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208 games like Lincity · 1993 – 2027
Iceflake Studios · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
Create and manage your own city without restrictions. Offering a deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II will challenge your decision-making skills and allow you to build the cities of your dreams. Get ready for a new epic
73 rating2 lists28 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Linux, Windows
OpenCity is a free and open-source software 3D city-building game started in 2003 by France-based Vietnamese programmer Duong-Khang Nguyen. The game mechanics are similar to Simcity, while the game developers don't strive to make it a direc
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PlayStation console exclusive
Maxis · PlayStation, Windows, macOS
SimTown is a 1995 video game published by Maxis, much like the best selling SimCity but on a smaller scale. SimTown allows the player to construct a town consisting of streets, houses, businesses and parks and then control the people in it.
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Nintendo console exclusiveMaxis · SNES, Windows, macOS
SimTown is a 1995 video game published by Maxis, much like the best selling SimCity but on a smaller scale. SimTown allows the player to construct a town consisting of streets, houses, businesses and parks and then control the people in it.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Monte Cristo · Nintendo DS, Windows
City Life is another take on the old city building genre. Like SimCity, it requires you to build a functioning metropolis. However, City Life also adds a social aspect to the game. Your city is populated by citizens of six different economi
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Haemimont Games · Linux, PS4, Windows +2
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process. Choose a space agency for resources and financial support before determining a location for your colony. Build domes and infrastructure, research n
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Nintendo exclusive
Rare Ltd. · Nintendo DS
In Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise, players will inherit a neglected garden on Pinata Island and turn it into a pinata paradise by tending to all aspects of cleaning the garden, growing and maintaining vegetation, caring for and breeding pinat
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The Wandering Band · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
Take a fantastical journey - fly the desert and build your domain. Airborne Kingdom uniquely blends city management and exploration, with a world and lore all its own. Build housing, gather food, satisfy needs, and grow your tribe. Maintain
74 rating2 lists7.5 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Linux, Windows
Nebuchadnezzar is a classic isometric city builder game inviting players to experience the mysterious history and culture of ancient Mesopotamia. In the campaign, players get to rule over influential historical cities filled with magnificen
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Dapper Penguin Studios · Linux, Windows, macOS
Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and ada
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Android, iOS
Welcome, Mayor! Be the hero of your very own city as you design and create a beautiful, bustling metropolis. Every decision is yours as your city gets larger and more intricate. Make smart choices to keep your citizens happy and your skylin
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3Division Entertainment · Windows
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the ultimate real-time soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Construct your own republic and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower!
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Balancing Monkey Games · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
Before We Leave is a non-violent city building game set on multiple planets in your own cozy corner of the universe. Your people emerge from a long period hidden underground and they’ve forgotten the world above. Rebuild civilization back
77 rating4 lists17 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Gentlymad Studios · Xbox Series, PS4, Windows +1
Endzone is a post apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after a global nuclear disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant rad
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Firefly Studios · Windows
The next chapter in Firefly Studios' real-time strategy series, Stronghold: Warlords is Firefly's first game to recreate the castle economies of the Far East. In Warlords you take command of Mongol hordes, imperial warriors and samurai clan
64 rating4 lists19 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Haemimont Games · Linux, PS4, Windows +2
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process. Choose a space agency for resources and financial support before determining a location for your colony. Build domes and infrastructure, research n
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Windows
Aquatico is a survival city builder set deep beneath the waves. Choose your strategy, obtain resources, build your futuristic city and prove no challenge is too hard.
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In January 2008, the SimCity source code was released as free software under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, renamed Micropolis (the game's original working title) for trademark reasons, and developed by Don Hopkins. Since Micropolis is licen
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Linux, Windows
Mobility: A City in Motion is a city-building simulation video game developed by Glamus as an initiative of DaimlerChrysler, with scientific data done by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. It is similar to SimCity, in that the game involves su
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Monte Cristo · Windows
Medieval Lords is a 3D city-building game set in the Middle Ages. Players develop towns by constructing buildings connected by a network of roads, managing resources, and fulfilling citizens' needs for food, security, entertainment, and rel
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11 Bit Studios · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series +1
Frostpunk 2 is the sequel to the highly acclaimed, BAFTA-nominated society survival game. The age of steam has passed and now, oil leads the way as humanity’s newest salvation. However, with new threats on the horizon, the future of the cit
81 rating6 lists12 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Brace Yourself Games · Windows
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with the other Great Houses of Titan for resources, territory, and power. Do battle with ships, technology, influence, or the sheer productive power of your factories. Stake your claim to the Indu
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Coatsink · Android, Switch, PS5 +4
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
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Gaming Minds Studios · Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows +1
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the a
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NimbleBit · Android, iOS
Build your own Bit City! Start from a tiny town and grow to a thriving metropolis in this city building idle game from the creators of Tiny Tower. Collect profits and invest in upgrades that keep your city growing. Fill your city with new t
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EA Mobile · Android, Mobile, iOS
After Phil ruins the Minions' vacation by crashing their cruise ship, he turns an island into a vacation paradise.
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Windows
Per Aspera is a narrative-driven strategy game with the goal of overcoming the challenge of terraforming Mars. Explore the planet, gather resources, and make strategic decisions as you live the fantasy of scientifically-based interplanetary
80 rating1 list20 h main storyAlso in City-building games
DR Studios · Windows
Here's your chance to make it big in the Big Apple... New York City, the city that never sleeps! Go for broke building your own Manhattan empire, creating and customising over 100 types of major businesses: run a hot nightclub, oversee a me
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PlayStation exclusiveNinjaBee · PS3
From the people who brought A World of Keflings, Akimi is a city building game for PS3
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Xbox console exclusive
Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Manor Lords is a strategy game that allows you to experience the life of a medieval lord. Grow your starting village into a bustling city, manage resources and production chains, and expand your lands through conquest. Inspired by the art
78 rating7 lists11 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Android, Browser
A city administration simulator which was popular in Brazil.
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Firemint Pty · Android, iOS
SimCity Deluxe was a mobile entry in the long-running city building franchise, based on the earlier SimCity 3000 for PC and Mac.
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Ubisoft Blue Byte · Windows
Haven't you always wanted to be king? Indulge your fantasy in the world of The Settlers. You alone determine how your kingdom will be formed, how large it will be, whether to limit your ambitions to agriculture, breeding of stock, and fishi
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Linux, Windows, macOS
Unknown Horizons is a city-building game and real-time strategy game, inspired by the Anno series. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) and is therefore free and open source software. Much of the artwork is open conte
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Tomas Sala · PS4, PS5, Windows +2
A new city-building game set in the oceanic world of The Great Ursee, by BAFTA-nominated developer Tomas Sala. Design, develop and defend your Bulwark, manage resources and make choices to create unique fortress settlements in a world reeli
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Linux, Windows, macOS
Cities in Motion 2 (CIM2) is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. Cities in Motion 2 introduces new fea
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Focus Entertainment · Windows
Imagine and conceive cities of all types and sizes on Cities XL planet. From a several million citizens megalopolis to a hyped seaside resort, to an industrial city, everything is allowed in Cities XL 2011! Take advantage of an incredible c
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Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +7
Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and u
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TT Games · Android
Lego Fusion Town Master is a 2014 mobile video game based off the Lego Fusion product line. The game incorporates augmented reality connected to the Town Master set. With the retirement of both the set and product line, the app was disconti
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Moonbase is a 1990 city-building game set on the Moon. Developed by Wesson International, it was published for Amiga and MS-DOS. An updated version, called Lunar Command, was published in 1993 by Mallard Software.
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Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Windows +1
Outlanders is a charming town-builder simulation game that lets you play as the leader of a group of regular people building a town together. Some want to survive, while others want to build amazing things. It’s up to you to guide them towa
83 rating2 lists40 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Oskar Stålberg · Android, Switch, Windows +4
Townscaper is an experimental passion project. More of a toy than a game. Pick colors from the palette, plop down colored blocks of house on the irregular grid, and watch Townscaper's underlying algorithm automatically turn those blocks int
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Nintendo console exclusive
RetroReflector · Browser, Game Boy
"I… am… an OLD GOD…. long ago… I was trapped… Banished!... To another dimension… a thousand years, beyond reflections… however… the barrier has weakened… If only for a moment… long enough!... to consume!…. Will you consume your prey, or wi
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Windows
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalyps
67 rating2 lists21 h main storyAlso in City-building games
GrizzlyGames · Linux, Windows, macOS
Islanders is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands. Explore an infinite number of ever-changing new lands, expand your settlements from sprawling villages to vast cities and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere.
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Intelligent Games · MS-DOS, Windows, macOS
Pack your bags, have the neighbors collect your mail, and take a working vacation in the rainforests of SimIsle. Build tourist hotels, exploit natural resources and develop industry in a land of beauty and danger. Can you become wealthy and
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Estudios Kremlinois · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
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Gentlymad Studios · PS4, PS5, Windows +1
Endzone is a post apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after a global nuclear disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant rad
64 rating1 list23 h main story