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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Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
Real-time medieval grand strategy with court management and tactical battles
76% positive
5,198 reviews
TheoTown
Pixel-art city builder with regional planning and community-made plugins
94% positive
5,112 reviews
Pharaoh™: A New Era
Historical city builder about managing Ancient Egypt along the Nile
73% positive
4,999 reviews
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Sci-fi 4X strategy with empire building and tactical turn-based battles
78% positive
4,973 reviews
Pioneers of Pagonia
Fantasy colony sim with visible supply chains and four-player co-op
81% positive
4,943 reviews
Construction Simulator 2015
Open-world construction simulator with heavy machinery and cooperative jobs
79% positive
4,871 reviews
Demo Ratopia
Side-scrolling colony sim built around rat economics and survival
86% positive
4,871 reviews
Demo Stronghold: Warlords
Real-time castle-building strategy with East Asian sieges and recruitable warlords
65% positive
4,674 reviews
Flotsam
Floating colony builder that turns ocean trash into homes
78% positive
4,526 reviews
Demo News Tower
Newspaper management sim balancing Sunday deadlines, staff, and influence
94% positive
4,473 reviews
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum
Theme park management sim where you design and ride coasters
90% positive
4,438 reviews
Cliff Empire
Sci-fi city builder managing three cities atop cramped cliffs
87% positive
4,354 reviews
Spacebase DF-9
Space colony management sim with asteroid mining and alien settlers
18% positive
4,341 reviews
Factory Town
Village-building strategy game with conveyor belts and automated supply chains
90% positive
4,301 reviews
Per Aspera
Mars terraforming strategy sim with planet-wide construction and logistics
75% positive
4,228 reviews
Demo Ballads of Hongye: REBORN
Relaxed city builder centered on shaping traditional Chinese landscapes
84% positive
4,092 reviews
Project Highrise
Skyscraper management sim balancing construction, tenants, and rent
85% positive
4,071 reviews
SimAirport
Airport management sim about building terminals and fixing bottlenecks
79% positive
4,064 reviews
Demo Cataclismo
Base-building strategy with modular fortresses against nightly monster attacks
88% positive
4,045 reviews
Hollywood Animal
Studio management strategy about making films and navigating Hollywood politics
72% positive
4,014 reviews
Gladiator Guild Manager
Fantasy auto-battler about building gladiator teams for arena championships
80% positive
3,991 reviews
Let's Build a Zoo
Zoo management sim with animal breeding and DNA splicing
88% positive
3,956 reviews
The Guild II Renaissance
Medieval dynasty simulation built around trade, politics, and professions
82% positive
3,767 reviews
Autonauts
Colony-building simulation where you program bots to automate tasks
90% positive
3,737 reviews