- #1 Airborne Kingdom
97% matchVery Positive87% of 2,399 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 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 21.9% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 15%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
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.
- #2 Townscaper
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,604 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.5 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 23.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Procedural Generation 9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same satisfying, minimalist, and experimental building philosophy that makes constructing structures in Bulwark feel instantly rewarding.
- #3 SteamWorld Build
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,253 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 24.6% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 9.3%
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 16,781 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 35%, Building 16.7%, Relaxing 14.7%, Minimalist 13%, 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 Airborne Empire
94% matchVery Positive87% of 924 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 25.9%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 10.5%
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.
- #6 Dorfromantik
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,559 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.8 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 28.5%, Procedural Generation 16.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Minimalist 14.3%, Relaxing 10.7%
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.
- #7 Cloud Gardens
93% matchVery Positive95% of 2,308 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 30.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Building 12.5%, Relaxing 9.1%
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 Foundation
91% matchVery Positive87% of 24,128 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.2 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 46.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 7%
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.
- #9 Pan'orama
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,373 reviews2023
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 18.8%, Procedural Generation 12%, Building 11.4%, 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.
- #10 Dystopika
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,473 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 22.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This cyberpunk sandbox builder prioritizes atmosphere and visual creativity, allowing players to construct sprawling cities without strict survival constraints.
- #11 Flotsam
89% matchVery Positive81% of 4,563 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 19.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Sandbox 11.1%
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.
- #12 Timberborn
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,163 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 30.5%, Base Building 16%, Building 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Sandbox 12.5%
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.
- #13 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 624 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.2 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 22.5% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%
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 Merchant of the Skies
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,284 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 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: Experimental 20.9%, Steampunk 20.8% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%
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.
- #15 Terra Nil
87% matchVery Positive87% of 8,729 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 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 32.7%, Procedural Generation 20.1%, Relaxing 14.2%, 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.
- #16 Pile Up!
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,120 reviews2025
Dev: RemoobPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
"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 19.5%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 12%, Minimalist 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This relaxing, atmospheric base-builder encourages creative stacking and construction in a charming, low-pressure environment.
- #17 Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
85% matchVery Positive84% of 2,273 reviews2025
Dev: Massive MiniteamPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.3%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, Sandbox 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends building with exploration in a charming, procedural world that rewards creative base design.
- #18 Land Above Sea Below
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 152 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 27.9%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 13.4%, Procedural Generation 11%, Relaxing 9.5%
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 Havendock
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,948 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 11.1 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 24.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 12.2%
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.
- #20 Urbek City Builder
84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,977 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.2 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 33.2%, Building 19.3%, Sandbox 15.9%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Minimalist 11%
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.
- #21 Scorchlands
83% matchVery Positive89% of 140 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 20.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: The hex-grid resource management and stylized aesthetic provide a satisfying, tactical building experience.
- #22 Home Wind
81% matchVery Positive90% of 842 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 30.7%, Minimalist 14.9%, Sandbox 12.7%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist and relaxing city-builder that emphasizes simple, clean aesthetics and stress-free construction.
- #23 Republic of Pirates
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 536 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 30.8% ★, Naval Combat 30.4% ★, City Builder 20%, Building 6.2%, Base Building 5.9%
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.
- #24 Atlas Architect
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 226 reviews2021
Dev: Danial RashidiPub: Rashidi Interactive
Windows
A creative game where your imagination is your limit.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 18.6%, City Builder 18.1%, Building 17.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 8.4%
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.
- #25 Buoyancy
82% matchMixed55% of 831 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 19.2%, Pirates 17.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Strategy 9.6%
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.
- #26 ISLANDERS: New Shores
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,280 reviews2025
Dev: The StationPub: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.7 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 30.1%, Building 16.9%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, Relaxing 10.1%, Minimalist 9.2%
- #27 Reefland
80% matchVery Positive93% of 83 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 27.3%, Procedural Generation 19.5%, Building 11.3%, Relaxing 9.8%, 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.
- #28 Shanshui Haven
79% matchVery Positive99% of 86 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 36.5%, Procedural Generation 21.1%, Relaxing 13.6%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a relaxing, 2D city-building experience that focuses on harmony and aesthetic placement.
- #29 Corsair Cove
76% matchVery Positive86% of 3,074 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: Pirates 27.9% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10%
- #30 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 20.9%, City Builder 17.6%, Building 16.7%, Steampunk 11.5% ★, Base Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox simulation that allows for creative building and farming, appealing to the casual, experimental player.
- #31 HammerHelm
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 396 reviews2021
Dev: SuperSixStudiosPub: SOEDESCO
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 25%, Building 19.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Open World 14.2%, Relaxing 8.5%
- #32 ShantyTown
73% matchVery Positive98% of 445 reviews2026
Dev: Erik RempenPub: Kinephantom Games
Windows · Mac
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 22%, Experimental 17.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Minimalist 10.2%, Building 8.7%
- #33 Pan'orama: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive84% of 81 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 21.6%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.5%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
- #34 Ocean Punk
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 169 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 33.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #35 The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 627 reviews2020
Dev: Tomas SalaPub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 50% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Open World 18.2%, Combat 12.4%
- #36 Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,058 reviews2023
Dev: Revolution IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 31.5% ★, Steampunk 31% ★, Sandbox 17.4%, Open World 10.7%, Strategy 5.3%
- #37 Humanica
73% matchVery Positive93% of 175 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 23.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 10.7%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #38 Mini Settlers
73% matchVery Positive81% of 742 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 21.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Minimalist 13.3%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.6%
- #39 Orrstead
74% matchVery Positive80% of 80 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 26.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Minimalist 8.8%
- #40 Sea Walker Saga
70% matchVery Positive93% of 86 reviews2026
Dev: Antelus Games
Windows
Inspired by Waterworld an exciting steampunk adventure with strategy and RPG elements. Fight pirates, explore the seabed, build your own battle island and set out into the vast world ocean in search of a mythical continent!
Why similar: Steampunk 53.7% ★, Strategy 17.9%, Combat 11.3%, 3D 10.5%, Base Building 6.6%
- #41 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
70% matchVery Positive92% of 380 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Stylized 7.8%
- #42 Before We Leave
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,727 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 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11%
- #43 SUMMERHOUSE
69% matchVery Positive93% of 3,362 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 28.7%, Sandbox 19.8%, Building 17.4%, Relaxing 12.6%, Colorful 5.5%
- #44 Modulus: Factory Automation
68% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 16.8%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 8.8%
- #45 Feral Blue
74% matchMixed52% of 245 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 27.6% ★, Pirates 27.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Open World 7.9%
- #46 Pocket City 2
69% matchVery Positive94% of 144 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 27.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 9.3%, Building 8.4%
- #47 ALL WILL FALL
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,385 reviews2026
Dev: All Parts ConnectedPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.
Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Base Building 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 11%
- #48 Diluvian Winds
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 390 reviews2024
Dev: Alambik StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 32.2%, Base Building 18.3%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.7%, Relaxing 7.9%
- #49 Block Tower TD
71% matchVery Positive86% of 97 reviews2023
Dev: MyDreamForever
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 27.7%, Sandbox 15.6%, Minimalist 13%, Procedural Generation 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%
- #50 Battlecruisers
71% matchVery Positive83% of 432 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 28.1% ★, Steampunk 19.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Procedural Generation 10%, Building 8.7%
- #51 Windward
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,629 reviews2015
Dev: Tasharen Entertainment Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.1 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 43.1% ★, Pirates 35.5% ★, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 5.3%, Procedural Generation 5%
- #52 Land Above Sea Below Prologue
70% matchVery Positive82% of 146 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.6 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 31.3%, Building 17.5%, Sandbox 16.7%, Open World 11.3%, Minimalist 8.1%
- #53 Islands & Trains
67% matchVery Positive90% of 590 reviews2025
Dev: Akos MakovicsPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Craft tiny railway dioramas in a stress-free island sandbox. No rules or timers - just design, build, and enjoy.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Building 14.1%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, Minimalist 12.5%
- #54 Islantiles
67% matchVery Positive91% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Thunderrock Innovations
Windows
Islantiles is a cozy but compulsive roguelike deckbuilder. Unlock powerful technology cards, shape your deck to craft game-breaking combos, and grow your settlements to glory in this ultra-satisfying roguelike!
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Procedural Generation 14.5%, Minimalist 13.7%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #55 Black Skylands
67% matchVery Positive84% of 4,496 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 36.6% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 15.1%, Procedural Generation 12.8%
- #56 EcoGnomix
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 304 reviews2024
Dev: Irox GamesPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.2 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 31.3%, Base Building 19.9%, Building 17.7%, Procedural Generation 14.2%, Strategy 7.6%
- #57 Exark
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Robot Cat LimitedPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Exark is a run-based engine builder where you command a gigantic ark-ship. Construct buildings, hire crew with unique skills, and exploit powerful synergies to survive your voyage to the rim of the world.
Why similar: Steampunk 31.4% ★, Base Building 19.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%
- #58 Builderment
69% matchMixed68% of 128 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 27.9%, Base Building 24.5%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Procedural Generation 5.1%
- #59 Aquatico
68% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 32.8%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Open World 8.4%