The Best City-building Games

Update : Hollywood Animal added at rank #1.
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Hollywood Animal (2025)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

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

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Kaiserpunk (2025)

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PC Windows

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with the world conquest of strategy games in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

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  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • i
  • management
  • resource-management
  • colony
  • alternate
  • war
  • historical
  • world-war-2
  • diplomacy
  • simulation
  • military
  • economy
  • base-building

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Airborne Empire (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

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  • city-building
  • base-building
  • real-time
  • resource-management
  • strategy
  • flight
  • colony
  • economy
  • open-world
  • atmospheric
  • survival
  • exploration
  • steampunk
  • community
  • building

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Terrarium (2025)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Cozy fires, books, and tiny glass bottles filled with endless possibilities. In Terrarium, make your vision a reality and craft the cozy dioramas you've always dreamed of. The only question is, what will you build first?


  • cozy
  • illustration
  • design
  • idler
  • city-building
  • building
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • medieval
  • cute
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • stylized
  • grid

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Cozy Town: Build Explore Game (2024)

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IOS iPhone Android

Cozy Town is the ultimate casual city-building game that combines creativity with strategy. Create a peaceful, thriving town across beautiful islands, each offering unique landscapes and challenges. Best of all, you can build and manage your city completely offline!


  • city-building
  • buildings
  • entertainment
  • strategy
  • casual

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Overthrown (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources. Keep citizens happy or see them desert you!


  • city-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • management
  • resource-management
  • action-adventure
  • cooperative
  • simulation
  • colourful
  • combat
  • exploration
  • multiplayer
  • fantasy
  • single-player

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Frostpunk 2 (2024)

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Mac OS Xbox Series X/s) (Playstation 5 PC Windows Android

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.


  • city-building
  • survival

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Mad Smartphone Tycoon (2024)

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PC Windows

Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!

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  • management
  • building
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • capitalism
  • modern
  • sandbox
  • city-building
  • 3d
  • crafting
  • base-building
  • economy
  • strategy
  • casual
  • rogue-like

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Memoriapolis (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Memoriapolis invites you to construct a city that spans 2,500 years of history, from Antiquity to the Age of Enlightenment. Choose your culture, manage resources, face historical events, build "Wonders" to achieve the status of Capital of Capitals and leave your mark in history!

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  • city-building
  • simulation
  • colony
  • political
  • immersive
  • building
  • base-building
  • management
  • resource-management
  • historical
  • procedural
  • choices
  • exploration

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Cataclismo (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.


  • real-time
  • city-building
  • colony
  • strategy
  • grand-strategy
  • moddable
  • 4x
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • economy
  • building
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • historical

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