The BEST City-Building Games To Watch in 2024 & 2025!

I'm showcasing the best and most anticipated city builders of 2024 and 2025! I'm taking you through all the upcoming city building games that you should keep a look out for in the next year.


All games listed below:

00:00 - Intro
38:15 - Bonus Games
41:34 - Outro


#CityBuilder #BaseBuilder #BestUpcoming

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Welcome to channel if you're new here, I'm Orbital Potato and play a bunch of strategy, simulation and sci-fi games here on YouTube. I usually cover these games in the Lets Play format, but also make videos analysing specific game mechanics and looking at new releases. If you feel so inclined, consider subscribing, I would love to have you along for the ride!

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[coreffectinteractive]

Thank you so much for the mentioning my game Roman Triumph :) As a developer and university student, your support means a lot!

[drizztcat]

I hate to say it, but the City Builder category is over saturated. There are just too many good options out there and I haven't even finished up with the games I bought in the last two years.

[orlikforcebalancer]

let's appreciate the fact that potato puts together such a long list and still managed to upload everyday

[CodeMonkeyUnity]

Really great video, I wish I had the time to play all of these!

[jolanser]

Thank you for mentioning Lixtoco! Really appreciate it.

Hoping to get a demo together sometime next year, as long as real life doesn't get in the way too much xD

[jessicatimm]

You are my #1 when I need to find new city or factory game, great list!

[cobra_overseergames]

Thank you very much for your showcase of Kaiserpunk, we do appreciate it a lot.🙂

[chelseatrombley]

Tiny Glade... I want it so bad. I need that relaxing game I can play over my coffee in the morning before work. This will be the one I obsess over when I need to introvert. Please please finish soon! ♥

[TheWhiteStar]

I'm most hyped for Nova Roma and Manor Lords
edit - just played Super Fantasy Kingdom demo, very interesting!

[fransmith]

Workers and Resources - definitely the best and most in depth city builder on Steam. 😀 And one of the very, very few that hasn't bent to include war and combat in a genre that used to be great for those of us who don't want combat. Sadly another genre for us is almost lost. City builders are now almost always combat games...sad... For those of us who want in depth and challenging games, but not combat, this is basically the only decent game on Steam...😢

[johnmiller]

Great list, got a couple more to add to my list (have many on there already thx to you and others)
I have Soviet Republic - very good, very granular. For those who like detail and step stage building you want this one

[thetylde]

There is so many similar games, no wonder indie devs struggle to get people to buy, and we struggle to choose

[thesettlings]

Thank you champ for including The Settlings! It is a big pleasure to be on your list. Have a great weekned <3

[RyanCaden-wm]

These are awesome list. You should add IGP to your wishlist. I enjoyed playing the playtest.

[Bandit]

Orc Warchief, El Dorado, Pagan Age, Mythos, City of Robots, Viking City Builder, etc, etc
All those you showed, are pre-rendered trailers that show at BEST only an idea for a game.
Things like that, that fake so much to show ideas, they could very well be scams.
Heck, I'm pretty certain I've seen a few of those as scam mobile ads before.
Try to be careful, you wouldn't want to promote things that could very well be a scam.

[supercolonygame]

Looking forward to Banner Lord and Frostpunk. Microvivilizations is a weird one, but I like it. One I think might be missing is These Doomed Isles. I had a fun time with it

[donmeisner]

I am still surprised that we dont have a Fallout city builder game yet

[troublesometoaster]

I just found my dream game I've been looking for for years, the one I always wondered "why did no one ever thought of that before?", so as usual, you're the best channel for bankrupting me!

[RCashTRO]

Oxygen Not Included came out with a new DLC that is dropping like in a week if it hasn't already. I don't know what you would categorize that game as but its def a colony builder type of game.

[randomhodgepodge]

Never been so excited to start freezing:) I really need to try Frostpunk again. Metropolis 1998 looks great!