- #1 Omicrocity 2
97% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Omwekiatl
Windows
A relaxing, cartoonish city builder where success is not just a gray, industrial megalopolis. Create your own hippie, robotic, supernatural, warlike, or artistic city, and discover the chaotic events that will put your city to the test.
Why similar: City Builder 17.3%, God Game 14.2% ★, Isometric 11.4%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #2 My Tiny Park
96% 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 20.9%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 12%, Management 11.3%
- #3 Indoorlands
96% matchVery Positive81% of 275 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Building 15.5%, Isometric 15.4%, City Builder 13.2%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 12.7%
- #4 Ecoplanet
95% matchNo user reviews
Windows · Mac
Ecoplanet is a Tycoon Eco-Sim that lets you research, breed and build ecosystems whilst creating an island tour business to become the richest island owner around! Unlock new animals, plants and scenic props to create exciting islands and bring more customers!
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Building 13.4%, God Game 13.3% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Management 10.9%
- #5 Victorian Pier Tycoon
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Webpal Limited
Windows · Mac
Build and manage your own Victorian seaside pier in this nostalgic pixel-art tycoon game. Construct steam-powered rides, balance the delicate needs of the Aristocracy against the Working Class, and maintain structural integrity. Will your resort become a world wonder, or crumble into the sea?
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Isometric 17%, Building 15.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #6 Hotel Magnate
94% matchMixed59% of 487 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 15.6%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 11.5%
- #7 Urbanist
93% 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 22.6%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Resource Management 13%, Management 10.3%
- #8 SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
92% matchVery Positive82% of 9,766 reviews2010
Dev: EA - MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, God Game 15.1% ★, Isometric 14.7%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #9 Crowncity
91% 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 19.3%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 10%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #10 RPG Tycoon
91% matchMixed51% of 487 reviews2016
Dev: Skatanic StudiosPub: Macrocosmic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!
Why similar: City Builder 16.4%, Isometric 16%, Management 15.1%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #11 Shopping Center Tycoon
90% 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: Building 16.4%, Management 15.7%, City Builder 14.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #12 Super Company
89% 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 20.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 10.3%, Management 10.2%
- #13 School Owner
89% 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.
Why similar: Building 13.6%, City Builder 13.6%, Isometric 12.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #14 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
88% matchVery Positive81% of 1,753 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Isometric 14.4%, Building 12.5%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #15 Camplandia
87% 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 19.6%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 10.2%
- #16 Production Line : Car factory simulation
86% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Management 15.3%, Building 12.8%, Isometric 12.4%, Resource Management 11%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #17 Metropolis 1998
86% 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 18.6%, Isometric 16%, Building 13.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 10.7%
- #18 Office Management 101
85% matchMixed64% of 98 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 14.2%, Isometric 14.1%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 10.7%
- #19 Two Point Campus
84% matchVery Positive88% of 8,016 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 19.8 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 18.6%, Building 17.2%, Management 17.2%, Isometric 13.4%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #20 Two Sides : Voyage to the Mainland
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thunder Games
Windows
Two Sides: Voyage to the Mainland is a management game where you play as a divine being who guides his people using his incredible powers. Will they be cute, overly benevolent people, or a people who live from day to day with no respect for anything?
Why similar: God Game 17.7% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Isometric 14.8%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 10.6%
- #21 Wildlife Park 3
84% matchMixed59% of 522 reviews2014
Dev: b-alive gmbh
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Do you have what it takes to be a zoo tycoon? You are responsible for your very own and unique zoo. Choose from numerous types of enclosures, park buildings and plants to design an environment appropriate to each species. Take home a part of wilderness with Wildlife Park 3!
Why similar: Management 14.5%, Building 13.3%, City Builder 12.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Simulation 11.3%
- #22 Planet Coaster 2
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,823 reviews2024
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18.4%, Building 17.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, God Game 15.9% ★, Simulation 10.4%
- #23 A Little Age
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Benerot
Windows
Build and expand a network of settlements, each with its own little economy. Manage the flow of resources between them at your own pace, and watch a civilization emerge in this minimalist settlement builder.
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Building 13.3%, Isometric 12.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 11.2%
- #24 Uber Urban
81% 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 19.7%, Isometric 15%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Management 9.9%
- #25 Little Big Workshop
80% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
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: Building 15.3%, Simulation 15.1%, Management 14.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 10.1%
- #26 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
79% matchVery Positive87% of 2,908 reviews2020
Dev: Frontier DevelopmentsPub: Atari
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Building 19.3%, Management 17.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #27 Wildlife Park Gold Reloaded
81% matchMostly Negative36% of 25 reviews2018
Dev: b-alive gmbh
Windows
Establish, create and manage your own amazing zoo, even with extinct animals - and become a Zoo Tycoon! With new UI and full screen resolutions support!
Why similar: City Builder 16.9%, God Game 15.5% ★, Isometric 15%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 9.8%
- #28 Nightlife Tycoon
78% 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: Building 15.7%, City Builder 15.5%, Resource Management 14%, Management 13.3%, Isometric 12.1%
- #29 Coffee Noir - Business Detective Game
79% 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: Management 15.2%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #30 Let's Build a Zoo
78% matchVery Positive89% of 4,085 reviews2021
Dev: SpringloadedPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 20.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Management 12.8%, Simulation 9.6%
- #31 Dream Corp 梦想公司
77% 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: Building 16.6%, City Builder 16.5%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Sandbox 11%
- #32 Smart Factory Tycoon
77% matchMixed61% of 909 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 15.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.9%, Management 11.9%
- #33 Island of Embers
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
Build a human settlement on a volcanic island plagued by fireballs, earthquakes, and ash. Control golems, unlock buildings through research, and face a living landscape that wants you gone. Can your home survive, or will the volcano erase it?
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Building 16.9%, Management 12.5%, Isometric 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #34 Lords of Solgrund
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Sillylas
Windows
Lords of Solgrund combines elements of real time strategy, city building and other unique additions. The game features detailed animations, complex gameplay systems inspired by the early middle ages and elements of fantasy.
Why similar: City Builder 17.4%, Isometric 14.2%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 10.1%
- #35 Subway Builder
76% matchNo user 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 24.3%, Building 15.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 12%, Simulation 11.4%
- #36 Green With Energy
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 42 reviews2023
Dev: OrbifoldPub: Gameparic
Windows · Mac · Linux
A relaxing game where you become a power engineer and iteratively design, test and build power grid designs. Balance budget and efficiency across a variety of biomes. Will you build resilient systems, or cobble something together with duct tape? It's your choice.
Why similar: Isometric 19%, Building 14.5%, City Builder 14.1%, Management 9.7%, Economy 7.9%
- #37 SimAirport
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,031 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 19.5%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 11.9%, Economy 8.8%
- #38 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 504 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Resource Management 18.7%, Management 15.6%, City Builder 13.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.1%
- #39 Quartermaster
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quartermaster Team
Windows
Quartermaster is a management strategy simulation in which you will build a top-secret agency to prepare elite spies for their missions! Research high-tech spy gadgets and run specialized training programs. Manage your staff and stay alert for double agents looking to sabotage your operation.
Why similar: City Builder 15.2%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Isometric 11.2%
- #40 Dubai Simulator
73% 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 24.5%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #41 Two Point Museum
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,692 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 25.2 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 20.2%, Building 17.3%, Isometric 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Management 10%
- #42 Election Town
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grande GamesPub: Polyslash
Windows
Election Town is a humorous small-town life simulator with a political twist. Build and decorate the house of your dreams, make decisions that will shape the city, and take your part in the election against the current Mayor. It’s Election time and your choices matter most!
Why similar: City Builder 18%, God Game 17.2% ★, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 11%
- #43 Dungeon Overseer
73% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: City Builder 18%, Building 12.8%, God Game 11.6% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Economy 8.4%
- #44 Twas The Night
71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Mayham Games
Windows
Build and manage Santa's North Pole mega-workshop in this festive city builder where workshops produce toys for the world's children. Spend Christmas Spirit to create new holiday traditions and upgrade your workshops, but lose your spirit and you'll cease to exist.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Resource Management 15.2%, Isometric 14.5%, Simulation 14.2%, Management 13.9%
- #45 Office Manager
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jan Štěpánek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own office empire. Design buildings, find tenants, negotiate contracts, and keep them happy. Research new technologies, expand your business, and handle unexpected events in a living office world.
Why similar: Building 16.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, City Builder 12.4%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #46 Project AURA
72% 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 22.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 11.8%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #47 Crowded Blue Dot
71% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 12.1%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 7.8%
- #48 Parkasaurus
70% matchVery Positive93% of 3,107 reviews2020
Dev: Washbear Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Building 14.6%, Isometric 13%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #49 Green City
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fabiulous Games
Windows · Mac
Green City is a Free-to-Play, Eco-Focused City-Builder. Create your own beautiful sustainable city, manage resources and balance economic growth with environmental impact.
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 13%, Resource Management 12%, Management 9.9%
- #50 Project Highrise
70% matchVery Positive85% of 4,793 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Building 25.3%, Management 23.8%, Simulation 13.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 8.6%
- #51 Halloween Store Simulator
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Rogue Muse Games
Windows
🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, God Game 16.8% ★, Building 11.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 8.2%
- #52 Orrstead
68% matchVery Positive80% of 80 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 20.1%, Building 14.4%, Isometric 14.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Management 11.1%
- #53 Oboro no Ichi
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheLaba
Windows
Build and manage a spiritual market inspired by Japan, welcome wandering spirits, produce and sell resources, and grow your space through memories and a cozy atmosphere.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Management 15.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Isometric 13.8%, Building 12.1%
- #54 VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Keliosis Studio
Windows
VIKING - Sagas of the Norse Lands is a city-builder where you forge your legend. Become a Jarl, transform a camp into a thriving city, manage your people's expansion, and build your legacy. Explore, fight, and erect monuments to etch your saga in history!
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.3%, Isometric 10.4%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #55 Cities: Skylines II
67% matchMixed55% of 90,178 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 73.8 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 29.4%, Building 16.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 9.8%
- #56 Civilize
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NCAT
Windows
From the first stone tool to the first starship. One city carries an entire civilization across eight ages. Civilize is the first CivForge: a city-builder where multiple islands and 100+ resources let you forge an arc of human history that is entirely your own.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Building 16.8%, Resource Management 16.4%, Simulation 11%, Management 9.2%
- #57 Mermaid Colony
69% matchMixed60% of 35 reviews2019
Dev: M. HankaPub: Liu Lidan
Windows
Mermaid Colony is an atmospheric survival strategy game. You're granted godlike powers to guide the mermaids in a battle between light and darkness.
Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, God Game 13.1% ★, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #58 Business Magnate
68% matchMixed67% of 218 reviews2019
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
Why similar: Management 17.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Isometric 12.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Building 12%
- #59 Flooded
66% matchVery Positive82% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Isometric 14.3%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 12%, God Game 11.1% ★
- #60 Macropolis
65% 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 28%, Simulation 16.7%, Building 13%, Resource Management 9%, Management 8.5%