City builders like Xon

Loved how competitive and replayable Xon can get? Start with these city builders when you are ready.

Genesis of a Small God
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Replayable, Retro
78% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Creo God Simulator
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Replayable, Colorful, Retro
69% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Fata Deum - The God Sim
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Replayable
59% of 416 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
All My Gods
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Replayable, Colorful, Cute
88% of 80 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
The Universim
The Universim puts you in charge of the nuggets, small fledgling people you guide from Stone Age huts to a space-faring civilization. You place buildings, manage resources, research more than 200 advances, and step in with godly powers when they need help or deserve a lightning bolt. Cute, colorful, and funny in a way city builders rarely are.
Replayable, Colorful, Cute
79% of 8,512 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 508$14.99
Skyward Collapse
How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Colorful
49% of 184 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Mims Beginning
Experience a mystical journey with the Mims in this strategic god-like adventure—build, grow, protect, and wield divine powers. Now it's completely free! Also check out our other story-rich fantasy game, The End of the Sun, where you become a tracker of mythical beings and unravel mysteries.
Replayable, Colorful, Cute
76% of 298 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Ymir
Ymir is a 4X strategy game crossed with a city builder where you raise a civilization of clothed pigmen from the stone age toward the post-iron age. You settle procedural regions, run a simulated economy you can only nudge, and trade or fight other players. Worth playing for city builder fans who want a slow, demanding settlement sim with real diplomacy.
Competitive, Replayable
73% of 845 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$34.99
Reprisal Universe
Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.
Replayable, Colorful, Retro
75% of 337 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Dice Kingdoms
Dice Kingdoms is a colorful turn-based strategy game where each player grows a small island kingdom and races for victory through culture, conquest, or an expensive wonder. You roll dice for resources, place buildings, and send automatic attacks at rival islands. Short, competitive, and easy to learn, it suits city builder fans who want light building mixed with dice luck and direct rivalry.
Also in Co-op · Competitive, Replayable, Colorful
84% of 583 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$14.99
Reus 2
Reus 2 puts you above the city, not in it: you steer six giants who raise biomes and stock them with plants, animals and minerals so human villages can grow. For city builder fans, the pleasure is watching settlements rise from the ecosystems you tuned, then dealing with their trade, wars and tantrums.
Replayable, Colorful, Cute
94% of 2,173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$24.99
Masters of Albion
A god game with a proper town sim inside it. You place buildings, hire and house workers, set up production lines and design what they make, then defend it all when corrupted creatures attack at night. Instant building, no timers, and a giant hand that can lift, throw, or possess anyone.
Replayable
64% of 647 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99

Cheaper than Xon

All My Gods

Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!

$3.99

MiniMap Kingdom

Build your own kingdom on unlimited Map!

$2.99

Hexton

Explore, build, harvest. Hexton is a relaxing building game where you try to create the largest city possible. Looking for a light challenge?

$1.99

TOHOTOPIA

A bite-size 4X where you grow a small empire in about 30 minutes: explore fog, settle and upgrade cities, and send heroes and armies to take…

$3.99

Tinytown

Tinytown is a cozy zen-like building strategy and puzzle game where you create a small city by placing new buildings.

$2.99

Marble Age

Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the…

$1.49

pyramida

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.

$2.99

Paragon Pioneers

Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants.

$3.99

Tile Cities

Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style

$2.99

Pocket City

A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones.

$2.99

Urbek City Builder

Urbek City Builder drops money entirely: you build with food, coal, skilled work and 30-odd other resources.

$2.84

Technicity

A first-person city-building game with powerful tools that allow you to build faster and bigger.

$1.79

Hidden gems like Xon

Nova Roma

Lead a small band of Romans from a humble village to a bustling metropolis.

$29.99

Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.

$9.74

Celestial Empire

As governor of a province in Ancient China, you raise a few peasant huts into a city fit for the Emperor's visit.

$19.99

Reus 2

Reus 2 puts you above the city, not in it: you steer six giants who raise biomes and stock them with plants, animals and minerals so human villages…

$24.99

Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder

Found a Roman city on the frontier, keep it fed and happy, then hold its walls when barbarians and beasts come for it.

$24.99

Technotopia

Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city.

$4.99

TerraScape

TerraScape is a cozy medieval city-puzzler where you grow a kingdom one card at a time.

$14.99

Citadelum

Citadelum is a Roman city builder where you raise a settlement into a marble city, keep it fed with farms, fisheries and wine, and guard it with…

$24.99

Planet S

Planet S is a real-time strategy city builder spread across a solar system of up to 24 procedurally generated planets.

Free

Dice Kingdoms

Dice Kingdoms is a colorful turn-based strategy game where each player grows a small island kingdom and races for victory through culture, conquest…

$14.99

Pile Up!

"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different…

$9.99

Gold Gold Adventure Gold

Build a hand-drawn fantasy town, send mothmen and undead adventurers into dungeons, and raise a pet Godbeast while every run plays out differently.

$24.99

Newest city builders like Xon