Citations:city-builder

Noun: "(video games) synonym of city-building game"

 * 2000, Robert Coffey, "Where All All the Strat Games?", Computer Gaming World, August 2000, page 131:
 * Impressions Games' line of historic city-builders like CAESAR and PHARAOH have long appealed to hardcore gamers.
 * 2002, Tom Chick, "Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom", Computer Gaming World, November 2002, page 127:
 * Without the problems that took away from earlier Impressions city builders, Emperor delivers solid, familiar gameplay in an exotic setting.
 * 2005, Doug Whatley, quoted in Brandon Sheffield, "Breaking The Waves", Game Developer, February 2005, page 25:
 * BreakAway's done for the most part PC stuff—city builders and strategy games—so a lot of that just fit really naturally with military planning and those types of projects.
 * 2009, Mike Griffin, "Tropico 3", Play, September 2009, page 76:
 * The Tropico series takes the best elements of strategic titles, city builders and manager games and thrusts players into a beautiful tropical paradise where you’ll work to improve the quality of life for your citizens.
 * 2015, Brian Shea, "Cities: Skylines", Game Informer, May 2015, page 92:
 * Cities: Skyline excels and delivers the new gold standard of modern city-builders.
 * 2015, "Concrete Jungle", PC Powerplay, December 2015, page 30:
 * If you’re a fan of card games, city builders or puzzle games, especially all three, I can’t recommend Concrete Jungle highly enough.