Best Games by Popularity: C

Caesar IV advances, refines and updates the city-building gameplay from Caesar III, in full 3D. Read the Review

Commander: Conquest of the Americas features elements from both trading and strategy games. Read the Review

Cities XL lets you develop cities on realistic 3D maps using a collection of unique structures and monuments based on American, Asian, and European architectural styles. Read the Review

Cities XL 2012 is a city building game that lets players build and connect cities across 60 maps, featuring over 1,000 unique structures, and promises to be fully compatible with its predecessor. Read the Review

Once competition picks up against the aggressive AI, Capitalism II shows its colors as a great strategy game. Also, as if to help your own bottom line, the game's a real bargain at $20. Read the Review

Conquest succeeds in large part due to an epic atmosphere and a number of unique design elements that convey the complexity of waging war, from establishing supply lines to commissioning talented commanders. Read the Review

If you don't mind another variation on an oft-played theme, Cossacks has more than enough variety to ensure fun empire building and colorful clashes. Read the Review

Card Hunter is a strategy-like board game playable on browsers.

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances is a free-to-play MMO strategy game set in the Command & Conquer Tiberium universe.

Set in a colorful medieval world, CastleStorm is a new breed of 2D archery projectile warfare and 2D physics-based structure destruction game.

Despite the small problems, building a thriving city in Caesar III is fun. Read the Review

Cultures 2's graphics are cartoonlike and the micromanagement it requires can be a handful, but it's still one of the better city-building games out there. Read the Review

CivCity: Rome is a city building strategy game inspired by the world of Sid Meier's Civilization. Read the Review