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
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Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition
Fantasy castle-building strategy with magical armies and siege battles
87% positive
2,466 reviews
Urban Empire
Historical city management strategy with council politics across centuries
34% positive
2,462 reviews
Demo Dungeons 4
Dungeon-building strategy with real-time surface raids and online co-op
85% positive
2,456 reviews
Surviving Mars: Relaunched
A Mars colony builder with resource management and political decisions
53% positive
2,398 reviews
Hearth and Hamlet
An incremental city builder that grows a camp into a kingdom
80% positive
2,385 reviews
Farm Manager 2021
Farm management sim built around seasonal crops and production chains
78% positive
2,374 reviews
NIMBY Rails
Railway management sandbox for building networks across the real world
89% positive
2,355 reviews
Demo Nova Roma
Roman city building shaped by water, weather, and divine intervention
93% positive
2,347 reviews
The Last Haven
Settlement-building strategy about keeping survivors alive through a nuclear winter
75% positive
2,336 reviews
Sarah's Adventure: Time Travel
Casual farming and building adventure with a time-travel story
90% positive
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Hotel Renovator
Renovation sim about rebuilding and running a neglected hotel
76% positive
2,325 reviews
Cloud Gardens
Diorama puzzle and sandbox game about plants reclaiming urban ruins
95% positive
2,312 reviews
Freeways
A road-drawing puzzle game about preventing freeway traffic jams
89% positive
2,295 reviews
Cardboard Town
Card-based city builder balancing resources against random disasters
79% positive
2,219 reviews
Drill Core
Side-scrolling roguelite strategy with daytime mining and nighttime defenses
82% positive
2,211 reviews
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
Historical 4X strategy with production chains and simultaneous turns
67% positive
2,210 reviews
Caesar™ 3
Roman city-building strategy centered on trade, industry, and defense
92% positive
2,205 reviews
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Colony survival sim with tactical battles against invading demons
79% positive
2,190 reviews
Demo Reus 2
Turn-based god game built around ecosystem optimization puzzles
94% positive
2,187 reviews
Airborne Kingdom
City builder about balancing a flying town while exploring
86% positive
2,171 reviews
Sapiens
Prehistoric colony sim built around tribal management and discovery
81% positive
2,166 reviews
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
2.5D action RPG about exploring ruins and rebuilding a town
85% positive
2,157 reviews
Cities XXL
City-building simulation with traffic planning and intercity resource trading
39% positive
2,149 reviews
Demo Heart of the Machine
Cyberpunk strategy RPG about growing an AI network across a city
90% positive
2,132 reviews