- #1 Pocket City
97% matchVery Positive92% of 276 reviews2022
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Economy 13.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Cartoony 8.6%, Building 7.7%
- #2 Planet Coaster
96% matchVery Positive91% of 72,226 reviews2016
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Economy 15.1%, Building 14.3%, City Builder 14%, Relaxing 7.1%
- #3 Two Point Campus
96% 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 29.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Economy 7.8%
- #4 Town to City
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,135 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Why similar: City Builder 39.5%, Economy 14.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.9%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #5 Cities: Skylines II
95% 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 41.7%, Economy 14.4%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 5.7%
- #6 Two Point Museum
94% 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 29.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Economy 12.5%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 8.5%
- #7 Planet Coaster 2
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,789 reviews2024
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 31.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Sandbox 18.2%, Economy 15.3%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 9.1%
- #8 Mall Craze
92% matchMixed54% of 68 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: City Builder 21.6%, Capitalism 15.7%, Economy 15.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 9.1%
- #9 Hotel Architect
90% matchVery Positive94% of 2,389 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.9%, Economy 14%, Sandbox 12.3%, Capitalism 11.4%, Building 7.5%
- #10 SimAirport
91% 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 28.5%, Economy 17.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 8.3%
- #11 Parking World: Build & Manage
91% matchMixed66% of 183 reviews2025
Dev: Binary ImpactPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Economy 19.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 8.2%
- #12 SteamWorld Build
89% matchVery Positive85% of 2,285 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Economy 14.3%, Capitalism 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #13 Festival Tycoon 🎪
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 232 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 21.5%, Economy 12.9%, Capitalism 12.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 11%
- #14 Skyline Urban Story
88% matchVery Positive89% of 111 reviews2025
Dev: PandaUpStudio
Windows · Mac
From barren land to towering metropolis, every decision you make shapes the destiny of your city. Industrial flow, global trade, surging land values, and growing wealth, offers deep management gameplay, perfect for players who love strategic city-building and economic simulation.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Economy 19.3%, Sandbox 15.4%, Capitalism 11.7%, Building 9.6%
- #15 Food Park Manager
86% matchVery Positive82% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Drix Dev
Windows
Build and manage your own Food Park! Customize food stalls, hire staff, and cater to hungry customers as you find the perfect recipes. Decorate your park to attract and satisfy more customers.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Economy 18%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 12%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #16 SimCasino
86% 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!!
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Economy 12.7%, Capitalism 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%
- #17 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
87% 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 35.7%, Economy 21.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 9.2%
- #18 Urbek City Builder
85% 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.
Why similar: City Builder 37%, Economy 18.4%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 10.7%, Strategy 8.5%
- #19 Highrise City
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,303 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: City Builder 34%, Sandbox 15.4%, Economy 13.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Building 7.5%
- #20 TheoTown
83% matchVery Positive95% of 4,842 reviews2019
Dev: LobbyPub: blueflower
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build and manage your dream city in this captivating simulation game. Create unique urban landscapes and enjoy compatibility with the mobile versions. Unleash your creativity and shape the metropolis of your dreams.
Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Casual 5.4%
- #21 Highrise Mogul
84% 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 30.2%, Capitalism 14.9%, Economy 14.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.9%
- #22 Hotel Magnate
82% matchMixed58% of 491 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Economy 13.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Base Building 9.8%, Capitalism 9.4%
- #23 Go-Go Town!
79% matchVery Positive93% of 2,784 reviews2026
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Economy 12.5%, Building 10.4%, Funny 8.8%
- #24 Indoorlands
81% matchVery Positive81% of 279 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 12.5%, 3D 6.6%
- #25 Mad Games Tycoon 2
79% matchVery Positive94% of 7,827 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 21.7%, Economy 19.1%, Capitalism 11.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #26 Smart City Plan
82% 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 32.6%, Economy 15.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Strategy 14.3%, Building 9.2%
- #27 Polyville Canyon
80% matchVery Positive94% of 131 reviews2021
Dev: Henagames
Windows
Polyville Canyon is a laid-back city builder where nothing bad ever happens! Relax while you build an entire city for your Neighbors piece by piece! Attract Neighbors and increase Ticket Prices by expanding your town and watch your profits soar!
Why similar: City Builder 45.8%, Relaxing 14%, Cartoony 11.8%, Building 9.7%, Casual 6.5%
- #28 Virtual City Playground®: Build Your Metropolis
77% matchVery Positive87% of 1,112 reviews2026
Dev: G5 Entertainment AB
Windows
Relaxing city builder where you grow a vibrant metropolis, produce goods, manage transit and build iconic landmarks at your own pace.
Why similar: City Builder 57.6%, Building 14%, Casual 10.4%, Relaxing 8.4%, Simulation 2.8%
- #29 Citystate
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 815 reviews2018
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.
Why similar: City Builder 41.4%, Economy 16%, Strategy 10.3%, Sandbox 10%, Building 7.5%
- #30 Kingdoms and Castles
78% matchVery Positive94% of 31,455 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Economy 13.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 7.2%
- #31 Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game
78% matchVery Positive82% of 569 reviews2021
Dev: Squidpunch StudiosPub: Vincent Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.
Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Economy 16.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 8.1%
- #32 Mini City: Mayhem
76% matchVery Positive88% of 115 reviews2025
Dev: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, plan, and flourish while the time is running! Mini City: Mayhem is a chaos-filled city-builder where you build against time. Become the mayor of a tiny town, plop down tiny building blocks to build a working city to progress. Become the greatest urban planner of all time!
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Base Building 17.2%, Economy 13.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Building 7.8%
- #33 Cities: Skylines
76% 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 51.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Economy 11.6%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #34 Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 932 reviews2019
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Building 8.7%
- #35 Mini Motorways
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,480 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: City Builder 25.9%, Strategy 23.7%, Relaxing 13.1%, Casual 11.1%, Building 10.5%
- #36 Project Highrise
75% 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: Building 19.8%, Strategy 16.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Economy 14.6%, City Builder 13.6%
- #37 Park Beyond
75% matchMixed63% of 1,331 reviews2023
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Park Beyond is a theme park simulation game that gives you the freedom to create and manage the Parks of your Dreams! Whether you love to manage finances and visitor experience, or just create fun and cozy parks, the game has something in store just for you!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, City Builder 13.7%, Building 13.1%, Cartoony 8.8%, Funny 6.9%
- #38 Empire City Simulator
74% matchMixed58% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Red Brix Wall
Windows
Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!
Why similar: City Builder 45%, Economy 18.6%, Strategy 13.3%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 5.7%
- #39 Foundation
71% 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 44.1%, Economy 11%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Base Building 7%
- #40 Global City
74% matchMixed69% of 1,440 reviews2021
Dev: Red Brix WallPub: MY.GAMES
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 32.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 29.6%, Economy 18.4%, Capitalism 14.3%, Building 8.3%, Relaxing 8.3%
- #41 Tile Cities 2
72% matchVery Positive90% of 72 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 41.5%, Strategy 21.3%, Casual 12.7%, Building 8.6%, Simulation 8.1%
- #42 Little Big Workshop
73% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Economy 19.4%, Strategy 18.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 11.6%, City Builder 9.9%
- #43 Mad Smartphone Tycoon
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 662 reviews2024
Dev: MiradilPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 19.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Economy 10.7%, Capitalism 9.5%, Building 9%
- #44 Tinytopia
72% matchVery Positive83% of 328 reviews2021
Dev: MeNic GamesPub: Mastiff
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!
Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 11%, Funny 7.2%, Strategy 6.2%
- #45 Cities XL Platinum
73% 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 59.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 7.3%, Economy 5.6%
- #46 Heian City Story
69% matchVery Positive89% of 221 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A city-building sim with a historical twist
Why similar: City Builder 48.5%, Strategy 15.3%, Building 9.2%, Casual 8.7%, Economy 7.9%
- #47 Airport CEO
70% matchVery Positive83% of 8,359 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Economy 15.2%, Capitalism 14.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 12.1%
- #48 Blooming Business: Casino
70% matchMixed69% of 233 reviews2023
Dev: Homo Ludens
Windows
Build your casino empire in Las Venas alongside cute animals! Blooming Business: Casino is a cosy management game. Build and run your casino in a bustling world full of drama. Complete quests and manage your clientele. Keep everyone happy, from the clients, to the employees (and beware of the bear).
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Economy 12.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 8%, Relaxing 7.9%
- #49 United Penguin Kingdom
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 453 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 36.7%, Economy 19.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Relaxing 8.5%, Building 6.6%
- #50 City idle
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 231 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Economy 31.5%, Strategy 23.6%, Building 17.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Simulation 9.8%
- #51 Project Hospital
69% matchVery Positive89% of 9,400 reviews2018
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Why similar: City Builder 41.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Economy 15.3%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 8.6%
- #52 Filmmaker Tycoon
71% matchMostly Negative26% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: Aternis Level 0Pub: Aternis Interactive
Windows
Filmmaker Tycoon is a next generation movie tycoon simulation game! You're the producer of your very own movie studio! Hire actors, build movie sets, make films, move up in the industry, and watch your finished films in Filmmaker Tycoon.
Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, Economy 16.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Capitalism 10.4%
- #53 Under Par Golf Architect
66% matchVery Positive84% of 179 reviews2026
Dev: Broken Arms Games
Windows · Mac
Step into the shoes of a golf architect as you build and manage your own golfing paradise! Sharpen your strategy by designing incredible courses to challenge the most demanding golfers and watch your club flourish as you attract VIP players, hire quirky staff and hold prestigious tournaments.
Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Economy 15.6%, Capitalism 14.3%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #54 Scorchlands
67% matchVery Positive89% of 140 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Economy 14.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 8.2%
- #55 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
68% 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 32.4%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Cartoony 5.2%
- #56 Citystate II
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,141 reviews2021
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.
Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Economy 21.2%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #57 Pocket Clothier
68% matchVery Positive84% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A clothing shop management sim. Go from quaint corner shop to world-class brand!
Why similar: Strategy 27.5%, Economy 22.9%, Casual 16.9%, Simulation 14.1%, Building 13.6%
- #58 Ratopia
64% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10%, Economy 8.8%
- #59 Orrstead
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Sandbox 16.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 6.6%
- #60 Mayor Match: City Builder & Match-3
64% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: G5 Entertainment AB
Windows
Become the Mayor in a unique game that blends thrilling match-3 puzzles with strategic city building!
Why similar: City Builder 54.1%, Casual 12.9%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Relaxing 7.2%