Games like Cities: Skylines
by Colossal Order
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.
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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
$9.99Cities XXL
Feb 5 · Focus Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Building · Economy
Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingEconomyStrategyManagementSandboxRealisticModdableSingleplayer👍 2,053
$9.99Cities XL Platinum
Feb 6 · Focus Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Management
Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...
SimulationCity BuilderStrategySandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyBuildingModdableResource Management👍 1,061
$24.99Citystate II
Sep 23 · Andy Sztark
Both: City Builder · Economy · Building
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.
City BuilderEconomySimulationBuildingManagementSandboxPolitical SimStrategyFunnyRealistic👍 1,098
$19.99SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Jul 20 · EA - Maxis, Aspyr (Mac)
Both: City Builder · Building · Sandbox
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
City BuilderImmersive SimBase BuildingBuildingSandboxManagementEconomyGod GameStrategySimulation👍 8,496
$19.99Cities in Motion 2
Apr 2 · Colossal Order
Both: Management · City Builder · Sandbox
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
SimulationStrategyTransportationManagementCity BuilderSandboxEconomyBuildingSingleplayerTrains👍 1,175
$19.99Cities in Motion
Feb 22 · Colossal Order
Both: Management · City Builder · Economy
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
SimulationManagementStrategyCity BuilderSingleplayerTransportationTrainsEconomySandboxBuilding👍 688
$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
-85%$2.84Urbek City Builder
Jul 13 · Fridus
Both: City Builder · Building · 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
-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
$9.99TheoTown
Jun 5 · Lobby Divinus
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
Build and manage your dream city in this captivating simulation game. Create unique urban landscapes and enjoy compatibility with the mobile versions. Unleash your creativity and shape the metropolis of your dreams.
City BuilderSimulationPixel GraphicsSandboxStrategyIndieBuildingManagementCasualMultiplayer👍 4,634
-50%$9.99Kingdoms and Castles
Jul 20 · Lion Shield, LLC
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Management
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
-80%$3.99Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
Oct 6 · SquarePlay Games
Both: Management · City Builder · Building
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
ManagementCity BuilderBuildingStrategySimulationSandboxIsometricIndieResource ManagementSingleplayer👍 1,701
-80%$2.79Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13 · Subtle Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Sandbox
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
City BuilderColony SimBuildingSurvivalSandboxBase BuildingManagementEconomyNatureStrategy👍 257
$14.99Citystate
Feb 22 · Andy Sztark
Both: City Builder · Economy · 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
$22.99Pharaoh™: A New Era
Feb 15 · Triskell Interactive
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
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
-75%$5.37Settlement Survival
Oct 24 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Building · 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
-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
$19.99Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Feb 26 · HandyGames
Both: City Builder · Building · Economy
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
$19.99Nebuchadnezzar
Feb 17 · Nepos Games
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
City BuilderSandboxBuildingEconomyManagementTradingIsometricStrategyHistoricalRTS👍 1,444
$14.99Power to the People
Feb 8 · Rhombico Games
Both: Management · Economy · Building
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
$5.99Sandbox Skyline
Jan 10 · Chute Apps
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Resource Management
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
$39.99Tropico 6
Mar 29 · Limbic Entertainment, Realmforge Studios
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
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.
City BuilderStrategySimulationEconomyManagementPolitical SimMultiplayerSandboxBuildingSingleplayer👍 19,844
$19.99Kingdoms Reborn
Nov 2 · Earthshine
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
City BuilderColony SimBase BuildingMultiplayerManagementStrategyCo-opEconomyResource ManagementMedieval👍 8,859
-90%$3.99Transport Fever 2
Dec 11 · Urban Games
Both: Management · City Builder · Economy
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
SimulationStrategyManagementTransportationTrainsCity BuilderEconomySandboxBuildingSingleplayer👍 26,749
$24.99Project Hospital
Oct 30 · Oxymoron Games
Both: Management · City Builder · Sandbox
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
ManagementMedical SimCity BuilderJob SimulatorSimulationSandboxStrategyBuildingEducationEconomy👍 8,393
$17.99Cliff Empire
Aug 6 · Lion's Shade
Both: City Builder · Economy · Resource Management
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!
City BuilderStrategySimulationFuturisticSci-fiEconomySingleplayerColony SimResource ManagementManagement👍 4,195
$9.99CivCity: Rome
Apr 6 · FireFly Studios, Firaxis Games
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · 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
$24.99Ostriv
Mar 19 · yevhen8
Both: City Builder · Management · 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
$19.99Banished
Feb 18 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · 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
$24.99The Colonists
Oct 24 · Codebyfire
Both: City Builder · Building · Economy
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
City BuilderColony SimAutomationBuildingEconomyManagementRobotsSurvivalBase BuildingSandbox👍 1,052
$14.99Advancity
Apr 22 · Tbjbu2 Originals
Both: Economy · City Builder · Management
Run an empire in this simple and enjoyable city builder strategy management game. Build, research, train, battle, upgrade, expand, and sail, all while managing your citizens and resources. Advancity focuses on fun and progression.
CasualEconomyAdventureCity BuilderManagementResource ManagementSingleplayerBuildingBase BuildingStrategy
$14.99Make Your Kingdom
Jan 20 · yo_serjio
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
City BuilderBuildingManagementSurvivalColony SimSimulationBase BuildingSandboxEconomyStrategy👍 165
$4.99Towns
Nov 7 · Xavi Canal, Ben Palgi
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · 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
-75%$4.99Anno 2070™
Nov 17 · Blue Byte, Related Designs
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Economy
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationFuturisticRTSResource ManagementEconomyMultiplayerSingleplayerManagement👍 11,574
