Surviving Mars
Surviving Mars is a City Building Simulation brought to you by Haemimont Games and published by Paradox Interactive for PC. The game comes with Single-player support and it takes place in the stunning world where you as an overseer must create a beautiful colony on the planet Mars and make sure the survival of the colonists to advance through the game. The setting of the game is set on Mars and is modeled after real Martian data. In the game, you need to manufacture resources, create domes and other vital structures on the surface of Mars. Shelter, water, Oxygen and food should be the first priorities of your need to be constantly aware of. It introduces a storyline, known as mysteries which include different events regarding colony, in addition to war, plagues, and more. You can explore the land using the third-person view and in the game, you have an opportunity to reveal your building skills. With detailed graphics, smooth controls, and city building genre, Surviving Mars is a good game to play.
#1 Sol 0: Mars Colonization
Sol 0: Mars Colonization is a blend of Base Building, Strategy, Space, and Simulation gameplay elements developed and published by Chondrite Games for Multiple Platforms. The game introduces a Single-player option and offers the RTS (Real-time Strategy) gameplay where the player needs to create the first Martian Colony. The game imagines a near future using the technology, from the first footprints on the Martian soil to the thrilling and self-sustaining colony. During the gameplay, the player can use resources and minerals across the surface of Martian to expand from the first exploratory rover to the frontier. The game provides the player with an ultimate chance to take on the tough challenges inherent in pushing the boundaries of space habitation and exploration. The main objectives of the player are to grow a foot, extract water, generate electricity, create habitats, mine resources, and create structure increasingly sophisticated and complex colony bases. Sol 0: Mars Colonization includes prominent features such as Explore the Planet Mars, Challenging Simulation, Huge Map, Scavenge for Supplies, and more.
#2 JCB Pioneer: Mars
JCB Pioneer: Mars is an Action, Building, Survival, and Single-player Exploration video game takes place in the space environment developed by Atomicom and published by GamesCom. The game drops the player onto the Red Planet’s surface with an objective to survive and prepare the planet Mars for the future human colonization. During the gameplay, the player will experience the incredible survival sandbox gameplay and can navigate the Mars using the choices of future and the variety of vehicles designed for the challenge. In the game, the player has to mine rare materials, build the massive buildings and research for new technologies to ensure the future of humanity lies beyond Earth. After complete the starting objectives, the player can team up with other players from all over the world with other Pioneer to expand his base and collect special rewards. The game brings the harsh reality of the Mars to life with detailed graphics, weather effects and vehicle physics. JCB Pioneer: Mars includes prominent features such as Survival and Construction Gameplay, Mining Vehicles, Research new Technologies, Hostile Environment, and more.
#3 Aven Colony
Aven Colony is a City-building, Strategy and Single-player video game created by Mothership Entertainment and published by Team17. The game takes place in the Science-fiction environment, and the primary storyline of the game centers on the human colonization of an alien planet. You must build a new colony to survive in the strange alien planet using different materials and buildings. It offers a human city named as Aven Prime, a planet light-years far away from the planet Earth. The primary objective is to explore the environment to gather resources, build shelters and invite people to live in the colony to survive. You must build the colony from scratch and a massive variety of buildings ranging from tent-like structures to skyscrapers. These buildings contain different categories such as living quarter, oxygen creation, food cultivation and resource mining. You can use drones to upgrade, manage and recycle everything available in the colony. The game features dynamic day/night cycle, and during the night time, everything freezes and the food will not grow, and the solar panels don’t produce electricity. Aven Colony includes core features such as Build the Future, Discover the Past, Survive your Colonists, meet the Locals, Expedition System, Prepare for winter, and more. Try it out.
#4 Offworld Trading Company
Offworld Trading Company is another great City-Building, Management, MMO-RTS, Economic and Exploration video game. This wonderful game allows you to leave the Earth out of Curiosity and start exploring planet Mars, build mining facilities on the surface and gather resources as an Offworld Trading Company, process the resources in your other facilities and finally sell them onto Earth and other Planets in the Galaxy. As this game is all about Trading and Economics, Offworld Trading Company allows you to manipulate the market by your varying products, manufacture new technologies with the help of Martian resources, Sell them in the markets, generate revenue and spend it on enhancing your company and resources like machinery, operators, and other necessary things. Offworld Trading Company offers single-player campaign and allows you to be in full control of your actions and receive the possible outcome based on the decisions you make. With a marvelous game setting, Sci-fi aesthetics, great visuals and an immersive game-play, Offworld Trading Company is a fun game to play.
#5 Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition
Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition is a brilliant New City Building, MMO, Real-Time Strategy and Management video game by Haemimont Games and Feral interactive. Just like the previous games of the series, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition allows you to be the president of Isla Nublar, choose the best outfit and customize your character, get into the awesome game-play and face some new challenges, govern over your Naysayers and make the decisions that will write the fate of your nation and grow your off-shore bank accounts. As compared to Tropico 3, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition offers enhanced more political aspects and more powerful nations to negotiate with, a whole new democracy system in which you can elect more new ministers and get your cunning and controversial policies passed to finally implement the changes you want. With all of the political Drama, you will also have to focus on your enemies, cater with the natural disasters, and lure the populace towards yourself by simply engaging into epic developments and enjoy leading a lavish life. With a new feature of social interaction, integration of social portals like Facebook and twitter, amazing missions to complete, countless rewards, great visuals, great storyline and an amazingly engaging game-play, Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition is a marvelous new addition to the Tropico Series.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 Towns
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.
#10 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.
#11 Populous: The Beginning
Populous: The Beginning a wonderful blend of MM, RTS and City-Building elements and provides with a marvelous gameplay similar to Anno series games. In the beginning, Populous: The Beginning allows you to pick up a tribe as you native identity, make alliances with other powerful tribes and figures and embark on epic missions filled with puzzling challenges. The game is set on different planets in the galaxy and lets you lead mighty expeditions to different origins, conquer them by defeating the native beings, construct buildings, gather up resources and manage them wisely, raise mighty armies and rule the worlds around you. The strategic element of the game allows you to manage your troops, build your defenses and defend your settlements, bases and resources and turn your keeps into huge strongholds. With epic settings, brilliant visuals, engaging gameplay and a lot of other cool things, Populous: The Beginning is a great game to play and enjoy.
#12 Project Aura
Project Aura is one of the best Simulations that offers MMO-RTS Economic, City Building, and Management elements in order to provide with one of the best experiences ever. Your task in the game is to simply lead a colony of people who recently faced the worst ever climate disaster that left the world in ruins. You must help them getting out of the trauma by simply constructing new cities seas, businesses to thrive and an economy to help them grow by trade. Find ways to live in a hostile environment, use all the resources you can find on the betterment of the remaining populace learn the ways in which you can live longer during even the worst food shortage, build some shadow shelters to support them with hibernation, train your citizens for different tasks, specialize in trade inside the colony, explore the new areas, craft unique items with the help of old ones and enjoy being control of almost everything around you. With a marvelous storyline, addictive gameplay and beautiful 3D visuals, Project Aura is a fun game to play and enjoy.
#13 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.
#14 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.
#15 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.