The Best City-building Games for Playstation 5

Update, : The Settlers: New Allies added at rank #8.
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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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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

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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

4

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

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Endzone - A World Apart (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.


  • city-building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • survival
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • building
  • management
  • simulated
  • resource

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Cities: VR (2022)

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Cities: VR allows for an unparalleled level of presence, immersion and hands-on gameplay. See your skyline rise from an expansive bird's eye view, or watch your city come alive from the streets.


  • city-building
  • context-sensitive
  • driving
  • simulation
  • hands-on
  • buildings
  • truck
  • construction
  • education

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Anno 1800 (2019)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Android

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

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  • city-building
  • economy
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • real-time
  • management
  • military
  • trading
  • empire

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The Settlers: New Allies (2023)

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

"Nearly 30 years after the debut of The Settlers, the legendary build-up real-time strategy series returns to Windows PC." "Forced to leave their homelands after a devastating earthquake of mysterious origins, the Settlers set sail towards the unknown in the hopes of finding a new home. Not only will they face countless new challenges, they will also become part of an ancient mystery that will change their lives forever."


  • economy
  • strategy
  • city-building
  • real-time
  • medieval
  • resource
  • military
  • empire
  • single-player

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The Block (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X xbox series s Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Mac OS

The Block is the world's smallest city builder. Place randomly generated buildings on a square and watch your tiny city block come to life! It's a very small game with no goals, challenges or fancy features - hence the very small price :)


  • wholesome
  • city-building
  • sandbox
  • building
  • clicker
  • minimalist
  • isometric
  • short
  • base-building
  • stylized
  • nature
  • relaxing
  • puzzle-thinking
  • colourful
  • 3d

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Simple Builder (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X/s

Simple Builder is basically exactly what it's name is a simple building game. You can build a large number of structures and/or large ones and have five save locations to try out. As you build more in each save location your gathering range increases.


  • city-building

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