SimCity
SimCity is a city-building simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991. SimCity features two-dimensional graphics and an overhead perspective. The game's objective is to create a city, develop residential and industrial areas, build infrastructure, and collect taxes for further city development. Importance is placed on increasing the population's standard of living, maintaining a balance between the different sectors, and monitoring the region's environmental situations to prevent the settlement from declining and going bankrupt.
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Original game imageCitybound is an independently developed, Patreon-funded open-source city-builder emphasizing realism and fine-grained simulation detail.
Platforms:Web
Stars8,163
Updated3 years ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0
Release2016
ActiveOriginal game image
Original game imageA free, open-source retro pixel-art city-builder with a custom SDL2 isometric engine in C++; core building mechanics are still planned.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars2,160
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2018
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3d.city renders a live city simulation in full 3D via WebGL2 or WebGPU in the browser, using Three.js and the micropolisJS engine.
Platforms:Web
Stars1,750
Updated6 months ago
LicenseGPL3*
Release2014
SporadicOriginal game image
Original game imageThe GPL source release of Micropolis, the open-source SimCity, kept for historical versions of the code.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,103
Updated9 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
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A JavaScript/HTML5 port of the city simulator Micropolis that runs in the browser.
Platforms:Web
Stars725
Updated1 year ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2013
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A modernized continuation of classic LinCity, a city-building sim where you build a sustainable city or evacuate everyone by spaceship.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars632
Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2015
SporadicOriginal game image
Original game imageAn ongoing, browser-playable SimCity clone built with Three.js under the MIT License, with no mobile support yet.
Platforms:Web
Stars274
Updated10 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2023
Sporadic
A SimCity-inspired city simulation for the Raspberry Pi RP2040, inspired by the Arduboy game MicroCity.
Platforms:Web
Stars205
Updated9 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2026
SporadicOriginal game image
Original game imageElCity is a minimal city-building simulation that runs inside Emacs, implementing classic city-sim systems like pollution and crime.
Platforms:Emacs
Stars131
Updated7 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2026
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Divercity is a Java extension of MicropolisJ (the Micropolis/SimCity port) built by nine students during a 2014 course in Berlin.
Platforms:None
Stars47
Updated11 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2014
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Original game imageA Java version of Micropolis, the open-source release of SimCity, runnable with Java 7 or newer.
Platforms:None
Stars38
Updated8 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2013
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A disassembly of the USA SNES SimCity ROM, built on the author's own SNES ROM framework for asset extraction.
Platforms:SNES
Stars6
Updated5 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2021
