Top 13 Games Like SimCity (2013): Page 13 of 13

Top 13 Games Like SimCity (2013)
Few things are as satisfying as watching something you built come to life.


1. Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines trailer

Many see Cities: Skylines as the true successor to the SimCity dynasty right now. And, truly, it’s a very worthy city-builder. Colossal Order has another title on this list (Cities in Motion 2), but they really struck gold with Cities: Skylines. The game manages to take the best elements of other great games in the genre (like SimCity 4 and the 2013 SimCity) and expand upon them in a very satisfying way.

Cities: Skylines introduces a very intelligent system for keeping track of virtually every person in the game, much like SimCity (2013), but it does it even better. Players can also expand their cities by buying neighboring parcels of land, and this leads to potentially massive cities. The game’s controls are also very intuitive, making it easy to play and build exactly what you picture in your head. There’s also an entire arsenal of diverse building choices, and you can zone and individually manage different areas within your city.

Colossal Order put a lot of time and effort into their simulations, and it shows. The streets of your city are lively places to be, and it’s fun to just watch your citizens go about their business. Even the buildings boast plenty of detail. Cities: Skylines does lack the ability to interact between cities, but it is mod-friendly by design, and its expansion packs have dealt with other previously missing critical elements like weather, a day-night cycle and natural disasters. Cities: Skylines obviously draws inspiration from SimCity (2013) but, lover of quirky and funny SimCity (2013) that I am, I have to admit this game has its own identity and is the better city-builder by some distance.

The game keeps track of virtually all its citizens individually.

Build massive cities by purchasing adjacent plots of land.

And there you have it, the top 13 games like SimCity (2013). If you’re the kind of gamer who simply loves to build and create, or if you simply like the idea of bossing around your own little people in your own little world, these are great options and you’ll definitely want to give them a try. That’s the charm of city-building games: you get to build your own little world and experience it, and you get to call the shots and decide what direction your masterpiece will take. Happy building!

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