The Best City-building Games for Playstation 4

Update, : Seven Wonders added at rank #22.
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Tropico 6 (2019)

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Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Linux IOS iPhone

Tropico 6 is a city-building game that offers an engaging mix of elements such as ruling your own island dictatorship, sandbox mode with customizable goals, missions, and easy controller support. You can be a big picture person and make decisions that impact the entire island or get into the minute details of urban planning.


Pros:
  • Engaging mix of elements
  • Sandbox mode with customizable goals
  • Missions
  • Easy controller support:No need for mouse and keyboard or touchscreen
Cons:
  • Minor performance issues

  • city-building
  • simulation
  • economy
  • political
  • sandbox
  • management
  • strategy
  • construction
  • military
  • politics

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Frostpunk (2018)

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PC Windows Android Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?


  • city-building
  • survival
  • steampunk

3

Airborne Kingdom (2020)

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Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.


  • city-building
  • relaxing
  • steampunk
  • resource

4

Grow: Song of The Evertree (2021)

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Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Grow: Song of the Evertree is an awe-inducing experience firmly planted between an adventure game and a sweet casual farm game. The game is beautiful with opportunities to explore the world around you and keep it casual with the gameplay, whilst feeding you the story. You get to customize your character and go on a journey to save the Evertree and nurture the world back to health from the Withering. You even get your very own sweet dragon companion!


Pros:
  • Beautiful art style & music
  • Customizable character
  • Relaxed gameplay
  • Dragon companion
  • Non-binary characters supported
  • No punishment or rush for doing things wrong
Cons:
  • Slow going
  • Not strictly accessible in terms of customization options

  • farming
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • wholesome
  • exploration
  • sandbox
  • open-world
  • relaxing
  • cute
  • agriculture
  • management
  • colourful
  • life
  • world-crafting
  • adventure

5

Cities: Skylines (2015)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 stadia Playstation 4 Xbox One Linux Mac OS

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.


  • city-building
  • simulation
  • management

6

Before We Leave (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.


  • city-building
  • 4x
  • hex
  • building
  • grid
  • resource
  • relaxing

7

Surviving Mars (2018)

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Xbox One PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4

There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.


  • city-building
  • simulation
  • mars
  • space
  • colony
  • sci-fi
  • survival
  • base-building

8

Dawn of Man (2019)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.


  • city-building
  • colony
  • survival
  • strategy
  • simulation

9

Actraiser Renaissance (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Android IOS iPhone Playstation 4 PC Windows

Heaven, earth and mankind - Create and destroy everything according to your will! Experience the revival of the '90s classic hit "Actraiser"


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

10

Dwarrows (2020)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Linux Mac OS

A peaceful 3rd person adventure and town-building game. Explore, gather, build, befriend, and quest in a beautifully handcrafted world. Build and grow a new settlement and explore the lands surrounding it in this Peaceful Action-Adventure & Town-Builder. Search the lush forests of the Dusken Woodlands for resources, and adventure through mysterious new places to find lost artifacts. Meet strange and quirky characters along the way, invite wandering people to join your town, and befriend cute animals who may help you in your travels. Control your team of three uniquely skilled characters to gather resources, build structures, and find treasure.


  • city-building
  • economy
  • kickstarter
  • -
  • 3d
  • platform
  • soundtrack
  • base-building
  • exploration
  • management
  • open-world
  • third-person
  • building
  • cute
  • puzzle

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