city-building game

City-building game is a genre of computer game where players act as overall planner and leader, normally looking at the city from a point-of-view high in the sky, to grow and manage a simulated city. Players are only allowed to control building placement and city management features such as salaries and work priorities, while actual building is done by game citizens who are non-playable characters. City-building games are generally economic simulation games and sometimes confused with god games.
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