CityArchitect
Design and build your dream city — one building at a time. CityArchitect lets you create both the city and its architecture, combining styles, designing buildings, managing neighborhoods, and shaping a unique urban landscape.
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16 itemsAbout the Game
CityArchitect is an isometric city-building game inspired by the classics — but with a unique twist. It’s actually two games in one: not only do you design and grow entire cities, but you also create the buildings that fill them. This allows every city to feel truly unique, rich in diversity, and full of architectural personality. Whether you're building bustling downtowns or peaceful rural areas, the focus is always on architecture and city life.
🧩 Build Your City
Shape a growing city on expandable terrain. Choose from a variety of street types and connect them to create avenues, intersections, bridges, and parking lots. Streets can be placed side by side to form wide roads or used more freely to design complex traffic layouts.
Design green spaces with dynamic park modules that let you build everything from small courtyards and large urban parks to cemeteries, sports fields, and farmlands — whatever best fits your city’s character.
Populate your city with unique buildings created by you, and with dynamic buildings — modular structures that respond to their surroundings and can grow taller or shorter with just a click. You can even customize their materials and style variations.
🏛️ Design Your Own Buildings
Mix and match a wide range of architectural styles — from traditional to modern — to create buildings that reflect your vision. Each style comes with modular façade pieces including a variety of windows, doors, balconies, and more. Some façades are dynamic: when placed together, they interact and combine into larger, seamless architectural compositions beyond the standard 3x3 meter tiles.
Customize every detail — from roofs and terraces to ground materials — and decorate your buildings with a rich assortment of architectural elements like outdoor furniture, awnings, ventilation ducts, rooftop gardens, swimming pools, personalized neon signs, and much more.
⚙️ Expand and Manage Your City
Let your city grow naturally as demand and needs increase. Assign multiple functions to the same building — like a residential townhouse with ground-floor shops, or a sleek office tower topped with a luxury hotel.
Create vibrant, mixed-use neighborhoods filled with residences, retail stores, offices, hotels, restaurants, schools, colleges, museums, churches, and more — each with its own NIMBY and YIMBY influence, affecting how the city evolves.
🚀 A Game That Keeps Growing
CityArchitect is still in active development, with regular updates bringing new tools, architectural styles, and city-building features. Follow us here on Steam and on Instagram @play.cityarchitect to stay up to date and be part of the game’s evolution!
If you want to support development beyond wishlisting, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi @cityarchitect 🙌🙌
