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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
4.5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
3 likes
2comments
0 news articles

Features

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  1.  Endless gameplay
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  Building game
  4.  City Building Game

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    POX added Cytopia as alternative to TerraTactician Expandoria
    3 months ago
  • ianfinnesey reviewed Cytopia  
    3 months ago

    The engine is clearly in an excellent state. However, it doesn't look to be functioning as a game at the moment. There's no indication what any of the buttons do, and some of them look like the icons may be misaligned.

    Placing things is otherwise intuitive and snappy, though. This is going to be fun when it's done.

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    POX added Cytopia as alternative to Spiritfarer
    3 months ago
  • App icon
    POX added Cytopia as alternative to Tiny Glade
    4 months ago
  • App icon
    POX added Cytopia as alternative to Islanders
    5 months ago
  • sebastian_skinnari reviewed Cytopia  
    6 months ago

    really good FOSS alternative sim city

  • sebastian_skinnari liked Cytopia
    6 months ago
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Cytopia information

  • Developed by

    Cytopia Team
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5
  • Alternatives

    29 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  2,031 Stars
  •  109 Forks
  •  88 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 21, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Cytopia, and it has gotten 3 likes

Cytopia was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Apr 21, 2022 and this page was last updated Apr 21, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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ianfinnesey
  
Top positive commentNov 11, 2024

The engine is clearly in an excellent state. However, it doesn't look to be functioning as a game at the moment. There's no indication what any of the buttons do, and some of them look like the icons may be misaligned.

Placing things is otherwise intuitive and snappy, though. This is going to be fun when it's done.

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Sebastian
  
Positive commentJul 30, 2024

really good FOSS alternative sim city

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What is Cytopia?

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. Current Key Features:

  • Custom UI System, based on JSON. Highly moddable
  • SDL2 based rendering engine written in C++
  • Camera panning, zooming, relocating
  • Terrain manipulation
  • Procedural Terrain Generation
  • Pixel-art graphics made by graphics team lead by Kingtut 101
  • An original soundtrack, ambient noises, and sound effects made mostly by MB22
  • A Qt based tile editor for editing TileData JSON files

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