The Best City-building Games - Page 5

Update : River Towns added at rank #1.
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Aquatico (2023)

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Android PC Windows

Aquatico is a survival city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater city atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany an oceanic life.


  • city-building
  • colony
  • underwater
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management
  • base-building
  • building
  • resource-management
  • simulation
  • economy
  • survival
  • futuristic

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Farlanders (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Farlanders is a turn-based city builder set on Mars, with a puzzle game mentality and an engaging story that challenges you to think about the right you have to change the face of a planet. You play as Marco, an architect who discovers that all is not what it seems. Balance resources, build structures and manage colony happiness in this demanding but rewarding space colony simulator.


What we like:
  • Vibrant visuals
  • Realistic environments
  • Dynamic building system
  • Strategic choices
  • Challenging gameplay
  • Turn-based city builder
  • Procedurally generated maps
What could be improved:
  • Complexity can be overwhelming for some players
  • Steep learning curve
  • Requires careful resource management

  • city-building
  • turn-based
  • mars
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • building
  • strategy
  • space
  • procedural
  • pixel
  • management
  • survival

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WW2 Rebuilder (2023)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

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  • illustration
  • design
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • world-war-2
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • building
  • resource-management
  • education
  • relaxing
  • crafting
  • management
  • realistic
  • god-game

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Frozen City (2022)

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IOS iPhone Android

Help survivors build their city and fight to survive in a frozen land in Frozen City, a strategy game that keeps you on your toes with decision-making and anticipation. The game is frustrating and rewarding as you build from scratch, facing many decisions and hardships to keep your people alive. Despite needing some fine-tuning, it is a wonderful play for those who love strategy games and want to survive an ice age.

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What we like:
  • Challenging decision-making
  • Frustrating and rewarding
  • Events for extra rewards
  • Keeps players on their toes
  • Fun for those who love strategy games
What could be improved:
  • Heroes are game's biggest issue
  • Build order is pretty rigid
  • Gacha mechanics feel in the way
  • Combat is dull auto-battle
  • Too much waiting time

  • survivor
  • city-building
  • team
  • simulation
  • card
  • town
  • font-family
  • farming
  • resource
  • adventure
  • hardcore
  • strategy
  • challenging
  • chess
  • buildings

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Tropical Resort Story (2022)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

In Tropical Resort Story, you get to develop your own lush island full of nature and create the most luxurious resort possible. From building accommodations to discovering great travel packages, you can make your guests' dreams come true. Improve the ocean water quality by adding marine plants and rocks in the ocean, and releasing fish you've caught while fishing. With more tourists visiting your island, you get to open stores and restaurants, and even create new products. This game will keep you hooked on creating your tropical paradise!


What we like:
  • Ability to create immersive natural environment
  • Opportunity to collaborate with business partners
  • Discovering winning combinations of features
  • Colorful and appealing graphics and sound effects
  • Easy to learn and play
What could be improved:
  • Janky handling on desktop
  • Narrow grid range makes building efficiency difficult
  • Limited challenge, low pressure gameplay

  • colony
  • simulation
  • city-building
  • 2d
  • casual
  • nature
  • building
  • pixel
  • cute
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • fishing

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Ixion (2022)

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PC Windows

IXION is a unique and engaging city-building survival game set in space where you manage a space ark while searching for a new hospitable planet. The game's innovative gameplay encourages exploration and introduces external risk factors such as space weather and sentient threats. The graphics and sound design add to the immersion, and the story is presented through unobtrusive recorded dialogue with great performances. With an overall excellent execution, IXION is a must-play for city-building lovers and fans of sci-fi genres.

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What we like:
  • Innovative gameplay that encourages exploration
  • External risk factors add excitement and challenge
  • Graphics and sound design are top-notch
  • Story presented through unobtrusive recorded dialogue with great performances
  • Overall excellent execution.
What could be improved:
  • Some fleet control challenges
  • Sheer amount of tasks, resources and responsibilities may be overwhelming
  • Regular crashes even on an upper mid-tier PC
  • Lack of tutorials may be a deal-breaker for some
  • Hard game, even experienced players may need to bump down the difficulty level.

  • city-building
  • survival
  • management
  • resource-management
  • colony
  • simulation
  • space
  • building
  • base-building
  • exploration

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Kainga (2022)

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PC Windows

Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, a unique roguelite village-builder. Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

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  • city-building
  • god-game
  • rogue-like
  • 2.5d
  • procedural
  • resource-management
  • stylized
  • hand-drawn
  • old-school
  • isometric
  • management

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Floodland (2022)

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PC Windows

Floodland is a post-apocalyptic city-building game with unique ecology themes, putting as much emphasis on dealing with your people as on actual construction. You choose one of four clans with unique strengths and weaknesses, deciding how to gather resources, navigate hazards, and build relationships. With beautiful graphics and tutorials, Floodland's gameplay is slick but accessible. But, while addictive, occasional pacing issues and unwieldy mechanics can be frustrating.

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What we like:
  • Unique themes and narrative paths
  • beautiful and accessible UI
  • addictive gameplay with slick mechanics
  • four clans with unique perks
  • great tutorials
What could be improved:
  • Occasional pacing issues
  • Unwieldy inter-clan mechanics
  • Lack instructions

  • city-building
  • survival
  • simulation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • resource

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Technicity (2022)

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j PC Windows

A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, build roads and use vehicles to travel to different cities that you or your friends create in solo or coop mode.

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  • transportation
  • automation
  • city-building
  • modern
  • building
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • resource-management
  • open-world
  • 3d
  • economy
  • crafting
  • flight
  • realistic
  • first-person

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The Wandering Village (2022)

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early access Xbox Series X Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Xbox One

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

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  • city-building
  • survival

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