City building games will put you in charge of a municipality. If you really enjoy open-world games, imagine getting the opportunity to create an entire community you can both manage and explore. You’ll be developing various residential, commercial, and industrial districts while you decide where to construct hospitals, schools, and even stadiums. Many of these games take place in modern times, but others will put you in charge of villages and even entire empires many centuries ago or even in the distant future.
Some of these management games are simple and focus on merely constructing skyscrapers, while others are incredibly in-depth and will even require you to design entire water and electrical grids! The still popular SimCity series pretty much kicked off the genre in 1989, although there were earlier titles like Utopia. Many of these older games were held back by the simple graphics and other technological limitations of the ‘80s. Try one of these addictive titles and discover if you have the skills to build a city that will stand the test of time!