Cities: Skylines AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Sandbox Games

The best Sandbox Game alternative to Cities: Skylines is SimCity. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Citybound or Designer City. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Cities: Skylines and eight of them are Sandbox Games so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Sandbox Game alternatives to Cities: Skylines are Tiny Glade, Micropolis, Dino Island and Deep Sea Tycoon.

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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.

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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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    • Windows
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    • Steam
    • SteamOS
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Dino Island icon
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    Dino Island (also known as Dino Tycoon) is a PC business simulation game developed by Hasbro Interactive and published by Monte Cristo and PopTop Software.

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    • Windows
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  7. Deep Sea Tycoon is a 2003 video game developed by Anarchy Enterprises and published by Unique Entertainment. This game involves you building an underwater city in 3D. It has a sequel, Deep Sea Tycoon 2, developed by Pixel after Pixel.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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    Lego Loco is a Lego-branded children's virtual world computer game released in 1998. It is a simple open-ended construction game with an emphasis on Rail Transport. The aim of the game is to construct a town in which Lego people can live.

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    • Windows
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