The Best City-building Games for Playstation 4
By Jessica Wilkins
Update : SteamWorld Build added at rank #2.
Here are our 10 Best City-building Games for Playstation 4:Airborne Kingdom (2020)
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Airborne Kingdom is a strategy simulator game that presents a unique concept of relocating a civilization to the skies. The game has a mysterious set up and setting, which intrigues and immerses the player in a vibrant and alive game world with organic world building and lore. Manage your air kingdom as you move to discover new resources, all while making sure your residents are happy, and enjoy the immersive experience of this visually stunning game world.
What we like:
- Innovative mechanics
- Beautiful visuals
- Compelling gameplay
- Relaxing and meditative
- Ear-worm soundtrack
- Lack of replay value & short gameplay time
- Limited depth in city development
- Slow progression
- High price for amount of content
- city-building
- relaxing
- steampunk
- resource
SteamWorld Build (2023)
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Break ground on a new frontier as the planet dies around you! Dig deep and build wide to excavate long-lost spacefaring technology, while ensuring everyone has the vital water, fuel and creature comforts they need! Do you have what it takes to reach the final frontier?
- city-building
- management
- robots
- steampunk
- economy
Cities: Skylines (2015)
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Build and maintain your own city with Cities: Skylines, where you must balance essential requirements like education, electricity, and healthcare while navigating your city's real economy system. With extensive traffic, district, and policy simulations, you have a multi-tiered and challenging environment to master. Customize and share your creations with other city builders. Don't miss out on this modern take on the classic city simulation game!
What we like:
- Realistic city building simulation
- Fun to plan, execute, and manage a city
- Plethora of mods available
- DLC adds interesting gameplay
- Can enjoy the game without purchasing DLC
- Vanilla game is very basic
- city-building
- simulation
Before We Leave (2020)
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Before We Leave is a city-building game set in a post-apocalyptic world where you can grow your own civilization across various islands and planets. The game's atmosphere is calming and relaxed, and the music matches the gameplay perfectly. There are no violent elements, and you can grow your society at your own pace. With a good mix of resource management and logistics, the game is enjoyable for players who want a peaceful way to spend their time.
What we like:
- Well-paced tutorial
- Cute and relaxing game style
- Variety of progression and resources
- Good logistics challenge
- Smart Shipping makes trading easier
- Limited tech tree depth
- Population growth doesn't add value
- Lack of equalization across planets
- Game-breaking bug in late trading
- city-building
- 4x
- resource
- resource-management
- hex
Tropical Resort Story (2022)
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In Tropical Resort Story, you get to develop your own lush island full of nature and create the most luxurious resort possible. From building accommodations to discovering great travel packages, you can make your guests' dreams come true. Improve the ocean water quality by adding marine plants and rocks in the ocean, and releasing fish you've caught while fishing. With more tourists visiting your island, you get to open stores and restaurants, and even create new products. This game will keep you hooked on creating your tropical paradise!
What we like:
- Ability to create immersive natural environment
- Opportunity to collaborate with business partners
- Discovering winning combinations of features
- Colorful and appealing graphics and sound effects
- Easy to learn and play
- Janky handling on desktop
- Narrow grid range makes building efficiency difficult
- Limited challenge, low pressure gameplay
- colony
- simulation
- city-building
- 2d
- casual
- nature
- building
- pixel
- cute
- colourful
- relaxing
- fishing
Surviving Mars (2018)
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Colonize Mars and build the first functioning human colonies on the Red Planet in Surviving Mars. Choose a space agency for resources before determining a location for your colony, and then build domes and infrastructure, research new possibilities, and utilize drones to expand your settlement. Keep your colonists alive and unlock the mysteries of this alien world. Each colonist is a unique individual with problems and strengths that influence the behavior of the others, making for a challenging and immersive gameplay experience. Are you ready to build a smart, functional colony on a planet not fit for human life?
What we like:
- Addictive gameplay loop
- Good music and graphics
- Unique "city builder in space" concept
- Interesting mods available
- Realistic colonization of Mars theme
- Heavily reliant on DLCs for complete experience
- Shallow gameplay with limited decision-making
- Slow pace with lack of backstory
- Inconsistent quality in available buildings and vehicles
- city-building
- simulation
- survival
- sci-fi
- mars
Grow: Song of The Evertree (2021)
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Grow: Song of the Evertree is an awe-inducing experience firmly planted between an adventure game and a sweet casual farm game. The game is beautiful with opportunities to explore the world around you and keep it casual with the gameplay, whilst feeding you the story. You get to customize your character and go on a journey to save the Evertree and nurture the world back to health from the Withering. You even get your very own sweet dragon companion!
What we like:
- Beautiful art style & music
- Customizable character
- Relaxed gameplay
- Dragon companion
- Non-binary characters supported
- No punishment or rush for doing things wrong
- Slow going
- Not strictly accessible in terms of customization options
- farming
- simulation
- city-building
- wholesome
- open-world
- management
- sandbox
- exploration
- agriculture
- cute
- life
- world-crafting
- colourful
- relaxing
- nature
Urbek City Builder (2022)
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Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
- city-building
- voxel
- agriculture
- building
- resource-management
- simulation
- modern
- management
- economy
- procedural
- political
- sandbox
- minimalist
- replay-value
- family-friendly
Dawn of Man (2019)
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Dawn of Man is a thrilling journey through human prehistory where you guide your tribe through challenges of survival and expansion. With realistic challenges and beautiful graphics, you will hunt wild animals, gather resources, expand and fortify your settlement, research technologies, and build megalithic structures while planning for harsh winters and domesticate animals to provide food and resources. If you love city-builders and survival games, Dawn of Man is a must-play.
What we like:
- Realistic challenges
- Beautiful graphics
- Clever worker AI
- Automated tasks
- Engaging gameplay
- Limited content
- Tedious micromanagement during large tribes
- AI issues with harvest and carts
- Limited scenarios and map variety
- city-building
- colony
- survival
- strategy
- simulation
Dwarrows (2020)
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A peaceful 3rd person adventure and town-building game. Explore, gather, build, befriend, and quest in a beautifully handcrafted world. Build and grow a new settlement and explore the lands surrounding it in this Peaceful Action-Adventure & Town-Builder. Search the lush forests of the Dusken Woodlands for resources, and adventure through mysterious new places to find lost artifacts. Meet strange and quirky characters along the way, invite wandering people to join your town, and befriend cute animals who may help you in your travels. Control your team of three uniquely skilled characters to gather resources, build structures, and find treasure.
- city-building
- economy
- kickstarter
- -
- 3d
- platform
- soundtrack
- base-building
- exploration
- management
- open-world
- third-person
- building
- cute
- puzzle
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