Games like City Play
Below are 11 hand-picked alternatives to City Play for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in City Play also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks, more from FrameLineNetwork. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
Get personalized picks →About City Play: CityPlay is a city builder simulator! Create your own dream city in this tycoon
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Realm Grinder
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with City Play.
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
Let's School Homeroom
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with City Play.
Let's School: Homeroom is the prologue of Let's School. You can experience 2 weeks of in game time. If you like the experience, please go to Let's School Full Version's Store page and add to wishlist!
Oxygen: First Breath
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
TM - Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!
Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with City Play.
Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.
United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
These Doomed Isles: The First God
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with City Play.
These Doomed Isles: The First God is a prologue chapter of the main game, These Doomed Isles. Play as Cernunnos, the Celtic god of nature, and lead the Celtic civilisation to victory against waves of invaders, curses and more!
Narrow it down
More from FrameLineNetwork
Other recommendable Steam games by FrameLineNetwork, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
The Terminal 2
WHY THIS
Another title from FrameLineNetwork, the studio behind City Play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City Play.
'The Terminal 2' game is a realistic airport management game. Land, park, unload, load, fuel and take off your fleet. The better you play the more planes you get every game-day. Expand your airport with more jetways, runways and terminal buildings. Connect the local transportation to get more passengers to your Terminal complex.
Jurassic Island: The Dinosaur Zoo
WHY THIS
Another title from FrameLineNetwork, the studio behind City Play. Shares Strategy with City Play.
Come and build your own dinosaur world with this unique Jurassic Island Zoo game! Operate a successful dinosaur park by attracting many visitors. Join the community and build your own creation! It takes only 2 minutes to build a Zoo: http://youtu.
Bus Tycoon ND (Night and Day)
WHY THIS
Another title from FrameLineNetwork, the studio behind City Play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City Play.
Start building your passenger bus transport empire between cities all night and day! Bus Tycoon ND (Night and Day) is a passenger transport tycoon game. Start building your transport empire by creating bus routes between as many cites as possible.
Frequently asked about City Play
- Who developed City Play?
- City Play was developed by FrameLineNetwork.
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 Play.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.