Your job as overseer is to ensure the survival of your citizens. This involves mining minerals for resources, building hospitals, and maintaining order. Once your city is stable, the game then introduces bigger goals to entice you further.
This may include large-scale military operations or exploration missions. The Settlers have always been one of the longest-running hybrid video games in modern history and it oddly combines city-building with real-time strategy RTS and many other elements from other genres.
This depends on which Settler game we're talking about but The Settlers: Paths to a Kingdom is one of the rare gems in the franchise. It takes place in a medieval world, making it a unique title in this list as well for its ingenuity alone. It borrows mechanics from Civilization games where you get to pick a leader or faction and build your mere plot of land into your own empire through military actions, development, and many more aspects not present in other city builders.
Banished is one of the most unique takes on the city-building formula for this list since it delves into a setting that's practically unexplored in its genre: medieval era. In that regard, you control a group of exiled travelers in Banished whereupon you're forced to build your village and eventually city from scratch after being banished by a feudal lord.
This also makes Banished a survival title on top of a city-builder-- something you don't usually experience in city-builder games. The game even makes it so that your primary resource is townspeople who get old, get sick, and even die, making managing them an important element of this game. It's worth playing alone for its unique take. Continuing with our space theme, we have Madruga Works' Planet Base. All the usual suspects are here: base building, resource management, and citizen satisfaction.
Where Planet Base sets itself apart is its varying types of planets. The game allows you to choose between four different planets , each with increasing difficulty and different environmental hazards to contend with. For instance, the frozen planet will pit you against sub-zero temperatures, while the Storm Planet will hit you with a deluge of storm effects. It is up to you to keep your pioneers alive long enough to create a stable and liveable colony.
Frostpunk , as the title suggests, focuses on the importance of warmth and surviving the harsh cold. In an alternate version of history, humanity has been defeated by climate change and been forced to contend with extreme cold that has decimated most of the planet. The tale is a grim one, to be sure. As the leader of humanity's last hope , you must use what little resources are left to try and construct a haven to keep the dwindling population alive. Frostpunk is not for the weak-willed and will challenge you both technically and morally.
As the story unfolds you will be faced with difficult choices that will ultimately change the world around you. The level of depth and storytelling in Frostpunk is rarely seen in this genre. Few games are as addictive in nature as Anno The game intrigues players by using the carrot-on-a-stick method that rewards you consistently the more you play. Set in the not-so-distant future, Anno provides players the opportunity to reshape civilization after disasters have decimated much of the planet we're sensing a common theme.
There is a little something for everyone here: large-scale economies to manage, warfare among other factions, and deep gameplay. No seriously, you can build a city underwater! Embrace the future and build a new world.
Tropico is a far lighter take on the city-building genre than our last few entries. That is to say, it is far more comedic in nature. The gameplay here is still complex enough to keep you busy for hours on end. In Tropico 6, you begin as a governor in the Colonial era, with aspirations of becoming "El Presidente" of your ever-evolving island nation. Turn your micropolis into the place to be and become a leader of all the cities on the map.
Flash Games. City Construction Simulator. Read more.. However, it features interesting new additions that eventually make it slightly better than Caesar III. The gameplay is pretty straight forward, you need to attract more settlers in order to grow by giving them home, food and jobs. The game also emphasizes strongly on religious and entertainment aspect once your settlement gains a considerable amount of population.
Pharaoh challenges players with its complex production chain. Resource distribution further tests the level of management skills you possess. Anno or Dawn of Discovery in the U. S is one of the most dynamic and popular city-building games out there. While the events in the game are purely fictional, creators have based them on various aspects of medieval Europe. Like other games in the Anno series, you must colonize new islands, set up farms and factories to fulfill the various needs of your folks.
One of the most important aspects of the game is trade. Without an effective trade system in place, your city might never grow after a certain level. Tropico 5 is the fifth installment of the popular Tropico city building and management series.
At first, the game may look similar to its precursor given its identical graphics, characters and sound effects. However, Tropico 5 brings a lot new to the table. It became the very first game in the entire series to provide a multiplayer feature. Banished is a unique city building game that will test your resource management skills in the direst situations.
Here you are in charge of a small group of exiled travelers, who are now looking forward to building their community, have their own homes and a family. You must take care of these citizens by keeping them well-fed and happy all the time in order to grow. You need to assign the population to do specific jobs such as fishing, farming, mining, and teaching, etc. The game also has no skill tree, which means any type of building can be constructed at any point in time, provided that workers already have all the needed resources.
Instead of currency or money, a barter system is used to trade resources. SimCity 4 is perhaps the most popular installment of the SimCity franchise. Like its precursors, SimCity 4 also project players as mayors, who are responsible for the development of the cities.
However, cities are divided into regions and each of the regions can be developed separately. In order to be successful, players have to carefully manage finance and resource distribution for its citizens. For the first time, features like day and night cycles were added. Snapshot taken from IGN Review. Cities: Skylines is perhaps one of the best city-building games out there. Since its initial release in , the game has become one of the fan favorites.
It features a mixture of new and old elements that enhances the overall city building experience. To succeed, you need to regulate the economic, social and environmental state of the city.
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