Hi everyone, I've being following the site for a while now and decided to take the plunge and make an account. I'm hoping to post fairly regularly but that's enough of an introduction.

The recent coverage of the SimCity (which I'm holding out on for a while) debacle has inspired me to fire up some old city builders i.e. Master of Olympus, Pharaoh and found them just as addictive as they were some 10 years ago.. so I was wondering if any of you had any recommendations regarding more modern titles with similar gameplay.

Welcome!

Tropico, Anno and Civ series are very good! You may want to check them out.

Civ isn't really a city builder.

I recommend Tropico 4. It's actually really good.

@derkuli: I don't think there are any recent games which play that similarly, but if I were you I would check out Anno 1404 (Sometimes AKA 'Dawn of Discovery') and Grand Ages: Rome. I enjoyed both of them. Anno is the better game, but Grand Ages: Rome is a little closer to those you mention.

Thank you all for the recommendations, I've had Civ 4 for ages but never got around to putting enough time in, but @mtcantor is right, it's not really what I was looking for, may give it another try anyway. Tropico and Anno both seem interesting, I'll look into them both. It's a shame about a lack of games in the same vein, I was really hoping for some kind of kickstarter project etc.