Results for "City Builder"

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Prophet Margin

Build thriving settlements. Weave intricate trade routes. Optimize complex supply chains to earn divine boons. Master a meditative City Builder where board-game logic meets deep Resource Management.

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City Tales: Medieval Era

City Tales: Medieval Era is a strategic city builder developed by Irregular Shapes and published by Firesquid. The game distinguishes itself with an organic, grid-less building system that allows players to shape sprawling medieval settlements with total creative freedom. Players must balance complex resource management and district planning to meet the evolving needs of their citizens in a vibrant, living world where every stone tells a tale. A core feature of the game is its narrative-driven companion system. Players interact with a cast of ten unique companions, each with their own stories, questlines, and apprentices. Assisting these characters not only enriches the city's lore but also provides significant gameplay benefits, as companions level up and contribute to the city's growth and prosperity through specialized skills and narrative progression. The gameplay offers substantial depth with an economy featuring 48 different resources and 18 civil buildings to manage across three handcrafted maps. For those seeking long-term challenges, the game includes 11 'masterworks' designed as ultimate endgame objectives. Additionally, a dedicated 'Painter Mode' provides a sandbox experience, allowing players to build and create freely without the constraints of resources, influence, or progression. Developed by a small French team, City Tales: Medieval Era spent nearly a year in Early Access starting in May 2025. The 1.0 full release concludes the game's overarching story across two acts and introduces expanded content, including new difficulty levels, voice lines for companions, and enhanced visuals and music.

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Foundation

Foundation is a grid-less, sprawling medieval city-building simulation with a heavy focus on organic development, monument construction, and resource management. Developed by Polymorph Games using their proprietary Hurricane engine, the game allows players to create a prosperous settlement as a newly appointed lord. Unlike traditional city builders, Foundation eschews rigid grids in favor of 'organic urbanism,' where villagers build their own homes and roads form naturally based on where citizens walk. The gameplay revolves around balancing the needs of your villagers with the demands of the three Estates of the Realm: Labor, Clergy, and Kingdom. Players can choose to specialize in one path or combine all three to unlock unique buildings and perks. A standout feature is the modular building tool, which allows for the free-form creation of majestic monuments such as abbeys, lord manors, and castles by snapping together individual parts. Designed to be a relaxing and atmospheric experience, Foundation offers various difficulty levels and aspirations to tailor the challenge. While players can manage a military system to send companies abroad for resources, the game focuses on the peaceful growth of the village rather than direct combat or invasions. With full modding integration and a soundtrack composed by industry veterans, it provides a deep and customizable sandbox for fans of the genre.

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Ostriv

Ostriv is a city-building simulation developed by solo Ukrainian developer yevhen8 (Yevhen from Kharkiv), set in 18th-century Ukraine where players govern and grow a fledgling town. The game emphasizes organic, grid-free town layouts on a fully three-dimensional landscape, allowing for natural and creative placement of buildings and infrastructure. Players manage agriculture, trade, construction, and the daily lives of their citizens across story and sandbox modes. Currently in Early Access on Steam, Ostriv has earned Very Positive reviews from over 2,700 users for its depth and attention to historical detail.

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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city-building and economic management simulation developed by 3Division and published by Hooded Horse, set in a Soviet-style planned economy between the 1960s and 1990s. Players construct and manage every aspect of their own republic, from mining raw resources and manufacturing goods to building housing, infrastructure, and public services for their citizens. The game uniquely simulates a moneyless domestic economy where currency is only needed for trade with the outside world, emphasizing logistics, supply chains, and self-sufficiency. It features both sandbox and campaign modes with deep construction mechanics and a distinctive brutalist aesthetic.

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Star Trek: Outposts Unknown

Outpost builder where you boldly colonize strange new worlds while facing interstellar threats. World premiere at PC Gaming Show 2026; demo on Steam.

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Life Below

Life Below is an underwater city-builder and reef-building strategy game with a narrative written by Rhianna Pratchett. Players grow coral ecosystems, attract marine wildlife, and revive a struggling ocean by carefully balancing biodiversity. Developed in collaboration with marine biologists, the game emphasizes environmental storytelling and ecosystem management. It released exclusively on PC via Steam.

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Planet Zoo 2

Zoo management sequel adding aquariums and aviaries, plus releasing animals into nature preserves. Launches October 13, 2026.

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Stronghold 4

Tenth entry in the castle-building RTS series — build wicked medieval castles and besiege your foes'. Demo June 23, 2026; launching 2026.

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Old World

Old World is a historical turn-based strategy game set in ancient times, where players lead a dynasty across multiple generations. The game blends traditional 4X elements with a unique character-driven narrative system, emphasizing the personal stories and relationships of your rulers and their courts. Every turn, decisions are influenced by characters' traits, ambitions, and relationships, adding a layer of dynastic drama and unpredictable challenges. Gameplay features an innovative Orders system, which is a shared resource used to move units, complete actions, and issue commands. Unlike traditional per-unit movement systems, Orders are finite per turn, forcing strategic choices and efficient planning. This system applies to all units, including civilian and military, making every action count and adding depth to tactical engagements and city management. Players must navigate a complex world of diplomacy, warfare, and intrigue across iconic civilizations such as Rome, Persia, Greece, and Egypt. The game incorporates elements of grand strategy, including city building, research of technologies, religious systems, and managing a sprawling empire. With thousands of historical events, unique units, and a focus on long-term dynastic legacy, Old World offers a rich and replayable experience where the player's choices truly shape history.

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Norland

Norland is a medieval colony simulator that combines elements of RimWorld and Crusader Kings. Players manage a noble family and their serfs in a challenging feudal society. The game focuses on intricate social dynamics, economic management, and strategic decision-making, where the survival and prosperity of your dynasty depend on navigating complex relationships, dealing with peasant revolts, and protecting your borders from external threats. Players must oversee their citizens' daily lives, manage resources, and ensure the stability of their budding kingdom. Gameplay in Norland delves deep into character management, where each character possesses unique traits, skills, and relationships that influence their behavior and loyalty. The game simulates a living world where characters develop friendships, rivalries, and even love affairs. Players will need to assign tasks, manage food and resource production, and set laws to control the populace. From dealing with internal strife like peasant uprisings and criminal activity to external threats like raids from neighboring factions, every decision carries weight and can impact the fate of your family. Norland features a rich emergent storytelling system, where the actions and interactions of your characters create unique narratives. Players can engage in diplomacy, trade, or warfare to expand their influence and secure their lineage. With robust kingdom management mechanics, players will construct buildings, research new technologies, and raise armies to defend their lands. The game emphasizes the importance of a strong economy, a loyal populace, and shrewd political maneuvering to thrive in its unforgiving medieval setting.

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Indoorlands

Indoorlands is a theme park management simulation game where players are tasked with designing, building, and managing elaborate indoor amusement parks. The game emphasizes creativity and strategic planning as players construct attractions, shops, and decorative elements within vast indoor spaces. A key feature is the ability to unlock and utilize a diverse catalog of rides, restaurants, and unique decorations, allowing for extensive customization and personalization of each park. Beyond just construction, players must also manage the economic aspects of their theme park. This includes setting ticket prices, monitoring guest satisfaction, and ensuring the profitability of their establishments. The game introduces challenges related to guest flow, staff management, and the overall appeal of the park, requiring players to make informed decisions to keep their amusement empire thriving. Indoorlands offers a sandbox experience for players to unleash their imagination, whether they aim to create a bustling family-friendly entertainment center or a futuristic spectacle. The focus on indoor environments provides a distinct aesthetic and design challenge compared to traditional outdoor theme park simulators, encouraging innovative use of space and verticality.

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Humankind

HUMANKIND is a historical turn-based strategy game where players rewrite the entire narrative of human history, combining cultures to create a civilization that is as unique as they are. The game allows players to lead their people from the Ancient era to the Modern age, navigating through 60 different historical cultures. Instead of following a predetermined path, players merge cultures as they progress, leading to billions of possible combinations and a truly distinct civilization each time. This innovative approach to cultural evolution allows for unparalleled customization and strategic depth. Gameplay revolves around building cities, expanding influence, managing resources, and engaging in both diplomacy and warfare. Players will encounter and overcome historical events, make impactful moral decisions, and develop groundbreaking scientific discoveries. The game emphasizes adapting to the changing world and shaping it through strategic choices in governance, economy, and military. One of HUMANKIND's core innovations is its victory condition, which is not solely based on military dominance. Players accumulate Fame, a persistent score acquired through every great deed, moral choice, and battle won. This means every action contributes to a legacy that will be etched into history. The player with the most Fame at the end of the game is declared the winner, offering multiple pathways to success beyond traditional conquest.

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Age of Origins

Age of Origins (formerly known as Zombie Origins) is a zombie-themed strategy game where players are tasked with rebuilding civilization after a zombie apocalypse. As the Commander, players must construct and expand their city, recruit and train various units, and develop strategies to combat the mutant zombies and other human factions. The core gameplay revolves around base building, resource management, and real-time strategy combat. Players need to gather resources, upgrade buildings, research technologies, and form alliances with other players to survive and thrive. The game features a persistent world where players can engage in PvP battles, conquer territories, and participate in large-scale alliance wars. Key features include diverse hero units with unique abilities, a wide array of troop types, and various game modes such as tower defense challenges and exploration of a world map. Players must strategically deploy their forces, utilize hero skills, and adapt their tactics to overcome increasingly difficult challenges posed by both AI-controlled zombies and rival players, all while striving to become the ultimate leader in the new world.

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Bellwright

Bellwright is a medieval survival RPG that blends town-building, colony simulation, and action-oriented combat. Set in the oppressive kingdom of Karvenia, players take on the role of a commoner framed for the murder of a prince. After years in hiding, you return to your homeland to lead a burgeoning rebellion against the corrupt Crown, uncovering the truth behind your family's past and the dark secrets of the monarchy. The gameplay loop focuses on establishing and expanding settlements from humble camps into fortified strongholds. Players must gather resources, manage complex tech trees, and recruit villagers with unique skills to automate production and craft advanced equipment. Unlike traditional survival games, Bellwright emphasizes community management, allowing players to assign roles to NPCs, manage their morale, and eventually command them as a disciplined army in large-scale tactical battles. Combat in Bellwright is skill-based and directional, requiring precision in both strikes and blocks. As the rebellion grows, players can lead their forces to liberate oppressed villages, each offering new resources and recruits. With support for up to four-player co-op, the game offers a vast, hand-crafted world to explore, including the base map of Karvenia and the expansive Halmare Isles introduced in major updates, providing a deep mix of role-playing, strategy, and survival elements.

Civilization 6

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is a critically acclaimed 4X turn-based strategy game that challenges players to build an empire capable of withstanding the test of time. Starting from the humble beginnings of the Stone Age, players guide their chosen civilization through millennia of history, advancing toward the Information Age and beyond. The game emphasizes strategic depth, requiring players to balance exploration, expansion, resource exploitation, and military or diplomatic conquest against history's most iconic leaders.