- #1 Townscaper
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,498 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: City Builder 24.8%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 13.6%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same focus on instant, goal-less, and aesthetically pleasing building mechanics.
- #2 SUMMERHOUSE
96% matchVery Positive93% of 3,260 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 27.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 13.7%, Relaxing 9%, Atmospheric 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Like Dystopika, this game offers a relaxing, sandbox-style building experience with a focus on atmosphere.
- #3 Tiny Glade
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 23,744 reviews2024
Dev: Pounce Light
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Tiny Glade is a small diorama builder where you doodle whimsical castles, cozy cottages & romantic ruins. Explore gridless building chemistry as the game adorns your glades with procedural detail. No management, combat or goals: just kick back and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.
Why similar: Design & Illustration 26.1% ★, Cozy 17.3%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 15.4%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly creative, low-stress building experience that emphasizes visual charm and experimentation.
- #4 Cloud Gardens
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,290 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: Sandbox 23.9%, Procedural Generation 16.8%, Building 14.7%, City Builder 11.8%, Relaxing 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures a similar atmospheric, post-dystopian vibe through its focus on nature reclaiming urban ruins.
- #5 My Dream Setup
94% matchVery Positive91% of 6,611 reviews2023
Dev: Campfire Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
My Dream Setup is a simulation game about building the room you've always dreamed of. A huge selection of furniture, computers and their accessories, posters, pictures, plants, and other interior details await you. Try all of them and create your dream setup.
Why similar: Design & Illustration 30.4% ★, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Cozy 14.6%, Relaxing 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses entirely on the creative, cozy aspect of designing spaces without the pressure of management.
- #6 Skid Cities
94% matchMixed66% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Vittorio Banfi
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Cyberpunk City Building Game. Define the city of a twisted, dark, utopian, or dystopian future. Build it in the sky, underground, on the ground. Navigate evil corporations, the Yakuza, android revolts, and unrest. Or embrace them - your choice.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Cyberpunk 24.5%, Dystopian 13.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: It directly captures the cyberpunk city-building aesthetic while offering a more structured strategic layer.
- #7 Station to Station
93% matchVery Positive89% of 1,856 reviews2023
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Prismatika
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
‘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: Cozy 21.2%, City Builder 18.3%, Procedural Generation 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Relaxing 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The game features a relaxing, voxel-based aesthetic that emphasizes building connections in a beautiful, calm environment.
- #8 ISLANDERS
92% matchVery Positive94% of 16,741 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 42.9%, Building 17%, Relaxing 13.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a minimalist, relaxing approach to city-building that focuses on placement and visual harmony.
- #9 Dorfromantik
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,212 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.4 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 32%, Sandbox 18.3%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Relaxing 9.1%, Strategy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful, tile-based building game that rewards creative placement and relaxing gameplay loops.
- #10 Gourdlets
91% matchVery Positive93% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: AuntyGamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 24.7%, Sandbox 16.5%, Cozy 13.5%, Building 11.6%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pure sandbox city-builder that removes all goals and management, focusing entirely on cozy vibes.
- #11 Terra Nil
90% matchVery Positive88% of 8,493 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 38.7%, Procedural Generation 21%, Relaxing 12.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Atmospheric 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a satisfying, non-stressful environmental restoration experience that feels like a reverse city-builder.
- #12 Panelka
89% matchVery Positive87% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: MonsterAttack
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Panelka is a nostalgic, relaxing game where you immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the post-Soviet era. Create your cozy apartment or garage with that familiar, warm interior from your childhood. You have a wide selection of furniture and many other interior details at your disposal.
Why similar: Design & Illustration 27.6% ★, Sandbox 15.8%, Cozy 15.6%, Building 14.7%, Relaxing 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the aesthetic design of brutalist-inspired architecture, matching the urban feel of Dystopika.
- #13 Cozyrama
89% matchVery Positive90% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Sandwich Games 🥪Pub: Frozen District
Windows
Cozyrama is a peaceful sandbox where you shape your own magical dioramas. Sculpt it, pick the right colors, decorate with hundreds of items and add cute animals. Observe a cozy world grow around you! No pressure or timers. Just relax, unwind, and let your imagination bloom!
Why similar: Design & Illustration 24.5% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Cozy 13%, Building 12.8%, Procedural Generation 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing, design-centric sandbox experience that emphasizes aesthetic building over management.
- #14 Islands & Trains
88% matchVery Positive91% of 560 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 26.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Procedural Generation 13.1%, Building 12.6%, Cozy 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, relaxing building experience that focuses on creating small, atmospheric dioramas.
- #15 Pan'orama
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,335 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 24%, Design & Illustration 13.8% ★, Procedural Generation 13.5%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, puzzle-like city-builder that focuses on creating beautiful, procedural landscapes.
- #16 The Architect: Paris
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 234 reviews2021
Dev: Enodo GamesPub: 5PM Studio
Windows
The Architect: Paris is a construction game that allows you to shape the city of Paris into what you want. Destroy, draw, build your own architectural projects, customizing each building carefully or entire districts at once.
Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 16.4%, Procedural Generation 8.2%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a creative sandbox toolset for architectural design without the constraints of traditional city-building.
- #17 Atlas Architect
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 226 reviews2021
Dev: Danial RashidiPub: Rashidi Interactive
Windows
A creative game where your imagination is your limit.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Sandbox 19.1%, Procedural Generation 18.1%, Building 16.4%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on procedural generation and creative building, allowing for unique, atmospheric city layouts.
- #18 Outside the Blocks
83% matchVery Positive88% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: Michał Kubas
Windows
Unleash your creativity and design your own diorama in Outside the Blocks ‒ a full-featured model builder. Shape the terrain, assemble modular houses, add decorations and put your creation on display!
Why similar: Design & Illustration 20.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 10.9%, Base Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a creative, design-focused sandbox experience that emphasizes building in a relaxed, open-ended way.
- #19 MakeRoom
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,016 reviews2025
Dev: KenneyPub: Wholesome Games Presents
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Build rooms, gardens, and camper vans with 1,100+ objects and the ability to make your own furniture from scratch. Learn with gentle design requests, then relax and create at your own pace.
Why similar: Design & Illustration 30.5% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Building 15.3%, Cozy 13%, Relaxing 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A design-focused building game that prioritizes creative freedom and cozy, relaxing interaction.
- #20 Hometopia
84% matchMixed57% of 830 reviews2025
Dev: Hometopia Inc.
Windows
Hometopia is a sandbox home-building game featuring thousands of assets and customization options. Choose from a variety of environments where you can design your dream homes—solo or with friends. Bring your architectural visions to life exactly as you imagine, with no budget limitations.
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Design & Illustration 21.7% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A design-heavy sandbox game that allows for deep creative control over building and interior aesthetics.
- #21 Block'hood
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,256 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 18.9 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 47.3%, Sandbox 21.7%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a vertical building experience that emphasizes the structural and aesthetic design of urban environments.
- #22 Foundation
81% matchVery Positive86% of 23,739 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.6 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 43.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 9.2%, Base Building 7%, Strategy 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a grid-less, organic building experience that prioritizes the visual layout of your city.
- #23 Cities: Skylines II
82% matchMixed54% of 88,593 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.5 hrsMean: 73.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 41.5%, Sandbox 16.2%, Building 15.6%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most robust tools for detailed, realistic urban design if you want to expand your creative scope.
- #24 Town to City
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 6,166 reviews2025
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 33.8%, Cozy 18.6%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Relaxing 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a cozy, voxel-based building experience that focuses on the gradual growth of your urban environment.
- #25 AdvertCity
84% matchMixed53% of 92 reviews2015
Dev: VoxelStorm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A cyberpunk advertising tycoon game. Explore a massive procedural city, and plaster your adverts all over it. Float around cyberspace and post links online. Watch the economy of the city evolve with the effects of your decisions.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.1%, Noir 20.9%, City Builder 18.7%, Dystopian 17.1%, Procedural Generation 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures a gritty, cyberpunk aesthetic while focusing on the unique task of managing urban advertising.
- #26 Airborne Kingdom
81% matchVery Positive87% of 2,369 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: City Builder 30.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 13.5%, Relaxing 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an atmospheric, vertical building experience that focuses on exploration and aesthetic city design.
- #27 Urbek City Builder
79% matchVery Positive90% of 1,843 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 33.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 16.1%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Strategy 7%
Why You'll Like It: While more strategic, it offers a deep, block-based building experience that allows for detailed urban design.
- #28 Humanica
78% matchVery Positive94% of 149 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 26.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Procedural Generation 10.4%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: A city-building simulation that focuses on the survival and management of a community in a unique setting.
- #29 Sphere - Flying Cities
80% matchMixed50% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Cyberpunk 19.8%, Dystopian 18.5%, Building 9.4%, Sci-fi 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a unique, atmospheric take on city-building in a sci-fi setting.
- #30 ISLANDERS: New Shores
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,216 reviews2025
Dev: The StationPub: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 35.4%, Building 16.5%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Relaxing 9%
- #31 Aquatico
78% matchMixed67% of 863 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 31.2%, Futuristic 14%, Base Building 12%, Building 12%, Sci-fi 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a distinct, atmospheric underwater setting that adds a unique visual flair to the city-building genre.
- #32 ShantyTown
75% matchVery Positive98% of 322 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 26.5%, Cozy 19.4%, Sandbox 14.9%, Building 8.7%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
- #33 Technotopia
76% matchVery Positive85% of 652 reviews2024
Dev: YustasPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!
Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Dystopian 20.8%, Cyberpunk 20.5%, Futuristic 13.1%, Building 10.8%
- #34 Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles
76% matchVery Positive85% of 1,432 reviews2024
Dev: Tomas SalaPub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Bulwark blends casual and creative building elements with touches of strategy and exploration. It's an experimental mix of genres that can be enjoyed casually or as an epic conquest featuring naval units, air units, and fortresses.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Sandbox 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.2%
- #35 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: City Builder 21.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Design & Illustration 12.6% ★, Building 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.7%
- #36 SUPER BUILD
77% 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 26.5%, City Builder 20.2%, Building 15.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Base Building 7.4%
- #37 Pocket City 2
74% matchVery Positive94% of 130 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 28.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 8.8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #38 Modulus: Factory Automation
72% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 17.8%, Sandbox 13%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Futuristic 11.1%
- #39 Urbek City Builder: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2022
Dev: Estudios KremlinoisPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 30.3%, Sandbox 18.2%, Building 15.3%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #40 Lonely House
73% matchVery Positive84% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: BAROV INTERACTIVE
Windows
Lonely House is a cozy little game about home decorating. It's just you, pleasant music, and a solitary building at a crossroads. Decorate it to your liking and forget about your troubles.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.1%, Building 17.3%, City Builder 12.1%, Relaxing 11.5%, Atmospheric 10.6%
- #41 Tiny House Simulator
73% matchMixed65% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: FarFromSky
Windows · Mac
Design and build custom tiny homes for various clients in this relaxing open-world building game. Create unique spaces suited to each client’s requirements, and dive into different layouts with the sandbox mode for total creative freedom.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Design & Illustration 22.2% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 11.9%, Open World 10.3%
- #42 Orrstead
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 78 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 30.6%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 14.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Relaxing 5.7%
- #43 Home Wind
72% matchVery Positive90% of 834 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 33.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Building 10.5%, Relaxing 7.4%
- #44 URBO
71% matchVery Positive93% of 654 reviews2023
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
URBO is a relaxing cozy city-building puzzle game where you create beautiful towns on floating islands. Begin with an empty grid of landscape, choose an architectural style and build. Watch the population grow and the city flourish.
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Cozy 22.6%, Building 14.9%, Relaxing 8.1%, Atmospheric 7.4%
- #45 Twinkleby
69% matchVery Positive93% of 276 reviews2025
Dev: Might and Delight
Windows · Mac · Linux
Twinkleby is a cozy decoration game where you map out an archipelago of floating islands and build dioramas for a society of spacefaring Neighbours. Expand your collection, discover antique secrets, decorate, and when you change your mind – evict everyone and throw their furniture into space!
Why similar: Cozy 22.1%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Relaxing 7.6%
- #46 Pile Up!
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,054 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 25.8%, Sandbox 17.5%, Base Building 16.5%, Building 13.4%, Relaxing 8.3%
- #47 Timberborn
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,576 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 42.2 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 37.9%, Sandbox 17.4%, Base Building 15%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 6.1%
- #48 Shanshui Haven
70% 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 35.2%, Procedural Generation 17.9%, Building 10.7%, Relaxing 10%, Strategy 9.2%
- #49 dEskape
71% matchMixed59% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: The Evergloom Team
Windows
'dEskape' is a base-building game which sits across the bottom of your desktop allowing you to work, browse, or watch something else while you play. It's idle when you like and active when you want.
Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Cyberpunk 19.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 13%, Futuristic 8.6%
- #50 Before We Leave
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,706 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 26.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Base Building 8.8%
- #51 Dream Garden
68% matchVery Positive87% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Campfire Studio
Windows · Mac
An easygoing simulation game about creating tiny, Japanese inspired garden dioramas. Use a wide selection of plants, decorations and tools to build and nurture the zen garden retreat of your dreams.
Why similar: Design & Illustration 25.4% ★, Cozy 19.5%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 14.2%, Relaxing 7.3%
- #52 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 618 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: City Builder 29.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Procedural Generation 15%, Base Building 12%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #53 Cliff Empire
69% matchVery Positive87% of 4,350 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Futuristic 15.2%, Sandbox 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Building 10.1%
- #54 NewCity
71% matchMixed58% of 476 reviews2020
Dev: Lone Pine Games, LLC
Windows · Linux
The Regional City Builder: Let's Build Something New.
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Design & Illustration 22% ★, Noir 16.4%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 7.8%
- #55 Infection Free Zone
66% matchVery Positive81% of 17,669 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: City Builder 37%, Base Building 24.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 5.9%
- #56 Endzone - A World Apart
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 45.7%, Base Building 14.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #57 Dynopunk: Welcome to Synth-City
67% matchVery Positive97% of 296 reviews2023
Dev: Tomato Fantasy GamesPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
An ironic adventure with cyberpunk aesthetics set in a world where humans have been replaced by dinosaurs. Become a top-notch repair shop mechanic: fix gadgets, have heart-to-heart talks, and offer drinks to your customers — everything to fulfill your ultimate dream.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 42.9%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Relaxing 12.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #58 SimCasino
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 751 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 14.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #59 TheoTown
67% matchVery Positive95% of 4,517 reviews2019
Dev: Lobby DivinusPub: blueflower
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 38.9%, Sandbox 22.6%, Building 17.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.1%
- #60 Scorchlands
65% matchVery Positive91% of 131 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 26.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Open World 12.3%, Relaxing 7.2%