Games like City Limits
If City Limits is your kind of game, the closest matches are CITYVENTORY, DEEPLANDERS and Mini Motorways — 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.
Get personalized picks →About City Limits: Relax and build cities on a desolate tranquil island. Plan ahead to cover the island efficiently by combining buildings and cementing your place on a tile. Each turn an entity spreads, attempting to take over barren or unstable tiles.
Players who liked City Limits also play
Steam players who put hours into City Limits 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.
CITYVENTORY
WHY THIS
Top pick for City Limits fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
CITYVENTORY is a minimalist city builder/inventory management game where you build colorful cities just like you are organizing your inventory. Place and move your tiles freely, synergize them to earn points and build the best city possible!
DEEPLANDERS
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for City Limits fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game about populating the depths and bringing light into them. Build cozy underground cities and find the perfect place for each Deeplander to live in harmony.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for City Limits fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with City Limits.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
HEXAROMA: Village Builder
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for City Limits fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
HEXAROMA is a charming village builder set on a tiny island village where you start your Hexling colony! Place your buildings, and manage Hexling villagers on a hexagonal island. Plan your placements wisely, grow your settlement, optimize your colony and help your villagers thrive.
Kingdomino
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for City Limits fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
Kingdomino is a cosy 1-4 player tile-laying strategy game of kingdom building. Place colorful dominoes, match terrains, and crown your lands to create the most prosperous realm. Simple to learn yet deeply strategic game perfect for quick sessions, solo challenges, or competitive multiplayer.
Islantiles
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for City Limits fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
Islantiles is a cozy but compulsive roguelike deckbuilder. Unlock powerful technology cards, shape your deck to craft game-breaking combos, and grow your settlements to glory in this ultra-satisfying roguelike!
ISLANDERS: New Shores
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for City Limits fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for City Limits fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below City Limits at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under City Limits on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City Limits.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under City Limits on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City Limits.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under City Limits on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City Limits.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under City Limits on Steam right now. Shares Casual with City Limits.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under City Limits on Steam right now. Shares Casual with City Limits.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under City Limits on Steam right now. Shares Casual with City Limits.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under City Limits on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under City Limits on Steam right now. Shares Indie with City Limits.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with City Limits.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 Limits.
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 Limits.
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 Limits.
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 Limits.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with City Limits.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Mini Motorways
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Casual with City Limits.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
ISLANDERS: New Shores
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Wingspan
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Limits.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
Frequently asked about City Limits
- How much does City Limits cost?
- City Limits is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to City Limits?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside City Limits are CITYVENTORY, DEEPLANDERS, Mini Motorways.
- Who developed City Limits?
- City Limits was developed by SpaceMyFriend.
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 Limits.
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