ADB City Builders Challenge: Reimagining Urban Futures
ADB City Builders Challenge: Reimagining Urban Futures
Join the challenge and turn real urban problems into bold, visual solutions—use interactive digital tools to reimagine city spaces and help shape the sustainable, livable cities of tomorrow!
ADB City Builders Challenge 2025 – Official Results Showcase
Celebrating outstanding creativity, resilience, and city-building innovation.
The first challenge of its kind, bringing city-building games into real-world urban planning, officially concluded on 24 October 2025. This inaugural run gathered over 83 participants across 21 countries to reimagine a real-world city using any city-building game. Winners were selected through a combination of expert evaluation, community votes, and special recognitions.
This showcase highlights creative and resilient visions for the future of cities, forming the first-ever collection of city-building works tackling real urban challenges.
ABOUT THE SPECIAL AWARDS
- Thematic “Best In…” Awards
Presented to entries excelling in urban resilience focus areas, these awards celebrate standout contributions in inclusion and accessibility, mobility and transport, green spaces, waste and water management, and technology and innovation.
- ADB Choice Award
Selected through a combination of popularity votes and internal consensus, this award recognizes an entry that resonated strongly with the ADB community, outside of the formal evaluation scoring.
- Paradox Pick
Chosen directly from Paradox Interactive. This award highlights an entry that stood out to the game publisher.