City Building
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Best Games in the City Building genre for PC
Simulation, Sandbox, Construction, City Building, Cooperative (co-op), Business / Management, Strategy
Game released: PC → 6 November 2024
Players:
8.9/10
Steam:
74/100
Metacritic:
78/100
Management strategy from the creators of Elite: Dangerous. Players can create, customize and manage theme parks with new features and expanded tools. It is now...
Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, City Building, Casual game, Construction
Game released: PC → 13 May 2021
Players:
5/10
Steam:
78/100
Metacritic:
72/100
Before We Leave is a top-down real-time management strategy game. After a long period of imprisonment in the bowels of the earth, your people emerge to the surface...
Business / Management, Strategy, Roguelike, Futurism (Future), Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, In real time, Puzzle, City Building
Game released: PC → 28 March 2023
Players:
9.3/10
Steam:
85/100
Metacritic:
79/100
The player is engaged in the restoration of wildlife in a waterless wasteland. The gameplay consists of two stages. First you need to create a stable ecosystem...
Strategy, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Casual game, City Building, Action
Game released: PC → 10 April 2020
Steam:
91/100
A combination of city-building simulator and tower defense, where the development of your monkey city is closely linked to the defense of its territories. New plots...
Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, City Building, Strategy, Survival, Zombies, Sandbox, Business / Management
Game released: PC → 11 April 2024
Players:
6.8/10
Steam:
84/100
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...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), City Building, Simulation
Game released: PC → 17 November 2011
VGTimes:
8.6/10
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
54/100
Metacritic:
83/100
Set in the near future, this economic city-building strategy depicts a world reshaped by climate change and rising sea levels. Players settle islands, build cities...
Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, City Building
Game released: PC → 22 September 2014
Players:
7.9/10
Steam:
69/100
Metacritic:
65/100
A medieval real-time strategy and city-building game that continues the Stronghold Crusader series. It retains the earlier games’ focus on skirmishes and...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), City Building, Simulation
Game released: PC → 2 November 2015
Players:
8.6/10
Steam:
69/100
Metacritic:
72/100
Anno 2205 is a futuristic real-time management strategy game. Like previous games in the series, the new game focuses on the economic component, thanks to which...
Simulation, Third-person view, Sandbox, Survival, City Building, Open world, Medieval era, Construction
Early Access: PC → 12 August 2025; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
7.5/10
Steam:
70/100
The game takes you to a world where the war is over, but the real trials are just beginning. Legacy is the ruined kingdom of Greenwood, on the brink of collapse...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Futurism (Future), City Building, Simulation
Game released: PC → 25 July 2017
Players:
6.8/10
Steam:
72/100
Metacritic:
72/100
Aven Colony is a sci-fi city-building simulator. You have to build a colony located on another planet, which can be of three types of terrain: desert, swampy or...
Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Top-down view, Fantasy, Medieval era, Grand strategy, City Building
Game released: PC → 18 April 2019
Players:
5.5/10
Steam:
73/100
A fantasy strategy game set in a world shattered into floating islands after a devastating war of ancient wizards. The remnants of Driftland are held in balance...
Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Business / Management, Mini-game / browser-based, City Building, Casual game, Free game
Game released: PC → 30 November 2021
Players:
7.7/10
Steam:
68/100
Global City is a real-time strategy game with management elements and an isometric view. In this game, you can mine different types of fossil fuels and also produce...
Strategy, Grand strategy, Construction, In real time, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Simulation, City Building
Early Access: PC → 22 July 2024; Game released: PC → 20 March 2025
Players:
8/10
Steam:
88/100
Metacritic:
82/100
A base-building strategy game in which the player constructs fortresses to face countless waves of enemies. The game has several modes such as a story campaign...
Action, First-person view, Simulation, Historical, City Building, Business / Management, Educational game (Education), Construction, Casual game, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 10 October 2022; Game released: PC → 16 January 2023
Players:
6.7/10
Steam:
84/100
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...
Roguelike, Strategy, Indie, Card game, Medieval era, Tactics, Puzzle, City Building, Board / Group Game
Game released: PC → 5 May 2025
Players:
9.7/10
Steam:
90/100
Metacritic:
83/100
A colorful roguelike that combines the genres of puzzle, city planning and card games. During the course of the game, players build their own duchy, fight enemies...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, Open world, Simulation, City Building
Early Access: PC → 6 November 2025; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
9.2/10
Steam:
93/100
Mice head to uninhabited islands to escape the cat empire. Space is limited, but resources and opportunities for automated production abound. Successful development...
