- #1 Power to the People
97% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Economy 21.4%, Management 18%, Building 14.8%, Base Building 8.4%
- #2 Block'hood
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,258 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Why similar: City Builder 53.3%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 6.4%, Puzzle 5.2%
- #3 Cities: Skylines
95% matchVery Positive93% of 291,638 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 65.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Why similar: City Builder 46%, Building 14.7%, Management 13.7%, Economy 12.3%, Strategy 6.1%
- #4 Citystate
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 813 reviews2018
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Economy 16.6%, Building 11.2%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 9.4%
- #5 Pocket City 2
94% matchVery Positive94% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Economy 21.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 9.1%
- #6 Ratopia
94% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Building 15.9%, Management 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 9.9%
- #7 Heian City Story
93% matchVery Positive89% of 214 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A city-building sim with a historical twist
Why similar: City Builder 38%, Strategy 12.4%, Building 12.2%, Management 8.1%, Economy 7.3%
- #8 Mini Motorways
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,364 reviews2021
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: Management 23.5%, City Builder 18.2%, Strategy 17.2%, Building 12.4%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #9 Project Highrise
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,811 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 30.2%, Building 22.8%, Strategy 11.7%, Economy 11.7%, City Builder 9.3%
- #10 United Penguin Kingdom
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 452 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Economy 20.1%, Management 17.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Building 9.8%
- #11 Cities: Skylines II
89% matchMixed56% of 91,808 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 76.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 40%, Economy 16.3%, Building 15.3%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 5.7%
- #12 Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 932 reviews2019
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Management 19.8%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 9.9%
- #13 Pile Up!
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,120 reviews2025
Dev: RemoobPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 15.9%, Building 15.7%, Strategy 7.7%
- #14 The City Must Grow
88% matchVery Positive81% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Tunaic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A new city will be established on a flat plain and its administration has been given to you. In order to keep the administration in your hands, the city needs to develop continuously.
Why similar: City Builder 39.9%, Building 13.2%, Economy 10.8%, Puzzle 8.8%, Management 7.1%
- #15 Town to City
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,015 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Why similar: City Builder 37.7%, Economy 16.3%, Building 14.5%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 6.4%
- #16 Mini City: Mayhem
86% matchVery Positive88% of 115 reviews2025
Dev: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, plan, and flourish while the time is running! Mini City: Mayhem is a chaos-filled city-builder where you build against time. Become the mayor of a tiny town, plop down tiny building blocks to build a working city to progress. Become the greatest urban planner of all time!
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Management 15.4%, Economy 13.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.8%
- #17 Road to your City
87% matchMixed63% of 76 reviews2019
Dev: Yheeky Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Road to your City is a city building and management game with a heavy emphasis on football. Slipping into the role of mayor, you are tasked with establishing a successful football club and developing it from grassroots to world class powerhouse.
Why similar: City Builder 41.4%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 6.6%
- #18 Civitatem
86% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9.9%, Management 9.7%
- #19 Skyline Urban Story
84% matchVery Positive90% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: PandaUpStudio
Windows · Mac
From barren land to towering metropolis, every decision you make shapes the destiny of your city. Industrial flow, global trade, surging land values, and growing wealth, offers deep management gameplay, perfect for players who love strategic city-building and economic simulation.
Why similar: City Builder 39.9%, Economy 26.9%, Building 19.3%, Simulation 5.4%, Casual 4.1%
- #20 City idle
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Economy 25.6%, Building 19.8%, Strategy 16.9%, Management 15.4%, Cute 8.2%
- #21 Two Point Museum
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 13,230 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Building 17.2%, Economy 15.2%, Management 14.5%, Strategy 9.2%
- #22 Thriving City: Song
82% matchVery Positive81% of 3,369 reviews2024
Dev: White Star Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Economy 16.1%, Management 13.5%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 11.7%
- #23 Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game
83% matchVery Positive82% of 553 reviews2021
Dev: Squidpunch StudiosPub: Vincent Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Economy 19.3%, Management 16.1%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 11%
- #24 Biz Builder Delux
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!
Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Strategy 18.3%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 9.4%, Casual 8.4%
- #25 Teeny Tiny Town
80% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Short Circuit Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Proving that all good things come in threes! Welcome to Teeny Tiny Town, where you connect three identical tiles to evolve your city, merge by merge. Watch your metropolis grow from scratch, from 'aww' to 'awesome!'
Why similar: City Builder 40.2%, Building 19.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Puzzle 10.7%, Casual 6.1%
- #26 Pocket City
79% matchVery Positive92% of 275 reviews2022
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Economy 14.8%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 10%, Management 7.9%
- #27 Tile Cities 2
78% matchVery Positive92% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level
Why similar: City Builder 33.8%, Strategy 18%, Building 11.8%, Management 10.8%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #28 Crowded Blue Dot
81% matchMixed59% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Management 16.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 10.9%, Economy 7.8%
- #29 Highrise Mogul
79% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Olli Arkko
Windows
Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Economy 18.1%, Building 15.6%, Management 13.8%, Base Building 9.3%
- #30 1980
78% matchVery Positive89% of 683 reviews2020
Dev: Merxon22
Windows · Mac
Welcome to the 1980s! This is a city which just started to develop, and you're in charge of this small urban village. How will the city's future be tied to this place? Manage your land, construct new buildings, explore the stories, and find out the ultimate fate of this urban village!
Why similar: City Builder 39.2%, Management 23.4%, Strategy 17.8%, Building 12.8%, 2D 3.7%
- #31 Urbek City Builder
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,977 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Economy 18.3%, Management 16.5%, Building 15.2%, Strategy 7.4%
- #32 Venture Towns
77% matchVery Positive80% of 141 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Strategy 14.1%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 7.4%, Casual 5.9%
- #33 Grand Casino Tycoon
77% matchMixed59% of 58 reviews2021
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
In this colorful tycoon with unique puzzle elements you are the designer of stunning, glamorous casinos. Your guests, though, have varied and sometimes opposite demands! Analyze their routines, split them up and manipulate them on your way to success!
Why similar: Management 19.6%, Building 19.3%, Economy 16.3%, City Builder 15.9%, Puzzle 8.6%
- #34 Dream Town Island
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 544 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Building 13.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Economy 10%, Management 9.7%
- #35 Lethis - Path of Progress
76% matchMixed68% of 1,214 reviews2015
Dev: Triskell Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
Why similar: City Builder 47.8%, Building 17.9%, Strategy 11%, Management 6.3%, Great Soundtrack 5.4%
- #36 Triple Town
75% matchVery Positive92% of 824 reviews2012
Dev: Spry Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Triple Town is an award-winning original puzzle game in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three or more game-pieces: combine three grasses to make a bush, three bushes to make a tree...
Why similar: Strategy 33.6%, Puzzle 24.5%, Casual 19.2%, Indie 11.1%, Cute 10%
- #37 Minami Lane
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,680 reviews2024
Dev: BlibloopPub: Doot Tiny Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!
Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Management 20.4%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Cute 7.7%
- #38 Blooming Business: Casino
74% matchMixed69% of 231 reviews2023
Dev: Homo Ludens
Windows
Build your casino empire in Las Venas alongside cute animals! Blooming Business: Casino is a cosy management game. Build and run your casino in a bustling world full of drama. Complete quests and manage your clientele. Keep everyone happy, from the clients, to the employees (and beware of the bear).
Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Management 17.2%, Economy 15.9%, Building 14.3%, Strategy 7%
- #39 Hotel Magnate
73% matchMixed58% of 491 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · 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!
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Economy 17.6%, Management 16.8%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 9.3%
- #40 BalanCity
75% matchVery Positive81% of 909 reviews2016
Dev: MeNic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
BalanCity is a city building / balance physics game. It's a mixture between old school SimCity and Jenga. You must build the tallest towering city over a balancing platform while keeping your citizens happy.
Why similar: City Builder 63.2%, Puzzle 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Casual 5.2%, Simulation 4.8%
- #41 Festival Tycoon 🎪
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 230 reviews2022
Dev: Johannes GäblerPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.
Why similar: City Builder 27%, Economy 19.1%, Building 15.1%, Management 15.1%, Base Building 12%
- #42 Station Manager
73% matchVery Positive82% of 221 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build your own spectacular, multi-story station for your favorite trains!
Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Economy 14.5%, Building 11.7%, Management 6.9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #43 Let Them Trade
70% matchVery Positive86% of 1,176 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Economy 20.1%, Management 14%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.5%
- #44 The Pyraplex
71% matchVery Positive99% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Building 19%, Strategy 12.8%, Cute 7.5%, Simulation 5.9%
- #45 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
72% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Management 18.6%, Building 14.7%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 10.3%
- #46 Fantasy Town Regional Manager
72% matchVery Positive80% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Caps Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.
Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Management 15.3%, Building 14.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #47 Food Park Manager
70% matchVery Positive82% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Drix Dev
Windows
Build and manage your own Food Park! Customize food stalls, hire staff, and cater to hungry customers as you find the perfect recipes. Decorate your park to attract and satisfy more customers.
Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Economy 22.2%, Management 16.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Cute 4.9%
- #48 SimAirport
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,044 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Economy 18.4%, Management 14.8%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%
- #49 Little Big Workshop
70% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 21.8%, Economy 19%, Building 16.3%, Strategy 16.2%, City Builder 8.3%
- #50 Outlanders
69% matchVery Positive90% of 510 reviews2023
Dev: Pomelo Games
Windows
Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.
Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Building 18.5%, Management 18%, Strategy 9.9%, Cute 7.4%
- #51 Pan'orama
68% matchVery Positive89% of 1,373 reviews2023
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!
Why similar: City Builder 41.7%, Building 21.3%, Base Building 13%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 4.3%
- #52 Mega Mall Story 2
69% matchVery Positive95% of 167 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A brand new business sim! Build cafés, movie theaters, aquariums, and more!
Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Strategy 16.7%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 10.3%
- #53 Disco Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 220 reviews2024
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Disco Simulator is a tycoon type game based on club management. Your task will be to set up the club from scratch, put up walls, arrange furniture, hire staff, plan events, invite artists, put on concerts. Create your own club!
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Economy 21.8%, Management 20.2%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 7.8%
- #54 River Towns
67% matchVery Positive92% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: Frogsong StudiosPub: Metaroot
Windows
Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.
Why similar: City Builder 48.3%, Building 18.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Puzzle 12.5%, Casual 5.6%
- #55 Highrise City
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,300 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Economy 17.9%, Building 14.4%, Management 12.3%, Strategy 11.2%
- #56 Synergy
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,087 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Economy 21.1%, Management 14.2%, Building 13.2%, Base Building 11.6%
- #57 Bubblegum Galaxy
65% matchVery Positive100% of 126 reviews2026
Dev: Smarto ClubPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows
Bubblegum Galaxy is a cozy narrative building game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers... all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!
Why similar: City Builder 42.1%, Building 18%, Strategy 10.2%, Puzzle 9.4%, Cute 5.6%
- #58 SteamWorld Build
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,253 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Economy 20%, Management 14.2%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 9.6%
- #59 Goblins of Elderstone
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Management 17.6%, Building 16.7%, Base Building 15%, Strategy 9.3%
- #60 City Tales - Medieval Era
64% matchVery Positive90% of 607 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Economy 21.3%, Building 16.8%, Management 15.4%, Story Rich 5.1%