The Gilded City

The Gilded City is a historical city-building simulation set in the rapidly changing cities of the American Gilded Age. You will start with a small village in the 19th century and shape its growth into a thriving metropolis of skyscrapers, bustling ports, and smoke-filled factories.

Build Your City, Your Way
Design your own urban fabric with free-form roads and parcels. There is no fixed grid forcing every city into the same shape.

Developers and Tycoons
Build the infrastructure needed to move people, goods, and capital through the city, attract developers and tycoons with special opportunities to invest in your growing city.
Developers choose what to build based on the conditions you create. They construct new residences, factories, and businesses. Alternatvely, you can keep them out and protect the compactness and quietness of your city.

Customize Your City
Plant trees or place decorations, change setbacks and building forms to create the city form that you envisioned.

A City Driven by Economy
You are not a god placing buildings one by one. Instead, influence where and how development happens through land, infrastructure, accessibility, demand, and economic opportunity.
See railroads and ports connect local production to distant markets. Factories respond to changing market demand, turn raw materials into manufactured goods, while businesses compete to sell these goods to customers.
Your decisions shape the city, and the city will grow on its own.


Experience the Gilded Age
Guide a city as it transforms from a small settlement into a bustling industrial metropolis. See new buildings rise, build new infrastructure, and apply new technologies to reshape the city during the rapidly changing 19th century.
You can rewrite the history of the American Gilded Age in The Gilded City.