Home / Games / TheoTown
TheoTown
Build and manage your dream city in this captivating simulation game. Create unique urban landscapes and enjoy compatibility with the mobile versions. Unleash your creativity and shape the metropolis of your dreams.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
42 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Sometimes you just want a city builder that's accessible, lo-fi, and still fun. TheoTown has caught my attention over some of my favorites like Cities Skylines and Sim City 2000. It's a fantastic city builder that can…”
“I found out this game probably from a youtube video about city building game. Bought this game on a whim, because my computer probably couldn't handle those other games that were heavy on memory. I ended up treating…”
“I used to play this game on my phone, it was so good that I bought it on steam. If you like city building and pixel artstyle, you should play it. It has a great plugin community not to mention. Overall the game is hard…”
17 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Sometimes you just want a city builder that's accessible, lo-fi, and still fun. TheoTown has caught my attention over some of my favorites like Cities Skylines and Sim City 2000. It's a fantastic city builder that can…”
“I used to play this game on my phone, it was so good that I bought it on steam. If you like city building and pixel artstyle, you should play it. It has a great plugin community not to mention. Overall the game is hard…”
“Certainly a nice game with its eye pleasing pixel graphics, nice gameplay that requires player input, but not straining. Really cool addon system and just overall nice techincal aspects. Pre rendered graphics for the…”
14 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Sometimes you just want a city builder that's accessible, lo-fi, and still fun. TheoTown has caught my attention over some of my favorites like Cities Skylines and Sim City 2000. It's a fantastic city builder that can…”
“I used to play this game on my phone, it was so good that I bought it on steam. If you like city building and pixel artstyle, you should play it. It has a great plugin community not to mention. Overall the game is hard…”
“Certainly a nice game with its eye pleasing pixel graphics, nice gameplay that requires player input, but not straining. Really cool addon system and just overall nice techincal aspects. Pre rendered graphics for the…”
12 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Sometimes you just want a city builder that's accessible, lo-fi, and still fun. TheoTown has caught my attention over some of my favorites like Cities Skylines and Sim City 2000. It's a fantastic city builder that can…”
“I found out this game probably from a youtube video about city building game. Bought this game on a whim, because my computer probably couldn't handle those other games that were heavy on memory. I ended up treating…”
“I used to play this game on my phone, it was so good that I bought it on steam. If you like city building and pixel artstyle, you should play it. It has a great plugin community not to mention. Overall the game is hard…”
12 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“I found this game browsing City Building games... I'm a huge fan of city building games, and this has got to be in my top three! I love the 8-bit style of the game, and I love how they even have a sandbox version... you…”
“I´ve been playing this game for years. It´s exciting and has a large number of plugins for max realism”
“I have many experience and memories with this game. Countless of hours on this game (Steam playtime not included) as I first played this game during its beta testing on Google Play many many years ago (2015 iirc). This…”
9 of the 101 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“amazing i originally played this on mobile for like 5 years and just now got the pc version; so based of that, its an actually good game for people who want to by whats basically a simple version of cities skylines.…”
“Very tedious in ways. Its good when you want to become a warlord state.. Mixed reccomendation”
“but not as good as city skyline”
7 of the 101 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“-built big city -city catches on fire -builds firestation -town explodes -fire dept watches from afar great game love to use swat on civilians”
“This game is all the best parts of the first four Simcity games and will probably run on a ham sandwich so it's an easy recommendation from me. This review is mostly criticism of a few aspects of the game but that's not…”
“Its pretty fun. An ode to classic simcity. Its a mobile port and you can feel it... Certain things like doing anything with bridges and tunnels is incredibly clunky and frustrating. Also the connections between city…”
Counted across 101 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 94.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“This game has 0 in-game purchases and was made with love, nothing else to add.”
— a player, Steam review · 391 hrs played“Very chill and nice game. My ex got it for me back in the day super thankful to her!”
— a player, Steam review · 147 hrs played“Very cool game for people who have interest in city building games. It may seem complex at first for someone who's coming from Simcity, but I guarantee the curve only gets softer from there. You'll find yourself planning your perfect city, managing resources, while trying to…”
— a player, Steam review · 277 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.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-04). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update 1.12.80
🌟 Add native airplanes as decoration buildings 🔧 Show why buildings cannot be placed 🔧 Track why buildings become abandoned 🔧 Separate dirt roads and dirt tracks 🔧 Refresh the notification bar and imp
Update 1.12.65
🔧 Add tool marker legends 🔧 Add multi-level elevated railways 🔧 Show source plugin in selection dialog 🔧 Improve city loading and long-distance travel 🔧 Optimize memory usage 🔧 Update translations 🐞 F
An update on server stability
Hello everyone,The recent surge of players from Indonesia has been incredible to see, but it has pushed our current infrastructure to its absolute limit.To be transparent with you all: our server arch
Transportation Update
Back in 2019, we asked our Discord community what you wanted most. The clear second-place vote after online mode was a transportation overhaul. We’ve been working on it since 2021, and after some time
Steam Cloud
Game data will be automatically uploaded to the cloud, allowing you to continue your cities or regions on any device running the Steam version of the game. Please let us know if you experience any iss
Games like TheoTown
From our knowledge graph — ranked by shared traits, not a black box. Each card says why it's here.
Project Hospital
87.6% · 3,664 reviews
shares Moddable, City Builder, Life Sim, Isometric
Production Line : Car factory simulation
82.7% · 2,383 reviews
shares Moddable, City Builder, 2 5d, Isometric
Sapiens
82.2% · 1,433 reviews
shares Moddable, City Builder, Life Sim, Building
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
90.1% · 776 reviews
shares Moddable, City Builder, Isometric, Building
OpenTTD
94.6% · 9,147 reviews
shares Moddable, City Builder, Isometric, Building
Big Pharma
77.8% · 1,319 reviews
shares Moddable, 2 5d, Isometric, Building
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack
90.6% · 4,202 reviews
shares City Builder, Isometric, Building, Management
Parkitect
94.6% · 5,650 reviews
shares Moddable, City Builder, Isometric, Building
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Simulation · Pixel Graphics · Strategy · Indie · Sandbox · Building · Casual · Management · Multiplayer · Moddable · Adventure (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, Indonesian, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Turkish… |
| Achievements | 54 |
| Official site | https://theotown.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Pentium Memory: 1024 MB RAM Graphics: Intel Integrated Graphics Storage: 200 MB available space