- #1 Campground Owner
97% matchMixed68% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: Mikołaj Spychał
Windows
Simple tycoon-like game. Choose where to place your guests, increase your reputation, and count money.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Management 12.3%, Minimalist 12.1%, RTS 8.9%, Simulation 6.4%
- #2 Chinese Empire
96% matchMostly Negative39% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Yeyuna
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. Create your own new empire that will go down in history!
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Building 16.9%, RTS 15.1%, Management 15%, Strategy 7.4%
- #3 Towers Inc.
96% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Unicorn Den
Windows
Build and manage your own corporate tower in this relaxing take on the tower management building genre. Satisfy the needs of corporate tenants and keep them happy by adding services and utilities while balancing finances. Build and manage your tower the way you want to.
Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Management 15.8%, Building 14.7%, Modern 14.3%, Minimalist 8.8%
- #4 Chinese Empire: Prologue
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YeyunaPub: G11 S.A.
Windows
Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. The prologue will introduce you to the world of Chinese Empire!
Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Building 16.9%, RTS 11.5%, Management 10.8%, Strategy 10%
- #5 Urbanist
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Halfcooked Games
Windows
Thousands of citizens, each with a life of their own. Urbanist is a strategy and simulation game about transforming small settlements into thriving cities and vibrant neighborhoods. Build up your island, manage resources and production chains, and earn your reputation as the next great Urbanist.
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Building 18%, Management 14%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 7.1%
- #6 Stairway to Tavern
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ashina Studios
Windows
Build your dream tavern in the afterlife! Recruit humans, angels or demons. Expand your business from Earth to heaven or hell. Convince customers to join the satan or god 😇👿
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Strategy 13.9%, Building 13.4%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 9.5%
- #7 Epic Palace : Knossos
93% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Milkroom Studios GmbH
Windows
Immerse yourself in the epic world of the Bronze Age! Rule over the first European civilization and build the famous Palace of Knossos. Be smart in diplomacy and trade, use your gained reputation and equip your throne room with unique frescoes from all over the world.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, RTS 17.9%, Building 17.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Management 9.4%
- #8 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
92% matchVery Positive88% of 2,812 reviews2020
Dev: Frontier DevelopmentsPub: Atari
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Management 22.3%, Building 20.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 8%
- #9 Can't Live Without Electricity
91% matchVery Positive94% of 241 reviews2023
Dev: MELOVITY
Windows · Mac
Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Management 15.5%, Building 14.7%, Minimalist 12.7%, Strategy 7.9%
- #10 A Little Age
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Benerot
Windows
A cozy city builder where each settlement you build has its own little economy. You must manage the flow of resources between them to guide their development. Organize settlements towards a common goal through resource management
Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Minimalist 12.5%, Building 8.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Top-Down 7.1%
- #11 Kutha Stroom Rush
90% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Radiant Deer
Windows · Linux
An electric-grid simulator game. Plan, build, and maintain your growing city's electric needs. Keep all of your electric grid users satisfied, watch your existing grid infrastructure, and build out to serve new users.
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Building 14.4%, Minimalist 14.2%, Simulation 13.7%, Management 12.8%
- #12 The City Must Grow
89% 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 36.8%, Minimalist 18.9%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 8.9%, Management 6.5%
- #13 Metrocity - Discovery Town
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zepta game
Windows
Play Metrocity, a challenging and innovative city builder game. prove your ability to organize and create the best city in the world. develop your city from 0 to thousands of people only in this game.
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Modern 18.2%, Building 16.1%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 7.1%
- #14 Dream Corp 梦想公司
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: zhangkun
Windows
Build a company where you can indulge your whims, but remember, staff have tempers too; don't hurt their feelings. Beyond overseeing operations, manage every staff's life, emotions, and relationships. Direct them to fulfill your demands and discover their hobbies, embarrassing moments, and talents
Why similar: Management 23.4%, Building 21.5%, City Builder 21.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 11.1%
- #15 Aquis
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Building 17.6%, Management 14.3%, RTS 13.4%, Strategy 7.9%
- #16 Telecom Tycoon 📶
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yet Another Indie Game Studio (YAIGS)
Windows
Build your own mobile networks in this unique single-player business simulation game. Start in the 1990s with a 2G network, take part in the 3G auctions of the 2000s and create the best mobile networks.
Why similar: Modern 17.7%, Building 16.3%, Management 16.3%, RTS 14.2%, Simulation 7.9%
- #17 Mercantile Might
86% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: SibeRaysGames
Windows
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Middle Ages and take on the role of a ruler who must transform a small town into a prosperous settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, RTS 18.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 11.9%, Building 9.9%
- #18 The Banker Tycoon
85% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Lunatic Eclipse Studio
Windows
Start a management experience where you grow your own bank step by step. Handle customer operations yourself, control risk and fees, unlock new systems through a wide research tree, upgrade your bank and rise from a small branch to a respected financial center.
Why similar: Management 25.7%, Building 21.5%, Modern 19.5%, Simulation 14.4%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #19 Chaos Cities
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AAlex
Windows · Linux
Chaos Cities is a city builder where your citizens directly react to everything you do. Build a futuristic city or plunge it into chaos, the choice is yours!
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Modern 22.4%, Management 16.2%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 7.4%
- #20 Mini Estate
84% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Lava Entertainment
Windows
A minimalist game about building skyscrapers.
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Management 18.2%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 15.3%, Minimalist 12.5%
- #21 Hundred Nights: DIFU
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PixelsCove Games
Windows
Run the Chinese Hell in this cozy management simulation! Design your underworld, staff it with quirky soulkeepers, and punish sinful souls. Meanwhile, build Fengdu City where souls enjoy the afterlife, meet legends from Chinese myths, and explore the worlds above.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Building 17.4%, Management 14.1%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 11%
- #22 Metropolis 1998
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yesbox Studios
Windows
A fresh, modern city builder with charming aesthetics. Detailed agent-based simulation and scheduling. See inside buildings. Design and customize almost anything. Business-specific zoning, and mixed use zones too!
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, America 17.8% ★, Building 15.4%, Management 14.4%, Simulation 6.6%
- #23 Timber
82% matchMostly Negative38% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: CaliCosDev Studio
Windows · Mac
Build and manage your industrial empire unlike ever before. Dive into Timber: where strategic resource management meets the forest.
Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, RTS 18.5%, Building 11.1%, Minimalist 10.1%, Simulation 8.9%
- #24 Tile Cities 2
81% matchVery Positive95% of 64 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 32.3%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 14.3%, Building 13.1%, Minimalist 12.5%
- #25 Toons City
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Conanfredleseul
Windows
Toons City is a modified version of the classic city simulation. The game introduces gameplay elements to reproduce the sensations and difficulties inherent in creating and managing a real small town.
Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Management 20.7%, Building 16.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 11.3%
- #26 Harvest Village
80% matchPositive82% of 38 reviews2024
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Harvest Village is a resource gathering and crafting paradise. It is a mini city building game where we process resources and try to craft the most valuable items and complete various quests. Upgrade your buildings and become the best miner, cook and toolmaker.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Building 15.7%, Management 14.3%, RTS 12.8%, Minimalist 7.1%
- #27 All Quiet Roads
79% matchVery Positive94% of 155 reviews2022
Dev: Scheme StreetPub: Scheme Street, LLC
Windows · Mac
Silence the city. A minimalist logistics puzzle where you untangle traffic jams. No stress. Just flow.
Why similar: City Builder 37%, Minimalist 20.6%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Top-Down 9.1%
- #28 Tavern Master
78% matchVery Positive92% of 12,821 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Why similar: Management 28.2%, Building 23.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #29 Panda City
79% matchMixed59% of 37 reviews2021
Dev: lopogames
Windows
Happiness is everything! Build your lowpoly city on a small island and make your inhabitants(pandas) happy. They are asking for a lot of things. Will everybody fit on the island an can you build the perfect home for your population?
Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Building 19.7%, Management 11.6%, Minimalist 10.8%, Strategy 10.2%
- #30 Cities: Skylines
78% matchVery Positive93% of 286,936 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 65.0 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 47.1%, Building 17.5%, Management 13.8%, Simulation 8.7%, Modern 5.8%
- #31 Circuit City
77% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: Lucid Silence Games
Windows
A relaxing city builder set on the tiny scale of a circuit board, where your data agents and electronic components sing a unique, procedurally-generated chiptune song for you as they work.
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, RTS 16%, Modern 15.7%, Management 14.6%, Building 10.5%
- #32 Highrise Mogul
77% 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 33.5%, Building 19.2%, Management 14.5%, Modern 9.1%, Strategy 7.3%
- #33 Civica: Italian Renaissance
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Vertex Studios
Windows
Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, RTS 18.2%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 10%, Building 9.3%
- #34 Roadworks 2
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Taxsoft
Windows
City building real time strategy economy simulation game. Manage the resources on the map and build a city connected through road networks of different types of road so that you can meet production targets.
Why similar: City Builder 35%, Building 24.4%, RTS 16.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 9.9%
- #35 ArchOlden
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Golden Possum
Windows
ArchOlden is a meditative puzzle-city-builder.
Why similar: City Builder 42.5%, Building 20.7%, Minimalist 18.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Procedural Generation 6.8%
- #36 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
76% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Building 20.5%, Management 18.8%, RTS 8%, Strategy 6.9%
- #37 City Painter
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blunix Games
Windows
Advanced city simulator with minimalist "Paint" graphics. Build complex intersections, edit traffic rules, and solve traffic jams without melting your PC.
Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Simulation 13.7%, Minimalist 13.5%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.6%
- #38 Arabia Palace Builder
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Live Motion Games
Windows
In Arabia Builder you will get the chance to prove yourself as the most skilled artisan in the medieval Middle East. Repair palaces, dig aqueducts, tend to beautiful gardens and make the realm fit for a sultan!
Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Building 23.4%, Management 20.1%, Simulation 17%, 3D 3.4%
- #39 Monument village
73% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: SiggoGames
Windows · Mac
Monument village is a peaceful turn-based medieval city-builder. Optimize the placement of each building to grow your village while fulfilling mandatory resource requests. When you are ready, gather workers and materials and build the monument of your dream.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Building 18.4%, Management 15.4%, Minimalist 6.9%, Procedural Generation 6%
- #40 Constructor
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 762 reviews2017
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
You can’t rise to the top without taking a few others down. If that means engaging in a workplace accidents, dodgy deals, and a shifty trick or two then so be it! You're going to need every trick in the book if you want to go from small-time slumlord to property tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 44.6%, Building 17.6%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 14.6%, RTS 8.2%
- #41 Trailer Park Life
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Northern Dev Studio
Windows
Build and manage your own trailer park to either become a peaceful haven or a pit of unruly partiers. Expand on services and amenities to keep tenants happy. Manage staff to keep your park safe and clean or let chaos run amuck and risk it all for higher gains.
Why similar: City Builder 42.8%, Management 19.9%, Building 19.2%, Simulation 14.3%, 3D 2%
- #42 Mini Motorways
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 23,591 reviews2021
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.8 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 19.1%, Minimalist 15.4%, City Builder 15.2%, Building 12.1%, Strategy 11.9%
- #43 Metropolisim
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roy H
Windows · Mac · Linux
The deepest city-building simulation experience ever. Build, grow, and manage a bustling metropolis. Take on the administrative tasks necessary to keep a modern-day city functioning. Construction, zoning, transportation, budgets, city services, and more. You're in control of it all. Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 15.2%, Management 11.9%, Modern 11.4%
- #44 Smart City Plan
73% matchMixed65% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Modern 17.4%, Building 15.7%, Management 12.8%, Simulation 11.7%
- #45 TM - Prologue
71% matchVery Positive93% of 1,207 reviews2021
Dev: UntitledStudio
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Building 20.6%, Management 15.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.2%
- #46 Bleak Frontier
72% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Paladite Games, LLC
Windows
Bleak Frontier is a strategy / city builder game set in a frozen wasteland in the far future, 4087 AD. As the chosen leader of the first permanent settlement in almost a century, you must guide the last survivors of the human race towards an uncertain future. Welcome to the Bleak Frontier.
Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Building 15.7%, RTS 14.7%, Management 14.5%, Strategy 6.8%
- #47 Foundation
67% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 47.1%, Management 12.1%, Building 11.9%, Simulation 7.8%, RTS 7.5%
- #48 My Tiny Park
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Cabin
Windows
My Tiny Park is a management sim where you design and manage parks of all kinds - from schoolyard playgrounds to sprawling nature reserves. Balance budgets, attract visitors, and craft the perfect outdoor space in this relaxing yet strategic game!
Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Management 18%, Building 17.4%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 5.6%
- #49 Until the Night
70% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: NoNameGames
Windows
Economic strategy about building a toy factory for Santa Claus. Until the Night is a small economic strategy game that was inspired by Anno and Tropico game series.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, RTS 15.8%, Minimalist 14.6%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #50 Debatto: Delivery Battle
70% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Jumagama
Windows
Debatto is up to 8 players multiplayer resource management game. Manage vehicles and show Your multitasking skills. Be the fastest builder and compete on worldwide leaderboards.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Building 19.8%, Management 15.3%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Simulation 8.1%
- #51 QuadUrbs
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
QuadUrbs is a relaxing minimalistic city builder game where you can place various tiles next to each other to build detailed city quickly without worrying about resource management. You can either place tiles perfectly to get maximum score or place them as you want to create city of your dreams.
Why similar: City Builder 46.2%, Building 25.1%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 7.9%, Relaxing 6.6%
- #52 Mad Smartphone Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 580 reviews2024
Dev: Miradil
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!
Why similar: Management 23.6%, City Builder 19.4%, Building 17.3%, Modern 15.7%, Simulation 9%
- #53 Hexity
68% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Almost Games
Windows
Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, RTS 18.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Building 11.2%
- #54 Urbek City Builder
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 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 27.6%, Building 15.6%, Management 14.4%, Modern 14.3%, Minimalist 7.9%
- #55 Cities XL Platinum
70% matchMixed58% of 1,631 reviews2013
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...
Why similar: City Builder 57.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Management 13.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Building 4.9%
- #56 Fleeting World
69% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Ozol Games
Windows
Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Building 22.5%, Strategy 13.7%, Management 11.7%, Stylized 5.8%
- #57 Macropolis
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RiceGames
Windows · Linux
A cozy 2D city-building game where you gather resources, upgrade buildings, and grow a small pixel town brought to life with cars, dynamic weather and beautiful sunsets.
Why similar: City Builder 41%, Simulation 17.2%, Building 14.6%, Management 11.6%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #58 Tile Cities
66% matchVery Positive94% of 568 reviews2022
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
Why similar: City Builder 41%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 10.5%, Minimalist 9.3%, Management 9%
- #59 Planet S
65% matchVery Positive92% of 2,816 reviews2023
Dev: Glimmerlight Games
Windows · Linux
Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.
Why similar: City Builder 32%, RTS 19.7%, Building 16.3%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 7.6%
- #60 Metropolis
68% match9 user reviews11% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Studio by the Bay
Windows
Metropolis - The Ultimate City Simulator. In a game of construction, politics and real estate, build and manage your city to become the most liveable city in the world.
Why similar: City Builder 39.7%, Management 23%, Simulation 19.4%, Strategy 17.9%