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

The top-rated alternative to Cities: Skylines is SimCity. It's paid, but CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer and Citybound are free. People also recommend Tiny Glade, Cytopia, Cities XL (Series) and Megapolis. There's no shortage of City Building Games like Cities: Skylines, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Android, iPhone, iPad and Linux.

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  1. SimCity icon
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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

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    • ReactOS
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  2. Tiny Glade icon
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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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
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  3. 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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cities: Skylines
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  4. Citybound icon
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    Citybound is a city building game with a focus on realism, collaborative planning and simulation of microscopic details.

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  5. Cytopia icon
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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.

    30 Cytopia alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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  6. 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.

    24 Cities XL (Series) alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. Megapolis icon
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    The #1 citybuilder game in more than 20 countries with over 10M downloads! One million play every day!

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  8. Citystate icon
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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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Steam
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  9. 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.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. 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.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  11. Take part in building the ideal Soviet Republic in this city-builder as you harvest and process raw materials, design logistical infrastructure, and provide everything your loyal citizens need.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Steam
    • Windows
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  12. Micropolis icon
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
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