Looking for the best city-building games? There’s nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon of city-building games with a hot drink. We’ve lost countless hours lining up buildings just how we like them or scrambling to save a population on the brink of collapse, and occasionally we’ve purposefully brought about that collapse just to see how our citizens would cope. Not very well as it happens.
Our list of the best city-building games offers something for every management game fan, which is why you can find some of them on our best PC games list. From hardcore town planners looking for a challenge, to entries that welcome genre newcomers with the promise of tutorials, stripped-back interfaces, and a few apocalyptic threats.
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