Games like Tropico 3
If you like Tropico 3 (city builder, management and humour), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Cities: Skylines
- In common: management and long sessions
- Difference: more creative
When you want to build something big at a relaxed pace. Watching your city grow session after session keeps you hooked for weeks.
Planet Coaster
- In common: long sessions and building
- Difference: more creative
When you fancy creating at your own pace: in the free mode you have unlimited money and everything unlocked from the start.
Two Point Hospital
- In common: management and building
When you want to manage something without real stress and with a laugh: each hospital plays in comfortable sessions.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
- In common: management and long sessions
When you fancy living the films from behind a desk: Chaos Theory reimagines the first five.
Let's Build a Zoo
- In common: management and long sessions
When you want a tycoon with no set ending that you can pause and learn at your own pace, even if the hours slip away.
Planet Zoo
- In common: management and long sessions
- Difference: more creative
When you have an afternoon and want to create something beautiful while caring for your animals.
Timberborn
- In common: management and long sessions
When you want to build calmly and watch your dams transform the landscape.
Mad Games Tycoon
- In common: management and long sessions
When you have hours ahead of you and want management with no set ending: the only goal is to make as much money as possible.
Against the Storm
- In common: management and building
When you want to build and manage without committing to a weeks-long game: each settlement is one session.
Game Dev Tycoon
- In common: management and thinking
- Difference: less building
When you want a simple tycoon game for one or two afternoons, where every game you release is a small challenge.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Tropico 3
You're El Presidente of a Caribbean island at the height of the Cold War: you build, set wages, issue edicts and keep seven factions, the USA and the USSR happy, while strolling about as your avatar. Anger the people and the rebels turn up.
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