30 New Upcoming PC CITY-BUILDING Games in 2022 & 2023 ► Best Survival Simulation City-builders!

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Don't you hate it when you buy the latest city-building game and it sucks? The disappointment is immeasurable but really 90% of all games turn out terrible. Maybe if we see all of the games with potential we can pick a winner. Welcome to my 30 Upcoming PC City-building Games in 2022 and 2023 list! If you want to support the channel, buy games using this GOG referral link: af.gog.com/?as=1715648857 They have lots of sales... Thanks!
►PLAYLIST FOR UPCOMING GAMES◄
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►QUESTION◄
Which city-building series is the best?
Intro | 0:00
►UPCOMING #PC #CITYBUILDING #GAMES for 2022 & 2023◄
1. Highrise City - Fourexo Entertainment | 0:36
2. Power to the People - Hermes Interactive | 2:20
3. Urbek - Estudios Kremlinois | 3:43
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4. Silicon City - Polycorne | 4:49
5. Kapital: Sparks of Revolution - Lapovich Team | 6:16
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6. Sweet Transit - Ernestas Norvaišas | 7:45
7. LakeSide - Massive Galaxy Studios | 9:28
8. Farthest Frontier - Crate Entertainment | 10:44
9. Settlement Survival - Gleamer Studio | 12:44
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10. Kingdoms Reborn - Earthshine | 13:45
11. New Home: Medieval Village - Mustafa Caner Tonbul | 15:10
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12. Sumerians - Decumanus Games | 16:13
13. Builders of Egypt - Strategy Labs | 17:50
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14. Roman Triumph - Coreffect Interactive | 19:51
15. Laysara: Summit Kingdom - Quite OK Games | 21:47
16. Mythos: Slavic Builder - Madnetic Games | 23:23
17. Gord - Covenant.dev | 24:51
18. The Immortal Mayor - Star Chess Studio | 26:42
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19. Timberborn - Mechanistry | 28:28
20. Against the Storm - Eremite Games | 29:32
21. Kainga: Seeds of Civilization - Erik Rempen | 31:08
22. The Wandering Village - Stray Fawn Studio | 32:37
23. Dream Engines: Nomad Cities - Suncrash | 34:05
24. Sphere Flying Cities - Hexagon Sphere Games UG | 36:08
25. InfraSpace - Dionic Software | 37:22
26. Alien Horizon - Purple Nebula | 39:14
27. Moons of Ardan - Pandora Technology | 40:24
28. CyberTown - Cyber Games | 42:13
29. Industries of Titan - Brace Yourself Games | 43:48
30. Frostpunk 2 - 11 bit studios | 45:38
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BONUS GAMES | 47:22
Terra Nil
Dynasty of the Sands
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Akhenaten: Rule as Pharaoh
Pharaoh: A New Era
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Ostriv
Ymir
Neolithic
Songs of Syx
Dinopeople
Foundation
Empires & Tribes
Flotsam
The City Must Grow
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Skid Cities
Complex SKY
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  • @GamerZakh
    @GamerZakh2 жыл бұрын

    Which city-builder is actually going to turn out good? If you want to support the channel, buy games using this *GOG* referral link: af.gog.com/?as=1715648857 They have lots of sales... Thanks!

  • @SevCaswell

    @SevCaswell

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm curious, how would you classify The guild 3, since you can build and grow the towns/cities you play in...

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SevCaswell Generally I've put The Guild in the Simulation list. These are fuzzy borders between genres now, sometimes it's splitting hairs.

  • @jordisaura6748

    @jordisaura6748

    2 жыл бұрын

    I had been waiting for this video for some time. Personally, Kingdoms Reborn looks very interesting, being the first game of it's kind with multiplayer (that I know of), but old civilizations have something special. Maybe the eyecandy, history or whatever, makes me want to play them more. Probably builders of Egipt. There's also the original games that look interesting: SummitKingdom. Anyway. Wonder which games will actually come out in the end

  • @BIGJATPSU

    @BIGJATPSU

    2 жыл бұрын

    PHARAOH: A NEW AGE, just to see if they kept the walker glitches for shits and giggles. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @SevCaswell

    @SevCaswell

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GamerZakh Yeah few games are purely one genre. And city builders are more like a sub-genre of simulation games

  • @coreffectinteractive3229
    @coreffectinteractive32292 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for featuring Roman Triumph :). I've been working on it for so long and this made my day!

  • @yeahhbuddy3932

    @yeahhbuddy3932

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wishlisted :) 👍

  • @coreffectinteractive3229

    @coreffectinteractive3229

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@yeahhbuddy3932 Thank you :)

  • @laneisaacgagnard8289

    @laneisaacgagnard8289

    2 жыл бұрын

    Definitely going to have to try it out, been wanting to play a Roman city building game

  • @g4340

    @g4340

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I've been watching this one and it looks awesome! I wish you the best with it! Can't wait to try it!

  • @poseidonokeanos9094

    @poseidonokeanos9094

    2 жыл бұрын

    whislisted on steam! It look amazing. I am really excited! 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

  • @Nyst2
    @Nyst22 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see you're still making these. I'm personally looking forward to seeing if Cities Skylines VR turns out good.

  • @pocketdynamo5787
    @pocketdynamo57872 жыл бұрын

    I think the best one is Cities: Skylines. You can really see how the developers love their game themselves. There's so much heart in it. And it keeps on constantly developing.

  • @shitou02riel

    @shitou02riel

    2 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @ostlandr

    @ostlandr

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mods give it severe indigestion, though.

  • @Nonamechannel420

    @Nonamechannel420

    2 жыл бұрын

    The high rise city game looks like it copied zoning from city skylines

  • @ebanydwayne1357

    @ebanydwayne1357

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think the best one I've ever played is Anno 1800

  • @ebanydwayne1357

    @ebanydwayne1357

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Super Hans Yeees!!

  • @KH-ic9zt
    @KH-ic9zt2 жыл бұрын

    Cities Skylines and Sim City 4 were two of my favorites... Skylines is a bit complex and they could do with a bit more upward development. Love to see your "extremely detailed and non-biased POV" on city builders. Had to sub!

  • @DanielBurkeMakesGames
    @DanielBurkeMakesGames2 жыл бұрын

    Manor Lords would definitely be my most anticipated up and coming city builder. Workers and Resources is the one in development that I enjoy the most, while I also love Ostriv.

  • @moonex7886

    @moonex7886

    2 жыл бұрын

    I 100% agree with you

  • @maltacanada

    @maltacanada

    Жыл бұрын

    by any chance have you tried captain of industry ?

  • @michaelc3656
    @michaelc36562 жыл бұрын

    Not everything on this list hit, but I'm definitely excited for some of them like Farthest Frontier, Sphere Flying Cities, and Cybertown. I like a good city builder so will keep those in mind.

  • @jerrykirchoff8412
    @jerrykirchoff84122 жыл бұрын

    Been waiting for this one. Thanks for your work GZ.

  • @grey9526
    @grey95262 жыл бұрын

    Love this series of yours. I always find something to wait for to play.

  • @kaingagame4351
    @kaingagame43512 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for making these great lists and thanks for the shout-out to my weird game Kainga! It really is an honor to see my game among such great titles. The genre has been expanding in new and interesting was these last few years!

  • @Outmind01

    @Outmind01

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kainga seems to have a unique look and feel to it. Best of luck!

  • @ghoulas
    @ghoulas2 жыл бұрын

    Great video found at least 2 new games to follow keep up the good work! I'm waiting for another list!

  • @hellhunter9478
    @hellhunter94782 жыл бұрын

    I love the list You are creating i wait them each year :)

  • @elitettelbach4247
    @elitettelbach42472 жыл бұрын

    Appreciate the list! I haven’t been able to pay as much attention to games this year, but it’s nice to see a few titles I recognize from watching various KZreadrs play them.

  • @sandralenardova9944
    @sandralenardova99442 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for including my game, Alien Horizon, in this list. I hope you're going to check it out for yourself someday :) I'd just like to point out that it's unlikely to be released this or the next year - 2024 is a much more realistic estimate.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the release window! I did want to include it anyway since it is playable and I tend to want to give attention to indies.

  • @Fallaron
    @Fallaron2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, been waiting for this one! Thank you!

  • @KamramBehzad
    @KamramBehzad2 жыл бұрын

    You left the best till the last. I resisted investing in Frostpunk for a long time. Just could not see what the fuss was with such limited space/scope as a city builder. But the experience of playing it was second to none. Heck I wanna play it again right now. So looking forward to Frosypunk 2. Never heard there was such a thing till now.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's in last spot because it's probably the furthest out since not even a screenshot has been shown off. Totally hyped for it though.

  • @BobjrsGaming
    @BobjrsGaming2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for being upfront about your previous affiliations with games you mention, I think that's pretty cool of you.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm very particular about the ethics of media.

  • @An2onym
    @An2onym2 жыл бұрын

    you really are doing the most comprehensive roundups of this kind of stuff. sorting through the early access haystack would be a lot harder without this kind of video & you're always even-handed/honest about your opinions, as well as calm and not too shouty - A+ tbh

  • @elgreco75
    @elgreco752 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making this list, I always look forward to it. Let's me think about games I would like to play, even played a few because of past list.

  • @alenafraskova6903
    @alenafraskova69032 жыл бұрын

    Another great list of games :) I can personally recommend Settlement survival and Flotsam as these are great games which I played :) I thought that settlement survival is a full game but nope it is not even though there is so much of it already :D i did not finish everything from the research so far and then they dropped a huge update recently with more stuff :D I am like calm down I need to finish my first save file first :D

  • @3dspe
    @3dspe2 жыл бұрын

    WHAT A BLAST OF A REVIEW!! thank you man, you are awesome!

  • @moonsofardan
    @moonsofardan2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for noticing us ! It is awesome to be in your top .. I’ve bee watching it for so long!

  • @GamerbyDesign
    @GamerbyDesign Жыл бұрын

    Zakh strikes again with another fantastic list. I just hope one day my dream city builder is on one of these lists. A city builder where you start post-apocalyptic and end up with a futuristic city.

  • @paulmeier8852
    @paulmeier88522 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this fantastic overview!

  • @jjforcebreaker
    @jjforcebreaker2 жыл бұрын

    Hell yeah, love these! Also afraid of watching, my Steam wishlist is long enough already...

  • @FallingForDeadRosesGaming
    @FallingForDeadRosesGaming2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video! :) I can't wait to play some of these games when they come out, they're some really amazing ones on this list

  • @niknak2150
    @niknak21502 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel it always finds games that I never would have found myself :-)

  • @alexanderkellar3841
    @alexanderkellar38412 жыл бұрын

    Lovely video. Added 3 Games to my wishlist! :) thx alot!

  • @coldshivery
    @coldshivery2 жыл бұрын

    Respect that you stick to facts for games that have sponsored you. Very professional.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, it's always grey areas but I try my best to stick to media ethics.

  • @stealthyshiroean
    @stealthyshiroean2 жыл бұрын

    Another great list! Man, I have been waiting for The Wandering Village for forever. Really like the concept of that one. Also, I can't remember if you showcased this on another city-builder list, but you should take a look at Ixion! It's a sci-fi city-builder on a space habitat and it looks pretty cool. Says a 2022 release date, but we all know that's probably not going to be the case. Anyway, great work, Zakh! Always love seeing your lists!

  • @bwboy92
    @bwboy922 жыл бұрын

    So much of these are still based on the same concept and gameplay as SImcity, a game that has been out more than 30 years ago. However, it is great to see more of these games coming out, instead of another mindless FPS. Great list !

  • @Comicsluvr
    @Comicsluvr2 жыл бұрын

    I can appreciate that, unlike some content creators, you don't waste 5 minutes TELLING us what the video will contain...you just get down to it.

  • @payomddd
    @payomddd2 жыл бұрын

    Love these types of videos on your channel 😍🔥

  • @mesarthim640
    @mesarthim6402 жыл бұрын

    An impressive list as usual :D Loads of games I didn't know about. There is also city of atlantis and city of robots but I'm guessing you already know about those two and didn't list them because their release date is set as TBA ? Though I think they're both scheduled for 2022, even if at least in early access? There's also builders of Greece, no release date either. Fragile existence is set for 2022 and looks to be a city builder but from the tags, it looks like it's riding a couple different waves like strategy, base building, management, simulation, space sim... That's confusing to say the least ! Maybe a bit like Kainga? Hope to see you do a couple play testing on some of those !

  • @Cenot4ph
    @Cenot4ph2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the exhaustive list GamerZakh

  • @guadalaoleon3245
    @guadalaoleon32452 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this great videos. I always have like 10 more games on my wishlist :)

  • @GauravKumar-qw6vy
    @GauravKumar-qw6vy2 жыл бұрын

    Nicely and uniquely edited and thanks for giving this list i have been searching game like this

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you enjoyed it!

  • @Simbabe54
    @Simbabe542 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for doing these videos. I love city building games and I am always trying to find a new one to play. Laysara has my heart pounding.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad you enjoyed it and found it useful! It takes a lot of work compiling all this.

  • @uros.u.novakovic
    @uros.u.novakovic2 жыл бұрын

    With the cancellation of Aztec Empire I am gonna keep a close eye on Dinopeople cause it's giving me similar vibes. Speaking of Impressions like games I am very excited about the v1.3 release of Nebuchadnezzar. It'll add Gods, Festivals, Event manager, lots of QoL changes and best of all, colorable plazas! I do like my paved streets in these games :D

  • @pitape1822
    @pitape18222 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this promising list! In particular Laysara, Farthest Frontier and Silicon City

  • @ninjadaforest6539
    @ninjadaforest65392 жыл бұрын

    classic era (old impression games), its is what i LOVE!!

  • @SonnyDK
    @SonnyDK2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing production quality and narration. Well done. Too bad most of the games are by minor studios which will eventually suffer from development fatigue and release their game in a sad state in an attempt to raise some cash. My favorite city builder series is probably Tropico with the 4th one as the best.

  • @guadalaoleon3245

    @guadalaoleon3245

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hate Tropico 5 and 6. I am not even able to set the exact rent of a house/apartment or the exact salary for people. Tropico 1-3 were great, but Tropico 4 the best.

  • @VampguyN85

    @VampguyN85

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sadly I saw that happen to snowtopia

  • @darrelld8837
    @darrelld88372 жыл бұрын

    Seems like a trend that more city builders are just sandbox without goals, missions, or campaigns. I'm not sure why -- I miss those.

  • @stanisk.942

    @stanisk.942

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same! I wish to solve problems like economy challenge, difficulty environmental, lack of primary ressources, disasters etc, that would shape a true city like Tropico 3&4 and Anno series. Hope, Frostpunk 2 would be much better, the first part was great.

  • @hamyncheese

    @hamyncheese

    2 жыл бұрын

    probably because actually developing systems and mechanics that are both interesting and challenging for the player is difficult.

  • @AdamNisenziSpisak

    @AdamNisenziSpisak

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hamyncheese probably...not...its more about devs having no creativity and simply copying what other succesful games do. Almost every one of these games in this vid are a carbon copy of something else with the only thing differentiating it from the original idea being the graphic style and a mechanic here or nowhere.

  • @hamyncheese

    @hamyncheese

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AdamNisenziSpisak How is that any different from what I said? "developing systems and mechanics that are both interesting and challenging for the player is difficult." So, instead of doing the difficult thing they do the low quality "easy" thing.

  • @AdamNisenziSpisak

    @AdamNisenziSpisak

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@hamyncheese Something being challenging means the task is difficult, devs being not creative and only doing what everyone else does is very different.

  • @ThisOLmaan
    @ThisOLmaan2 жыл бұрын

    i do appreciate folks that work hard to share to others, i just bearly started Citie Skylines but have long way to go 🤓 Thank you for the video.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it! It does take a long time to filter and compile these lists.

  • @atlehunekonge
    @atlehunekonge Жыл бұрын

    Found it, good overview, again;)

  • @fuckyoutube4
    @fuckyoutube42 жыл бұрын

    Love these vids, GamerZakh! Funny how I see bits of my old favourites: Banished, Immortal Cities: Children Of The Nile, Emperor: Rise Of The Middle Kingdom in everything. Maybe a bit of Caesar 4, Black & White 2, Cities - Skylines, Sid Meyer's Railroads too. Or maybe it's all just "convergent development". I am really interested what they'll do with Frostpunk 2. I kinda feel a slight change in genre might come there. Also, Summit Kingdom was interesting but didn't see different buildings in different parts of the mountain. Maybe it will be just different production times and quantities.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Yeah I think a lot of these devs are fans of those old games. I know Laysara devs straight up said they're Zeus inspired, the rest probably have old favourites too.

  • @jolanser

    @jolanser

    2 жыл бұрын

    For a lot of indiegames, I think the reason is very simple. It starts with "I love game X", then continues with either "But noone has made a new one in ages", or "But I wish it had feature Y" / "I wish it was set in setting Z" and ends with "So I will have to make a game like this myself". And you start working on it. Wanting to make your own version of something you really like is not uncommon. And for a lot of small (solo to 2-3 people) teams, most games don't start off with the goal of making a product to sell (so there is no reason to worry about it being similar to something else or not being big enough / pretty enough). They are just making something for fun. Look at Hero's Hour. Someone wanted to make their own version of the old Heroes of Might n Magic games. They were just making something for fun, and when it started to become an actual game, they put it on Itch io because why not. Then some KZreadrs found it, and now it has blown up in popularity and got a publisher and a proper Steam release coming this Spring. All because someone wanted to spend some of their free time making their own version of a game they loved.

  • @refverhoog
    @refverhoog2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video! Very interesting. You know what bugs me the most? Is how rectangular all these builders are. It's more or less all grid and squares or rectangles, with the exception of a fantasy-builder, which then doesn't appeal to me. I would love an organic city builder that allows you to really follow the terrain.

  • @henrystoes6508

    @henrystoes6508

    2 жыл бұрын

    i completely agree

  • @kpectbi
    @kpectbi2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Zakh, this time a huge list :)

  • @gutrush5265
    @gutrush52652 жыл бұрын

    I love these videos. You do such a great job on them!

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @Thomazmllm
    @Thomazmllm2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video. I don't know if I'm wrong, but this time seems very promesing.. A lot of city building games with diferent proposal, mix genres, diferent art styles... thats great! Never heard of some of them, like Roman Triumph... Slavic folklore is booming... pehaps because of "The Witcher" game/netflix series sucess? Will be looking for Kapital, Frostpunk2, Industries of titan... Still, I would love a Majesty 3!! Great video, as always! Thanks again, zakh!

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah there is a high about of Slavic folklore going around this year.

  • @ToothandScrubsGaming
    @ToothandScrubsGaming2 жыл бұрын

    Excited for a lot of these games! Have been enjoying Settlement Survival and Timberborne already!

  • @lucascubamartins55
    @lucascubamartins55 Жыл бұрын

    I can't believe I found a channel that deals with construction, administration and strategy games. Talking about the news without forgetting the classics of our generation. Keep up the wonderful work. Greetings from Brazil.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it.

  • @comradestannis
    @comradestannis2 жыл бұрын

    Just discovered this channel. Subscribed recently.

  • @gio5854
    @gio58542 жыл бұрын

    I have always liked the Anno series but i do understand it is far from perfect. Also the 1800 has become IMHO a very costly game due to all the paid DLC with very little content and very high prices.

  • @8wayz2shine

    @8wayz2shine

    2 жыл бұрын

    The main DLCs provide good content and interesting new mechanics. The cosmetic ones can get costly but they also give quite a few options for the price. You can always wait for sales and get a few DLCs on the cheap. It is still cheaper than Paradox games which rely heavily on the DLC model.

  • @gimmetheacoountplix
    @gimmetheacoountplix2 жыл бұрын

    Nice Gord reminds me of Majesty, and that is good!

  • @sweepingtime
    @sweepingtime2 жыл бұрын

    These videos are always important for me to find out what's out there in my favourite genres.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you find them useful!

  • @andrewdupuis1151
    @andrewdupuis11512 жыл бұрын

    Builders of Egypt reminds me of Pharaoh i tryed Builders of Egypt Prologue it does look good

  • @Suhi
    @Suhi2 жыл бұрын

    You finnaly did it! The list what we need. But i feel, i must leave here a little more info. First - timberborn. I play it a lot from the first demo. And i watch for tb discord. All i can say - most replayeble and most ingeneer-style game from all another project. It's like city-building minecraft. Sometimes i see screens in discord, and can't belieeve they did something so genios. And about farthest frontier. I'm one of alpha version testers. I can't give a lot of information, 'cause of NDA, but... If anno, banished and old-ctyle siera city-builders has a child - it's FF. Really deep and realistic game mechanics. I believe in 2022:3

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    I was feeling really burnt out through December, so I was struggling to make the list. Decided to just ignore it until I actually felt drawn to make it so I would actually make it properly and keep it high quality. That's great to hear about farthest frontier, I'm hoping it's really good because the screens look amazing.

  • @GFXOnline1
    @GFXOnline12 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the great video! I actually missed this kind of list videos on your channel. Glad they're back in full strength! My vote for best city-building series goes to SimCity, I must have spent 1000+ hours on this series ever since SimCity 2000, and it continued to blow my mind away with each new sequel.

  • @fransmith3255

    @fransmith3255

    2 жыл бұрын

    SimCity?? Really?? Most people I speak to almost universally hate SimCity - they say it's buggy as all shit! And that City Skylines beats it 1000 times over...

  • @GFXOnline1

    @GFXOnline1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fransmith3255 Yes really, because it predates Cities Skylines by 20 years! The original SimCity 2000 was released in 1993 while Cities Skylines was released in 2015. Cities Skylines basically copies the same mechanics but is more modern. I was happy it was released because we all needed a "remastered" SimCity, and City Skylines delivered on its promise. But I spent 15 years playing the SimCity series and for that it has a special place in my heart, right next to the Impressions city builders of the time (Caesar and Pharaoh).

  • @fransmith3255

    @fransmith3255

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GFXOnline1 Yes, I do realise that. I played the very first version of it, and the second reiteration on a 386. Loved them. But few people would compare them to today's games. The final reiteration is basically what I was talking about. I never played it, but that was because the general consensus was that it was an utter buggy piece of crap, and the franchise failed because of that. Few people bothered.

  • @GFXOnline1

    @GFXOnline1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fransmith3255 I respect your opinion, maybe we just had different experiences. My experience with SimCity has been a very positive one, including the last iteration (barring the server problems after launch). SimCity 4 suffered from rare random CTDs but that didn't bother me so much. I'm evaluating the game based on mechanics and game design and the Maxis SimCity games were phenomenal imo and they were the inspiration for Cities Skylines, so my vote goes to them :)

  • @fransmith3255

    @fransmith3255

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GFXOnline1 Hehe, likewise. :-) The first iterations of SimCity were awesome, ahead of their time, like a lot of EAs games were back then. That's how EA got so big - they used to make really great games. Hell, I used to surf bulletin boards in the late 80s, Wolfenstein (and there was actually one before Wolfenstien that went wild on bulletin boards - forget what it was called), Kings Quest, Larry the Loungeroom Lizard in the early 90s, all pre-internet, way back when windows was a laughable ridiculously slow piece of rubbish that no-one thought would ever see the light of day. I have to say, I rather dislike EA as a company now - I find a lot more innovation in Indie games on steam than with EA, so I'm always looking for stuff that is new and innovative. That's why I look at videos like this one - looking for any gems I might have missed. :-)) Happy gaming! :-))

  • @StyxAnnihilator
    @StyxAnnihilator Жыл бұрын

    Good list, nice work! The more complexity in game mechanics and simulations, the more issues with balancing and bugs. Many of the games have mediocre graphics. Wonder how many ends up as cash grabs or overestimated. For me games based on the past is boring, but most of those based in a future or other worlds have quality challenges.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    Жыл бұрын

    The general rule is 90% of games turn out bad or just mediocre, but it's impossible to guess which ones. I've tried every year and I'm always wrong haha. There's always a surprise success and surprise failure.

  • @evilscientistrecords
    @evilscientistrecords2 жыл бұрын

    3:12 most survival city-builders are post-apocalyptic, but this one is pre-apocalyptic if you don't push for renewable energy sources :D

  • @patrick-aka-patski
    @patrick-aka-patski2 жыл бұрын

    Had to laugh at the blue werewolf's running animation at 27:46 xD

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's in a hurry!

  • @franckvermont1926
    @franckvermont1926 Жыл бұрын

    Only squarres squarres everywhere.... It's been 20 years I wait for a realistic city builder to create medieval street

  • @mouhmmedadil9782
    @mouhmmedadil97822 жыл бұрын

    HOLY COW THIS IS SOOO AMAZING!!!! I LOVE CITY-BUILDER SO MUCH

  • @pininolfg
    @pininolfg2 жыл бұрын

    Gord Looks really good excited to see where that goes

  • @christinewbk402
    @christinewbk4022 жыл бұрын

    Wow, thank you!

  • @Talon771
    @Talon7712 жыл бұрын

    52:30 Pharaoh is my favorite city builder, thus, it is the best.

  • @jredubr
    @jredubr2 жыл бұрын

    Impression Games are still the best city-building games of all time. Skylines, while much more complex in some aspects, still pales in comparison regarding fun an reliable mechanics. I really wish some developers go back and continue the formidable Impression Games series.

  • @edzel6843

    @edzel6843

    2 жыл бұрын

    Builder's of Egypt is made by Impression games? They are very similar.

  • @windridersgame

    @windridersgame

    Жыл бұрын

    +1

  • @shareehocking6294
    @shareehocking62942 жыл бұрын

    Watching this makes me want to open up and play cities skylines again.

  • @xalneia
    @xalneia2 жыл бұрын

    thank you :)

  • @daddyleon
    @daddyleon2 жыл бұрын

    Not to sound weird, hopefully you take it as a compliment. You don't have a radiio voice, but you do have a voice that seems tailor made for these types of videos - it fits perfectly. It's kind, calm, pleasant, clear.

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Haha don't worry, things like this are good feedback, helps me develop my style more.

  • @daddyleon

    @daddyleon

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@GamerZakh Great, best of luck then!

  • @luisfbjunqueira5837
    @luisfbjunqueira58372 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @metlov
    @metlov2 жыл бұрын

    Now I'm telling this for the record. This channel has been selling me games for years. Even though I'm subscribed to the categories in Steam, many of these games wouldn't catch my attention. But after GamerZakh's videos I just go find them by their names and I'm buying them without reading the description. Show this comment to the city builders developers next time.

  • @thebyoulok
    @thebyoulok2 жыл бұрын

    21:35 the building in Roman triumph look a lot like those of Imperium Civitas III

  • @OLIV3R_YT
    @OLIV3R_YT2 жыл бұрын

    Thumbed up even before starting the video :)

  • @royjansen6141
    @royjansen61412 жыл бұрын

    thanks for this , and all the effort and time you have spent on it others game revies . get appreciated , regards Holland /Amsterdam

  • @k0rnas
    @k0rnas2 жыл бұрын

    2022 and I'm still playing Pharaoh, Zeus and Emperor 👌

  • @ivotralic9576
    @ivotralic95762 жыл бұрын

    my dude, thank you for doing these lists

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you're enjoying them!

  • @bubumic2971
    @bubumic29712 жыл бұрын

    I-m currently playing kingdoms reborn and timberborn and i love them !

  • @SeedemFeedemRobots
    @SeedemFeedemRobots2 жыл бұрын

    regarding soviet republic, the roadmap listed says that the out of early access will be at december 2022. i believe this will be the case since the development schedule because i have been following the game and it has been very consistent so far

  • @Gadomen
    @Gadomen2 жыл бұрын

    while I love city building games as much as the next guy, I still think that there are not worthy interplanetary games. Only because the planets you colonize, are way to small, and I feel like planets are just island on the sea. Anno 2205 was a nice try, but still feel "small" BTW, great video. thanks a lot and keep up the good work

  • @yeahhbuddy3932
    @yeahhbuddy39322 жыл бұрын

    I like your videos before even watching 👍

  • @ADRIANDZIKI
    @ADRIANDZIKI2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you from Mythos team. Development going slow, but stable ;)

  • @cahilart8966
    @cahilart89662 жыл бұрын

    thank you for your service to the builder community dear human

  • @transpiler
    @transpiler2 жыл бұрын

    If EA released a cleaned up "HD Edition" version of SC4 with 64 bit multi-core optimizations, support for Vulkan/DX12, and provided a documented modding API to make things like NAM easier, I would be happy. Obviously that's not going to happen, but I want to dream. None of the games shown here come close to matching the beauty and charm of SimCity 4. I'm not convinced that individual agent simulation is what will make city builders of the future as good as SC4 was, as it seems to be moving in the wrong direction. I want grandeur, not accuracy. What is the point of having a million independent agents you can click on and follow around if you only ever click on a few here and there? Look at what Maxis was able to accomplish with single core Pentiums with less than a gig of RAM. They used all sorts of tricks to make it look like there were thousands of people living their lives, but it was mostly clever programming and graphics illusions, and it made for a "bigger" and broader game. I have yet to see a city builder that makes interesting use of smart citizen agents. If they don't do anything interesting or have meaningful emergent behaviour, then there's no point of doing it in my opinion. They should be aiming for Dwarf Fortress levels of agent interactions, not The Sims. SC4's art style and feel has still never been matched, let alone beat. The crisp trimetric buildings were meant to be seen from above, never at street level. The artists of those assets didn't have to think about how buildings would look from the street level or from any oblique angle, only 4 different rotations. Any artist will tell you that limitations are what make for great art, not the infinite possibilities of a blank Blender canvas. The buildings that are in these games don't look good at any zoom level or angle, and that sucks. The first game, Highrise City makes all of the same mistakes Cities Skylines made, only worse. If I can't zoom out and admire my city, then what's the point? It looks truly awful. No one is learning from and stealing ideas from SimCity, it seems. The dumb misaligned lot squares with huge gaps are not one of C:S's good ideas, and I can't understand why the developer took that idea. Almost every big city in the real world has streets aligned on a grid, so SC4 shines beautifully there, and it works fine in Skylines too. The problem with curved or angled roads isn't solved at all with the awful mini-square system. Real lots shapes and the buildings that sit on them conform to the space available. Think Flat Iron building, right? The smaller games with more focused themes (like Banished) have their place, and are clearly easier to pull off for indie studios since the scope is more limited. Farthest Frontier feels like a worthy successor to Banished. Industries of Titan looks good for what it is. Of course neither of those are trying to be generic city builders. Settlement Survival offers almost nothing on top of Banished for no apparent reason, and looks worse. Urbek won't be as good as Pharaoh. Sweet Transit might look fancier, but OpenTTD is more interesting. I'm not holding my breath for a true SC4 successor unless Maxis gets back into the game (and the soulless suits at EA keep their hands off).

  • @christinaVennegerts

    @christinaVennegerts

    2 жыл бұрын

    About the comments about big cities are build on grids: you might enjoy exploring European Cities. We have curved streets and strange angles almost everywhere. Strange shapes between buildings get used as green spaces a lot, as many cities have to keep a certain amount of greenery (not just parks, but forests, fields, green spaces on roads,...) by law. It might not look as efficient as many north American cities, but our cities have their charm, too.

  • @transpiler

    @transpiler

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@christinaVennegerts Of course, and I’d love to visit Europe. It would be great to be able to replicate all sorts of cities in a satisfying way, not just Manhattan or Barcelona. That’s the main area where SimCity 4 falls short. Despite the fact that curved and off grid roads can be placed in contemporary city builders, they also fall far short of achieving something believable for a number of reasons, but I believe primarily because lots are still assumed to be rectangular and don’t fill the available space. SimCity 4 had an excellent procedural content generation trick that added a ton of variety to rows of similar houses. Different fences, sheds, pools, garden beds, trees, shrubs, and other decorations are randomly placed into the yards surrounding the main structure. This works particularly well when the primary structure is smaller than the available zone tile. I think a similar “yard clutter” idea could work extremely well for odd shaped lots. I think with enough polish it would produce really satisfying results if you were able to fill gaps between roads with plazas and parks that fit their surroundings, not the other way around. Townscaper does something similar to this extremely well.

  • @Baumbart

    @Baumbart

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, thats a perfect comment. A new Sim City on 4 is a dream.

  • @acabosasha
    @acabosasha2 жыл бұрын

    Kingdoms Reborn is cool, every time it generates a new world with different conditions so it's interesting to play it single player mode every time

  • @horizonzeromom
    @horizonzeromom2 жыл бұрын

    FROSTPUNK 2!!!

  • @jeremiahsa1
    @jeremiahsa12 жыл бұрын

    Your gaming news is always helpful. Reminds me of a KZreadr- Jetrecords266 he used to gaming updates like this but I think he got Covid and didn’t make it

  • @nuttchi90
    @nuttchi902 жыл бұрын

    most of the games are sim city copies or a mix of sim city and like age of empire ... but frostpunk 2 is looking amazing !

  • @Vitamin-187
    @Vitamin-1872 жыл бұрын

    Must...stop..adding...games to my wishlist!!

  • @Liquessen
    @Liquessen2 жыл бұрын

    Mmmmmyessss! A new year, a new slew of interesting games!

  • @Axuramazda
    @Axuramazda2 жыл бұрын

    Am I mistaken, or the building models in Roman Triumph the same as in the Grand Ages Rome?

  • @astingilbert582
    @astingilbert5822 жыл бұрын

    Sweet transit seems like a cool anno 1404.

  • @Abhijit1997
    @Abhijit19972 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for introducing to all the upcoming games, how about the new Ubisoft's Settlers ?

  • @GamerZakh

    @GamerZakh

    2 жыл бұрын

    I generally put that in the Strategy list.

  • @bolli24

    @bolli24

    2 жыл бұрын

    The new Settlers game is unfortunately turning out to be quite a disappointment.

  • @ObakuZenCenter

    @ObakuZenCenter

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@bolli24 Since it hasn't been released yet, no it isn't.

  • @tikikong384
    @tikikong3842 жыл бұрын

    I would love me some Fanatsy City Builder Games Warcraft Style with different races or something like that

  • @dirtywhitellama
    @dirtywhitellama2 жыл бұрын

    Best one on that list in my opinion is Timberborn. Enjoying it a lot.

  • @doccastro
    @doccastro2 жыл бұрын

    My boy Banished no game can compare with the UI, I'm still looking for that banished 2.0, tried Patron clunky AF, settlement survival played a bit but still wanna go to banished.

  • @Sturmeggio94
    @Sturmeggio942 жыл бұрын

    Excellent work, as always! You are my prime source of interesting city-buildier titles! Yet, I can't shake out my mind that the building models of Roman Triumph are taken straight out the Imperium Civitas series. But you might prove me wrong...

  • @dontdoit8496
    @dontdoit84962 жыл бұрын

    im so hyped for frostpunk 2, frostpunk 1 is one of my favourite games.

  • @leodefine86
    @leodefine862 жыл бұрын

    Soviet Republic is the best city building game in years, it is still on early acess but it already looks like a complete game. I definitely recommend it a lot!

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