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

Bellwright - a game in the City Building genre

Action, Third-person view, Open world, Strategy, City Building, Construction, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 23 April 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8.1/10

A survival simulator in the Middle Ages. The main character is a man accused of murdering a prince and sentenced to death. Having escaped punishment, he decides to...

Cities: Skylines 2

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, City Building, Construction

Game released: PC → 24 October 2023

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 74/100

A continuation of the city-planning simulator, in which all the mechanics were expanded, support for modifications was improved, graphics were upgraded and...

Pax Autocratica

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Science fiction, City Building, Construction, Crafting

Early Access: PC → 10 August 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 5.5/10

An unusual hybrid of a city-building colony simulator and a first-person shooter with dark satire on totalitarian regimes. In the game, you need to build a powerful...

Anno 117: Pax Romana

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, City Building, Construction

Game released: PC → 13 November 2025

VGTimes: 7.4/10

Players: 5.9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

The game takes place in 117 AD. Players in the role of governor control two provinces — Albion and Latium. As you progress, you need to establish trade, build...

Stronghold 4

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Isometric, City Building, Medieval era, Construction

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Continuation of the legendary series of strategies about building and defending medieval castles. The events unfold years before the original game and transport...

Corsair Cove

Strategy, Simulation, Historical, City Building, Construction

Game released: PC → 31 July 2026

Metacritic: 79/100

A city-building simulator for developing a pirate base at the sunset of the golden age of buccaneers. In the game's plot, the seas are roamed by Crown ships, and...

Mandate Order

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Isometric, Historical, Sandbox, City Building, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 12 August 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

A simulation game of building and managing an ancient military fortress, set in China during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States. The game combines...

Tropico 7

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Business / Management, Sandbox, City Building, Construction

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A new installment in the famous Tropico series of city-building simulators, which continues the story of El Presidente. Players in the role of a dictator will have...

Transport Fever 3

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox, Casual game, City Building

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

An economic simulation and city-building strategy about creating a large-scale transportation empire. The game world has become bigger and more dynamic, and the...

Anno 1800

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, City Building, Sandbox, Exploration, Historical, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 16 April 2019

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Anno 1800 is a new game in the real-time management strategy series Anno. The events unfold at the dawn of the industrial age, during the times of great...

Romestead

Action, Adventure, Simulation, Top-down view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, City Building

Early Access: PC → 26 May 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

The ruins of Ancient Rome became an arena of the fierce struggle for life: the former citizens turned into revived dead and hunt for survivors at night. Players...

Laysara: Summit Kingdom

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, City Building, Fantasy

Early Access: PC → 10 April 2024; Game released: PC → 27 February 2026

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 73/100

The player creates a new home on top of the mountain for his people, driven out of the lowlands. Half-settlements may be located at different heights, but coexist...

Going Medieval

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Medieval era, City Building

Early Access: PC → 1 June 2021; Game released: PC → 17 March 2026

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

A simulator of building and managing a medieval settlement, unfolding after a devastating plague that left only a small part of the population alive. A small group...

Masters of Albion

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, City Building, Construction, Zombies

Early Access: PC → 22 April 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027

A god simulator from the creators of Black & White. Players develop a settlement, satisfy the needs of warring factions and expand their influence - and at night...

Pioneers of Pagonia

Strategy, City Building, Medieval era, Construction

Early Access: PC → 13 December 2023; Game released: PC → 11 December 2025

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The game is about exploring, discovering and reuniting the fantastic islands of Pagonia. They have many scattered villages that can be united by building a...

Farthest Frontier

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Sandbox, City Building, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 9 August 2022; Game released: PC → 23 October 2025

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 83/100

An urban strategy game with sandbox elements, where the player leads a small group of settlers on the edge of the known world. Gradually, you need to rebuild the...

Dawnfolk

Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Casual game, City Building, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: PC → 13 February 2025

Metacritic: 83/100

A fantasy strategy game about a kingdom consumed by all-encompassing darkness. As the ruler, you must restore the devastated lands, manage resources, and build...

Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Sandbox, City Building, Fantasy, Medieval era

Game released: PC → 20 October 2025

Players: 9.6/10

A real-time strategy game with indirect control in the spirit of the Majesty series. Throughout the game, the player develops a kingdom, recruits heroes who act...

Against the Storm

Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Simulation, City Building, Sandbox, Historical, Fantasy, Construction

Early Access: PC → 1 November 2022; Game released: PC → 8 December 2023

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 91/100

A city-planning simulator in a dark fantasy world in which you need to restore civilization and save it from deadly rains. Players take on the role of the Scorched...

Republic of Pirates

Simulation, Strategy, Construction, City Building, Business / Management

Game released: PC → 19 June 2024

Players: 8.2/10

The main character is trying to restore his father's legacy and rebuild the pirate settlement. It is necessary to develop buildings necessary for the extraction and...

Foundation

Strategy, Business / Management, Indie, Medieval era, City Building, Procedural generation

Early Access: PC → 1 February 2019; Game released: PC → 31 January 2025

Players: 8.2/10

A city-building simulator in a medieval setting, where all the emphasis is on creating a harmonious dream city. The modular construction system allows you to erect...

Settlement Survival

City Building, Strategy, Isometric

Game released: PC → 24 October 2022

The player controls a group of survivors and oversees the construction of a settlement. It is necessary to protect people from natural threats, take care of their...

ALL WILL FALL

Simulation, Business / Management, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, City Building, Construction, Crafting

Game released: PC → 3 April 2026

Metacritic: 73/100

A post-apocalyptic city-building simulator in which any building can collapse. As the leader of a small group of survivors, you will have to build a vertical city...

Endzone 2

Strategy, City Building, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Construction, In real time

Early Access: PC → 26 August 2024; Game released: PC → 24 July 2025

Players: 8/10

A post-apocalyptic city-building simulator that takes players to a world destroyed by a global cataclysm. Gamers travel by bus across a large open world, explore...

Ratopia

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

Early Access: PC → 6 November 2023; Game released: PC → 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...

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, Historical, Indie, City Building

Early Access: PC → 15 March 2019; Game released: PC → 20 June 2024

Players: 8.7/10

A city planning simulator, the main feature of which is the surroundings in the style of the Soviet Union. The main task is to create your own republic, where you...

Eastern Era

Strategy, Simulation, Sandbox, Indie, City Building, Open world, Medieval era, Construction

Game released: PC → 28 March 2026

Players: 9/10

A construction and management simulator in the style of a saga, where the story begins with the escape of a small group of students from a fading sect. In a harsh...

Crown of Greed

Strategy, Simulation, Isometric, City Building, Fantasy, Construction

Game released: PC → 31 March 2026

The gamer controls the mystical kingdom of Rodovia, inspired by Slavic mythology. The game has an unusual indirect control system, in which you cannot give direct...

Fabledom

City Building, Strategy, Isometric, Simulation, Sandbox, Fantasy, Construction

Early Access: PC → 13 April 2023; Game released: PC → 13 May 2024

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 77/100

The player takes control of a city in a wonderful world where fairy-tale characters have become real. In order for the city to prosper, it is necessary to monitor...

Go-Go Town!

Simulation, Business / Management, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, City Building, Construction

Early Access: PC → 18 June 2024; Game released: PC → 16 July 2026

Players: 1/10

A city-building strategy about the life of the mayor of a small but promising town, where behind idyllic landscapes lies an endless stream of tasks. Initial...

Hollywood Animal

Strategy, Simulation, Business / Management, City Building

Early Access: PC → 10 April 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8.6/10

The player heads a Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema to guide it through decades of creative achievement, glamor, debauchery, broken destinies and deals...

Worshippers of Cthulhu

Simulation, Fantasy, Construction, Strategy, City Building, Isometric, Sandbox

Early Access: PC → 21 October 2024; Game released: PC → 22 May 2025

Players: 7.5/10

An urban sandbox in which the player acts as the head of a cult, builds his own settlement and ultimately tries to revive an ancient deity. The game combines...

Sweet Transit

Business / Management, Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Trains, City Building, Casual game

Early Access: PC → 28 July 2022; Game released: PC → 22 April 2024

Players: 8/10

A city-planning simulator in which the expansion of territory and the transportation of goods depend entirely on railways and trains. As players progress, they...

New Cycle

Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, City Building, Construction

Early Access: PC → 18 January 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 8.3/10

After the fall of the old world, humanity plunged into chaos. A solar flare destroyed all the institutions of human civilization, forcing people to survive. The...

Castle Craft

City Building, Sandbox, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Strategy, Medieval era, Comedy, Fantasy, Construction

Early Access: PC → 28 April 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026

A voxel sandbox where players build huge castles in a war-torn ancient world and defend them from hordes of enemies that threaten the entire kingdom. One of the...

The Crust

Strategy, Simulation, In real time, Science fiction, City Building, Space, Construction

Early Access: PC → 15 July 2024; Game in development: PC → 2026

Players: 9.5/10

Colony simulator in the spirit of Factorio and RimWorld. The player takes on the role of the CEO of their own space company, which is trying to colonize the...

Chocolate Factory: Prologue

Top-down view, First-person view, Construction, Strategy, Crafting, City Building, Simulation, Survival

Game released: PC → 22 May 2024

The game takes place in a fairy-tale world made of sweets. The gamer builds a chocolate factory and develops production chains. You can arrange buildings and...

Pharaoh: A New Era

Business / Management, Strategy, Isometric, In real time, City Building, Historical

Game released: PC → 15 February 2023

Players: 6.3/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Remake of the cult city-building simulator Pharaoh, released in 1999. The new version features updated 2D graphics, interface, and improved game mechanics. In...

Gord

Strategy, Isometric, In real time, Fantasy, City Building

Game released: PC → 17 August 2023

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Players lead the Tribe of Dawn and try to survive in a dangerous world inspired by Slavic folklore. The strategy is similar to a mix of "The Witcher" and...

Heart of the Machine

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

Early Access: PC → 31 January 2025; Game released: PC → 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...

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Best Games in the City Building genre for PC