Games like Hydro

Loved how atmospheric and replayable Hydro can get? These games could fill that gap nicely.

Power to the People
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Also in Tycoon · Replayable
79% of 475 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Nucleares
Run a nuclear power plant from the inside: over 200 parameters, 150 switches and a reactor that does not forgive sloppy work. Keep the lights on, handle emergencies, and learn the hard way why this job pays well. A deep, demanding simulator for people who like their problems complicated.
Replayable
84% of 1,147 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$14.99
COALCOM: Power Station
Pressure climbing. Drum level dropping. Three alarms and the TSO wants more power. If you trip the plant, everyone notices — the news, your boss, that guy who named his cat after a substation. You got hired because your resume said "worked with computers." Keep the lights on. Keep your job.
Replayable
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Rest Area Simulator
Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area, keep the floors clean and the shelves full, and grow one small shop into a whole business. A dynamic economy, random events and a touch of shady dealing keep each day different, solo or with up to four friends.
Also in Simulators and Tycoon · Replayable, Relaxing
85% of 672 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57$7.29
Reactor Tech²
Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.
Also in Tycoon · Replayable
68% of 351 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Energy Island Corp.
Build and manage an electric grid ! At the start of the day, build new infrastructure and plan your day. Once ready, start the day then watch electricity production / consumption in real time to adjust your buildings settings. The growth of the islands depends on you !
Also in Tycoon · Replayable
89% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
Build and run metro stations under the busy city of Lubdon Town. Dig four floors deep, route crowds with stairs and escalators, keep the power on and the litter gone, and get millions of commuters to work on time in this cute pixel-art tycoon.
Also in Tycoon · Replayable, Relaxing
81% of 1,701 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99
Gas Station Simulator
Buy a wrecked gas station in the desert and turn it into a roadside empire. Scrub, paint, pump fuel, stock shelves, then add a workshop, car wash and shop, hire staff and watch the customers roll in. Calm at first, gloriously hectic later, and hard to put down.
Also in Simulators and Tycoon · Relaxing
88% of 24,093 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 290$8.99
Power Network Tycoon
Power Network Tycoon is a physics based power grid simulation game where you build and maintain a high-voltage power network. Build power infrastructure, monitor resources, research upgrades, adapt to environmental challenges, keep up with energy demands and protect your island community!
Also in Tycoon · Replayable
94% of 32 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Center Station Simulator
You inherit a shopping center in the middle of the desert and build everything it sells yourself. Mine ore, farm crops, run foundries and canning lines in an expandable underground lab, then stock the shop and charge for parking. Slow, grindy, and weirdly hard to put down.
Also in Tycoon · Relaxing
87% of 555 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Pumping Simulator 2
Sell the classic car you inherited, buy an abandoned plot in a busy town, and turn it into a gas station worth stopping for. Pump fuel, stock shelves, wash cars and hire staff until the place runs itself. A relaxed, hands-on business sim where every upgrade shows.
Also in Simulators and Tycoon · Replayable, Relaxing
91% of 1,655 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 39$6.59
Casino Resort Tower
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Also in Tycoon · Replayable, Relaxing
94% of 134 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99

Cheaper than Hydro

Rest Area Simulator

Stock the shelves, mind the till and turn a roadside pit stop into a business worth expanding, alone or with friends.

$7.29

Energy Island Corp.

Build and manage an electric grid ! At the start of the day, build new infrastructure and plan your day.

$5.99

Pumping Simulator 2

Fix up an abandoned plot, pump fuel and stock shelves yourself, then hire staff until the place runs without you.

$6.59

Green With Energy

A relaxing game where you become a power engineer and iteratively design, test and build power grid designs.

$5.99

Hydroneer

Pan for gold, build hydro-powered machines and grow a mining empire at your own pace, alone or with friends.

$4.49

PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator

Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market.

$5.59

Uptime: A Cloud Provider Sim

Build a cloud provider from a garage to a hyperscaler - rack the hardware, run every cable, route the traffic, keep customers online.

$7.49

WATT FUR? Animal Power Plant

Hire animals, put them to work, generate electricity, and sell it. But animals are not generators.

$4.99

Blueprint Tycoon

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

$2.99

Organs Please

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans.

$6.99

Factory Town Idle

Grow a small fantasy town by putting workers to work, crafting goods and trading them for steady, satisfying growth.

$4.99

Kutha Stroom Rush

An electric-grid simulator game. Plan, build, and maintain your growing city's electric needs.

$1.30

Hidden gems like Hydro

PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator

Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market.

$5.59

The Last Gas Station

An old gas station in the wilderness is yours to fix up, in a world that has moved on to electric cars.

$13.99

Factory Town 2: Paradise

Grow a sunny island village into a bustling metropolis, one belt, train and zipline at a time, with no timers and no way to lose.

$24.99

DrainSim

Plan a flood cleanup, set up your tools and drain a whole street your way.

$14.99

Rest Area Simulator

Stock the shelves, mind the till and turn a roadside pit stop into a business worth expanding, alone or with friends.

$7.29

Waterpark Simulator

Build looping slides, keep the pools working and run every hot dog stand yourself, alone or with friends.

$12.99

Rest Area Simulator: Prologue

Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses.

Free

ALL WILL FALL

Lead flood survivors, scavenge a drying seabed and stack a shanty town toward the sky while physics, hunger and factions test every beam.

$29.99

Pumping Simulator 2

Fix up an abandoned plot, pump fuel and stock shelves yourself, then hire staff until the place runs without you.

$6.59

Motel Manager Simulator

Fix up abandoned rooms, run the shop and gas station, hire help and grow a 1990s roadside business at your own pace.

$17.99

Center Station Simulator

You inherit a shopping center in the middle of the desert and build everything it sells yourself.

$19.99

MegaFactory Titan

A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with…

$19.99

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