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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$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
$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
$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
$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
-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
$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
$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
-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
-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
$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
$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
-25%$29.99Corsair Cove
Jul 31 · Limbic Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Management · Historical
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
-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
$39.99Manor Lords
Apr 26 · Slavic Magic
Both: City Builder · Historical · Management
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementSandboxBuildingResource Management👍 76,922
$20.99Fabledom
May 13 · Grenaa Games
Both: City Builder · 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
$29.99The Universim
Jan 22 · Crytivo
Both: City Builder · Management
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
$19.99Primitive Society Simulator
Feb 26 · YSH BigDove
Both: City Builder · Management · Historical
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
$29.99KAISERPUNK
Mar 21 · Overseer Games
Both: City Builder
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
-30%$8.39Creator Chronicles
7 days ago · Origin Studio
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: City Builder · Management · Historical
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
FreeEl Dorado: The Golden City Builder - Prologue
Jan 30 · Hobo Bunch, Gameparic
Both: City Builder · Economy
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Free to PlaySingleplayerCity BuilderSimulationStrategyEconomyResource ManagementColony SimSandboxRTS
$25.99Land of the Vikings
Oct 9 · Laps Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Colony SimCity BuilderVikingsStrategySurvivalSandboxBuildingManagementEconomyBase Building👍 1,960
$29.99Empires of the Undergrowth
Jun 7 · Slug Disco
Both: City Builder · Management · Historical
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
StrategySimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementGrand StrategyColony SimSandboxBuildingHistorical👍 17,498
-70%$11.99The Settlers: New Allies
Mar 26 · Ubisoft Düsseldorf
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
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
$29.99RAILGRADE
Oct 13 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
-30%$17.49Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Feb 27 · Quite OK Games
Both: City Builder · 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
$69.99Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Feb 10 · Firaxis Games
Both: Historical · City Builder
Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.
Grand StrategyHistoricalStrategy4XMilitaryCity BuilderSimulationDiplomacyMultiplayerWar👍 44,851
$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
$15.99Explorers of Esmar
Apr 14 · Tipri Games
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
Welcome to Explorers of Esmar! Build your settlement, master complex production chains. Claim the riches to explore and conquer the new island continent of Esmar!
Early AccessReal Time TacticsCity BuilderBuildingEconomyManagementMedievalMilitaryBase BuildingPvP
$29.99Heart of the Machine
Mar 6 · Arcen Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Historical
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
-33%$20.09City Bus Manager
Jun 25 · PeDePe GbR
Both: Management · Economy
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
$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
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Management · City Builder
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
$17.99El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
Jun 17 · Hobo Bunch, Gameparic
Both: City Builder · Management
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationBuildingManagementSurvivalResource ManagementSingleplayerBase Building
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Economy
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
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
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
$24.99Citadelum
Oct 17 · Abylight Barcelona
Both: City Builder
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
$29.99Sengoku Dynasty
Nov 7 · Superkami
Both: City Builder
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
City BuilderSurvivalOpen WorldBase BuildingMedievalLife SimMultiplayerBuildingCraftingRPG👍 6,594
-50%$14.99Airborne Empire
Apr 17 · The Wandering Band LLC
Both: City Builder
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
City BuilderOpen WorldRPGExplorationResource ManagementCasualColony SimFamily FriendlyStrategySandbox👍 855
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Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
$17.99Microcivilization
Jan 22 · Ondrej Homola
Both: Historical · City Builder
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
IncrementalBase BuildingResource Management4XHistoricalStrategyAutomationInventory ManagementCity BuilderGod Game👍 1,437
$29.99New Cycle
Jan 18 · Core Engage
Both: City Builder
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%$7.49Dungeon Tycoon
Sep 25 · Lunheim Studios
Both: Management · Economy · City Builder
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
ManagementTower DefenseDungeon CrawlerStrategyFantasyEconomySimulationReplay ValueCity BuilderSandbox👍 1,473
-40%$14.99Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
Sep 16 · Coreffect Interactive
Both: City Builder
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalCraftingRomeOpen WorldStrategySingleplayerCombatBuilding👍 742
$11.99Love Tavern
Dec 19 · Secret Labo
Both: Management · Economy · City Builder
After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.
Sexual ContentManagementBuildingSimulationTime ManagementEconomyCity BuilderColony SimDating SimGod Game👍 778
$19.99Blacksmith Master
May 15 · Untitled Studio
Both: City Builder · Management
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingMedievalColony SimBuildingManagementResource ManagementSandbox👍 2,530
$4.99Space Station Tycoon
Nov 1 · Lunheim Studios
Both: Management · City Builder · Economy
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
$24.99Chinese Frontiers
Jun 19 · SolidGames
Both: 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
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Management
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
