The Best City-building Games for Linux - Page 3

Update : Gourdlets added at rank #33.
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Northgard (2018)

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Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

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

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Paragon Pioneers 2 (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

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

23

My Downtown (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

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

24

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

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Tropico 5 (2014)

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Xbox One IOS iPhone Linux Playstation 4 Xbox 360 PC Windows Mac OS

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.


  • city-building
  • simulation
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • political
  • strategy
  • management
  • military
  • construction
  • politics
  • buildings

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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

27

My Colony (2017)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile IOS iPhone Android

A space colonization and city building simulation game.

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  • simulation
  • colonization
  • city-building
  • colony
  • first-person
  • strategy

28

Marble Age: Remastered (2020)

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Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone PC Windows

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!


  • turn-based
  • building
  • city-building
  • colony
  • 4x
  • historical
  • simulation
  • resource-management
  • strategy
  • survival
  • management
  • economy
  • 2d
  • time-management
  • education

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Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator (2022)

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Linux PC Windows

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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Regions Of Ruin (2018)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of the dwarven race.


  • colony
  • city-building
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • simulation
  • scroller
  • side-scrolling
  • pixel
  • fantasy
  • exploration
  • building

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