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.
Stronghold Crusader 2
Medieval real-time strategy mixing castle building, sieges, and desert economies
72% positive
18K reviews
Dawn of Man
Prehistoric survival city builder spanning the Stone to Iron Age
87% positive
18K reviews
IXION
Space station survival city-builder with punishing resource management
79% positive
18K reviews
Craft The World
Sandbox colony sim about building and defending a dwarf fortress
88% positive
17K reviews
OpenTTD
Open-source transport management sim about building profitable logistics networks
95% positive
17K reviews
ISLANDERS
Minimalist city-building puzzle with score-based placement on changing islands
94% positive
17K reviews
Cossacks 3
Historical real-time strategy with vast armies and economic management
82% positive
16K reviews
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Historical real-time strategy spanning ancient cities to modern warfare
95% positive
16K reviews
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Historical real-time strategy about building civilizations and conquering rivals
84% positive
16K reviews
A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA
Historical grand strategy across Viking-age Britain with real-time battles
71% positive
15K reviews
Planet Coaster 2
Theme park management sandbox with custom coasters and water parks
74% positive
15K reviews
Kingdom Heroes 8
Three Kingdoms strategy RPG with large real-time battlefield clashes
54% positive
15K reviews
Construction Simulator
Construction simulation with licensed heavy machinery and cooperative contracts
81% positive
15K reviews
Tropico 5
Island city builder where your ruling dynasty spans centuries
79% positive
14K reviews
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Lovecraftian hotel management sim with dating and branching endings
94% positive
14K reviews
FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time
Slow-life action RPG blending jobs, crafting, combat, and town building
91% positive
14K reviews
Two Point Museum
Cartoon-style museum management sim with expeditions and exhibit design
95% positive
13K reviews
Tavern Master
Relaxed medieval tavern management with building and staff optimization
92% positive
13K reviews
Stonehearth
Voxel colony sim about building and defending a settlement
75% positive
13K reviews
Tropico 4
Caribbean city builder mixing economic management with political satire
92% positive
13K reviews
Anno 2070™
Near-future city builder centered on island economies and environmental choices
60% positive
13K reviews
Captain of Industry
Single-player factory simulation with dynamic terrain and complex logistics
90% positive
12K reviews
Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
Single-player fantasy action RPG about building a new kingdom
84% positive
11K reviews
Space Haven
Spaceship colony sim with tile-by-tile building and crew survival
86% positive
11K reviews