Update 31 December 2023: Chinese Empire added at rank #24.
Here are our 10 Best City-building Games for Nintendo Switch: 1Townscaper (2020)
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Play Video: TownscaperPC Windows Mac OS IOS iPhone Xbox Series X Xbox One Android Nintendo Switch
Townscaper is a relaxing and creative town-builder game that lets you design your own picturesque floating towns with ease. With its colorful blocks and shapes that you can mix and match, you can create your dream villages whether you’re fidgeting or multitasking. The absence of missions or objectives allows you to immerse yourself fully in your creative flow and design your perfect idyllic town in no time. Get Townscaper for a soothing and creative gaming experience!
What we like:- Simple mechanics
- Stress-free
- Perfect for fidgeting
- Limited building tools and updates
- Lack of variety in buildings and structures
- Unsymmetrical grid pattern
- No greenery except in enclosed areas
- Building larger structures can be tedious
- city-building
- experimental
- grid
- cute
- sandbox
- minimalist
- building
- short
- relaxing
Good match + 717 Bad match - 1264
2Terra Nil (2023)
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Play Video: Terra NilPC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone Android
Restore the environment to its former glory in Terra Nil, a reverse city-builder game that challenges you to rebuild a barren wasteland. Build grasslands, forests, wetlands and more using advanced eco-technology, and leave behind a pristine wilderness for the animals. With procedurally generated landscapes, each playthrough is unique, challenging and unpredictable. Terra Nil offers a peaceful, meditative experience with lush hand-painted environments, relaxing music and ambient soundscape. Immerse yourself in the natural beauty of the ecosystem you've restored with Appreciate mode.
What we like:- Relaxing and engrossing gameplay loop
- Gorgeous and vibrant hand-painted graphics
- Procedurally generated maps create a unique experience with each playthrough
- Effortless and straightforward game mechanics
- Well-balanced difficulty that is not too challenging nor too easy
- Limited amount of content for its price
- Limited replayability
- city-building
- relaxing
- strategy
- meditative
- resource-management
- puzzle
- isometric
Good match + 56 Bad match - 6
3Airborne Kingdom (2020)
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Play Video: Airborne KingdomXbox One Xbox Series X Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Playstation 4
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
Good match + 702 Bad match - 1325
4SteamWorld Build (2023)
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Play Video: SteamWorld BuildNintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X/s
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
Good match + 2 Bad match
5Before We Leave (2020)
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Play Video: Before We LeavePC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS
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
Good match + 134 Bad match - 242
6Tropical Resort Story (2022)
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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android Nintendo Switch Playstation 4
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
Good match + 11 Bad match - 2
7Grow: Song of The Evertree (2021)
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Play Video: Grow: Song of The EvertreeXbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4
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
Good match + 100 Bad match - 206
8Urbek City Builder (2022)
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Play Video: Urbek City BuilderXbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 l
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
Good match + 1 Bad match
9Kingdom Eighties (2023)
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Play Video: Kingdom EightiesAndroid Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone
Kingdom Eighties is a standalone expansion to the award-winning Kingdom series. A singleplayer epic adventure of micro-strategy and base building. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed, and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
- pixel
- micro-strategy
- colony
- base-building
- city-building
- tower-defense
- strategy
- simulation
- survival
- economy
- resource-management
- building
- skateboard
- medieval
- procedural
Good match + 5 Bad match
10Dice Legacy (2021)
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Play Video: Dice LegacyNintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X
Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.
- city-building
- dice
- rogue-like
- real-time
- strategy
- survival
- colony
- resource
- medieval
- board-game
- resource-management
Good match + 214 Bad match - 408
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