Genre

City builder

The player zones, builds, and services a growing city.

draftAlso: city-building game, city-building, city simUpdated 2026-10-22
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  1. Mechanics
  2. Techniques
  3. History
  4. Timeline
  5. Games
  6. Related

Mechanics

Demand meter · Disasters · Land value · Traffic simulation · Zoning

Techniques

Simulation tick

#History

Timeline

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The genre's games read here, by year of first release

Games

The catalog lists 113 games in the genre, and 1 more that borrow from it. Those on the most Wikipedias without a page here: Cities: Skylines 2015, SimCity 4 2003, SimCity 2000 1993, Cities: Skylines II 2023, SimCity 2013, Frostpunk 2018, MySims 2007, SimCity BuildIt 2014, SimCity 3000 1999, Caesar IV 2006, City Life 2006, SimCity Societies 2007.