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City-building

Game genre theme

Involving planning, construction, and management of population centers (cities) and the people involved with them.

256
games
46
platforms
SimCity (BBC Micro)
SimCity
BBC 1990
SimCity (X68000)
SimCity
X68K 1990-09-07
SimCity GS (Apple IIGS)
SimCity GS
IIGS 1994
Tropico 5 (Windows)
Tropico 5
WIN 2014-05-23
SimCity (Macintosh OS Classic)
SimCity
MAC 1989
Cities: Skylines (Mac OS X)
Cities: Skylines
OSX 2015-03-10
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire (Windows)
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
WIN 2007-09-18
Tropico 6 (Nintendo Switch)
Tropico 6
SWTC 2020-11-06
Banished (Windows)
Banished
WIN 2014-02-18
SimCity (Atari ST)
SimCity
ST 1990
Aven Colony (PlayStation 4)
Aven Colony
PS4 2017-07-25
Caesar IV (Windows)
Caesar IV
WIN 2006-09
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

Popular tags

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Parent groups

Construction & management simulation, Constructions

Related groups

Activities
Base building

Other
Builders

Game genre
God game

Games by year

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The first City-building video game was released in 1980.

Kalypso Media, Maxis and Electronic Arts published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 73
Linux 69
Mac OS X 22
Mac OS Classic 8
MS-DOS 7
PS4 6
X360 5
Nintendo DS 4
BeOS 4
Solaris 4
Unix 4
Xbox One 3
Wii 3
Switch 3
OS/2 3
SNES 3
BSD 3
Amiga 2
Atari ST 2
NEC PC9801 2
N64 1
Electron 1
Apple IIGS 1
Apple II E 1
Amiga AGA 1
PS2 1
Atari 400/800 1
TRS-80 1
C64 1
Archimedes 1