Hidden Gem City Builder Games Under $5

Highly rated City Builder games on Steam for games under $5, capped at 25,000 reviews. The cap filters out everything you've already heard of.

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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
  1. 1Townscaper92.18%
  2. 2ISLANDERS91.08%
  3. 3Minami Lane90.22%
  4. 4Kingdom: Classic89.05%
  5. 5Bloons Monkey City87.42%
  6. 6Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete87.20%
  7. 7SUMMERHOUSE86.99%
  8. 8Predynastic Egypt86.44%
  9. 9Gourdlets86.32%
  10. 10Realm Grinder86.00%
  11. 11Oxygen: First Breath85.97%
  12. 12Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim85.81%
  13. 13Factory Town Idle85.63%
  14. 14Egypt: Old Kingdom85.61%
  15. 15Unholy Heights85.59%
  16. 16Knights and Merchants85.38%
  17. 17Marble Age85.27%
  18. 18Anno 1404 - History Edition84.66%
  19. 19Cardboard Town84.43%
  20. 20Holyday City: Reloaded84.43%
  21. 21Gladiator Guild Manager83.88%
  22. 22Pure Farming 201883.71%
  23. 23As Far As The Eye83.07%
  24. 24Patron82.24%
  25. 25March of Empires81.87%
  26. 26Builders of Egypt: Prologue81.76%
  27. 27Endzone - A World Apart81.12%
  28. 28Game of Thrones Winter is Coming80.22%
  29. 29Stronghold Kingdoms74.81%