Transportation simulation games allow players to manage logistics and transportation networks, often with intricate details and realistic mechanics. Here are some of the most anticipated titles in this category:

Transportation Sims

1. Transport Fever 3: A transport tycoon game, following the positive reception of its predecessors. It focuses on building logistical networks across land, sea, and air, with a fully simulated world where citizens have homes and jobs. Release is slated for 2026.
2. Train Sim World 6: The latest entry in an established train simulation series. Promises more unpredictable events, new trains, areas, maps (including England's Devon and more German rail), and immersive details inside the train. Available now on multiple platforms.
3. Junctions: A traffic engineering game where players design and manage traffic flow by carefully planning roadways, railways, and walkways. Features a free form road building and simulative realistic traffic flows. Set to release in 2026 and built for modding.
4. Road Kings: A truck simulation game where players manage 40-ton trucks across the American South, dealing with logistics, disasters, and rivals. Features realistic truck simulations, including weather and road conditions, and asynchronous multiplayer. Set for a 2026 release.
5. Truck World Australia: A trucking sim set across Australia, featuring highways and off-road tracks. Offers interactive cabins, dynamic weather, a variety of trucks, online co-op, and police/fining systems.
6. Wreckfest 2: Full-contact racing with unrivaled destruction. The physics engine is heavily featured, encouraging players to go head-to-head in races that can come down to building and customizing vehicles that ultimately are destroyed in physically specific ways.

Factory Automation Sims

1. Substructure: A factory automation game set on a rogue planet, where players dig down to exploit resources and create multiple factory layers. Features environmental challenges and is designed for modding.
2. Modulus: A creative sandbox factory simulation game where you design modules and production lines. It has a puzzle vibe where players design components to create elegant solutions.
3. Moatman: A factory automation game with organic elements, using plants, rivers, and magic, as well as portal elements. Offers a unique take on the factory sim genre. Has a free demo available.
4. Factory Town 2: A town builder and factory sim, expanding on the original with town building. It mixes city building mechanics with a strong focus on resource management and logistics.
5. Captain of Industry: Combining factory simulation and city-building, where players build factories, residential areas, and support a population. The aim is to research space flight.

Sci-Fi Sims

1. The Crust: A lunar base builder with factory automation and logistic management, where players build a moon base and manage colonists. Features narrative-driven gameplay. Has been in Early Access and is continuing to be updated, but a full release date is not yet set.

City Building & Management Sims

1. Timberborn: The beaver city-building/factory automation sim set to have a full release by the end of 2026.
2. Whiskerwood: A city-building with mice and a cat overlord, similar to Timberborn with its own distinct gameplay.
3. Cintopia: A simulation with elements of both a god game and factory automation, where souls move through a factory-like underworld. Full release is planned for 2026.
4. The Guild Europa 1410: A historical political trading simulation game where players found and run a dynasty.
5. Palworld Palm: A farming life sim spin-off from Palworld, with creature collection and combat features.
6. The Ranchers: An open-world country life sim for one to four players focused on raising animals, growing crops, crafting machines, and building a dream house.
7. Farmer's Dynasty 2: A farming sim where players build and manage a farm, with legacy and community elements. The game is scheduled to enter early access in 2026.
8. Nales: A cyberpunk business management life sim where players explore a cyberpunk city. Planned for a 2026 release.
9. Paralives: A life simulation game that is seen as a competitor to The Sims. It goes into early access and the full release is expected in 2 years.
10. Adapt: An evolution simulation game where players create creatures and survive in the wilderness. It started as a passion project and is coming soon to early access.
11. Planet Zoo 2: The next game from the Frontier Developments that has focused on the management of animals. It is expected to release at the end of 2026.
12. Blacksmith Master: A tycoon sim where you run a medieval smithy, managing resources, designing goods, and managing a crew. It's currently in early access.
13. Mars Attracts: A theme park sim set on Mars. Features the abducting and experimenting on humans.
14. Hotel Architect: A tycoon game focused on designing and managing hotels across the world.
15. Fantastic Haven: A fantasy setting zoo tycoon-like simulator where the player saves endangered fantasy creatures. A free demo is available.
16. Schedule One: Is a business empire management/manufacturing and distribution simulation game. It has a high volume of positive game reviews.
17. Cooking Simulator 2: Better Together: A sequel that features multiplayer and allows players to create their own recipes.
18. Tropico 7: The next game in the series of Tropico games where you run a banana republic with comedic approaches to things.
19. Citystate: Metropolis: A modern city-building game with impressive features. Slated for an Early Access release in Q1 2026.
20. All Will Fall: A physics-based post-apocalyptic city builder. Features gameplay focused on building a city in a vertical way utilizing a physics-based construction system.
21. Celestial Empire: An Asian-inspired city builder, similar to Anno. Early Access and currently getting good success.
22. Platooni Aztec Cities An Aztec civilization city builder, similar to the games from the Impressions games. The full release is expected in Q1 2026.
23. Beyond These Stars: A city builder where players harvest resources and manage production chains on the back of a giant space whale.
24. Dark Switch: A vertical survival city builder set on a giant tree, with resource management and moral choices.
25. Hell City Builder of the Dead:, A narrative-driven city builder set in the underworld.
26. Nova Roma: A city builder that takes on an ancient Roman theme.
27. Metropolis 1998: A retro-style city builder taking inspiration from SimTown.
28. Historic City Florence: A mission-based survival city builder set in Renaissance Florence.
29. Pompei the Legacy: An ancient Roman city builder centered around Pompeii and the volcano.
30. Stario Haven Tower: A vertical city builder.
31. Town to City: A voxel game that is a city builder, with charming and interesting visuals.
32. Manor Lords: A medieval city builder with survival and RTS elements.