Games like Thriving City: Song
by White Star Studio
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?
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$34.99Farthest Frontier
Oct 23 · Crate Entertainment
Both: Building · City Builder · Resource Management
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
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · 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
$19.99Banished
Feb 18 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Resource Management
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.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationSurvivalIndieSingleplayerSandboxMedievalResource Management👍 37,899
$22.99Pharaoh™: A New Era
Feb 15 · Triskell Interactive
Both: City Builder · Building · Historical
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
City BuilderBuildingManagementSimulationColony SimEconomyHistoricalResource ManagementTradingStrategy👍 4,812
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource 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
$29.99Cities: Skylines
Mar 10 · Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
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.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingManagementStrategySandboxSingleplayerEconomyModdableResource Management👍 220,509
-30%$17.49Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Feb 27 · Quite OK Games
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Building
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
-50%$9.99Kingdoms and Castles
Jul 20 · Lion Shield, LLC
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Building
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
City BuilderColony SimResource ManagementManagementSimulationStrategySandboxBuildingBase Building4X👍 30,316
$19.99Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Feb 26 · HandyGames
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
StrategySimulationCasualColony SimCity BuilderMedievalBuildingEconomyResource ManagementSandbox👍 865
-75%$6.24Airborne Kingdom
Mar 7 · The Wandering Band LLC
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
City BuilderBase BuildingExplorationBuildingSingleplayerResource ManagementSandboxRelaxingSteampunkStrategy👍 2,105
$19.99Primitive Society Simulator
Feb 26 · YSH BigDove
Both: City Builder · Agriculture · 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
$29.99Against the Storm
Dec 8 · Eremite Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource 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
-75%$5.37Settlement Survival
Oct 24 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
City BuilderBuildingColony SimSurvivalManagementSimulationSandboxExplorationStrategyResource Management👍 7,708
$24.99Ostriv
Mar 19 · yevhen8
Both: City Builder · Historical · Building
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.
Early AccessCity BuilderStrategySimulationHistoricalColony SimManagementBuildingBase BuildingResource Management👍 6,874
-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Building
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
$24.99Chinese Frontiers
Jun 19 · SolidGames
Both: Building · City Builder · Resource Management
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
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: City Builder · Historical · 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
$32.00MEMORIAPOLIS
Apr 30 · 5PM Studio
Both: City Builder · Building · Historical
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
$29.99Rise of Industry
May 2 · Dapper Penguin Studios
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Building
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
ManagementStrategyEconomySimulationCity BuilderResource ManagementIndieBase BuildingTradingBuilding👍 3,123
$39.99Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Jun 20 · 3Division
Both: City Builder · Historical · Building
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
$9.99CivCity: Rome
Apr 6 · FireFly Studios, Firaxis Games
Both: City Builder · Historical · Resource Management
CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meiers Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself!
City BuilderStrategyRomeSimulationHistoricalSingleplayerSandboxResource ManagementManagement👍 814
$24.99Citadelum
Oct 17 · Abylight Barcelona
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Building
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
$29.99Urban Empire
Jan 20 · Reborn Games
Both: City Builder · Historical
Urban Empire is a ‘City Ruler’, pioneering a new breed of strategy game that combines city builder features with political scheming and adds profound social and historical events into the mix, creating a whole new gameplay experience.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderPolitical SimManagementEconomyHistoricalRPGSingleplayer👍 1,903
$4.99Towns
Nov 7 · Xavi Canal, Ben Palgi
Both: City Builder · Building
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
City BuilderIndieSandboxSimulationStrategyCraftingSingleplayerRPGSurvivalBuilding👍 2,400
-80%$3.99Cardboard Town
Aug 18 · Stratera Games, cukuto
Both: Building · City Builder · Resource Management
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
BuildingCity BuilderCard GameStylizedResource ManagementSimulationRogueliteTurn-Based StrategyStrategyManagement👍 2,054
-75%$4.99Before We Leave
May 13 · Balancing Monkey Games
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Building
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
City BuilderCasualEconomyRelaxingHex GridFamily FriendlyResource ManagementAtmosphericBuildingSingleplayer👍 1,278
$14.99Citystate
Feb 22 · Andy Sztark
Both: City Builder · Building
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.
SimulationCity BuilderStrategyIndieCasualPolitical SimEconomyBuildingManagementSingleplayer👍 793
$24.99Songs of Syx
Sep 21 · Gamatron AB
Both: City Builder · Building
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Early AccessCity BuilderColony SimStrategySandboxGrand StrategyBase Building4XBuildingSingleplayer👍 8,852
$29.99Norland
Jul 18 · Long Jaunt
Both: City Builder · Historical · 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
-85%$2.84Urbek City Builder
Jul 13 · Fridus
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
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.
City BuilderBuildingManagementSimulationStrategySandboxResource ManagementEconomyVoxelSingleplayer👍 1,832
$14.99Power to the People
Feb 8 · Rhombico Games
Both: Building · Resource Management · City Builder
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?
ManagementEconomyBuildingResource ManagementCity BuilderSimulationIsometricReal-Time with PauseStrategyProcedural Generation👍 472
$29.99Ancient Cities
Mar 24 · Uncasual Games
Both: City Builder · Historical
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
StrategyCity BuilderSurvivalHistoricalSimulationProcedural GenerationRealisticImmersive SimRelaxingModdable👍 1,905
$29.99Highrise City
Sep 4 · Fourexo Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Building
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.
SimulationStrategyCity BuilderColony SimSandboxImmersive Sim3DCinematicColorfulBuilding👍 1,240
-50%$22.49Frostpunk 2
Sep 20 · 11 bit studios
Both: City Builder · Resource 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
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · 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
$34.99Ymir
Mar 16 · Thibaud Michaud
Both: City Builder · Building
Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age.
City BuilderStrategyColony SimMultiplayerEconomySimulation4XIndieBuildingGrand Strategy👍 845