Games like Cities: Skylines II
by Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
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.
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$29.99Cities: Skylines
Mar 10 · Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
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 · 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
$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
$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
-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
$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
$44.99Planet Zoo
Nov 5 · Frontier Developments
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
ManagementZooSimulationBuildingSandboxNatureCity BuilderEconomySingleplayerRealistic👍 81,203
$24.99InfraSpace
Sep 22 · Dionic Software
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
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
-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
$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
$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
-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
$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
-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
$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
-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
$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
$14.99Mad Tower Tycoon
Jan 14 · Eggcode
Both: Management · Building · City Builder
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
SimulationStrategyManagementBuildingCity BuilderSandboxEconomySingleplayerCasualColony Sim👍 413
$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
-75%$11.24Planet Coaster
Nov 17 · Frontier Developments, Aspyr (Mac)
Both: Building · Management · Sandbox
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
SimulationBuildingManagementSandboxFamily FriendlyRelaxingStrategySingleplayerEconomyRealistic👍 59,768
-60%$25.99Planet Coaster 2
Nov 6 · Frontier Developments
Both: Sandbox · Building · City Builder
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
SimulationSandboxStrategyBuildingCity Builder3DSingleplayerEconomyGod GameManagement👍 13,059
$17.99Cliff Empire
Aug 6 · Lion's Shade
Both: City Builder · Economy · 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
$19.99Academia : School Simulator
Jan 28 · Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc
Both: Management · City Builder · Building
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
ManagementCity BuilderColony SimBase BuildingSimulationBuildingCapitalismEconomyStrategySandbox👍 2,844
-50%$9.99Kingdoms and Castles
Jul 20 · Lion Shield, LLC
Both: City Builder · Management · Sandbox
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
$24.99MMORPG Tycoon 2
Jan 6 · VectorStorm Pty Ltd
Both: Sandbox · City Builder · Management
MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.
Game DevelopmentSandboxCity BuilderManagementGod GameCharacter CustomizationSimulationEconomy3DStylized👍 2,979
$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
$24.99Voxel Tycoon
Apr 15 · Voxel Tycoon
Both: Sandbox · Building · Economy
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Early AccessSandboxAutomationBuildingCraftingEconomyManagementTrainsTransportationCity Builder👍 1,557
$22.99Software Inc.
May 1 · Coredumping
Both: Management · Economy · Building
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Early AccessManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismBuildingSandboxGame DevelopmentIndieModdable👍 7,577
$29.99The Universim
Jan 22 · Crytivo
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
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
$39.99Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Jun 20 · 3Division
Both: City Builder · Building · 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
$29.99Highrise City
Sep 4 · Fourexo Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
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
$19.99The Tenants
Oct 20 · EndGameLoop Games
Both: Management · City Builder · Building
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
