The Best City-building Games for PC Windows - Page 4

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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.

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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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Thronefall (2023)

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Mac OS PC Windows

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

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  • tower-defense
  • city-building
  • minimalist
  • medieval
  • strategy
  • isometric
  • base-building
  • defence
  • real-time
  • tower
  • building
  • stylized
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • action

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Urbek City Builder (2022)

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

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.


  • city-building
  • voxel
  • agriculture
  • building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • modern
  • management
  • economy
  • procedural
  • political
  • sandbox
  • minimalist
  • replay-value
  • family-friendly

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Kaya's Prophecy (2025)

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PC Windows

Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.

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  • card
  • colony
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • deckbuilder
  • management
  • building
  • turn-based
  • exploration
  • stylized
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • tactical
  • cute

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Synergy (2024)

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Linux j Mac OS PC Windows

Synergy is a city-building game in which humanity must survive in a strange and hostile world. Build a city while respecting the ecosystem. Explore and analyze your environment. Provide for the needs of your citizens.


  • diplomacy
  • colony
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • nature
  • stylized
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • isometric
  • building
  • management
  • trading
  • sandbox

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Sengoku Dynasty (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X j Playstation 5

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!


  • city-building
  • medieval
  • survival
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • colony
  • building
  • life
  • war-torn
  • management
  • historical
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • resource-management

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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!

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

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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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Surviving Mars (2018)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Colonize Mars and build the first functioning human colonies on the Red Planet in Surviving Mars. Choose a space agency for resources before determining a location for your colony, and then build domes and infrastructure, research new possibilities, and utilize drones to expand your settlement. Keep your colonists alive and unlock the mysteries of this alien world. Each colonist is a unique individual with problems and strengths that influence the behavior of the others, making for a challenging and immersive gameplay experience. Are you ready to build a smart, functional colony on a planet not fit for human life?


What we like:
  • Addictive gameplay loop
  • Good music and graphics
  • Unique "city builder in space" concept
  • Interesting mods available
  • Realistic colonization of Mars theme
What could be improved:
  • Heavily reliant on DLCs for complete experience
  • Shallow gameplay with limited decision-making
  • Slow pace with lack of backstory
  • Inconsistent quality in available buildings and vehicles

  • city-building
  • simulation
  • survival
  • sci-fi
  • mars

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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!

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

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