City Building

Years

Platforms

PlayStation PRO PlayStation 3 PlayStation 2 PlayStation Xbox 360 Xbox PS Vita PSP Wii New Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS Nintendo DS Stadia Apple Watch Windows Phone Amazon Fire TV Nvidia Shield Mobile Ouya NES SNES Game Boy Advance Nintendo Satellaview Game Boy Nintendo DSi iPod Touch iPhone Odyssey Mophun Sharp MZ Zodiac Commodore 64 NEC PC-6001 Videopac+ G7400 PC-FX ZX Spectrum Windows 3.x BREW TRS-80 Nintendo 64 Atari 7800 Thomson TO Dreamcast TurboGrafx CD DoJa Amiga Atari ST BBC Micro MSX GameCube ExEn Atari 8-bit SEGA Saturn WonderSwan Color Sharp X1 N-Gage Genesis PC-88 Amstrad CPC J2ME SG-1000 SEGA Master System 3DO FM-7 PC-98 FM Towns ZX81 Sharp X68000 Game Boy Color Virtual Boy SEGA CD Atari 5200 Odyssey 2 Dragon 32/64 Symbian Oric Apple IIgs WonderSwan CD-i ColecoVision Channel F Vectrex DOS Neo Geo CD SEGA 32X TurboGrafx-16 Intellivision Lynx Apple II Palm OS Windows Mobile BlackBerry Neo Geo bada Sinclair QL TI-99/4A iPod Classic Neo Geo Pocket Color Commodore PET/CBM Zeebo PC Booter Spectravideo Game Gear Acorn 32-bit TRS-80 CoCo Commodore 16, Plus/4 Electron Amiga CD32 webOS VIC-20 Atari 2600 GP32 Jaguar CDTV Commodore 128 SAM Coupé Game.Com Arcade Cassette Vision PC Engine SuperGrafx

Statuses

All statuses Game in development Beta testing Game canceled Game released Not officially announced Frozen Early Access The project is closed

Best Games in the City Building genre for Mac

The Wandering Village

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

Early Access: Mac → 14 September 2022; Game released: Mac → 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...

Thriving City: Song

Isometric, Strategy, City Building

Early Access: Mac → 21 April 2023; Game released: Mac → 30 May 2024

The game takes place in ancient China. As the mayor, the gamer will need to help the townspeople cultivate the land and expand the settlement. Agriculture...

Ratopia

Survival, City Building, Side view, Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox

Early Access: Mac → 6 November 2023; Game released: Mac → 1 May 2025

Players: 9.2/10

The player controls a city inhabited by mice. Each resident of Ratopia has their own skills and characteristics — they need to organize suitable jobs for the...

Amberspire

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, City Building, Construction

Game in development: Mac → 6 May 2026

A strategy for developing a city on an abandoned moon. The new world requires consideration not only of resources and population growth but also of complex...

TerraScape

City Building, Strategy, Construction, Medieval era, Isometric, Business / Management

Game released: Mac → 17 July 2024

Players: 7.5/10

At the beginning of the game, the gamer receives a deck of cards with various buildings and capabilities, from which he creates a city. You also need to complete...

Havendock

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

Game released: Mac → 22 April 2025; Early Access: Mac → 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...

Heart of the Machine

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Science fiction, City Building, Construction, Procedural generation

Early Access: Mac → 31 January 2025; Game released: Mac → 6 March 2026

A city planning simulator in which artificial intelligence tries to take control of an entire city. No one knows about its existence (yet), which allows the AI to...

Belle Citique

Strategy, Simulation, City Building, Construction

Game released: Mac → 6 April 2026

The player creates a cozy settlement by building various structures. It is also necessary to attract people and animals to the city, so you can then watch them...

Mountaincore

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

InfraSpace

City Building, Science fiction, Sandbox, Strategy, Business / Management, Construction

Game released: Mac → 22 September 2023; Early Access: Mac → 15 October 2021

A sci-fi city-building simulator in which the player builds a futuristic city with a stable industrial infrastructure. Every resource produced must pass through a...

PlanetX

Online, Strategy, In real time, City Building, Science fiction

Game released: Mac → 18 April 2025

A multiplayer game set on a spherical planet. The gamer expands his territory, constructs buildings and manages resources to develop his empire. You need to capture...

Tropico 6: Tropican Shores

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

PyramidValley: Reborn

Strategy, Simulation, City Building

Game released: Mac → 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...