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
1,100 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Craft The World
Sandbox colony sim about building and defending a dwarf fortress
88% positive
16K reviews
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Historical real-time strategy about building civilizations and conquering rivals
84% positive
15K reviews
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Historical real-time strategy spanning ancient cities to modern warfare
94% positive
14K reviews
Planet Coaster 2
Theme park management sandbox with custom coasters and water parks
71% positive
14K reviews
Stronghold Crusader 2
Medieval real-time strategy mixing castle building, sieges, and desert economies
74% positive
13K reviews
Demo Tavern Master
Relaxed medieval tavern management with building and staff optimization
92% positive
13K reviews
Cossacks 3
Historical real-time strategy with vast armies and economic management
82% positive
13K reviews
Kingdom Heroes 8
Three Kingdoms strategy RPG with large real-time battlefield clashes
55% positive
13K reviews
A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA
Historical grand strategy across Viking-age Britain with real-time battles
70% positive
13K reviews
FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time
Slow-life action RPG blending jobs, crafting, combat, and town building
91% positive
12K reviews
Anno 2070™
Near-future city builder centered on island economies and environmental choices
58% positive
12K reviews
Construction Simulator
Construction simulation with licensed heavy machinery and cooperative contracts
80% positive
12K reviews
Captain of Industry
Single-player factory simulation with dynamic terrain and complex logistics
90% positive
11K reviews
Stonehearth
Voxel colony sim about building and defending a settlement
77% positive
11K reviews
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Real-time strategy with desert city building and castle siege warfare
91% positive
11K reviews
Demo Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Lovecraftian hotel management sim with dating and branching endings
93% positive
11K reviews
Space Haven
Spaceship colony sim with tile-by-tile building and crew survival
84% positive
11K reviews
下一站江湖Ⅱ
Open-world martial arts RPG with branching stories and faction wars
73% positive
11K reviews
Stronghold Kingdoms
Medieval MMO strategy about building castles and ruling through factions
63% positive
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Medieval castle-building RTS balancing settlement economics and siege warfare
86% positive
10K reviews
Tropico 5
Island city builder where your ruling dynasty spans centuries
79% positive
10K reviews
Two Point Museum
Cartoon-style museum management sim with expeditions and exhibit design
95% positive
10K reviews
Planetbase
Single-player space colony sim about building a self-sufficient outpost
79% positive
9,927 reviews
Transport Fever
Railroad-focused transport tycoon linking growing cities and industries
82% positive
9,648 reviews