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A roman city

If you think the citizens in city builders are grumpy and needy, try pleasing a bunch of jealous Roman gods

By Christopher Livingston published

Vis Major In city builder Nova Roma, the gods can make life easier for you—just don't turn your back on them.

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A large wododen castle on a cliff-face releases a cloud of balloons into the air in Timberborn.

Beaver-themed city-builder Timberborn has gnawed its way out of early access, and surprise! It has Factorio-style automation now

By Rick Lane published

News Beavering away.

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A parade fronted by a marching band glides down a street in Cities Skylines: Race Day

You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years

By Rick Lane published

News Try Colossal Order's original city-builder before Race Day arrives.

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A citizen in a modern city

Cities: Skylines 2's new developer celebrates the occasion with a debut patch all about death, making citizens pop their clogs around the clock and removing immortality in easy mode: 'Previously, about 80% of them never died of old age'

By Rick Lane published

News Fear the reaper.

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Beaver city builder Timberborn

Timberborn gets a 1.0 release date and new 'lore trailer' showing some very thirsty beavers

By Rick Lane published

Mechanistry's city-builder leaves early access in March.

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A city-scene, with houses and tenements dusted by snowfall. Skyscrapers loom in the background, silhouetted by a setting sun.

Cities: Skylines 2's new developer breaks cover on its plans for the sequel's future, revealing a patch that will include changes players 'have been requesting for a long time'

By Rick Lane published

News Better snow effects and a "streamlined" UI are coming to the sequel soon.

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A screenshot of a newspaper generated in Microlandia, with the headline "Petty Thieves Go Big" and an image of a police car.

'Brutally honest' city builder Microlandia gets brutally honest crime simulation: 'It's a spectrum of consequences that can become a death spiral every single day'

By Rick Lane published

News "Cities are not clockwork, they are chaos machines with a mayor attached."

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Medieval peasants

Manor Lords' dev is experimenting with a new trading system that allows for 'deliberate economic strategies', including establishing monopolies on resources

By Rick Lane published

News "You could, for example, attempt to monopolise Iron Slabs by hiring all Merchants on routes that export them."

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A city with a Pokemon-style arena

The city builders of 2026 will let us build in some wild places, including a Pokémon-style world filled with collectible creatures

By Christopher Livingston published

pretty city Build cities on massive trees, on steampunk trains, and even on the back of a cosmic whale.

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Whiskerwood key art with a royally dressed cat offering a tiny slice of cheese to a sad mouse with its hand extended

Whiskerwood looks like an adorable game of cat and mouse, but in reality it's a brutal city builder where my grossly incompetent governance never goes unpunished for long

By Andrea Shearon published

Don't let its adorable mousy colonies fool you.

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