# City-building game

*Source* · `src-wikipedia-city-building-game` · status: **n/a**

| field | value |
|---|---|
| kind | Encyclopedia / wiki |
| authors | Wikipedia contributors |
| venue | Wikipedia |
| date | 2026 |
| url | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-building_game |
| accessed | 2026-10-24 |

## Notes

Genre history: The Sumerian Game adapted into The Sumer Game (Hamurabi); Utopia as the first sim game; genre established in 1989 with SimCity; Caesar began the Impressions historical series; Banished kick-started the survival city-builder trend; Cities: Skylines revived the SimCity style.

## Backlinks (computed)

**cited by:** [Banished](../game/banished.md), [Cities: Skylines](../game/cities-skylines.md), [Hamurabi](../game/hamurabi.md), [Utopia](../game/utopia.md)

## Citation

Wikipedia contributors (2026). *City-building game*. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-building_game

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Provenance: created in run `2026-10-24-catalog-ga`.