Best Games Like Cities: Skylines Top City Building Games & Simulation Games like Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines is described as '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' and is a city building game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to Cities: Skylines for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, iPhone, iPad and Android Tablet apps. The best Cities: Skylines alternative is SimCity. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer or Citybound. Other Cities: Skylines like games are Tiny Glade, Megapolis, Cytopia and Cities XL (Series).

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  1. SimCity icon

    SimCity

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    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.

    36 SimCity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • ReactOS
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    • Most users think SimCity is a great Cities: Skylines alternative.

    • SimCity is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to Cities: Skylines.

    • SimCity is the most popular commercial alternative to Cities: Skylines.

    • SimCity is Paid and ProprietaryCities: Skylines is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Tiny Glade

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    Tiny 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.

    36 Tiny Glade alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
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    • Tiny Glade is the most popular Linux alternative to Cities: Skylines.

    • Tiny Glade is Paid and ProprietaryCities: Skylines is also Paid and Proprietary
  4. CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer icon

    CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer

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    CSM is a multiplayer mod for Cities: Skylines. This mod aims to provide a simple client-server experience where users can play and build together in a single game. Initially, resources such as money, costs demand will be synced between clients.

    26 CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cities: Skylines
     

    • CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Cities: Skylines.

    • CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Cities: Skylines.

    • CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer is Free and Open SourceCities: Skylines is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Megapolis icon

    Megapolis

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    The #1 citybuilder game in more than 20 countries with over 10M downloads! One million play every day!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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    • Most users think Megapolis is a great Cities: Skylines alternative.

    • Megapolis is the most popular iPad alternative to Cities: Skylines.

    • Megapolis is Freemium and ProprietaryCities: Skylines is Paid and Proprietary
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    Cytopia

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    Cytopia is a free, open source retro pixel-art city building game with a big focus on mods. It utilizes a custom isometric rendering engine based on SDL2.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Cities XL (Series) icon

    Cities XL (Series)

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    The game (developed by Monte Cristo and originally released on October 2009) offers challenging gameplay about money and space management as well as urban planning. It provides a variety of planning tools and a unicque setup for zoning.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Citystate icon

    Citystate

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    Combining the classic city building game experience with advanced macro-economics, Citystate aims to be the most realistic urban simulator ever made. Build the cities of a new Nation and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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  11. Micropolis icon

    Micropolis

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    Micropolis is a open city-building simulator game and is based on the original source code of SimCity , which was donated to the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project by Electronic Arts as free and open source software under the terms of the...

    41 Micropolis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  13. Designer City icon

    Designer City

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    Create a thriving metropolis by building houses, condos, apartments and skyscrapers to attract residents. Construct businesses and industries for them to work. Add bars, restaurants, theaters, stadiums and more to keep residents happy.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  14. Industries of Titan icon

    Industries of Titan

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    Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with the other Great Houses of Titan for resources, territory, and power. Do battle with ships, technology, influence, or the sheer productive power of your factories.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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