Decorating your home can be an incredibly entertaining project, but realistically you can't do it too often. And it can be very intimate and personal, something you don't want to take any risks with. But what if you could build the home you want exactly as you want, with no risk? Or better yet, what if you could build an entire city in your own image?! A city where people didn't drive roundabouts or have parking meters. Wouldn't that be a great idea?!
Well, here are some suggestions of construction games that can scratch that itch, if only in the digital world. How about being the visionary, the engineer, the mayor, the tycoon or even the God of a whole world?!
To prove that the dream is possible, albeit in a virtual reality, the Salão de Jogos (Games Room) website has prepared a list of 5 construction games to master your universe for idealista/news.
SimCity Build It
The SimCity franchise has been around for a couple of decades in the video game world, but now it has dropped its PC moorings to become a free to play city-building game across iOS and Android devices.
The pocket version is called SimCity Build It, where you can create and manage your city at your leisure. Imagine recreating a metropolis like Tokyo or Paris... promising, don't you think? Of course, there are already ways to play SimCity Build It on the PC, through some emulators circulating on the internet, but the game is very accessible and more interesting if you can play it everywhere.
In this game, you'll have to make use of the tools you have in order to complete the constant challenges that are presented in each season of the game. From providing basic services to all the inhabitants, through security issues, land-use planning, and ending in the culture they learn.
The game is available for free for iOS and Android devices.
Cities Skylines: the little brother of Sim City
We can say that it is the little brother of Sim City. It is also a game of building cities, but here there is a greater personalization of each inhabitant.
In this game, you can follow the life of a single inhabitant and see if everything you build actually makes their life complete. Each inhabitant has a family, a job and a house.
This addition of the personalised inhabitants contributes to an overall feeling of reality in the game. And it's not just that: the traffic, the migrations of people, the flow in and out of cities is more like what you know from your own life.
It is also a game known for its mods, that is, the modifications to the game that you can implement through downloading content created by other players. One of the most popular mods, and a fundamental one, is a mod that makes it one of the few multiplayer construction games.
The game is only available for PC.
Block'hood: distinguished by sustainability
What makes this game stand apart is the sustainability component which is immediately visible through the architecture. Here you will build a city in an ecological way, respecting the environment, and balancing the ecosystem. You'll build a city where humans live together with animals and nature.
In terms of gameplay, it is different due to its premise of building houses with blocks because each block has its own peculiarity, but in the end, you can see all the beauty of your creation.
Despite having a minimalistic appearance, when you look at the end result, you can easily see how nature and city building can coexist in our reality.
Buildings Have Feelings Too! - great stories are in the buildings
In this game, it is in buildings that we find great stories. Whether it's our civilisation, our culture, or just our lives, the truth is that these structures are a piece of our own history, and we may never really appreciate them.
This game brings buildings to life because you basically have to undertake a reordering of the territory. It's not just a game of building houses, you have to consider the needs of the different buildings and their inhabitants. Placing residential areas next to shops, cafes or mini-markets and industrial areas away from the city centre to avoid air pollution are part of the routine of the game, but it's also more than that
Here the player has the objective of managing a city and considering the best interactions between buildings and their features, with a rather original particularity: the buildings can walk, talk and, above all, have feelings.
It is available for all consoles on the market and also for the PC.
Airbourne Kingdoms
Available for PC and Mac, and now also for smartphones, the game stands out from other city-building simulators.
Your biggest challenge is to create a flying city. And what a challenge this is... a flying city needs to be well balanced so it doesn't tip to one side and crash.
Your mission is to build and balance all the necessary elements of a city, while producing coal so that the city continues to fly. Are you ready?