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Cities: Skylines - Sunset Harbor is out now, plus a 'Modern Japan' creator pack and a Radio Station

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2020

Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order have today released the huge Cities: Skylines - Sunset Harbor expansion, further pushing this excellent city builder.

Cities: Skylines Sunset Harbor expansion announced for March 26

By Liam Dawe, 19 Mar 2020

Paradox Interactive and developer Colossal Order have announced Cities: Skylines Sunset Harbor, a brand new expansion for the massively popular city-builder to release on March 26.

As Cities: Skylines comes up to the five year mark, it's on a big sale

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2020

Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order are celebrating Cities: Skylines, as it's coming up for the five year mark since it took the city-building world by storm.

Very sweet 3rd person city-building adventure 'Dwarrows' is out now

By Liam Dawe, 28 Feb 2020

Dwarrows officially launched today with colourful visuals, super happy music and a family-friendly atmosphere. Linux support is up right away powered by Unreal Engine from Lithic Entertainment.

If you think you were done with RimWorld think again - the 1.1 update is in Beta

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2020

Adding in a ton of new content, adjustments and fixed - RimWorld 1.1 is now available in Beta to suck you back into building a colony.

Open source modern Caesar III game engine 'Julius' has a fresh release up

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2020

Get ready to build a city with the classic Caesar III, as the developer behind the open source game engine Julius tagged a big new release.

Martian city-builder 'The Farlanders' has a big new release up with a Happiness system

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2020

Sweet small city-builder The Farlanders is evolving into a bigger game, with a new release now up introducing some fresh game mechanics.

Recover a barren wasteland in the city-builder puzzler 'Terra Nil' - currently free

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2020

Currently free as it was originally made during a Game Jam, Terra Nil is a city-builder with a difference. It's not about building a huge city or getting a big population but rather you helping nature to recover.

City-building god sim 'The Universim' enters Beta, full release this year

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2020

After a long road since the Kickstarter in 2014, Crytivo's city-builder that mixes in some god sim elements The Universim is now considered to be in Beta with a huge update.

If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2020

Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.

3rd person adventure and town-building game 'Dwarrows' launches in February

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2020

Lithic Entertainment are crafting a 3rd person adventure and town-building game, Dwarrows, which they've now given a release date with same-day Linux support expected.

The Universim entering Beta with a ridiculously big update next month

By Liam Dawe, 17 Dec 2019

The Universim is already quite impressive for a city-building god sim and it's about to get a huge amount bigger next month.

Dwarrows, a 3rd person adventure and town-building game will be released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2019

After a successful Kickstarter campaign way back in 2016, Lithic Entertainment have been progressing well with their 3rd person adventure and town-building game Dwarrows.

City-builder Kingdoms and Castles expands again with new buildings and resources

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2019

As the small team behind the excellent city-builder Kingdoms and Castles work towards adding in rival AI, they've released another meaty update.

Nebuchadnezzar looks like a beautifully styled classic isometric city builder coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2019

Seeing Nebuchadnezzar recently gave me a bit of a buzz, a city builder inspired by classics like Pharaoh from Impressions Games which I spent a lot of hours playing in my youth.

City building god sim 'The Universim' will now let you launch rockets with satellites into orbit

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2019

The Universim is slowly turning into a city building god game truly worth playing, with the Sky High update now available expanding the game into planetary orbit. Plus some more thoughts on the experience of playing it for several hours.

Godlike village sim 'Rise to Ruins' has officially left Early Access with a huge upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 14 Oct 2019

Rise to Ruins (formerly Retro-Pixel Castles) is a great blend of genres, pulling in inspiration from the likes of Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress to make something entirely unique.

First-person block-based urban sandbox city-builder 'Voxel Turf' adds new biomes

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2019

Voxel Turf is such a unique gem that blends multiple types of games together. It allows you to run around in first-person, build a city and fight off gangs. A big surprise update just dropped too.