Discounted City Builder Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated city builder games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play City Builder games on Steam.

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Cultures - Northland The Vikings are back! Get this RTS classic!

Price -88% 0.62€
Rating 7.8
Release 26 Mar 2015
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™ Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!

Price -80% 1.19€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Mar 2015
Cities: Skylines 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.

Price -79% 6.12€
Rating 9.2
Release 10 Mar 2015
Marble Age Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Price -80% 1.21€
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Mar 2015
Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun Dive into an epic story of honor and courage and help a Geisha and a Samurai save the day.

Price -87% 1.29€
Rating 7.7
Release 27 Feb 2015
Craft The World Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Price -88% 2.36€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Nov 2014
Construction Simulator 2015 In Construction Simulator 2015, you take the controls of 16 realistic construction machines made by LIEBHERR, STILL and MAN with high-quality 3D graphics.

Price -79% 3.20€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Nov 2014
Stronghold Crusader 2 Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation.

Price -97% 0.90€
Rating 7.1
Release 22 Sep 2014
Reprisal Universe Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.

Price -89% 0.83€
Rating 7.2
Release 15 Sep 2014
Train Fever It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.

Price -94% 1.20€
Rating 6.3
Release 04 Sep 2014
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Price -77% 4.77€
Rating 9.2
Release 12 Jun 2014
Tropico 5 Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 May 2014
1849 1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.

Price -85% 2.35€
Rating 6.9
Release 08 May 2014
The Promised Land The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...

Price -52% 3.38€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 Apr 2014
Banished In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Price -53% 9.02€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Feb 2014
Knights and Merchants KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard.

Price -94% 0.62€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Oct 2013
Startopia A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...

Price -90% 0.61€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Oct 2013
Unholy Heights Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!

Price -87% 0.54€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Oct 2013
Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.

Price -96% 0.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 22 May 2013
A Game of Dwarves A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.

Price -91% 0.94€
Rating 6.1
Release 23 Oct 2012
Port Royale 3 The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.

Price -94% 0.93€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 May 2012
Tropico 4 The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Price -97% 0.55€
Rating 8.9
Release 27 Oct 2011
Cities in Motion Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam

Price -96% 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Feb 2011
Tropico 3 Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?

Price -92% 0.87€
Rating 8.5
Release 13 Nov 2009