City Builder Video Games Bucket List

The parks go 3D and you can ride your own coaster from the front seat, at night, with fireworks.

The 1989 original: lay down three kinds of zone, watch the traffic, then send a monster through it.

More scenery, a track designer and the version the community still builds in.

The sequel with better roads and a rough launch.

Regions, terraforming and a traffic simulation people still argue with.

Salt the chips, water down the drinks and watch the queues; Bullfrog's management sim.

Lay hexagonal tiles into a landscape; the cosiest strategy game.

Place buildings on small islands for points; ten-minute city-building calm.

Click to build a colourful island town with no goal; Oskar Stalberg's toy.

Thirty years on, a city of factions and a council; the 2024 sequel.

The city builder SimCity should have been, with every citizen simulated on their own commute.

RollerCoaster Tycoon reborn with a coaster editor; Frontier.

Run the last city on Earth around a generator and sign the laws you swore you would not; 11 bit studios.

Zone, tax, build a stadium and watch it burn; the city builder that defined the genre.

Build a park and lay a coaster track piece by piece; Chris Sawyer wrote almost all of it in assembly.