What else should I be playing: The obvious answer is the SimCity series, of which SimCity 4 is the best, but there's a crop of interesting newer contenders too - Theotown is a decent title that's also on mobile, and my personal pick is NewCity, which is a bit old-school and rough around the edges, but has a really impressive sense of scale. Where can I buy it: Steam, Humble, Paradox Games about building cities, where you're working on too grand a scale to care about the individual lives of your ant-like citizens.

(Or cut down on the scrolling with these helpful category links.)ĭon't see a game that you think should be on this list, or looking for something different entirely? Let us know - politely - in the comments, or hop over to our picks of the best PC games to broaden your scope. But OTHER THAN THAT, ready your mousewheel for a vigorous scroll, for here are the 20 best building games on PC. RTS games with more emphasis on waging war than base-building, including tower defence games, were (mostly) left out, as well as games in early access.

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