Best Games in the City Building genre for PC
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...
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:
8.2/10
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...
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:
8.9/10
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...
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:
8.2/10
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...
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...
Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, City Building, Strategy, Survival, Zombies, Sandbox, Business / Management
Game released: PC → 11 April 2024
Players:
6.8/10
The world is engulfed by a virus that turns those infected into aggressive and powerful monsters. Settlements are deserted and resources are scarce. The player...
Business / Management, Strategy, Side view, Futurism (Future), In real time, Post-apocalyptic, City Building
Game released: PC → 17 July 2025; Early Access: PC → 14 September 2022
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...
Strategy, Construction, City Building, Sandbox, Crafting, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Science fiction, Online
Early Access: PC → 18 July 2023; Game released: PC → 7 November 2024
Players:
9.6/10
The events of the game take place in an underground alien world, to which the main character goes to extract minerals and vital products. As he progresses, he...
Action, First-person view, Simulation, Historical, City Building, Business / Management, Educational game (Education), Construction, Casual game
Early Access: PC → 10 October 2022; Game released: PC → 16 January 2023
Players:
6.7/10
A first-person builder simulator from the creators of Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 and American Theft 80s, where you need to rebuild European cities after World...
Action, Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), City Building, Fantasy, Medieval era
Game in development: PC → 2027
Anticipation Rating:
10/10
A cooperative roguelike for two players, where both players do completely different things and are fully dependent on each other. One controls the King — running...
