Check out these 3 fun looking city builders!

Nothing makes nesting in the cold winter months than making a big expansive city from the comfort of your home. So, this week, we’re looking at some new and exciting city-builders I can‘t wait to get my hands on.

Whether it‘s making friends and shelter on the high seas, rolling the dice on resources, or automating an expansive subterranean moon base, this week’s post has some exciting games flying under the radar.

Flotsam

Developed by Pajama Llama Games
Published by Stray Fawn Publishing

Flotsam is a lower level city builder focused on building a floating town from ocean garbage, then welcoming survivors and friendly animals. Explore the world in your submarine, gather resources, then bring it all back to build the floating city of your dreams.

With a huge tech tree, some incredibly cute animations, a simple, but robust building system, and a sense of humor, Flotsam (now in 1.0!) looks to be a great way to wile away the winter days.

Available now.

The Crust

Developed by VEOM Studio
Published by Crytivo

It's no surprise I love space games. The Crust promises to be the Lunar Colony development sim I crave. With a little bit of an automation game in there, smashed together with the colony management tools of something like Surviving Mars, The Crust has a ton of tools to make the industrial haven of your dreams. I especially like the ability to play at three levels: orbital, surface, and below the surface.

If you've read the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, I bet you'll find a few parallels here. The Crust, nearing the end of its Early Access run if the roadmap is to be believed, looks like a great lunar city builder. Just go don't looking for monoliths.

Available now in Early Access.

Amberspire

Developed by Lunar Division
Published by Bithell Games

While most city-builders are constrained by base location or methods of gathering resources, Amberspire does something I've never seen before: adds dice. Not much is known about Amberspire, the second game from Banished Vault developers Lunar Division, but from the art style to the dice mechanics, my interest is piqued.

The Steam page also mentions systemic ecology and citizen dynamics, which, if you know me, is right up my alley. I've been watching Amberspire for a while now and I bet you will be too.

Coming soon.