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.
#1 Townsmen Premium
Townsmen Premium is a Classic City Building, Strategy and Single-player Simulation developed and published by HandyGames. The game takes place in the medieval settings and available to play on mobile platforms such as Android, iOS and Windows Phone. In the beginning, you starts off from a tiny village, and your primary aim is to turn it into a grand medieval empire. You have to navigate the world to find resources, craft items, build houses, bakeries, factories and other buildings to progress. The game rewards you with money as you fulfill quests and can use these funds to upgrade your buildings and unlock further content. You have to recruit army, train and equip them with weapons to defend your Empire. Keep your people, grow different crops, fruits, and trees to expand your Empire further and further. As the game progress, it becomes difficult to play. Townsmen Premium offers core features such as City-building Gameplay, cute Citizens, Diverse Scenarios, Meaningful Seasons, Dozens of Towns, and Military elements with Bandits and Soldiers, Sandbox mode and more. Try it out if you like playing City-building games with medieval settings.
#2 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.
#3 Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Sid Meier’s Civilization V or shortly named as Civilization V is a wonderful 4X Turn-based MMO-RTS video game by Firaxis Games. The game is based on the player who leads a civilization from Primordial times to the future on a methodologically created map. The game lets you use your skills and experiences for the Research, Exploration, Diplomacy, Expansion of the lands, Economic and technological development, Governmental and Military Conquests etc. Civilization V inherits a lot of characteristics and mechanics from Civilization IV but a slight change is the absence of a lot of expansion packs. Unlike the previous versions of the game, Battle and combat characteristics are quite changed, Cities can now defend themselves by devastating the enemies situated nearby, and a lot of military restrictions are gone. Sid Meier’s Civilization V resembles Age of Mythologies a lot, story-line and game-play is quite overhauled and the game provides with Single and Multiplayer Campaigns so you can enjoy it more. Graphics are greatly enhanced as compared to the older versions of the game. With 2 expansion packs Civilization V: Gods and Kings and Civilization V: Brave New World, this game offers wonderful visuals, a brilliant game-play etc.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 SimCity
SimCity is Construction, Management, Open World City-Building and an MMO-RTS video game developed by Maxis. The game uses a GlassBox Engine and provides with more enhanced graphics, updated content and a lot of other exciting things. Some of the new features of the game include finite resources and multiplayer gaming mode that allow a huge number of players from around the world to get in touch and enjoy the game. Sim City 2013 connects a massive number of cities via predefined regional maps, uses Roads, Railways and Water Ways for the connection. You can play the game and build whole cities, trade goods and resources, provide your services etc. in the game. The game has a unique simulated economy that allows you to keep track of your earnings, spending and profits and helps you make better economic strategies for the benefits of the people living in the city. Sim City is a great video game to play and enjoy because of its addictive and engaging nature. SimCity offers a number of popular games, spin-offs and sequels in the series. All the related info can be found on the official site.
#8 RimWorld
RimWorld is a 2013’s top trending Construction and Management Simulation by Ludeon Studios. The game focuses on the objectives of the game to Explore and Expand a newly built colony of Survivors of a deadly Spaceship Crash. The primary tasks are to explore, collect resources and repairing the ship so the survivors can escape the planet. With a remarkable Top-down 2D view, RimWorld offers a randomly generated storyline and an open world to explore. RimWorld offers three AI (Artificial Intelligence) Storytellers in the game named as Cassandra, Phoebe, and Randy. The story of RimWorld revolves around several characters, and it allows the players to control three characters initially at the early stages of the game. One fantastic feature of the game is that it allows the players to keep on generating the characters until they are satisfied with their particular attributes. As the time passes, more and more colonists join the game and in particular the Colony. The new colonists can act upon their will individually, or they can be taken as prisoners and forced to join the Colony. During the gameplay, the Storytellers keep on throwing random events at the players and the players gets to select between accepting the event or they can reject them. Accepting the events as quests can be good for the players as they offer tons of rewards. The characters in the game can keep on progressing until they have all escaped the planet, and that is when the game ends. With a very familiar and easy to understand gameplay and controls, beautifully created visuals and immersive gameplay, RimWorld is a fun Construction and Management Simulation to enjoy.
#9 Stonehearth
Stonehearth is another wonderful Sandbox style, Construction, Management and MMO-RTS video game that offers an addictive and quite immersive game-play. The game makes you an in charge of a small dwarf settlement and allows you to start up as a camp and with the time, grow up to a whole new civilization, control the Hearthlings, generate and manage resources, build structures like homes, markets, workshops, assign jobs to the hearthlings, grow crops, battle against the enemies and thrive in a developed community. Combats against the enemies are the best part of this brilliant game, it actually allows you to raise mighty armies, build defensive structures like Towers, create catapults, weapons and other necessary items and defend your settlement by making whole new strategies. Other cool features of Stonehearth are brilliant voxel-based visuals, an engaging game-play and the ability to help the community survive in wilderness. Stonehearth is one of the best MMO-RTS, City-Building and Management video games to play and enjoy.
#10 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.
#11 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.
#12 Kohan II: Kings of War
Kohan II: Kings of War is a RTS (Real-time Strategy), Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by TimeGate Studios and published by Take-Two Interactive. The game is the sequel to Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns. Six new playable races are introduced in the game such as Drauga, Human, Shadow, Undead, etc. and each race has its unique buildings, units, economic factors, and resource types. Each race belongs to a specific faction. At the beginning of the game, the player must select his faction and race to jump into the game where he must build his base, recruit army and train to battle against foes. The player explores the environment from an isometric perspective using the mouse-driven controls. The ultimate task is to battle against enemies, defeat them to loot the resources and claim their lands to expand the player’s empire to become the master. Other features will be unlocked as the player proceed through the game. With brilliant graphics, superb mechanics, and addictive controls, Kohan II: Kings of War is the best game for those who love playing Traditional RTS games.
#13 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.
#14 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.
#15 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.
#16 CastleVille
CastleVille Was a Social Networking game, and a Life-Simulation developed and published by Zynga. The game offered multiple crucial elements all based upon the other Zynga games from the “Ville” range. With its launch, the game became a massive hit, and soon it was the most popular Social Networking video game with a player base of 26.5 million subscribers worldwide. CastleVille offered a Freemium module, and it provided with in-game purchases such as upgrades, DLCs, and loads of other great things. Three years after the release of CastleVille Legends, Zynga closed the support for CastleVille and shut down its servers globally. CastleVille was one of the most favorite games of this particular genre that offered amazing characters, fantastic customization options and loads of cool stuff to discover. For all those who miss playing this Marvel, they can play CastleVille Legends and enjoy a similar gaming experience. CastleVille Legends offers a variety of content along with a lot of freedom and plenty of room for gameplay, amazing new characters and loads to discover.
#17 Farmville 2
Farmville 2 is a wonderful Farming and Community based Social Network Simulation by Zynga. Similar to a lot of big names such as Happy Farm, Harvest Moon, Farm Town etc, Farmville 2 lets you enjoy a spectacular Building, Farm Management, Social and an Immersive game-play along with sweetest visuals and sounds. This game is not less than a wonderful treat to all those who are fond of playing farming games. Farmville 2 offers a gameplay and mechanics similar to its predecessor but it slightly adds up a bit more spice to the game by offering loads of new things in the game. You act as a Farmer in the game who continuously looks after his Land, Animals and Crops, plows the ground, plants feed and grows a number of different types of crops, then sells them to earn money (Farm Coins and Farm Bucks) in order to reach to the higher levels of the game. With an amazingly addictive gameplay, beautiful visuals and sounds and all the farming fun, Farmville 2 is a fantastic video game to play and enjoy.
#18 SimCity Social
SimCity Social was an Online Browser-based City-Building, Management and Social Networking video game released by EA (Electronic Arts). The basic purpose of the game was to build a City and interact with other online players, visit their Cities and enjoy trading, chatting and exploring. The game was released in 2012, it got to a very popular state and in 2013 the company shut down the servers without telling the reasons of the closure. The objectives of the game were quite simple. Back in the day, it allowed the players to build A City (like the one in the SimCity video game) without any specific goals, interact with other players, visit their cities and enjoy exploring the SimCity World. SimCity Social was a resource-based video game, the players were tasked to collect various types of resources such as Energy, Diamonds, Simoleons, various types of Building materials, etc. The resources then could be used to construct buildings such as Roads, Flats, Farms, business Centers, markets, Factories Parks and Attractions, Landmarks, etc. Players were able to buy various items and upgrades via visiting the in-game store and paying with real currency. With all the freedom and objective-less gameplay, beautiful 3D graphics and great mechanics, SimCity Social was a great Social Simulation to enjoy.
#19 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.
#20 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.
#21 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.
#22 Civilization
Civilization or also known as Sid Meier’s Civilization is a popular 4X Grand Strategy video game by MPS Labs. The objective of the game is to build a whole new Empire in the era of 4000 BC, expand the Empire, and slowly move from the Ancient Era to the Modern Times. Initially developed as a PC video game that could only be run on DOS, Civilization has undergone loads of extensive revisions, and it ported to more platforms over time including Windows, Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, Super NES, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, and N-Gage and now the game is available in multiple versions as well. With a Turn-based gameplay, Civilization offers both Single and Multiplayer gameplay modes and allows the players to take on the role of the Ruler of the Civilization. The players get tasked to start off the building process with one or two Settlement units, grow them up using all of the available resources and compete against two to six other Civilizations. To outsmart the other Civilizations, the Ruler must use the element of Micromanagement and complete various tasks such as Exploration, Warfare, and Diplomacy, and make decisions about the settlements of new Cities, and about all the requirements to build them. Barbarian attacks on the settlements is a really big issue and to resolve this issue, the players will have to find ways to eliminate the threat. In the beginning, the game allows the players to select any ancient race to continue with and offers choices such as Mongols, Romans, Americans, Aztecs and allows the players to lead the tribes as a famous historical figure. With a colossal historical scope of the game that begins from 4000 BC, before the great Bronze Age and lasts through the Space Age in 2100 AD, Civilization is one huge Grand Strategy video game that allows the players to immerse themselves in the gameplay deeply and enjoy it.
#23 Hay Day
Hay Day is a free to play farming game developed by Supercell for iOS and Android devices. The game lies into the strategy genre because of its vivid nature that drags you to the extremes of an open world and adventurous game-play. According to the story of the game, you get to take care of a farm previously managed by your uncle Greg. Uncle Greg is not able to manage the farm anymore so all the responsibility now falls upon your shoulders. The game kicks off with the scarecrow getting into the boots of your tutor who lets you know all about the farm and how you should work or play the game. The game, afterwards lets you earn coins and spend them on building different production units, and decorating the existing ones. You can also make stalls on road sides to sell goods, just deliver them on your truck or send them via shipping orders. The game allows you to get in touch with other online players, help each other with the materials like crops, animals, and products etc., talk via chat sessions and upgrade your equipment. Hay Day is a great farming game to play and enjoy and that is why its famous beyond the limits. Do try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy all the Farming and management fun.
#24 CastleVille Legends
CastleVille Legends is a fantasy based freemium Management and Farming simulation that makes you a hero who manages a whole kingdom, creates farms, buildings, established businesses to flourish a prosperous settlement. The game is set in a spell bound world that is darkened by a wizard’s curse and allows you to take charge of the things, turn a small piece of land into a massive kingdom by planting the crops, build different structures (Houses, Workshops, Mines, Factories, Markets etc.), and sell your products to the far and near lands to generate revenue. The game also allows you to free the heroes from wizards curse and send them on quests to find resources, loots and earn experience points. The experience points help unlock upgrades and more lands to explore. The unique RPG element in the game makes you able to strategically enhance the premises of your kingdom by fighting and conquering your enemies and use their resources to develop your kingdom. A great feature of CastleVille Legends is the graphics quality and a story based on the path selected by the player, so the story of the game totally depends on your actions and keeps on changing according to your will that keeps you attached to the game for a huge amount of time. With all the great things, CastleVille Legends is one of the best video games of this specific genre. Do give it a try.
#25 Virtual City Playground
Virtual City Playground is a Building, Management and Business Simulation available to play on Android, iOS, Mac and Windows Phone Platforms. Developed and Published by G5 Games, Virtual City Playground allows the players to Build City of their dreams and then run it with all the brilliant abilities of a mayor. Because of it amazingly addictive nature and all the great things that the players can actually do while playing the game, Virtual City Playground has been one of the Top grossing games around the globe. Players can build massive dwellings, research and industrial structures, manufacture all of the top grossing goods and sell them in the markets. Just like in the real world, players can build massive Transit Systems allow the citizens to travel with ease, enjoy playing in the parks, watch movies in the Cinemas and play games in beautiful Stadiums. For a better environment, players can build parks, plant trees, build garbage recycling plants, power houses and upgrade all the buildings to get the maximum potential as possible. Virtual City Playground allows the players to keep the citizens happy by arranging lots and lots of Public events, build beautiful and well-designed apartments, Hotels, Inns and reward the happy citizens with all the facilities that a developed city can offer. With over 500 exciting quests, almost 200 types of buildings, over a hundred challenging and exciting achievements to unlock, regular updates and a remarkably addictive gameplay, Virtual City Playground is one of the greatest Building and Management Simulations to enjoy.
#26 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.
#27 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.
#28 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.
#29 Township
Township is a great blend of City Building, Management and Farming elements and provides with a great fun-filled game-play ever. The game lets you construct different buildings, grow crops, harvest them and sell them in the markets to ear revenue that you can use to buy upgrades and other items. You can collect resources from a number of sources such as Mining, businesses, and archeology etc. Farming part of the game allows you to grow different organic crops, process them, make different products with them and sell them afterwards to earn money. With a wonderful setting, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play this game will entertain you to the limits.
#30 Ikariam
Ikariam is a Browser-based MMORTS (Massively Multiplayer Online – Real Time Strategy) video game by gameforge. The game takes the players back to the Classical Era of Greece and leaves them in an Archipelago (A group of Islands), lets them be the Rulers of the Islands and tasks them to Expand their reign and lead massive legions of troops into historic battles. Ikariam offers a gameplay similar to the popular Civilization and Trivian series games and the main purpose of the game is to start off with a small settlement and eventually expand it to an Empire while having full control over the resources. Ikariam lets the players play the game by registering online, once registered, the players can have a small town or settlement and they must rule over that town. Imposing taxes on inhabitants helps earn revenue that the players can use to buy resources and build more structures and buy more islands, etc. Players can also train troops and attack neighboring Islands, capture both land and resources and keep on doing the same. Ikariam offers five main types of resources such as wood, wine, marble, Crystal and Sulpher that the playes can produce with the help of Sawmill, Quarry, Crystal Mines, Sulpher pits and Vineyard. Furthermore, Ikariam allows the players to make alliances by making Embassy, work together with the allied nations, protect each other against all the outer threats and keep on growing. Ikariam offers a truly very unique business model that allows the players to purchase upgrades and other advantages by micro-transactions, acquire a sixth and most important resource to speed up the process of building and capturing. With a fantastic narrative, addictive gameplay and minimalist 2D graphics, Ikariam is a fun MMO and Strategy video game to play and enjoy.
#31 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.
#32 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.
#33 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.
#34 Tycoon City: New York
Tycoon City: New York is a marvelous creation of Deep Red Games. The game is an Open Ended, MMO-Strategy and City-Building SImulation that allows you to build the city of New York and the Island of Manhattan. Your game objective is to build cities most prominent buildings and structures first and then the urban areas and everything else. The most prominent and recognizable landmarks of the city include Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and United nations Headquarters. You as the mayor of the city must build all the buildings carefully and perfectly map them on the terrain. Tycoon City: New York allows you to build the whole city of New York district by district and lets you complete all the tasks perfectly on time to compete your business rivals and unlock more districts to build. Tycoon City: New York is a great city building game that keeps you sitting in front of your monitor for a good amount of time. For a great City Building and simulation experience, you must play this superb game. You’ll definitely like it.
#35 Travian: Kingdoms
Travian: Kingdoms is a brand new addition to the already trending Travian Franchise. The game offers diversity and plenty of room to the gameplay because of its unique and improved mechanics. This amazing game actually offers the best ever MMORTS experience and is playable on both Android and iOS platforms. It offers a gameplay much similar to its predecessor but offers enhancements in graphic interface, new Ul design and eliminates the weaknesses that you might have witnessed in previous games of the series. The game offers mainly a three tribe systems and allows you to select anyone of the Romans, Ghouls or Teutons, explore the game world, control the resources and reign over the world as a Governor or a King. As a governor, you can have freedom to make decisions, gather or loot resources from robber hideouts or from other sources but as a King, you will have to do way more than that. As a King, you’ll have to achieve the one ultimate goal of expanding the Empire and to do that you’ll have to strategically approach any problems, control economics and relations with other nations etc. Resource collection and management is a whole different story as it requires more wit and the ability. PvP combats and building elements are the ultimate sources of resource generation. With a multi-stage gameplay, Travian: Kingdoms offers plenty of depth in building, constructional and upgrading elements. With a number of unique units, multiple maps, quests, and a unique Hero system, Travian: Kingdoms offers the most amazing RTS experience ever.
#36 Goodgame Empire
Goodgame Empire is a wonderful Online Browser-based RTS and MMO video games. This cool game is all about epic encounters with enemies, building gigantic and powerful Fortresses, Training massive Armies and building a thriving Economy and a prosperous settlement. Goodgame Empire lets you enjoy most of the features you are already familiar with regarding the MMORTS genre and immerse yourself into enhanced and well embedded game-play. Building your own fortress, reaching out to other settlements for either diplomatic relations or to fight them off and capturing their lands, making grand alliances or to simply trade resources to grow your settlements, Empire lets you experience almost everything that you want to be part of an Online Strategy video game. Building better and impenetrable fortress and all the building inside that fortress is the main task, so you should focus on upgrading your fortress along with expanding to the never before conquered lands. The most important feature of the game is the Unique management system that lets you to manage your resources and distribute them properly throughout your settlement. You must take good care of the citizens, build homes, businesses for them and let them live in peace and prosperity, Assign them tasks such as Mining, resource collection, building construction etc. With all the great things combined, Goodgame Empire is one of the best Browser-based Real-Time Strategy and MMO to play and enjoy.
#37 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.
#38 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.
#39 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.
#40 CivCity: Rome
CivCity: Rome, is an Open Ended RTS, City-Building and Management video game developed by FireFly Studios and Firaxis Games. Almost all of the core game elements of CivCity: Rome are much alike the ones in Caesar and Civilization series. Your task in the game is to fit yourself up in the character of a Mayor and design, build and manage various cities of the Roman Empire. You must build the key and the most prominent buildings first and place them strategically on their spots. CivCity: Rome allows you to build the cities into different neighborhoods and once a neighborhood of the city is completed the next part gets unlocked and gets ready to be built. You must also focus on leveling up by progressing on your ranks because a higher rank allows you to have more facilities and rapid building construction. The game consists of different campaigns and lets you play a campaign and unlock the next by completing the construction of a city. The unique MMO feature allows you to enjoy the game with your friends and other online players. Combats and Defense is one of the crucial elements of the game, so you must also focus on developing your defenses, waging wars against the enemies and defeat them in order to capture their lands, resources and epic loots. With a brilliant narrative, fantastic visuals and sounds and a very engaging game-play, CivCity: Rome is a fun MMO Strategy and Building video game.
#41 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.
#42 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.
#43 Caesar IV
Caesar IV is an addictive, City-Building, Ancient Rome, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Tilted Mill Entertainment. The game offers the combination of building, crafting, and historical elements. Caesar IV comprises three different parts such as Empire, Kingdom, and Republic. It allows you select one of them and get into the game world where you must create your empire with hundreds of buildings, create roads, gather resources, and recruit armies to defend your Empire. Sign contract with other nations and earn experience points that can be used to upgrade your buildings and units to improve your empire and strengthen it. The fight against other players, conquer their empire and loot their resources. Make your empire beautiful, build different structures, buildings, shops and more. Offer all facilities to its inhabitants and keep them happy to earn more. Caesar IV includes core features such as Enhanced Mechanics, new Buildings, Upgrades, Stunning Visuals, Classic Environment and more. Caesar IV is the best City-building game to play and enjoy.
#44 SimCity 4
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.
#45 A Kingdom for Keflings
A Kingdom for Keflings is a City-Building video game created by NinjaBee and published by Microsoft Studios. It supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story, in which the Keflings are the small creatures and needs your help in order to build their beautiful Kingdom. The game casts you as the giant and tasked you to start from a small land and turn it into a beautiful kingdom using different items, accessories, buildings, and equipment. It has a variety of levels and each level requires a set of objectives to complete. Unlock blueprints, building and task by progressing through the game and show your creativity. It takes place in the medieval world filled with little cute creatures. There are different locations to explore, challenging quests to solve and a massive variety of content to unlock. The game is played from an isometric view. Explore the game world, assists the Keflings to collect resources (crystals, stone, wood, and wool) and transport them to different places and structures. It offers the similar gameplay like SimCity and Black & White. A Kingdom for Keflings offers enhanced mechanics, visuals, gameplay, and story. Try it out and it’ll entertain you.
#46 Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is a City-Building, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by BreakAway Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. It is the last game in the series of Emperor and introduces a multiplayer mode. The game takes place in an ancient time and focuses on the building of a city. The main objective is to create a beautiful city using different buildings, material, and items and expand it further and further. You can assume the role of the King and you have you keep the inhabitant of your Empire well fed, happy, safe and healthy. Explore the game world, gather resources, grow crops, and make different useful products. Create different buildings, farms, and factories and offers the best facilities to your citizen. The game lets you a chance to become a leader and show off your leader abilities in front of your fellows. Score the highest points and challenge your friends to beat it. Recruit troops to defend your city from hazards and fight against other nations to conquer. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant features, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom is the best game to play and enjoy.
#47 SpongeBob Moves In
SpongeBob Moves In combines the elements of Action-Adventure, and City-building created by Kung Fu Factory and published by Nickelodeon. The game focuses on the American animated series known as SpongeBob SquarePants. It offers an exciting gameplay and lets the player create his dream city with the simple task to keep all residents happy by offering the best services and fulfill their wishes. The game unlocks advanced features as the player progress through it. There are many characters including Patrick, Sandy, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, etc. The player must navigate the environment to collect resource, decorate his city to attract more people and earn lots of money. Build restaurant, café, hotel and amusement park to entertain residents. Cook delicious food in his restaurant and discover rare recipes to defeat AI competitors. The player can grow different crops and keep his people always fed. Build factories and make useable goods, sell them at agood price and collect enough money to unlock further content. With amazing gameplay, superb mechanics, and lots of levels, SpongeBob Moves In is the best game to play and enjoy.
#48 Rising Cities
Rising Cities is a Massively Multiplayer Online, Strategy, and City-building Simulation created by Bigpoint. The game focuses on strategy, urban development, finance, and power elements. In the beginning, you can start off from a small land, and your job is to turn it into a massive metropolis. There is a chance to assume the role of the mayor, and it’s your responsibility as the mayor to provide all facilities to your citizens. Grow crops to keep your citizen always fed and produce different goods in factories. Use your items and earn lots of money, build different commercial buildings, homes, offices, restaurant and café. Fulfill the desires of citizens and earn money through transport. Become the business tycoon, interact with other players, and show off your abilities. Use your money to develop power plants, buildings, and industry. Purchase different vehicles, create roads and collect rent from different buildings to progress. Rising Cities is the wonderful game that offers superb features, and addictive gameplay. Try it out.
#49 The Promised Land
The Promised Land is a Construction and Management, Adventure, Strategy and Single-player video game created by Alawar Entertainment and published by Buka Entertainment. Become a leader of a small team of settlers and struggle to build your dream colony with tons of items. Your aim is to grow foods to feed your people, provide them shelters to stay, offers jobs to earn money and protect them with robbers, foes and other creatures. Take a start from an empty land and turn it into a massive city. Construct industry to manufacture useful goods, hire staff and sell your product to earn money. Expand your colony and switch your employees to find out the best idea for industry. Discover new technologies, create your farm to grow crops, and progress through each level to rank-up. Keep your people always happy and fed. The game offers a massive world to explore and over fifty characters to controls. Engage yourself in crafting experience and create dozens of weapons for your army to defend your city. With tons of items, exciting features, super cool mechanics, and brilliant gameplay, The Promised Land is the best game to play and enjoy.
#50 Zeus: Master of Olympus
Zeus: Master of Olympus is a City-Building video game created by Impression Games and published by Sierra Entertainment. The game supports Single-player mode and focuses on building element like its previous titles. It takes place in ancient times in Ancient Greece and puts you in the role of the leader, and your task is to develop a city in an ancient time. You can take a start from an empty land and must turn it into a massive city, find resources, manufacture use goods, create buildings, factories, shops, and more. Create your army to defend your city, grow crops to feed your people, and conquer another city to expand your village further. There are different types of resources to gather such as Food resources, Raw materials and more. Craft weapons and upgrades your building, army and resources to enhance your abilities. As the game progress, it becomes more challenging, and you’ll face lots of objectives related to populations, pollution, food shortage, and more. Become a good leader and make your city beautiful. Zeus: Master of Olympus is the best game for those who love playing City-Building Games.