Games Like 1980

1980

Welcome to the 1980s! This is a city which just started to develop, and you're in charge of this small urban village. How will the city's future be tied to this place? Manage your land, construct new buildings, explore the stories, and find out the ultimate fate of this urban village!

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Dice Kingdoms

84% 👍 OF 700
About This Game

Compete against friends in games filled with unpredictable twists and turns. Roll the dice to gather resources and test your adaptability. Lead your kingdom to success through military power, religious knowledge, or architectural ingenuity.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Roll for Resources
  • …Reroll at Risk
  • …Build Dice Houses
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Terra Nil

87% 👍 OF 8.7K
About This Game

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Clean Toxic Soil
  • …Shape The Climate
  • …Create New Biomes
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Cardboard Town

80% 👍 OF 2.3K
About This Game

Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Lay Roads And Buildings
  • …Balance City Resources
  • …Respond To Disasters
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Valhalla Hills

55% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

Lead your people. Survive the wilderness. Fight for honor. Reclaim your eternal reward. A brand new strategy game from the developers of Cultures and The Settlers II.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Viking Settlements
  • …Feed Your Vikings
  • …Adapt to Random Mountains
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Constructor Plus

89% 👍 OF 468
About This Game

Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!

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Mad Games Tycoon

91% 👍 OF 4.4K
About This Game

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …develop your own game engine, sell it to other companies, then keep upgrading it after release for more profit.
  • …run an in-house manufacturing pipeline by buying production machines, pressing copies, storing inventory, and reacting to demand so you don't overprint.
  • …develop your own game console, then make games for your own system and build an ecosystem around it.
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Kingdoms and Castles

94% 👍 OF 31K
About This Game

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build castle walls and towers block by block, then stack them absurdly high to mount long-range weapons on top.
  • …watch a dragon fly over your fortifications and burn your fields or granary from the middle of town.
  • …toggle archer and ballista jobs right before an attack so villagers man the defenses, then turn them off to stop paying garrisons.
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Two Point Campus

88% 👍 OF 8.3K
About This Game

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Outdoor Campuses
  • …Teach Jousting Classes
  • …Design Student Dorms
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Space Haven

86% 👍 OF 11K
About This Game

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Design Ships Tile-by-Tile
  • …Manage Ship Atmosphere
  • …Salvage Derelict Ships
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Football, Tactics & Glory

87% 👍 OF 4.4K
About This Game

XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Counter Opposing Formations
  • …Develop Youth Prospects
  • …Train Player Specialties
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Tropico 4

92% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …click any citizen to see their job, home, politics, and daily routine, then decide to reward them, bribe them, brand them, arrest them, or execute them.
  • …commit election fraud, cancel elections, declare martial law, and use secret police, hitmen, and "accidents" to stay in power.
  • …join Cold War sides, flip allegiances, build assault rifles and even a nuclear weapon, and make superpowers back off through force or diplomacy.