Best Games Like Cities: Skylines for WindowsTop City Building Games & Simulation Games like Cities: Skylines

There are many alternatives to Cities: Skylines for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows 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. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Cities: Skylines and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Cities: Skylines are Tiny Glade, Cytopia, Cities XL (Series) and Citystate.

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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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • ReactOS
     
  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.

    36 Tiny Glade alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
     
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cities: Skylines
     
  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.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
     
  8. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Micropolis icon
     9 likes

    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Cities in Motion (CIM) is a city-based mass transportation simulator for the PC. Players operate their own transportation company, building a public network with a variety of vehicle types, including buses, trams, and subway trains.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
     
  11. Islanders icon
     1 like

    ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands. Explore an infinite number of ever-changing new lands, expand your settlements from sprawling villages to vast cities and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
     
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