The Best City-building Games for Xbox Series X

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

5

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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Imagine Earth (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Imagine Earth is a thrilling real-time planet simulation and strategy game that lets you explore and colonize distant planets. In this game, you play a space colony manager tasked with building profitable colonies while preserving living conditions for your people amidst corporate greed and environmental concerns. Dig for resources, build power plants, farms, and factories while fending off threats like asteroids, wild fires, and hostile colonies. You can trade resources and technologies to enrich your colonies, build towers, and research for advanced technologies. Now, it's time to expand your colony and dominate the universe!


Pros:
  • Well-polished game with unique art design and relaxing gameplay
  • Heavy emphasis on competitiveness with multiple ways to hinder AI competition
  • Great fun in multiplayer games
  • Continual and meaningful updates from the developers
  • Unique approach to a tile-based system
Cons:
  • Lack of micromanagement may disappoint city-building enthusiasts
  • Voice acting could be better
  • Limited countermeasures against weather effects
  • Unintuitive resource gathering and pollution mitigation

  • simulation
  • diplomacy
  • colony
  • lore
  • nature
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • science
  • management
  • base-building
  • economy
  • procedural
  • sandbox
  • space
  • resource

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SimAirport (2020)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS Xbox One Xbox Series X

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!


  • city-building
  • base-building
  • flight
  • building
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • management
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • resource-management
  • casual
  • simulation
  • strategy

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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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