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Which city builders actually get played?

41 city builders owned in at least 30 of the libraries read here, ranked by how many owners got past Steam’s two-hour refund window. Across all of them it’s 42%.

S3 games
  1. #1Cities: Skylines75% of 212
  2. #2Manor Lords67% of 58
  3. #3Tropico 563% of 68
A8 games
  1. #4Kingdoms and Castles67% of 36
  2. #5Frostpunk54% of 161
  3. #6Timberborn67% of 33
  4. #7Tropico 452% of 108
  5. #8Against the Storm54% of 63
  6. #9Banished50% of 60
  7. #10Anno 180051% of 39
  8. #11Stronghold HD50% of 46
B12 games
  1. #12Valhalla Hills51% of 35
  2. #13Stronghold Crusader HD48% of 58
  3. #14Tropico 648% of 46
  4. #15Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic45% of 31
  5. #16Dorfromantik43% of 65
  6. #17Stronghold Legends42% of 33
  7. #18Stronghold Crusader 242% of 57
  8. #19Nebuchadnezzar42% of 36
  9. #20Knights and Merchants41% of 75
  10. #21Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt40% of 42
  11. #22Frostpunk 240% of 40
  12. #23Endzone - A World Apart39% of 51
C11 games
  1. #24Aven Colony37% of 30
  2. #25ISLANDERS38% of 53
  3. #26Terraformers33% of 33
  4. #27Surviving Mars37% of 143
  5. #28Settlement Survival32% of 38
  6. #29Mini Settlers29% of 31
  7. #30Fabledom19% of 32
  8. #31Before We Leave19% of 36
  9. #32Cities XL Platinum12% of 33
  10. #33Townscaper18% of 49
  11. #34Tropico 3: Absolute Power10% of 31
D7 games
  1. #35SimCity 4 Deluxe19% of 59
  2. #36SteamWorld Build9% of 34
  3. #37Tropico9% of 34
  4. #38Tropico 2: Pirate Cove6% of 34
  5. #39InfraSpace0% of 35
  6. #40Tropico 3 - Steam Special Edition14% of 77
  7. #41Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD0% of 58

Counted from the Steam libraries read here, by the hours Steam has on each game; free games are left out, since Steam lists one as owned only once it has been played. A game owned in only a few libraries is pulled toward the kind’s 42% as if 60 more owners had played it like the typical one, so a lucky handful can’t top the list. S is the top 8%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the next 25%, D the rest.