- #1 Townscaper
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,438 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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: Experimental 22.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Procedural Generation 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same satisfying, minimalist, and experimental building philosophy that makes constructing structures in Bulwark feel instantly rewarding.
- #2 Airborne Kingdom
96% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: Steampunk 21.6% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the specific thrill of managing a floating city while exploring a vast, stylized world from the skies.
- #3 SteamWorld Build
96% matchVery Positive84% of 2,093 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: Steampunk 24.3% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features a charming steampunk aesthetic and vertical city-building mechanics that align well with the visual identity of the Falconeer universe.
- #4 ISLANDERS
95% matchVery Positive94% of 16,710 reviews2019
Dev: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Building 16.7%, Relaxing 14.9%, Minimalist 12.9%, Procedural Generation 8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a minimalist, procedural approach to city-building that emphasizes aesthetic placement over complex resource management.
- #5 Dorfromantik
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,027 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 28.2%, Procedural Generation 16.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Minimalist 14.3%, Relaxing 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This peaceful, tile-based builder uses procedural generation to create beautiful landscapes, mirroring the relaxing building loop of the seed game.
- #6 Foundation
94% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 45.7%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a gridless, organic building system that allows for the same kind of creative freedom found in Bulwark's construction.
- #7 Cloud Gardens
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,285 reviews2021
Dev: Noio
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
Why similar: Experimental 29.4% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Building 12.5%, Relaxing 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the creative, lo-fi aesthetic of building structures reclaimed by nature, appealing to those who enjoy the experimental building style of Bulwark.
- #8 Pan'orama
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,317 reviews2023
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 18.6%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Building 11.3%, Minimalist 9.9%, Base Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes procedural, tile-based generation to create vibrant, relaxing worlds that feel like a more structured version of the seed game's building mechanics.
- #9 Dystopika
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,250 reviews2024
Dev: Voids Within
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 35%
A city-building sandbox for futuristic cities. No goals, no management, just creativity and dark cozy vibes.
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Sandbox 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This cyberpunk sandbox builder prioritizes atmosphere and visual creativity, allowing players to construct sprawling cities without strict survival constraints.
- #10 Airborne Empire
91% matchVery Positive91% of 688 reviews2025
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Building 18%, Sandbox 16.2%, Open World 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: As a direct evolution of the aerial city-building genre, it expands on the exploration and combat mechanics found in similar titles.
- #11 Timberborn
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 38,007 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 29.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Sandbox 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on verticality and water-based engineering provides a similar architectural challenge to building fortresses on the cliffs of the Great Ursee.
- #12 Flotsam
89% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It centers on building a floating town from scavenged ocean debris, matching the nautical and survival themes of the seed game.
- #13 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 608 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Steampunk 22.2% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines mobile city-building with survival elements, capturing the feeling of moving your base through a hostile environment.
- #14 Terra Nil
88% matchVery Positive88% of 8,333 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 32.3%, Procedural Generation 20.3%, Relaxing 14.3%, Strategy 10%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This environmental builder focuses on restoring ecosystems with a minimalist, artistic touch that resonates with the experimental nature of the seed game.
- #15 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
86% matchVery Positive84% of 2,178 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Why similar: Building 22.2%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Sandbox 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends building with exploration in a charming, procedural world that rewards creative base design.
- #16 Merchant of the Skies
87% matchVery Positive86% of 2,255 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
Why similar: Steampunk 20.6% ★, Experimental 20.4% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: The focus on exploration, trading, and managing a fleet in a sky-bound world provides a similar sense of adventure.
- #17 Havendock
85% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.8%, Open World 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This survival-based city builder on the ocean offers a similar sense of expansion and base development as you grow your settlement.
- #18 Land Above Sea Below
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 145 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Building 15%, Sandbox 13.5%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Relaxing 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This strategic, puzzle-like city builder requires careful planning of terrain, echoing the environmental constraints of building on the water.
- #19 Urbek City Builder
84% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 32.9%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 16%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Minimalist 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It strips away complex menus to focus on the pure joy of building, making it a great match for those who prefer the casual side of Bulwark.
- #20 Scorchlands
83% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: The hex-grid resource management and stylized aesthetic provide a satisfying, tactical building experience.
- #21 Pile Up!
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,047 reviews2025
Dev: RemoobPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
"Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Minimalist 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This relaxing, atmospheric base-builder encourages creative stacking and construction in a charming, low-pressure environment.
- #22 Atlas Architect
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 225 reviews2021
Dev: Danial RashidiPub: Rashidi Interactive
Windows
A creative game where your imagination is your limit.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 18.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Building 17.6%, Sandbox 15.7%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on casual, procedural building in an open-world setting, making it a direct mechanical cousin to the seed game.
- #23 Home Wind
82% matchVery Positive90% of 830 reviews2022
Dev: Adi Zhavo
Windows · Mac
Home Wind is a minimalist, relaxing and cozy city builder about creating large settlements based on proximity tactics. All for free!
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Minimalist 15%, Sandbox 12.8%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist and relaxing city-builder that emphasizes simple, clean aesthetics and stress-free construction.
- #24 Republic of Pirates
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 476 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Why similar: Pirates 30.7% ★, Naval Combat 30.5% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Building 6.3%, Base Building 6%
Why You'll Like It: This pirate-themed city builder captures the nautical exploration and base-building aspects of the seed game in a more traditional strategy format.
- #25 ISLANDERS: New Shores
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,154 reviews2025
Dev: The StationPub: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Building 16.8%, Procedural Generation 13.3%, Relaxing 10.2%, Minimalist 9.2%
- #26 Shanshui Haven
79% matchVery Positive99% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: LeeT Game
Windows
"Shanshui Haven" is a casual city-building game, offering a relaxing and engaging experience with strategic elements.
Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Procedural Generation 21.4%, Relaxing 13.8%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing, 2D city-building experience that focuses on harmony and aesthetic placement.
- #27 Buoyancy
82% matchMixed56% of 820 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Pirates 17.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Strategy 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the unique challenge of managing a floating city, which is a core thematic element of the seed game.
- #28 Reefland
80% matchVery Positive93% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: UnSweet
Windows
Reefland - is a colorful city-building simulator with a relaxing atmosphere, where you are up to paint the island by placing buildings.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Procedural Generation 19.7%, Building 11.2%, Relaxing 9.9%, Minimalist 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This procedural, puzzle-based city builder offers a similar loop of expanding your territory across a water-based map.
- #29 SUPER BUILD
79% matchVery Positive82% of 241 reviews2019
Dev: MOONBEAR
Windows · Mac
Build, design, and explore your own fantasy world using over 1000+ items, in this relaxing sandbox game. No missions, no objectives, no timers. Just stress-free building, exploration, and good vibes.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Building 16.3%, Steampunk 11.4% ★, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox simulation that allows for creative building and farming, appealing to the casual, experimental player.
- #30 Ocean Punk
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Pirates 33.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.7%
- #31 Pan'orama: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Pan'orama is a relaxing and soothing puzzle simulation game in which you create amazing landscapes using different types of tiles, but most of all by discovering the connections between them and finding unique combinations.
Why similar: Experimental 21.1% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.7%
- #32 HammerHelm
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 384 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
HammerHelm is a unique blend of third-person adventuring and strategic town building. Create your dwarf character and build a flourishing town above ground. Complete quests, craft weapons and armor, defeat dangerous enemies and be the leader your townspeople need!
Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Building 19.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Open World 14%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #33 Humanica
73% matchVery Positive95% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: PanfachDev
Windows
Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #34 Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,027 reviews2023
Dev: Revolution IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!
Why similar: Pirates 31.4% ★, Steampunk 30.8% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Open World 10.5%, Strategy 5.4%
- #35 The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 605 reviews2020
Dev: Tomas SalaPub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Take flight in this remastered 'stick control era' aerial combat RPG. Explore haunting landscapes, engage in epic dogfights, and uncover ancient secrets in a visually enhanced, rebalanced edition of the BAFTA-nominated, award-winning original.
Why similar: Steampunk 49.6% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Open World 18%, Combat 12.6%
- #36 Orrstead
74% matchVery Positive81% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
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 25.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 14.3%, Minimalist 8.9%
- #37 Pocket City 2
72% matchVery Positive94% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
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 27.1%, Base Building 15.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Open World 9.1%, Building 8.4%
- #38 SUMMERHOUSE
71% matchVery Positive93% of 3,193 reviews2024
Dev: FriedemannPub: Future Friends Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
A tiny building game about beautiful lived-in houses. No rules or restrictions, just pure creativity.
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Sandbox 19.9%, Building 17%, Relaxing 12.6%, Colorful 5.6%
- #39 Battlecruisers
74% matchVery Positive84% of 423 reviews2021
Dev: Mecha Weka
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visually stunning RTS where players battle to build the ultimate automated floating Ultraweapon. Outsmart players or AIs by building a strategically superior Battlecruiser. Step aboard for unique, hand-drawn misadventure on Flooded Earth, explosive gameplay, and an addictive soundtrack. And nukes.
Why similar: Naval Combat 28% ★, Steampunk 19.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Building 8.6%
- #40 Islands & Trains
70% matchVery Positive91% of 550 reviews2025
Dev: Akos MakovicsPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Craft tiny railway dioramas in a stress-free island sandbox. No rules or timers - just design, build, and enjoy.
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Building 14%, Procedural Generation 14%, Sandbox 13.9%, Minimalist 12.5%
- #41 Before We Leave
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,697 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 26.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #42 Block Tower TD
73% matchVery Positive82% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Minimalist 13%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Base Building 11.8%
- #43 Land Above Sea Below Prologue
72% matchVery Positive82% of 145 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Land Above Sea Below Prologue is an atmospheric first chapter of the building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Building 17.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 11.1%, Minimalist 8.1%
- #44 Feral Blue
75% matchMixed52% of 244 reviews2019
Dev: Snowbird Games
Windows
The old world has drowned after the Second Flood. Now, only few survivors are fighting for the new gold - clean water, wood and soil. Become a ship's captain, keep your crew alive and create your sea empire!
Why similar: Naval Combat 27.7% ★, Pirates 27.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Open World 7.8%
- #45 TerraScape
69% matchVery Positive89% of 2,107 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy 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 41.1%, Procedural Generation 28.1%, Relaxing 15.2%, Strategy 10.3%, Casual 5.3%
- #46 Black Skylands
69% matchVery Positive84% of 4,328 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Steampunk 36% ★, Base Building 19.8%, Open World 15.7%, Sandbox 15.4%, Procedural Generation 13.1%
- #47 Mini Settlers
68% matchVery Positive86% of 607 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 17.9%, Minimalist 13.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.5%
- #48 Aquatico
71% matchMixed67% of 858 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Open World 8.3%
- #49 Builderment
70% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Base Building 24.8%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.9%, Procedural Generation 5.1%
- #50 EcoGnomix
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Irox GamesPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Base Building 19.9%, Building 17.6%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #51 Windward
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,625 reviews2015
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
Why similar: Naval Combat 43.2% ★, Pirates 35.3% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 5.2%, Procedural Generation 5.1%
- #52 Seafarer: The Ship Sim
67% matchMixed68% of 1,733 reviews2025
Dev: astragon DevelopmentPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Embark on the ultimate maritime experience with Seafarer: The Ship Sim. Choose between careers, take the helm of a variety of ships, and expand your fleet. Navigate a vast open world and become immersed in the beautiful expanses and rolling waves.
Why similar: Open World 56.3%, 3D 23.2%, Casual 20.5%
- #53 Settlements Rising
68% matchVery Positive82% of 412 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Base Building 14.4%, Building 13.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Sandbox 10%
- #54 Diluvian Winds
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 380 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds.
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Relaxing 8%
- #55 Pathless Woods
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,093 reviews2024
Dev: AniYa Games Studio
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Base Building 18%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 15%, Open World 15%
- #56 Tile Cities
67% matchVery Positive94% of 568 reviews2022
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Minimalist 10.3%, Building 10.2%
- #57 ShipCrafter
65% matchVery Positive93% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: MyrmecomanPub: MoreButterGames
Windows · Linux
ShipCrafter is a naval sandbox simulation game. Build your ship, unlock new components and defeat increasingly powerful foes in the campaign !
Why similar: Naval Combat 37.2% ★, Sandbox 25%, Minimalist 13.7%, Casual 9.7%, Stylized 8.4%
- #58 Block'hood
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,256 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Why similar: City Builder 52.6%, Sandbox 22.3%, Building 15.9%, Strategy 9.2%
- #59 Stormworks: Build and Rescue
66% matchVery Positive90% of 57,601 reviews2020
Dev: Geometa
Windows · Mac
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Sandbox 26.4%, Building 24.5%, Open World 20.2%