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 Cytopia or Citybound. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to SimCity and nine of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to SimCity are Tiny Glade, Micropolis, OpenCity and Voxel Turf.
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SimCity alternatives are mainly City Building Games but may also be Simulation Gamess or Sandbox Games. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of SimCity.- City Building Game
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35 likes28 Cities: Skylines alternativesCities: 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.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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Cities: Skylines VS SimCity
Is Cities: Skylines a good alternative to SimCity?
8 likes36 Tiny Glade alternativesTiny 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.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Windows
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Tiny Glade VS SimCity
Is Tiny Glade a good alternative to SimCity?
3 likes29 Cytopia alternativesCytopia 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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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
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Cytopia VS SimCity
Is Cytopia a good alternative to SimCity?
7 likes36 Citybound alternativesCitybound is a city building game with a focus on realism, collaborative planning and simulation of microscopic details.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
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Citybound VS SimCity
Is Citybound a good alternative to SimCity?Comments about Citybound as an Alternative to SimCity
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
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8 likes39 Micropolis alternativesMicropolis 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...
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DiscontinuedThe online version and theFacebook app are unavailable. The source code and the Java version are available from Google Code.
Micropolis VS SimCity
Is Micropolis a good alternative to SimCity?Comments about Micropolis as an Alternative to SimCity
It is the original source code ported into Java.
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1 like18 OpenCity alternativesOpenCity 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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- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
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DiscontinuedThe prroject seems to be abandoned. There are no more news since 2011.
OpenCity VS SimCity
Is OpenCity a good alternative to SimCity?
2 likes33 Voxel Turf alternativesVoxel 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.
Voxel Turf VS SimCity
Is Voxel Turf a good alternative to SimCity?
Like this app36 Spiritfarer alternativesSpiritfarer 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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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Nintendo Switch
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Spiritfarer VS SimCity
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Comments about Cities: Skylines as an Alternative to SimCity
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
Citirs: Skylines is not just a alternative to SimCity. In my opnion, it is better! =)