What are the best City Builder games?

Top City Builder games include Cities: Skylines, Frostpunk, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Cities: Skylines II, Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI. These games are ranked by how strongly players have tagged them with City Builder.

What does City Builder mean in games?

City Builder is a Steam tag used by players to describe games with specific gameplay characteristics. Games with more City Builder votes have stronger community agreement that they fit this category.

How are City Builder games ranked?

Games are ranked by the number of player votes for the "City Builder" tag. Higher vote counts indicate stronger community agreement that a game fits this category. You can also switch between relevance, similarity, and ordering modes.

Top City Builder Games

Q: What tags are closest to City Builder?

Tags commonly found alongside City Builder include Strategy, Singleplayer, Management, Simulation, Resource Management. You can combine tags on Nodal to find games that match multiple categories.

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Shared themes:Strategy Singleplayer Management Simulation Resource Management Building Sandbox

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How to Use This Page

Explore the best games in this tag category, and optionally tune the results to match your taste. Add more tags to narrow your search or find games that span multiple categories.

What do the different models mean?

•Relevance: Highlights games that strongly match all selected tags, while gently favoring games players tend to enjoy and engage with.
•Tag Ordering: Surfaces games where your chosen tags are central to the experience, not just loosely associated.
•Tag Model: Finds games whose overall tag makeup is most similar to what you selected and rewards more niche games.
•Blend: Combines two models and lets you control the balance to fine-tune results.

What is the graph showing?

•It's a "map of Steam tags." The graph uses tag data only to position games based on their tag profiles.
•Position = tag similarity (compressed). Games with similar tags appear near each other.
•Size = popularity. Bigger nodes = more widely played games.

How does re-ranking work?

The re-ranking sliders let you personalize the list without changing the underlying model.

•All sliders at 0 = default ranking for the current model.
•Add weights to emphasize what you care about (more niche, more recent, higher rated, etc.).

Frequently Asked Questions

How are tags assigned to games?

Steam users vote on which tags apply to each game. We use these community votes to calculate tag probabilities and rankings. Higher scores mean stronger community agreement.

Can I add more tags?

Yes! Use the search to add more tags. Games matching ALL selected tags will be ranked using a harmonic mean to find games that genuinely fit all categories.

Why does the #1 game score ~95%?

Scores are normalized so they're best interpreted as relative rankings. What matters is how games compare to each other, not the absolute percentage.

Quick Tips

•Add genre tags to narrow down broad categories like 'Indie'
•Use the year filter to find recent hidden gems
•Try Blend mode to combine different scoring approaches
•Click around the graph to discover related categories