Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Concrete Jungle
A city planning deck building game!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Concrete Jungle launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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SimCity, but with Permitsfree▲939A free city-building game in your browser. You are the mayor. You know what the city needs. Now get it past the zoning board, the neighbors, the appeals court and the next election.
7d ago · permit.petercai.com · its alternatives →
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A isometric city builder in JavaScript. Contribute to victorqribeiro/isocity development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A modern take on the classic city builder
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Playing Lean▲104A board game that teaches the Lean Startup Methodology
2015 · playinglean.com · its alternatives →
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Mojang made a free casual strategy game
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Improve your visual memory while learning about cities.
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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Craft and grow your own village
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Gridland ▲87An adictive roleplaying stacking puzzle
2015 · gridland.doublespeakgames.com · its alternatives →
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This is a little game implemented over a week of tinkering and targeting Emacs. The point is both to have fun with this kind of simulations, and also explore the "functional core / imperative shell" approach to architecture. I also developed a tile and tile effect definition DSL, which makes this even easier to extend. From this point of view it's a success: easy testing, easy extension, Gameplay-wise the simulation is too simplistic, and needs input from people interested in this kind of toys. The original Micropolis/SimSity is the last time I built a virtual city.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hearthlands▲70A city-building game set in a medieval/fantasy world.
2015 · hearthlands.com · its alternatives →
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