City building games
Build and take care of a city.
List of City building games[edit]
This is a list of free/libre city building games:
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| OpenCity | 
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2015-03-15 | City building game |
OpenCity is a 3D city building game started in 2003 by Duong-Khang Nguyen, licensed under the GPL.[1]. 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.[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Micropolis | 
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2013-12-01 | City building game |
Micropolis is a free city building game that is based on the fork of the Unix port of the game SimCity.[3] The game was released under the GPLv3 by the company EA for the OLPC project.[3] It is licensed under the GPLv3.[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lincity | 
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2004-07-09 | City building |
Lincity is a city building simulation game. The latest stable version is Version 1.12.1, released on August 13, 2004.[4] It is originally written by I J Peters and licensed under the GPL.[5] It is written in the C programming language.[6] A version was included on the 100 Great Games for Linux shovelware collection. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LegacyClone | 
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2008-06-11 | City building game, Economic, Online |
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.[7] The developers are Mr Matt, Daou, and SnapDragon(real names unknown).[8] As of 2022, the game website linked from the SourceForge project[7] is defunct and not known to be archived. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LinCity-NG | 
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2007-11-04 | City building game |
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.[9]The stable latest version of the game is 1.1.2 released on November 4, 2007. The latest unstable release is 2.0 released on January 25th, 2009.[10] It used the SDL library.[11] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Free Reign | 
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2001-07-29 | City simulator |
Free Reign is a 3D city simulator written by Alexander Taylor.[12] The latest version of the game is 0.2.1 on July 29th, 2001.[13] The game is written in the C++ programming language.[14] It is licensed under the GPL.[15] It became the inspiration for the OpenCity project. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Unknown Horizons | 
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2019-01-12 | RTS, Economic simulation |
Unknown Horizons, formerly known as OpenAnno, is a real-time strategy game and economic simulation game loosely based on Sunflower's Anno series.[16] The game's source code is licensed under the GPL while its own media is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license and some parts under other DFSG-compatible licenses[17]. The first public version of Unknown Horizons is version 2008.1 released on October 1st, 2008 when it was called OpenAnno.[18]. This was the last release as OpenAnno before the name was changed to Unknown Horizons[19]. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Civitas | 
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2017-05-16 | City building, Online, Kids |
Civitas is a city building game for kids. It is written in the Java programming language and licensed under the GPL.[20] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Goblin Camp | 
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2012-07-15 | City building game, Roguelike game, Economic simulation game, Real-time strategy game |
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.[21] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cytopia | 
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2020-04-14 | City building game |
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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- ↑ OpenCity's copyright file
- ↑ OpenCity 0.0.6.x files on sourceforge.net
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis
- ↑ Sourceforge.net download page for the Lincity project
- ↑ Lincity's copyright file at Debian Packages
- ↑ Lincity's sourceforge.net project page
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 LegacyClone project page on sourceforge.net
- ↑ LegacyClone project members list on sourceforge.net
- ↑ GoTM thread for LinCity
- ↑ Lincity-ng's project page on berlio.de
- ↑ Lincity-NG Download and Compilation page
- ↑ Taylor's sourceforge developer profile
- ↑ Sourceforge.net's download page for the Free Reign project
- ↑ Free Reign's sourceforge.net project page
- ↑ Free Reign CVS version of COPYING file
- ↑ UH's wiki main page reveals the project aim accessed on October 10th, 2008.
- ↑ Unknown Horizons license document.
- ↑ News post on 2008.1 release
- ↑ News post on name change
- ↑ Sourceforget.net project for Civitas
- ↑ About page at Goblin Camp official website
- ↑ https://github.com/CytopiaTeam/Cytopia/blob/master/license.txt
- ↑ https://github.com/CytopiaTeam/Cytopia/wiki