City Building for Linux — top best games in the City Building genre

The Wandering Village - a game in the City Building genre

Business / Management, Strategy, Side view, Futurism (Future), In real time, Post-apocalyptic, City Building

Early Access: Linux → 14 September 2022; Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 75/100

A city-building simulator where the settlement is built not on the ground, but on the back of a giant wandering creature named Onbu. The world around is poisoned by...

Havendock

Simulation, Sandbox, Casual game, City Building, Construction, Crafting

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2025; Early Access: Linux → 20 April 2023

Players: 9.5/10

A colorful survival and settlement management simulator in the middle of the ocean. The goal of the game is to build a huge city on the water. The player starts by...

Tropico 6: Tropican Shores

DLC, Strategy, Simulation, City Building, In real time, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 18 June 2024

The add-on introduces new opportunities for the construction and expansion of the island, 15 buildings, a new resource — pearls, a new scenario that will...

Mountaincore

Strategy, Construction, Simulation, City Building, Sandbox, Top-down view, Fantasy

Game released: Linux → 22 April 2025

The player controls a colony of gnomes in a fantasy world. Each settler has their own needs and desires that must be satisfied. The weather and seasons change...

PyramidValley: Reborn

Strategy, Simulation, City Building

Game released: Linux → 17 July 2025

The gamer controls the city of the pharaohs in Ancient Egypt. You can play as iconic figures such as Cleopatra and build legendary structures such as the pyramids...

City Building

Best Games in the City Building genre for Linux