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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 30.2%, 2.5D 16.4%, Isometric 14.1%, Building 10.5%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a clean, accessible, and portable-friendly approach to building and managing a thriving metropolis.

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 27.6%, Political Sim 21.3% ★, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes local resource management and organic urban growth shaped by the surrounding neighborhoods.

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 40.3%, Moddable 15.3%, Building 13.5%, Management 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a full-scale modern city-building experience with deep infrastructure management and expansive sandbox freedom.

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 25.8%, Simulation 15.5%, Isometric 14.1%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines classic tycoon strategy with city development and economic management in a casual setting.

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 25.5%, Building 24.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shifts the city-building perspective to a vertical plane, focusing on skyscraper management and tenant satisfaction.

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 29.9%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 14.3%, Management 14%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on detailed layout design and micro-management of a massive, bustling transportation hub.

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 30%, Sandbox 15.3%, Management 14.5%, Building 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 10%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a charming pixel-art aesthetic and deep management loops centered around construction and animal care.

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: City Builder 18.7%, Political Sim 18.3% ★, Moddable 16.6%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features retro 3D aesthetics and classic city-planning mechanics inspired by the golden era of urban simulators.

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 30.3%, Political Sim 22.6% ★, Building 13.4%, Management 11.1%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to experiment with deep political, economic, and social policies while designing unique city-states.

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 24%, Management 17.1%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Isometric 11%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers engaging management gameplay with a heavy emphasis on building, architectural design, and casual charm.

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 42%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Isometric 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to build sustainable vertical neighborhoods using modular blocks with interdependent ecosystems.

A tiny building game about beautiful lived-in houses. No rules or restrictions, just pure creativity.

Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Sandbox 22.6%, Building 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the pure, relaxing joy of building quaint architectural dioramas without economic stress.

Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!

Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Life Sim 12%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 10.2%, Political Sim 9.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to grow a small town into a sprawling city using light strategy and charming pixel art.

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 35%, Building 17.5%, Sandbox 16.1%, Retro 9.2%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a playful, physics-based take on miniature city construction with creative sandbox elements.

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 28.2%, Life Sim 14.1%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.9%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines resort and town management in a vibrant, casual simulation tailored for pixel-art fans.

The Regional City Builder: Let's Build Something New.

Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Management 11.7%, Building 11.2%, Isometric 11.1%, Life Sim 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive sandbox city-building experience designed to handle massive populations and complex infrastructure.

Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.

Why similar: City Builder 14.7%, Management 14.7%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Moddable 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a hardcore transportation and economic simulation network reminiscent of classic management games.

Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!

Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 15.9%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends quirky humor with classic property development and ruthless urban strategy.

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 24.6%, Isometric 13.9%, Building 13.1%, Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines spatial design and real-time management as you construct and run an intricate underground metro station.

Build your own spectacular, multi-story station for your favorite trains!

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Automobile Sim 21.8%, 2.5D 10.7%, Simulation 7.9%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Brings Kairosoft's signature casual simulation style to the management of a bustling railway station.

Make the dwelling of your dreams a reality in this apartment management sim!

Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Life Sim 16%, 2.5D 12.5%, Management 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on architectural interior design and tenant management within a cute pixel-art apartment building.

Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free 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. Try it yourself for free!

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Political Sim 25.4% ★, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13%, Management 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Serves as an introductory slice of urban planning focused on resource optimization and organic growth.

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 31.3%, Political Sim 24.1% ★, Building 10.1%, Management 7.8%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Explores realistic socio-economic and political simulation while designing individual sovereign cities.

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 36.2%, Building 14.4%, Moddable 13.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Pushes scale and simulation depth to the next level with advanced road tools and realistic urban economics.

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 13.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on realistic economics and large-scale metropolitan development across diverse planetary maps.

A city-building sim with a historical twist

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, 2.5D 17.1%, Building 11%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Transports the classic Kairosoft simulation formula into a historical Japanese city-building setting.

Advanced city simulator with minimalist "Paint" graphics. Build complex intersections, edit traffic rules, and solve traffic jams without melting your PC.

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Moddable 12.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a minimalist, relaxing sandbox experience centered around painting and building urban blocks.

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 42.3%, Building 18.2%, Isometric 15.9%, Management 6.7%, Casual 6%

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 27.4%, Simulation 19%, Building 13%, Isometric 11.8%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a casual city-building experience focused on infrastructure projects and economic expansion.

Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Life Sim 15.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends theme park management with pixel-art construction and visitor satisfaction loops.

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 26.2%, Life Sim 13.9%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Management 11.9%

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: Building 25.3%, Sandbox 19.3%, Management 18.4%, City Builder 14%, Simulation 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers ultimate creative freedom in designing and managing intricately detailed theme park wonderlands.

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 42.6%, Building 17%, Sandbox 13%, Management 12%, Strategy 6%

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Building 22.6%, Sandbox 22.1%, Simulation 8.5%, Casual 4.5%

Plunge into the past for a rousing romp through Edo period Japan!

Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Life Sim 12.1%, Building 11.2%, 2.5D 10.6%, Management 9.5%

Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Moddable 21.3%, Isometric 11.7%, Building 11.4%, Management 10.3%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Building 18%, Management 14%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 6%

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 25.1%, Moddable 13.2%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 10.5%

An easygoing sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks. Create your perfect community then watch as the gourdlets make themselves at home. No objectives, no points, just good vibes. Play in full screen, or let your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen!

Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Sandbox 19.8%, Building 17%, Isometric 9.6%, Simulation 7.6%

The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?

Why similar: City Builder 44.4%, Sandbox 20.1%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Building 7.2%

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 31.4%, Isometric 19%, Building 13%, 2.5D 9.2%, Management 8.9%

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 19.6%, Isometric 13.5%, Building 13.4%, Management 13.4%, Sandbox 12.6%

Create an original world and fill it with buildings, roads, vehicles and more. Give it life with posable characters. Tell a story with custom speech bubbles and in-game photo captures. Then, share with friends!

Why similar: City Builder 44.9%, Sandbox 24.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Building 9.5%, Casual 4.8%

Lift and throw anything as you build and manage your kingdom in this chaotic city builder for 1-6 players. Harness the power of your soul-stealing crown to defend your citizens from bandits and mutants, farm the land, and gather resources. Keep citizens happy or see them desert you!

Why similar: City Builder 30.9%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, Management 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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 36.2%, Building 14.4%, Moddable 13.3%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%

The Architect: Paris is a construction game that allows you to shape the city of Paris into what you want. Destroy, draw, build your own architectural projects, customizing each building carefully or entire districts at once.

Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Building 23%, Sandbox 21.6%, Simulation 9.3%, Casual 7.3%

Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!

Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Life Sim 13.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Building 8.3%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 28%, Moddable 14.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 12.3%, Isometric 11.7%

​Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Sandbox 19.5%, Isometric 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Simulation 9.4%

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 29.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 14.7%, Isometric 13.2%, Management 12.4%

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 29.2%, Building 13.4%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 10%, Moddable 9%

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: City Builder 31.3%, Political Sim 27.7% ★, Building 13.2%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 5.7%

A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.

Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 10.7%, Casual 5.4%

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 24%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.6%, Life Sim 11.2%, Isometric 10.1%

Become the Mayor in a unique game that blends thrilling match-3 puzzles with strategic city building!

Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Isometric 15.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Building 11.8%, Management 8.8%

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 24.2%, Isometric 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.9%

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: Management 22.3%, City Builder 21.1%, Strategy 16.6%, Building 15%, Simulation 14.4%

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 30.8%, Isometric 16.5%, Building 15.2%, Management 12.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Urban Tale is a realistic, vibrant and unique RPG that will allow you to fulfil your dreams, and pursue your most wanted goals in life. You start from scratch, having nothing in the city where you can meet a lot of people, that can help you throughout your adventure. Your goal is to succeed in life.

Why similar: Life Sim 17.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Retro 11.8%, Management 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Management 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Strategy 7.4%