The Best City-building Games

Update : Revival and Exploration added at rank #1.
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Revival and Exploration (2025)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Android

Revival and Exploration is an oriental simulation game. Decorate your town with diverse landscapes and buildings, recruit residents to live in, and build a thriving city! You can also lead armed residents on traveling to different landscapes such as grassland, desert, snow, and volcanoes.


  • keeper
  • shop
  • city-building
  • building
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • monopoly
  • economy
  • oriental
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • casual
  • cooperative

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Preserve (2025)

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Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

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  • nature
  • city-building
  • turn-based
  • procedural
  • nature-building
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • wholesome
  • strategy
  • stylized
  • god-game
  • cozy
  • tactical
  • cute
  • base-building

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House of Legacy (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

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  • diplomacy
  • city-building
  • sandbox
  • economy
  • management
  • base-building
  • 4x
  • grand-strategy
  • political
  • open-world
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • pause
  • historical
  • strategy

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Blacksmith Master (2025)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.


  • medieval
  • colony
  • moddable
  • management
  • simulation
  • strategy
  • building
  • base-building
  • city-building
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • sandbox
  • realistic
  • replay-value
  • open-world

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Legacy of Sin ill-boding (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

The world as we knew it no longer exists. Join the few remaining survivors, lead them, and build your city, feed your people and organize your defenses to survive the hordes of enemies attacking your kingdom, mankind's last kingdom, our hope. Can you turn a small village into a great realm?

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  • tactical
  • real-time
  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • strategy
  • tower-defense
  • rpg
  • agriculture
  • board-game
  • wargame
  • isometric
  • turn-based
  • building
  • anime
  • dungeon-crawler

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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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Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware (2025)

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PC Windows

Diplomacy is Not an Option: Shareware is a free prequel to the original game. In a medieval fantasy world, you are to build settlements, raise huge armies, and defend against massive hordes of enemies. Learn how Ironbrow clan shaped the world's map the first time - if you survive, that is.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • strategy
  • real-time
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • rts-game
  • building
  • economy
  • medieval
  • simulation
  • management
  • 3d
  • resource-management

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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
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • deckbuilder
  • management
  • building
  • deck
  • turn-based
  • exploration
  • stylized
  • tactical
  • strategy
  • simulation

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Hollywood Animal (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Make movies, even if someone has to die. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.


  • choices
  • city-building
  • emotional
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • building
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • historical
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • replay-value
  • atmospheric
  • pause
  • realistic

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Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder (2025)

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early access PC Windows

At the northern fringes of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

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  • city-building
  • rome
  • god-game
  • colony
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • management
  • resource-management
  • building
  • economy
  • medieval
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • open-world

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