Games Like SimCity (Series) for LinuxGreat City Building Games & Simulation Games like SimCity (Series)

SimCity is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Cities: Skylines. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Micropolis or Citybound. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to SimCity and six of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to SimCity are Cytopia, Voxel Turf and OpenCity.

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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Cities: Skylines
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24 Cities: Skylines alternatives
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
- - Cities: Skylines is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to SimCity.
- - Cities: Skylines is the most popular commercial alternative to SimCity.
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1. Works OfflineCities: Skylines can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
2. ModdableCities: Skylines can be modified through the installation of external mods.
Comments about Cities: Skylines as a Alternative to SimCity
Almost everyone thinks Cities: Skylines is a great SimCity alternative.
It's got the core mechanics(building, zoning, stats) down flat, and the graphics make it easy for any ole granny to get into it. The graphics are pretty intensive though
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its just better than simcity
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Best alternative! Beautiful.
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Citirs: Skylines is not just a alternative to SimCity. In my opnion, it is better! =)
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Micropolis
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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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It is the original source code ported into Java.
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Citybound
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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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Citybound Features
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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Cytopia
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Free • Open Source
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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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Voxel Turf
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31 Voxel Turf alternatives
Voxel Turf is a free-roaming voxel-based city building (and destroying) game, inspired by Minecraft, Simcity and the Grand Theft Auto series. The objective of this game for the player is to do whatever, and I mean whatever, they want.
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Voxel Turf Features
1. MultiplayerVoxel Turf offers a game mode for more than one player.
2. ModdableVoxel Turf can be modified through the installation of external mods.
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OpenCity
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Free • Open Source
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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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