Love the hustle and bustle of urban living? Or are you more about planting crops and milking cows? Township offers the best of both worlds. In its charming city, you build quaint houses and thriving schools while keeping agriculture and industry humming along. With you as mayor, it’s the perfect place to live!

What we love: Watching a sleepy seaside town grow into a thriving metropolis. Start by building adorable waterfront bungalows, then move up to constructing glitzy high-rise condos, managing busy airports and even picking out the animals for your city zoo. Planting and harvesting wheat fields, baking delicious bread, shipping orders to hungry customers – you’ll handle it all.

Quick tip: Don’t let your delivery copter sit idle on the helipad – always be filling orders for townsfolk, especially once you’ve amassed a surplus of goods. The coins you earn will help fund valuable new projects like hospitals, universities and that all-important snack factory! (Also, keep upgrading your barn: This storehouse for raw materials and produced goods can become a bottleneck if you run out of room.)

Meet the creator: Founded by brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman, Playrix is best known for its blockbuster match-three puzzlers, including Gardenscapes, Homescapes and Farmscapes. But the studio honed its chops with Township, first released back in 2012.