Games like City Life 2008
by Monte Cristo
Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life! City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction.
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-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder
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
$29.99Cities: Skylines
Mar 10 · Colossal Order
Both: City Builder
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
$9.99Cities XXL
Feb 5 · Focus Entertainment
Both: City Builder
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
$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
$29.99Urban Empire
Jan 20 · Reborn Games
Both: City Builder
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
-85%$5.99Anno 2205™
Nov 2 · Blue Byte
Both: City Builder
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
$19.99Banished
Feb 18 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder
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
$24.99Citystate II
Sep 23 · Andy Sztark
Both: City Builder
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
$2.99Pocket City
Aug 21 · Codebrew Games Inc.
Both: City Builder
A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!
CasualSimulationCity BuilderStrategy2.5D2DCartoonCartoonyIsometricMinimalist👍 261
$29.99Highrise City
Sep 4 · Fourexo Entertainment
Both: City Builder
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
$14.99Citystate
Feb 22 · Andy Sztark
Both: City Builder
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
$17.99Cliff Empire
Aug 6 · Lion's Shade
Both: City Builder
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
$9.99TheoTown
Jun 5 · Lobby Divinus
Both: City Builder
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
$34.99Foundation
Jan 31 · Polymorph Games
Both: City Builder
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
$19.99SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Jul 20 · EA - Maxis, Aspyr (Mac)
Both: City Builder
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
$9.99Cities XL Platinum
Feb 6 · Focus Entertainment
Both: City Builder
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
$29.99Ancient Cities
Mar 24 · Uncasual Games
Both: City Builder
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
$29.99New 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
$9.99CivCity: Rome
Apr 6 · FireFly Studios, Firaxis Games
Both: City Builder
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
-75%$4.99Anno 2070™
Nov 17 · Blue Byte, Related Designs
Both: City Builder
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
-85%$2.84Urbek City Builder
Jul 13 · Fridus
Both: City Builder
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
-75%$5.37Settlement Survival
Oct 24 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder
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
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: City Builder
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
$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
$19.99Constructor Plus
May 27 · System 3
Both: City Builder
Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!
StrategySimulationIndieCity BuilderComedyBuildingSingleplayerIsometricManagement👍 442
$4.99Towns
Nov 7 · Xavi Canal, Ben Palgi
Both: City Builder
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
$14.99Block'hood
May 10 · Plethora Project
Both: City Builder
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
City BuilderSimulationSandboxStrategyIndieBuildingPuzzleIsometricSingleplayerNature👍 1,171
$24.99Ostriv
Mar 19 · yevhen8
Both: City Builder
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
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: City Builder
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
-50%$22.49Frostpunk 2
Sep 20 · 11 bit studios
Both: City Builder
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
$9.99Caesar™ IV
Aug 29 · Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Both: City Builder
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
-50%$9.99Kingdoms and Castles
Jul 20 · Lion Shield, LLC
Both: City Builder
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
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: City Builder
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
-60%$9.99Synergy
Apr 16 · Leikir Studio
Both: City Builder
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
$39.99Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Jun 20 · 3Division
Both: City Builder
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
$19.99Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Feb 26 · HandyGames
Both: City Builder
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
$24.99Dawn of Man
Mar 1 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder
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
$4.99Megapolis
Jun 15 · Lonely Troops
Both: City Builder
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
SimulationCasualIndieStrategyCity BuilderBuildingSingleplayerTime ManagementManagementIsometric👍 109
$19.99Kingdoms Reborn
Nov 2 · Earthshine
Both: City Builder
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
$34.99Farthest Frontier
Oct 23 · Crate Entertainment
Both: City Builder
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
$22.99Pharaoh™: A New Era
Feb 15 · Triskell Interactive
Both: City Builder
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
-35%$12.34Thriving City: Song
May 29 · White Star Studio
Both: City Builder
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
$7.99BalanCity
Sep 21 · MeNic Games
Both: City Builder
BalanCity is a city building / balance physics game. It's a mixture between old school SimCity and Jenga. You must build the tallest towering city over a balancing platform while keeping your citizens happy.
PhysicsCity BuilderPuzzleCasualSimulationStrategyIndieFamily FriendlyPixel GraphicsFunny👍 678
Kingdom Builders
Jun 24 · ebb & flow games
Both: City Builder
City Builder meets Action RPG! Build your kingdom building by building, having villagers join your side. Lead them to expand your empire, defeating foes hindering your empire's growth.
City BuilderStrategyColony SimAction RPGBuildingExplorationActionRPGParty-Based RPGTop-Down👍 237
$7.99Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
Jul 8 · Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Both: City Builder
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
$14.99Villagers
Mar 25 · bumblebee.
Both: City Builder
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
StrategySimulationCity BuilderIndieMedieval👍 295
$32.00MEMORIAPOLIS
Apr 30 · 5PM Studio
Both: City Builder
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
$14.99Make Your Kingdom
Jan 20 · yo_serjio
Both: City Builder
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
$14.99Project AURA
Apr 17 · Nexcentric Games
Both: City Builder
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderIndieManagementResource ManagementSci-fiBuildingEconomySingleplayer👍 653




