- #1 My Tiny Park
97% 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 31.7%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 11.7%
- #2 Cities XXL
96% matchMixed41% of 2,367 reviews2015
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 50.8 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 40.3%, Building 16.8%, Management 12.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 8.3%
- #3 Shopping Center Tycoon
95% matchPositive80% of 40 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 21.5%, Management 18.6%, Building 17.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #4 Cities XL Platinum
95% matchMixed58% of 1,637 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 53.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 4.8%
- #5 Amusement Tycoon
94% 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 29.8%, Building 15.8%, Management 15.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 6.7%
- #6 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
93% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 reviews2020
Dev: Frontier DevelopmentsPub: Atari
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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 30.6%, Building 20.4%, Management 20.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 7.7%
- #7 Cities: Skylines II
93% matchMixed56% of 92,848 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.7 hrsMean: 77.2 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 40.3%, Building 16.8%, Management 12.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 8.6%
- #8 Two Point Museum
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 13,533 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 25.9 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 28.6%, Building 17.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 11.5%, Life Sim 11.1%
- #9 Urbanist
92% 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 35.5%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 8.2%
- #10 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
91% 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.
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Management 16.9%, Building 15.9%, Economy 8.8%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #11 Lord of Metal
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Horns Up Games
Windows
🤘Lord of Metal is a single player story-driven management simulator about organizing 🎸Rock music festivals, bringing a dystopian world back to life. 🎤 Gather your crew 🥁 book bands 🎧 sign sponsors 🔊 claim festival grounds and bring some 🔥Rock to the masses! \m/
Why similar: Management 17.3%, Building 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10%, Simulation 9.5%
- #12 Project Highrise
89% matchVery Positive85% of 4,823 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 26.6%, Building 26.1%, Simulation 12.4%, City Builder 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #13 Oraiah
88% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: PageBoy
Windows
Become the King of your own nation and restore the ancient empire of Oraiah. Claim the imperial throne by submitting your enemies by strength or by shining so much that it will force the other pretenders to the throne to submit to you. What will you do, my Lord?
Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Management 17%, Simulation 13.6%, Building 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%
- #14 Fast Charging Tycoon
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Charged Future
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run an electric vehicle charging company. Choose your locations, design sites, schedule repairs, apply for loans and grants, vote on industry initiatives, hire executives, maintain reputation and site driver experience ratings, and claim one of four victories to build a fast charging tycoon.
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Building 21.5%, Management 20.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 8.3%
- #15 Broadband Architect
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Thomas LeePub: Kolva Ltd
Windows
Britain's broadband is a mess, and you're the small company that says it can do better. Trench real UK streets, wire real homes to fibre, and size your network against the 8pm evening peak — when the whole town logs on at once. Dig up Britain. Sell broadband. Survive the evening peak.
Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 10.7%, Building 6.9%
- #16 Cities: Skylines
86% 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.
Why similar: City Builder 46.2%, Building 16.2%, Management 11.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 7.8%
- #17 Trailer Park Life
86% matchNo user reviews2027
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 41.7%, Building 17.7%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 12.7%, Economy 5.9%
- #18 Hundred Nights: DIFU
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PixelsCove Games
Windows
Run the Eastern Underworld in this cozy city builder simulation! Design land layout, hire quirky soulkeepers, and punish sinful souls. Give souls a place to call home. Encounter legends from myths, explore worlds above...
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Building 16.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Management 12.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #19 Dubai Simulator
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mobilway S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
In Dubai Simulator, you'll have the chance to design and build your dream city, complete with towering skyscrapers, bustling streets, luxurious resorts, and awe-inspiring landmarks.
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 14.5%, Building 13.1%, Management 8.5%
- #20 Tropico 6
84% matchVery Positive88% of 29,546 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Why similar: City Builder 40.5%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8.2%, Economy 7.9%
- #21 Foundation
82% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 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 45.7%, Building 10.8%, Management 10%, Sandbox 9.5%, Simulation 6.9%
- #22 Macropolis
83% 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 39.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Building 13.3%, Management 9.5%, Economy 6%
- #23 Amusement Factory
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Corbata Games
Windows · Mac
Build the theme park of your dreams. Lay the roads, place the rides, open the shops and keep every guest smiling from the gate to the last bus home. A bright, cozy park builder with a ten-location campaign, free play with no limits, and a front-seat view of every ride you put down.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Building 18%, Management 15.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Economy 8.2%
- #24 The Hostel Project
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: figmargaux
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Management 16.8%, Building 14.4%, Life Sim 13.8%, Sandbox 12.4%
- #25 LEGO® Skylines
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Build what only you can in LEGO® Skylines. In this cozy, customizable city-builder, your choices bring a living, breathing metropolis to life. Go big or obsess over the details. No instructions. Unlimited space. And there’s just one rule. Make it yours.
Why similar: City Builder 41%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 15.7%, Building 15%, Management 11.3%
- #26 SimAirport
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,050 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 28.9%, Building 15.7%, Management 14%, Sandbox 11.9%, Economy 7.8%
- #27 Ethics Empire
79% match3 user reviews100% of 3 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 30.6%, Management 16.4%, Simulation 12.6%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #28 Monument village
79% matchPositive90% of 10 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 17.4%, Management 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #29 Uber Urban
77% 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 30.2%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Management 12%, Economy 7%
- #30 File Under Kingdom
78% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Vidmancer
Windows · Mac · Linux
File Under Kingdom is a mix of city builder, puzzle game, and interactive story. How you build the kingdom will alter events and/or influence the choices of its leaders. Use a variety of buildings to satisfy the kingdom's needs. See if you have what it takes to be the kings new Royal Planner.
Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Building 17.1%, Management 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #31 Tropico 4
78% matchVery Positive92% of 12,763 reviews2011
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 50.8%, Management 15.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Strategy 6.5%
- #32 Crowncity
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Haon Games
Windows
Building and managing a late medieval city is a series of challenges. Build wells to provide drinking water, markets to provide bread and food, and theaters to collect performance tax. Stage mode continues an interesting story and journey, random map mode fills each game with a new experience.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Building 17.4%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 7.7%
- #33 Bonanza Burger
76% 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 33%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 9%
- #34 Chess Club Manager
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pouet
Windows · Linux
Tycoon game to build and manage your own chess club from the ground up. Balance training, sponsors, tournaments and turn a tiny local club into a global success.
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Management 12.5%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #35 Two Point Campus
75% matchVery Positive88% of 8,220 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Management 21.1%, Building 19.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 8.8%
- #36 Camplandia
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OddBall Interactive
Windows
Build and manage a thriving summer camp. Provide your campers with a place to catch fish, kayak, and tell ghost stories around the campfire. Will you create the ultimate summer camp? Or will your reputation as camp director plummet from a bunch of unhappy campers?
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Building 17.4%, Sandbox 13%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 7.7%
- #37 Dream Corp 梦想公司
74% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: zhangkun
Windows
This is an integrated company simulation game combining construction, management, and life elements. As the boss, precisely control each character without cumbersome page operations. Encounter random events, explore employees' hobbies, quirks, and build a dream company together.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Building 18.5%, Management 17.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 9.1%
- #38 Subway Builder
72% matchMixed60% of 422 reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Building 17.1%, Management 14.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 8.9%
- #39 Pool Slide Story
73% matchVery Positive91% of 225 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Make a fantastic, dazzling water park!
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Building 13.8%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Life Sim 9.5%
- #40 BlockUrbs
73% matchPositive85% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
BlockUrbs is a small city builder game where you can place a variety of structures and roads on tiles to create tiny, detailed and beautiful city sections without worrying about any goals or scores.
Why similar: City Builder 48.1%, Building 18.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 8.1%
- #41 Block'hood
74% 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 49.2%, Sandbox 16.7%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 5.8%
- #42 Terra-7
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A Business Colony Sim where you build your company on a hostile alien world. Keep your employees happy. Bring results—and profits—to investors. All at the same time!
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 11.9%, Economy 7.6%
- #43 可爱猫
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GearGames
Windows
一只猫咪住进你的桌面,在屏幕角落自由生活、陪你工作。每天摸摸、喂喂、逗逗,看它从奶猫慢慢长成御猫;布置猫窝、收集品种、养一整窝猫,还能派它们出门打工攒鱼干。零压力——不会饿死、不会走丢,关机离线也安心。
Why similar: City Builder 50%, Building 20.8%, 2D Platformer 11.7%, Simulation 7.6%, Base Building 6.2%
- #44 FD's Industry Tycoon
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows
Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Management 14.5%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 7.9%
- #45 happiness market
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: luolei
Windows
A simple simulation and management game. Build different shops and earn money from passing customers.
Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Building 19.4%, Life Sim 13%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Simulation 8.3%
- #46 Farmman
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 11.8%, Economy 7.1%
- #47 Super Company
70% 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 33.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Management 13.2%, Building 12.3%, Economy 9.3%
- #48 Production City
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mayor of the Month
Windows
Production City is a city builder focused on manufacturing, logistics, and politics. Build efficient production chains, make impactful (or questionable) decisions, and grow your city into an industrial empire!
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Building 17.2%, Management 11%, Sandbox 9%, Simulation 8.6%
- #49 Aquis
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pomo 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 38.4%, Building 18.1%, Management 13.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Economy 8.2%
- #50 Stardustry
69% 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 36.1%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 7.9%
- #51 Let's Build a Zoo
69% matchVery Positive89% of 4,118 reviews2021
Dev: SpringloadedPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Management 15.7%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 9.6%
- #52 Dream Town Island
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 549 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 29.5%, Life Sim 12.3%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 8.1%
- #53 我是大房东
69% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: 星九猫
Windows
If you had a plot of land, what would you build on it? In "I Am The Landlord," you'll play as a landlord who owns an apartment building in the city center, starting from an empty plot and using your design skills and creativity to construct unique apartments.
Why similar: Building 29.9%, City Builder 28.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Life Sim 11.7%, Management 10.5%
- #54 Anno 117: Pax Romana
66% 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.
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 7.8%
- #55 BünzliFight: Swiss City Simulator
67% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Bünzli Studios
Windows
Cooperative real time city building simulator with Swiss flair. Build a town together manage resources and budgets solve quirky everyday problems and experience a world that keeps running even when you are offline.
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Life Sim 13.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 10.9%
- #56 Anno 1800
68% 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.
Why similar: City Builder 52.1%, Economy 8.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #57 Epoch Cycle
66% matchMostly Positive69% of 83 reviews2026
Dev: GeometricUniverse
Windows
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Why similar: City Builder 33.8%, Building 16.1%, Management 14.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #58 Citystate Metropolis
67% matchNo user reviews2026
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 33.3%, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 8.1%
- #59 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
68% 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 37.9%, Building 20.2%, Management 16.6%, Base Building 7.8%, Simulation 6%
- #60 Coffee Noir - Business Detective Game
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 87 reviews2021
Dev: DOJI
Windows · Mac · Linux
A unique combination of a business management game and detective novel with elegant graphics in a noir comic-book art style. Experience an advanced business management simulation along with intriguing story set in alternative future of Neo-London.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Management 18.8%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 10.3%