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Dystopika
A city-building sandbox for futuristic cities. No goals, no management, just creativity and dark cozy vibes.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
68 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“You just create your own Cyberpunk-like city. There are a lot of accessories to play around with, and the game looks visually beautiful. Also the devs are super-active. Thumbs up!”
“Cities: Skylines meets Cyberpunk.”
“A fair price for what is essentially a application to make desktop backgrounds. It delivers exactly what it describes on the box and honestly now i kinda want a cyberpunk dystopia city builder with management. I love…”
35 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“You just create your own Cyberpunk-like city. There are a lot of accessories to play around with, and the game looks visually beautiful. Also the devs are super-active. Thumbs up!”
“Simplistic and beautiful. A lovely little passion project which is in itself a work of art.”
“A fair price for what is essentially a application to make desktop backgrounds. It delivers exactly what it describes on the box and honestly now i kinda want a cyberpunk dystopia city builder with management. I love…”
14 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A fair price for what is essentially a application to make desktop backgrounds. It delivers exactly what it describes on the box and honestly now i kinda want a cyberpunk dystopia city builder with management. I love…”
“Personally I think this is a pretty cool idea for building game sort of in the same vein as 'tiny glade'. There are some fun mechanics and ways to customize your city to make it truly yours. My main issue with the game…”
“It's pretty fun and cool. Feels very similar to Tiny Glade, but the controls/mechanics are a little more clunky. I would love the ability to manually draw roads and walls. Ground roads would be dope. Would also like…”
14 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A pretty good city builder if you don't wanna micro manage everything and just want the fun parts. It runs great the music is peak and the workshop for this game is the cherry on top”
“I give this odd little game a positive review. Basically, one builds a futuristic city with different sky scraper designs with light gadgets on top of the buildings for advertising, etc. The city lights add to the…”
“A very chill no hassle cyberpunk city builder. Good for creating your own personal narratives or locales for story building. The main soundtrack/B-Sides soundtrack are also huge plus. All together this one is pure…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Lots of variety, very calming vibe. Great building sandbox with a DLC and mods to expand it.”
“A pretty good city builder if you don't wanna micro manage everything and just want the fun parts. It runs great the music is peak and the workshop for this game is the cherry on top”
“this game actually is more cozy than other games in my opinion to be honest, i really love the amount freedom and customization you get in your cities, this game even has mod support with custom buildings, soundtracks…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“There is no list of controls available. I've spent my entire purchase time looking up 3rd party sources on how to actually play the game and none of them work. Can't rotate buildings, can't select existing assets. This…”
“It's pretty fun and cool. Feels very similar to Tiny Glade, but the controls/mechanics are a little more clunky. I would love the ability to manually draw roads and walls. Ground roads would be dope. Would also like…”
“I give this odd little game a positive review. Basically, one builds a futuristic city with different sky scraper designs with light gadgets on top of the buildings for advertising, etc. The city lights add to the…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“It's fine. It's mostly just a 3D screen-saver and screenshot game, where you pretend like you actually did something. All the game does it just build ♥♥♥♥ around wherever you place buildings. There's no real game.…”
“I've really enjoyed this game. Built a city with buildings that have some of my favorite characters on them with the custom billboards along with another cut off section thats more destroyed and industrial looking that…”
“There's some really sweet things going on here - but it's not something I can recommend picking up... unless you're into that sort of thing, of course. Although a curosity, I'm not a fan of this type of aimless sandbox.…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“A fair price for what is essentially a application to make desktop backgrounds. It delivers exactly what it describes on the box and honestly now i kinda want a cyberpunk dystopia city builder with management. I love…”
“It's nice for worldbuilding or screenshots, but can get boring pretty quickly.”
“I give this odd little game a positive review. Basically, one builds a futuristic city with different sky scraper designs with light gadgets on top of the buildings for advertising, etc. The city lights add to the…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Only been 'playing' for 30 min so far. 1) I'm on laptop, touchpad only, no mouse. I'm able to adjust building sizes, change camera angle, zoom in/out, change building type, use brush tools. No option in settings to…”
“👍 Recommended Played about 5 hours across two sessions and ended up getting all the achievements in that time, which probably tells you what kind of experience this is. Dystopika isn’t really a city management game,…”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“There is no list of controls available. I've spent my entire purchase time looking up 3rd party sources on how to actually play the game and none of them work. Can't rotate buildings, can't select existing assets. This…”
“Great game to just pick up and put down as needed. It doesn't explain most of the tool functions, and the tool-tips are very basic, but after a few tries you'll get the hang of it. Soundtrack seems to be limited but…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 95.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Dystopika. The game is a cyberpunk, sanbox, dystopian/noir/sci-fi/futuristic city-building game. And incredibly simple. There are no resource managements to worry about. You don't have to worry about chopping trees with lumberjacks; a sawmill to convert logs into planks. No…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“Just buy it already, its like 6 bucks and if thats to much than you got bigger priorities than buying steam games. I hope your pillows cold tonight”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Do you ever like riding through a big city at night, in a taxi or just in a car, watching those endless, warm, lived-in window lights? Sometimes you can even spot something oddly familiar from childhood. A certain kind of lampshade. An old cabinet. A scrap of sheer curtain. A…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Community Challenge: Concrete & Chrome
Thank you everyone who participated in the Nexus of Technology challenge by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord . This week's selected highlights were submissions by: Rya
v1.7.11 Quality of Life Improvements
This is a minor update to address some recent feedback and bug reports. Dystopika remains in maintenance mode while I focus my energy on a new project. I'm still watching for feedback and small ways t
Community Challenge: Nexus of Technology
Thank you everyone who participated in the City of Industry challenge by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord . This week's selected highlights were submissions by: Ryanta
Community Challenge: City of Industry
Thank you everyone who participated in the Festival of Neon: Redux challenge by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord. This week's selected highlights were submissions by:
Community Challenge: Festival of Neon: Redux
Thank you everyone who participated in the Dark Enterprises challenge by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord. This week's selected highlights were submissions by: Giga_Je
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Cyberpunk · Dystopian · Sandbox · Noir · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · Futuristic · Strategy · 3D · Open World · City Builder (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Polish, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Indonesian, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Thai, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Czech, Ukrainian |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Official site | https://www.dystopika.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10+ Processor: Intel Core i5 or AMD equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Radeon R9 270, GeForce GTX 760, or similar Storage: 2 GB available space