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Careful, This City-Builder Starring Cute Mice And Evil Royal Cats Might Suck Away All Your Free Time
23.1.2026
Whiskerwood is out now on PC via early access, but for the most part it feels like a finished game
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A Great New City-Builder, A Terrific New Zombie Shooter, And More Of The Week's Recommendations And Opinions
22.3.2025
Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we’re no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.Read more
Frozen City Builder Frostpunk 2, As Told By Steam Reviews
17.10.2024
If you spent any amount of time playing the original Frostpunk, then you’ll know it and its sequel are unforgiving survival city-building strategy games, where every choice makes a difference in the long run. If you don’t optimize your city layout, choose the correct research, or top up supplies...
Get The First Frostpunk For Cheap Ahead of Its Sequel
18.9.2024
Survival and city-building mashup Frostpunk 2 is set to release in just a couple days on September 20, and fans couldn’t be more excited. That hype is due to just how good its predecessor, 2018’s Frostpunk, is. If you haven’t played the original game, it takes the resource-management and society...
New Strategy Game Is They Are Billions For Lego Freaks And I Can't Put It Down
22.7.2024
I love strategy games, but getting into a new one is always an uphill struggle for me. There’s a ton of new information to take in, new systems to familiarize myself with, and all of the odd quirks and clumsy controls to get accustomed to. But every once in a while one of them instantly gets their...
Devs Explain Why Most Wishlisted Game On Steam Won't Reveal Price Until Launch
25.4.2024
We’re just a few days out from the much-anticipated Early Access launch of the current most Wishlisted game on Steam: Manor Lords. But despite the hype, no one knows how much the medieval city-builder will cost to play. The devs say that’s to prevent misinformation and pre-order scams.Read more
Maybe NOW You Should Play My Favorite City-Builder From 2022
11.5.2023
I wrote a fair bit last year about Ixion, a deep space city-builder than combined the joys of popping in little structures with some 4X elements like exploration, then wrapped it all up in an engrossing story about the dying days of the human race. I loved the game, but I also hated it.Read more
Fabledom Wants To Be The Settlers Successor You've Been Waiting For
18.4.2023
I feel like for the past 12 months I have done nothing but play city-builders. They’re everywhere on Steam right now, but to its credit Fabledom isn’t really a city-builder. It’s more of a big town.Read more
Terrascape Is A Lovely Little City-Builder
13.4.2023
The city-building genre is absolutely having a moment right now, whether at the big end of the market (Cities Skylines 2) or, more popularly, the smaller end (just look at Steam’s sales charts on any day of the week). Sliding effortlessly into this latter category is Terrascape, one of my favourite...
Terra Nil: The Kotaku Review
27.3.2023
Terra Nil is a city-builder that’s not really a city-builder. It plays like one, so it’s easy to use that label as shorthand (developers Free Lives call it a “reverse city-builder”), but Terra Nil doesn’t ask you to lay any roads or worry about residential taxes. It’s more of a “resource management...
Soviet City-Builder Back On Steam After Rogue Fan's DMCA Spree
6.3.2023
Last month the niche city-builder Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic had one hell of a time, after a fan went rogue and got the game’s website and Steam store page taken down.Read more
Report: City-Builder Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue
17.2.2023
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a city-builder that has a particular focus on how urban planning worked alongside the communist economies of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It’s not for everyone, then, but it certainly has its fans.Read more
The Block Is The Perfect (Tiny) City-Builder
21.12.2022
If 2022 is going to be the year of anything, it’s been the year of the city-builder, a strategy sub-genre that has exploded in popularity recently, especially on the PC. While most efforts are focused on sprawling urban landscapes and Viking outposts, and others make city-builders with even more...
Ixion Is A City-Builder In The Cold, Dark Depths Of Space
14.12.2022
Ixion is the latest release from Bulwark Studios, the developers perhaps best known for the dangerously underrated 40K: Mechanicus. Landing in December alongside some blockbusters it too threatens to fly under a lot of people’s radars, and I’m here today mostly to try and make sure that doesn’t...
Supremely Chill Village-Builder Dorfromantik Is Out, You Should Definitely Play It
29.4.2022
Dorfromantik has been out in Early Access on Steam for a while now, and was excellent even then, but now it is out out, and like the headline is saying, you should definitely play it.Read more
Grim Dawn Creators Announce City Builder, Farthest Frontier
28.2.2022
Crate Entertainment, a studio created after the demise of Titan Quest’s Iron Lore, has released one game since its inception 14 years ago. That game was the extraordinarily successful Grim Dawn, an action-RPG that went on to sell over 5 million copies. Today, they’re announcing their new project...
City-Builder Airborne Kingdom Is A Perfect Fit For Switch
11.11.2021
For a city-building game, Airborne Kingdom sure loves to move. The management sim, which is criminally somehow not named Cities in the Skylines, is ostensibly about traveling the world in a floating fortress. Your quest is to accrue resources that will make the fortress float forever. I’ve been...
Terra Nil Isn't A City-Builder, It's A Nature-Builder And It's Great
19.6.2021
There are a lot of great city-building games. Some let you design massive and modern cities. Others focus on historical or even futuristic urban sprawl. And yet others fall into various sub-genres and categories. But none that I’ve played let you do the opposite: Build back all the nature that...
Terra Nil Is A City-Builder Where You Rebuild A Shattered Environment
8.6.2021
While most city-builders pitch themselves as something idyllic, all blue skies and green grass, the upcoming Terra Nil for the PC goes in a slightly different direction, giving you a world that has suffered environmental collapse then asking you to clean it up a bit.Read more
Chill City-Builder Forever
29.3.2021
Life is hard. Sometimes games are hard, and that just reminds me that life is hard, and then everything feels too damn hard. Not early access city-builder Dorfromantik, though. That game is just the right amount of chill.Read more