It's a great week for city builders: 3 new ones are coming to Steam on Wednesday alone

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City builder fans have a lot of reasons to be happy these days—we're in a real boom at the moment, with lots of exciting-looking city builders(opens in new tab) planned for this year including the recently announced Cities: Skylines 2(opens in new tab).

Just look at what's coming this week: there are three (potentially four, really) new city builders coming to Steam just on Wednesday, April 5. That's a lot of builders crammed into the same day! And they all have different styles and represent different takes on the city building genre, from survival to puzzle to strategy and tower-defense.

For my money the most interesting city builder entering early access on April 5 is TerraScape(opens in new tab) from Bitfall Studios. It has a sort of Dorfromantic(opens in new tab) look and feel to it, with enchanting visuals and procedurally generated maps made out of hexes. It also runs off cards, rather than tiles. Each card in the deck has a certain type of building, like sawmills, cottages, farms, and taverns, and you play them on the map as you build your city.

«Each building has certain requirements, be it other buildings, natural resources or the right terrain,» reads the official TerraScape site(opens in new tab). «Gain bonus score by fulfilling as many requirements as possible, but beware: There are also negative influences!» As you earn points from playing cards, you level up and unlock new decks. 

Unfortunately, the teaser trailer(opens in new tab) for TerraScape is incredibly brief, but at least we don't have long to wait until we can play it for ourselves. It looks lovely.

Also coming to early access on Wednesday is Grimgrad, which looks like a more traditional medieval survival city builder—though it definitely has its