- #1 Village Tale
97% matchVery Positive85% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl Games
Windows
Median: 18.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Management 12.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 11%, Idler 10%
- #2 Thriving City: Song
96% matchVery Positive81% of 3,278 reviews2024
Dev: White Star StudioPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Base Building 12.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 10.2%
- #3 Incremental Town RPG
96% matchMixed60% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Base Building 12.7%, Clicker 11.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #4 Tiny Civilization
95% matchVery Positive94% of 2,135 reviews2022
Dev: 喜人一个
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Why similar: God Game 40.7% ★, Match 3 35.7% ★, Hand-drawn 7.9%, Management 6.3%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #5 Story of Animal Sprite
94% matchVery Positive89% of 150 reviews2023
Dev: Lunaforge Studios
Windows
Story of Animal Sprite is a casual merge game where you will restore the homeland for cute animals by building various fancy structures.
Why similar: Match 3 28.7% ★, God Game 26.5% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Clicker 7.4%, Idler 6%
- #6 Ballads of Hongye: REBORN
93% matchVery Positive85% of 4,158 reviews2024
Dev: 珠海金山数字网络科技有限公司Pub: 海南西山居互动娱乐科技有限公司
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
《东方:平野孤鸿》是一款休闲、轻度的“国风造景”游戏。游戏中包含大量细节精美的国风建筑,还原了许多祖国的大好河山和人文景观,你将沉浸在古建筑的精致美学和壮阔的东方情怀之中,并由此打造出自己心中独一无二的、充满东方韵味的古代盛世。
Why similar: City Builder 51.8%, Simulation 15.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Casual 9.5%, Top-Down 5.3%
- #7 City idle
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 214 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Simulation 42.1%, Management 20.7%, Building 15.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #8 Idle Commonwealth
92% matchMixed66% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Qbusik Games
Windows
Idle Commonwealth is an idle game that pays homage to the best of the idle genre. Start small, grow your commonwealth, maintain morale, establish governance, invent technologies, trade and conquer your neighbors.
Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, God Game 16.9% ★, Clicker 16.6%, Resource Management 9.8%, Idler 9.2%
- #9 Iron Village
91% matchVery Positive89% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar Chippy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.
Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Management 14.5%, Top-Down 9.9%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 8.8%
- #10 Heian City Story
90% matchVery Positive89% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A city-building sim with a historical twist
Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Simulation 18.4%, Casual 11.2%, Top-Down 9%, Management 6.5%
- #11 Crowded Blue Dot
91% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 11.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Simulation 11%
- #12 Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: The Evergloom Team
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.
Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Simulation 21.4%, Clicker 20.3%, Idler 4.6%, Management 4.1%
- #13 Shanshui Haven
88% 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 43.1%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Top-Down 11.1%, Casual 10.5%, Simulation 8.2%
- #14 Civitatem
89% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.
Why similar: City Builder 42.1%, Simulation 16.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 7.9%
- #15 Inn Tycoon
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 779 reviews2025
Dev: Evil Goose GamesPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!
Why similar: Management 25.4%, Simulation 21.2%, Resource Management 19.2%, Building 12.2%, Idler 11%
- #16 Kai Yuan
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 62 reviews2023
Dev: Crown Game
Windows
This is a city building game with the historical background of the Tang Dynasty of China in the 7-8th century. In the game, you will build a prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty of China.
Why similar: City Builder 39.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Simulation 15.9%, Management 13.4%, Casual 6.7%
- #17 Empire City Simulator
86% matchMixed61% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Red Brix Wall
Windows
Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!
Why similar: City Builder 49%, Simulation 20.2%, Management 12%, Building 8.2%, Casual 5.7%
- #18 Revival and Exploration
85% matchMixed61% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: CMS GearPub: HONGKONG DELAN CO., LIMITED
Windows
Revival and Exploration is an oriental simulation game. Decorate your town with diverse landscapes and buildings, recruit residents to live in, and build a thriving city! You can also lead armed residents on traveling to different landscapes such as grassland, desert, snow, and volcanoes.
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Simulation 13.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 9.9%, Casual 8.7%
- #19 Creo God Simulator
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 237 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.
Why similar: God Game 47.4% ★, City Builder 29.2%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Indie 2.1%
- #20 Orrstead
82% 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 35.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Management 13.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Top-Down 8.1%
- #21 Factory Town Idle
81% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Clicker 19.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 10.5%, Idler 10.3%
- #22 Synergy
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 37.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Simulation 11.6%
- #23 A Game of Humans
84% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Why similar: God Game 33.1% ★, City Builder 27.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 7.3%
- #24 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 763 reviews2022
Dev: Erik RempenPub: Silk Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
Why similar: God Game 37.5% ★, City Builder 30.7%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 6.6%
- #25 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: City Builder 44.3%, Simulation 26.8%, Casual 14.4%, Resource Management 6.9%, Building 4.8%
- #26 Celestial Empire: Prologue
79% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Management 15%, Base Building 14.6%, Simulation 13.5%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #27 Diluvian Winds
80% 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 36.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11%, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 9.9%
- #28 Match Village
79% matchVery Positive83% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Rising Moon Games
Windows
Match Village is a minimalist puzzle and strategy game about merge buildings to create villages on colorful islands.
Why similar: Match 3 52.8% ★, City Builder 34.3%, Casual 6.4%, Building 4.5%, Indie 1.1%
- #29 Let Them Trade
76% matchVery Positive85% of 1,033 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 12.3%, Simulation 9.1%
- #30 Settlemoon
77% matchVery Positive86% of 279 reviews2023
Dev: Lepioid LLC
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
After the moon vanished, the fantasy world of Settlemoon lays abandoned in darkness. Re-light the skies, and provide a rest stop for adventurers in a town that updates in real time. Grow your town to attract strange visitors, and discover happened to this world.
Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Simulation 14.8%, Idler 11.3%, Casual 9.1%, Management 8.8%
- #31 Settlement Survival
76% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 43.4%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Base Building 10%, Building 8.2%
- #32 SteamWorld Build
75% 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: City Builder 40.9%, Management 14.2%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Casual 8.5%
- #33 Blueprint Tycoon
78% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Management 23.4%, Simulation 19.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Casual 8.3%
- #34 The Unexpected Quest
78% matchVery Positive80% of 201 reviews2020
Dev: Rionix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. Embark on quests, hunt down treasures and manage your resources as you build, battle, cast magic and brew potions to bring order to the world.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Clicker 19.4%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 12.7%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #35 Settlements Rising
75% 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 41.8%, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 11.7%
- #36 PC Building Empire
74% matchVery Positive87% of 189 reviews2025
Dev: Moose Games
Windows
Build PCs of different rarities, hire workers with buffs and debuffs, and expand your shop. Train stats in special rooms, customize floors and colors, and relax in a cozy idle indie game in Early Access that grows with feedback from the community.
Why similar: Management 27%, Idler 25.8%, Casual 17%, Simulation 12.9%, Resource Management 12.9%
- #37 Click Mage
73% matchVery Positive92% of 2,408 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Crow Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.
Why similar: Clicker 35%, Simulation 21.7%, Resource Management 20.9%, Casual 11.6%, Building 4.3%
- #38 City Tales - Medieval Era
72% matchVery Positive90% of 542 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: City Builder 41.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 8.8%
- #39 My Lovely Empress
73% matchVery Positive82% of 299 reviews2024
Dev: GameChanger StudioPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
My Lovely Empress is an empire management sim inspired by Asian mythology. As the Emperor of the Crimson Empire, you will build relations with neighboring rulers, balance internal factions, and ensure the prosperity of your people, all before you reap their souls to resurrect your beloved empress.
Why similar: Simulation 34.6%, Hand-drawn 27.5%, Management 25.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Indie 0.8%
- #40 Feudal Fantasy Incremental
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 101 reviews2023
Dev: Luminosity Interactive
Windows
Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings and recruiting the wisdom of fantasy races.
Why similar: Clicker 26.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Idler 12.7%, Management 11.9%, City Builder 10.4%
- #41 Crafting Town
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.
Why similar: Clicker 23.6%, Simulation 18.8%, Resource Management 17.8%, Base Building 17%, Casual 9.7%
- #42 Skyline Urban Story
71% matchVery Positive89% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: PandaUpStudio
Windows · Mac
From barren land to towering metropolis, every decision you make shapes the destiny of your city. Industrial flow, global trade, surging land values, and growing wealth, offers deep management gameplay, perfect for players who love strategic city-building and economic simulation.
Why similar: City Builder 52.2%, Simulation 20.5%, Building 10.6%, Casual 9.4%, Resource Management 3.3%
- #43 Town Keeper
71% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Cuddle Code
Windows · Mac
Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.
Why similar: City Builder 42.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 11.1%, Casual 8.1%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #44 The Dream Globe
69% matchVery Positive97% of 277 reviews2025
Dev: Roaming of Little Hammer
Windows
Median: 35.9 hrsMean: 71.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Idler game inside an antique dream globe, build the small home and help the mini dream world grow
Why similar: Clicker 30.4%, Idler 18.7%, Simulation 15.5%, Resource Management 15.4%, Casual 9.5%
- #45 MicroTown
72% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 13.5%, Top-Down 8.5%
- #46 HEXAROMA: Village Builder
70% matchVery Positive82% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Almost a Game CompanyPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
HEXAROMA is a charming village builder set on a tiny island village where you start your Hexling colony! Place your buildings, and manage Hexling villagers on a hexagonal island. Plan your placements wisely, grow your settlement, optimize your colony and help your villagers thrive.
Why similar: City Builder 58.4%, Simulation 17.4%, Casual 11.8%, Building 10.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #47 Loafing Town
68% matchVery Positive86% of 505 reviews2025
Dev: GoblinZzPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 43.0 hrsMean: 87.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A relaxing and humorous idle god simulator that stays at the bottom of your screen or on a second monitor while you do other things. With physics-based dragging interactions, it feels just like playing with desk toys.
Why similar: God Game 39.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Clicker 13.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Idler 7.7%
- #48 Goblin Camp
70% matchVery Positive90% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 36% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Simulation 7.7%
- #49 Microcivilization
67% matchVery Positive80% of 1,364 reviews2026
Dev: Ondrej Homola
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.
Why similar: God Game 26.8% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Clicker 15.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #50 Founders' Fortune
71% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Base Building 20.3%, Simulation 12.9%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #51 Cardboard Town
69% matchVery Positive81% of 2,136 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 12.5%, Management 12%, Hand-drawn 10%
- #52 Dungeon Village
70% matchVery Positive89% of 781 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!
Why similar: City Builder 50.2%, Management 16.7%, Simulation 11%, Building 9.9%, Casual 7.1%
- #53 Paragon Pioneers
69% matchVery Positive89% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Tobias Arlt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.
Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Base Building 13%, Management 12.6%, Idler 11%, Simulation 8.4%
- #54 Tiny Isle
65% matchVery Positive92% of 139 reviews2026
Dev: Nature Rituals StudioPub: Etherous Games Limited
Windows
Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation game. Grow crops, collect crystals, expand and customize your magical island, and welcome sprites and animal residents. Play actively with hands-on planning, or relax with full idle progression as your island comes to life at your own pace.
Why similar: Clicker 23.4%, Resource Management 16.2%, Management 15.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Idler 10.1%
- #55 Dream Town Island
66% matchVery Positive96% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: City Builder 41.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Casual 10.1%, Management 7.9%, Top-Down 7.1%
- #56 River Town Factory
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,328 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Base Building 22.1%, Simulation 16%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 8%
- #57 STARIO: Haven Tower
64% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, God Game 27.4% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Management 8.3%
- #58 Paper Kingdom
66% matchMixed62% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: obece
Windows
Paper Kingdom is a colony management game. Stack cards to gather resources, build structures, explore and fight invaders. Turn a nomadic tribe into an empire.
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Management 16.1%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Building 7.6%
- #59 Whiskerwood
62% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Base Building 16.9%, Management 14%, Simulation 12.8%, Resource Management 12.2%