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IndieSimulationStrategyScience fictionBusiness simulation

Become a tycoon by starting with a tiny store and building a retail empire!

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IndieSimulationStrategySandboxAdventure

The Polylithic is a 3rd person crafting survival set in the Paleolithic/Neolithic era where the player crafts items, unlocks technology, discovers the world, builds bases, and can either grow the tribe and command the settlement or play the

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City-buildingSimulationStrategySandboxReal-time strategy

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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IndieSimulationStrategyScience fictionReal-time strategy

A starship builder perfect for fans of games like FTL, Starsector, SPAZ, Space Engineers, Escape Velocity, Avorion, and more. Design awesome starships using intuitive ship creation tools that are easy to learn but hard to master. Fully cus

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IndieSimulationStrategyRailwayManagement

Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like

89 rating1 list42 h main storyOften paired

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategySandbox

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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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyScience fiction

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish an outpost on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, manufacture bots, and build a fully self-sufficient colony.

76 rating3 lists9 h main storyAlso in City-building games

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyPuzzle

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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City-buildingSimulationStrategyScience fictionCity builder

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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Builders Of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!

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IndieSimulationStrategyBusiness simulationTycoon

Become a Gazillionaire by starting a tiny trading company and building a business empire!

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyScience fiction

Maia is space colony building simulator from independent developer Simon Roth. Guide your colonists as they make planetfall on a hostile alien world and do your best to ensure their survival and safety.

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyBusiness simulation

This is the original Moon Tycoon city-building game back from 2001! Remember building vast lunar colonies, then destroying them with meteors and asteroids? Blast off again with the first 3D Sim game, back to the old days on the dark side of

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StrategyReal-time strategyBird view / Isometric

Classic real-time strategy in the world of Westeros. Conquer the Seven Kingdoms solo, or in treacherous free-for-all multiplayer. Command the Great Houses, rally iconic heroes, and rewrite the fate of the realm. Do you have the strength to

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IndieSimulationStrategy4X3d

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyAdventure

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

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City-buildingSimulationStrategySandboxCity builder

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

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyPuzzle

Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 90+ building blocks to arrange and combine and to c

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyHistorical

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

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategySandbox

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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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyCity builder

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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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategySandbox

Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks.

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyScience fiction

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

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyAdventure

Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter an

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SimulationStrategyReal-time strategyPoliceSwat

Emergency 5 is a realtime-strategy game where players are in control of the city's emergency services and have to complete various tasks which involve the likes of police, fire department, medical services and technicians

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyReal-time strategy

The Apocalypse is here. Demons all around. Now, it’s time to fight back! Build, manage and defend your base in a post apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

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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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IndieSimulationStrategyBusiness simulationManagement

Capitalism II is a business simulation where players build and manage a corporate empire. The game covers key aspects of commerce, including manufacturing, marketing, research, and stock trading. Players make strategic decisions, hire execu

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City-buildingSimulationStrategyEducationalBird view / Isometric

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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IndieSimulationStrategyScience fictionReal-time strategy

Offworld Trading Company is a real-time strategy game in which money, not firepower, is the player's weapon. Players lead their developing companies in cutthroat economic warfare against other companies looking to become the dominant econom

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategySandbox

Dive into a factory-building game where the focus is on just that — building huge factories! Construct sprawling multi-level factories and min-max your layouts without limits. Shapez 2 is tailor-made for enthusiasts who crave the thrill of

88 rating1 list28 h main story

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IndieSimulationStrategyReal-time strategyGod game

Driftland: The Magic Revival is a unique real time strategy game, building both its mechanics and story around the innovative concept of manipulating fragments of a shattered planet - moving, terraforming and connecting them with bridges to

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyScience fiction

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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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyBusiness simulation

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategySandbox

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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City-buildingSimulationComedy

After Phil ruins the Minions' vacation by crashing their cruise ship, he turns an island into a vacation paradise.

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IndieSimulationStrategyScience fictionBusiness simulation

Prehistoric Kingdom is a zoo management game that gives players total control over the creation of their extinct animals and exhibits.

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IndieStrategyScience fiction4XReal-time strategy

Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategyGod game

The Universim aims to revive the glory days of the god-game genre and bring it into the next generation with fresh ideas and ambitious gameplay. With the powers of a god, you are unleashed upon the universe to begin forging your galactic em

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategySandbox

You spent your whole life in service to the gods of Asgard. You died an honorable death. You earned your place in the halls of Valhalla. But when you knocked on its gates to receive your final reward, none answered. Odin has turned his back

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City-buildingSimulationStrategyScience fictionSandbox

Anno 2070 is a city-building and economic simulation game, with real-time strategy elements. It is the 5th game of the Anno series. It was released on 17 November 2011, and was co-developed by the German studios Related Designs and Ubisoft

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City-buildingSimulationStrategyUnderwaterCity builder

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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City-buildingSimulationStrategyHistoricalReal-time strategy

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

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IndieStrategyScience fictionRole-playingShooter

8-player co-op strategy/RPG set on Mars during The Red Solstice In The Red Solstice you control one of the eight space marines that are trying to find out what happened to human colonies on Mars during the huge storm called The Red Solstic

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategySurvival

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

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City-buildingIndieSimulationStrategySandbox

Inspired by the SimCity series, Banished, and Stronghold, Kingdoms and Castles is a game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the vik

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City-building

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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