- #1 Urbek City Builder
97% matchVery Positive90% of 1,880 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.4 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 11.8%, Voxel 11.8% ★, Political Sim 11.8% ★, Agriculture 10% ★, Economy 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: The full version of the seed game offers a more expansive experience with deeper district mechanics and more complex resource chains.
- #2 Cities: Skylines
96% matchVery Positive93% of 290,162 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 65.5 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 35.9%, Building 13.6%, Management 10%, Economy 9.5%, Sandbox 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard of city-builders, it provides unparalleled depth in urban planning, traffic management, and infrastructure development.
- #3 Foundation
96% matchVery Positive87% of 23,903 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 26.9 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 37.1%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a unique gridless building system that allows for organic, realistic city growth similar to the district-based approach in Urbek.
- #4 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
95% matchVery Positive91% of 26,420 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 71.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Economy 16.2%, Building 13.9%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an incredibly deep economic and resource management simulation that rewards careful planning and logistics.
- #5 Against the Storm
94% matchVery Positive95% of 36,338 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.5 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: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 15.1%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder focuses heavily on resource management and adapting to changing environmental conditions.
- #6 Anno 1800
94% matchVery Positive81% of 31,755 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Why similar: City Builder 40.8%, Economy 18.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It excels at complex production chains and economic management, requiring players to balance the needs of different social classes.
- #7 Highrise City
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,294 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 25.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 11.7%, Building 11.4%, Modern 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A modern city-builder that emphasizes large-scale urban management and complex economic supply chains.
- #8 Timberborn
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 40,383 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 43.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Voxel 24.9% ★, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique water-based resource management mechanics that require clever engineering to survive seasonal droughts.
- #9 Power to the People
92% matchVery Positive81% of 553 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 19.2%, Economy 15.3%, Building 12.8%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on grid-based power management and economic planning, mirroring the infrastructure challenges found in Urbek.
- #10 Frostpunk
91% matchVery Positive93% of 135,886 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 39.8%, Resource Management 19.9%, Building 12%, Strategy 7.9%, Management 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that forces players to make difficult political and resource-based decisions to keep their population alive.
- #11 Tropico 6
91% matchVery Positive88% of 29,191 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 27.8%, Political Sim 21.1% ★, Economy 14.2%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines city building with political simulation, allowing you to manage an island nation's economy and infrastructure.
- #12 Citystate II
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,124 reviews2021
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 21.8%, Political Sim 20.9% ★, Economy 14.4%, Building 11%, Management 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep political and economic simulation where your policy decisions directly impact the growth and prosperity of your city.
- #13 Captain of Industry
88% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.9%, Economy 17.9%, City Builder 16%, Management 12.1%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on complex logistics, manufacturing, and resource extraction on a massive industrial scale.
- #14 Banished
89% matchVery Positive90% of 43,196 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: City Builder 47.1%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Resource Management 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-focused city-builder where managing resources and population growth is essential to surviving harsh winters.
- #15 Terraformers
87% matchVery Positive88% of 3,713 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 27.4%, Resource Management 24.4%, Management 22.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Atmospheric 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic colony-builder that requires careful resource management to transform a hostile planet into a habitable world.
- #16 Mini Settlers
86% matchVery Positive81% of 720 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 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 21.9%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 12.2%, Building 12%, Minimalist 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a minimalist approach to resource chain automation and city expansion in a compact, strategic format.
- #17 Masterplan Tycoon
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 741 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Building 16.5%, Economy 16.2%, Resource Management 16.2%, Management 14.7%, Minimalist 12%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist logistics and resource management game that focuses on the efficiency of supply chains.
- #18 Smart City Plan
86% 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 19.8%, Building 11.2%, Economy 10.8%, Modern 10.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on urban planning and city management with a strong emphasis on infrastructure and zoning.
- #19 Oxygen
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 25.5%, Resource Management 13.7%, Economy 12.9%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-based city-builder that challenges players to manage limited resources in a post-apocalyptic environment.
- #20 Ostriv
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,538 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Agriculture 14.7% ★, Economy 11%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic village-building simulation that focuses on historical accuracy and detailed resource management.
- #21 Let's School
81% matchVery Positive93% of 7,314 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Voxel 18% ★, Management 12.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and building within an educational setting, requiring careful resource allocation to succeed.
- #22 Endzone - A World Apart
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,918 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Building 9.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Sandbox 7.4%, Management 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes survival, resource scavenging, and environmental management.
- #23 United Penguin Kingdom
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 444 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 28.5%, Economy 17.5%, Resource Management 14.9%, Management 14.4%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that tasks you with managing resources to keep a penguin colony thriving.
- #24 Industries of Titan
81% matchMixed62% of 1,613 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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 28%, Voxel 27.4% ★, Resource Management 16.4%, Building 14.4%, Strategy 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines industrial city building with tactical elements in a unique sci-fi setting.
- #25 Farlanders
79% matchVery Positive91% of 583 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Building 16%, Resource Management 15.8%, Management 13.5%, Procedural Generation 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that uses procedural generation to create unique resource management challenges on Mars.
- #26 Cliff Empire
80% matchVery Positive87% of 4,363 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Economy 15.4%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 11%, Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A vertical city-builder that forces players to manage limited space and resources on isolated cliff tops.
- #27 Town to City
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 6,670 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.4%, Voxel 20.9% ★, Building 10.7%, Economy 10.2%, Management 7.8%
- #28 Farm Manager 2021
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,374 reviews2021
Dev: Cleversan GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.
Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Agriculture 20.4% ★, Management 12.2%, Building 11.4%, Economy 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on agricultural resource management and the logistics of running a profitable farm operation.
- #29 Oxygen: First Breath
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,658 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 13%, Building 11.9%, Management 9.6%
- #30 Technicity
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 235 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, build roads and use vehicles to travel to different cities that you or your friends create in solo or coop mode.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Modern 16%, Economy 14.9%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person city-builder that allows for detailed sandbox construction and creative urban design.
- #31 Mini Settlers: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist 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 23.2%, Resource Management 16.5%, Minimalist 13%, Management 10.8%, Building 10.7%
- #32 Cafe Owner Simulator
78% matchMixed63% of 1,098 reviews2022
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business.
Why similar: Economy 22.3%, Building 16.5%, Resource Management 16.2%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a management-focused building experience where you design and run a business from the ground up.
- #33 Global City
77% matchMixed70% of 1,400 reviews2021
Dev: Red Brix WallPub: MY.GAMES
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 33.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 20.9%, Economy 15.2%, Modern 13.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 11.8%
- #34 Cafe Owner Simulator: Prologue
75% matchMixed66% of 1,460 reviews2022
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Prologue to the Cafe Owner Simulator, where you can restore your own abandoned building, complete tasks at various levels, and start building a restaurant business from zero.
Why similar: Economy 20.9%, Building 18.3%, Resource Management 16.5%, Management 16.2%, Sandbox 12.9%
- #35 Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Foundations is a free version of Masterplan Tycoon, a minimalist resource management sim. The world is your playground: start with simple production lines for basic needs and evolve into a production powerhouse in an elegant and stress-free setting
Why similar: Building 18.4%, Resource Management 18.3%, Management 15.8%, Minimalist 12%, Economy 10.2%
- #36 Technicity: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive83% of 170 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Free Prologue to Technicity, a first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger. Design your own construction blocks and furniture in factories, terraform the open world, use vehicles to travel in cities that you or your friends create in solo or co-op.
Why similar: City Builder 33%, Building 19.4%, Sandbox 19%, Resource Management 12.5%, Economy 9.6%
- #37 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 236 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Agriculture 17% ★, Economy 13.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 9.9%
- #38 MEMORIAPOLIS
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,767 reviews2025
Dev: 5PM Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 27.8% ★, City Builder 24.5%, Building 11.8%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #39 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
73% matchVery Positive89% of 700 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Terraformers: First Steps on Mars is a free prologue of Terraformers, featuring an exclusive challenge to lead humanity's first attempt at settling the Red Planet.
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Resource Management 19.1%, Management 15.2%, Family Friendly 9.9%, Strategy 9.4%
- #40 Citizens: Far Lands - Prologue
72% matchVery Positive88% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Redkar LimitedPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Build, strategize, and conquer with Citizens: Prologue - the free city-building and puzzler game for strategy masterminds! Extract resources, manage your population, and build the ultimate settlement. Ready to take on the challenge? Download now and discover the magic of Citizens: Prologue!
Why similar: Agriculture 24.6% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Economy 13.5%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #41 Home Wind
72% matchVery Positive90% of 837 reviews2022
Dev: Adi Zhavo
Windows · Mac
Home Wind is a minimalist, relaxing and cozy city builder about creating large settlements based on proximity tactics. All for free!
Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Sandbox 11.6%, Minimalist 11.5%, Building 10.6%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #42 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
70% matchVery Positive89% of 632 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. 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.
Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Resource Management 16.9%, Economy 15.5%, Management 14.6%, Strategy 8.6%
- #43 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Gamera Games
Windows
Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.
Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Sandbox 18.9%, Building 14.6%, Simulation 9.3%, Management 8.5%
- #44 City Tales - Medieval Era
67% matchVery Positive89% of 589 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Economy 17.5%, Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 12%
- #45 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
70% 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 19.1%, City Builder 17.7%, Management 17.5%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.1%
- #46 Block'hood
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,257 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 43.6%, Sandbox 18%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 7.2%
- #47 Car Manufacture: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive86% of 317 reviews2023
Dev: STEREO GAMES S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build a car factory in the beginning of XX century. Discover new cars and technologies. Manage employees. Make tons of money and stay on top. Car Manufacture: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try this automotive tycoon game.
Why similar: Economy 18.2%, Building 16.1%, Management 14.6%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #48 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.
Why similar: Resource Management 64.3%, Simulation 28.3%, Singleplayer 7.4%
- #49 Farlanders: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive93% of 288 reviews2021
Dev: Andrii Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Prepare for your journey to Mars by building and managing a colony within the safety of Earth’s atmosphere. Hone your abilities to create a thriving community, terraform the land to suit your needs, and prove your capability for a larger mission. Get ready to launch in this prologue to Farlanders.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Building 14.8%, Economy 14%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #50 Industry Idle
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Economy 13%, Building 11.6%, Management 9.1%
- #51 Bunker Builder Simulator: Prologue
69% matchMixed60% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: Farmind StudioPub: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Bunker Builder Simulator: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Plan your work, dig a hole and build a bunker, that will survive anything! Manage safety, needs and moods of your clients, so you can become the best architect and earn a fortune.
Why similar: Building 26.9%, Management 21.2%, Sandbox 19.7%, Simulation 11.9%, Economy 10.9%
- #52 Citystate
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 812 reviews2018
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 23.6%, Political Sim 23.3% ★, Economy 10.6%, Building 8.6%, Management 6.8%
- #53 Beer Factory - Prologue
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,021 reviews2023
Dev: AKELPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Resource Management 29.4%, Management 22.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Simulation 14.5%, Economy 12.6%
- #54 Silicon City
67% 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 20.6% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Modern 12.1%, Economy 11.3%, Building 9.9%
- #55 Microtopia: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of 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 23.4%, Resource Management 16.1%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 15%, Procedural Generation 11.6%
- #56 Dorfromantik
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,391 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 25%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 12.8%, Procedural Generation 12.4%, Minimalist 10.4%