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Anonymous03/12/26, 14:55No.2360435
What are the different between city builders and colony sims?
And what games would you recommend if I enjoy the early game of city builders fore the city gets too big?
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Anon03/12/26, 15:05No.2360445
It has a lot of overlap, but generally colony sims are smaller scale with higher stakes and clearer objectives and failure conditions and resource collection and management while city builers are more low stakes and are more about over all logistics and government infrastructure and politics.It's a bit ofna spectrum given that you have games like the Impression series or Tropico where you still have resources managment despite them being city builders, but those aspects are a lot tamer in their games verse a traditional coloney sim.
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Anon03/12/26, 15:56No.2360512
>What are the different between city builders and colony sims?
I would say the biggest, fundamental difference would be that city builders primarily only have one resource to be collected/expended - money. Instead of the many resources needed for colony sims.
City builders also tend to be at a much larger scale. Sometimes they may simulate individual citizens to some degree - like Tropico. But often it's just a number.
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Anon03/12/26, 16:02No.2360517
My issue with city builders is exactly that they always force you to expand and build some kind of megalopolis. I really like the more low scale towns. That is why I couldnt get into Banished either, because it also wants you to endlessly expand, but I d rather just build a small town surrounded by a lush countryside.
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Anon03/12/26, 16:03No.2360518
All banished clones are citybuilders but not all city builders are banished clones. Custom map impression games, say caesar 3 augustus or julius as in those you can't just spam reticle loops. Ancient Dawn for banished and literally no big city gameplay. Children of the Nile for cozy monument building. Surviving Mars, pirated last patch only.
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Anon03/12/26, 17:03No.2360557
You can't starve to death in a city bulder.
That's about it, given the current state of both genres
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Anon03/13/26, 06:24No.2360913
>what games would you recommend if I enjoy the early game of city builders before the city gets too big?
After the Storm might just scratch that itch for you.
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Anon03/13/26, 21:37No.2361407
It's the level of abstraction. The biggest ones are
Do individual pops exist and have needs or is there only a pool of workforce or simplified simulation.
Does it have resource management, logistics and construction or do you just pay for everything with cash.