SimCity (Series) AlternativesOnly apps categorised as RTS Games

The best RTS alternative to SimCity is Micropolis, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't work for you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to SimCity, but unfortunately only two of them are RTS Games.

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  1. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    It is the original source code ported into Java.

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    • Micropolis is Free and Open SourceSimCity is Paid and Proprietary
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    The Settlers

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    The Settlers is a video game series. The first game in the series is The Settlers (1993). There are eight games in the series, including remakes. All the games were developed by the German studio Blue Byte, and were published by either Blue Byte or Ubisoft, the company that...

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Uplay
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