city-builder

English

Alternative forms

• city builder

Noun

city-builder (plural city-builders)

1. (video games) Synonym of city-building game.
   • 2000 August, Robert Coffey, “Where All All the Strat Games?”, in Computer Gaming World, page 131:

     Impressions Games' line of historic city-builders like CAESAR and PHARAOH have long appealed to hardcore gamers.

   • 2009 September, Mike Griffin, “Tropico 3”, in Play, 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 May, Brian Shea, “Cities: Skylines”, in Game Informer, page 92:

     Cities: Skyline excels and delivers the new gold standard of modern city-builders.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:city-builder.