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292 games like The Sumer Game · 1973 – 2024
Nintendo exclusive
Griptonite Games · Nintendo DS
Inspired by the hit PC title and built on the game engine behind the critically acclaimed Age of Empires: Age of Kings, Age of Empires: Mythologies will be the ultimate portable tactical strategy game with its refined gameplay, inspired des
71 rating3 listsOften paired
Shining Rock Software · Windows
Welcome to the world of Banished! In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from t
70 rating2 lists6 h main storyOften paired
BeOS, Linux, Windows +1
Civilization: Call to Power is a turn-based empire building game. The players start a civilization in the stone age and lead them to the future through science, diplomacy, war, trade, and other actions. Eventually, the player will be buildi
65 rating4 listsOften paired
BreakAway Games · Windows, macOS
Emperor: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom is a game about politics, trade, and city design in ancient China. In Emperor, players progress through 3000 years of Chinese history, facing ever-changing economic, military, and diplomatic challenge
85 rating3 listsOften paired
Firefly Studios · Windows
Lead as fantasy characters throughout history: King Arthur and the forces of Camelot, Siegfried and Dietrich in the German Ice Campaign, and unleash the fury of the forces of evil in Vlad Dracul’s Transylvania.
66 rating5 lists12 h main storyOften paired
Legacy Mobile Device, Windows, iOS +1
Lemonade Tycoon, first released as Lemonade Inc., is a Shockwave-based game. A free, limited version is available for online play at many sites or the full version with no time restrictions can be purchased online. The goal of Lemonade Tyco
69 rating2 listsOften paired
Impressions Games · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
Air Bucks was one of the first business simulation games dealing with running an airline. It involves purchasing land rights for cities around the globe. In 1993, an enhanced version titled Air Bucks v1.2 was released for the Amiga.
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Impressions Games · Windows, macOS
Caesar III is part of Sierra's City Building Series and was released in October 1998. Cities in Caesar III try to accurately reflect the life of Roman citizens: the lowest plebians live in tents and shacks, while the richest patricians live
80 rating4 lists34 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Apple II, Atari 8-bit, CDC Cyber 70 +1
Lemonade Stand is a business simulation game created in 1973 by Bob Jamison of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium. Charlie Kellner ported the game to the Apple II platform in February 1979. Throughout the 1980s Apple Computer in
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Xbox console exclusive
NinjaBee · Windows, Xbox 360
A space station tycoon game where you strive to satisfy visiting aliens while running a financially successful space station.
75 rating3 listsAlso in City-building games
Windows, macOS
Lemonade Tycoon 2: New York Edition allows players to found and manage a lemonade stand company, selling lemonade in various locations throughout New York City.
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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
64 rating3 lists38 h main storyAlso in City-building games
1C Company · Windows, macOS
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom of Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. Majesty is the only game where your heroes d
56 rating1 list13 h main story
Windows, macOS
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom of Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. Majesty is the only game where your heroes d
56 rating3 lists
Frog City Software · Windows, macOS
As a feared Pirate King, you have to keep both your buccaneers and prisoners under control and send your ships on the prowl for treasury. Apart from an entirely new setting, the official sequel to the original Tropico offers gameplay improv
78 rating3 listsAlso in City-building games
Lucasfilm Games · Linux, MS-DOS, Windows +1
Telling people where to go is just the beginning. Welcome to Afterlife, a world-building simulation that lets you create the hereafter in the here and now. Possessed of an unearthly sense of humor, it all begins in a god-knows-where galaxy.
70 rating4 listsAlso in City-building games
PS4, PS5, Windows +2
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.
71 rating3 lists18 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Ascaron · Windows
Sequel to the trading simulator The Patrician
80 rating3 lists
PopTop Software · Windows, macOS
A fully realised 3D gaming world scaling from eye in the sky views of entire continents down to incredibly detailed close-ups of beautifully modelled locomotives, buildings and landscapes. As well as the 25 challenging scenarios to recreate
83 rating2 lists
Nintendo exclusive
Hudson Soft · Wii
SimCity Creator follows the basic SimCity formula that sees players managing a city and placing residential, commercial, and industrial zones for buildings in addition to facilities such as police stations, hospitals, seaports, and stadiums
67 rating2 lists
Maxis · FM Towns, MS-DOS, Windows +1
SimFarm was developed by Maxis as a spinoff of SimCity, and allowed the player to simulate the running of a farm. It was released in 1993 for PC Dos, and was released a year later for Macintosh. It has become a classic, and began the subseq
80 rating4 lists
Firefly Studios · Windows, macOS
Stronghold is a historic real-time strategy game developed by Firefly Studios. While the game focuses primarily on conquest and expansion through military pursuits, Stronghold does provide space for economic strategy and development: there
82 rating5 listsAlso in City-building games
DR Studios · Windows
Develop a state-of-the art Las Vegas resort complex, using all the money and management skill you can. Customers on the living, breathing Las Vegas boulevard are Notoriously hard to satisfy - can you win the hearts and wallets of Vegas?
60 rating1 list6 h main story
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
Ascaron · Windows
Port Royale is an economic trading sim set in the Caribbean in the 17th century. Gameplay includes trading, naval combat, town construction and questing.
79 rating3 lists
Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +8
Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio is a video game in which each player becomes the ruler of a fledgling Italian city-state around the year 1400. The goal of the game is to become king or queen; to do so the player must manage their city-state so t
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Nintendo console exclusive
Blue Byte Mainz · Nintendo DS, Windows
Anno is a real-time strategy video game series with business simulation and city building elements. It involves colony building and resource management on a series of small islands. It includes aspects of exploration, combat, diplomacy and
76 rating5 listsAlso in City-building games
Creative Assembly · Windows
Experience the middle Ages in all their blood-soaked magnificence. From the lush grasslands of Western Europe to the arid deserts of Northern Africa, from the first Crusade to the fall of Constantinople, implement diplomacy, utilize trade,
86 rating5 lists32 h main story
Windows, macOS
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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b-alive · Windows
A decade after the best-selling Airline Tycoon comes the long awaited sequel to the legendary tongue-in-cheek economic simulation that puts players in the role of CEO of an international airline! Airline Tycoon 2 will challenge players to r
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Apple II, Browser, Commodore PET
A port of the classic 1968 resource management sim. This port is adapted from the 1973 BASIC version port.
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Windows, macOS
Happy Farm is a social network game, or massively multiplayer online game, based on farm management simulation. It is played predominantly by users in Mainland China and Taiwan, and was the most popular MMOG in terms of players.
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Sega console exclusive
Toys for Bob · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, FM Towns +3
The Horde is a hybrid action-strategy video game that was originally released for 3DO and was ported to the Sega Saturn and DOS. It also featured full-motion video sequences featuring a number of actors including Kirk Cameron as Chauncey an
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InnoGames · Android, Browser, Windows +1
In the browser game Forge of Empires you can build your own city and experience all of history from its perspective - from the stone age on through the centuries. Explore new technologies that ring in a new era. Leave a mark with unique, co
75 rating1 list
Windows
Setting to redefine the city-building genre, Foundation puts the emphasis on the organic aspects of urbanism in the cities of old, powered by Polymorph Games’ proprietary game engine, Hurricane, which allows for full mod support and is opti
62 rating1 list19 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Nintendo exclusive
Konami · Game Boy Advance
Clearly, the folks who built the original park were guilty of a few oversights. Think you can do any better? Try your hand at plotting out all of the details of the creation and management of a dinosaur park in JURASSIC PARK III: Park Build
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PopTop Software · Windows, macOS
A fully realised 3D gaming world scaling from eye in the sky views of entire continents down to incredibly detailed close-ups of beautifully modelled locomotives, buildings and landscapes. As well as the 25 challenging scenarios to recreate
83 rating1 list26 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Keen Games · Nintendo DS
A unique and award-winning combination of construction, economy, discovery, diplomacy, and combat. Create your own nation with a unique blend of simulation and real-time strategy as you journey across the globe to explore, trade, and learn
67 rating5 listsAlso in City-building games
Virgin Group · ZX Spectrum
A humorous simulation game based around the mundane workings of the music industry for the ZX Spectrum.
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Max Design · Windows
Anno 1503: The New World (released as 1503 A.D.: The New World in North America and simply Anno 1503 in Austria and Germany) is a 2002 construction and management simulation video game developed by Austrian developer Max Design and publishe
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Max Design · Windows
It is the year 1602 and you find yourself in command of a sailing vessel, navigating the waters of the uncharted island world of Anker. You have aboard your ship no more than an handful of trusty followers and a limited supply of food and b
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PlayStation console exclusive
Giants Software · Android, PlayStation Vita, iOS
The third iteration of Farming Simulator for mobile and handhelds.
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Brightrock Games · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series +1
Save the galaxy - one patient at a time! As the new director of Galacticare, you will build and manage a series of hospitals to keep your patients alive for as long as possible - for money! And also because it’s the right thing to do.
77 rating4 lists20 h main story
MS-DOS
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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Bullfrog Productions · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +6
In a world without kings, power is the only law. No leader controls the destiny of this new world. Yet. Can you? Unite each territory by word or by sword or face bitter defeat at the hands of the other PowerMongers. Encounter a living worl
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Crytivo Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
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
51 rating2 lists15 h main story
JoWooD Entertainment · Windows
Traffic Giant is Public Transit tycoon game released in 2000 by JoWood Productions. Players make public transit routes using various vehicles such as buses, street cars and subways from a top down isometric perspective.
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GSC Game World · Windows
American Conquest: In the year 1492, travel to America as Christopher Columbus and ignite the fire that will fan 300 years of heated battles for land, riches, and freedom. In eight historical campaigns spanning 42 missions, you will take on
78 rating2 lists30 h main story