What city builder game should I play?

What city builder game should I play?
I completely forgot about the genre. Last one I played was Alien Nations 2 all those years ago.

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Anno 1503

The Settlers

1883 is fun. If your intro RTS, try Rise of Nations: Rise of Legions.

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Simcity 4

Red Alert 2

Anno 1602 is maximum comfy (a nightmare to run without the GOG version though)
Settlers 2 & 3 are aslo great to kill some hours

What about new stuff, this?
Shit or not?

Are there any good fantasy City builders?

Settlers 4, Sim City 4, Caesar 3.

majesty, sort of. it's more of a b-grade RTS though

Any of the Impression Games ones, i.e Caesar 3, Zeus, Pharaoh or Emperor. I think they have more variation and offer more of a challenge than Anno so they don't get boring in the long run.

I, too, am interested in learning of some good city-builders. I almost asked what game was in your picture because it didn't look like a game that would be called "Alien Nations" to me, but google set me straight. Is it any good?

I'm currently working on a game with an RTS/City Sim component to it so I am suddenly in dire need of inspiration. I'm going to check out the older Anno games because I've only really played one of the recent ones. I also liked Patrician IV from several years back but I guess that was a lot more about trading than building the cities.

The Guild 2 is a kind of a buggy mess at times and has a learning curve, but it makes for some hilarious situations and experiences. It's also more of a life simulation than a city builder I guess, but I'd recommend it.

>start city in Cities Skylines
>immediately have to look up how to properly build roads and organise a city
>spend so much time planning I get stressed and don't want to play anymore
Autism fucking sucks

Anno 2070

>tfw you outgrew walkers and they simply bore you with how easy and formulaic they are
>tfw you still aren't autistic enough to like workflow simulators like Anno or road management sims like Skylines

Age of Empires 2 is literally the best choice around. There's a reason it recently got a HD remake and new DLC despite being ancient.

Walkers get formulaic if they treat them that way. If you build the same 9x9 or 7x7 every single fucking map and set up your industry and grids in the same orders because MUH EFFICIENCY then yeah, they're going to be predictable and formulaic. As for Anno being a workflow simulator, does it even have worker pops? From what I remember of Anno 1404 industry doesn't require pops, pops don't require jobs and goods are magically distributed across the island.
AoE2 is an RTS, not a city builder.

>grids
>efficient
Grids are a disaster for everything above pedestrian speed.

>As for Anno being a workflow simulator, does it even have worker pops?
Why would worker pops be necessary? Population is just like any other resource in Anno: as long as you have it, it is being used. No need for a efficient travel system.

>1503
>Not 1404

Absolute madman

>1602
>Perfect

It can generate maps where there is no gold to be found, and traders never fucking sell gold to you, so depending on shitty RNG it may be impossible to reach the highest tier of citizens/technology. That's not perfect.

I'm not talking about a travel system and workplace proximity, I'm talking about workers overall. You could have 0 people living on an island and still have all your industry be fully manned.

Tropico 3

anno 1404 or wait for anno 1800

Is it better than 4 and 5?

I know it well

i always wanted a fantasy anno like game. Elves, orcs, anno style city building with RTS combat.

Alien Nations is the comfiest game I have ever played.

oh man, ceasar 3. I remember the full version was a bonus in a gaming magazine ages ago and I didn't know it before. when I started playing, I was playing it nonstop after school for weeks
nostalgia'd

I remember downloading that game one Limewire or Kazam or some other P2P program and playing it for hours and hours. That game was the shit.

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT
>that's so true

They might be a little formulaic, but at least the campaigns are really good. They key is having lots of different goods but limiting their availability on each map. This forces you to trade, or find substitutes. Also, random events like invasions and natural disasters add diversity.

On the other hand, games like Anno you always make the same supply chains on all maps/scenarios.

I think you mean Rise of Nations: Rise of LEGENDS. Great game too, good recommendation. I love the first Rise of Nations a little bit more, but I'm not a big fantasy fan.

Tropico 4 is the peak of the series
Tropico 5 has some neat stuff but it makes one step forward and two steps back

How is Banished these days?

Also, that viking themed game will never come out of early access will it?

>the campaigns are really good
Nigger what? Take a game like Pharaoh, you just end up spamming plazas and statues etc. to increase the wealth of the nearby areas while you wait for whatever required monument to finish. The different resources don't add diversity because all that really matters is whether you have enough Egyptian dollars for your upkeep, to build more plazas, and to appease all those bitch deities with festivals. So basically there are maps where you have easy access to money and maps that are total fucking ass where you have to engage in trading and other bullshit which is just plainly a slower process (read: artificial difficulty). Add to this the annoying pathing which means the optimal city is just one large road so that your workers are less likely to fuck up and go take a longer route, so you can't even have pretty cities that aren't clusterfucks to manage.
I wanted to like the game today because of nostalgia because I think it's a really pretty game, but the way the whole thing works makes it pretty hard.

and because I think it's a really pretty game*
I tried Children of the Nile recently to recapture the feel, but I found the atmosphere lacking for some reason and just ended up playing Tropico 4. It's not the best city builder technically speaking but it sure has a lot of charm.

best game

TROPICO 4 for top comfy and corruption

Anyone interested in Frostpunk? I'm mildly hyped
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This war of mine was good

shame that game never got updated, that mod pack is great though, the other mods are just cheats and shit

Really hope The Guild 3 is going to be cool

What's so bad about 1503 exactly? It was the first anno I played and I still enjoy playing it. (I've only played 1503 and 1404 though)