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Best free city-building games like SimCity

Zone, build and grow a city in your browser: SimCity-style builders, a town that grows itself, and a few smaller city sims.

8 games · ranked by players' votes, then plays · updated September 2026

  1. 1

    GridCity

    by u/fabianolecce

    Build your city in the style of classic SimCity (1989), entirely in the browser: zones, power, water, traffic, disasters, isometric 3D view. Free, no install required.

    strategy3dsandbox
    0 2 players
  2. 2

    3D.City

    by lo-th

    You zone, build roads and power lines, and manage a growing city in a 3D city-builder simulation.

    3dsandboxtoy
    0 2 players
  3. 3

    Townscaper (web toy)

    by Oskar Stålberg

    Click the water and a little town grows itself.

    toy3d
    0 0 players
  4. 4

    Moonlit Grid

    by @himanshutwtxs

    A calm indie city-builder. $2.99 on itch.io, with a free demo in your browser.

    0 0 players
  5. 5

    Royal Family

    by CoffeeFirst Games

    You place six chess pieces on a 5x5 board so every coloured zone gets one piece and none of them attack each other.

    dailypuzzlestrategy
    0 0 players
  6. 6

    Microcity

    by eliot-akira

    You zone land, lay roads and power, and grow a tiny city in a simulation based on Micropolis.

    strategysandbox
    0 0 players
  7. 7

    Cimulity

    by zeikar

    You zone residential, commercial and industrial land and balance a budget in a minimal city sim.

    strategysandbox
    0 0 players
  8. 8

    MiniTown

    built with Codex (GPT)

    You lay out roads and zones in a tiny voxel town and watch residents move in, commute to work and light up their homes at night.

    sandboxstrategy
    0 0 players

Every game here is free and runs in your browser with nothing to install. The order comes from players on Joystumble: thumbs up and down (weighted so a few votes don't outrank many), then how many people played. Made one that belongs here? Submit it.

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