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272 games like SimCity

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01 SimCity 4 Cover

2003 · Mac, PC

SimCity 4

87%

SimCity 4 is a city-building simultor. You are in the shoes of one or several mayors, and you are tasked with populating and managing your cities.When you have chosen a segment to place your city in, you will be able to chose between 3 game modes. God mode: T...

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SimCity

87% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

02 TheoTown Cover

2015 · Android, PC, iOS

TheoTown

71%

TheoTown is a city simulation game that lets you build your very own city. As the mastermind behind multiple metropolises, you wield the power to craft awe-inspiring skylines, intricate structures, and bustling city life.

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SimCity

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

03 SimCity BuildIt Cover

2014 · Android, iOS

SimCity BuildIt

67%

Welcome, Mayor! Be the hero of your very own city as you design and create a beautiful, bustling metropolis. Every decision is yours as your city gets larger and more intricate. Make smart choices to keep your citizens happy and your skyline growing. Then trad...

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SimCity

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

04 RollerCoaster Tycoon Cover

1999 · PC, XBOX

RollerCoaster Tycoon

66%

The premise of the game is to complete a series of preset scenarios by successfully building and maintaining amusement parks through business ownership as a theme park entrepreneur. The key to any park is building a large amount and diverse range of rides for...

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SimCity

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

05 Anno 1800 Cover

2019 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Anno 1800

66%

Anno 1800: Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Your match for

SimCity

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Planet Zoo Cover

2019 · PC

Planet Zoo

64%

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the creators of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around the...

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SimCity

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

07 Animal Crossing: New Leaf Cover
63%

The charming community-building franchise returns for with Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The Nintendo 3DS entry into this popular franchise introduces a number of options new to Animal Crossing, including the ability to become the head of the village and boost it...

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SimCity

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

08 Factorio Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Factorio

62%

You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it work...

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SimCity

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

09 Stardew Valley Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Stardew Valley

61%

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrow...

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SimCity

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

10 Tropico 6 Cover

2019 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Tropico 6

61%

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

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SimCity

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

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11 The Sims 2 Cover

2004 · Mac, PC

The Sims 2

60%

In The Sims 2, your Sims will be more lifelike, more responsive, and more complex than ever before. You'll be able to control your Sims over their entire lifetimes, taking them from their first steps to their golden years. Guide them through "Life's Big Moment...

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SimCity

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Cities: Skylines II Cover

2023 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Cities: Skylines II

60%

Create and manage your own city without restrictions. Offering a deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II will challenge your decision-making skills and allow you to build the cities of your dreams. Get ready for a new epic scale in the most r...

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SimCity

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

13 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Cover

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the ultimate real-time soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Construct your own republic and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower!

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SimCity

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

14 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Cover
58%

Escape to a deserted island and create your own paradise as you explore, create, and customize in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Your island getaway has a wealth of natural resources that can be used to craft everything from tools to creature comforts. You can...

Your match for

SimCity

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

15 Don't Starve Together Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Don't Starve Together

58%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve. Discover and explore a massive procedurally generated and biome-rich world with countless resources and threats. Wheth...

Your match for

SimCity

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

16 Cities: Skylines Cover

2015 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Cities: Skylines

57%

Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and utilities, and balanc...

Your match for

SimCity

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

17 Euro Truck Simulator 2 Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

Euro Truck Simulator 2

54%

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a vehicle simulation game and a direct sequel to the 2008 game Euro Truck Simulator. Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore from t...

Your match for

SimCity

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Business Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

18 Age of Empires III Cover

2005 · Mac, PC

Age of Empires III

51%

In this highly anticipated next installment in the Age of Empires franchise from Ensemble Studios, Age of Empires III places players in the time period of roughly 1500–1850, picking up where Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings left off. As players work to esta...

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SimCity

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

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19 Untitled Goose Game Cover

2019 · Mac, Switch, PC

Untitled Goose Game

51%

It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose. Untitled Goose Game is a slapstick-stealth-sandbox, where you are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village. Make your way around town, from peoples' back gardens to the high street shops t...

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SimCity

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

20 Sid Meier's Civilization V Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, PC

Sid Meier's Civilization V

50%

Sid Meier's Civilization V is a turn-based strategy game in which players lead a civilization from the ancient era through the future. Players found cities, research technologies, build improvements, train military units, and engage in diplomacy with AI or hum...

Your match for

SimCity

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Multiplayer Mode ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Multiplayer Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

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