Best City Building Games
Build the city of your dreams.
There is something truly gratifying about starting from scratch and building something up successfully. These city building games are built upon that idea. Start with a small home or building and build to an incredibly vase metropolis with building rising up to the stars. From games like Minecraft that give you the freedom to build whatever your want to Cities Skyline that is focused solely on the city building fantasy, there is something for everyone.
The Sims 4
While its more of a neighborhood building game, it's hard not to put The Sims 4 on this list as your can create yourself, your family, and your friends in a world you create. You can see them go about their everyday life and the game's many expansions add a longevity to a game that already had it in droves.
SimCity
2013's SimCity is a evolution of the many incredible games that came before it. This version has fully realized cities, Sims that react and speak directly to you depending on how you are handling things, a multiplayer option that lets you build a region with your friends, and much more.
LEGO Worlds
LEGO Worlds is a game like Minecraft where the only limitation is your imagination. LEGO Worlds allows players of all ages to build their dream creations with LEGO of all shapes and sizes. You can explore the world with helicopters, dragons, motorbikes, and even gorillas, and many of your creations can come to life and interact with the world itself. It fits in this category because who wouldn't want to see some of the world's greatest cities recreated in LEGO form.
Cities Skylines
Cities Skylines allows players to build the city of their dreams, complete with road networks, bus lines, parks, and much more. Want to build a smog-filled industrial-focused town? Have at it! Want to create a paradise on the beach? Make your city dreams come true. There is also traffic simulation, districts and policies, day/night cycles, and much more.
SimCity Creator
If you still have your Nintendo Wii around for the occasional bowling match, SimCity Creator could be a great addition that could fill that city building void. This Wii title allows players to build a New York-style metropolis, romantic European city, exotic Asian paradise, futuristic Cyberspace, or combine any of them for something completely new and special. Furthermore, you can unleash disasters like earthquakes, meteors, and giant monsters. The Wii remote also allows for drawing curvy roads, placing landmarks, shaping the layout of your city, and more.
Aven Colony
Aven Colony is different that these other choices because it tasks you with take charge of humanity's first extrasolar settlement on a new alien world. You may start by building a small colony, but with good decisions you can build it up to a massive, sprawling city. There is a campaign mode and sandbox mode, and players must also beware of harsh winters, electrical storms, and more.
Frost Punk
Frost Punk is a much more intense, dark, and demanding city builder game, but it is a truly special one. Frost Punk is a city-survival game where decisions you make will be the difference between life and death for those living in your city. You have to make the law, maintain hope, weigh your choices, explore, and much more in this title by Merge Games.
Minecraft
Minecraft is the ultimate sandbox and allows for building everything from the most humblest abode to the most elegant and massive city the world has ever seen. While it isn't strictly a city building game, it allows you to build the city of your dreams with its wide array of customization options and building tools. Minecraft may be the ultimate creating game, and your city is just waiting to be built.