Best 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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Bloons Monkey City Create, upgrade, and customize your very own Bloons Monkey City in this groundbreaking blend of city building and tower defense awesomeness!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 10 Apr 2020
Ostriv Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Price 20.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Mar 2020
SimAirport Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Price -22% 19.28€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Feb 2020
Bastide (Early Access game in alpha.) Bastide is a city-building strategy based in the 13th century where you must guide your village of peasants to thrive and survive against other villages, bandits, hunger, disease, and the cold so that they may grow into a fortified town.

Price 10.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 26 Feb 2020
Bunny Park Manage your own bunny park! Give snacks and toys to your bunnies. Improve and decorate your park to increase its popularity and collect all the bunnies!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Jan 2020
Mad Tower Tycoon Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Price -67% 4.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Jan 2020
MMORPG Tycoon 2 MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.

Price 20.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 Jan 2020
Transport Fever 2 The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!

Price -84% 6.46€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Dec 2019
Automation Empire Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Price 24.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 20 Nov 2019
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition 42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

Price -77% 7.71€
Rating 9.4
Release 14 Nov 2019
Tracks - The Train Set Game Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.

Price -85% 3.15€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Nov 2019
Planet Zoo Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Price -88% 5.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Nov 2019
Little Big Workshop Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Oct 2019
Autonauts In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Price -98% 0.52€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2019
Rise to Ruins A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Price -50% 6.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Oct 2019
YORG.io 3 Defend, Attack, Survive! Build up your base and defeat the zombies with this unique combination of tower defense, base building and supply chain management. Now with multiplayer, mods and loads of new content!

Price -51% 2.97€
Rating 6.4
Release 13 Oct 2019
Flotsam The floating garbage town strategy game! Scavenge what precious garbage you can from the ocean's surface and grow your city while doing your best to survive in this colorful post-apocalyptic world.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Sep 2019
Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Sep 2019
Battle Royale Tycoon Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!

Price -91% 0.92€
Rating 6.7
Release 02 Sep 2019
MicroTown Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Aug 2019
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.

Price -90% 2.06€
Rating 8.2
Release 19 Aug 2019
FlowScape In FlowScape you can create your own nature scene simply by painting. Choose from 20 landscapes and more than 300 models to create your own little paradise by painting trees, changing the sky, rotating the sun, adding sound effects and adjusting your camera for that perfect photo.

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Aug 2019
Cliff Empire After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Aug 2019
Age of Wonders: Planetfall Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

Price -90% 3.19€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Aug 2019