Hidden Gem City Builder Games Under $5

Highly rated City Builder games on Steam for games under $5, capped at 25,000 reviews. The cap filters out everything you've already heard of.

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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.
  1. 1ISLANDERS91.06%
  2. 2Minami Lane90.21%
  3. 3Tavern Master89.22%
  4. 4Dystopika87.98%
  5. 5SUMMERHOUSE87.31%
  6. 6Cattails: Wildwood Story87.29%
  7. 7Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete87.16%
  8. 8Gourdlets86.76%
  9. 9Predynastic Egypt86.38%
  10. 10Factory Town Idle86.10%
  11. 11Unholy Heights85.93%
  12. 12Egypt: Old Kingdom85.56%
  13. 13Settlement Survival85.55%
  14. 14Marble Age85.22%
  15. 15Age of Empires: Definitive Edition84.70%
  16. 16Cardboard Town84.47%
  17. 17Gladiator Guild Manager84.21%
  18. 18Construction Simulator 201584.11%
  19. 19As Far As The Eye83.03%
  20. 20Floodland82.57%
  21. 21Aven Colony82.53%
  22. 22Patron82.34%
  23. 23Spacebase DF-965.09%