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 Lincity-NG or Cytopia. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to SimCity and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to SimCity are Tiny Glade, Micropolis, Voxel Turf and Citybound.
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.
Tiny Glade is a relaxing free-form building game. Tap into the joy of making something pretty with no management, no combat, or wrong answers — just kick back, doodle some castles, and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.
Lincity is a construction and management simulation game, which puts the player in control of managing a city's socio-economy. Its name is a play on the title of the original city-building game, SimCity, and it was released under the GNU General Public License.
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.
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...
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.
Citybound is a city building game with a focus on realism, collaborative planning and simulation of microscopic details.
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...
Spiritfarer is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife.
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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