Games Like Tropico (Series) Similar RTS Games & City Building Games like Tropico (Series)

Tropico is described as 'Series of construction and management simulation computer games developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001. Feral Interactive has developed and published a number of the games' and is a RTS game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Tropico for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Steam, Linux, Mac and Wine apps. The best Tropico alternative is Age of Empires. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try CaesarIA or Explorable Explanations. Other Tropico like games are Age of Mythology, Anno, openage and Caesar.

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  1. Age of Empires icon
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    Real-time strategy series where players guide civilizations from small tribes to empires across millennia, managing resources, researching technologies, building military strength, exploring, and choosing strategic paths to victory in campaigns and multiplayer modes.

    51 Age of Empires alternatives

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    • Xbox
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  2. Age of Mythology is based on building towns, gathering resources, creating armies, and ultimately destroying enemy units and buildings. In this way, players are able to defeat and conquer rival towns and civilizations.

    52 Age of Mythology alternatives

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  3. Anno icon
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    ANNO is a city-building and economic simulation video game series, with real-time strategy elements.

    23 Anno alternatives

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    • iPhone
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  4. CaesarIA icon
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    CaesarIA is an open source remake of Caesar III game released by Impressions Games in 1998, it aims to expand the possibilities of the classical city-building simulators and to add new features showing the city life. Now the game work with Windows, Linux, Mac, Haiku and Android.

    31 CaesarIA alternatives

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    • Open Source

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  5. Welcome to Explorable Explanations, a hub for learning through play! We’re a disorganized “movement” of artists, coders & educators who want to reunite play and learning.

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  6. openage icon
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    Free (as in freedom) open-source RTS Age of Empires engine. Written from scratch in C++, Python, Cython, Qt/QML, OpenGL/GLSL, Vulkan, ...

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  7. Caesar icon
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    As a provincial governor charged with spreading the glory of Rome your mission is clear – build cities, foster trade and industry, make money. How you accomplish this is up to you. Gain wealth and power, make a career out of pleasing the emperor, battle barbarians and repel...

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    • Windows
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  8. Banished icon
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    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.

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  9. Unknown Horizons is a 2D real-time strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  10. Stronghold icon
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    Stronghold Crusader is a RTS game from the series from Stronghold.

    In Stronghold Crusader the player can play as either the legendary Richard the Lionheart or the formidable Saladin. A mix of real-time strategy and city-building games, the game's desert setting requires str.

    36 Stronghold alternatives

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  11. Spring 1944 icon
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    Spring:1944 is a WWII themed game based on the open source Spring Engine. Our goal is to create four fully functional sides (US, Germany, USSR, Britain) with period-accurate units and strengths. Realism is a primary design goal, second only to creating a game that is fun and...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  12. Evil Genius icon
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    Build a secret base, gain notoriety by completing daring missions, repel the forces of justice in real-time combat, and develop evil super-weapons to complete your nefarious master plan. As a malevolent mastermind bent on achieving global domination, through the construction of...

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    • Windows
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