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List of CITY BUILDER Games included in the video:
Yellow River Kingdom
Utopia
SimCity
Act Raiser
Moonbase
Utopia: The Creation of a Nation
Caesar
D&D Stronghold Kingdom Simulator
SimCity 2000
Lunar Command
The Settlers (a.k.a. Serf City: Life is Feudal)
Outpost
SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest
SimTown
Caesar II
Afterlife
Holiday Island
The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici, The
Constructor
Anno 1602: Creation of a New World
Caesar III
The Settlers III
SimCity 3000
Lincity
Pharaoh
Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile
Master of Olympus: Zeus
Cultures Discovery of Vinland
StarPeace
The Settlers IV
Tropico
StarTopia
Mobility
Master of Atlantis: Poseidon
Stronghold
Cultures 2 The Gates of Asgard
Moonbase Commander
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Metropolismania
SimCity 4
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove
Anno 1503: The New World
Outpost Kaloki X
Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings
Medieval Lords: Build, Defend, Expand
Stronghold 2
Tycoon City: New York
City Life
Glory of the Roman Empire
CivCity: Rome
Dwarf Fortress
The Settlers II 10th Anniversary
Caesar IV
Anno 1701
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
SimCity Societies
Imperium Romanum
SimCity DS 2
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
Micropolis
City Life 2008
Hinterland
A Kingdom for Keflings
Grand Ages: Rome
Anno 1404
OpenCity
Cities XL
Tropico 3
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom
Cities XL 2011
A World of Keflings
Cities in Motion
Tropico 4
Cities XL 2012
Stronghold 3
Anno 2070
SimCity
Anno Online
Cities in Motion 2
Godus
Banished
1849
Clockwork Empires
Tropico 5
Stronghold Crusader 2
Cities: Skylines
Lethis Path of Progress
Cities XXL
Anno 2205
Planetbase
Valhalla Hills
Earth Space Colonies
Project Automata (Rise of Industry)
Urban Empire
Block'hood
Life is Feudal Forrest Village
Kindgdoms & Castles
Aven Colony
Surviving Mars
Project Aura
Frostpunk
Cliff Empire
Depraved
Stonehearth
The Universim
Atomic Society
The Colonists
Foundation
Second Earth
Dawn of Man
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Tropico 6
Factory Town
ISLANDERS
Anno 1800
Constructor Plus
TheoTown
Seeds of Resilience
They Are Billions
Atmocity
Ostriv
Clans to Kingdoms
Buoyancy
Flotsam
Neolithic
The Settlers
Ancient Cities
Seed
The Architect Paris
Metropolisim
Citybound
Ymir
Builders of Egypt
Industries of Titan
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[@SergiuHellDragoonHQ]

Which City Builder game is you favorite?

[@mr.f2p888]

Cities Skylines Plus all DLC's 🤯🤯

[@SergiuHellDragoonHQ]

@Beysuo Yes, my bad.

[@lordwilliamstuartd.2420]

Anno Build an Empire! ❤☺💔😭

[@lovevivian26]

Anno 1800 & 1404

[@lordwilliamstuartd.2420]

❤Anno 1404❤

[@brickisland6353]

Cities Skyline released in 2015. Nothing has come close since.

[@brickisland6353]

Jake Fields as far as I know there is no CS2, yet.

[@aamwahyudi4022]

And getting better with mods

[@Leyrann]

@Ian Simcity 4 is an amazing game, but ever since Cities Skylines I can't enjoy a game without freeform roads anymore. It just feels boring and limited to be forced into a grid. It's one of the most played games of my childhood though. Hundreds of hours.

[@Mephesto31]

Im actually disappointed with city skylines

[@bw._5002]

Hope that nothing does tho

[@TJusnow]

Sim city 3K, Sim City 4, Cities: Skylines are the absolute best.

[@WillGarrettReid]

Grew up on SimCity, then when it lost its way, Cities Skylines.

[@shiveringaming3928]

@@WillGarrettReid same here, I still have SimCity 3000 play I was doing many moons ago.

[@143varunsherke2]

anno 1800 is also really good. I wasn't going to try it but now i've got lots of time.

[@craigburnett8723]

Annos are pretty good (some of them) the phone version of settlers was fun. But SC2k will always hold the top spot from childhood memories

[@genchamillion8870]

Try theotown. It may not have good graphics, but it has an amazing gameplay.

[@Meesmoth]

For this current decade (2010s), both SimCity 4 and Cities: Skylines remain the best, plus their modding community is so much active, allowing more freedom to the players on what kind of Cities to build depending on their choice.

[@marcozolo3536]

Meesmoth Transport fever 2 shits on them both

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

@@marcozolo3536 No. Yes it looks much better without mods and is greatly optimised compared to csl and it has many great features, but that doesnt matter since it... isnt really a city building game. I would love for the devs of TF to actually make a city building game though..

[@marcozolo3536]

bRUh newsflash, neither is CS. At least not in the strict sense. But I agree I would also be excited for TF2 developers to make a fully fledged city builder

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

@@marcozolo3536 Yes it is. SimCity and Cities Skylines are almost the most typical City building games you can get. Many others shown in the video though aren't, so I guess Transport Fever deserved to be in it as well.

[@marcozolo3536]

You're wrong I admire your zeal, but city skylines is a city prop manager moreso than a city simulator. There are thousands of people out there using downloadable game assets as place holders for a town they are trying to recreate. Don't get me wrong it serves its purpose well, but it isn't as hardcore a city builder as Simcity. There isn't enough zoning options and the building barely evolves past medium density. I spent hours working on a city only to have it break cities skylines core code and see the city stagnate and stop functioning altogether. Anyways looking forward to a true successor of both franchises

[@ThegasOfficial]

14:19 Cities : Skylines

[@broncohdz]

14:20

[@japanalchemist]

Looking back at Sim City 4 in the middle of all these other issues you realize how much that game was advanced !

[@Davivd2]

It's interesting to hear all the different sound tracks. That made the feel of each game really stand out hearing them all side by side. I liked the City Life soundtracks the most. It's also interesting to watch the progression of games and then there are a few games thrown in that look like they should have been released 20 years earlier.

[@TheFunnyDictator]

Hey, can you please link them to me? Please reply to me!

[@joey904]

6:30 A very beautiful memory thank you.

[@krashd]

Dude just ignoring a fire there.

[@nowthis9614]

The music alone is beautiful

[@Sickjoke419]

Personally my favorite city building game. Still play it from time to time.

[@thepronoob1529]

Cities skylines: Comes out in 2015 and looks like a game that came out in 2021 TheoTown: Comes out in 2019 and looks like a 1990's game

[@vitaurea]

theotown is made for mobile compatibility, that's why they have much simpler graphics and such

[@gabri_19]

Theotown is good though…

[@ktos-napewno]

2019? I think i played it in abt 2018

[@thenoobpro1176]

I think it is a mobile game

[@crusader318]

TheoTown is amazing

[@reddtiger1273]

Cities: Skylines is still a favorites, which has had quite a few DLC’s to keep it fresh. There was one worthy of note, though it relates more into moving people/goods... Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon.

[@hellz23456]

i like cities skyline because of its graphic and sandbox mode, painting your gorgeus city but not a fan of its simulation and too easy not challenging, the best simulation is still simcity 4 got alof of best scenario challanges and hard to manage.

[@reddtiger1273]

@@hellz23456 agreed, but SC4 has its limitation to different types of roads/transportation, hence why I (and many others) call Cities Skylines a city builder, not city simulator. I still also play SC4, but catch myself mesmerized by the traffic flows of Skylines which are like an aquarium screensaver. The Skylines DLCs help to mimic more of SC4’s upgrade mods to plop-able buildings (fire/police/colleges), yet with the next level attempt on Maxis/EA’s SImCity they focused on the lag of the mega-city capability to a multi-city base which did not improve the game experience I was hoping. In Skylines I have the option to have my mega-city AND/OR have multi-cities. We each have reasons why we like/dislike games. Mine leans towards the ability to move people/goods and reduce the queues generated… that’s why I compared it to Transport Tycoon which wasn’t city simulating, and at the very least could qualify as a city builder but without the focus on education/fire/crime.

[@hellz23456]

@@reddtiger1273 didnt expect to get replies this fast from 2 year ago comment lol, simcity 2013 is trash. but simcity 4 with mod is cherry on top, i playing both CSL and SC4.

[@mollyscullyscully80]

What was disappointing for me in Skyline was that there was basically no challenge and also no politics that would lead to organic growth of your cities

[@burgergaming4005]

Theotown players 👇🏻

[@greens5652]

Damn i watched this video only hoping to see theotown and i was disappointed

[@SomerandompersonYT7557]

​@@greens5652theotown was in this video just for a couple seconds

[@deejaythedeejay]

@@greens565219:30

[@Nothinnggh]

​@gamerguyshortsYT7557 time?

[@deejaythedeejay]

@@Nothinnggh I posted a time it deleted my comment I’m not sure why.

[@tobir693]

Civ City: Rome was so underrated. I loved the home upgrade mechanics and haven't seen something that memorable since.

[@coolchrisable]

true it was also one of my first city builders but fuck the home upgrade pissed me off alot of the times but i was a young lad at the time

[@ItsIdaho]

I literally just looked at this game in my steam library and it made me search for the evolution of city games. I am taking your word for it and installing it. I want to try pre 2010 and pre 2000s games. I love them

[@benbilmem198]

5:30 is Stronghold, not Master of Atlantis: Poseidon

[@SergiuHellDragoonHQ]

My bad. :|

[@sneakycodfish2359]

looks like he just got that one and the next clip switched

[@flyingdutchman3895]

5:42 is master of Olympus not stronghold .

[@WillyLangley]

u stole that comment lmao

[@flyingdutchman3895]

Nikola Tesla , got MooZ like 2.5 decade ago and im stil playing .

[@alessandrobortolossi9490]

I'm so glad that CitySkylines has become the worthy successor of SimCity 4, but still I cannot forget its background musics, that fusion jazz rocks!

[@Zack_Wester]

there is a mod on the steam workshop to import the SimCity 4 and SimCity2013 soundtracks into CitySkylines.

[@imdxrkboy]

When you notice that Little Big City 1 is not in this list: *UNCOMPLETE*

[@David-ux5wn]

Tropico 3! The music and overall silliness made it truly fun and enjoyable. Even back then it wasn't that great of a city builder. But it was sooo much fun!

[@theraginginfernape9496]

City Skylines is the pinnacle of city games because they actually let you have freedom and variety in every game. Also MOD COMPATIBILITY! You can go medieval, modern, futuristic, rural, you name it from the all these factors. City building isn't just about kingdoms and tribes.

[@ANXOHR]

yeah, you are right, cities skylines is the best one. And second position to cities xxl.

[@nein3405]

@@ANXOHR its truely lacking in the economics part of the game though. but its a neat sandbox.

[@reeckoyoshi5887]

@@jackaj7041 Theotown is the mobile version of Cities Skylines

[@dont_care1591]

I like resource management in city simulators and City Skylines seems lacking.

[@kystaff5056]

Simcity 2000 was way before its time. City Skylines is the best now. My favorite has been Tropico - the soundtracks alone are worth it!

[@oscur_destal]

"Oh that's a nice evolution of gra- DWARF FORTRESS 2006"

[@coolchrisable]

DF: we dont do graphics here

[@MrMudslap]

Haha, right. It just got to a point where graphics backpedaled. Lots of greenlight games and Indi developers.

[@Xvladin]

Nothing tops DF for me. No game allows such intricate, detail oriented management from what I've seen out there

[@Tomohiko_JPN_1868]

(08:31) that BGM is from Final Fantasy 6 (SNES) (00:29) Act Raiser (SNES, 1990) is AAA action game , which has the best city building as a mini-game.

[@jakethegreatimsocoolyounee1203]

I like the part when he shows us city building games

[@ZebbeSebbe]

I remember playing Pharaoh when I was a kid. Good times, now the anxiety gets to you when you realize how old you actually are.

[@MyNoctis]

We are growing all togheter

[@neilkrishna]

Absolutely I loved that game even I only had its demo version

[@antonioamat733]

I still play 20 years later (or more)

[@afterglow64]

Simcity 3000 was tremendous, those who know, know.

[@donpatrese]

SC2000 ownz SC3000

[@afterglow64]

@@donpatrese wrong

[@NostalgiCrazy]

@@afterglow64 Lol agreed it was my first city building game and it's forever cherished in my childhood memories.

[@gabrielgrmcp]

My first city builder too, it was so tremendous that the disk literally exploded inside the PC. Nowadays SC4 is still my favorite

[@Limbbiscuit]

Because its look like someone made it on ms paint? 🤭🤭🤭

[@999siempie]

My Favourites are: Cities Skyline, Banished and Settlers II 10th anniversary.

[@scs-yt]

exactly the same, in that order

[@Monster-nr2lv]

+1

[@chensich7519]

Me too

[@alvaroramos880]

Cities: Skylines is surely the best one. But Banished with MegaMod is a masterpiece too!

[@muhammadfajrunnawahidh3998]

But they use unity so thr game DOSENT load all out hardware Performance

[@syrenatty]

Pharaoh was my first city building game and I was so obsessed with it. It's the reason why I love city building games!

[@aleccampbell7707]

Building the monuments brick by brick in game: I can see why they took so long to build when some levels took hours on fastest play speed

[@mattiamontanari5634]

Caesar 3 will always have a special place in my heart, and it’s still my favourite

[@hulahula6182]

did you get the caesar 3 augustus mod?

[@nadyamiddleton2502]

21:51 Low budget cities skylines

[@sephia37]

Lol agredd

[@LambdaSymbol]

It’s still in development and that’s the art style the dev chose chill

[@senryokuu_yuno]

@@LambdaSymbol ngl i like the artstyle

[@rogermichou8654]

@@LambdaSymbol the dev is alone, and develop this on his free time, so this game will be released in 2042

[@MilMilkian]

1999-2005: Sim City 2000 (PS1 version) 2007-2009: Sim City 3000 2009-2016: Sim City 4 2018-today: Cities Skylines

[@y.a.3795]

Sim City 4000 is from 2003

[@MilMilkian]

​@@y.a.3795 I know, this is my personal playing timeline.

[@mohammadsainolah5822]

I like the version of 2000 Sim city

[@ast-og-losta]

Simcity 4 for me. I would love if Skylines had a large map and economy building between cities.

[@jordanking7711]

You can grow your city in Cities: Skylines up to 25 tiles, as long as your computer can handle it, which is the size of the entire map.

[@pata-hs1qr]

Use 81 tiles mod

[@wilkinsandwonkinsandmore1308]

Thanks for including TheoTown I love you and TheoTown

[@burnoutboy2016]

I love, love LOVE Cities :Skylines. Great game, I play it all the time, the realism of taxes and real life needs for citizens is just beautiful. Would recommend it to anyone who loves strategic, planning games

[@Iqra0806]

Lol 😂 that the same for me and others

[@Guder1an_]

Anno 1800 it seems to me that there is a realistic tax system and not only

[@mewosh_]

17:30 "Someone should really make a painting before you lead the planet to ruin" 17:40 ...

[@Myckelin]

Cities Skylines since 2015 have been held by many as the best citybuilder in history, and 7 years ago it still holds up!

[@BrandonClaridge]

SimCity 4 and Cities: Skylines definitely top my list of favorites here. The only advantage SC4 still has over CSL is that you can build large metropolitan regions in SC4, whereas CSL restricts you to a map that is just slightly larger than 17 km x 17 km (using the 81 Tiles Mod). The CSL map size is not large enough for a metropolitan area (not to mention building and road limits), but realistic medium-size cities, with free-form roads and highways, are definitely possible. CSL is very resource-intensive as it is, so larger map sizes might be somewhat problematic, unless they could use multiple city tiles (that load separately) like SC4 does. That said, CSL's 3D environment means that portions of adjacent tiles would need to be loaded too, in order to have more realistic landscapes portrayed, so things like smaller buildings just across the boundary, and any skyscrapers and mountains further away in the region, would need to be loaded to make things more realistic.

[@hellz23456]

also you can roam on your city in simcity4 rush hour

[@circleinforthecube5170]

Another advantage simcity 4 and even 3000 have over skylines is that the music in those two games are absolutely phonomenal, some of the most beautiful music ive ever heard and was even used on TV broadcasts in the 2000s due to the quality of the music, while cities skylines tracks are mediocre or just ok

[@adorable_anarchy2]

Love that you got block’hood, Stonehearth, Theotown, Afterlife and Cliff empire! Those games are great and they don’t get enough love. No A-train? A-train on PS1 got me started on city builders. Thanks so much for making this video. It was a great walk down memory lane.

[@nieildilsonsouza4747]

Theotown is mobile garbage, Just pick SimCity 4 apk instead, no need to watch 30 Second ads for some dumb gems.

[@chadstream_sam1888]

​@@nieildilsonsouza4747why are you mad because you can't mod the game?

[@randomtrigger1378]

you missed the Black and White series , Populous series , they are all the top tier games from Peter Molyneux

[@wernerhiemer406]

Yes I also missed Populous, even that I at first only had the game graphics and play in mind. Then I had to go trough the alphabet for starting letter. Some babbling along and then at P I had it.

[@antoniocabanillasramos5184]

For me Populous is more a strategy game, both are amazing and the games of my childhood

[@cenouraroxa9184]

14:21 ahhhh yea the good one

[@cenouraroxa9184]

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[@cenouraroxa9184]

Wtf why was i such a stupid kid ???? 👽

[@opzblade694]

@@cenouraroxa9184 lmaoooo

[@yanmarkgaming7576]

I recommend THEO TOWN this game is like cities:skylines and sim city

[@rafaelokamura]

It's the best on smartphones.

[@AuxenceF]

Since the new update its a bit pay to win

[@lilchad-ig1oj]

Auxence Fromont its only like that on android iOS and Steam versions are paid (under $10 so it’s still cheap) and have everything unlocked for you Even android isn’t bad it’s just building packs and tunnels and logging on daliy gets the gems to get said features so it isn’t bad unlike sim city

[@blv8572]

@Yanmark Gaming not like sim city

[@FlamingBeat]

@@blv8572 It is. Just different art style and sim city has the graphics of realism

[@moxgirl5]

Ahhhh the nostalgia when I saw Caesar III! I had a game pack with that game, a Settlers game (prob Settlers III) and Civilization II in it, which introduced me to games like this! I played so much Civ and Caesar

[@dsaytr2687]

19:35 windows&android&more

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

Every SimCity up until 4 were amazing and unmatched by any competition

[@jmurray2018]

Then Cities skylines came along and blew everything outta the water and I loved sim city games

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

@@jmurray2018 true. But they really need to make a second game, there is a way bigger potential. Hopefully the devs have gotten a lot more experienced and if they don't use Unity engine, the game can become 10x better.

[@jmurray2018]

[;' it’s definitely time for a second game

[@JakubNaceradsky]

I Still love Caesar 3, Pharaoh, Zeus, Empire:Middle Kingdom and Settlers 2-4 kind of games... Simcity 4 is great too, and newer Citystates and Ymir are wonderfull. Anno 1404 / 1800 are also good, but i never get fully into games like newer Simcity, Cities XL or Skylines.

[@emilg]

I couldn't have said it better! I got into city builders with Caesar 3. I miss Impressions games!

[@MrBeast60o0]

@@emilg wait how u got verified with 8 subscribers

[@emilg]

@@MrBeast60o0 just being in the right place at the right time, number of subscribers isn't the only way.

[@kaineskeptic6484]

Sim City 4 was the peek of the genre. The natural progression from there should have been to make the regions more interactive and to bring major companies in with unique buildings as company headquarters or better yet, do away with them entirely and just have that huge map. City Skylines was ok, it just needed room to expand properly. Also you forgot Black and White.

[@jaysilva5854]

I think a modern game built off Afterlife would be cool. It's not common at all and builders have literally done everything from sky to sea to different planets. Afterlife buulder is a crazy concept.

[@mees7529]

Why can't city builders get better over time, like most other games

[@nieildilsonsouza4747]

It wont run on regular PCs if It evolves too much.

[@fred-rb7mk]

1:20 *WOW NICE GRAPHIICS*

[@林鷨F]

Um Gamer Sem Nome 我知道你个傻逼听8懂，我还是想问你字体怎么弄粗的

[@fred-rb7mk]

@@林鷨F que?????

[@ohoi6877]

@@fred-rb7mk sei lá

[@kingrex1931]

This shows how well the Sim City series held up. The original came out in 1989 and SimCity 2000 in 1993. Both these games look as good or better than games that came out much later. Tropico3 is quite a fun game, I haven't played the more recent versions though.

[@TheRafaelRamos]

PHARAOH

[@matc8085]

this was super relaxing

[@Boss_Gaming_TCG]

Sim City 4 is an amazing game. The best on the entire list.

[@jliu2003]

I really liked Aven colony for its simplicity and beautiful backgrounds and the Anno series for its management and production chains. Surviving Mars and Planetbase was a close second on my list =D

[@LadawanChuichai]

8:10 Glory of the Roman Empire. This my best game

[@TD139]

Pharaoh & Cleopatra hold a special place in my heart.

[@andrewdupuis1151]

i still have them on cds

[@Duvodas16]

Same for me.

[@Nishapur]

Me too.

[@TheHazzasez]

Cities Skylines is definitely the best city builder that I've played, and I've played them since Simcity 2000. Especially with all the downloadable content and mods, just need to get a faster computer/upgrade now to handle it all. Tropico 6 is fun, really enjoy that. I played the original Constructor game, so I'm interested in Constructor Plus, any good? Other mentionable games, which I guess are classed as transport based, but Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Industry Giant. It would be awesome if new versions of these are brought out. Loved the sound track to Transport Tycoon (geeky I know). I'd like to see a new version of Sim Tower too.

[@barivs8736]

@SNES Nes just pirate the dlcs lol

[@ziyaokut8225]

I think TheoTown is pretty underrated.

[@kaczk_]

Yeah me too.

[@AlbianNurcahya]

SAY NO MORE!!!! I'm a big fan of theotown

[@TheOzelot11]

I still remember playing the first SimCity on my dad's old Amiga.

[@joaquin_087]

you know, this sound little funny in spanish

[@jorislemoine1488]

Ah Pharoah & Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile... I must have played hundreds of hours on those. That music totally takes me back.

[@morfeuh]

I've already played Sim City 4, Sim City (2013), Cities XL and Cities: Skyline. My favorite is SC4 and CS.

[@lingdatang669]

simcity 1 , simcity 2000, 3:25 caesar 3 , 3:57 pharoah , 4:03 sim city 3000 6:33 sim city 4 , 7:56 Tycoon NYC

[@PurplePolarBear38]

Great video!

[@AntonioZL]

The fact that people prefer the "big ones" over other independent, great city sims, shows that people merely play what the companies can advertise, which saddens me. Workers and Resources is probably the most complex city sim I've ever seen, Foundations is very good, Dawn of Man has a lot of replayability, Ostriv has solid potential, and I could keep saying names here for hours.

[@michaelc3656]

I've played Workers and Resources, and Dawn of Man. Dawn of Man does have a lot of replayability. Sadly I'm no good at it, as after a year of playing the same map all my citizens died of starvation, haha. I will agree that Workers and Resources is very complex - to the point where I stopped playing and will need to spend a good half a day learning how it all works when I get back into it. It does look extremely good, though. Still, the "big ones" like Cities: Skylines are big for a reason. They are just fun to play.

[@AntonioZL]

@@michaelc3656 of course. Cities: Skylines is a great game, I absolutely love it! But these other games are just as great, although w/o the same level of polish, but they don't get the same visibility. I think people should dedicate at least some time to "steam scavenging" so they can find some great indie games like these ones.

[@Uerdinger1980]

A lot of games I don't know, but I miss 2 Games: Age of Empire 1 & Age of Empire 2

[@stigmacraft9423]

They are classic RTS Games and not city builders

[@nuclearrabbit1]

You got banners across half your titles, and the last two games are covered by "next up" video banners and can't be cleared.

[@RamblinRick_]

Thanks for publishing this. I've played over a dozen of these and enjoyed them all. Cities: Skylines is the king of the hill

[@lunaflamed]

Excellent compilation

[@gabek3697]

Cities skylines has revolutionized the city builder genre. Everything about it is incredible!

[@MetroManMelbourne]

most of the others in this list are war games that are technically builders

[@The-pf4zy]

The microtransactions are not

[@meer9516]

No it was simcity games who revolutionized that genre but cities skylines really did well they included most of the simcity games content and added more which resulted in instant popularity

[@PEGGY18MAFIA]

@@meer9516 wrong again. It's the modding community of cities skylines that revolutionised city builders. The things you can do with mods is insane. Managing traffic on micro level, building vertical cities, creating multifunctional buildings and so so much more. To the wherr you watch 2 different youtubers and it doesnt even look like the same game anymore

[@alexhobbs2209]

I wouldn't say cities skylines revolutionized it, moreso turned it into a glorified traffic manager game and screenshot creator

[@Wolta]

"Rise of an Empire, The" That got me good for some reason.

[@davidcurtiswatts2378]

5:31 Ooops. This is actually Stronghold

[@Mepotism]

currently addicted to theotown. it’s probably a bit lackluster after several level ups but it’s somehow still entertaining to me. and the 8-bit artstyle made me like it

[@pranavghantasala6808]

I recently started Theotown and I'm loving it so far! Super excited for what's to come

[@nieildilsonsouza4747]

Good for You, i didnt like It much because It has garbage microtransactions, downloaded sim city 4 apk instead.

[@The_animated_one]

14:22 my favorite game

[@janpolasek6037]

Definitely Cities: Skylines with DLCs and mods; assets etc. most sofisticated and complex games

[@FlamingBeat]

@white shark Worth it.

[@sygneg7348]

@white shark Your telling me your not taking what is considered to be one of the best city builders for 10 FUCKING DOLLARS?

[@siriusxakanscaleguy7147]

@Roko S. All together.

[@pickleman40]

Skylines is simplified in certain respects compared to Simcity though. Better traffic model but alot of the economic aspects are simplified.

[@Sugiura_Tsuruki]

5:38 That is Stronghold not the Master of Atlantis

[@yato3520]

The 2020 games look worse because they use actual gameplay. The 2010 games used tons of CGI and fake gameplay for their trailers 😒

[@kaitlin7138]

Isn't it supposed to be the other way around

[@Angannatar]

I don't know... I play Cities: Skylines and it looked just as my own gameplay. There is no cinematic in there. My low-end non-gaming laptop can run it, it's massive and challeging, it has wonderful landscapes and freedom. Check gameplay videos if you don't believe me.

[@crazymofo8024]

im just looking for holiday island evolution..

[@리주민]

Narrow japanese style roads would've been nice...and the sidewalks? Why are they always american city building?

[@pedasn]

I love many of these games, the Anno series is so great, but Sim City 3000 was the most fun i had with a city building game

[@LIONGOD]

i like how most city builders never realy improved graphicaly from the 80's to early 2000's, and games still come out with that 80's/90's look

[@GeneralElConsult]

Wow, you have not forgotten about Startopia. Good.

[@amikecoru]

0:28 we did play this a lot in mid-90s :))

[@NewSapaudia]

You forgot about me!

[@TJusnow]

Citystategame Yes indeed they did.

[@ANXOHR]

yep, it seems a very good game.

[@indahf.freztiyana824]

I build a authoritarian capitalist country that enslave everyone, and they still happy... xD Such a great game...!

[@sepongbob69]

@j theotown is in video

[@ALCODERS_vlogs]

@@indahf.freztiyana824 if you're making them live in a decent place they would be happy

[@Duckfest]

Beautiful compilation. Thank you for not adding music to it. Hearing the original sound really takes me back. I still recognize the sounds of the original SimCity. Settlers of course the OG of chill city building. Though the genre never needed high quality graphics, I don't think I could go back to the pre-2003 graphics. I appreciate the progress. And some of the new releases are gorgeous, wow!

[@strategon28]

"Sovjet Republic: Workers & Ressources" is the best, unquestionable.

[@bradenvester4308]

Master of Atlantis: posiden *shows stronghold*

[@maxnstl6001]

Very interesting timelapse. At first, computing power was so tiny that it was impossible to create a rich gameplay but very quickly, to counter the poor graphics visual, they implemented very complex gameplay. And we can see that as we go toward 2010 and 2015, gameplay don't change but visual does and get better. Since 2015, it's complet chaos, we alternate between old school and modern visual graphics, which i personally don't give a fuck about as long as the game is cool, but the gameplay is completely lacking. Developpers don't reinvent themselves and the gameplay, instead of getting richer, is getting more superficial and the only component left is great visual. It's a pity. They try to be original in doing a city builder "without gravity", or on mars, but they do not try to invent a new way of playing city builders. With today's powerful computers, developpers could implement a way more complex simulation of civilisation and city builders. And not only give the player the opportunity to maage every aspect (which is cool but maybe too time-eating), but implement AI which manage automatically some aspects of the game. And where is the multiplayer mode of city building ? The main obstacle is the time we spend building, everyone at their own speed. If more AI assist the player to serve the player's decisions, maybe we could imagine a multiplayer scale city building ? Go fuck yourself with your mobilephone dedicated "city builders" app -_- those sh*ts can't be called game

[@vyirafael1417]

Theo Town is actually a very good game, but the graphics are in 8-bit(i think)

[@dan43544911]

Computers get better but not the mind of developers.. so better graphics but no improved gameplay...

[@KcraftGeo]

My favorite is SimCity buildit

[@crimeo2659]

same and city mania

[@electrovignette9802]

I have a question. Is the BGM in the Star Peace game introduction that appeared on december 2000 is the BGM of the game? I can't find it, but I think it would be better to remove it if there is no BGM for the game. When someone who doesn't know is a BGM of another game, it will be mistaken for a BGM of this game. And the game at 5:46 seconds is not a stronghold, but Zeus Master of Olympus.

[@sombongkualat]

Excellent work 👍👍👍👍 salute

[@leonroehrl1125]

Me trying to make a city on scratch: My expectations: 22:30 The outcome: 0:01

[@DerEchteBold]

That thumbnail is a bit misleading about the quality of computer graphics in 1979 ; )

[@WLVNCORE]

Tropico 1-6 but my favorite is Tropico 5 and 6 in the series. Anno 1404 is gold! Anno 2070 and Anno 1800 (without DLCs) still haven't played but I have on Epic Games Launcher Settlers 4 still playing sometimes. Banished is also good City Skylines (I don't have the DLCs)

[@Alexey-Vermanskiy]

you can unlock city skylines dlc using steam_api file trick. it's free and safe to use

[@iqbalbara8538]

i love how game progressingbackwards in gameplay but keep on going in terms of graphic

[@Tedger]

Played utopia on mattell in early 80's.. been loving such games ever since :)

[@NotAfraidToQuestionThings]

Kids, when you have a look at the really shitty ones, realize that there where people (me) whose computer couldn't handle the graphics and shut the game down.

[@pereslife]

Knights&mercants Cossacs Traffic tycoon Age of empires Etc

[@페미감별사]

트로피코가 본연의 색은 색대로 유지하면서 그래픽은동세대 최상위권이고 진짜 씬스틸러인듯.. 임프레션게임즈 게임 좋아하는데 더 나왔음 저케따ㅜㅜ

[@easterlinear]

Hey there's no need to be so racist

[@joserocharamos8840]

this info is gold , thanks!!

[@MajklAstarin]

I spent a lot of time with Stronghold 1, Stronghold Crusader, Children of the Nile and City Life when I was a kid. I miss those times.

[@SiPoxie]

Cities Skyline is the best so far. With huge mods and assets :)

[@Iqra0806]

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[@marintheguy9316]

Tropico is probably the most unique building game out of the whole list

[@nieildilsonsouza4747]

Pretty much yeah, epic Gave aven colony a while back but It Felt like anno with that journalist Chick from Saints row 2

[@lordwilliamstuartd.2420]

❤💔Anno Build an Empire❤💔

[@reichsvorstand4549]

7:20 Settlers 5 is definitely the best game of its series i love that game since today ❤️❤️❤️