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LinCity-NG

Open-source city building and management game

Game Servers ★ 641 stars Easy setup GPL-2.0

LinCity-NG is a free, open-source city simulation game where players manage a sustainable economy and population. It offers a single-player sandbox that can be packaged for shared hosting in community builds.

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Key features

  • City economy simulation
  • Sustainability mechanics
  • Sandbox gameplay
  • Cross-platform

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in C++
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is LinCity-NG secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for LinCity-NG's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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