Anno
Anno is a series of brilliantly immersive Real-time Strategy, City Building and Business Simulation video games by Ubisoft and Sunflowers GmbH. The games in the series involve City building, Resource Generation, Collection, Management, and the games are set on small Islands. Anno series encourages the players to explore, form diplomatic relations, and combat against the enemies of the rival nations. The series includes some of the biggest hits of the RTS genre such as Anno 1701, Anno 2070, and Anno 2205. Over all the game includes six main games, three expansion packs and five Spin-offs that include Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery, Anno Online and Anno 2205: Asteroid Miner (2015). With a worldwide fame and a huge player base, Anno series offers great RTS games throughout the series and offers plenty of room for the gameplay, great mechanics and sleekest 3D visuals details. The very first game of the series was launched back in 1998, so the series is almost a decade old but it has never lost its standards of quality and it offers great games till date. The franchise has evolved a lot since its first launch and it now offers great mechanics but the same great type of gameplay as before. So all the players who haven’t yet played the games from Anno series, they should try em’ out. Anno series will definitely out rank lots of the big names of this specific genre.
#1 Tropico 4
Tropico 4, developed by Haemimont Games and Feral Interactive is an Open Ended City-Building, management and MMO-RTS Simulation video game. The game allows you design, build and manage the Cities as the President of Tropical Islands (Banana Republic). You must govern over Banana Republic and build buildings and structures on any island by choosing one from the map or you can just randomly select an island and start building. The game lets you be part of the game world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself and after you have completed the initial steps you can start working on your cities. Tropico 4 allow you to play game in Campaign and provides with 20 levels of addictive and engaging game-play in which you get a chance to attack your enemies and conquer their lands and loot their resources. You must use best Turn Based Strategies to eliminate your enemies and any threat that diverts your attention from building your cities. Tropico 4 is an amazingly cool MMO-RTS, City Building and Management video game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.
#2 Tropico
Tropico is a City Building, Construction, and Management Simulation by Pop Top Software and Feral Interactive. The game allows the players to get into the role of “El Presidente.”, Rule over the Island in the Carribean Sea in the Era of Cold War. As the primary goal of the game is to stay always in Power, the players are required to keep the population of the Island Happy. If the Populace is unhappy with the El President’s actions, they may vote somebody else instead of the player. All the non-governmental powers and Factions can unsettle the Rule of El Presidente, so the player must keep all of these factors controlled. If there are Powers that get unhappy with El President’s rule, they will form an alliance and challenge the players so the players will need to keep them happy as well. As this game is all about Democracy and Foreign relations, diplomacy and Trade, the players must be good at every said aspect or else he/she can lose the title. Customizing the Island’s Map, political and economic relations, enemy intrusions and other governmental affairs are the most critical and challenging tasks to perform. With all the addictive gameplay, constructions, management and socio-economic elements, Tropico offers various game modes such as Scenario, Custome Game, Random Map and Campaign. Furthermore, Tropico offers brilliant character customization options for the character of El Presidente and allows the players to select any of the real life figures such as Che Guevara, Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hernando Blanco, Lou Baga and Sancho Baraega, etc. Tropico is an amazingly addictive and quite surprisingly informative simulation to enjoy. Do give it a try for an excellent City Building, Construction, and Management experience.
#3 The Settlers
The settlers, developed by Ubisoft Blue Bite and published by Ubisoft back in 1993, is a Real Time Strategy (RTS) video game series. The series comprises of total eight main games in the series including the remakes and the recent game was made available in the markets in late 2012. The whole game series features Real Time Strategy game-play in which the player builds a civilization, gathers resources, unlocks new buildings and wages wars against the enemies. The Settlers offers a unique RTS gaming experience along with a community of players all around the world. Players can communicate, make alliances and attack the enemies from different locations and conquer their lands. With all the fancies provided, The Settlers is available to play on numerous gaming platforms as Amiga, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, Nintendo DS, iOS and Android.
#4 Tropico 5
Tropico 5 is a marvelous new MMO-RTS, City-Building, Management Simulation that offers gameplay a lot similar to its predecessors and Anno series games. With a unique Co-op Multiplayer (4-Player) feature, Tropico 5 lets you build whole cities on different islands and allows you to work with or against each other. The main task in the game is to manage your cities and take your settlement to the Colonial Era, witness World Wars, Cold War and finally reach to the modern era, embrace technological advancements and thrive in an advanced society. You can also be one of the super powers of the time by simply working hard, write the constitution and decide the independence of your cities or countries and by waging wars against your enemies and defeating them. With all the wonderful building and management options, great visuals, and an addictive game-play, Tropico 5 is a brilliant Simulation to spend your precious time on. Do try it out for a beautiful MMO, RTS, management and City-building experience.
#5 Age of Mythology
Age of Mythology is a Myth-based MMO-RTS video game by Ensemble Studios. The game is basically a Spin-off from the Age of Empires Series and is based on Greek, Egyptian and Norse mythologies. With an Age of Empires inspired game-play and mechanics, Age of Mythology features Admiral Arkantos from Atlantean Origins who is destined to explore the game world divided into 3 most significant cultures and hunt down Cyclops, a companion of Poseidon, and an enemy of Atlantis. Age of Mythology offers a typical gameplay to a lot of other MMORTS games and because of that it allows you to defeat a number of enemy units, build structures, towns, farms etc., train villagers into fully skilled fighters or soldiers, wage epic wars against the neighboring and distant Civilizations, Rival Towns etc. Your main task in the game is to always keep on advancing your tribes and to achieve that goal you’ll have to start from Archaic Age then eventually upgrades to Classic Age, Heroic Age and finally reach to the Mythic Age. Each and every upgrades to any age unlocks more unique Units, Technologies etc. and allows you to be in a more advanced time than the previous. Age of Mythology offers four types of main resources such as Food, Gold, Favor that you can use to train your troop units, build structures, research etc. Age of Mythology lacks one main resource Stone and lets you use other things instead of that. Furthermore, Age of Mythology offers brilliant options to build a strong economy, diplomatic relations with friendly nations etc. With a number of units classified into seven main classes such as Infantry, Cavalry, Archery, Naval, Heroes, Myth Units and Siege Weaponry controlled by Human Units, options to build multiple types of buildings such as Economic buildings, Markets, Farms, Military buildings, Research Facilities, Defensive Structures such as Towers and weapon Mounts etc, Age of Mythology offers a brilliantly engaging and quite addictive gameplay to enjoy.
#6 Age of Empires
Age of Empires is a marvelous MMO-RTS video game developed by Ensemble Studios and distributed by Microsoft studios back in 1997. The Original game came with 7 sequels and 3 spin-offs. From its first release till date, the game titles are all historical real time strategies and the game-play offers single and multiplayer player gaming modes along with a number of fantastic Campaigns, missions and stuff. Age of Empires is set in a historical eras like Stone Age, The Rise of Roman Empire, Europe and Asia in Middle Ages, Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Asian Dynasties, Rise of Asia etc. The latest inclusion to this amazing real time strategy game series is “Age of Empires Online” which is the 7th sequel to the game. This sequel of the game also revolves around historical events. Age of Empires ruled the world and sold almost 20 Million copies and handed back a really sizable profit to Ensemble Studios. The game allows you to control the whole Empires, train massive armies, build your defenses, wage epic wars against your enemies and defeat them to prove your supremacy. With a very thrill filled game-play that offers a number of amazing campaigns, beautifully created 3D visuals and loads of fantatsic things to discover, Age of Empires in one of the best MMO-RTS games and typically a trend setter for this specific genre.
#7 Cities: Skylines
Cities: Skylines is a wonderful City Building, Management and massively Multiplayer online Real-Time Strategy Simulation packed with new and improved gameplay mechanics and elements and it tends to entertain you with all the provided thrill and hardships of creating and managing a whole city. The game basically assesses your abilities of being a good Manager, Builder, Crafter, etc. all at once and throws various hardcore challenges at yourself to improve your abilities and ultimately be a great Building and Management Mogul, rule the businesses and, build and create new technologies and take it to a whole new level of entertainment. With awesome visual details, great game-play options, addictive nature, a lot to build and manage and Strategically grow your Economics, Relations and defenses, Cities: Skyline is a great City-building, Management, MMO, RTS simulation to enjoy. Try it out if you really want to enjoy an amazing experience of all the beautiful combination of various elements, you’ll love it for sure.
#8 Banished
Banished is a fantastic MMO-RTS and City Building video game that takes you to a medieval era setting. The game allows you to explore the huge game world, collect resources, create balance in your resource consumption and thrive in a great environment. Banished is basically a story of a group of outcasts who after being banished came to this settlement, now they are in need of your superior skills and abilities to get settle and thrive as a prosperous nation. You can start with the limited resources you have and level up to maximum resources, build residential buildings, create farms, markets and other businesses, start new economic relations with neighboring settlements etc. because of a medieval era setting, you’ll have wood and stones as your main resources and you’ll also have to continuously produce them by cutting the forests and blowing up the mountains etc. With a great theme, cool visuals and an addictive game-play, Banished is a great game to play and enjoy.
#9 Supreme Commander
Supreme Commander or popularly known as SupCom is a wonderful Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game by Gas Powered Games. The game allows you to Pilot giant Mechs named as Armored Command Units (ACUs) and lets you build your own Base, build more Mech units like the one you are piloting, use sophisticated technologies to upgrade your mech units, wage wars against the enemies and conquer their outposts. You can select anyone of the three main factions, go hunting on the enemies and eventually expand your mechanical reign. With a number of fantastic Single and Multiplayer Campaign, missions and side missions for you to engage yourself in and enjoy a brilliant experience. Supreme Commander is the predecessor to 1997’s “Total Annihilation” if you consider it to and it offers almost similar game-play and mechanics and allows yo to have a totally unique MMO-RTS experience. With a futuristic game setting, beautifuly created 3D visuals and all the thrilling Campaigns in the game, Supreme Commander is one of the best games of this specific genre.
#10 American Conquest
American Conquest is another brilliant Title in the line of RTS genre that takes you to the history and leaves you in the middle of 15th and 18th centuries where you‘ll have to fight for the Colonization. With a similar game-play and mechanics to Cossacks: European Wars, American Conquest allows you to build your own armies, bases and develop technologies to defeat your enemies and to conquer their settlements. To achieve the goals, you’ll have to produce, collect and manage your resources, build massive alliances, diplomatic and trade relations to the friendly nations and double up your power against the enemies. Building up whole new units of troops, defensive structures, weapons and means of transport are the most fun part of the game. American Conquest offers a number of campaigns all divided upon their conditions, storylines and environments. You can either be a Spanish, American or native conquistador and engage yourself in an amazingly addictive and one of its kind game-plays ever. The inclusion of Multiplayer mode, amazing skirmishes, battles with other online players and AIs are the key features of this game. Try it on and enjoy a marvelous combination of great game-play, state of the art visuals and an amazing story-line.
#11 Cossacks: European Wars
Cossacks: European Wars, developed by GSC Game World is a Real Time Strategy and Tactical War based MMO video game. The game takes place in 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and provides with an isometric view. Cossacks: European Wars allows you to manage a whole settlement of people, gather massive armies, construct different buildings and gather resources such as Coal, Gold, Stone, Iron, Wood, Food etc. and engage in different missions and campaigns such as Thirty years War, and War of Austrian Succession etc. The game provides with a similar game-play as Europa Universalis series games and allows you to take part in battles against your enemies, conquer their settlements and gather resources for your kingdom. Cossacks: European Wars lets you use the best strategies against your enemies and develop best skills for further campaigns of the game. Cossacks: European Wars features randomly generated maps, 5 Campaigns, 20 European nations to choose between, a huge collection of skills and strategies, super fine graphic details and an addictive game-play to enjoy. Being massively popular and one of the best games of this specific genre, Cossack: European Wars is a brilliant MMO and RTS game to play and enjoy.
#12 From Dust
From Dust by Ubisoft is an Open-World City-Building and Management RTS video game that offers unique gameplay from a First-person perspective. The game offers a beautiful Sandbox style environments and it is set in an Archipelago like Environment and allows you to manipulate it in order to save the Nomadic Tribe. From Dust allows you control 3 main types of matters named as Soil, Water, and Lava and craft different items with them. These three elements will help you restructure whole islands in minutes and will let you enjoy being in full control of almost everything. From Dust offers two main game modes, Story mode, and Challenge mode. Each mode offers different missions, stories, and other characteristics. With a wonderful setting, great abilities to use, cool visuals, and amazing mode based storyline and an immersive gameplay, From Dust is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.
#13 The Settlers Online: Castle Empire
The Settlers Online: Castle Empire is a Free-to-Play Browser-based RTS and MMO video game. This online game resembles and it inherits the style and lots of details from the Age of Empires series and offers a similar gaming experience to Tribal Wars. When we talk about the gaming quality and compare it to other online strategy games, The Settlers Online: Castle Empire is a really best Browser-based Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game to play. Game-play, graphics and user interface all is inspired by Age of Empires Series games and as compared to a lot of other online games, it’s the best. In The Settlers Online: Castle Empire, player can build cities, gather resources, unlock new buildings, mines and soldiers etc. A really great feature of this game is the online community of players all around the world. Players can communicate, make alliances and attack the enemies from different directions to conquer their lands. A must play game, environmentally and graphically similar to a number of MMORTS games but with quite a different feeling and story-line plus the immersive game-play. You’ll surely enjoy it. As it is a browser based Massively Multimedia Online Strategy game, it can only be played in browser on a PC. Do try it out.
#14 Supreme Commander 2
Supreme Commander 2 is a wonderful RTS (Real time Strategy) and tactical War-Based MMO video game developed by Gas Powered Games. Supreme Commander 2 focuses on the character of Dominic Maddox who works for the UEF (United Earth Federation). The federation grows conflicts with the illuminate and declares them a threat and orders Maddox to eliminate every operative of the illuminate. Maddox refuses to accept the order because of his relations with an Illuminate and goes rogue against the UEF. Supreme Commander 2 consists of three mission campaigns and allows you to take part in the campaigns by completing one and unlocking the next. You as Maddox must act according to the storyline and instead of going to the mission assigned by UEF, you must go on your own Mission Campaign to kill your own former commanding officer and his forces. After the first campaign finishes the next campaign gets unlocked and you can act as the story of the game suggests. Supreme Commander 2 lets you strategize your moves by giving you the tactical advantage over your enemies. The game allows you to select a location on the game map and be a commander, build different structures Factories, Power Houses, Research Facilities, train Land, Air and Sea troops and build facilities according to their requirements, gather up resources and wage massive wars against your enemies to defeat them and conquer their settlements. The destruction of enemy research facilities and experimental units provides you with better tactical advantages so make them your primary targets. Supreme Commander 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite engaging video game that offers beautifully created visuals, a great story and an immersive game-play to enjoy. Do try it out for a great Strategy and Tactical gaming experience.
#15 Black and White
Black and White is a wonderful City Building and a Community-based virtual simulation that allows you to build, cities, accommodate people, craft buildings such as homes, markets, workshops, castles etc. and govern over everything from a top down perspective. Initially the game lets you take control over an Island, home to a number of different tribes. your task is to control the tribes, feed them, build houses and markets for them, assign them various tasks and Expand your land. As you control the whole villages, it is your duty to take care of your people, provide them with good nutrition and help them solve problems, make them breed and increase their population in order to have more and more people living in your villages. With all the fun and epic gameplay, Black and White offers a fantastic environment, beautifully created game visuals and loads of exciting things to discover.
#16 Stronghold HD
Stronghold HD is a marvelous Real-time Strategy, City building and Management video game by FireFly Studios. This piece of art takes you directly to a medieval Setting and allows you to Build, Destroy and Rebuild massive Historical Strongholds/Castles, engage in medieval era wars with equally equipped enemies and enjoy being part of massive single-player campaigns. Your basic task in the game is to fight off massive enemy forces in order to reclaim your lost lands from the enemies and reunite England in order to build a massive Empire. You must also build strongest ever defenses by the use of all the available resources, train massive armies, wage wars against the enemies and capture their strongholds in order to expand your kingdom, loot huge caches of resources etc. You can also make alliances with friendly settlements, build economic and trade relations and routes, craft weapons and other items and finally reunite whole of the England in order to complete the game objectives. With a wonderful game setting, amazing visuals, immersive game-play and all the wonderful things that Stronghold HD has to offer, this game is amazing, do try it out.
#17 The Settlers Online
The Settlers Online, developed by Blue Byte Software is a Free to Play, Online, and Browser Based City-Building and Management and MMORTS video game. The game allows you build a city, defeat your enemy bandits and complete various quests and tasks to earn experience points and resources. The experience points in the game help you elevate your level of expertise and ranks you up. Whenever your game level gets up, you can unlock more maps to explore, new buildings to build, mines to gather resources and more troops to fight and defeat bandits. In order to accommodate and train your troop units, you must build barracks and recruit more troops and gather up a massive army of Elite Soldiers. You can also take part in different game adventures to fight against the enemies, gather resources and materials to construct the defensive buildings. The Settlers Online is quite an addictive and engaging video game to play and enjoy. Try it out and you’ll definitely like it.
#18 Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile is an Open Ended MMO, RTS City Building, Construction and Management Simulation set in Ancient Egypt. The game allows you to be a ruler over the distances that Egypt covers and build cities by selecting different construction sites for various groups of people who are further parted into two more groups, Private Workers, and Government Workers. You must select the workers from both groups and assign them their tasks to build different buildings and structures. When a city is completed you can move to the next one to build it and you can move all the workers with you too. The game provides with only bread as to use it to bargain or trade or use it as the currency. Just like all other games of this genre, Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile lets you complete a task of building a city and then moves you towards the next. Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile features good 3D graphics, engaging game objectives and a lot more to explore and enjoy. Do try it out for a great City-Building and RTS experience.
#19 Grand Ages: Medieval
Grand Ages: Medieval offers a beautiful combination of MMO-RTS, City-building and Management elements and lets you enjoy a totally immersive game-play experience. The game allows you to be a Mayor of a small town, grow your settlement and eventually rule over all of the Europe. Grand Ages: Medieval takes you to the Middle Ages and allows you to witness the progress and development of Europe in the very start of its evolution. Govern over a small town and grow slowly into an empire that is fully developed, control the rapidly growing population, build structures to accommodate people and to start new businesses, explore new worlds, find new settlements and start trading with them, grow your level of expertise slowly and become a finance tycoon in order to flourish, to develop and to live in peace. You must also build your defenses, raise huge armies, train troops and defend your settlement along with your trade routes and enjoy being a ruler who is responsible for the wonderful Europe as we see it today. Grand Ages: Medieval offers unique story-line, visuals and a fantastic game-play that will definitely leave you spellbound for quite some time.
#20 Anno 1404
Anno 1404 or also known as Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery is a Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy video game developed by Related Deigns and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS and Wii gaming platforms. Just like its Predecessors, Anno 1404 revolves around different fictitious events and surrounds the medieval era in which The Crusades and Advancement in Gothic Architecture took place. In the game, the player creates his own city or his kingdom, colonizes it, gathers resources, builds farms, factories, homes for people, trains troops and engages in governmental and economic relationships with other players online or with advanced game AI’s, battles to save his kingdom or sometimes fights to acquire a piece of land to grow his lands etc. As the trading is a vital aspect for any settlement to grow or progress, the player in game gives it special attention and provides with the ways and strategies in which his kingdom gets into trade with other players online or With game AI’s to buy or sell different in game items. The trade incentive is then spent on the people and for the betterment of kingdom. Anno 1404 is a super engaging and a great game to play and enjoy. You should give it a try.
#21 Age of Empires Online
Age of Empires Online, is a Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy (MMORTS) video game developed by Robot Entertainment in collaboration with Gas Powered Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios for PC (Microsoft Windows) only. Being an online and a multiplayer game, “Age of Empires Online” is totally free to play and enjoy. You can play it alone or with your friends online. The game features a similar game-play to its predecessors, the only difference is that it allows the players to play the game online. Player in the game, creates civilizations, gathers resources, Trains army units, and creates buildings like homes for the people, markets, shops etc., goes on different quests and fights with the enemies either to save his land or sometimes to conquer their lands to grow his kingdom. The game provides with a lot of new content that a player can use to craft different things or trade with others etc. Age of Empires Online also features super fine graphics, a great game story and a lot more exciting things to do.
#22 Anno 1701
Anno 1701 is a brilliant MMO, Real-time Strategy (RTS), City building and Management Simulation by Sunflower Interactive Entertainment Software. The story of the game revolves around 18th century colonization systems in the New World. Basically this super cool game is mainly about the economics of the settlement. If a player is enough skilled at preserving an equally maintained and balanced economy he’ll be more successful in achieving the goals. Divided into 5 social stages (Pioneer, Settler, Citizen, Merchant and Aristocrat), this game provides an amazing set of culturally and economically well-mannered society. The player just have to manage it and if he is able to manage it well, he’ll enjoy the game even more. Typically the game-play is similar to Age of Empires and a lot of other games like that. For example. Players can build their own cities, develop the whole civilizations, send troops to invade neighboring kingdoms to battle and defeat the enemies and to conquer and capture their lands to weave into yours. Some great new features in the game include, trade quests, honored guests from other countries, improvement in tax system and natural disasters are a real treat to the game players. This great storyline game is really a piece of art as compared to a lot of titles of the same genre. You must try it out if you really are into MMO and RTS games.
#23 Stronghold Kingdoms
Stronghold Kingdoms is one of the best MMO and RTS video games that offers unique Castle building elements as well. This game is set in a medieval era in ancient Europe and focuses on the wars between the most brutal and humongous medieval powers of the time. The game lets you master your skills of military, economy and politics via engaging yourself in the massive world of MMORTS gaming system. Just like other MMORTS games, you can build your own city, starting from scratch and paying attention to the smallest details to overcome any problems. You can always make alliances with your neighboring kingdoms and fight against your enemies together. You can also fight against your enemies in PvP battles to rank yourself up a bit by collecting the experience points. You can use the experience points to buy upgrades and more units of purchasable goods. Stronghold Kingdoms is one of the best MMORTS video games available to play online.
#24 Anno 2055
Anno 2055 takes you to an amazing journey of Space Exploration, Building, and MMO and RTS Approach in order to save the future of Humankind. After conquering the Earth, building massive prosperous and well-established cities, you must now travel to space in order to scavenge for new technologies, lifestyles and riches that will eventually help develop more secure, well defended and technically rich settlements on Earth. After the advancements in Fusion Energy and new ways in which you can revolutionize the Society, space travel is necessary. The required element of Helium-3 is not present on Earth and to harvest more of that, you’ll have to travel to Moon, so dust off your ships and ready your mavericks, start off your journey, build new settlements on the Moon and bring back Helium-3 in order to make your future more bright and unbeatable. With amazing City Building, exploration, new technologies, encounters with the hostiles and a great rulership, Anno 2055 offers amazing Real-time Strategic, Building and Management aesthetics only to entertain you well, so as an alternative to Anno 2070, you must play this game and enjoy a visually similar yet different gaming experience. This Marvel is available to a purchase on Steam.
#25 Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten
Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten is wonderful addiction to the series of Age of Empires. This wonderful MMO-RTS game is basically an expansion pack to the famed Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings and offers 5 new civilization named as Magyars, Indians, Incas, Slavs and Italians, seven new single and multiplayer campaigns, a lot of new troop units, technologies etc. along with a number of new game-play modes, new maps, enhanced graphics and mechanics and perks. The game once more lets you put on show your best skills and strategic approaches, Diplomacy, trade and policy building abilities and assesses your economy building and ruling methods. The conquests and domination over the lands to expand you kingdom is one of the hardest tasks to complete so you must be prepared well in order to complete the objectives of Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten. With super cool visuals, grid based addictive game-play and all the great things, Empires 2: The Forgotten is a wonderful game like Age of mythology to play and enjoy.
#26 Anno 2070
Anno 2070 is a Real Time Strategy, Economic Simulation, City Building and Construction video game developed by Related Designs and Ubisoft Blue Byte. The game is set in the year 2070 where the global warming has melted a huge ice cap and because of the rising sea level, a number of ancient cities have vanished from the face of the earth. The remaining parts of the land are scattered in the form of small islands. It is now your responsibility to explore and rebuild the islands from scratch. You must create groups of people with specific skills and assign them different tasks to design and rebuild the lost cities using advanced technology and tactics. Anno 2070 allows you to rebuild and re-settle people in the cities and govern over the most flourished and prosperous economies ever. Anno 2070 is a great game to play and enjoy, if you want to experience true building and construction gaming with a touch of RTS, you must play this game.
#27 Anno Online
Anno Online is a wonderful Free-to-Play Browser-based MMORTS, City Building and Management video game developed by Ubisoft. This wonderful Spin-Off of Anno series lets you be part of the game world as a king and allows you to build massive cities, collect and manage resources, control the economics and be a true ruler over everything. You get the liberty to build your own commercial empires to grow your businesses and develop your settlement, build houses, markets, refineries, train troops and build different production units like factories, workshops etc. and wage wars against your enemies, defend your settlements. Being an MMORTS video game, Anno Online allows you to form up alliances with your friends in game world and fight against your enemies together. You can also trade with other online players. With all the super amazing things, Anno Online provides with best 3D graphics, a well-written modifiable story-line and an open world gaming environment along with a very immersive game-play. Do give it a try.
#28 Imagine Earth
Imagine Earth is a great City Building, Management, MMO and Real-Time Strategy video game that takes you to an amazingly Interactive and Futuristic game world and allows you to be a manager of a Colony, Explore habitable near and distant stars and planets, built settlements on them, start trading and eventually grow to all the surrounding world without destroying your home.
Imagine Earth lets you enjoy playing this brilliant game by simply converting whole planets into your playgrounds, enjoy every bit of your time by simply engaging in fantastic puzzle solving, building, and developing routines. The unique strategic element allows you to use your best skills in building, democracy, trade, and defense and enjoy ruling over a world of possibilities.
With a challenging game-play, threats like meteor impacts, huge wildfires, enemy intrusions and interaction with the alien civilizations, trade with multiple types of individuals, mining and exploration, and a leading spot in technologically enhanced and advanced nations, Imagine Earth is a mix-up of wonderfully engaging and quite immersive aesthetics.
#29 Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection
Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection is an amazingly unforgettable experience of City Building, Management and MMO-RTS elements. With a big name in the respective genre, Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection offers a collection of Microsoft’s Ground breaking masterpieces and combines them into one amazing package. This monumental game-pack allows you to play and enjoy all three Age of Empires games and experience new enhancements, mechanics and game-plays along with beautifully created visuals and all the great stuff you are familiar with. As usual you’ll have to Command over the Mighty European Superpowers in order to explore, build and strategically enhance your democratic and trade relations, and to develop the mighty empires of the time. Great unbeatable defenses, mighty armies, huge battles, conquering the worlds, mining for resources, technological advancements, trade and diplomatic relations, the ability to rule over one of the most epic and massive settlements ever, Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection is a combination of all the great things that you want to see in a game like this. For a more than amazing MMO-RTS experience, do try it out.
#30 StarTopia
StarTopia is another great Building and Management and RTS Simulation that allows you to control a space station, one among the critically damaged but habitable space stations after the war of the universe. Your task is to take control of the space station, renovate it by simply managing the resources and constructing the necessary buildings, convert the whole space station into kind of a hotel, manage the rooms for the visitors, earn money and then spend it on the spaceport.
You’ll also have to control the employees, assign them duties according to their alien species and ultimately enjoy being in power. After you have enough skills, you can go start building up other space stations and repeat the whole procedure in order to be the most prominent figure in the universe. StarTopia offers wonderful Sci-Fi visuals, amazing characters, and an addictive game-play. Do try it out, it’ll amaze you with all the wonderful stuff it has to offer.
#31 Endless Legend
Endless Legend by Amplitude Studios is a Turn Based 4x Fantasy MMO-RTS video game set in the land of Auriga and allows the players to dominate over the land by Exploration, Technology, Conquest, Wars, Diplomacy and Research. You can select your character from one of the eight main races/factions, multiple skill trees and unique characteristics. Endless Legend tasks you with expanding the kingdom of Auriga by using the above mentioned methods and once an area is seized, you can gather up resources and build new cities. The quests in the game can be unlocked by completing different tasks and every finished quests awards you with Dust, the game currency. Dust can be used to buy more upgrades and stuff that makes the game more interesting. Endless Legend with a wonderful Grid-based mechanics, turn based combats, amazing quests and characters, cool visuals and a brilliant game-play is a marvelous game to play and enjoy.
#32 Sparta: War of Empires
Sparta: War of Empires is a Real-Time Strategy-based 2D MMO video game developed by Plarium. The game is set in the City of Ancient Greece and tasks you to get help from the great King Leonidas, govern over a Small Settlement and grow it into a Powerful Empire. In order to complete the game objectives, Sparta: War of Empires lets you build a Spartan City, construct Buildings, train massive armies, wage wars against the enemies, Conquer their lands, Loot resources, make slaves and eventually grow your settlement to a whole new Kingdom. Games like Sparta: War of Empires are all packed up with unique Strategy, building and management elements along with the MMO feature and are a great source of entertainment for all those who love playing games of these genres.
#33 Khan Wars
Khan Wars by Madmoo and XS Software is a Free-to-Play Browser-based Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game set in the Middle Ages. The game lets you get into the game world by selecting a character for yourself from eleven unique races, all with their unique abilities and skill sets. You can join different online clans or form up your own clan and your own guild to gather up an army of warriors like yourself. The basic objective of the game is to conquer anything you want to and develop it with resources. Create your own settlement and build structures like houses, factories, workshops, army barracks, markets etc. to nourish a civilization. Talking about the battles and wars in the game, you get a free hand to attack your enemies any time, but to do that you must have a big army. The game allows you to train different troop units like Infantry, Cavalry, Archers, War Machines etc. to conquer and make history. Khan Wars provides with best graphics, a user friendly interface and an easy to navigate map. With all the great things that this game provides, you’ll definitely be spending a lot of time playing this super awesome strategy game.
#34 March to Rome
March to Rome is a marvelous Browser-based MMO and RTS video game that takes you back to the days of Roman Empire. The game features ten main factions for you to select anyone of them and lead your troops to the epic battles. Managing economics, recruiting and training a whole army, Grand alliances and turning your cities into Empires are among the main tasks that you’ll have to perform during the gameplay. March to Rome offers variety in gameplay and allows you to select anyone of the given factions (Celts, Goths, Egyptians, Vikings, Franks etc.), select troop Units with special abilities and reign over the worlds with might and a huge army. With a touch of modernistic strategic elements, March to Rome offers a brilliant UI design and a detailed tutorial that teaches you how to play the game properly. Resource collection, controlling Economy, and expansion of the City are the main tasks of the game that you’ll have to perform in order to enjoy it fully and to satisfy your RTS appetite. With impressive gameplay and plenty of depth in it, March to Rome offers enhanced mechanics and a brilliant strategy gameplay that adds up a bit more spice to the game. For an entirely amazing and quite impressive experience of Real-time Strategy, try March to Rome and enjoy spending your time on quality gaming.
#35 CityVille
CityVille was a fantastic City Building, Construction and Management Simulation by Zynga, the creator of biggest titles such as FarmVille and Draw Something. Back in the day the game allowed the players to be the owner of a whole new City and develop it from scratch by erecting buildings, developing markets, businesses and by collecting taxes, and resources, etc. The basic task of the players was to start developing the City and eventually turn it into a massive Metropolis. Visiting the neighboring Cities, trading for resources, building diplomatic ties and strengthening the economy were the most important and promising parts of the game. As the City grew, the players were rewarded with experience points along with the reputation points that they could use to buy upgrades, energy and loads of other great things. The players could also earn the CityVille currencies such as CV Cash and CV Coins and spend them to acquire some of the most special items from the in-game store. With a variety of tasks that the players could do, amazingly addictive gameplay and beautiful 3D visuals, CityVille was a fun Construction and Management Simulation to enjoy until it was closed down in late 2011 because of some undisclosed reasons. From the day on, the game is no longer available on any of the servers but a number of groups are trying to revive the game. Hopefully there will be another game someday that will offer the same fantastic things that the CityVille did.
#36 Build-a-lot 4: Power Source
Build-a-lot 4: Power Source is a cool Building and Management Simulation by G5 Entertainment. The game lets you build amazing new power sources to encounter the shortage of power and make your cities glow like diamonds. Your task in the game is to build new power sources like Solar plants, wind energy plants, nuclear power plants etc. and make your cities and other settlements prosperous. In Build-a-lot 4: Power Source you’ll have to make great plans and strategies to use the available resources and go green, use the energy and save it for the next generations. Build-a-lot 4: Power Source provides with 68 challenging levels, four main Single-player campaigns, a lot of upgrades along with beautiful visuals and an addictive gameplay.
#37 Airline Fantasy
Airline Fantasy is a fun 3D Building, Management and Business Simulation playable on Facebook. The game tasks the players to build and manage an Airport, fly to various locations around the globe and enjoy the remarkable gameplay. Taking care of the flying business, recruiting and firing the staff, and eventually growing the business are the main tasks of the game. Initially the game lets the players have only one small plane. It is up to them to grow the business, buy more planes and enjoy having their own fleet of advanced airplanes. Once the players are able to get more planes and more staff, they can grow the flight operations to more destinations and earn more money. Airline Fantasy offers two types of game currency, Gold and Coins. Every flight and quest completion rewards the players with either Gold or Coins that the players can use to buy more items, planes or hire more staff. As the players can control everything, they can also build structures such as shops, ticket centers, information desks, etc. With all the amazing management, building elements, Airline Fantasy offers cute 3D graphics, addictive gameplay and fantastic game mechanics. For all those who love managing Airports, this game would definitely be a great source of entertainment. Do give it a try.
#38 Omerta: City of Gangsters
Omerta: City of Gangsters is a Turn-based, Management, Tactical, Strategy, Single and Multiplayer Simulation developed by Haemimont Games. The game takes place in the fictional city called Atlantic City in Atlantic Country where alcohol is ban. The city is threatened by the criminal gangs who makes money off gambling trade. The game lets the player get into the role of the unnamed character with big dreams. The player must explore the game world, start from small jobs, collect criminals and create his gang, earn money from gambling trade and expand his empire. Create the base, fight against other gangs and defeat them to earn reputation points. Use the points to unlock further content. There are fifteen different characters each with unique skills, backgrounds, and personalities. The game includes twenty different maps with various environments to explore. Omerta: City of Gangsters offers core features such as RPG system, Turn-based Combat, Strategic Gameplay, Historical City, Stealth Action, and more. Try it out and you’ll enjoy it.
#39 Roads of Rome: New Generation
Roads of Rome: New Generation is a Real-time Strategy, City-Building, and Single-player video game developed by BigFish. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets you create and lead a Roman Empire. Due to an earthquake, your empire has been destroyed and your main objective is to create new shelters, rescue your people, and restore the life. You must build new roads, gather resources, and unlock further content using your experience points. It has four different modes and forty stunning levels. The game becomes more difficult as you progress in it. It unlocks other levels as you complete quests or complete an objective. Craft different items, build amazing houses, buildings, and structures, and prove yourself as the best King. You can control the Empire’s citizen to create different things. The game combines the elements of crafting, building, and you can play the game from an isometric view. With detailed environment, mouse controls, different modes, stunning visuals, win the love of a beautiful girl, gain respects points, and excellent gameplay, Roads of Rome: New Generation is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#40 Dawn of Discovery: Venice
Dawn of Discovery: Venice is a Strategy, Single-player and Multiplayer video game with City Building elements developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. The title serves as a downloadable content pack for Dawn of Discovery, dealing with RTS and Simulation elements. During the gameplay, the player will experience the combination of Dawn of Discovery’s signature gameplay mechanics and the Venetian culture’s richness. Now, the player is capable of playing the game with his friends in an online Multiplayer mode. The environment of the game is complemented with the new setting, introducing new possibilities of interaction. Multiplayer mode of the game supports up to four players and co-op of game support up to eight-player. Over sixty new items and three-hundred new quests are available with two new types of missions such as ship boarding and trading race. Dawn of Discovery: Venice includes prominent features such as new Venetian Setting, Multiplayer Mode, New Challenges and Quests, and more. Check it out, if you love playing City Building Games.
#41 MY LITTLE PONY: MAGIC PRINCESS
MY LITTLE PONY: MAGIC PRINCESS is a Puzzle, Casual, and Single-player video game developed by Gameloft for Android. Throughout the game, the player takes on the role of Princess Celestia, where the main mission is to save every horse in the city. The player has to farm resources, meet cute friends, and complete his dreams.
The game has 300 characters where the player can meet many NPCs. The player has to be friends with the ponies and offer them places to stay. The player can enjoy adventures based on his favorite stories and confront antagonists such as Tirek, King Sombra, Nightmare Moon, the others. The game has many mini-games that let the player have unlimited fun in one place.
The included games are Magic Wings, Rainbow Dash, and Equestria Girls Dance games. It is an offline game where the player can enjoy it at any time. This game is ad-free, but the player has to use the virtual currency to make progress. The game has core features such as No Ads, Custom Fashion, Ponies, Addictive Gameplay, and 300 Adorable Characters.
#42 Anno 1404 – Dawn of Discovery
Anno 1404 or also known as Dawn of Discovery is a brilliant video game that blends in City-Building, Real-time Strategy, MMO and Economic elements beautifully. The game features both medieval and renaissance era settings and allows you to build your own settlements, explore islands, construct buildings, get into diplomatic ties with neighboring settlements or wage wars against the enemies in order to conquer their lands or to defend your own. The city building element of the game allows you to build massive structures like monuments, research labs, and other facilities and rule over them, maintain them etc. The economic element allows you to set up trade routes and economically grow your settlement, acquire necessary resources and manage them wisely. Just like other games in the Anno Series, Anno 1404 or Dawn of Discovery offers a similar Sandbox style gameplay, wonderful visual details and other great things to make you love this game. Try it out and it’ll amaze you with all of what it has to offer.
#43 Civilization V
Civilization V is another great Action-RPG and RTS Life Simulation that allows you to build, explore, and manage resources just like you did in the Spore and specifically on the Civilization Stage. Civilization V offers amazing Turn-based RTS game-play in which your task is to simply control a whole civilization, explore different worlds, and create settlements, research for technologies and much more. Another great aspect of the game is the element of battles and conquering. You are allowed to simply defend your settlements from enemies, battle to conquer other areas and eventually grow the size of your settlement or you can simply negotiate with other online players, make alliances and rule over the vast areas. Civilization V is one of the best game to play like Spore. Do give it a try.
#44 SimCity Buildit
SimCity Buildit is an addictive and quite brilliant Building and Management Simulation by Electronic Arts (EA). The game lets the players be the mayor of a city, construct various types of buildings, factories, research facilities, generate and collect resources, etc. To generate the resources, the players must build factories where they can forge Metal, plastic and other types of resources. Building parks, Apartments and a good sewerage system keeps the citizens happy, so the players will definitely have to manage their resources well and build beautiful houses and apartments for the people living in the SimCity. To supply clean water and continuous power supply, players will have to build power houses and a whole new system of water supply for each and every apartment in the city. The trade element of the game allows the player to collect resources from the factories, use them on the city and if they have extra they can sell them in markets and earn SimCity coins. Players can also visit neighboring cities, take a look at their design and buy some of the building material to use them in their own city. Good strategic and management abilities will always benefit good so the players must use their abilities to plan the city, water and power supply lines, keep the factories far from the population and must collect taxes to keep the economy in good shape. Building parks, assigning jobs to the people of the City and taking care of the law and order situations would definitely make the game more entertaining for the Mayor. With a remarkable gameplay, beautiful 3D visuals and all the building and management fun, SimCity Buildit is one of the best mobile simulations to enjoy. Do try it out.
#45 Tiny Tower
Tiny Tower is a Single-player Business and Management Simulation developed and published by NimbleBit. The ultimate goal of the game is to build and manage a massive tower, fill it up with virtual people known as Bitzians, keep on building new floors in the tower and eventually make it the tallest building of the world. The player must also be able to assign various types of jobs to the Bitzians and keep them busy. Resource management, and strategically use them is a great responsibility so the players must be good at that. The game offers multiple floors and categorically accommodates the Bitzians onto them based on their importance in the game. For example Ordinary Bitzians would live in lower floors of the tower, however, the Vips live on the higher floors of the towers. Similarly there are various types of Spenders in the tower, including the Big Spenders, Celebrities, etc. There are different types of Bitzians in the game such as Construction Workers, Delivery Men, Real Estate agents, Big Spenders, Celebrities and Dream Workers, etc. Economics in the game are of more interest because that is the easiest way to earn money and spend it on construction material, upgrades and loads of other cool items. With a marvelous game setting, great background sounds and a remarkably addictive gameplay, Tiny Tower is a fun Business and Management video game to play and enjoy.
#46 Spacebase DF-9
Spacebase DF-9 is a great City-Building, management and MMO-RTS Simulation that takes you to an amazing space journey. This wonderful Construction, Development, Real-Time Strategy and management game allows you to maintain your own space station with all the resources you have. With a beautiful space theme, Spacebase DF-9 lets you hire workers for different jobs, build new structures, generate and manage your resources, accommodate your people and eventually grow your space station to other parts of the galaxy. The main task is to find specific points in the galaxy, send explorers, scientists, and workers, settle a small group of people on the discovered area, help them grow by completing different tasks and conquer the worlds. Construction is one of the main objectives of Spacebase DF-9, so you must build structures, defend them against the enemies (Aliens) and keep your people alive by using all the available tactics, strategies and ways possible. This interesting amalgamation of Construction, management MMO and Strategy elements will definitely allow you to have hours of plain entertainment and fun.
#47 Megapolis
Megapolis is a great City Building, Construction and Management Simulation. The game allows you to build whole new city from scratch, explore, collect and manage resources, build massive economies and enjoy being control of everything. Finance management is the key element in Megapolis that allows you to simply balance your resource production and consumption etc. and allows you to build a system of check and balance. Megapolis is set on a huge area of land so it needs hardcore skills to manage it and unlock more features that will eventually lead you to build a more enhanced, developed and technologically advanced community. Just like some of the big names like SimCity and games like The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Megapolis allows you to build whole new cities and all the necessary structures like Theme parks, Roads, hospitals, Schools, Power Houses, police Stations, beaches etc. With a wonderful setting, great visuals, challenging and engaging game-play, Megapolis is one of the best alternatives to The Simpsons: Tapped Out. Do try it out, it’s fun playing.
#48 Townsmen
Townsmen is a Strategy-based Building and Management Simulation developed by Handy Games. It takes the players back to the medieval Era and tasks them to build their own City. The game’s ultimate goal is to develop a tiny village into a fully advanced and thriving Empire, boost the economy, and produce the happiest villagers ever. It allows the players to find mining spots, harvest all the necessary resources, and enjoy constructing them.
The players are also tasked to build fields, gardens, markets, erect statues, build massive and attractive monuments to decorate the city. Bandits in the game are the worst of all problems. The players must build barracks, guarding towers, recruit and train soldiers to protect the citizens. The game offers to run the businesses smoothly to make an economically strong nation.
#49 Roads of Rome
Roads of Rome is a Strategy, Time Management, and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Realore. The game takes place in unknown locations around the world full of mysteries and dangers. It puts you in the role of the protagonist, who must explore the beautiful scenes, complete a variety of tasks and progress in the game. You have to follow the romantic story, take up tasks to complete and manipulate barbarian lands to earn points. According to the story, a brave general (the protagonist), falls in love with the daughter of Caesar and wish to marry her. Caesar decides his daughter get married with someone else. Caesar sends his troops to build multiple roads across the land, find new areas and expand his Empire and power. If you complete all these tasks, Caesar will become happy from you. There are a set of levels, and each level needs a completion of certain tasks to progress. Intuitive Controls, Realistic Sound Effects, Four Mini-Games and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#50 Roads of Rome 3
Roads of Rome 3 offers an exciting gameplay, revolving around Real-time Strategy, Time Management and Building elements developed and published by Realore for multiple platforms. The game casts the player in the role of the protagonist, and his ultimate task is to fend off barbarians by fighting against each other and rebuild shelters before time runs out. There are Forty-three ridiculous levels available, and each level needs a completion of individual objectives. During the game, the player controls the character, collect resources like gold, woods, stones, etc. and harvest crops to earn points. The player can use his resources to rebuild bridges, overcome obstacles and make his land beautiful using lots of items and decorations. The story focuses on the female protagonist named as Julia, who lived with his people and enjoy peace. One day, a messenger appears with bad news about Barbarians spreading destruction everything in Roman Province. The player must stop the enemies and rebuild the city to become the master. Roads of Rome 3 offers core features such as Resource Management, Strategy Gameplay, beautiful Graphics and more.