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 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.

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  1. Cities: Skylines icon

    Cities: Skylines

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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.

    30 Cities: Skylines alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
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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

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    its just better than simcity

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    Citirs: Skylines is not just a alternative to SimCity. In my opnion, it is better! =)

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    • Almost everyone thinks Cities: Skylines is a great SimCity alternative.

    • Cities: Skylines is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to SimCity.

    • Cities: Skylines is the most popular commercial alternative to SimCity.

    • Cities: Skylines is Paid and ProprietarySimCity is also Paid and Proprietary
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    Tiny Glade

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    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.

    36 Tiny Glade alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Steam
    • SteamOS
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  4. Lincity-NG icon

    Lincity-NG

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    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    • Almost everyone thinks Lincity-NG is a great SimCity alternative.

    • Lincity-NG is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to SimCity.

    • Lincity-NG is Free and Open SourceSimCity is Paid and Proprietary
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    Micropolis

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    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...

    41 Micropolis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    It is the original source code ported into Java.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Micropolis is Free and Open SourceSimCity is Paid and Proprietary
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    Voxel Turf

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Citybound

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    Citybound is a city building game with a focus on realism, collaborative planning and simulation of microscopic details.

    38 Citybound alternatives

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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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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    • Citybound is Free and Open SourceSimCity is Paid and Proprietary
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    OpenCity

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Spiritfarer

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
    • Playstation
    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • SteamOS
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