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.
Offworld Trading Company
Real-time economic strategy on Mars, with stocks instead of armies
77% positive
5,717 reviews
Becastled
Medieval city builder with nightly sieges and castle defenses
82% positive
5,620 reviews
Ratropolis
Real-time deckbuilding and tower defense for a besieged rat city
88% positive
5,544 reviews
Pioneers of Pagonia
Fantasy colony sim with visible supply chains and four-player co-op
81% positive
5,497 reviews
Pharaoh™: A New Era
Historical city builder about managing Ancient Egypt along the Nile
75% positive
5,394 reviews
Stronghold: Warlords
Real-time castle-building strategy with East Asian sieges and recruitable warlords
65% positive
5,326 reviews
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum
Theme park management sim where you design and ride coasters
92% positive
5,245 reviews
Autonauts
Colony-building simulation where you program bots to automate tasks
89% positive
4,968 reviews
Knights and Merchants
Medieval real-time strategy focused on village economies and battles
85% positive
4,961 reviews
Ratopia
Side-scrolling colony sim built around rat economics and survival
88% positive
4,891 reviews
Stronghold 3 Gold
Medieval castle-building strategy with combat campaigns and nighttime sieges
33% positive
4,864 reviews
Project Highrise
Skyscraper management sim balancing construction, tenants, and rent
85% positive
4,823 reviews
TheoTown
Pixel-art city builder with regional planning and community-made plugins
95% positive
4,820 reviews
Flotsam
Floating colony builder that turns ocean trash into homes
81% positive
4,634 reviews
Surviving the Aftermath
Post-apocalyptic colony sim about building, scavenging, and surviving disasters
71% positive
4,588 reviews
Factory Town
Village-building strategy game with conveyor belts and automated supply chains
91% positive
4,481 reviews
Cliff Empire
Sci-fi city builder managing three cities atop cramped cliffs
87% positive
4,379 reviews
Cataclismo
Base-building strategy with modular fortresses against nightly monster attacks
89% positive
4,346 reviews
Spacebase DF-9
Space colony management sim with asteroid mining and alien settlers
18% positive
4,341 reviews
Ballads of Hongye: REBORN
Relaxed city builder centered on shaping traditional Chinese landscapes
85% positive
4,275 reviews
The Guild II Renaissance
Medieval dynasty simulation built around trade, politics, and professions
83% positive
4,224 reviews
Hollywood Animal
Studio management strategy about making films and navigating Hollywood politics
73% positive
4,211 reviews
Rise of Industry
Industrial tycoon strategy built around production chains and city trade
73% positive
4,194 reviews
The Crust
Lunar colony simulator blending automation with deadline-driven Earth contracts
76% positive
4,178 reviews