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Games like SimCity

1989PEGI 3PC

Will Wright's genre-founding city builder: you lay out zones, roads and power and watch your city thrive or struggle with budgets, crime and disasters. An open-ended sandbox with no fixed goals that launched a whole genre.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting
  • Economy and management
  • Cosy, great for unwinding
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In short: Games like SimCity

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes SimCity special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

Similar in what way?

0 of 3

Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

Not for me Exclude horror, turn-based combat, pixel art …

Games where this is clearly part of it are left out, no matter how well the rest fits.

Horror Turn-based combat High difficulty Roguelike runs Shooter Pixel art Grind Survival PvP Open world Card game

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Best match

Shapez

96 %Match

2020PC, Steam Deck playable96 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about SimCity: building and crafting, a sandbox with your own goals as well as economy and management.

You build factories on an infinite map that automatically cut, rotate, paint and stack geometric shapes. It rewards clever layout design and optimization, with no combat or time pressure.

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