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.
#1 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.
#2 Anno: Create a New World
Anno: Create a New World mixes the Real-time Strategy and City Building elements and supports Single-player mode only, developed by Keen Games and published by Ubisoft. The game is set in the historical year 1404, where the land of King named George suffers from famine and drought. Aware of his citizens’ distress, King decides to remedy the situation by sending his two beloved sons named as Edward and William, to manipulate the environment as well as new territories that produce enough goods to make the people happy. Despite being brothers, both characters have different personalities such as William tries to approach peacefully while on another hand his brother Edward suggest conflict to gather resources they require for their people. The game enables the player to join the princes as they struggle to create their empire, explore the exotic orient, find out new inventions, and unearth all manner of nefarious political intrigue. The player can manipulate the idyllic islands as he aims to locate prime real estate to put down roots and build his colonies. During the game, the player is capable of farming land, creating roads, marshal his resources, and more. Try it out, if you love playing RTS games.