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24 alternatives to Big City

Build your own Bit City!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Big City launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Bit City▲6

   Build your own Bit City!

   2017 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Cities: Skylines▲76

   A modern take on the classic city builder

   2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScript▲593

   A isometric city builder in JavaScript. Contribute to victorqribeiro/isocity development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Build your own isometric city▲127

   2020 · victorribeiro.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Streetmix▲67

   DIY urban planning

   2016 · streetmix.net · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Cities: Skylines▲12

   Build the city of your dreams.

   2015 · paradoxinteractive.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Myblockworld▲59

   Build a 8 bit world with the rest of the internet.

   2016 · myblockworld.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   SubaraCity▲54

   City making puzzle game.

   2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Kabza▲117

   Take over a real city map with your friends

   Sep 2026 · playkabza.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    City Lines▲69

    Solve puzzles to create beautiful cities

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Block Craft 3D : City Building Simulator▲58

    Craft and grow your own village

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Concrete Jungle▲64

    A city planning deck building game!

    2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Games on GitHub▲72

    A list of popular/awesome videos games, add-ons, maps, etc.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Banished▲89

    City-building strategy survival game

    2015 · shiningrocksoftware.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    SimCity BuildIt▲79

    Build the metropolis of your dreams (iOS and Android)

    2014 · ea.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Epoque▲78

    Retro game-inspired location chat

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Matchy City Free Endless Town Building Sim▲65

    Match Your City, Then Destroy It!

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Oak▲225

    Turn your table into an Augmented Reality playground

    2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

19. 19AA
    AI agents play SimCity through a REST API▲216

    This is a weekend project that spiraled out of control. I was originally trying to get Claude to play a ROM of the SNES SimCity. I struggled with it and that led me to Micropolis (the open-sourced SimCity engine) and was able to get it to work by bolting on an API. The weekend hack turned into a headless city simulation platform where anyone can get an API key (no signup) and have their AI agent play mayor. The simulation runs the real Micropolis engine inside Cloudflare Durable Objects, one per city. Every city is public and browsable on the site. LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff, which…

    Feb 2026 · hallucinatingsplines.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Slam City Oracles▲74

    A rambunctious Katamari-meets-Grand Theft Auto physics game

    2015 · janefriedhoff.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Game Dev Story▲80

    Run your own game dev studio!

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Arcade Trail▲149

    Crowdsourced game discovery & curation platform

    2017 · arcadetrail.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Pocket Buddy▲65

    Craft and grow your own super dank goodies!

    2016 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Clockwork Empires▲57

    A unique colonial city-building simulation game

    2016 · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →