Games like Citystate II
by Andy Sztark
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.
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-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Building · Sandbox
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.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 64,269
$39.99Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Jun 20 · 3Division
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
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.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalBuildingManagementEconomyColony Sim👍 25,244
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
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.
SimulationCity BuilderDecoratingLife SimBuildingManagementSandboxFunnyFishingIndie👍 2,476
$34.99Foundation
Jan 31 · Polymorph Games
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Management
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
City BuilderSimulationMedievalStrategySandboxManagementResource ManagementBuildingRelaxingEconomy👍 23,045
$32.00MEMORIAPOLIS
Apr 30 · 5PM Studio
Both: City Builder · Political Sim · Building
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.
City BuilderExplorationColony SimPolitical SimBuildingStrategyImmersive SimManagementBase BuildingHistorical👍 1,753
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
City BuilderAutomationTransportationSpaceResource ManagementSandboxBuildingEconomyManagementSci-fi👍 1,638
$29.99KAISERPUNK
Mar 21 · Overseer Games
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
City BuilderStrategyAlternate HistorySimulationWarSandboxBuildingGrand StrategyMilitaryTactical👍 885
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: City Builder · Building · Economy
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!
SimulationCity BuilderBuildingRelaxingEconomyManagementResource ManagementInventory ManagementStory RichLogic👍 543
$29.99The Universim
Jan 22 · Crytivo
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
City BuilderColony SimGod GameSandboxBuildingSurvivalManagementSpaceStrategySimulation👍 8,464
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementBuildingSandboxEconomy👍 2,093
$29.99New Cycle
Jan 18 · Core Engage
Both: City Builder · Building · Realistic
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
City BuilderStrategySurvivalBuildingColony SimPost-apocalypticRealisticSimulationBase BuildingTop-Down👍 2,602
-50%$22.49Frostpunk 2
Sep 20 · 11 bit studios
Both: City Builder · Management
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
City BuilderStrategySurvivalResource ManagementPost-apocalypticSimulationSingleplayerSteampunkManagementBase Building👍 20,886
$14.99House of Legacy
May 14 · S3 Studio
Both: Management · Sandbox · City Builder
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
ManagementDiplomacySandboxCity BuilderOpen WorldRPGSimulationEconomyStrategyBase Building👍 3,270
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: City Builder · Economy · Building
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.
StylizedCity BuilderEconomyColony SimStrategyResource ManagementIsometricColorfulBuildingNature👍 694
$24.99Industry Giant 4.0
Oct 17 · Don VS Dodo
Both: Management · City Builder · Economy
Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
ManagementStrategySimulationCity BuilderResource ManagementEconomyAutomationModernBuildingRealistic👍 506
$7.99Urban Ascend
Apr 3 · BitQuest Studio
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
A casual city builder where growth is constant, production chains expand, citizens thrive, and upgrades push your city toward a bustling metropolis.
City BuilderManagementGrand StrategyResource ManagementEconomyCapitalismStrategyTacticalSimulationAutomation
$34.99Farthest Frontier
Oct 23 · Crate Entertainment
Both: Building · City Builder · Economy
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
BuildingCity BuilderStrategyResource ManagementMedievalAgricultureEconomyHistorical4XColony Sim👍 24,456
$29.99RAILGRADE
Oct 13 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
TrainsStrategySimulationResource ManagementAutomationCity BuilderModdableBuildingManagementEconomy👍 1,207
$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Management
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSpace SimResource ManagementSandboxManagementBuildingEconomyStrategy👍 777
-60%$25.99Planet Coaster 2
Nov 6 · Frontier Developments
Both: Sandbox · Building · City Builder
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
SimulationSandboxStrategyBuildingCity Builder3DSingleplayerEconomyGod GameManagement👍 13,059
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalEconomyColony Sim👍 3,897
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
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.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Economy · Sandbox
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
$4.99Space Station Tycoon
Nov 1 · Lunheim Studios
Both: Management · City Builder · Building
Create a thriving space station in a lost sector. Face thrilling challenges head-on, from pirate raids to asteroid impacts, as you lead your company to new heights.
ManagementSpaceTower DefenseCity BuilderColony SimBuildingCraftingEconomyBase BuildingSpace Sim👍 190
$22.00Ratopia
Apr 30 · Cassel Games
Both: Building · City Builder · Management
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.
BuildingColony SimBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultStrategyCity Builder2DCuteManagement👍 4,639
$4.99SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited
Mar 7 · Maxis
Both: City Builder
SimCity 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of SimCity 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrills of the classic SimCity 3000 are here again!
SimulationStrategyCity BuilderCasualSingleplayerClassicRetroIsometric1990's👍 763
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Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$24.99Citadelum
Oct 17 · Abylight Barcelona
Both: City Builder · Building · Sandbox
Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.
ModdableSingleplayerCity BuilderRomeResource ManagementBuildingSandboxAuto BattlerSimulationLevel Editor👍 1,006
$20.99Fabledom
May 13 · Grenaa Games
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Economy
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
City BuilderColony SimRelaxingSandboxEconomyDiplomacySimulationFantasyRomanceCartoony👍 6,776
-25%$29.99Corsair Cove
Jul 31 · Limbic Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementHistoricalBuildingEconomySandbox👍 3,065
$29.99Against the Storm
Dec 8 · Eremite Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
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.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingBuildingGrand StrategyManagementResource ManagementHistoricalColony Sim👍 33,296
$19.99Surviving the Abyss
Nov 5 · Rocket Flair Studios
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
City BuilderColony SimExplorationUnderwaterBuildingManagementBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultEconomy👍 1,045
$19.99Primitive Society Simulator
Feb 26 · YSH BigDove
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
City BuilderColony SimBase BuildingSandboxAgricultureBuildingWargameDiplomacyManagementHistorical👍 647
-70%$1.49Technotopia
Oct 23 · Yustas
Both: City Builder · Building
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!
PuzzleDeckbuildingChoices MatterCasualCity BuilderCard GameStrategyBuildingSingleplayerFuturistic👍 604
-70%$11.99The Settlers: New Allies
Mar 26 · Ubisoft Düsseldorf
Both: City Builder · Building · Economy
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationColony SimGod Game3DColorfulBuildingEconomyManagement👍 1,176
$15.99Estate Agent Simulator
Nov 13 · Kiki Games
Both: Management · Economy · Building
Estate Agent Simulator lets you enter the exciting world of the real estate market. You can buy, decorate, advertise, rent or sell houses. You can buy vacant land and build houses. Environmental factors will affect the rental prices of houses.
Early AccessSimulationTradingImmersive SimManagementDrivingEconomyCapitalismLife SimBuilding👍 573
-30%$3.49Gourdlets
Aug 15 · AuntyGames
Both: Sandbox · City Builder · Building
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!
SandboxCity BuilderRelaxingSimulationBuildingCuteColorfulCozyPixel GraphicsOpen World👍 1,955
$7.99PC Tycoon 2
Mar 28 · Insignis Games
Both: Economy · Sandbox · Management
Start with one tiny office and a big idea, and grow it into a global computer company. Design your own CPUs, GPUs and laptops, launch your own OS, and outsmart your rivals. A laid-back tycoon that's easy to get into and hard to put down — made by one indie dev.
EconomyTime ManagementIdlerSandboxArtificial IntelligenceCapitalismManagementStrategyGame DevelopmentPvE👍 320
$29.99Norland
Jul 18 · Long Jaunt
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementHistoricalBuildingSandbox👍 8,912
$24.99Chinese Frontiers
Jun 19 · SolidGames
Both: Building · City Builder · Sandbox
Become a master builder in medieval China. Construct iconic landmarks brick by brick in first person, while managing villagers, production chains, and a growing settlement at your own pace.
BuildingCraftingMedievalBase BuildingCity BuilderSingleplayerFirst-PersonSandboxSimulationResource Management👍 514
$29.99Heart of the Machine
Mar 6 · Arcen Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
StrategySimulationGrand StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementHistoricalBuildingSandboxColony Sim👍 2,011
$19.99Hollywood Animal
Apr 10 · Weappy Wholesome
Both: City Builder · Economy · Building
Make movies, even if someone has to die. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.
Early AccessSimulationStrategyCity BuilderChoices MatterAtmosphericEconomyBuildingEmotionalRealistic👍 3,847
-30%$17.49Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Feb 27 · Quite OK Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
StrategyCity BuilderResource ManagementColony SimBuildingReal-Time with PauseBase BuildingManagementSimulationImmersive Sim👍 1,425
-33%$20.09City Bus Manager
Jun 25 · PeDePe GbR
Both: Management · Economy · Sandbox
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
SimulationManagementSingleplayerEconomyAutomobile SimCapitalismCasualLogicStrategySandbox👍 2,407
-50%$9.99The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Jan 31 · MAXIS
Both: Sandbox · Building · Management
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
SandboxBuildingManagementLife SimCasualSimulationCharacter CustomizationAtmosphericSingleplayerImmersive Sim👍 2,329
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalSandbox👍 3,278
$19.99Car Manufacture
Aug 1 · STEREO GAMES S.A.
Both: Building · Economy · Management
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
Early AccessAutomationAutomobile SimBuildingEconomyRetroTime ManagementManagementSandboxStrategy👍 1,395
-50%$14.99The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection
Jan 31 · MAXIS
Both: Sandbox · Building · Management
The game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. In The Sims 2, you direct your Sims over a lifetime. Give them a long existence, or leave their lives in shambles. Guide their characteristics from one generation to the next.
SandboxLife SimBuildingSimulationCharacter CustomizationManagementImmersive SimAtmosphericSingleplayerStory Rich👍 4,769
-35%$12.34Thriving City: Song
May 29 · White Star Studio
Both: City Builder · Building
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
SimulationCity BuilderStrategyHistoricalResource ManagementCasualStrategy RPGBuildingAgricultureQuick-Time Events👍 3,054
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Management · Sandbox · Building
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Colony SimBase BuildingSimulationManagementResource ManagementStrategySandboxSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuilding👍 955
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Building · City Builder · Management
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150
$14.99House Builder 2: Casual Construction
Oct 22 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Building · Sandbox · Economy
In House Builder 2, you build your dream structures in a vibrant, open-world low-poly environment! Purchase materials for your work, load them up, and head off to diverse tasks in the ultimate building adventure!
CasualBuildingSandboxDesign & IllustrationSingleplayerIndiePhysicsEconomyEducation3D👍 101
$11.99Scorchlands
Jul 25 · Ringlab
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Management
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Hex GridResource ManagementStylizedSingleplayerCity BuilderColony SimSandboxManagementBase BuildingStrategy👍 115
