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
1,196 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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ContractVille
Open-world building simulation with detailed renovations and online co-op
79% positive
5,991 reviews
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Historical turn-based strategy about exploring, settling, and conquering civilizations
90% positive
5,961 reviews
Becastled
Medieval city builder with nightly sieges and castle defenses
81% positive
5,659 reviews
Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Medieval colony builder about keeping island refugees alive through winter
65% positive
5,415 reviews
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack
Isometric theme park management with custom coasters and scenarios
89% positive
5,386 reviews
Ratropolis
Real-time deckbuilding and tower defense for a besieged rat city
87% positive
5,372 reviews
Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
Medieval castle-building strategy focused on economies, management, and sieges
88% positive
5,218 reviews
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