Best Rated City Builder Games Under $5
The best rated City Builder games on Steam for games under $5. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)21,10893.72%97.48%
- 2Frostpunk137,55692.23%92.74%
- 3Townscaper21,64892.09%95.28%
- 4Rise of Nations: Extended Edition15,90991.01%94.68%
- 5ISLANDERS16,78890.99%94.44%
- 6Stronghold HD (2012)10,44590.76%95.53%
- 7Minami Lane6,75690.09%97.35%
- 8RollerCoaster Tycoon: Deluxe8,32589.33%94.31%
- 9Kingdom Two Crowns39,84989.18%90.18%
- 10Tavern Master13,28989.14%92.12%
- 11Kingdom: Classic22,75488.98%90.64%
- 12Tropico 412,76388.83%91.69%
- 13Bloons Monkey City6,79687.55%91.04%
- 14Craft The World17,10087.43%88.40%
- 15Dystopika3,50987.25%95.75%
- 16Cattails: Wildwood Story1,94687.18%97.43%
- 17Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete7,81287.07%89.49%
- 18Zeus + Poseidon1,97287.02%96.35%
- 19Stronghold 2: Steam Edition5,77286.88%88.79%
- 20Factory Town4,48486.86%90.61%
- 21RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack5,87186.83%89.64%
- 22Predynastic Egypt1,93186.71%91.56%
- 23Autonauts4,96886.60%89.45%
- 24SUMMERHOUSE3,37586.46%92.98%
- 25Two Point Campus8,21686.38%87.84%
- 26Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim1,67886.09%87.96%
- 27Egypt: Old Kingdom1,26485.91%86.95%
- 28Stronghold: Definitive Edition10,38785.87%86.53%
- 29Realm Grinder7,44285.80%86.63%
- 30Pharaoh + Cleopatra2,58785.78%91.65%
- 31Unholy Heights1,65285.75%89.16%
- 32Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition2,73785.73%87.72%
- 33Gourdlets2,20285.72%92.33%
- 34Factory Town Idle1,25885.61%90.86%
- 35Marble Age74585.58%82.95%
- 36Buggos1,43685.52%87.88%
- 37Knights and Merchants4,96185.19%85.20%
- 38Settlement Survival8,09985.12%85.04%
- 39Holyday City: Reloaded1,64185.11%81.05%
- 40Project Highrise4,82385.10%84.93%
- 41Oxygen: First Breath1,66684.93%88.96%
- 42Academia : School Simulator3,14684.87%83.88%
- 43The Guild II Renaissance4,22684.68%83.51%
- 44Cardboard Town2,32284.64%79.76%
- 45The Sushi Spinnery45784.64%92.78%
- 46Slow living with Princess61984.50%88.37%
- 47Anno 1404 - History Edition3,61584.45%82.43%
- 48Soul Academy46884.45%73.72%
- 49Transport Fever10,84684.19%83.28%
- 50Before We Leave1,73084.14%78.09%
- 51Construction Simulator 20156,85783.99%82.25%
- 52Gladiator Guild Manager4,08983.99%81.07%
- 53Farm Manager 20212,39883.82%79.11%
- 54Hotel Renovator2,80683.82%76.84%
- 55SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition9,87083.72%82.25%
- 56Driftland: The Magic Revival2,01683.53%72.37%
- 57Love Tavern82083.45%73.54%
- 58Medieval Kingdom Wars2,61283.23%75.77%
- 59Pure Farming 20181,71383.21%73.56%
- 60Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes2,53183.00%74.40%
- 61ContractVille6,31382.94%80.85%
- 62As Far As The Eye2,12682.82%71.73%
- 63Aven Colony2,78682.77%72.00%
- 64Kingdom Eighties3,34182.72%75.34%
- 65Construction Simulator14,65682.55%80.75%
- 66Farm Manager 20182,79982.24%71.74%
- 67Spirit of the Island1,90782.06%65.71%
- 68Builders of Egypt: Prologue4,08581.58%72.75%
- 69March of Empires1,86881.53%61.99%
- 70Floodland1,08981.53%56.38%
- 71Patron3,19681.35%72.22%
- 72Endzone - A World Apart10,04380.93%76.70%
- 73Game of Thrones Winter is Coming2,76180.41%60.96%
- 74Sword and Fairy Inn 22,28178.45%48.93%
- 75Stronghold: Warlords5,32778.21%65.12%
- 76Life is Feudal: Forest Village6,02578.13%66.42%
- 77Stronghold Crusader 218,11376.98%72.45%
- 78Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition4,07576.81%54.80%
- 79Stronghold Kingdoms9,58874.61%63.59%
- 80Anno 207012,71571.26%60.31%
- 81Stronghold 3 Gold4,86568.13%33.09%
- 82Spacebase DF-94,34264.81%17.89%
