Popular competitive city builders

Rival mayors and castle lords shape these popular competitive city builders, where you grow settlements while trying to outsmart other people. Kingdoms Reborn lets you expand a hamlet, trade and face rivals in shared worlds, while Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition has you manage food and walls through sieges against cunning opponents. TOHOTOPIA compresses the same rivalry into short matches where you settle land, raise armies and turn on friends.

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1. Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition

   

   Build a desert citadel from sand and sweat, then watch it hold. Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition pairs a full castle economy with siege warfare, so city builder fans get streets, stockpiles and walls that all have to work together.

   92%92% of 10,908 Steam reviews are positive2.5KPlayers online now: 2,538$19.99

2. Northgard Battlegrounds

   

   A city-building auto-battler in Viking Northgard where your village layout is your army. Place buildings, gather resources, court the gods, then watch your warband fight rival clans. Losing a round stings less when the town you built is this pleasant to tinker with.

   63%63% of 322 Steam reviews are positive630Players online now: 630$13.49

3. Sengoku Dynasty

   

   Sengoku Dynasty is a first-person village builder set in war-torn medieval Japan. You start with one house, then add workshops, forges and taverns, recruit villagers, give them jobs and tools, and grow several settlements across Nata Valley. Combat, farming and automation all feed the same goal: a working community that survives without you.

   74%74% of 6,696 Steam reviews are positive318Players online now: 318$29.99

4. 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 villages and rivals. Four Touhou-led factions each bring their own heroes, tech tree and units, so city builder fans get light building with a lot of conquest attached.

   96%96% of 816 Steam reviews are positive22Players online now: 22$3.99

5. Stronghold: Definitive Edition

   

   Greetings, sire. Stronghold: Definitive Edition is the classic castle sim rebuilt with cleaner art and sound: you raise a walled town from wood huts and wheat fields, keep peasants fed and taxed just enough, then hold the walls when the Rat, Pig, Snake and Wolf come knocking.

   86%86% of 9,868 Steam reviews are positive109Players online now: 109$14.99

6. Kingdoms Reborn

   

   Grow a tiny medieval hamlet into an industrial empire in Kingdoms Reborn, a city builder with simulated citizens on a procedurally generated world. Research eras, manage food and resources, draw cards for buildings and policies, and shape land across forests, deserts and tundra. Play solo or build and trade with friends in co-op and competitive multiplayer.

   90%90% of 8,893 Steam reviews are positive184Players online now: 184$19.99

7. Global City

   

   Become mayor of a bright modern city and grow it from first houses to malls, towers, farms and space projects. You gather lumber, make plastic, keep factories running, trade goods, finish quests and collect taxes as the population rises. Relaxed, colorful and steady, with friends and co-op contests alongside.

   68%68% of 1,470 Steam reviews are positive164Players online now: 164Free

8. Yield! Fall of Rome

   

   Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.

   69%69% of 222 Steam reviews are positive2Players online now: 2$19.99

9. Planet S

   

   Planet S is a real-time strategy city builder spread across a solar system of up to 24 procedurally generated planets. You found cities, supply residents with the goods they need, and link planets into one economy as production chains grow more tangled.

   91%91% of 2,908 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5Free

10. TerraScape

    

    TerraScape is a cozy medieval city-puzzler where you grow a kingdom one card at a time. You place houses, farms and workshops on hex islands for points, chase good adjacencies, and merge buildings into grand complexes. Relaxed, bright and easy to replay, it suits city builder fans who like puzzling over the perfect spot.

    88%88% of 2,089 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$14.99

11. TFC: The Fertile Crescent

    

    A Bronze Age RTS where food is everything. Settle fertile land, grow your village, and turn grain into armies and Knowledge Points. Classic base building with a fresh economic twist, plus co-op and online battles for up to four players.

    88%88% of 375 Steam reviews are positive12Players online now: 12$5.49

12. Marble Age: Remastered

    

    Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

    85%85% of 391 Steam reviews are positive9Players online now: 9$2.49

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