Building games (Caesar 2 to Cities XL)

[s4spencer]

I've been a long time fan of simulation games, especially building ones. Lately i've been throwing hundreds of hours into things like Prison Architect, Space Engineers, Banished, Towns, etc.

 

Problem is, ALPHA builds and indy games like Banished (grumbles something about an unfinished Towns game)

which btw if your familiar with it, there is a new dev team working on it

have a somewhat limited amount of content. I've thought of revisiting games like Towns and Caesar 2 but hoping someone from the LTT forums could toss a few more suggestions to the list, as many good indy games can easily slip past a potentially interested audience.

 

 

For anyone looking for more themselves, here's a list of some good and lesser known ones that I know of

 

Caesar 2 (2D city builder)

Anno 2070 (new-ish, tropico style builder)

Prison Architect

Towns (interesting 2D keep-your-villagers-alive-and-loot-dungeons builder)

Banished (resource management galore)

Space Engineers (minecraft in space)

Tropico

Cities XL

Simcity

[Imabigmac]

Anno 2070 is in my opinion much more than a city builder. You can't go to war in simcity, the trading is much detailed and you actually have to start with basic resources and build up that. It is probably one of my favorite games but it is really only enjoyable if you can play it long sessions.

[thekeemo]

Spore? The building part comes a bit later in the game though

[s4spencer]

Anno 2070 is in my opinion much more than a city builder. You can't go to war in simcity, the trading is much detailed and you actually have to start with basic resources and build up that. It is probably one of my favorite games but it is really only enjoyable if you can play it long sessions.

Yea, my description doesn't do it much justice, and neither does the description of Caesar 2. If your interested in any of those games take the 5 word descriptions with a grain of salt!

 

Spore? The building part comes a bit later in the game though

Played it, and loved it somewhat. The space exploration got a bit dry after a while but it was fun

[thekeemo]

Yea, my description doesn't do it much justice, and neither does the description of Caesar 2. If your interested in any of those games take the 5 word descriptions with a grain of salt!

 

Played it, and loved it somewhat. The space exploration got a bit dry after a while but it was fun

roller coaster tycoon? Old but fun

[s4spencer]

roller coaster tycoon? Old but fun

 

booted up #2 just last week

[Aphexx]

oh god I loved the Caesar games they're soooo good.

 

I've had an alright time playing stronghold crusader its pretty fun like a mesh of a city builder and a tower defence game

[thekeemo]

How could we forget about civilization