- #1 Constructor
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 767 reviews2017
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 1.7 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!
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- #2 Constructor Plus
96% matchVery Positive89% of 468 reviews2019
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!
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- #3 Caesar™ 3
96% matchVery Positive93% of 2,260 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!
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- #4 SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited
95% matchVery Positive84% of 790 reviews2024
Dev: MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 31%
SimCity 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of SimCity 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrills of the classic SimCity 3000 are here again!
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- #5 Build-A-Lot
94% matchVery Positive90% of 78 reviews2009
Dev: Hip SoftPub: Next Game
Windows
Send the housing market through the roof as you build, buy, and sell houses in the new strategy game, Build-a-lot! You can flip houses for quick cash or sit back and watch the rental income pile up. Become a real estate mogul as you visit scenic towns, earn huge profits and perform special favors for the colorful local mayors.
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- #6 Pizza Connection 2
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 318 reviews2017
Dev: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
It's your empire... Take control! The game has it all! the depth of gameplay will have you on the edge of your seat for hours on-end. Build, manage, strategize and conquer the competition with the richest gameplay tycoon product ever offered!
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- #7 Anno 1404 - History Edition
93% matchVery Positive82% of 3,619 reviews2020
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
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- #8 Bastide
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 355 reviews2020
Dev: MedievalNexus
Windows
Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town. Manage your workforce and protect your people from the constant threats of starvation, disease, winter, and bandits.
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- #9 Deadlock II: Shrine Wars
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 82 reviews2014
Dev: Cyberlore Studios, Inc.Pub: Atari
Windows
Build your empire upon the bodies of others! Deadlock II: Shrine wars is an exciting game of strategy, resource management and military conquest. Take control of one of seven races as you search for the secret power an ancient civilization.
- #10 Industry Giant 2
90% matchVery Positive86% of 1,027 reviews2015
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!
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- #11 Soviet City
91% matchMixed59% of 111 reviews2016
Dev: chickeninthecornstudio
Windows
Soviet City is a game made up of quick game plays, where building and control is essential. We take a lot from classic city builders. The player takes the role of mayor of the city. Soviet law and economy have their own laws. Every building influences a terror bar. Be careful, because excessive terror level leads to a rebellion.
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- #12 Anno 1800
89% matchVery Positive81% of 32,498 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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- #13 Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
89% matchVery Positive86% of 682 reviews2015
Dev: Chris SawyerPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
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- #14 Corsair Cove
86% matchVery Positive85% of 3,566 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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- #15 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
88% matchMixed54% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
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- #16 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
85% matchVery Positive87% of 10,396 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
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- #17 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
84% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
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- #18 Imperium Romanum Gold Edition
87% matchVery Positive85% of 484 reviews2008
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
The city builder strategy game Imperium Romanum is set in the time-honoured Roman Empire. As governor of a Roman province, you will devise a strategy to build a well organised, prosperous and commanding settlement. Its fortune very much lies in your own hands.
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- #19 City of Gangsters
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,563 reviews2021
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
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- #20 Manor Lords
83% matchVery Positive84% of 92,096 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
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- #21 MoonBase Commander
84% matchVery Positive90% of 184 reviews2014
Dev: Humongous EntertainmentPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Explore. Strategize. Conquer.In the far future, Mankind has nearly exhausted all of earth’s natural resources. Fragile alliances between nations are tested to their limits as fierce wars ignite across land and space.MoonBase Commander puts you in charge of your own lunar territory in a quest to build the most powerful empire in space.
- #22 Cossacks 3
82% matchVery Positive82% of 16,201 reviews2016
Dev: GSC Game World
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 50.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!
- #23 School Owner
82% matchMostly Negative23% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Owner Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.
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- #24 Anno 117: Pax Romana
79% matchMixed69% of 12,872 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
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- #25 Industries of Titan
81% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
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- #26 REAL ESTATE Simulator - FROM BUM TO MILLIONAIRE
81% matchMixed44% of 219 reviews2024
Dev: GeekonPub: Midnight Games
Windows
Ready to transform from Broke to Rich while forging your real estate empire? Start small, strategize for tycoon status. Engage with diverse NPC clients, oversee properties from affordable to luxurious, and conquer challenges. Ready to dominate the real estate world?
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- #27 Surviving the Aftermath
80% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
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- #28 Command & Conquer™ Generals
77% matchVery Positive88% of 2,169 reviews2024
Dev: EA PacificPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Command & Conquer Generals puts your trigger finger on the pulse of modern warfare. Prepare your forces General... it's time to engage in the next generation of real-time strategy.
- #29 Capitalism Plus
79% matchVery Positive84% of 122 reviews2016
Dev: Enlight Software Limited
Windows
Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.
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- #30 Capitalism 2
78% matchVery Positive83% of 579 reviews2017
Dev: Enlight Software LimitedPub: Enlight Software Limited
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.
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- #31 Feudal Baron: King's Land
78% matchMixed40% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Sim Farm S.A.
Windows
Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.
- #32 Urbek City Builder
76% matchVery Positive89% of 1,999 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 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.
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- #33 Lords of the Realm II
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,713 reviews2015
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
The great Lords of England have their eyes on the the English throne! Muster an army and overrun your enemies' castles in this classic, nail-biting strategy game that blends turn-based and real-time gameplay.
- #34 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
73% matchVery Positive92% of 11,793 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 34.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
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- #35 Construction Company
75% matchMixed60% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: Single Game Production
Windows
Your grandfather's construction company is now in your hands. Take over a business burdened by debt and lead it to success. Hire workers, build crews, purchase equipment, complete contracts, expand your office, and turn the company into a thriving construction empire.
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- #36 SimCasino
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 758 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!
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- #37 Nova Roma
72% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
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- #38 Mob Rule Classic
75% matchVery Positive83% of 272 reviews2017
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 72.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
This is a dog-eat dog world of corruption, murder and sex – and as the new kid on the block you’re looking a little like ‘milk on the bone’!
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- #39 Caesar™ IV
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 875 reviews2016
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.Pub: Activision
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
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- #40 Anno 1701 History Edition
71% matchVery Positive85% of 235 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.
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- #41 Patrician III
74% matchVery Positive82% of 1,025 reviews2010
Dev: Ascaron Entertainment ltd.Pub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Become a fellow of the famous medieval Hanse trading association in the 13th century. Manage the politics, prestige and economic success in your city and the known parts of Europe!
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- #42 Police Quest: SWAT 2
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 114 reviews2017
Dev: Yosemite EntertainmentPub: Sierra
Windows
Keep the peace or wreck havoc on the streets of LA.
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- #43 Cities: Skylines
69% matchVery Positive93% of 292,422 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 66.1 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.
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- #44 Anno 1503 History Edition
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Experience the classic gameplay of 1503 A.D.: The New World, optimized for current computers with resolutions up to 4K.
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- #45 Command & Conquer™ and The Covert Operations™
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 463 reviews2024
Dev: Westwood StudiosPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 37%
The legendary RTS game which started it all. Will you side with the humanistic GDI or bring the world to its knees with Kane and the Brotherhood of Nod. Your adversaries are without mercy. And so are you.
- #46 Tropico 3
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,951 reviews2009
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?
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- #47 Industry Manager: Future Technologies
72% matchMixed58% of 314 reviews2016
Dev: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
INDUSTRY MANAGER: Future Technologies is a classic economy simulation in which you can build your own empire, research new sustainable products, and sweep aside the competition on your way to fame and success.
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- #48 Builders of Greece
68% matchMixed55% of 604 reviews2025
Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.
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- #49 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
71% matchMixed44% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Blackstaff GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.
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- #50 Game Tycoon 1.5
73% matchOverwhelmingly Negative15% of 664 reviews2014
Dev: Sunlight Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Welcome to the Game Industry!The year is 1982. Three young entrepreneurs discover the computer and potential to strike it rich in the Games Industry! Their love for computer games is a common bond that they all share but they are also in fierce competition with one another in a race to build a successful Games Development House…They...
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- #51 Game Dev Story
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,512 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
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- #52 Cartel Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,818 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
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- #53 Super Movie Tycoon
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 345 reviews2025
Dev: Yuedong Game
Windows · Mac
Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!
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- #54 Post-Apo Builder
68% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
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- #55 City Life 2008
70% matchVery Positive81% of 255 reviews2008
Dev: Monte CristoPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life! City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction.
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- #56 Aztecs: The Last Sun
65% matchMixed70% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!
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- #57 KAISERPUNK
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 935 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
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- #58 Power to the People
67% 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?
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- #59 Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries
68% matchVery Positive94% of 256 reviews2016
Dev: Enlight Software Limited
Windows
Conquer the world and build your empire! Lead one civilization to glory through sophisticated trade, diplomacy, espionage and conquest.
- #60 Age of Pyramids
69% matchMostly Negative35% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: Cassagi Entertainment s.r.o.
Windows
Age of Pyramids is a sandbox city builder and simulator set in Ancient Egypt. You take on the city governor and architect’s mantle to build the most incredible city on Earth. You will have to gather dozens of resources to maintain happiness of your people and prosperity.
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