City-building
Game genre theme
Involving planning, construction, and management of population centers (cities) and the people involved with them.
256
games
46platforms
ARCH 1993
XBOX1 2017
LIN ? *
WIN 2010-02-26
AGA 1994
W31 1991
WIN 2003-01-13
SPC 1990
WIN 2013
WIN 2006-08
WIN 2010-03-20
IIE 1980
Unlike base building, this includes public transportation, roads, sanitation, electricity generation and distribution, water treatment and distribution, education, health care, police, other emergency services, and usually buildings besides these public services are made only by designating blocks as available for specific types of buildings, usually split to residential, commercial and industrial.
Not to be confused with City Building Series.
Common:
* Public transportation (roads [bus], railways, airways, etc.)
* Logistics
* Energy, water, food, etc. production
* Emergency services (police, firefighters, medical, etc.)
* Cultural services (entertainment, libraries, sports, etc.)
* Education
* Waste management
* Energy distribution
* Water distribution
* Taxation
* Trading
Common:
* Public transportation (roads [bus], railways, airways, etc.)
* Logistics
* Energy, water, food, etc. production
* Emergency services (police, firefighters, medical, etc.)
* Cultural services (entertainment, libraries, sports, etc.)
* Education
* Waste management
* Energy distribution
* Water distribution
* Taxation
* Trading
The first City-building video game was released in 1980.
Kalypso Media, Maxis and Electronic Arts published most of these games.
Parent groups
Construction & management simulation, Constructions
Related groups
Activities
Base building
Other
Builders
Game genre
God game