Similar games
Games like City idle
Grest Games OÜ · 2023 · Windows
Steam: 70 % positive of 233 reviews, as of Oct 28
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
24 games that play like City idle and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Foundation, Settlement Survival and Ostriv.
Player tags
Best matches
Plays and looks like City idle
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like City idle
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Foundation
86 % positive of 23,388
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
Settlement Survival
84 % positive of 7,751
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
Ostriv
94 % positive of 6,934
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
Banished
89 % positive of 37,956
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
Ancient Cities
63 % positive of 1,921
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
Babel Legacy
88 % positive of 260
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Pixel Graphics
Cities: Skylines
92 % positive of 219,242
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Building
Kingdoms and Castles
92 % positive of 30,397
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
CivIdle
72 % positive of 1,151
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Exploration
MicroTown
93 % positive of 445
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Pixel Graphics
Stonehearth
76 % positive of 10,664
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
Kingdoms Reborn
89 % positive of 8,887
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
More matches
- Manor Lords83 % positive of 78,085Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Building
- The Universim78 % positive of 8,479Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Hearth and Hamlet79 % positive of 2,343
- Anno 180080 % positive of 30,221Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Exploration
- Farthest Frontier86 % positive of 24,632Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Immersive Sim
- Going Medieval87 % positive of 17,138Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Town to City97 % positive of 6,311
- Humanica92 % positive of 228Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
- TheoTown94 % positive of 4,708Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Exploration
- Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt79 % positive of 892Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Dawn of Man86 % positive of 17,158Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
- Sapiens78 % positive of 2,076Shared: Simulation · Strategy · Colony Sim
By look
Looks like City idle
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
WorldBox - God Simulator
94 % positive of 51,895
Anno 1602 History Edition
77 % positive of 283
Songs of Syx
93 % positive of 9,113
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
96 % positive of 1,904
Hearthlands
82 % positive of 306
MicroTown
93 % positive of 445
Dwarf Fortress
94 % positive of 29,400
Necesse
91 % positive of 24,699
Battle for Wesnoth
94 % positive of 6,050
Home Wind
89 % positive of 847
Timberborn
96 % positive of 39,101
Territory: Farming and Warfare
84 % positive of 746
More matches
- Hearth and Hamlet79 % positive of 2,343
- Graveyard Keeper86 % positive of 40,243
- Clanfolk90 % positive of 3,809
- Roots of Pacha93 % positive of 3,806
- Ymir72 % positive of 844
- Pandora's Toybox82 % positive of 386
- Rise to Ruins87 % positive of 7,248
- Realm Grinder86 % positive of 7,460
- TFC: The Fertile Crescent88 % positive of 375
- RPG MO78 % positive of 2,970
- Project Rebearth70 % positive of 188
- Grimshire97 % positive of 3,336
At a glance
What games like City idle have in common
- The tags they share most often with City idle: Strategy (22 of 24), Simulation (21) and Colony Sim (15).
- They came out between 2014 and 2026, 10 of them after City idle (2023).
- Best rated by Steam players: Town to City (97 % positive of 6,311).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.