The Best City-building Games for Linux - Page 4

Update : Paragon Pioneers 2 added at rank #21.
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Sandbox Skyline (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Build impressive skyscrapers pixel-by-pixel, and protect them from the harsh realities of nature. Each pixel is physically simulated to interact with earthquakes, firestorms, blizzards, and tsunamis. Protect your skyline and expand your territory in this relaxing (yet challenging) sandbox builder.

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  • city-building
  • god-game
  • agriculture
  • sandbox
  • building
  • nature
  • resource-management
  • real-time
  • relaxing
  • physics
  • rogue-like
  • procedural
  • pixel-by-pixel
  • pixel
  • survival

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Hearthlands (2014)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, heroes, magic and other things a typical king deals with on a daily basis.


  • city-building
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • medieval
  • simulation
  • strategy

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Rise of Industry (2019)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of Rise of Industry, a strategic tycoon game set in the 1930s. Build and manage your own industrial empire as you navigate a dynamically evolving world. Take on the role of a budding entrepreneur, constructing factories, optimizing production lines, and trading with developing cities. With its blend of accessible gameplay and strategic depth, Rise of Industry offers hours of addictive fun for both new and experienced players alike.


What we like:
  • Streamlined gameplay
  • In-depth research tree
  • Interesting concept
  • Affordable price
What could be improved:
  • Awful tutorial
  • Confusing UI
  • Incomplete game feeling
  • Issues with train terminals and road connections

  • empire
  • management
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • economy
  • trains
  • simulation
  • tycoon
  • trading
  • sandbox
  • farming
  • base-building
  • truck
  • strategy
  • zoo

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The Universim (2018)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.


  • god-game
  • colony
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • building
  • resource-management
  • space
  • procedural
  • management

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File Under Kingdom (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

File Under Kingdom is a mix of city builder, puzzle game, and interactive story. How you build the kingdom will alter events and/or influence the choices of its leaders. Use a variety of buildings to satisfy the kingdom's needs. See if you have what it takes to be the kings new Royal Planner.

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  • city-building
  • building
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • resource-management
  • interactive
  • management
  • economy
  • political
  • simulation
  • medieval
  • attack
  • score

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MicroTown (2019)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • medieval
  • management
  • economy
  • nature
  • hex
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • procedural
  • simulation
  • top-down
  • pixel

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Rise to Ruins (2014)

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A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.


  • city-building
  • colony
  • tower-defense
  • god-game
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • survival
  • pixel

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Kapital: Sparks of Revolution (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?


  • capitalism
  • city-building
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • choices
  • management
  • survival
  • isometric
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • multiple-endings
  • building
  • politics
  • 2d
  • lgbtq

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Black Forest (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS Xbox 360 Playstation 3

Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?

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  • god-game
  • colony
  • base-building
  • fantasy
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • choices
  • building
  • medieval
  • dark
  • survival
  • strategy
  • top-down
  • management
  • 3d

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World Turtles (2023)

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early access Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • economy
  • hex
  • simulation
  • god-game
  • nature
  • immersive
  • medieval
  • family-friendly
  • hand-drawn
  • grid
  • stylized
  • 3d
  • management

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