City Builder Games

Hit city-builder Manor Lords is switching to Unreal Engine 5 soon, but its dev is being "careful about enabling performance heavy features" to help keep things running as "smoothly as possible"

Steam Next Fest's biggest city builder adds a new feature after "outright mad scientist-like" players kept trying to brute force it themselves

This is not a drill: Manor Lords fishing ponds are coming in the next update "since it was requested a lot"

"Don't bank on being the next viral hit": Manor Lords publisher urges other studios to "take care of all the devs" instead of hunting for their golden goose

The Long Dark creator apologizes to Manor Lords team after criticism of the hit city builder's early access cadence draws comparisons with his cult survival game

Cities: Skylines 2 woes continue with console ports delayed indefinitely due to missed "stability and performance targets"

Manor Lords publisher argues "not every game" needs to be a live-service, and developers should never be "forced to run until their mental or physical health breaks down"

Survival city builder Frostpunk 2 delayed two months because devs want to improve on beta player's average "8 out of 10" rating

Terraria creator and Palworld dev both had their eye on this city-builder and automation sim hybrid that's already tearing it up on Steam

Manor Lords publisher shouts out benefit of letting developers cook as its bug-themed RTS and Soviet city-builder launch to rave reviews after up to 8 years in early access

Cities: Skylines 2 finally unleashes its huge "Economy 2.0" patch with reworked rent and a fix for death waves, but it'll also kill a bunch of your citizens

After 5 years in early access, Manor Lords publisher finally releases its Soviet city builder to 92% positive Steam user reviews

Manor Lords isn't getting the much-requested bubonic plague as the medieval city builder's creator thinks "plague and disease are not real game mechanics"

Cities: Skylines 2's upcoming patch will fix the city builder's 'high rent' issue by throwing out "the virtual landlord" and letting renters pay for a building's upkeep equally

Manor Lords creator wants to return to the "dev cave" to push the city builder forward and "finally add some new features"

Tiny Glade, the biggest game ahead of Steam Next Fest, now has a Manor Lords-style exploration mode

My love of Manor Lords has me excited to play the new free prologue for this upcoming city builder all about rescuing fantasy creatures and restoring magic