If you’re a fan of city builders, you’ve likely spent hundreds of hours meticulously placing roads on flat plains or gentle coastlines. But what happens when the ground beneath you disappears and the only way to grow is up?

Enter Laysara: Summit Kingdom, a vertical city builder that recently made its way to Xbox. Developed by Quite OK Games, this title isn’t just another SimCity clone—it’s a demanding, beautiful, and highly strategic take on the genre that swaps military conquest for the sheer struggle of human survival against the elements.