Build-em-up is a type of Simulation video game where the player assumes the role of the leader and planner of the town or city, playing from a top-down perspective and being responsible for its management and growth. In these games, players may select building placement and management feature like work priorities and salaries, and the development of the city accordingly. These games focuses on building rather than a set victory conditions. The player can follow his personal preference in growth and design. Such types of games, the player has an opportunity to unleash his building skills, gather resources and set out on an epic mission of establishing his wonderful city or town where all the basic services are available for the inhabitants. The player starts the game with limited resources, an empty land, and few tools, but as the player gain experience and start creating his city, further content will be unlocked and the player gain more advanced tools as well as buildings to place. The player explores the environment from a top-down or isometric perspective and can use point-and-click interface to take actions.

24 Best Build-em-up Games for iOS

#1 Clash Royale

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Clash Royale by the popular Supercell is a fantastic new Freemium Mobile Strategy video game available to play on both Android and iOS platforms. The game offers a beautiful combination of Strategy and Card-based brawling aesthetics and allows you to enjoy a similar gameplay to the popular Clash of Clans video game. Clash Royale lets you take part in epic Arena based real-time PvP combats, collect a number of different Clash Troops and go swarm down on your enemy to wreak havoc and to bring chaos. Your task is simple, you just have to demolish your enemy’s Crown Towers, collect a number of Cards, defend your own Towers and keep on pacing until every last one of the enemies is eliminated. Clash Royale offers a number of different types of Cards to collect such as “Troop Cards, Spell Cards, and Building Cards” etc. that you can use to perform specific tasks and keep on building your defensive towers, and enjoy the ultimate thrill. The inclusion of Multiplayer mode, loads of Royales (Princes, Princesses, Dragons, Baby Dragons, Knights etc.) and Clash troop characters, fantastic upgrades, amazing spells, a number of different types of in-game rewards, crowns of Glory and loads of other great things, Clash Royale takes you to a totally different side of Multiplayer Mobile Strategy video gaming. With a brilliant visual approach, great mechanics, easy controls and a totally immersive gameplay, Clash Royale is one amazing game to play and enjoy.

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#2 The Battle of Polytopia

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The Battle of Polytopia brings a Strategy, Turn-based, Single-player and Multiplayer Building video game created and published by Midjiwan AB. The game takes place in the beautiful world and introduces up to eleven tribes. The player must select his one of eleven tribes and struggle to conquer the square-shaped worlds by dominating cities. In the game, the player assumes the role of the leader with a task to build an empire and battle against enemies, attack their bases, and loot their resources to expand his tribe further and further. He starts the game from a small and empty land covered with snow and other grass. The player manipulates the steamy Kickoo forests and claims the lush land for his empire. It has numerous levels with increasing difficulties, and the player needs to fulfill the objectives to unlock additional content and earn points to become the master. With addictive gameplay and superb mechanics, The Battle of Polytopia is the best game to play and enjoy.

#3 SimCity Buildit

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SimCity Buildit is an addictive and quite brilliant Building and Management Simulation by Electronic Arts (EA). The game lets the players be the mayor of a city, construct various types of buildings, factories, research facilities, generate and collect resources, etc. To generate the resources, the players must build factories where they can forge Metal, plastic and other types of resources. Building parks, Apartments and a good sewerage system keeps the citizens happy, so the players will definitely have to manage their resources well and build beautiful houses and apartments for the people living in the SimCity. To supply clean water and continuous power supply, players will have to build power houses and a whole new system of water supply for each and every apartment in the city. The trade element of the game allows the player to collect resources from the factories, use them on the city and if they have extra they can sell them in markets and earn SimCity coins. Players can also visit neighboring cities, take a look at their design and buy some of the building material to use them in their own city. Good strategic and management abilities will always benefit good so the players must use their abilities to plan the city, water and power supply lines, keep the factories far from the population and must collect taxes to keep the economy in good shape. Building parks, assigning jobs to the people of the City and taking care of the law and order situations would definitely make the game more entertaining for the Mayor. With a remarkable gameplay, beautiful 3D visuals and all the building and management fun, SimCity Buildit is one of the best mobile simulations to enjoy. Do try it out.

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#4 Roblox

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Roblox, developed and published by Roblox Corporation is an MMO (Massively Multiplayer online) and a Sandbox video game available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS and Android platforms. The game lets you be part of a virtual world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself, explore an open world, interact with a lot of online players, play games together, make friends online and focuses on your creative and building abilities by manipulating the blocks and create whatever you want. You can talk over the mic or chat with your friends via an online text based platform. Everything you see in the game is basically situated inside the differently stylized, sized and colored bricks and blocks, and offers you a unique experience of Voxel based sandbox gaming. You get to visit different places, some provided by the game itself and some user created (Maps created by Lua 5.1 Programming Language), you can walk, run, jump, ride on skateboards, bikes, cars etc. and buy houses to live in. Roblox allows you to buy a structure and decorate it according to your likes and dislikes. If you don’t like a building or you want to destroy something you can totally bring it down and rebuild just according to your style and demands. The game provides you with best 3D graphics, two types of virtual currency (Tickets and Robux) to buy things, a lot of upgrades that you can buy with Tickets or Robux and a lot of other exciting things to do and enjoy.

#5 Township

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Township is a great blend of City Building, Management and Farming elements and provides with a great fun-filled game-play ever. The game lets you construct different buildings, grow crops, harvest them and sell them in the markets to ear revenue that you can use to buy upgrades and other items. You can collect resources from a number of sources such as Mining, businesses, and archeology etc. Farming part of the game allows you to grow different organic crops, process them, make different products with them and sell them afterwards to earn money. With a wonderful setting, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play this game will entertain you to the limits.

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#6 Monopoly

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Monopoly is a Resource Management, Strategy, and Multiplayer Board game developed by Elizabeth Magie and published by Hasbro. The game offers exciting gameplay, in which you must collect resources and trade with others to score points. Buy properties, resources, items and more thing and sell them to other players to expand your land. You can customize the game rules, buildings, road, and more. It comprises different levels you must complete at any cost to progress in the game. Build hotels and other building and earn money. Play against other players or computer controlled opponents and show your skills. Complete the goal before your opponents and score the highest points to win. It includes core features such as House Rules, Trading, Resource Management, and more. With the best mechanics, addictive gameplay, brilliant mechanics, and dynamic sounds, Monopoly is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#7 The Simpsons: Tapped Out

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The Simpsons: Tapped Out is a wonderful Freemium Building and Management mobile Simulation that allows you to create your own Springfield City, create and customize characters, construct buildings (Houses, Shops, Schools, Hospitals, and Malls) and enjoy being a Simpson. With constant updates to the game content, huge amounts of DLC, in-game currency and Economics, amazing tasks to be completed by you, great visuals, and an immersive game-play, The Simpsons: Tapped Out is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. The Simpsons: Tapped Out is constantly being updated and offers loads of new and fantastic characters, Season-specific content, e.g. Thanksgiving, Halloween and Threehouse of Horror DLC Packs, Multiple language support featuring the game in English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese and Brazilian languages etc. Initially the game was available on only iOS platform but now it is also available on Android as well. If you really want to enjoy feeling like Simpsons and enjoy the neighborhoods of Springfield in real time, you should totally play it and enjoy the Ultimate fun and everything Simpsons.

#8 Townsmen

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Townsmen is a Strategy-based Building and Management Simulation developed by Handy Games. It takes the players back to the medieval Era and tasks them to build their own City. The game’s ultimate goal is to develop a tiny village into a fully advanced and thriving Empire, boost the economy, and produce the happiest villagers ever. It allows the players to find mining spots, harvest all the necessary resources, and enjoy constructing them.

The players are also tasked to build fields, gardens, markets, erect statues, build massive and attractive monuments to decorate the city. Bandits in the game are the worst of all problems. The players must build barracks, guarding towers, recruit and train soldiers to protect the citizens. The game offers to run the businesses smoothly to make an economically strong nation.

#9 Car Town Streets

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Car Town Streets is an Action, Isometric, Building, Single and Multiplayer video game for kids. The game takes place in the colorful world filled with different cars. There are over thirty-five licensed vehicles such as Acura, Martin, DMC, Alfa Romeo, Dodge, Honda and more. Your ultimate task is to build your town by creating a building and restore the city to its former condition when cars ruled the city. Find your favorite cars and customize it using different accessories and tools to create unique. Explore the environment, build your team and compete against other players in head-to-head battle. Earn points by defeating other players and use them to unlock rare vehicles, exciting content and more. Car Town Streets offers core features such as over sixty new Cars, Restore the car in your Garage, Design your City, Custom License Plates, and more. Car Town Streets is the best game to play and enjoy.

#10 Stick War: Legacy

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Stick War: Legacy is a strategy and single-player video game developed by Max Games Studios. The gameplay is a mix of RTS, base building, and turn-based combat elements. It lets you control your army, build your units and struggle to destroy the enemies. Lead your army on the battlefield and take them down. It occurs in the world known as Inamorta, where brutal nations surround you. Each nation has its unique way of defending and attack.

Craft different weapons and participate in the battle to compete against the various countries and conquer them to earn points and become the master. Discover new technologies, and learn the way of spear, archer, mage, and sword. Destroy enemies and capture all territories to score points and use them to upgrade your armies, units, and weapons. It is the best game to play and enjoy with superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and touch controls.

#11 Bloons TD 5

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Bloons TD 5 is an immersive, 2D, Strategy, Tower-Defense, Co-op, and Single-player Action video game created and published by Ninja Kiwi for multiple platforms. The game lets you chance to create your awesome towers, select your upgrades, hire special agents, and smash every last bloon in each level. The game introduces new special agents, HD graphics, original soundtracks, new towers, buildings and special missions. Research unique abilities to discover new technology and towers. There are over twenty-one towers, ten special agents, over two-hundred random missions, and new foes such as tougher Camos, etc. that you have seen experience before. Complete a series of levels by smashing blooms, make the strategy, use towers and place them in the right place, defend your unit and complete the level with highest points. Unlock further levels using points and unlock all features to become the master. Bloons TD 5 offers exciting features such as over 50 Achievements, 3 different Modes, 3 difficulty Settings, 10 Missions and more. Bloons TD 5 is the best game for those who love playing Tower-Defense games.

#12 DragonVale

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DragonVale is a wonderful Building, Management and Dragon Capturing, Training and Breeding Simulation that allows you to design and build a Park in which you can breed and pet multiple types of dragons, sell them and earn Dragon Cash. The game lets you use 10 main elements such as Plant, Cold, Fire, Earth, Lightening, Air, Water, Metal, Light and Dark etc. to make different combinations and breed normal and hybrid Dragons and enjoy being a Skilled Dragon Master and a trainer. In order to live up to your dreams, you must go on epic quests to capture rare species of dragons, tame and train them to make them your allies and use them in epic brawls against the enemies. The great multiplayer feature of the game allows you to interact with other players, make new friends and enjoy all the Dragon capturing, taming, training and building fun. With a beautiful game setting, fantastic HD visuals and all the fun activities, Dragon City is a fantastic video game to play and enjoy.

#13 Happy Wheels

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Happy Wheels is a Fantastic Browser-based Ragdoll Puzzle and Physics-based video game developed and published by the Fancy Force. The game allows the players to enjoy engaging in a totally non-typical gameplay in which they can use vehicles to traverse through the environment and explore the game world as well as enjoy loads of user created game content (Regularly updated. Happy Wheels is all about Victory and it allows the players to select the vehicles of their choice, finish the brutal races and win Tokens by completing various tasks and achieving the objectives of the game. One negative aspect of the game is that it features extensive Graphic violence such as players can decapitate other players and AIs, they can shoot other players while playing the game as well as crush them with the help of loads of items present in the game world. Over all the game offers a satisfying feel and allows the players to enjoy uploading and reviewing game replays, create new game levels using the advanced Level Editor and enjoy building structures with the help of loads of cool items and materials. With a fantastic game narrative, Happy Wheels offers beautiful game visuals and a hardcore Action and Thrill filled gameplay for all the adventure seekers around the globe. Happy Wheels is also available on Android and iOS platforms.

#14 Tiny Tower

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Tiny Tower is a Single-player Business and Management Simulation developed and published by NimbleBit. The ultimate goal of the game is to build and manage a massive tower, fill it up with virtual people known as Bitzians, keep on building new floors in the tower and eventually make it the tallest building of the world. The player must also be able to assign various types of jobs to the Bitzians and keep them busy. Resource management, and strategically use them is a great responsibility so the players must be good at that. The game offers multiple floors and categorically accommodates the Bitzians onto them based on their importance in the game. For example Ordinary Bitzians would live in lower floors of the tower, however, the Vips live on the higher floors of the towers. Similarly there are various types of Spenders in the tower, including the Big Spenders, Celebrities, etc. There are different types of Bitzians in the game such as Construction Workers, Delivery Men, Real Estate agents, Big Spenders, Celebrities and Dream Workers, etc. Economics in the game are of more interest because that is the easiest way to earn money and spend it on construction material, upgrades and loads of other cool items. With a marvelous game setting, great background sounds and a remarkably addictive gameplay, Tiny Tower is a fun Business and Management video game to play and enjoy.

#15 Stardew Valley

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Stardew Valley is a role-playing farming simulation developed by Sickhead Games. The game allows the players to control a virtual character who inherits land and a house from his grandfather. It tasks the player to clear up the plot, throw away the boulders, cut down the bushes and unwanted trees, and rebuild the farm from scratch. The secondary task of the game is to grow crops, raise livestock and generate revenue by selling the products.

Once there is enough money in hand, buy more land and expand the farm, construct new buildings and facilities. The NPCs in the game are there as well, and the game’s social element allows the players to interact, engage in relationships, raise families, help them in farm-related matters, and get help from them. It offers a procedurally generated game world, beautiful 3D graphics, cool mechanics, and a great backstory that keeps players engaged till the end.

#16 Guns of Glory

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Guns of Glory is a Massively Multiplayer Online and Mobile Strategy video game developed and published by Diandian Interactive Holding for iOS and Android. The game allows you to establish your empire, raise your mighty army to take down enemies to conquer their land and resources. You can team up with friends and other players from around the world and become the supreme ruler of your kingdom to expand it. Manipulate the land to gather resources, equip your army with powerful weapons, and defend your kingdom from enemy attack. It is a mix of RPG, RTS and MMO elements and offers a thrilling gameplay, enabling you to customize your estate, troops, airship, building, and more. Interact with other players, and participate in massive battles where you can test your fortune. Score the points by completing objectives, and use them to unlock additional content. Command your army, Build a Kingdom, Unlockable Content, Rules the Skies, Slay Epic Beasts, etc. are prominent features in the game. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#17 The Island Castaway: Lost World

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The Island Castaway: Lost World is a wonderful Real-time Strategy Simulation that lets you enjoy being stranded on a remotest island. The Brutal Shipwreck leaves you with options such as getting up and finding the best possible ways and things to survive and eventually be a leader of the fellow Castaways to stop confusion and chaos. The game tasks you with starting a whole new community by constructing different structures, shelters, fish and chicken farms, gather the plants necessary for your unique magic potions, grow crops, keep the fellow castaways safe and nicely fed, solve different challenging puzzles to escape the island and finally reach home. With almost 1000 challenging levels, a lot of different types of resources, a number of characters to choose between, cool magic potions to make, a lot of building options, engaging gameplay and coolest visuals ever, The Island Castaway: Lost World is quite fun to play and enjoy.

#18 Summoners War

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Summoners War combines the elements of Massively Multiplayer Online, Turn-based Strategy and Role-playing developed and published by Com2Us. It is available to play on Android and iOS platforms. The game takes place in the fantasy world called Sky Arena filled with monsters and foes and casts you in the role of the summoner and your ultimate task is to fight against other players to acquire the vital resource known as Mana Crystal. There are more than 1000 types of monsters to select and play. Create your team using different and powerful monsters and try to accomplish all missions and objectives to win. Join other players and build a guild to face tough challenge and conquer the world. You can craft different weapons and building using different accessories, tools and items. Summoners War offers core features such as Endless Gameplay, Team-based, Crafting, Dynamic Guild Battles, Massive Collection and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#19 Battle Nations

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Battle Nations is a Massively Multiplayer Online, and Turn-based Strategy with Base-building elements developed Z2. The game lets the player take part in immersive story-driven missions against other players around the world or AI-controlled characters. It takes place in the fantastic world and puts you in the role of the commander who must control the imperial army. Build your base, and recruit your army, train and equip them with advanced weapons to defend your base. Lead your army in the battlefield, fight against other players in real-time PvP combat and defeat them to conquer their land, loot their resources and expand your Empire further and further. Deal with other players, create alliances with them to protect yourself, make your strategy, and place your defenses on the right place to fend off the enemy attack. Engage yourself in turn-based combat gameplay experience and earn lots of points to unlock other weapons and items. Unlock other characters and dominate the game world for glory and become the master. With superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and wonderful visuals, Battle Nations is the best game to play and enjoy.

#20 Craft the World

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Craft the World is a marvelous Sandbox Construction, Management, and MMO and RTS Simulation by Black maple games. The Simulation actually lets you be an in charge of a whole big Dwarf Society that with time changes into a fully developed community. Your task is to explore the world around you, collect resources, battles against the monsters, craft different items like “weapons, vehicles, buildings” etc. and discover new technologies to equalize your worth and strengthen your defenses, Defeat your enemies in order to capture their lands and to loot their resources etc. With a number of complex game levels filled with pure awesomeness and fun, amazing amounts of resources, and sandbox aesthetics, wonderful visuals, immersive gameplay and a lot of other cool things, Craft the World is one of the best game to play. Do try it out.

#21 Monster Legends

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Monster Legends is a fun Action-Adventure and Puzzle video game that offers a Pokemon inspired gameplay and mechanics. The game allows the player to enjoy Capturing, raising and training the most beautiful monsters and enjoy City Building elements in the game as well. Monster Legends lets the players breed and cross breed various species of monsters and enjoy petting the most rare and newest species of monsters. The city building and management elements of the game allows the players to build perfect habitats for the monsters, and via breeding, unlock over hundred new monsters. Raise them with all the love and train them to take part in epic PvP battles (3v3) and enjoy the game to the fullest. Monster Legends keeps on adding the upgrades and new content on regular basis and lets the players enjoy engaging in new adventures and quests as well. The ultimate goal of the game is to become a Monster Master so the players are invited to take part in epic Team Wars, a worldwide tournament where the players can team up with friends and go against the other players online in blasting PvP Arena-based battles. With over three hundred unique monsters to collect, amazing breeding options, amazing RPG Progression system, fantastic building and management options, arena based PvP combats and a community of over Forty Million players worldwide, Monster Legends is one amazing game to play and enjoy. So, are you ready to become the most skilled and powerful Monster Master of all times? Well, let’s hit it. Shall We?

#22 Lords Mobile

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Lords Mobile is an MMORPG, Strategy, Combat and Fantasy-based video game developed by Castle Clash and published by IGG.com. The game is available on mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. At the beginning of the game, the player can choose his faction and get into the fantasy game world, where the primary objective of the player creates his own castle with numbers of units, builds and train his own troops, etc. After building his castle, it offers the player to get combat against the other online player or enemy creatures in order to expand his empire. It also offers the player to explore the game world and discover new technologies that will help the player in during the gameplay. It includes key features such as massive game world, build numbers of buildings, Upgrades, different Modes, replayability and customization option, etc. Lords Mobile offers immersive and quite addictive gameplay, objective storyline, dynamic background music and brilliant graphics details.

#23 Battleship Craft

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Battleship Craft lets you a chance to go wild with your imagination and create your dream ship using different accessories and items. The game is available to play on iOS platform developed by Phyzios. It revolves around ship-construction and warfare simulation elements and allows you build your ship, upgrade the engine, equips with weapons and armor. Battleship Craft offers a massive variety of parts and enables the player to face real-life problems such as vessel building, stability, and military. After constructing your ship, go into battle against other players or AI characters, use a massive range of weapons and struggle to defeat your opponents. Earn lots of points and experience and use them to unlock further content in the game world. You can create and design a huge variety of ships. With an exciting gameplay, crafting element, and epic battle, Battleship Craft is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

#24 Fortnite Battle Royale

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Fortnite: Battle Royale is a Free-to-play (F2P) video game with Battle Royale and Multiplayer elements by Epic Games. It serves as a spin-off of Fortnite: Save the World, a co-op Survival game comes with construction aspects. Similar to other battle royale games, it introduces up to 100 players from across the world (alone, in teams, or duos) struggling to be the last standing player or a team alive by slaying other players or evading them. While staying safe within a shrinking zone to avoid taking lethal damage. Players start the game with no advantages and weapons and must scavenge buildings and other structures for weapons, armor, and gears to gain the upper hand on the opponents. The game features a construction element, enabling players to break down most objects to obtain resources they can use to create fortifications. The fixed layouts of the island offer several locations and landmarks that are mostly ghost towns, while a procedural distribution of shields, weapons, and other support can be discovered by searching popular sites and buildings. Like other Battle Royale games, the task of the player or a team is to be alive by removing or preventing other players. Over time, the game’s safe zone decreases in size, and players who remain outside the area will receive damage. Fortnite: Battle Royale is the best as compared to other Battle Royale games.