme parks. Create rides you always dreamed of but never existed. Phil, the eager park veteran, and Izzy, the stern but friendly executive, help players build a successful, profitable park company using easy controls and a story campaign.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is updated and redesigned. It features overhauled 3D graphics and the new Coaster Cam. See your park from any angle and ride the coasters you build. View your park pulsing with fun and excitement from street level to blimp. Features include a better user interface, full camera control, and a new park lighting system.
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Design amazing hospitals. Cure strange illnesses. Manage difficult staff as you spread your healthcare organization across Two Point County. Build and customize your hospital; it is yours with specialist diagnosis, treatment, and the newest ornamental technology!
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Parkitect is a business simulation game. It charges you with building and managing theme parks.
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Jurassic World Evolution 2 follows Frontier’s 2018 simulation, Jurassic World Evolution. It offers a new story campaign voiced by Jurassic World film cast members, new features, four game modes, and more dinosaurs.
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Create and manage your city without limits. Cities: Skylines II offers deep simulation and a living economy. It tests your decisions and lets you build the cities you envision. Prepare for an epic scale in the most realistic city builder yet.
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Indoorlands is an amusement park management game. Control your rides and freely design your halls. Build and grow your indoor park to thrill visitors. Let your creativity explode, but watch your finances!
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Build a wildlife world in Planet Zoo. This is the ultimate zoo sim from Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon creators. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet real animals that think, feel, and explore the world you build around them.
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In Kerbal Space Program, you manage the space program for the Kerbal aliens. You assemble spacecraft using parts to make them fly or fail based on real physics. Launch your Kerbal crew into orbit and further. Keep them alive while exploring moons and planets in the Kerbol solar system. Build bases and space stations to grow your expedition's reach.
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El Presidente returns! Prove you are a feared dictator or a peace-loving statesman on the island of Tropico. Shape your banana republic's future across four distinct eras.
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Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is a physics-based medieval battle simulator. You pit wacky waving armies against each other. You pit waving arm men against each other and watch them fight.
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The Sims 4 lets you unleash your imagination. Create a unique world of Sims that shows who you are. Customize every detail, from Sims to homes and more. You control life and the Sims. Design your unique Sims, build their homes, and take them on adventures. These include celebdom, romance, and holidays.
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Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and resources to make a profit and improve your mining. Build a base, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
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Note:Build a theme park inMinecraftMinecraft is fun, especially in creative mode!
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Fix old and forgotten supermarkets. Prepare them for a big reopening. Repair and renovate everything inside and outside the store.
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Two Point Campus lets you build your dream university. This management sim, a follow-up to Two Point Hospital, lets you know your students, explore their personalities, and meet their wants and needs. Craft buildings, pick courses, hire top staff, and build an academic institution that lasts.
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House Flipper lets you become the one-man renovation crew. Earn money first before buying your first property. Plenty of work awaits! Take job offers from locals to clean, paint, install heaters, showers, and AC units, or even furnish entire properties. Once clients pay you for good work, you can get your own house.
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Manor Lords lets you live as a medieval lord. Grow your starting village into a busy city. Manage resources and production chains. Expand your lands through conquest. Manor Lords uses late 14th-century Franconia art and architecture to inform gameplay and visuals. It avoids common medieval tropes for a more authentic, colorful, and believable world.
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Wildlife Park 3 continues the successful series. As zoo manager, you control your unique zoo. Design an environment for each species using many enclosure types, park buildings, and plants.
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Blockbuster Inc. is a movie-studio simulation. You construct all facilities, manage all employees, and produce top films and TV shows to beat the competition.
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Satisfactory is an FPS open-world factory builder. You play as an engineer on an alien planet. Complete ‘Project Assembly,’ a huge machine for a secret goal. Conquer nature, build multi-story factories, and automate everything.
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