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-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
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
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: City Builder · 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
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: City Builder · Life Sim · Building
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
$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
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management · Building
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
-30%$8.39Creator Chronicles
7 days ago · Origin Studio
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
A game within a game. In this entirely new kind of simulation RPG, become a guild master, develop your town, recruit guild members, and conquer dungeons. Every decision you make becomes your own chronicle.
City BuilderManagementCRPGPixel GraphicsTop-DownMultiple EndingsBuildingEconomyCraftingRPG👍 501
$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
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
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
$5.99Sandbox Skyline
Jan 10 · Chute Apps
Both: City Builder · Building · Real Time Tactics
Build impressive skyscrapers pixel-by-pixel, and protect them from the harsh realities of nature. Each pixel is physically simulated to interact with earthquakes, firestorms, blizzards, and tsunamis. Protect your skyline and expand your territory in this relaxing (yet challenging) sandbox builder.
City BuilderSandboxPhysicsSimulationRelaxingResource ManagementBuildingReal Time TacticsRoguelikeSurvival
$44.99Men of War II
May 15 · Best Way
Both: Real Time Tactics
Experience warfare like never before! Men of War II, the anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed RTS franchise is here with all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and Western Fronts of WWII.
MultiplayerCo-opWorld War IIRTSStrategySingleplayerReal Time TacticsWargameOnline Co-OpRealistic👍 5,614
$14.99Supermarket & Internet Cafe Simulator
Sep 13 · SmartPlayGames
Both: Building · Life Sim · Management
"Internet Cafe & Supermarket Simulator 2024" is a comprehensive simulation game that combines the management of both an internet cafe and a supermarket. Step into the role of a shop owner, apply your business acumen, and expand your empire step by step.
Simulation3DBuildingLife SimTime ManagementManagementRPGPhysicsEconomyCasual👍 847
$24.99Rail Route
Feb 22 · Bitrich.info
Both: Real Time Tactics · City Builder · Building
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Time ManagementTrainsImmersive SimAutomationReal Time TacticsEducationPuzzleCity BuilderBuildingSimulation👍 2,403
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Life Sim
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
$15.99Estate Agent Simulator
Nov 13 · Kiki Games
Both: Management · Life Sim · 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
$7.99PC Tycoon 2
Mar 28 · Insignis Games
Both: Management · Game Development
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
$9.99Ice Cream Simulator
Jun 5 · AM Playhouse
Both: Life Sim · Management
Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.
CookingSimulationSingleplayerLife SimFirst-PersonManagementImmersive SimDesign & IllustrationRealisticBase Building👍 180
-60%$4.79Retail Company Simulator
Aug 6 · Business Tycoon
Both: Life Sim · Management
Run your retail company. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and never let your customers leave the store empty-handed. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.
Life SimOnline Co-OpShop KeeperSimulationCasualSandboxManagementDesign & IllustrationImmersive SimEconomy👍 604
-40%$5.99Old Market Simulator
Oct 3 · Alcedo Games
Both: Management · Life Sim
Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.
SimulationOnline Co-OpManagementLife SimImmersive SimResource ManagementMultiplayerFirst-PersonAgricultureExploration👍 4,348
$24.99Chinese Frontiers
Jun 19 · SolidGames
Both: Building · City Builder
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
$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
$9.99Cluckmech Oasis
May 9 · BlackLight
Both: Building
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
StrategyRoguelikeTower DefensePixel GraphicsTop-Down ShooterCuteRogueliteBuildingActionShooter👍 3,078
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: City Builder · 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
$19.99Odd Realm
Aug 16 · Unknown Origin Games Inc
Both: Management · 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
$17.59dotAGE
Oct 4 · Michele Pirovano
Both: City Builder
Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?
Resource ManagementTurn-BasedRogueliteCity BuilderPixel GraphicsBoard GameTurn-Based StrategyTabletopColony SimSurvival👍 2,560
$19.99Until Then
Jun 25 · Polychroma Games
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Visual NovelEmotionalPixel GraphicsStory RichInteractive FictionPsychological2DRomanceMysteryAdventure👍 15,742
$24.99Blockbuster Inc.
Jun 6 · Super Sly Fox
Both: Building · Management
Ever dreamed of making your own movies? Build up your own movie studio, scout for upcoming stars, and produce cutting-edge films and TV shows. Try to stay ahead of your competition throughout the history of cinematography.
SimulationSandboxBuildingBase BuildingLevel EditorCharacter CustomizationImmersive SimVideo ProductionModdableManagement👍 618
$14.99RUNGORE
May 16 · YOUR_MOM'S_HP, RavenJm
Both: Real Time Tactics
Card game mechanics - check. Real time battles - check. Silly humor - check. If this isn't the game of your dreams i don't know what is (Also we have hidden memes everywhere lol)
Trading Card GameIndieCard GameCard BattlerReal Time TacticsDifficultReplay ValueStrategy RPGRoguelitePixel Graphics👍 993
$2.99Malware
Jul 31 · Odd Games
Both: Life Sim
Malware lurks where you least expect it. Unscrupulous software vendors have hidden traps inside legitimate installers — can you spot them all and keep your computer clean?
SimulationPuzzleSingleplayerStrategyPoint & ClickHidden ObjectIncremental1990'sLife Sim2D👍 1,141
$5.99Mobiles Tycoon
Jul 15 · Insignis Games
Both: Management · Game Development
Mobiles Tycoon is a brand new game about creating your mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. In the game you have to manage your company and develop your devices (smartphones and tablets), operating systems and processors
Time ManagementIdlerSandboxArtificial IntelligenceCapitalismManagementGame DevelopmentStrategyPvETurn-Based Strategy👍 178
$8.99Terracards
Nov 7 · Pixel Purrfect
Both: Management · Building
Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and structures through cards, transforming them into valuable resources and wealth with each turn. But beware - deplete your funds, and it's game over.
Early AccessStrategyRoguelike DeckbuilderDeckbuildingRogueliteCasualManagementCapitalismBuildingBase Building👍 731





