The Best City-building Games - Page 5

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Cities: Skylines II (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X/s) (Playstation 5 Xbox One

Dive into Cities: Skylines 2, the city-building simulator that redefines urban strategy in gaming. Experience the thrill of crafting your own metropolis, managing trade, and shaping the lives of your citizens. With smart AI, realistic weather cycles, and endless possibilities for city design, you'll find high replayability and countless hours of creative enjoyment.


What we like:
  • Engaging balance between realism and fun
  • Intuitive UI and automatic linking of buildings to utilities
  • Ability to fine-tune services and manage trade
  • High replayability with multiple maps
  • In-depth tutorials and progression mechanism
What could be improved:
  • Performance issues with larger cities
  • Some bugs and graphical issues
  • Limited options for choosing building aesthetics

  • city-building
  • simulation
  • economy
  • management

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River Towns (2025)

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PC Windows

Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.

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  • cozy
  • city-building
  • logic
  • isometric
  • building
  • board-game
  • family-friendly
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • post-apocalyptic
  • turn-based
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • controller-support
  • 3d

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Global City: Building Games (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone Android

Become the mayor and build the city of your dreams! In this game, anything is possible. Whatever you can imagine in a city-building and development simulator, you can do. Start from the very beginning and unlock new possibilities for developing your city in Global City!


  • city-building
  • modern
  • management
  • time-management
  • capitalism
  • grand-strategy
  • building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • economy
  • isometric
  • crafting
  • strategy
  • farming
  • colourful

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Actraiser Renaissance (2021)

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Android PC Windows IOS iPhone

ActRaiser Renaissance is a video game where you play as God rebuilding human civilization destroyed by evil. With two main parts, simulation and sidescrolling action, guiding and defending your village against monsters is incredibly fun. The challenge ramps up gradually with time, making it addicting. The combat system is competent, with various enemy types, hidden power-ups, and expanded controls. The game is meticulously crafted, genuinely improves on the original game, and maintains the spirit of what made it special. ActRaiser Renaissance is a dark horse to become game of the year and is suitable for players who love simulation and sidescrolling games.


What we like:
  • Fun tower-defense style missions
  • Meticulously crafted simulation and sidescrolling parts
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Great combat system
  • Gradual difficulty ramp-up
What could be improved:
  • The game can be overly easy on normal mode
  • Hard mode is brutally difficult
  • Magic can be overused during boss fights

  • platform
  • city-building
  • remake
  • simulation
  • side-scrolling
  • action
  • boss
  • tower-defense
  • strategy
  • hack-and-slash
  • 2d
  • classic
  • real-time
  • tower
  • rpg

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Dream Town Island (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android Playstation 4 j Nintendo Switch

A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!


  • simulation
  • colony
  • city-building
  • life
  • inventive
  • farming
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • building

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Tinytopia (2021)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!


  • city-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • physics
  • family-friendly
  • crafting
  • buildings
  • simulation
  • 3d
  • cartoony

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Planet S (2023)

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PC Windows Android

Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.


  • real-time
  • city-building
  • strategy
  • space
  • building
  • procedural
  • futuristic
  • 3d
  • hex
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • resource-management
  • management
  • multiplayer
  • grid

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Ratopia (2024)

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j Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • building
  • survival
  • management
  • resource-management
  • cute
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • cartoony
  • strategy
  • exploration
  • open-world

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Floodland (2022)

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PC Windows

Floodland is a post-apocalyptic city-building game with unique ecology themes, putting as much emphasis on dealing with your people as on actual construction. You choose one of four clans with unique strengths and weaknesses, deciding how to gather resources, navigate hazards, and build relationships. With beautiful graphics and tutorials, Floodland's gameplay is slick but accessible. But, while addictive, occasional pacing issues and unwieldy mechanics can be frustrating.

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What we like:
  • Unique themes and narrative paths
  • beautiful and accessible UI
  • addictive gameplay with slick mechanics
  • four clans with unique perks
  • great tutorials
What could be improved:
  • Occasional pacing issues
  • Unwieldy inter-clan mechanics
  • Lack instructions

  • city-building
  • survival
  • simulation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • resource

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Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles (2024)

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Xbox One j Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox Series X/s

Bulwark: Evolution mixes elements of a chill builder with grand strategy and exploration elements. It's a genre bending experimental game that can be both a peaceful building experience or a total conquest with airships, warbirds and fortresses. It's up to the player to decide.


  • city-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • naval
  • base-building
  • lore
  • steampunk
  • grand-strategy
  • cinematic
  • minimalist
  • dragon
  • relaxing
  • strategy
  • empire
  • open-world

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