Games Like Block'hood

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 53.4%, Nature 16%, Strategy 11.4%, Isometric 11.4%, Puzzle 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on ecosystem restoration and environmental balance, mirroring the sustainability themes found in Block'hood.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Why similar: City Builder 50.6%, Sandbox 19.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 8.4%, Puzzle 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful, tile-based puzzle game that emphasizes spatial placement and logical connections similar to building blocks.

A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas

Why similar: Sandbox 29.6%, City Builder 21.5%, Nature 16.8%, Building 15.8%, Simulation 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines urban building with the slow encroachment of nature, capturing the aesthetic and thematic essence of the seed game.

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: City Builder 64.6%, Building 15.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Puzzle 5.9%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist city-builder that relies on spatial puzzle mechanics and resource proximity to score points.

An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.

Why similar: City Builder 53.4%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 6.3%, Puzzle 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features sentient buildings that must be placed strategically to satisfy their specific needs and interdependencies.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: City Builder 44.4%, Sandbox 20.1%, Building 14.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Nature 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, relaxing building tool that focuses on the joy of creating isometric structures without the pressure of traditional management.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 50.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 11%, Nature 7.9%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes verticality and water management, requiring players to build complex systems to survive in a changing environment.

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 45.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and neighborhood development where buildings rely on local proximity to function.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 61%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that allows for organic, non-linear development and structural placement.

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 56.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, voxel-based building game that emphasizes the relaxing aspects of city planning and growth.

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Simulation 20.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Building 12%, Puzzle 7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game that focuses on the flow of resources and traffic, mirroring the systemic connectivity of Block'hood.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Sandbox 18.4%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that forces players to manage complex resource chains and environmental challenges.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.9%, Education 21.2%, Simulation 20.9%, Nature 19%

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation game where players must build a civilization while managing the delicate ecological impact of their actions.

A tiny building game about beautiful lived-in houses. No rules or restrictions, just pure creativity.

Why similar: City Builder 47.3%, Sandbox 24.5%, Building 14%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A small-scale, relaxing building game that prioritizes aesthetic experimentation over complex management.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Sandbox 42.2%, Building 33.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 8.2%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex vertical factory building and resource chain management that rewards efficient spatial planning.

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 50.4%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that focuses on production chains and efficient urban layout.

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: City Builder 51.8%, Simulation 12.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A political and economic city-builder that focuses on the systemic implications of player decisions.

Build and manage your dream city in this captivating simulation game. Create unique urban landscapes and enjoy compatibility with the mobile versions. Unleash your creativity and shape the metropolis of your dreams.

Why similar: City Builder 42%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Isometric 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed pixel-art city-builder that offers deep simulation mechanics and sandbox freedom.

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 66.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Sandbox 4.7%, Building 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex production chains and environmental management, requiring players to balance industry with sustainability.

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: City Builder 44.8%, Sandbox 18.3%, Simulation 14%, Building 11.7%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and interdependency, where the placement of exhibits and facilities impacts the overall ecosystem.

Relax and unleash your creativity in this new city building puzzle game. Create amazing landscapes and discover wide range of structures with special abilities. Enter the world of beauty and tranquility with the panoramas of your own creation and don't forget to pet your new animal friends!

Why similar: City Builder 51.7%, Sandbox 16.4%, Building 15.4%, Simulation 6.2%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing puzzle game that uses procedural generation and tile placement to create beautiful, interconnected landscapes.

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Sandbox 39.7%, Building 19.4%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 10.8%, Puzzle 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation game that focuses on the flow and processing of resources through interconnected systems.

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: City Builder 59.3%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive modern city-builder that offers deep simulation and management tools for large-scale urban planning.

Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!

Why similar: City Builder 49%, Sandbox 18%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based city-builder that encourages creative building and experimentation with structural placement.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Simulation 30.8%, Sandbox 28.8%, Building 20%, Indie 8.5%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on creating systemic automation chains, requiring players to build logical loops to sustain their colony.

Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.

Why similar: City Builder 40.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 12.1%, Isometric 9.8%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that focuses on the flow and efficiency of people within a complex, built environment.

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: City Builder 44.3%, Sandbox 18.1%, Building 12.3%, Isometric 8.4%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes building and management within a sandbox environment.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 7.4%

The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 12.5%, Isometric 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that focuses on the building and maintenance of specific, interconnected attractions.

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 53.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 4.7%

Advanced city simulator with minimalist "Paint" graphics. Build complex intersections, edit traffic rules, and solve traffic jams without melting your PC.

Why similar: City Builder 49.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Simulation 17.7%, Building 9.4%, Management 1.9%

Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic neighborhood with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

Why similar: City Builder 39%, Simulation 23.5%, Building 11%, Isometric 9%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A casual city-building experience that focuses on time management and steady expansion.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: City Builder 45.4%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 8.2%

Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.

Why similar: City Builder 47.2%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Building 12%, Sandbox 9.8%

Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 55%, Sandbox 12.4%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A large-scale city-builder that provides extensive tools for managing urban infrastructure and economy.

BalanCity is a city building / balance physics game. It's a mixture between old school SimCity and Jenga. You must build the tallest towering city over a balancing platform while keeping your citizens happy.

Why similar: City Builder 72.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Puzzle 6.8%, Indie 2.8%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 54.7%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 4.5%

Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...

Why similar: City Builder 61.9%, Simulation 16.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 5.7%, Building 2.6%

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: City Builder 47%, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 13.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 7.1%

Road to your City is a city building and management game with a heavy emphasis on football. Slipping into the role of mayor, you are tasked with establishing a successful football club and developing it from grassroots to world class powerhouse.

Why similar: City Builder 48.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Sandbox 11.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Building 7.6%

A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.

Why similar: City Builder 53.7%, Sandbox 21%, Strategy 10%, Building 8.1%, Simulation 5.7%

An easygoing sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks. Create your perfect community then watch as the gourdlets make themselves at home. No objectives, no points, just good vibes. Play in full screen, or let your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen!

Why similar: City Builder 47.4%, Sandbox 21.5%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Isometric 5.5%

"Shanshui Haven" is a casual city-building game, offering a relaxing and engaging experience with strategic elements.

Why similar: City Builder 52.8%, Isometric 12.4%, Strategy 9.8%, Building 9.5%, Simulation 6.5%

Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.

Why similar: City Builder 66.2%, Sandbox 18.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: City Builder 44.4%, Sandbox 21.6%, Building 14.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 7.7%

Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

Why similar: City Builder 64.8%, Isometric 15.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Puzzle 8.3%

City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level

Why similar: City Builder 46.9%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Building 9.5%, Puzzle 6.1%

Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures. Try it yourself for free!

Why similar: City Builder 44.1%, Sandbox 18%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 7%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: City Builder 44.4%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 12.8%, Nature 7.9%, Simulation 7.1%

‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!

Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Nature 11.4%, Building 8.1%

The Regional City Builder: Let's Build Something New.

Why similar: City Builder 51.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Building 11%, Isometric 8.3%, Strategy 8%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 40.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 10.9%, Isometric 9.8%, Simulation 8.1%

Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 11.9%, Nature 8.9%, Simulation 8.1%

Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!

Why similar: City Builder 38.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 10.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Education 8.1%

Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style

Why similar: City Builder 67%, Strategy 14.5%, Building 8.6%, Puzzle 7.6%, Management 1.7%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 52.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 6.4%

Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.7%, Simulation 29.3%, Nature 13.4%, Great Soundtrack 7.2%, Indie 7.1%

Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

Why similar: City Builder 39%, Simulation 27.2%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Isometric 7.1%

ShantyTown is a relaxing diorama-building game about finding beauty in everyday chaos. Bring new locations to life, stack your urban buildings high, and fill each little nook and cranny with your own touch. Try your hand at shaping a cozy little town that is unique to you.

Why similar: City Builder 54.3%, Sandbox 21.1%, Building 10.5%, Simulation 9.5%, Indie 3.1%

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 14.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Nature 8.7%