Games Like SimCity (Series) Great City Building Games & Simulation Games like SimCity (Series)

SimCity is described as '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' and is a popular city building game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to SimCity for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iPhone, Android, iPad and Linux apps. The best SimCity alternative is Cities: Skylines. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Cytopia or Lincity-NG. Other SimCity like games are Tiny Glade, Citystate, CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer and Pocket City.

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  1. 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

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    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    • Steam
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    • Nintendo Switch
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  2. 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
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  3. 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.

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    • Discontinued

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  4. Lincity-NG icon
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    Lincity is a construction and management simulation game, which puts the player in control of managing a city's socio-economy. Its name is a play on the title of the original city-building game, SimCity, and it was released under the GNU General Public License.

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  5. Citystate icon
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    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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Steam
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  6. 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)

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    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cities: Skylines
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  7. Build your own unique city as the new mayor. Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  8. The game (developed by Monte Cristo and originally released on October 2009) offers challenging gameplay about money and space management as well as urban planning. It provides a variety of planning tools and a unicque setup for zoning.

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    • Windows
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  9. Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with the other Great Houses of Titan for resources, territory, and power. Do battle with ships, technology, influence, or the sheer productive power of your factories.

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
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  10. Take part in building the ideal Soviet Republic in this city-builder as you harvest and process raw materials, design logistical infrastructure, and provide everything your loyal citizens need.

    8 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Steam
    • Windows
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  11. 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...

    41 Micropolis alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
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  12. SimCity BuildIt icon
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    Build, craft, and control! SimCity BuildIt is an all-new SimCity game designed just for mobile.

    34 SimCity BuildIt alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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