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.
Airborne Kingdom
City builder about balancing a flying town while exploring
87% positive
2,403 reviews
Farm Manager 2021
Farm management sim built around seasonal crops and production chains
79% positive
2,398 reviews
Hotel Architect
Hotel building and management simulation with career and sandbox modes
94% positive
2,372 reviews
Cities XXL
City-building simulation with traffic planning and intercity resource trading
41% positive
2,364 reviews
Cardboard Town
Card-based city builder balancing resources against random disasters
80% positive
2,321 reviews
NIMBY Rails
Railway management sandbox for building networks across the real world
90% positive
2,319 reviews
Reus 2
Turn-based god game built around ecosystem optimization puzzles
94% positive
2,315 reviews
Cloud Gardens
Diorama puzzle and sandbox game about plants reclaiming urban ruins
95% positive
2,312 reviews
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition
Historical 4X strategy with production chains and simultaneous turns
69% positive
2,299 reviews
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
Fantasy automation adventure with creature-run workshops and wilderness expeditions
83% positive
2,289 reviews
Sword and Fairy Inn 2
Casual inn management with characters from Sword and Fairy
49% positive
2,281 reviews
SteamWorld Build
Casual city builder where mining fuels a robot town
85% positive
2,275 reviews
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Colony survival sim with tactical battles against invading demons
81% positive
2,266 reviews
Land of the Vikings
Viking settlement builder focused on villagers and surviving winter
74% positive
2,260 reviews
Caesar™ 3
Roman city-building strategy centered on trade, industry, and defense
93% positive
2,258 reviews
TerraScape
Medieval city-building puzzle where nearby buildings shape your score
89% positive
2,248 reviews
Freeways
A road-drawing puzzle game about preventing freeway traffic jams
90% positive
2,214 reviews
Gourdlets
Island town-building sandbox for decorating and watching tiny residents
92% positive
2,202 reviews
Sapiens
Prehistoric colony sim built around tribal management and discovery
80% positive
2,194 reviews
Founders' Fortune
Colony sim about building a village and managing settlers' lives
80% positive
2,189 reviews
Ancient Cities
Stone Age survival city builder about guiding a growing tribe
63% positive
2,166 reviews
Port Royale 4
Caribbean trade strategy with colony building and turn-based naval battles
57% positive
2,147 reviews
Heart of the Machine
Cyberpunk strategy RPG about growing an AI network across a city
92% positive
2,131 reviews
As Far As The Eye
Turn-based nomadic city builder racing a rising flood
72% positive
2,127 reviews