The Best City-building Games for Linux - Page 4

Update : Gourdlets added at rank #33.
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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

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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

33

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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Indoorlands (2021)

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The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!


  • building
  • management
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • sandbox
  • isometric
  • family-friendly
  • 3d
  • simulation
  • colourful
  • crafting
  • park
  • cute
  • strategy

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Hotel Magnate (2021)

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early access PC Windows Linux

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!


  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • management
  • base-building
  • building
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • simulation
  • isometric
  • customization
  • strategy

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Surviving Mars - First Colony Edition (2018)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Playstation 4 Xbox One

There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.


  • city-building
  • simulation
  • colony
  • mars
  • survival
  • space
  • sci-fi
  • base-building

37

Sandbox Skyline (2024)

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Build impressive skyscrapers pixel-by-pixel, and protect them from the harsh realities of nature. Each pixel is physically simulated to interact with earthquakes, firestorms, blizzards, and tsunamis. Protect your skyline and expand your territory in this relaxing (yet challenging) sandbox builder.

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  • city-building
  • god-game
  • agriculture
  • sandbox
  • building
  • nature
  • resource-management
  • real-time
  • relaxing
  • physics
  • rogue-like
  • procedural
  • pixel-by-pixel
  • pixel
  • survival

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Hearthlands (2014)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, heroes, magic and other things a typical king deals with on a daily basis.


  • city-building
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • medieval
  • simulation
  • strategy

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Rise of Industry (2019)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of Rise of Industry, a strategic tycoon game set in the 1930s. Build and manage your own industrial empire as you navigate a dynamically evolving world. Take on the role of a budding entrepreneur, constructing factories, optimizing production lines, and trading with developing cities. With its blend of accessible gameplay and strategic depth, Rise of Industry offers hours of addictive fun for both new and experienced players alike.


What we like:
  • Streamlined gameplay
  • In-depth research tree
  • Interesting concept
  • Affordable price
What could be improved:
  • Awful tutorial
  • Confusing UI
  • Incomplete game feeling
  • Issues with train terminals and road connections

  • empire
  • management
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • economy
  • trains
  • simulation
  • tycoon
  • trading
  • sandbox
  • farming
  • base-building
  • truck
  • strategy
  • zoo

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The Universim (2018)

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Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.


  • god-game
  • colony
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • sandbox
  • building
  • resource-management
  • space
  • procedural
  • management

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