Games Like Designer City Similar City Building Games & Simulation Games like Designer City

Designer City is described as 'Create a thriving metropolis by building houses, condos, apartments and skyscrapers to attract residents. Construct businesses and industries for them to work. Add bars, restaurants, theaters, stadiums and more to keep residents happy' and is a city building game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Designer City for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, iPhone, Android Tablet and iPad apps. The best Designer City alternative is Tiny Glade. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Cytopia or Simpsons Tapped Out. Other Designer City like games are Cities: Skylines, SimCity, Micropolis and Islanders.

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  1. Tiny Glade icon
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    Tiny Glade is a relaxing free-form building game. Tap into the joy of making something pretty with no management, no combat, or wrong answers — just kick back, doodle some castles, and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.

    36 Tiny Glade alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
     
  2. Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

    30 Cities: Skylines alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
     
  3. SimCity icon
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    SimCity is a series of city-building simulation games, where you are given the task of founding and developing a city, while maintaining the happiness of the citizens and keeping a stable budget.

    36 SimCity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • ReactOS
     
  4. Cytopia icon
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    Cytopia is a free, open source retro pixel-art city building game with a big focus on mods. It utilizes a custom isometric rendering engine based on SDL2.

    30 Cytopia alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. From the writers of The Simpsons, comes the city building game that lets you create your own living,breathing Springfield!When Homer accidently causes a meltdown that wipes out Springfield,it’s up to you to clean up his mess.we mean, help him rebuild.

    28 Simpsons Tapped Out alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  6. Micropolis icon
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    Micropolis is a open city-building simulator game and is based on the original source code of SimCity , which was donated to the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project by Electronic Arts as free and open source software under the terms of the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Islanders icon
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    ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands. Explore an infinite number of ever-changing new lands, expand your settlements from sprawling villages to vast cities and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
     
  8. CSM is a multiplayer mod for Cities: Skylines. This mod aims to provide a simple client-server experience where users can play and build together in a single game. Initially, resources such as money, costs demand will be synced between clients.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cities: Skylines
     
  9. Deep Sea Tycoon is a 2003 video game developed by Anarchy Enterprises and published by Unique Entertainment. This game involves you building an underwater city in 3D. It has a sequel, Deep Sea Tycoon 2, developed by Pixel after Pixel.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Citybound icon
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    Citybound is a city building game with a focus on realism, collaborative planning and simulation of microscopic details.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Citystate icon
     1 like

    Combining the classic city building game experience with advanced macro-economics, Citystate aims to be the most realistic urban simulator ever made. Build the cities of a new Nation and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  12. TheoTown icon
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    Do you want to build your own city? In TheoTown you can watch your own city growing. Declare zones for residential, commercial or industrial buildings and build road to connect them. Make your city more attractive by building parks, schools and so on.

    12 TheoTown alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • Steam
     
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