The Best City-building Games for Mac OS - Page 5

Update : Frostpunk 2 added at rank #1.
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Academia: School Simulator (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS

If you love management games, then you need to play Academia: School Simulator. You get to build and run your own school, choosing how you want it to function and what your students need. With plenty of customization options, you can make it unique to your preferences. Do you want to be a strict principal who enforces every rule, or will you let things slide? It's all up to you!


What we like:
  • Similar gameplay to Prison Architect
  • Ability to punish misbehaving students
  • Can organize bake sales
  • Customize country flag and uniforms
  • Enjoyable management game
What could be improved:
  • Lack of depth compared to Prison Architect
  • No proper tutorial
  • Annoying goons to deal with
  • Game updates seem abandoned by dev
  • Complex gameplay might affect retention

  • colony
  • capitalism
  • city-building
  • simulation
  • base-building
  • management
  • moddable
  • building
  • economy
  • sandbox
  • family-friendly
  • top-down
  • education
  • cute
  • colourful

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Home Wind (2022)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Home Wind is a minimalist, relaxing and cozy city builder about creating large settlements based on proximity tactics. All for free!

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  • city-building
  • minimalist
  • sandbox
  • procedural
  • medieval
  • relaxing
  • hand-drawn
  • building
  • resource-management
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • atmospheric
  • simulation
  • 2d

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Tropico 5 (2014)

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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

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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

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Factory Town (2019)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Dive into Factory Town, a vibrant world where you shape a bustling village into an industrial powerhouse. Master logistics, research technologies, and harness magic to create the ultimate production utopia. With a soothing atmosphere and endless possibilities, you're in control of every conveyor and railway. Turn your creative visions into reality and watch your civilization flourish!


What we like:
  • Deep and complex management
  • Engaging and rewarding gameplay
  • Beautiful, immersive visuals
  • No stressful combat
  • Creative freedom in sandbox mode
What could be improved:
  • Overwhelming tutorial for beginners
  • Potential for repetitive gameplay

  • automation
  • base-building
  • colony
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • sandbox
  • transportation
  • simulation
  • buildings
  • crafting
  • management
  • moddable
  • editor
  • economy
  • level

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Builderment (2023)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Earth has run out of resources! Travel to a distant world to harvest materials and build a factory capable of teleporting items back home to save the planet...

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  • automation
  • base-building
  • crafting
  • city-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • logic
  • sandbox

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InfraSpace (2023)

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infraspace Mac OS PC Windows

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.


  • transportation
  • automation
  • management
  • vr-edutainment
  • city-building
  • science
  • moddable
  • capitalism
  • space
  • resource-management
  • base-building
  • building
  • modern
  • economy
  • trains

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Concrete Jungle (2016)

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PC Windows Mac OS Android IOS iPhone

Concrete Jungle is a city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.


  • card
  • city-building
  • deckbuilder
  • local
  • competitive
  • strategy
  • puzzle
  • isometric
  • building
  • grid

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Marble Age: Remastered (2020)

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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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