0 A.D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D.
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
+5Tiny 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.
- City Building Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- SteamOS
+6Set a generation before the events of the original Warcraft began, Warcraft II is a real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment. Cunning, sinister, and seemingly unstoppable, the demonic Burning Legion prepare to launch their long-awaited assault on the mortal world.
- RTS Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
SimCity is a 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.
- City Building Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- ReactOS
+1Cities: 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.
- City Building Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- Playstation
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
+1RimWorld follows three survivors from a crashed space liner as they build a colony on a frontier world at the rim of known space. Inspired by the space western vibe of Firefly, the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, and the epic scale of Dune and Warhammer 40,000.
- City Building Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
+13Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy simulator. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. The world is procedurally generated with distinct civilizations spanning centuries of detailed history, multitude of towns, bodies...
- City Building Game
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+1Simutrans is an open-source transport simulator. Establish a successful company transporting passengers, mail and goods by land, air and water.
- Simulation Games
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Haiku
- Steam
- Flathub
Free (as in freedom) open-source RTS Age of Empires engine. Written from scratch in C++, Python, Cython, Qt/QML, OpenGL/GLSL, Vulkan, ...
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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.
- City Building Game
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Wine
- Steam
+1CaesarIA 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.
- RTS Game
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Wine
- Steam
+1Tribal Wars is a browser-based game set in the Middle Ages. Every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory.
- RTS Game
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Online
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