- #1 Highrise Mogul
97% 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 27.7%, Capitalism 19.8%, Building 13.9%, Economy 13.1%, Management 7.5%
- #2 Uber Urban
96% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: J.F
Windows · Mac
Build your city in multiple different hand-crafted worlds and manage all the complexities that a real mayor would. From city services to demand, finances, policies, approval ratings and re-election, Uber Urban offers a complete and innovative take on the city building genre.
Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Capitalism 16.4%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 8.2%
- #3 Rise of Industry
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Economy 16%, Management 10.6%, Trading 9.9% ★, Capitalism 9.3%
- #4 Super Company
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Dawn Studio
Windows
You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Capitalism 19%, Economy 17.4%, Building 9.7%, Management 8.4%
- #5 Stakeholder Game
94% matchMixed41% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: BoneAppsPub: Bone Apps
Windows · Linux
Investment business simulation game. Become the richest billionaire ever! Build your financial empire out of merged companies and increase your capital.
Why similar: Capitalism 24.4%, City Builder 23.9%, Economy 20%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 6.8%
- #6 Bonanza Burger
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dawg Patch Games
Windows
Bonanza Burger: Build, manage, and compete! Design your restaurant, hire a top-notch team, and battle rival managers. Conquer challenges, expand, and prove you're the ultimate fast-food mogul!
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Capitalism 16.4%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Economy 9.9%
- #7 Aquis
93% 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 33.6%, Economy 15.7%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 8.5%
- #8 Exoplanet Outpost
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aartform Games
Windows
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Capitalism 15%, Economy 10.3%, Trading 9.2% ★, Base Building 7.9%
- #9 Hotel Magnate
91% matchMixed60% of 481 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 23.1%, Capitalism 14.3%, Building 13.8%, Economy 13.8%, Management 9.9%
- #10 Project AURA
91% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Economy 12.3%, Building 10.8%, Trading 9.5% ★, Management 9.3%
- #11 Office Management 101
90% matchMixed65% of 96 reviews2022
Dev: tulevik.EU
Windows · Linux
Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Capitalism 19.4%, Economy 13.3%, Building 12.3%, Management 8.8%
- #12 Amusement Tycoon
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BronStudio
Windows
Manage your park in Amusement Tycoon! Build thrilling attractions, manage staff, and delight visitors to create the park of your dreams and achieve success!
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Capitalism 20.5%, Building 14.3%, Economy 14.1%, Management 11.4%
- #13 Ethics Empire
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Nullgrid Studios
Windows
Become the richest business owner in this strategy-based simulator, choose your playstyle trying to balance ethics and profits in this chaotic low poly world. Will you keep your ethical businesses thriving or will you let it all crumble down for a quick buck?
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Capitalism 15.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Management 11.1%, Building 10.6%
- #14 The Archaeologists
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: dogvsbear
Windows · Linux
The Archaeologists is a single-player settlement builder. Establish multiple settlements through manufacturing and trade. Raise great structures across the mountain to link them into one interconnected economy. Dig into the rock to unearth valuable artifacts and uncover a forgotten past.
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Economy 15.6%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 7.9%
- #15 Nightlife Tycoon
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koala Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Why similar: Economy 17.8%, Building 17.8%, Capitalism 15.1%, City Builder 14.7%, Management 13.2%
- #16 Beacon of Havoc
86% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Majao Games
Windows
Post-apocalyptic city builder, where you Build, Defend, and Thrive in a desolate landscape overrun by enemy attacks. Manage resources, production and manufacturing to expand your settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Tower Defense 25.7%, Building 15.5%, Management 6.7%, Base Building 5.7%
- #17 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
86% 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 34.3%, Building 16.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 11.2%, Management 11.1%
- #18 SimCasino
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 751 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 10.5 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!!
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Capitalism 19.6%, Economy 13.1%, Building 12.6%, Base Building 8.4%
- #19 Dubai Builder
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Dubai Builder is a strategy game in which you build, develop and manage a city in the desert and are responsible for all aspects related to it and struggle with difficult climatic conditions.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Building 15.5%, Tower Defense 12.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Capitalism 10%
- #20 Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
84% matchMixed61% of 239 reviews2022
Dev: Lapovich TeamPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Capitalism 22%, Economy 15.8%, Management 8.1%, Strategy 7.9%
- #21 Mall Craze
83% matchMixed54% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Milan Timčenko
Windows
Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!
Why similar: Capitalism 23.1%, City Builder 21.8%, Building 15.7%, Economy 14.9%, Management 10.2%
- #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 26.4%, Capitalism 17.4%, Economy 13.5%, Building 13.2%, Management 8.9%
- #23 Stardustry
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CherryBit Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the new manager of Stardustry, the pinnacle of resource extraction and production in outer space! Mine ores, process them and create complex resources in this chill industry simulator set in space.
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Economy 12%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 9%
- #24 Mad Smartphone Tycoon
81% 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: City Builder 18%, Building 14.1%, Management 13.9%, Capitalism 12.9%, Economy 9.6%
- #25 Trailer Park Life
80% 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 40.9%, Building 16.1%, Economy 12.6%, Management 12%, Simulation 9.4%
- #26 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
81% matchMixed45% 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.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Economy 19.2%, Building 14.5%, Management 12.4%, Base Building 8.6%
- #27 Cliff Empire
79% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Economy 14%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.6%
- #28 Anno 2205™
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,263 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 54.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: City Builder 39.3%, Economy 12.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Space 6.8%, Management 5.9%
- #29 Astral Enterprises
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
Design, build, and optimize intricate, space-efficient factories in a unique grid-based puzzle system. Master complex supply chains and dominate a living interstellar economy to build your corporate empire. Conquer the cosmos alone or with friends.
Why similar: Economy 17.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Management 11.9%, City Builder 9.2%
- #30 MegaFactory Titan
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2022
Dev: Q Switched Productions, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Capitalism 15.5%, Building 12.1%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 8.6%
- #31 Space Station Tycoon
77% matchMixed61% of 215 reviews2023
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Tower Defense 18.5%, Economy 12.2%, Building 11%, Management 9%
- #32 Pocket City 2
76% matchVery Positive94% of 128 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 33.1%, Economy 16.8%, Capitalism 16.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.7%
- #33 Hotel Architect
75% matchVery Positive94% of 1,342 reviews2025
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Capitalism 18.7%, Economy 14.9%, Building 13.4%, Management 9.3%
- #34 Shopping Center Tycoon
77% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Building 17.1%, Economy 16.5%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 9.9%
- #35 回到2001买房子
74% matchMixed64% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: 新起点制作组
Windows
在游戏中,玩家作为一个买不起房子的普通人,因为偶然的机会穿越到2001年。你是否能利用这次机会,用传越者的知识来重拾当年错过的投资机会,实现财富自由,进而实现人生价值。
Why similar: Capitalism 26.8%, Trading 18.8% ★, Building 14.6%, City Builder 12.9%, Management 10.8%
- #36 NecroCity: Prologue
75% matchPositive86% of 43 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
NecroCity: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. Push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! 🔥
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Tower Defense 23%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 9%
- #37 Real Estate Tycoon!
73% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
Real Estate Tycoon lets you buy, sell, and upgrade properties to maximize profits. Play through Career Mode, Time Trial, or Endless Mode as you navigate a dynamic market. Build your empire, strategize investments, and dominate the property market!
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Capitalism 23%, Economy 15.9%, Building 14.4%, Simulation 5.4%
- #38 City Country
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Velikov Brothers
Windows
City Country is a city-building game where you manage resources, population, knowledge. You control various sectors of the city like education, medicine, culture, tourism, trading.
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Economy 15.8%, Trading 15% ★, Building 10.9%, Management 9.6%
- #39 Cities XXL
76% matchMixed40% of 2,356 reviews2015
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 51.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 43.1%, Economy 17.9%, Building 16.6%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 6.7%
- #40 Super Movie Tycoon
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 317 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!
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Capitalism 16.7%, Economy 13.1%, Trading 12.3% ★, Building 10.1%
- #41 Income Roads
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kiara24
Windows
Road system economic sim. Factorio meets MiniMetro.
Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Capitalism 20.1%, Building 13.2%, Economy 13%, Strategy 8.8%
- #42 Persian Empire Builder
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameFormatic S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Dominate the ancient world economically and conquer it leading the greatest empire known in history of mankind. As a ruler of Persia build cities, roads and aqueducts, develop your economy, settle disputes, issue orders to armies and fleet.
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Building 14.2%, Economy 13.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Trading 10.1% ★
- #43 Mad Games Tycoon 2
71% matchVery Positive94% of 7,570 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Economy 16%, Capitalism 15%, Trading 12% ★, Management 11.1%
- #44 Grand Casino Tycoon
73% matchMixed60% of 57 reviews2021
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Capitalism 28.3%, Building 18%, City Builder 14.6%, Economy 12.4%, Management 11.3%
- #45 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Building 12.9%, Trading 11.1% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 10.3%
- #46 Astra Industria
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Regnum Noctis
Windows · Linux
Astra Industria is a sci-fi factory builder set on colossal player-constructed space megastructures with the addictive growth of incremental games. Extract resources, craft advanced components, and automate deep-space production through a vast tech tree.
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Capitalism 17.8%, Economy 12.4%, Building 11.9%, Base Building 9.5%
- #47 Homelander’s Valor
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2D Axis
Windows
Become a hero of Eastern legend. Explore ancient secrets, plan your defenses, combine tower types and modifiers, and build an indestructible fortress in a tower-defence game with survival elements.
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Tower Defense 28.5%, Building 16.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 7.3%
- #48 Roller Coaster Park Simulator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frost Panda Studio
Windows
Switch between first- and third-person as you build your park, ride your coasters, and serve your guests. Design rides, manage staff, and keep the chaos under control in your very own roller coaster park!
Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Building 17.3%, Management 13.2%, Capitalism 11%, Strategy 9.4%
- #49 Festival Tycoon 🎪
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 226 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 21.8%, Capitalism 18.2%, Economy 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 8.3%
- #50 Lost Galaxy: Echoes of War
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: After The Singularity Games
Windows · Mac
Build. Defend. Survive. Expand. A sci-fi base-building game on a hostile alien world. Gather resources, build a sprawling high-tech colony, and defend against relentless alien threats—then unlock new planets, new challenges, and the secrets of humanity’s last frontier.
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Management 6.4%
- #51 Mall Simulator
66% matchVery Positive91% of 2,672 reviews2025
Dev: F13 Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!
Why similar: Capitalism 21.8%, Economy 16.4%, City Builder 15.9%, Trading 14.5% ★, Building 11.1%
- #52 Chinese Empire: Prologue
68% 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 37.1%, Building 16.3%, Economy 16.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 7.6%
- #53 Real estate tycoon
69% matchMixed65% of 452 reviews2022
Dev: Double Eggs
Windows
"Illusory life: urban real estate tycoon" is a simulated business role-playing game with urban theme. We try to restore the game world like a novel of urban face slapping, and give the players a "capitalist" identity.(We are a very poor studio, so English translation will be launched in the future)
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Capitalism 23.8%, Economy 16.6%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 5%
- #54 Fortifend
66% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: Side Crumb
Windows
Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Tower Defense 27.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 9.7%
- #55 Global City
68% matchMixed70% of 1,363 reviews2021
Dev: Red Brix WallPub: MY.GAMES
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Become the mayor and build the city of your dreams! In this game, anything is possible. Whatever you can imagine in a city-building and development simulator, you can do. Start from the very beginning and unlock new possibilities for developing your city in Global City!
Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Capitalism 16.2%, Economy 14.3%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 9.5%
- #56 Chinese Empire
68% 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 37.3%, Economy 17.3%, Building 17.2%, Management 11%, Strategy 8.2%
- #57 Raid!
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2020
Dev: CowboyPub: Cowboy Studio
Windows
Raid is a three dimensional, base building tower defense game. Build and upgrade towers, capture castles and defend against increasing waves of enemies. Expend your coin in efforts to fend off your attackers while preparing for the final wave before you can move onto the next plot of land.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Trading 16.9% ★, Building 14.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 7.4%
- #58 Isla Paradiso
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Economy 16.6%, Building 15.3%, Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.1%
- #59 Citystate Metropolis
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
The creative, pragmatic, limitless city builder. Engineer a masterpiece of urban design, a small sustainable town or a futuristic metropolis. With procedurally generated buildings, grid-less zoning and powerful editor tools, everything is customizable: the city is yours.
Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Building 15.9%, Economy 15.8%, Capitalism 12.8%, Management 9.7%
- #60 Ridiculous Shipping
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crowfriend
Windows · Linux
Ridiculous Shipping is an arcade management sim about running a chaotic sea port. Unload ships and get every container to its destination using cranes, drones, trucks, and ridiculous buildings like shark-filled aquariums.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Tower Defense 22.7%, Economy 15.2%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 9.4%