City building games

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List of City building games

This is a list of free/libre city building games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
OpenCity		2015-03-15	City building game	OpenCity Genre City building game Latest release 0.0.6.5 Release date March 15th, 2015 Platform Windows, GNU/Linux Developer Duong-Khang Nguyen Code license GPL Engine OGRE P. language C++ Library SDL, OpenGL Homepage http://www.opencity.info Contribute OpenCity is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum OpenCity is a 3D city building game started in 2003 by Duong-Khang Nguyen, licensed under the GPL.. It's coded in C++, uses the OpenGL and SDL libraries and the OGRE rendering engine. While it's similar to SimCity, it is not intended to be a direct clone. The last stable release, 0.0.6.5, was released on March 15th, 2015.
Micropolis		2013-12-01	City building game	Micropolis Micropolis Genre City building game Latest release 1.6  (Announcement) Release date December 1st, 2013 Platform Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS Developer Don Hopkins Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 P. language Java, C++, Python, Tcl Homepage https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis Contribute Micropolis is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   openSUSE: micropolis Micropolis is a free city building game that is based on the fork of the Unix port of the game SimCity. The game was released under the GPLv3 by the company EA for the OLPC project. It is licensed under the GPLv3.
Lincity		2004-07-09	City building	Lincity Lincity 1.12pre48 Genre City building Latest release 1.13.1 Release date 2004-07-09 Platform GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD Developer I J Peters Code license GPL P. language C Homepage http://lincity.sourceforge.net/ Contribute Lincity is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Forum Available as a package in:   openSUSE: lincity Lincity is a city building simulation game. The latest stable version is Version 1.12.1, released on August 13, 2004. It is originally written by I J Peters and licensed under the GPL. It is written in the C programming language. A version was included on the 100 Great Linux Games shovelware collection.
LegacyClone		2008-06-11	City building game, Economic, Online	LegacyClone Genre City building game, Economic, Online Latest release 0.1.4 Release date June 11th, 2008 Developers Daou, Mr Matt, and SnapDragon Code license GPL P. language Java Library Swing Contribute LegacyClone is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project LegacyClone is an online city and economic simulator. It allow players in a persistent world to play as mayors/presidents, build factories and trade goods with other players. The latest release of the game is 0.1.4 on June 11th, 2008. It is written in the Java programming language using the Swing library. The developers are Mr Matt, Daou, and SnapDragon(real names unknown). As of 2022, the game website linked from the SourceForge project is defunct and not known to be archived.
LinCity-NG		2026-05-08	City building game	City building games a city in LinCity-NG 2.0 Genre City building game Latest release 2.15.0  (Announcement) Release date May 8th, 2026 Developer GotM Code license GPLv2+ Media licenses Media files: GPLv2/CC BY-SA 2.0 dual licence Fonts: Bitstream Vera Sans Copyright, Arev Fonts Copyright Library SDL Contribute City building games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code Available as a package in:   Debian: lincity-ng  Fedora: lincity-ng   FreeBSD: lincity-ng  Gentoo: games-simulation/lincity-ng  Haiku: games-simulation/lincity_ng  Mageia: lincity-ng  Slackware: lincity-ng  openSUSE: lincity-ng  Ubuntu: lincity-ng LinCity-NG is a city building game that is the successor to and fork of LinCity. It is being developed by members of the Happypenguin's Game of the Month project. It used the SDL library.
Free Reign		2001-07-29	City simulator	Free Reign Genre City simulator Latest release 0.2.1 Release date July 29th, 2001 Developer Alexander Taylor Code license GPL P. language C++ Homepage https://freereign.sourceforge.net/index.shtml Contribute Free Reign is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Free Reign is a 3D city simulator written by Alexander Taylor. The latest version of the game is 0.2.1 on July 29th, 2001. The game is written in the C++ programming language. It is licensed under the GPL. It became the inspiration for the OpenCity project.
Civitas		2017-05-16	City building, Online, Kids	Civitas Genres City building, Online, Kids Latest release 0.2.3.0  (Announcement) Release date May 16th, 2017 Code license GPL P. language Java Contribute Civitas is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Civitas is a city building game for kids. It is written in the Java programming language and licensed under the GPL.
Goblin Camp		2012-07-15	City building game, Roguelike game, Economic simulation game, Real-time strategy game	Goblin Camp Genres City building game, Roguelike game, Economic simulation game, Real-time strategy game Latest release 0.21  (Announcement) Release date July 15th, 2012 Developer Ilkka Halila (ihalila) Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Homepage http://www.goblincamp.com/ Contribute Goblin Camp is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Goblin Camp is a citybuilder roguelike game with economy and strategy elements released under the GPLv3. It is inspired by various and notorious games like Anno 1404, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper.
Cytopia		2020-04-14	City building game	Cytopia Genre City building game Latest release v0.2.1  (Announcement) Release date April 14th, 2020 Platforms Windows, GNU/Linux, macOS Code license GPLv3 Media license CC-BY-SA Engine custom P. language C++ Library SDL2, SDL2_ttf, OpenAL, zlib, libnoise, libogg, libvorbis, libpng, imgui Homepage https://cytopia.net Contribute Cytopia is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Chat Forum Available as a package in:   openSUSE: cytopia Cytopia is a free, open source city building game with a big focus on mods. It utilizes a custom, SDL2 based rendering engine written in C++. It will combine the spirit of SimCity 2000 with everything a modern 2D city building game should offer.

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