Tycoon games like A Bumpy Ride

If A Bumpy Ride scratched a colorful and relaxing itch for you, keep reading. These tycoon games are worth a look next.

Tiny Rails
Inherit your grandfather's small regional railroad and grow it into a world-spanning train company. You haul passengers and cargo between stations, trade supplies, and tune your cars for comfort, food, or entertainment to keep riders happy and money coming in, all in soft pixel art with calm music.
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
75% of 602 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Derail Valley
Derail Valley puts you in the cab and in charge of the business: haul freight across a 256 km² open railway, get paid per delivery, and spend it on licenses, new locomotives, fuel and repairs. For tycoon fans who would rather drive the trains than place the buildings, it turns careful driving into profit.
Relaxing, Atmospheric
96% of 9,612 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 303$39.99
My Train Arrives
My Train Arrives is a railway construction simulation game. Build railroads, open new routes for trains. Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of the game.
Relaxing
86% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Train World
Become a railroad pioneer in Train World - a railway simulator that spans centuries as you design, manage, and operate your own train network. Start at the dawn of railroad technology and evolve into a complex, modern railway company.
Relaxing
75% of 85 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$34.99
Railroader
You run a shortline railroad in transition-era Appalachia: take cars at the interchange yard, switch boxcars and pulpwood flats to their industries, run passenger trains, get paid, then buy locomotives, expand the mainline and rebuild the line bridge by bridge.
Relaxing, Atmospheric
96% of 3,507 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,610$29.99
Train Life: A Railway Simulator
Drive the train and run the company that owns it. Across 10 countries and 10,000 km of track, you haul passengers and freight, mind signals and braking distances, then spend the profits on new locomotives, conductors and contracts. A relaxed, Euro-Truck-with-trains take on tycoon games.
Relaxing, Atmospheric
63% of 1,460 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Bounty Train
Run a steam locomotive as a business on rails in the 19th-century American West. You buy wagons, hire a crew, haul goods and passengers between real cities, and watch prices, weight, coal and repairs. Bandits, chases and tight deadlines keep the ledger interesting.
70% of 1,338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$9.99
Train Valley
Simple to start, frantic when traffic piles up, and hard to put down for one more run.
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
89% of 2,631 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$9.99
Rail Route
Start with a few tracks and stations on a real-world city map, then grow it into a busy rail network. You lay signals, accept contracts, upgrade lines, and automate routing with sensors until trains run on time without you touching them. Simple to start, with real depth for tycoon fans who like watching a system they built pay off.
Relaxing
87% of 2,441 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$24.99
Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.
Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
76% of 338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$4.99
Railway Empire
Set in the United States from 1830 onward, Railway Empire lets you lay track between cities, run more than 40 detailed trains, and grow towns by keeping them supplied. With staff to manage, 300 technologies across five eras, and rival tycoons to outmaneuver, it gives tycoon fans a long, satisfying network to build.
82% of 7,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 151$29.99
Station Manager
Build your own spectacular, multi-story station for your favorite trains!
Also in Cozy · Colorful, Relaxing, Cute
79% of 197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$12.99

Cheaper than A Bumpy Ride

Tiny Rails

Inherit your grandfather's small regional railroad and grow it into a world-spanning train company.

$9.99

My Train Arrives

My Train Arrives is a railway construction simulation game. Build railroads, open new routes for trains. Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of the game.

$4.99

Train Valley

Simple to start, frantic when traffic piles up, and hard to put down for one more run.

$9.99

Bounty Train

Run a steam locomotive as a business on rails in the 19th-century American West.

$9.99

Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world!

$4.99

Station Manager

Build your own spectacular, multi-story station for your favorite trains!

$12.99

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™

From the maker of RollerCoaster Tycoon, a transport tycoon about moving coal, goods and commuters from 1900 onward.

$5.99

Train Valley Origins

The cutest management game about trains. 🚂 Choo-choo! Manage increasingly complex railroad. The rich history of railway transport awaits!

$11.95

Train Valley World

Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics.

$4.99

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.

$6.99

Transport Fever

Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game where you start in 1850 and build a transport company across more than 150 years.

$2.99

Train Station Tycoon

Run a railway station where every departure has to leave on time.

$9.99

Hidden gems like A Bumpy Ride

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.

$6.99

Train Station Tycoon

Run a railway station where every departure has to leave on time.

$9.99

Railroader

You run a shortline railroad in transition-era Appalachia: take cars at the interchange yard, switch boxcars and pulpwood flats to their industries…

$29.99

Station to Station

Station to Station is a relaxing voxel puzzle game about laying railways and linking farms, factories and towns so small settlements bloom into…

$17.99

Rail Route

Start with a few tracks and stations on a real-world city map, then grow it into a busy rail network.

$24.99

RAILGRADE

RAILGRADE gives tycoon fans trains, factories and supply chains on an off-world colony.

$29.99

Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world!

$4.99

Train Valley Origins

The cutest management game about trains. 🚂 Choo-choo! Manage increasingly complex railroad. The rich history of railway transport awaits!

$11.95

Rail Route: The Story of Jozic

In “The Story of Jozic” a free stand alone expansion from the developers behind Rail Route you will take on the role of an apprentice train…

Free

Railroad Corporation 2

Start a railroad company at the turn of the 20th century and turn coal, wheat, and lumber into a money-making network.

$39.99

Railroads Online

Railroads Online lets you lay your own tracks across four large steam-era maps, drive detailed locomotives in first person, and haul timber, ore…

$29.99

NIMBY Rails

NIMBY Rails hands tycoon fans a full-scale real world map and lets you build the railway company you always argued for: lay tracks, set up lines…

$19.99

Newest tycoon games like A Bumpy Ride