The Best City-building Games for PC Windows - Page 5

Update : Blacksmith Master added at rank #21.
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Anno 1800 (2019)

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PC Windows Android Playstation 5 Xbox Series X

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.


  • city-building
  • strategy
  • economy
  • real-time
  • simulation
  • empire
  • sandbox
  • management

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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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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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Mini Settlers (2025)

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PC Windows

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.


  • colony
  • automation
  • trains
  • transportation
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • minimalist
  • simulation
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • building
  • management
  • procedural
  • relaxing
  • resource-management

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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.

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  • 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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Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles (2024)

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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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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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New Cycle (2024)

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early access PC Windows

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

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  • city-building
  • colony
  • building
  • survival
  • simulation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • resource-management
  • top-down
  • pause
  • realistic
  • sci-fi
  • base-building
  • 3d
  • replay-value
  • real-time

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Kingdom Eighties (2023)

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Android Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

Kingdom Eighties is a standalone expansion to the award-winning Kingdom series. A singleplayer epic adventure of micro-strategy and base building. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed, and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

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  • pixel
  • micro-strategy
  • colony
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • tower-defense
  • strategy
  • simulation
  • survival
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • building
  • skateboard
  • medieval
  • procedural

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