Best City Builder games on PC
Games centered on planning, constructing, and managing a city or settlement, often balancing resources, infrastructure, growth, and residents’ needs.
- Planning and expanding settlements
- Managing resources and infrastructure
- Balancing growth with competing needs
Related: Building, Management, Simulation, Base Building
549 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Turn-based historical strategy with expanding cities and five victory paths
86% positive
379K reviews
Cities: Skylines
Single-player city builder about growth, budgets, traffic, and public services
93% positive
292K reviews
RimWorld
Sci-fi colony sim where an AI storyteller drives survival
98% positive
247K reviews
Factorio
Factory-building strategy game about automating production and defending your industry
98% positive
235K reviews
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Historical real-time strategy spanning centuries of civilizations and warfare
95% positive
183K reviews
Frostpunk
Survival city builder where heat, resources, and laws decide lives
93% positive
138K reviews
Age of Empires II (Retired)
Medieval real-time strategy built around civilizations, resources, and conquest
96% positive
103K reviews
Planet Zoo
Single-player zoo management simulation with piece-by-piece habitat construction
91% positive
98K reviews
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Historical real-time strategy built around distinct civilizations and large battles
86% positive
96K reviews
Cities: Skylines II
Single-player city builder with economies, seasons, and citizen life paths
56% positive
93K reviews
Manor Lords
Medieval city builder mixing resource management with territorial conquest
84% positive
92K reviews
Dyson Sphere Program
Space factory automation sandbox about building star-enclosing energy megastructures
97% positive
92K reviews
Prison Architect
Top-down prison management sim built around design and crisis control
89% positive
74K reviews
Planet Coaster
Single-player theme park simulation with detailed coaster and scenery building
91% positive
72K reviews
Northgard: Definitive Edition
Viking real-time strategy with territorial expansion and winter survival
85% positive
69K reviews
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Turn-based historical 4X strategy across three evolving ages
47% positive
62K reviews
Jurassic World Evolution
Single-player dinosaur park management simulation with bioengineering and containment
87% positive
55K reviews
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Historical real-time strategy built around civilizations and card-based Home Cities
86% positive
55K reviews
They Are Billions
Real-time colony defense against relentless post-apocalyptic zombie swarms
85% positive
51K reviews
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Dinosaur park management sim with sandbox building and disaster control
90% positive
47K reviews
Banished
Single-player survival city builder about sustaining an exiled settlement
90% positive
43K reviews
Timberborn
Beaver colony builder centered on water engineering and survival
96% positive
42K reviews
Kingdom Two Crowns
Side-scrolling kingdom builder with co-op and nightly monster attacks
90% positive
40K reviews
Against the Storm
Roguelite city builder about adapting settlements to endless storms
94% positive
38K reviews