Games Like Anno: Build an Empire for Linux

Valhalla Hills is a Strategy, Mythology, City-building, Management and Single-player Fantasy-based Simulation created by Funatics Software and published by Daedalic Entertainment. The game offers a brilliant story, in which you spent your entire life in the service of the Asgard’s gods. When you die, you receive a place in the halls of Valhalla. When you reach there to receive your final rewards, no answered. Odin has shown his back to the people including you and underestimated the Viking Spirits. You as the protagonist must lead your people on Valhalla Hills and battle enemies to prove your strength, honor, and worthiness. Explore the environment, gather food, chopping wood, and build complex structures to survive. Dominate each battle and reach the portal at the top of the highest mountains, and cry loud enough for Odin to hear your voice. If they don’t agree to give you and your people the reward you deserve, then using your axe, you have to take it from them. The game features procedurally generated worlds comprise a variety of levels with different challenges. Earn your Place in Valhalla, complete Basic Needs, Fight enemies to eliminate, Upgrades, and Randomly Generated Levels, etc. are the prominent features to play and enjoy.

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.

Towns is a great Isometric City-Building and Management MMO-RTS simulation that offers a beautiful sandbox style theme. The game leaves you in a partially build piece of land and allows you to manipulate the land as you like it, explore, gather up resources and build structures you want. At the beginning, Towns allows you to choose biomes (Grass, Desert, Snow or Land) process your selected biomes with their own qualities, grow crops or clean the land and wildlife, build homes, farms and other structures by using the resources and eventually build a whole new civilization and help your people thrive in a very friendly environment. With the help of 11 villagers, you must perform the necessary tasks, settle them up in homes and grow the population, befriend neighboring settlements and grow economically, start trade and grow your nation and enjoy playing this marvelous game. Towns as compared to a lot of other titles of the similar nature, is one of the best simulation to enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love it for sure.

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.

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.

SimCity 4 combines the elements of Construction and Management, City-Building, Crafting and Simulation developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the fourth major entry in the series of SimCity. In the beginning, you have an empty land, and the ultimate task is to create different buildings which grow into a fantastic and beautiful city. There are different types of buildings, materials, and items to use and create. Gather resources and build settlements, commercial buildings, houses, shops, roads, and more. Offers all the facilities to the inhabitants and keep them happy. Compete against rival NPCs and earn experience points and money to unlock further content in the game. In the game, you can assume the role of the Mayor and your goal is to populate all tracts into cities. You’ll face different challenges such as overpopulation, electricity shortage, garbage, water, disposal and other. The game is distributed into three different modes such as MySim, mayor, and god. Establish a city and earn money through different ways. SimCity 4 offers exciting features such as Build an Entire Region, Unleash your Imagination, Upgrades, Competition, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Kingdoms and Castles is a Strategy, City-Building, Sandbox, and Management Simulation developed and published by Lion Shield, LLC. The game features Single-player mode and is about building a castle from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling town. It takes place in the medieval settings, and you have to build your kingdom surrounded by dangerous castles. You start the game from an empty land, and your objective is to establish a city by placing different buildings, gather resources, and complete a series of missions to collect money. You must recruit your army, equip them with weapons and lead them during battlefield to defend the city and its inhabitant. Expand your city further and raise your people up and keep them happy by offering the best services. You explore the world from an isometric perspective, unlock additional content to use during the game and decorate your city to look beautiful. Navigate the open-ended world and immerse yourself in sandbox gameplay experience. Kingdoms and Castles offer core features such as lots of Levels, Upgrades, Types of Buildings, Resources to collect, and more.

Cities In Motion 2 is a Construction and Management, and Business Simulation developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive. The game has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and offers you an opportunity to assume the role of the leader, mayor or governor and establish your transport system in huge cities of the world. It takes place in the fabulous world and introduces day/night cycles, capable of creating timetable, and rush hours. The game offers the similar gameplay to its predecessor and the ultimate goal is to create a wonderful public transport systems in major cities. It has dynamic cities, where your decisions have a notable impact on the growth of the city. You explores the land from either or a top-down and a first-person perspectives, and can create different railways, routes, and roads to control the flow of traffic. Cities In Motion 2 offers prominent features such as Dynamic Cities, Multiplayer (Competitive and Co-op modes), Manage the Timetables, Two Modes (Sandbox and Campaign), and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.