The Best City-building Games - Page 2

Update : Beyond These Stars added at rank #1.
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Hollywood Animal (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Make movies, even if someone has to die. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.


  • choices
  • city-building
  • emotional
  • economy
  • resource-management
  • building
  • real-time
  • strategy
  • historical
  • multiple-endings
  • simulation
  • replay-value
  • atmospheric
  • pause
  • realistic

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Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder (2025)

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early access PC Windows

At the northern fringes of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

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  • city-building
  • rome
  • god-game
  • colony
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • management
  • resource-management
  • building
  • economy
  • medieval
  • crafting
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • open-world

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River Towns (2025)

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PC Windows

Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.

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  • cozy
  • city-building
  • logic
  • isometric
  • building
  • board-game
  • family-friendly
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • post-apocalyptic
  • turn-based
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • controller-support
  • 3d

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Nordhold (2025)

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Mac OS Linux PC Windows

Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?

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  • rogue-like
  • tower-defense
  • city-building
  • top-down
  • medieval
  • strategy
  • management
  • economy
  • procedural
  • tactical
  • resource-management
  • pve
  • base-building
  • choices
  • wave

15

Kaiserpunk (2025)

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PC Windows

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with the world conquest of strategy games in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

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  • city-building
  • grand-strategy
  • i
  • management
  • resource-management
  • alternate
  • colony
  • war
  • simulation
  • world-war-2
  • historical
  • military
  • economy
  • base-building
  • building

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Airborne Empire (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

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  • city-building
  • base-building
  • real-time
  • resource-management
  • strategy
  • flight
  • colony
  • economy
  • open-world
  • atmospheric
  • survival
  • exploration
  • steampunk
  • community
  • building

17

Terrarium (2025)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Cozy fires, books, and tiny glass bottles filled with endless possibilities. In Terrarium, make your vision a reality and craft the cozy dioramas you've always dreamed of. The only question is, what will you build first?


  • cozy
  • illustration
  • design
  • idler
  • city-building
  • building
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • relaxing
  • medieval
  • cute
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • stylized
  • grid

18

Overthrown (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources. Keep citizens happy or see them desert you!


  • city-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • management
  • resource-management
  • action-adventure
  • cooperative
  • simulation
  • colourful
  • combat
  • exploration
  • multiplayer
  • fantasy
  • single-player

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Ratopia (2024)

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j Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • building
  • survival
  • management
  • resource-management
  • cute
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • cartoony
  • strategy
  • exploration
  • open-world

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Sengoku Dynasty (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X j Playstation 5

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!


  • city-building
  • medieval
  • survival
  • cooperative
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • colony
  • building
  • life
  • war-torn
  • management
  • historical
  • simulation
  • crafting
  • resource-management

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