- #1 Cardboard Town
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,304 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Card Game 17.9%, Deckbuilding 17.7%, Building 17%, Management 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A direct genre peer that utilizes a card-based system to manage city growth and random events.
- #2 Stacklands
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,157 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: Card Game 23.2%, City Builder 21.6%, Management 16.5%, Deckbuilding 15.1%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core mechanic of using cards to build and manage a settlement, requiring careful resource management and planning.
- #3 Concrete Jungle
96% matchVery Positive87% of 667 reviews2015
Dev: ColePowered Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Deckbuilding 27.9%, Card Game 21.8%, Puzzle 9.5%, Strategy 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A foundational card-based city-builder that challenges you to balance urban development with the needs of your citizens.
- #4 Dawnmaker
95% matchVery Positive91% of 164 reviews2024
Dev: Arpentor StudioPub: Acram Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!
Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Card Game 23.5%, Deckbuilding 19.6%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 8%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based city-builder that focuses on strategic expansion and managing resources through a tabletop-inspired interface.
- #5 These Doomed Isles
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 232 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: God Game 29.5% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Deckbuilding 18.9%, Card Game 14.7%, Strategy 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics to create a challenging survival experience.
- #6 Dystopika
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,473 reviews2024
Dev: Voids Within
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
A city-building sandbox for futuristic cities. No goals, no management, just creativity and dark cozy vibes.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Dystopian 20%, Cyberpunk 19.8%, Futuristic 12.5%, Building 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the cyberpunk aesthetic and dystopian atmosphere of Technotopia in a sandbox city-building environment.
- #7 Against the Storm
93% matchVery Positive94% of 37,259 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Diplomacy 34.1% ★, City Builder 25.2%, Building 14.3%, Management 13%, Strategy 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder features high-stakes choices and procedural elements that force players to adapt their strategy constantly.
- #8 Ratropolis
92% matchVery Positive88% of 5,510 reviews2020
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A fusion of roguelite, tower defense, city-building, and deck-building! We created a new kind of real time strategy game filled with addictive and fast-paced gameplay. Create your deck, defend your city, and build the largest Ratropolis in history!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 34.9%, Card Game 25.9%, City Builder 16.1%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced deckbuilding strategy game that requires managing a growing settlement while defending against external threats.
- #9 Frostpunk
91% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: City Builder 51.9%, Building 15.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Management 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep political decision-making and high-stakes management that mirrors the faction-balancing tension found in Technotopia.
- #10 MEMORIAPOLIS
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,785 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.8% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Building 12.5%, Management 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes historical progression and political evolution through strategic choices.
- #11 Skid Cities
91% matchMixed65% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: Vittorio Banfi
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Cyberpunk City Building Game. Define the city of a twisted, dark, utopian, or dystopian future. Build it in the sky, underground, on the ground. Navigate evil corporations, the Yakuza, android revolts, and unrest. Or embrace them - your choice.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Cyberpunk 22.9%, Dystopian 13.2%, Building 11.8%, Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk-themed city-builder that focuses on the gritty reality of managing a futuristic metropolis.
- #12 Ratopia
88% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 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 36%, Building 26.4%, Management 19.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A complex colony simulator that emphasizes economic management and political structures within a city-building framework.
- #13 Power to the People
89% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Building 22.2%, Management 21.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical and economic challenges of managing a city's infrastructure under pressure.
- #14 Terra Nil
87% matchVery Positive87% of 8,729 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.
Why similar: City Builder 54.4%, Puzzle 18.6%, Strategy 17%, Casual 6.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-oriented city-builder that uses a card-like approach to restore ecosystems rather than just expanding them.
- #15 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
89% 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 34.5%, Management 19.3%, Building 17.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Puzzle 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique management game where buildings have personalities, echoing the faction-management and social-balancing aspects of Technotopia.
- #16 Urbek City Builder
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,977 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.2 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 26.9%, Political Sim 26.2% ★, Building 15.3%, Management 13.2%, Puzzle 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes resource management and the interconnected nature of urban development.
- #17 Citystate II
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,139 reviews2021
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.1 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 28.9%, Political Sim 27.3% ★, Building 14.2%, Management 12.1%, Choices Matter 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep dive into political and economic simulation, allowing for complex governance decisions.
- #18 Tiny Kingdom
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 153 reviews2025
Dev: neltile
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Deckbuilding 20.8%, Card Game 15.4%, Building 13.3%, Management 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that incorporates city-building elements into a challenging strategic loop.
- #19 Neongarten
84% matchVery Positive88% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Moonroof StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
A minimalist cyberpunk city builder inspired by Islanders and Luck Be a Landlord.
Why similar: God Game 22.8% ★, City Builder 22%, Cyberpunk 17.8%, Building 11.6%, Deckbuilding 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk city-builder that blends simulation elements with roguelite progression.
- #20 Tinytopia
84% 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 42.3%, Building 23.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 6.4%, 3D 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A casual city-builder that uses physics-based mechanics to create a unique building experience.
- #21 Half-Earth Socialism
83% matchVery Positive82% of 1,013 reviews2022
Dev: Francis TsengPub: Trust
Windows · Mac · Linux
Try your hand as a global planner of a future society. Play with a wide range of technologies and policies spanning different fields and ideologies. Will you lead the world to ecological utopia or planetary ruin?
Why similar: Political Sim 23.5% ★, Diplomacy 20.8% ★, Card Game 13.3%, Dystopian 11.5%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that uses card-based mechanics to explore complex political and environmental policy decisions.
- #22 Metroplex Zero: Sci-Fi Card Battler
82% matchVery Positive97% of 129 reviews2023
Dev: Enigma Dragons LLC
Windows · Linux
Neo-cyberpunk roguelike card battler. Strategically construct your decks, gain powerful cybernetic upgrades, and vanquish sinister MegaCorps in challenging card combat. Dive into a replayable single-player experience that blends RPG progression, deck-building strategy, and a futuristic sci-fi world.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 24.8%, Cyberpunk 23.7%, Card Game 17.4%, Futuristic 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the futuristic, card-based tactical gameplay style found in Technotopia's mechanics.
- #23 Kaya's Prophecy
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 238 reviews2025
Dev: Jérémie & ThibautPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Kaya’s Prophecy is a unique card based village builder! establish your village, gather resources, and craft tools and buildings in a vibrant world. Explore and combat various challenges and other groups in this colourful, deck-builder while appeasing your god to earn his favour.
Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Card Game 21.1%, Management 14.3%, Deckbuilding 14.1%, Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that integrates card-based mechanics to influence the growth and survival of your settlement.
- #24 IXION
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,592 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 46.4%, Building 17.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A space station management game that forces players to make difficult narrative choices that impact the survival of their population.
- #25 Dorfromantik
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,559 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
Why similar: City Builder 37.9%, Logic 19%, Puzzle 13.7%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A tile-based puzzle city-builder that rewards careful planning and strategic placement, similar to the puzzle-like nature of card-based building.
- #26 Silicon City
82% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: Polycorne
Windows · Mac · Linux
Silicon City is a new take on the classic city builder genre, where each citizen voice their opinion. Will you be an urban designer, a rural evangelist or a reckless capitalist? Build your way to the most productive city until elected as the best mayor or plan the city of your dreams in sandbox.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Building 14.5%, Management 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A modern city-builder that focuses on management and sandbox growth within a stylized urban environment.
- #27 Automatic Kingdom
79% matchVery Positive89% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.
Why similar: City Builder 40.2%, Card Game 38.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Building 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that uses card-based resource management to automate and grow a medieval kingdom.
- #28 Tropico 6
80% matchVery Positive88% of 29,404 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 30%, Political Sim 22.6% ★, Diplomacy 11.2% ★, Management 10.8%, Strategy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic political management city-builder where balancing the needs of various factions is essential to staying in power.
- #29 Kingdom's Deck
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 517 reviews2025
Dev: Ivan AcoPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Build by day, defend by night! Kingdom's Deck is a card-based city builder where you build and protect your Kingdom from the enemy siege. Build your deck, deploy your cards wisely, defend your walls, manage your resources, and respond to various events that will shape your Kingdom!
Why similar: City Builder 35.2%, Card Game 25.1%, Management 13.9%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based colony simulator that focuses on base-building and roguelike deckbuilding mechanics.
- #30 Temporian
78% matchVery Positive82% of 89 reviews2023
Dev: ChallAcc
Windows · Linux
Trapped in the past, your survival hinges on your ability to adapt and innovate. From foraging for food to mastering the art of technology, every decision you make shapes your destiny. Will you return to your own time, or make the past your new future in this mind-bending survival game?
Why similar: God Game 30.3% ★, Card Game 17.1%, Building 13.8%, Management 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A god-game that utilizes card-based management to control the development of a civilization over time.
- #31 URBO
76% matchVery Positive92% of 668 reviews2023
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
URBO is a relaxing cozy city-building puzzle game where you create beautiful towns on floating islands. Begin with an empty grid of landscape, choose an architectural style and build. Watch the population grow and the city flourish.
Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Building 19.3%, Logic 17.5%, Puzzle 11.1%, Strategy 7.2%
- #32 Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
73% matchVery Positive97% of 202 reviews2026
Dev: Crux Games
Windows
A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!
Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Deckbuilding 24.7%, Card Game 18.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 9.3%
- #33 Epoch Cycle
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 82 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: Political Sim 32.5% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Building 12.4%, Management 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #34 SuperTaxCity
74% matchVery Positive88% of 216 reviews2025
Dev: soramame-koubouPub: KIC Games
Windows
A new sensation!? City-building × Roguelike game *Super Tax City*. Choose and place your favorite facilities from randomly drawn options! The combinations are endless! Create a profitable city that's uniquely yours!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 34.8%, City Builder 34.2%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Simulation 6.2%, Top-Down 4.7%
- #35 Citystate
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 813 reviews2018
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 30%, Political Sim 29.2% ★, Building 10.8%, Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.1%
- #36 Mini Settlers
73% matchVery Positive81% of 742 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Management 20%, Building 19.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.6%
- #37 Microlandia
73% matchVery Positive89% of 147 reviews2025
Dev: Information Superhighway Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a cozy little city on top of a brutally honest economy. Every citizen is simulated, one by one: they work, pay rent, get sick, go broke and turn to crime. Set taxes and policy, win elections, and survive a newspaper that blames you for everything.
Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Diplomacy 22.1% ★, Management 16.2%, Building 13.4%, Simulation 6.9%
- #38 D-topia
71% matchVery Positive89% of 141 reviews2026
Dev: Marumittu GamesPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Step into the world of D-topia in this gentle-paced puzzle adventure. In D-topia, life is curated by artificial intelligence to maximize happiness. As the newest Facilitator, it’s up to you to solve puzzles to keep the D-topia residents happy and the facility running.
Why similar: Puzzle 52.4%, Casual 37.9%, Singleplayer 9.8%
- #39 Simmiland
75% matchVery Positive87% of 1,940 reviews2018
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Why similar: God Game 54.2% ★, Card Game 19.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Puzzle 4.9%, Strategy 4.2%
- #40 Megapolis
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 164 reviews2016
Dev: Lonely Troops
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 14.6%, Futuristic 11.6%, Management 10%
- #41 Microtopia
71% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Futuristic 20.4%, Management 16.6%, Building 14%, Strategy 5.5%
- #42 Wild City
70% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: Monka StudiosPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Mac
The deckbuilder where cards are plants, animals, and insects that can synergize and prey on each other. Place your cards on an expanding board to trigger satisfying chain reactions and shape an interconnected ecosystem.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 34.2%, City Builder 28%, Card Game 25.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #43 Subway Builder
71% matchMixed57% of 360 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 34.3%, Building 17.4%, Management 15.2%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 9.7%
- #44 Paper Kingdom
72% matchMixed59% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: obece
Windows
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Card Game 18.8%, Deckbuilding 16.2%, Management 13%, Building 12.8%
- #45 Megacity Builder
76% matchMixed49% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: Andrew Rowe
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A city builder that has all the bells and whistles you know and love with one twist. In Megacity Builder you build a whole nation not just a city. Pass laws at the national level. Build cities like in classic city builders while producing resources to feed your massive capital.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.3% ★, Diplomacy 23.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, God Game 14.6% ★, Building 9.5%
- #46 Pile Up!
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,120 reviews2025
Dev: RemoobPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.
Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Building 20.8%, Management 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Strategy 8%
- #47 Aquatico
72% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Building 17.3%, Futuristic 17%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 8.9%
- #48 Factory Planner
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 389 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Card Game 40.6%, Management 30%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 8.1%, Casual 6.4%
- #49 Townopolis
74% matchMixed67% of 141 reviews2016
Dev: Lonely Troops
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic neighborhood with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Building 17%, Simulation 16.5%, Management 15.1%, Casual 11.3%
- #50 TerraScape
68% matchVery Positive89% of 2,226 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Deckbuilding 29.3%, Logic 17.3%, Puzzle 10.7%, Strategy 7.8%
- #51 Synergy
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,087 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Diplomacy 35.5% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Building 14.1%, Management 12%, Strategy 6%
- #52 Venture Towns
70% matchVery Positive80% of 141 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, God Game 15.2% ★, Political Sim 13.1% ★, Building 11.9%, Strategy 10%
- #53 Tile Cities 2
67% matchVery Positive92% of 71 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 26.8%, Strategy 13%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Puzzle 9.5%
- #54 Entertainment Simulator
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 210 reviews2026
Dev: Grizzbera StudioPub: INDIECN
Windows
"Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Card Game 16.5%, Building 15.6%, Management 14.4%, Deckbuilding 13.1%
- #55 Industries of Titan
69% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Cyberpunk 22.9%, Building 16.2%, Futuristic 13%, Strategy 7.8%
- #56 The City Must Grow
69% matchVery Positive81% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Tunaic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A new city will be established on a flat plain and its administration has been given to you. In order to keep the administration in your hands, the city needs to develop continuously.
Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Building 14.8%, Puzzle 11.7%, Simulation 7.8%, Choices Matter 7%
- #57 Oxygen
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Building 19.8%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.4%
- #58 Dictator Simulator: Gradnar
65% matchVery Positive98% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: GortagonGame
Windows
Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your empire. A political dystopia packed with satire and humor!
Why similar: Diplomacy 37.4% ★, Dystopian 21.9%, Card Game 16.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Strategy 6.4%
- #59 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
65% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: City Builder 41.5%, Building 23.6%, Management 19.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 6.7%
- #60 Escape Gaia
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: Current Games
Windows
you will play as Gaia, the shattered will of a planet, and command your spaceship to explore new worlds, collect and refine various resources, build a home on the damaged spacecraft, summon a wide range of monsters, and ultimately, devour other shattered wills to repair yourself.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 21.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Card Game 19.6%, Futuristic 13.3%, Building 9.6%