Games like Urban Ascend
by BitQuest Studio
A casual city builder where growth is constant, production chains expand, citizens thrive, and upgrades push your city toward a bustling metropolis.
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$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
-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
$19.99Factory Town
Nov 17 · Erik Asmussen
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Management
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
AutomationBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxSimulationCraftingManagementCity BuilderColony SimEconomy👍 4,143
$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
$9.99Cities 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
$24.99Industry Giant 4.0
Oct 17 · Don VS Dodo
Both: Management · City Builder · Resource Management
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
$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
-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
$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
-85%$2.84Urbek City Builder
Jul 13 · Fridus
Both: City Builder · Management · 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
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: City Builder · Automation · Resource 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
$14.99Power to the People
Feb 8 · Rhombico Games
Both: Management · Economy · Resource Management
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
$34.99Farthest Frontier
Oct 23 · Crate Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Economy
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
$24.99Citystate 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
$16.99Another Brick in The Mall
Apr 30 · The Quadsphere
Both: Management · Automation · City Builder
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
ManagementAutomationSimulationBuildingShop KeeperCity BuilderEconomyBase BuildingColony SimCapitalism👍 2,340
$39.99Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Jun 20 · 3Division
Both: City Builder · Grand Strategy · 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
$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
-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
$34.99Foundation
Jan 31 · Polymorph Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Resource 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
$34.99Captain of Industry
May 31 · MaFi Games
Both: Automation · Resource Management · Economy
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
AutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingSimulationStrategyEconomyManagementBuildingCity BuilderEarly Access👍 11,035
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: City Builder · Economy · Resource Management
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
$29.99KAISERPUNK
Mar 21 · Overseer Games
Both: City Builder · Grand Strategy · Tactical
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
$19.99The Tenants
Oct 20 · EndGameLoop Games
Both: Management · City Builder · Economy
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
ManagementDesign & IllustrationLife SimCity BuilderBuildingEconomyGod GameImmersive SimSandboxReplay Value👍 7,072
$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
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: City Builder · Grand Strategy · 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
$29.99RAILGRADE
Oct 13 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: Resource Management · Automation · City Builder
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
$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
$10.99Real estate tycoon
Aug 5 · Double Eggs
Both: City Builder · Capitalism · Economy
"Illusory life: urban real estate tycoon" is a simulated business role-playing game with urban theme. We try to restore the game world like a novel of urban face slapping, and give the players a "capitalist" identity.(We are a very poor studio, so English translation will be launched in the future)
City BuilderSimulationBuildingCapitalismEconomyModernResource ManagementIndieCasualStrategy👍 418
$5.99BoomTown! Deluxe
Oct 14 · Ish Games
Both: Management · Resource Management · City Builder
An explosive combination of mining sim and city builder. Your dream of building your own thriving town starts with few explosive charges and a yellow truck. As you mine the landscape and the money starts to roll in you'll be able to expand your empire, buying buildings, shops and facilities.
SimulationStrategyIndieCasualManagementMiningResource ManagementCity BuilderActionArcade👍 196
-85%$5.99Anno 2205™
Nov 2 · Blue Byte
Both: City Builder · Economy · Resource Management
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
City BuilderStrategySimulationFuturisticSci-fi4XEconomySingleplayerSpaceResource Management👍 6,118
$14.99Citystate
Feb 22 · Andy Sztark
Both: City Builder · Economy · Management
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
-80%$3.99Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
Oct 6 · SquarePlay Games
Both: Management · City Builder · Resource Management
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
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: City Builder · Grand Strategy · Management
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
$29.99Urban Empire
Jan 20 · Reborn Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
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
$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
