The Best City-building Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : Folklands added at rank #26.
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Paragon Pioneers 2 (2024)

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Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.

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  • city-building
  • colony
  • idler
  • simulation
  • building
  • stylized
  • medieval
  • colourful
  • top-down
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • cute
  • relaxing
  • strategy
  • management

22

Landnama (2023)

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Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

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  • colony
  • rogue-like
  • hex
  • vikings
  • city-building
  • base-building
  • survival
  • strategy
  • grid
  • build-em-up
  • economy
  • management
  • resource-management
  • historical
  • building

23

Preserve (2024)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

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  • city-building
  • nature
  • turn-based
  • procedural
  • wholesome
  • sandbox
  • stylized
  • relaxing
  • god-game
  • strategy
  • tactical
  • cute
  • base-building
  • tabletop
  • building

24

Northgard (2018)

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Join the Viking explorers in Northgard, a new land filled with danger, riches, and mystery. Assemble your settlement, assign your vikings to various jobs, and manage your resources carefully to survive harsh winters and fend off vicious beasts. Expand, conquer, trade or become a God in a game that offers unique strategies and victory conditions. With multi-level AI and dedicated servers, you can play against your friends and grind your way up to the final Norse God rank.


What we like:
  • Fun and addicting RTS game
  • Focuses on core mechanics of building and expanding settlement with minimal micromanagement
  • Offers a less time-consuming experience compared to other RTS games
  • Immersive atmosphere with breathtaking landscapes
  • Challenges players to think strategically and make tough decisions
What could be improved:
  • Slow-paced gameplay for RTS games
  • Inconsistent balancing with some clans being overpowered
  • Low playerbase

  • strategy
  • real-time
  • city-building
  • trading
  • resource-management
  • military
  • mythology
  • tile
  • vikings
  • simulation
  • management
  • 4x
  • base-building
  • multiplayer
  • war

25

My Downtown (2022)

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Help the Mayor breathe life into a sparkling new city! Play over 100 levels of match 3 bliss and build your own city!

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  • city-building
  • match-three
  • casual
  • simulation
  • building
  • linear
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • management

26

Folklands (2025)

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early access Linux PC Windows

In Folklands - a relaxing settlement builder with simulated citizens - you'll find that great stories can emerge from humble beginnings. Farm or harvest materials, manage production chains and supplies, and make sure the folks in your ever growing settlement are happy, employed and safe.

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • tutorial
  • base-building
  • building
  • economy
  • simulation
  • management
  • strategy
  • isometric
  • exploration
  • procedural
  • real-time
  • moddable
  • pve

27

Dawnmaker (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!

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  • city-building
  • board-game
  • tabletop
  • steampunk
  • deckbuilder
  • strategy
  • post-apocalyptic
  • card
  • fantasy
  • turn-based
  • hex
  • dark
  • building
  • 2d
  • management

28

Wastelander (2023)

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Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms. Build a colony from nothing, find and unlock unique buildings and re-activate powerful relics to protect yourself. Will you survive and get off the planet?

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  • colony
  • city-building
  • rogue-like
  • base-building
  • strategy
  • pve
  • turn-based
  • choices
  • top-down
  • minimalist
  • simulation
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • difficult
  • procedural

29

Gourdlets (2024)

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An easygoing sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks. Create your perfect community then watch as the gourdlets make themselves at home. No objectives, no points, just good vibes. Play in full screen, or let your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen!

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  • city-building
  • cozy
  • building
  • sandbox
  • clicker
  • relaxing
  • procedural
  • colourful
  • cute
  • open-world
  • pixel
  • isometric
  • simulation
  • atmospheric
  • dog

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Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator (2022)

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Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.

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  • city-building
  • simulation
  • clicker
  • immersive
  • rpg
  • medieval
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • choices
  • idler

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