How big is the City builder market on Steam?

A typical City builder game sells 449k to 730k copies, and the top decile 2.1M to 3.4M, based on the 75 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What City builder games usually sell on Steam

What City builder games sell on Steam, shown two ways: a SteamSpy sample of the whole genre, and the City builder games people have looked up here.

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 449k–730k copies

$2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies

$12.8M–$34.5M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 75 City builder games sit with 8 of them.

Based on the 75 City builder games SteamSpy listed on November 15, 2026. It misses the games that barely sold, so these figures flatter the genre. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Copies are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The City builder games gathered on wishvane

Across the 418 City builder games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 106k–110k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, Cities: Skylines, at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than SteamSpy's figures above.

The City builder games gathered here span 2008 to 2026, and 142 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest City builder games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Clicker and Idler.
Across the City builder games gathered here a typical price is $14.99, and the biggest charge more, around $25.

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