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Best City-Building Games for Creating a Place That Works

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City Builders Where Every Neighbourhood Tells a Story
City Builders Where Every Neighbourhood Tells a Story
by game_tinkerer  • 
14 in common: Cities: Skylines II, SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition and 12 more
A neighbourhood becomes interesting when its position and purpose make a difference. A long commute, a badly placed factory or a missing local service can explain more about a city than its...
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Strategy Games for People Who Prefer Building to Fighting
Strategy Games for People Who Prefer Building to Fighting
by game_tinkerer  • 
10 in common: Settlement Survival, Farthest Frontier and 8 more
A successful settlement can be a better reward than another conquered province. These strategy games put supply, transport, construction and people's needs at the centre of play. Some remove...
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Management Games for People Who Love Fixing a Mess
Management Games for People Who Love Fixing a Mess
by game_tinkerer  • 
5 in common: Tropico 6, Frostpunk and 3 more
A stalled conveyor, an impossible queue or a cold housing block is more interesting when you can work out why it happened. These games offer problems worth diagnosing and changes whose effects you...
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Best Strategy Games for Meaningful Decisions
Best Strategy Games for Meaningful Decisions
by game_tinkerer  • 
4 in common: Against the Storm, Frostpunk and 2 more
Ranked for clear trade-offs, viable alternatives and the need to adapt when circumstances change. The order favours decisions you can understand and revisit, rather than complexity, historical...
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Games Where Weather Changes How You Play
Games Where Weather Changes How You Play
by game_tinkerer  • 
3 in common: Frostpunk, Timberborn and 1 more
A storm is more interesting when it changes a decision. These games make weather affect routes, visibility, vehicle control, supplies or the way a settlement survives. Some let you exploit an...
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Building Games for People Who Care More About Beauty Than Efficiency
Building Games for People Who Care More About Beauty Than Efficiency
by game_tinkerer  • 
2 in common: Foundation and Cities: Skylines
Sometimes the right next building is the one that makes the view feel complete. These games give you room to compose a place, from a tiny courtyard to a whole skyline. The recommendations explain...
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Space Colony Games That Make Every New Arrival Matter
Space Colony Games That Make Every New Arrival Matter
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Surviving Mars: Relaunched
A new arrival should change more than the population counter. These space-colony and station games make recruitment, rescue or waking a sleeper matter through skills, needs, relationships or the...
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Solo-Developed Games With a Distinctive Point of View
Solo-Developed Games With a Distinctive Point of View
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Banished
Games whose original core development was led primarily by one person, chosen for a recognisable creative idea rather than the romance of working alone. Music, art, writing, voices, business...
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Games That Make Logistics Surprisingly Compelling
Games That Make Logistics Surprisingly Compelling
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
One junction is holding up the whole network. One machine is waiting for a component that is sitting, unhelpfully, on the wrong side of the factory. These games make such ordinary problems...
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Transport Games Where the Network Is the Star
Transport Games Where the Network Is the Star
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
A useful interchange can be more exciting than a new engine. These games make the routes, connections and capacity of a transport system central to the decisions you make. Passengers need...
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Games You Can Pause When Real Life Interrupts
Games You Can Pause When Real Life Interrupts
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Cities: Skylines
A good game can be demanding and still make room for an interruption. These recommendations use the PC versions and the modes named in each entry. Some provide a full pause during action; others...
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Video Games Everyone Should Play at Least Once
Video Games Everyone Should Play at Least Once
by game_tinkerer  • 
In common: Cities: Skylines
A starting shelf for discovering what games can do: let you solve a problem your own way, inhabit an unfamiliar life, build something personal or share a ridiculous evening. These choices cross...
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Point-and-Click Adventures With Built-In Hints Worth Using
Point-and-Click Adventures With Built-In Hints Worth Using
by game_tinkerer  • 
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For an evening when you want to solve an adventure yourself and still have somewhere to turn after getting stuck. I rank these by how well the help can offer a small, relevant nudge, how much...
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Point-and-Click Adventures Worth Sharing With a Child
Point-and-Click Adventures Worth Sharing With a Child
by game_tinkerer  • 
More from game_tinkerer
Share the decisions, take turns with the mouse and leave room for a child's wonderfully unexpected suggestion. These adventures offer different ways to solve things together: spoken errands in...
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Visual Novels With Rewarding Non-Romantic Paths
Visual Novels With Rewarding Non-Romantic Paths
by game_tinkerer  • 
More from game_tinkerer
Close relationships can find their resolution through friendship, family, loyalty or shared work. These English PC visual novels and visual-novel hybrids give those bonds room to develop. Some...
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Real-Time Strategy Campaigns Worth Revisiting
Real-Time Strategy Campaigns Worth Revisiting
by game_tinkerer  • 
Trending in Games
A good campaign gives you a reason to change the plan. An evacuation, a moving front or a mission built around a small force can be more memorable than another hour of producing the same...
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