Games like Urban Empire
by Reborn Games
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.
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$14.99Citystate
Feb 22 · Andy Sztark
Both: City Builder · Political Sim · Economy
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
$24.99Citystate II
Sep 23 · Andy Sztark
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
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
$29.99Cities: Skylines
Mar 10 · Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
$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
$22.99Pharaoh™: A New Era
Feb 15 · Triskell Interactive
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
$9.99Caesar™ IV
Aug 29 · Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Both: City Builder · Historical · Management
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationRomeHistoricalSingleplayerManagementEconomy👍 821
$32.00MEMORIAPOLIS
Apr 30 · 5PM Studio
Both: City Builder · Political Sim · Management
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
$9.99Pharaoh + Cleopatra
Dec 15 · Impressions Games
Both: City Builder · Historical · Economy
Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom.
City BuilderStrategySimulationHistoricalClassicColony SimSingleplayerEconomyManagementIsometric👍 2,508
$39.99Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Jun 20 · 3Division
Both: City Builder · Historical · 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
-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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 · Economy · Management
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
$14.99House of Legacy
May 14 · S3 Studio
Both: Management · City Builder · Economy
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
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: City Builder · Historical · Management
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
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: City Builder · Economy · 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
$7.99Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
Jul 8 · Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Both: City Builder · Historical · Management
Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.
City BuilderSimulationStrategyHistoricalManagementResource ManagementSandboxSingleplayerEconomyMythology👍 431
$19.99Tropico 5
May 23 · Haemimont Games
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationSandboxMultiplayerEconomyManagementResource ManagementSingleplayerComedy👍 9,797
-85%$2.84Urbek City Builder
Jul 13 · Fridus
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
$14.99Advancity
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
$39.99Imperator: Rome
Apr 25 · Paradox Development Studio
Both: Historical · Political Sim · Management
Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.
StrategyGrand StrategySimulationRomeHistoricalPolitical SimSingleplayerManagementEconomyMultiplayer👍 19,638
$19.99Nebuchadnezzar
Feb 17 · Nepos Games
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
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
$29.99Rise of Industry
May 2 · Dapper Penguin Studios
Both: Management · Economy · City Builder
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
$9.99CivCity: Rome
Apr 6 · FireFly Studios, Firaxis Games
Both: City Builder · Historical · 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
$24.99Plutocracy
Nov 21 · Redwood
Both: Management · Political Sim · Economy
The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the world. Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game?
StrategySimulationGrand StrategyManagementPolitical SimEconomyCapitalismHistoricalCrimeSandbox👍 1,306
$19.99Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
Apr 28 · Lapovich Team
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
StrategyCity BuilderEconomyCapitalismSurvivalManagementResource ManagementSingleplayerSandboxChoices Matter👍 192
-70%$4.49Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Oct 11 · The Secret Games Company
Both: Historical · Management · Economy
Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.
Grand StrategyTurn-Based Strategy4XStrategyHistoricalManagementEconomyCity BuilderTurn-Based TacticsHex Grid👍 1,308
$49.99Victoria 3
Oct 25 · Paradox Development Studio
Both: Economy · Political Sim · Historical
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
StrategySimulationGrand StrategyEconomyPolitical SimHistoricalCapitalismDiplomacyManagementResource Management👍 42,337
$9.99Cities XL Platinum
Feb 6 · Focus Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
-75%$14.99Anno 1800
Apr 16 · Ubisoft Mainz
Both: City Builder · Economy
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
City BuilderStrategySimulationEconomyMultiplayerResource ManagementSandboxRTSCo-opSingleplayer👍 29,869
-75%$4.99Anno 2070™
Nov 17 · Blue Byte, Related Designs
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
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
$19.99Patron
Aug 10 · Overseer Games
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySurvivalMedievalSingleplayerResource ManagementEconomyBuildingManagement👍 2,880
$19.99SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Jul 20 · EA - Maxis, Aspyr (Mac)
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: City Builder · Management · Historical
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
$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
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: City Builder · 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 · Management · Economy
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
$14.99Tropico 4
Sep 1 · Haemimont Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
City BuilderSimulationStrategyManagementComedySandboxSingleplayerGreat SoundtrackEconomyReal-Time with Pause👍 8,214
$29.99Norland
Jul 18 · Long Jaunt
Both: City Builder · Management · Historical
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
$19.99Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Feb 26 · HandyGames
Both: City Builder · 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
$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
$24.99Lords and Villeins
Nov 10 · Honestly Games
Both: City Builder · Management
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Colony SimCity BuilderStrategyPixel GraphicsManagementSimulationMedieval2DBuildingSandbox👍 733
$29.99Democracy 4
Jan 13 · Positech Games
Both: Political Sim · Management · Economy
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
StrategyPolitical SimManagementSimulationEconomyDiplomacyGrand StrategyChoices MatterIndieCapitalism👍 5,892
$14.99Power to the People
Feb 8 · Rhombico Games
Both: Management · Economy · 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
$14.99Make Your Kingdom
Jan 20 · yo_serjio
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
$19.99Victoria II
Aug 30 · Paradox Development Studio
Both: Historical · Political Sim · Economy
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Grand StrategyStrategyHistoricalPolitical SimEconomySimulationReal-Time with PauseMilitaryWorld War IWar👍 16,508
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: City Builder · Economy
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
-35%$12.34Thriving City: Song
May 29 · White Star Studio
Both: City Builder · Historical
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
$24.99Democracy 3
Oct 14 · Positech Games
Both: Political Sim · Economy · Management
Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.
Political SimSimulationStrategyIndieTurn-BasedSingleplayerEconomyManagementSandboxModdable👍 6,244
$24.99Dawn of Man
Mar 1 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder · Historical · Economy
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationHistoricalSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomy👍 17,093
$29.99Against the Storm
Dec 8 · Eremite Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Historical
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
$34.99Farthest Frontier
Oct 23 · Crate Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Economy · Historical
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
$9.99Imperium Romanum Gold Edition
Nov 25 · Haemimont Games
Both: City Builder · Historical
The city builder strategy game Imperium Romanum is set in the time-honoured Roman Empire. As governor of a Roman province, you will devise a strategy to build a well organised, prosperous and commanding settlement. Its fortune very much lies in your own hands.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderColony SimRomeSingleplayerHistorical👍 335


