City Builder games on Steam
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Steam tag · 4,113 games · 565 released in the last 12 months · median 77% positive across 1,700 games with 10+ reviews · 4,190,301 Steam reviews
Share of new releases
2.1% of new Steam releases in the last 12 months (565 games), 2.3% the 12 before (431). By year: 2014: 1.5%, 2015: 1.4%, 2016: 1.0%, 2017: 0.87%, 2018: 0.96%, 2019: 1.5%, 2020: 1.4%, 2021: 2.0%, 2022: 2.1%, 2023: 2.4%, 2024: 2.1%, 2025: 2.2%, 2026: 2.2%.
Most reviewed City Builder games
- Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI · 2016
- Cities: Skylines · 2015
- RimWorld · 2018
- Factorio · 2020
- Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition · 2019
- Frostpunk · 2018
- Age of Empires II (Retired) · 2013
- Dyson Sphere Program · 2021
Breakouts of the last 12 months
- Timberborn · 2026
- Going Medieval · 2026
- Heartopia · 2026
- Anno 117: Pax Romana · 2025
- Space Haven · 2026
- Transport Fever 3 · 2026
- Town to City · 2026
- Pioneers of Pagonia · 2025
Often paired with
Strategy, Simulation, Building, Management, Base Building, Resource Management, 3D, Sandbox, Economy, Colony Sim