Open Source SimCity (Series) Alternatives

The best open source alternative to SimCity is Micropolis. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to SimCity and seven of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to SimCity are Citybound, CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer, Cytopia and 3d.city.

SimCity alternatives are mainly City Building Games but may also be Simulation Gamess or Sandbox Games. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of SimCity.

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Micropolis
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Free • Open Source
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35 Micropolis alternatives
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...
- - Micropolis is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to SimCity.
- - Micropolis is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SimCity.
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The online version and theFacebook app are unavailable. The source code and the Java version are available from Google Code.

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It is the original source code ported into Java.
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Citybound
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Free • Open Source
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32 Citybound alternatives
Citybound is a city building game with a focus on realism, collaborative planning and simulation of microscopic details.
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1. MultiplayerCitybound offers a game mode for more than one player.
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it still in develpment but open source and if it live up to what dev have set up to do will be very very good game
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CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer
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Free • Open Source
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Simulation Games
Windows
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Cities: Skylines
22 CSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer alternatives
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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1. MultiplayerCSM - Cities: Skylines Multiplayer offers a game mode for more than one player.
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Cytopia
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Free • Open Source
City Building Game
Simulation Games
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25 Cytopia alternatives
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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3d.city
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Free • Open Source
City Building Game
Simulation Games
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Online
Three.js
14 3d.city alternatives
3d city builder game.
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OpenCity
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Free • Open Source
City Building Game
Windows
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16 OpenCity alternatives
OpenCity is a free open source 3D city-building game. In the game, the player builds a city by marking land as commercial, industrial or residential zones. Those zones depend on each other to grow. The player is also required to supply the city with power and connect the...
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Discontinued
The prroject seems to be abandoned. There are no more news since 2011.
Explorable Explanations
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Free • Open Source
Educational Game
Online
5 Explorable Explanations alternatives
Welcome to Explorable Explanations, a hub for learning through play! We’re a disorganized “movement” of artists, coders & educators who want to reunite play and learning.
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