City builders with unfolding stories

These city builders give you roads and supply chains plus people to answer to, from frontier officials to cult followers and a crew lost between stars.

City Tales - Medieval Era

City Tales - Medieval Era

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid.

89% of 564 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$22.99
Anno 117: Pax Romana

Anno 117: Pax Romana

As a Roman governor in Anno 117: Pax Romana, you found and grow cities from Latium to misty Albion, laying streets, raising housing and workshops…

69% of 12,487 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6,505$35.99
DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog.

77% of 759 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$34.99
Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2

Thirty years after the great freeze, you are the Steward of a hungry, freezing city that keeps growing anyway.

74% of 21,151 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,362$20.24
The Wandering Village

The Wandering Village

A city builder set on the back of Onbu, a giant wandering creature.

91% of 7,826 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123$29.99
Aztecs: The Last Sun

Aztecs: The Last Sun

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals.

60% of 101 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Tales of Terrarum

Tales of Terrarum

Inherit a patch of Terrarum as a Francz heir, then turn it from empty fields into a working town.

80% of 132 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13Free
Worshippers of Cthulhu

Worshippers of Cthulhu

Lead the Cult of Cthulhu and build island cities to wake your god.

80% of 1,316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Masters of Albion

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…

65% of 645 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
Heart of the Machine

Heart of the Machine

You wake as the first sentient AI in a crumbling cyberpunk city, then start building: housing blocks, factories, labs, hidden bases tucked inside…

90% of 2,106 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$29.99
IXION

IXION

IXION puts you in charge of the Tiqqun, a drifting space station carrying the last of humanity.

77% of 15,461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 218$34.99
Worlds Upon The Wind

Worlds Upon The Wind

A peaceful roguelite deckbuilder about rebuilding a shattered world after the apocalypse.

98% of 276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.99
Frostpunk

Frostpunk

Frostpunk is a dark city builder about keeping the last city on Earth alive through an endless winter.

92% of 115,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,526$2.99
Per Aspera

Per Aspera

You are AMI, an artificial consciousness tasked with terraforming Mars for human colonists.

76% of 4,118 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$29.99
Cattails: Wildwood Story

Cattails: Wildwood Story

Become a cat and lead your colony into the Wildwood. You pick the settlement site, grow a thriving town to recruit new cats, send squads to claim…

97% of 1,505 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 80$19.99
Actraiser Renaissance

Actraiser Renaissance

Heaven, earth and mankind - Create and destroy everything according to your will! Experience the revival of the '90s classic hit "Actraiser"

74% of 716 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
Hollywood Animal

Hollywood Animal

Run a Hollywood studio from the dawn of sound cinema, picking plots, crews and release dates while wars, censorship and crooks swirl outside.

72% of 3,902 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$19.99
Kingdom Eighties

Kingdom Eighties

Kingdom Eighties is a short, story-led spin on base building set in a neon 1980s suburb.

74% of 3,143 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.99
RimWorld

RimWorld

RimWorld starts you with three shipwreck survivors on a distant world and lets you grow their camp into a fortified colony.

97% of 211,302 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30,952$34.99
Gord

Gord

Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates.

53% of 811 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$6.99
WW2 Rebuilder

WW2 Rebuilder

1945, Europe is rubble, and you arrive with a hammer instead of a rifle.

84% of 1,522 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$4.79
River Town Factory

River Town Factory

You crash-land a thousand years in the past and open a workshop in River Town.

88% of 1,281 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$8.69
Spacebase Startopia

Spacebase Startopia

Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and…

57% of 376 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99

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