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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 launched it at all. Across all of them it’s 61%.

S3 games
  1. #1Cities: Skylines92% of 212
  2. #2Dorfromantik83% of 65
  3. #3Banished82% of 60
A8 games
  1. #4Knights and Merchants77% of 75
  2. #5Kingdoms and Castles83% of 36
  3. #6Manor Lords78% of 58
  4. #7Frostpunk71% of 161
  5. #8Tropico 575% of 68
  6. #9Timberborn82% of 33
  7. #10Stronghold Crusader HD74% of 58
  8. #11Tropico 470% of 108
B12 games
  1. #12Against the Storm71% of 63
  2. #13Anno 180074% of 39
  3. #14ISLANDERS72% of 53
  4. #15Valhalla Hills74% of 35
  5. #16Stronghold HD70% of 46
  6. #17Stronghold Crusader 267% of 57
  7. #18Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic68% of 31
  8. #19Stronghold Legends67% of 33
  9. #20Townscaper61% of 49
  10. #21Tropico 659% of 46
  11. #22Aven Colony57% of 30
  12. #23SimCity 4 Deluxe58% of 59
C11 games
  1. #24Endzone - A World Apart55% of 51
  2. #25Nebuchadnezzar50% of 36
  3. #26Frostpunk 250% of 40
  4. #27Terraformers45% of 33
  5. #28Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt45% of 42
  6. #29Surviving Mars51% of 143
  7. #30Settlement Survival42% of 38
  8. #31Before We Leave39% of 36
  9. #32Mini Settlers32% of 31
  10. #33Tropico 3: Absolute Power32% of 31
  11. #34Cities XL Platinum33% of 33
D7 games
  1. #35Tropico29% of 34
  2. #36Fabledom25% of 32
  3. #37SteamWorld Build18% of 34
  4. #38Tropico 2: Pirate Cove15% of 34
  5. #39Tropico 3 - Steam Special Edition26% of 77
  6. #40InfraSpace6% of 35
  7. #41Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD12% 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 61% 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.