Games Like The City Must Grow

The City Must Grow

A new city will be established on a flat plain and its administration has been given to you. In order to keep the administration in your hands, the city needs to develop continuously.

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Land Above Sea Below

72% 👍 OF 152
About This Game

Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.

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1980

89% 👍 OF 686
About This Game

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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Fit More Residents
  • …Advertise for Immigrants
  • …Renovate the Village
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Dorfromantik

96% 👍 OF 29K
About This Game

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …land a perfect tile where all six edges match, earn bonus points and extra tiles, and chain those perfect fits to keep the run going.
  • …build long stretches of track or water until tiny trains and boats start moving across your map.
  • …switch into creative mode and build an unlimited landscape with no pressure, then keep shaping it after a normal run ends.
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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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Preserve

93% 👍 OF 789
About This Game

Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Layered Habitats
  • …Match Animals to Habitats
  • …Shape Rivers and Terrain
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A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism

74% 👍 OF 207
About This Game

In the world of A-Train, people gather around stations, gradually developing the surrounding town. What kind of railroad will you create? How will you develop the town? All these choices and more are yours to make.

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Home Wind

90% 👍 OF 846
About This Game

Home Wind is a minimalist, relaxing and cozy city builder about creating large settlements based on proximity tactics. All for free!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Beside Resources
  • …Use Roaming Animal Bonuses
  • …Earn Prosperity Points
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Pan'orama

89% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Hex-Tile Landscapes
  • …Match Biomes for Points
  • …Assemble Special Structures
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Bee Island

87% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

Play solo or in co-op with friends, take control of the hive and protect it from enemies. Build factories and defence, research technologies and, if necessary, use nuclear weapons, but do not let the enemies harm the queen!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Honeycomb Factories
  • …Command Armed Bees
  • …Man Defensive Turrets
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Thronefall

96% 👍 OF 23K
About This Game

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …turn windmills into booby traps so when enemies smash them, they detonate and blow up the crowd around your walls
  • …plan your town in daylight with no timer, then defend it through night waves until sunrise locks in a checkpoint
  • …pick a weapon that auto-triggers near enemies, then fire its separate active ability on a recharge when the night gets ugly
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Kingdom Two Crowns

90% 👍 OF 39K
About This Game

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …prepare an assault force, enter a portal, and set off a bomb that destroys the cliff portal and permanently changes the island.
  • …swap to a different monarch mid-run by paying coins at a stained-glass building, and each one has a unique power.
  • …turn into a swarm of bats and zip across the land at high speed.