2000, Robert Coffey, "Where All All the Strat Games?", Computer Gaming World, August 2000, page 131:
Impressions Games' line of historic city-builders like CAESAR and PHARAOH have long appealed to hardcore gamers.
2002, Tom Chick, "Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom", Computer Gaming World, November 2002, page 127:
Without the problems that took away from earlier Impressions city builders, Emperor delivers solid, familiar gameplay in an exotic setting.
2005, Doug Whatley, quoted in Brandon Sheffield, "Breaking The Waves", Game Developer, February 2005, page 25:
BreakAway's done for the most part PC stuff—city builders and strategy games—so a lot of that just fit really naturally with military planning and those types of projects.
2009, Mike Griffin, "Tropico 3", Play, September 2009, page 76:
The Tropico series takes the best elements of strategic titles, city builders and manager games and thrusts players into a beautiful tropical paradise where you’ll work to improve the quality of life for your citizens.
2015, Brian Shea, "Cities: Skylines", Game Informer, May 2015, page 92:
Cities: Skyline excels and delivers the new gold standard of modern city-builders.
2015, "Concrete Jungle", PC Powerplay, December 2015, page 30:
If you’re a fan of card games, city builders or puzzle games, especially all three, I can’t recommend Concrete Jungle highly enough.
