Top 12 games similar to Cities: Skylines

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   Cities: Skylines II

   Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

   Simulation
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   Prison Architect

   Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

   IndieSimulationStrategy
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   Banished

   In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

   IndieSimulationStrategy
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   Planet Coaster

   Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

   ActionAdventureCasual
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   Tropico 5

   Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

   RPGSimulationStrategy
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   Euro Truck Simulator 2

   Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.

   IndieSimulation
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   Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

   Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

   Strategy
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   Planet Zoo

   Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers 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 them.

   CasualSimulationStrategy
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   Frostpunk

   Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

   SimulationStrategy
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    RimWorld

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    IndieSimulationStrategy
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    SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

    SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

    SimulationStrategy
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    Foundation

    Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

    IndieSimulationStrategy