- #1 Urbek City Builder
97% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 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: Political Sim 11.9% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Voxel 11.7% ★, Agriculture 9.9% ★, Economy 7.1%
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 286,936 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 65.0 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 35.5%, Building 13.5%, Management 10.2%, Economy 9.7%, Sandbox 8.6%
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 Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 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 36.3%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 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 24.1%, Economy 15.9%, Building 13.2%, Management 12.1%, Sandbox 11.8%
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 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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%, Economy 15.4%, Building 13.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 12.2%
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 30,897 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 40.4%, Economy 18.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Sandbox 6.7%
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 Power to the People
93% matchVery Positive82% of 543 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.8 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 18.8%, Economy 15.7%, Building 12.6%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on grid-based power management and economic planning, mirroring the infrastructure challenges found in Urbek.
- #8 Highrise City
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,282 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 25.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.3%, Modern 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A modern city-builder that emphasizes large-scale urban management and complex economic supply chains.
- #9 Timberborn
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 28%, Voxel 27.5% ★, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Management 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique water-based resource management mechanics that require clever engineering to survive seasonal droughts.
- #10 Frostpunk
91% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
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 39.1%, Resource Management 20.4%, Building 11.9%, Strategy 7.9%, Management 7.2%
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 28,783 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 26.9 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 27.4%, Political Sim 21.1% ★, Economy 14.6%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
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 1,099 reviews2021
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.6 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 21.4%, Political Sim 20.9% ★, Economy 14.8%, Building 10.9%, Management 9.4%
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 Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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 22.2%, Economy 18.1%, City Builder 14.7%, Management 12.3%, Building 11.3%
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 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 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 46.6%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.4%, Resource Management 7.4%
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 3,606 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 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%, Resource Management 24.8%, Management 22.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Atmospheric 10.2%
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 Positive86% of 607 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 21.5%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 12%, Minimalist 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a minimalist approach to resource chain automation and city expansion in a compact, strategic format.
- #17 Masterplan Tycoon
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 729 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Economy 16.5%, Resource Management 16.5%, Building 16.2%, Management 14.8%, Minimalist 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist logistics and resource management game that focuses on the efficiency of supply chains.
- #18 Oxygen
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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%, Resource Management 14.1%, Economy 13.3%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-based city-builder that challenges players to manage limited resources in a post-apocalyptic environment.
- #19 United Penguin Kingdom
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 427 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 27.9%, Economy 17.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Management 14.6%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-oriented city-builder that tasks you with managing resources to keep a penguin colony thriving.
- #20 Let's School
82% matchVery Positive93% of 7,094 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.9 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 20.5%, Voxel 18% ★, Management 12.2%, Economy 11.1%, Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and building within an educational setting, requiring careful resource allocation to succeed.
- #21 Smart City Plan
85% 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 19.5%, Building 11.1%, Economy 11.1%, Modern 10%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on urban planning and city management with a strong emphasis on infrastructure and zoning.
- #22 Endzone - A World Apart
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 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 42.7%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Sandbox 7.3%, Management 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes survival, resource scavenging, and environmental management.
- #23 Ostriv
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,359 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 23.2%, Agriculture 14.5% ★, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic village-building simulation that focuses on historical accuracy and detailed resource management.
- #24 Industries of Titan
81% matchMixed63% of 1,604 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 27.7%, Voxel 27.2% ★, Resource Management 16.9%, Building 14.3%, 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 Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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%, Resource Management 16.3%, Building 15.8%, Management 13.7%, Procedural Generation 13.3%
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 4,340 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 23.7%, Economy 15.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A vertical city-builder that forces players to manage limited space and resources on isolated cliff tops.
- #27 Technicity
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 230 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 22.9%, Modern 15.9%, Economy 15.3%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person city-builder that allows for detailed sandbox construction and creative urban design.
- #28 Oxygen: First Breath
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 24.4%, Economy 13.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Building 11.7%, Management 9.7%
- #29 Farm Manager 2021
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,341 reviews2021
Dev: Cleversan GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.3 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 20.7%, Agriculture 20.2% ★, Management 12.4%, Economy 11.4%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on agricultural resource management and the logistics of running a profitable farm operation.
- #30 Mini Settlers: Prologue
76% matchVery Positive89% of 801 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 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 22.8%, Resource Management 17%, Minimalist 12.9%, Management 11%, Building 10.6%
- #31 Cafe Owner Simulator
78% matchMixed64% of 1,076 reviews2022
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.7 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 22.8%, Resource Management 16.5%, Building 16.2%, Management 14.2%, Sandbox 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a management-focused building experience where you design and run a business from the ground up.
- #32 Global City
76% matchMixed70% of 1,363 reviews2021
Dev: Red Brix WallPub: MY.GAMES
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 34.3 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 19.7%, Economy 14.9%, Modern 12.5%, Resource Management 12%, Building 10.9%
- #33 City Tales - Medieval Era
72% matchVery Positive90% of 542 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.8 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 27.1%, Economy 17.9%, Building 16.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 12.2%
- #34 Cafe Owner Simulator: Prologue
75% matchMixed66% of 1,447 reviews2022
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.9 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 21.3%, Building 17.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Management 16.3%, Sandbox 12.7%
- #35 Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 246 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: Resource Management 18.7%, Building 18.1%, Management 15.9%, Minimalist 11.9%, Economy 10.4%
- #36 Technicity: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive83% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Osaris GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 32.6%, Building 19.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Economy 9.9%
- #37 Town to City
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,836 reviews2025
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Voxel 23.7% ★, Building 11.7%, Economy 11.3%, Management 8%
- #38 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 500 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 19.5%, Management 17.7%, City Builder 17.3%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 10%
- #39 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 19.5%, Agriculture 16.8% ★, Economy 14%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #40 Terraformers: First Steps on Mars
73% matchVery Positive89% of 696 reviews2021
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.2 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 28.2%, Resource Management 19.6%, Management 15.4%, Family Friendly 9.7%, Strategy 9.4%
- #41 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
71% matchVery Positive89% of 629 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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 31.1%, Resource Management 17.3%, Economy 15.9%, Management 14.7%, Strategy 8.5%
- #42 Citizens: Far Lands - Prologue
71% 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 24.4% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 13.9%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #43 Fantastic Haven: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Piece of Cake FabulousPub: Goblinz Publishing
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 33.7%, Sandbox 18.9%, Building 14.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Management 8.7%
- #44 Home Wind
70% matchVery Positive90% of 830 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 28.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Minimalist 11.5%, Building 10.6%, Procedural Generation 9.5%
- #45 Car Manufacture: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive86% of 314 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 18.6%, Building 15.8%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #46 Citystate
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 806 reviews2018
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.7 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: Political Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Economy 10.9%, Building 8.6%, Management 6.9%
- #47 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.8 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 64.9%, Simulation 27.8%, Singleplayer 7.3%
- #48 Industry Idle
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 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 18.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Economy 13.3%, Building 11.4%, Management 9.2%
- #49 Bunker Builder Simulator: Prologue
69% matchMixed60% of 415 reviews2023
Dev: Farmind StudioPub: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 35%
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 26.6%, Management 21.5%, Sandbox 19.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Economy 11.2%
- #50 Farlanders: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive93% of 285 reviews2021
Dev: Andriy Bychkovskyi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 23.3%, Building 14.6%, Economy 14.3%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #51 Beer Factory - Prologue
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,013 reviews2023
Dev: AKELPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.3 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 29.7%, Management 22.8%, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 14.3%, Economy 12.8%
- #52 Microtopia: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive95% of 112 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 23.2%, Resource Management 16.5%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Procedural Generation 11.6%
- #53 TM - Prologue
66% matchVery Positive93% of 1,207 reviews2021
Dev: UntitledStudio
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Building 20.9%, Resource Management 17.9%, Management 15.3%, Strategy 9.3%
- #54 Dorfromantik
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,027 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.3 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 24.8%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Minimalist 10.4%
- #55 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 20.8% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Modern 12%, Economy 11.6%, Building 9.8%
- #56 Kubifaktorium
67% matchVery Positive81% of 786 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Voxel 18.8% ★, Economy 14.6%, Building 12.8%, Management 10.8%