SimCity (Series) Alternatives for Linux
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 Voxel Turf, OpenCity and Cytopia.
SimCity alternatives are mainly City Building Games but may also be Sandbox Games or RTS 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 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 vs SimCity opinions
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
its just better than simcity
Best alternative! Beautiful.
Citirs: Skylines is not just a alternative to SimCity. In my opnion, it is better! =)
- Free • Open Source
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- Self-Hosted
Micropolis is a open city-building simulator game and is based on the original source code of .
Discontinued
The online version and theFacebook app are unavailable. The source code and the Java version are available from Google Code.
Micropolis vs SimCity opinions
It is the original source code ported into Java.
- Free • Open Source
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Citybound is a city building game with a focus on realism, collaborative planning and simulation of microscopic details.
Citybound vs SimCity opinions
DGMurdockIIIit 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
- Paid • Proprietary
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- Linux
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.
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.
Discontinued
The prroject seems to be abandoned. There are no more news since 2011.
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.
