Games like City Maker
If City Maker is your kind of game, the closest matches are Timber, Ancient Islands and Rail Route — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Players who liked City Maker also play
Steam players who put hours into City Maker also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Timber
WHY THIS
Top pick for City Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
Build and manage your industrial empire unlike ever before. Dive into Timber: where strategic resource management meets the forest.
Ancient Islands
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for City Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with City Maker.
Tower-defense mixed with economy elements. It features complex skill trees, resource trading, building your own village, and setting individual tactics for each tower. Can you defend what you've built from hordes of enemies? Visit Ancient Islands and test your tactical sense!
Rail Route
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for City Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Trade City
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for City Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
Trade City is a simple city building game that you build your own city by building/developing new buildings.Grow your city with production and trade, and conquer other cities on the map without fighting.
From Embers
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for City Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with City Maker.
A survival city-builder where every villager has a name, a family, and a eulogy. Build their civilization through four ages, brutal winters, and monster raids — then prestige and let their legacy echo into your next run.
East Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for City Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
East DefenseYour duty is to protect the castle by strategically building & upgrading towers to stop monsters from coming their way!
Twas The Night
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for City Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
Build and manage Santa's North Pole mega-workshop in this festive city builder where workshops produce toys for the world's children. Spend Christmas Spirit to create new holiday traditions and upgrade your workshops, but lose your spirit and you'll cease to exist.
Flip TD - Tower Defense
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for City Maker fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
Flip Tower Defense on it's head in Flip TD. Flip your world upside down to defend with towers, upgrades, modifiers, powers, and more. Build custom worlds with the in-game world builder and share them online to compete for high scores in the community leaderboards.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below City Maker at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under City Maker on Steam right now. Shares Casual with City Maker.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under City Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with City Maker.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under City Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with City Maker.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under City Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City Maker.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under City Maker on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City Maker.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with City Maker.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with City Maker.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with City Maker.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with City Maker.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with City Maker.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with City Maker.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with City Maker.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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More from Emerick Gibson
Other recommendable Steam games by Emerick Gibson, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Crate Mates
WHY THIS
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind City Maker. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
The pinnacle of warehouse simulators. Crate Mates is a block pushing puzzle game with a unique twist: Gravity.
Hexton
WHY THIS
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind City Maker. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
Explore, build, harvest. Hexton is a relaxing building game where you try to create the largest city possible. Looking for a light challenge? This game's for you!
The people of Sea, Sun & Salt
WHY THIS
Another title from Emerick Gibson, the studio behind City Maker. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Maker.
Will you create a lasting civilization or see it collapse into the sea? In Sea, Sun & Salt, you build a city on a small mediterranean island. Define the tenets of your culture, deal with your subjects' needs and withstand the forces of the elements.
Frequently asked about City Maker
- How much does City Maker cost?
- City Maker is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to City Maker?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside City Maker are Timber, Ancient Islands, Rail Route.
- Who developed City Maker?
- City Maker was developed by Emerick Gibson.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on City Maker.
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