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Games like Project Highrise

30 games alike in City Builder, Economy and Management, with Prison Architect, Two Point Campus and SimAirport closest.

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ClosestPrison Architect

Project Highrise, but top-down, and twice the hours

27 hoursLiked · 85%Its page

BuildingManagement

9 games that share both with Project Highrise

  1. 1Closest

    Prison Architect

    Project Highrise, but top-down, and twice the hours

    Liked · 85%

  2. 2

    Two Point Campus

    Project Highrise, but funny, and cartoony

    Liked · 88%

  3. 4

    Little Big Workshop

    Project Highrise, but with crafting, and cute

    Liked · 84%

  4. 8

    Planet Coaster

    Project Highrise, but relaxing, and realistic

    Loved · 91%

  5. 9

    Jurassic World Evolution 2

    Project Highrise, but with dinosaurs, and open world

    Loved · 90%

  6. 14

    RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum!

    Project Highrise, but real-time with pause, and funny

    Loved · 92%

  7. 15

    Jurassic World Evolution

    Project Highrise, but with dinosaurs, and sci-fi

    Liked · 87%

  8. 20Shortest

    RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack

    Project Highrise, but isometric, and retro

    Loved · 90%

  9. 25

    Planet Zoo

    Project Highrise, but realistic

    Loved · 91%

ManagementCity Builder

12 games that share both with Project Highrise

  1. 3

    SimAirport

    Much the same as Project Highrise

    Mixed · 79%

  2. 5

    Academia : School Simulator

    Much the same as Project Highrise

    Liked · 81%

  3. 10

    Manor Lords

    Project Highrise, but a real-time tactics game, and historical

    Liked · 84%

  4. 11

    Foundation

    Project Highrise, but medieval, and relaxing

    Liked · 87%

  5. 12

    SimCity 4 Deluxe

    Much the same as Project Highrise

    Liked · 82%

  6. 13Best loved

    Cities: Skylines

    Project Highrise, but twice the hours

    Loved · 93%

  7. 16

    Kingdoms and Castles

    Much the same as Project Highrise

    Loved · 94%

  8. 17

    Cities: Skylines II

    Project Highrise, but realistic, and more divisive

    Divisive · 56%

  9. 21

    Dwarf Fortress

    Project Highrise, but about survival, and even better loved

    Loved · 95%

  10. 26

    Norland

    Project Highrise, but historical

    Liked · 82%

  11. 27Hidden gem

    Ostriv

    Project Highrise, but historical, and even better loved

    Loved · 95%

  12. 28

    Tropico 6

    Project Highrise, but funny

    Liked · 88%

BuildingCity Builder

6 games that share both with Project Highrise

  1. 18

    Two Point Museum

    Project Highrise, but cartoony, and even better loved

    Loved · 95%

  2. 19

    Planet Coaster 2

    Project Highrise, but 3D, and realistic

    Mixed · 74%

  3. 23

    Settlement Survival

    Project Highrise, but about survival

    Liked · 85%

  4. 24

    Frostpunk

    Project Highrise, but a survival game, and post-apocalyptic

    Loved · 93%

  5. 29

    Endzone - A World Apart

    Project Highrise, but a survival game, and post-apocalyptic

    Mixed · 77%

  6. 30

    Ratopia

    Project Highrise, but a survival game, and harder

    Liked · 88%

And more like Project Highrise

Each with the kinds it shares, under its name.

  1. 6

    Fallout Shelter

    Project Highrise, but free to play, and about survival

    Liked · 88%Management · Base Building

  2. 7

    Startup Company

    Project Highrise, but real-time with pause, and with crafting

    Liked · 81%Management · Economy

  3. 22

    Production Line

    Much the same as Project Highrise

    Liked · 82%Management · Economy

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How this list is made

A game is here when it shares the strongest of Project Highrise's Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes, each shared tag counting for more the fewer games carry it: two metroidvanias are alike, two action games barely. Games of Project Highrise's own series that play like it stand apart, above the list, and take no place on it. A similar typical length breaks near-ties, and a game sold twice is shown once. A game Steam marks adult-only is listed only for a game that is one too. Games that share the same kinds with Project Highrise stand together, under those kinds. Up to 30 games are shown, and the list stops where they grow much less alike. Where to start: the closest; the best loved of the closest fifteen with 10,000 reviews or more; the shortest of the ones 80% or more recommend; and a hidden gem, 90% or more but under 10,000 reviews.

Under each name, how it differs from Project Highrise: a kind of game it is that Project Highrise is not, a feature its strongest Steam tags carry that Project Highrise's barely do, how many hours people play it beside Project Highrise, and how its reviewers feel beside Project Highrise's.

The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. It is not a time to beat. Under a name, the share of its Steam reviewers who recommend it: loved at 90% or more, liked at 80%, mixed at 65%.