Games Like ISLANDERS

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 37.5%, Relaxing 16.7%, Minimalist 12.2%, Puzzle 9.1%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hex-based puzzle strategy game that shares the same relaxing, minimalist aesthetic and satisfying placement mechanics.

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 35.9%, Building 18.5%, Relaxing 16.5%, Minimalist 11.5%, Procedural Generation 7%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, stress-free building toy that focuses on creating beautiful, colorful structures without complex resource management.

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 29.2%, Building 12.8%, Relaxing 11.7%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The direct follow-up to the seed game, offering more of the same satisfying, minimalist island-building gameplay.

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 39.8%, Relaxing 20.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Puzzle 9.2%, Procedural Generation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A reverse city-builder that focuses on environmental restoration with a similarly calm, puzzle-oriented approach to land management.

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 30.4%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Building 14.4%, Relaxing 12.9%, Minimalist 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing puzzle game where you build beautiful landscapes by placing tiles to create harmonious, procedural environments.

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

Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Relaxing 21.8%, Building 19.8%, Strategy 4.4%, Atmospheric 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, minimalist sandbox building game that emphasizes creative expression and a peaceful atmosphere.

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

Why similar: City Builder 19%, Strategy 14.3%, Relaxing 14.2%, Minimalist 14.1%, Beautiful 13.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game that challenges you to design efficient road networks with a clean, satisfying visual style.

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

Why similar: City Builder 43.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Relaxing 11.3%, Puzzle 8.9%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-focused city-builder that rewards strategic placement of buildings on a grid, mirroring the core loop of the seed game.

A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas

Why similar: Relaxing 27.4%, Building 24.7%, City Builder 21.2%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Atmospheric 7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, meditative game about reclaiming post-apocalyptic landscapes with nature, sharing the focus on aesthetic building.

Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Minimalist 25.3%, Strategy 19.2%, Puzzle 15.5%, Relaxing 14.5%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist simulation game about designing subway maps that shares the same clean, strategic, and low-stress design philosophy.

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 33.7%, Building 15.9%, Relaxing 14.5%, Minimalist 12%, Puzzle 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, puzzle-based city-building game that focuses on relaxing, wholesome gameplay and minimalist design.

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 35%, Relaxing 14.9%, Building 11.3%, Procedural Generation 8.6%, Puzzle 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural puzzle game where you build and expand island ecosystems, capturing the same island-building charm.

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

Why similar: City Builder 44%, Relaxing 18.9%, Puzzle 10.3%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that uses deckbuilding mechanics to create beautiful, procedural landscapes.

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 34.6%, Building 14.6%, Relaxing 14%, Strategy 7.5%, Puzzle 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic puzzle game where you manage land elevation to prevent flooding, emphasizing careful placement and planning.

A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 49.1%, Minimalist 17.1%, Building 14.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Colorful 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game that strips away complex management for a streamlined, satisfying tower-defense experience.

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 51.8%, Building 18.4%, Relaxing 15.2%, Strategy 7%, Colorful 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, voxel-based building game that emphasizes relaxed, creative city expansion.

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

Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Relaxing 16.5%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Procedural Generation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, relaxing city-builder that focuses on creating beautiful, traditional-style landscapes.

Match Village is a minimalist puzzle and strategy game about merge buildings to create villages on colorful islands.

Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Relaxing 11.9%, Minimalist 9.1%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A charming puzzle game that combines match-3 mechanics with city building to create a relaxing, satisfying experience.

"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 34%, Relaxing 17.2%, Building 16.7%, Minimalist 13.3%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, base-building game that focuses on creative, atmospheric construction in a low-stress environment.

BIOmISLAND is a relaxing minimalist nature builder game. Visit randomly generated islands and restore nature at your own pace using diverse plants at your disposal.

Why similar: City Builder 47.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Minimalist 12.6%, Relaxing 12.6%, Colorful 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful, minimalist strategy game about building and managing a thriving island ecosystem.

Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.

Why similar: City Builder 41.7%, Building 19.4%, Relaxing 15.9%, Strategy 9%, Atmospheric 4%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, character-driven city-builder that focuses on resource management in a charming, relaxed setting.

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 56.5%, Building 11.3%, Colony Sim 10%, Relaxing 10%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less, organic city-builder that allows for creative, relaxing town construction in a medieval setting.

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 47.6%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Building 19.7%, Strategy 5%, Indie 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, medieval-themed city-builder that emphasizes building and managing a small, growing colony.

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 38.2%, Building 15.8%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Relaxing 15.4%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A non-violent city-builder that focuses on exploration and expansion across a hex-grid, sharing the relaxing pace.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 43.8%, Colony Sim 23%, Building 14.1%, Relaxing 12.1%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, accessible city-builder that focuses on building and defending a medieval kingdom.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 47.3%, Colony Sim 27.1%, Strategy 7.7%, Relaxing 5.2%, Beautiful 5% ★

Why You'll Like It: A classic, relaxing city-builder that focuses on survival and resource management in a peaceful, rural setting.

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 34.5%, Colony Sim 20%, Building 15.2%, Relaxing 10%, Minimalist 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, sandbox-style city-builder that focuses on building and managing a small, thriving community.

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 30.4%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Building 13%, Minimalist 12.5%, Relaxing 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, automation-focused city-builder that emphasizes efficient resource management in a clean, simple style.

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 32.5%, Relaxing 15.7%, Building 11.4%, Minimalist 10.9%, Puzzle 8%

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 43.8%, Building 19.8%, Minimalist 9.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Puzzle 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist city-builder that focuses on urban planning and resource management without the stress of traditional management games.

Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist 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 28.7%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Minimalist 12.6%, Relaxing 12.5%, Building 10.4%

Zen World is a strategy game that can be as relaxing as you want it to be. Build a calm and colorful landscape with hexagonal tiles, matching their borders to each other, collect valuable boxes, and explore the tech tree.

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Relaxing 13.3%, Building 12.9%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Minimalist 10.1%

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

Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Strategy 18.1%, Building 13.8%, Minimalist 12.5%, Puzzle 10.2%

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 64.6%, Building 15.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Puzzle 5.9%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A vertical city-builder that focuses on balancing ecosystems and resources in a minimalist, sandbox environment.

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 39.9%, Colony Sim 25.1%, Building 16.1%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Strategy 7.6%

Craft tiny railway dioramas in a stress-free island sandbox. No rules or timers - just design, build, and enjoy.

Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Building 17.7%, Relaxing 14.8%, Minimalist 13%, Procedural Generation 7.6%

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: Building 41.9%, Relaxing 34.5%, Procedural Generation 9.6%, Indie 3.4%, Colorful 3.2%

Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?

Why similar: City Builder 28%, Minimalist 18%, Puzzle 11.9%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 11.7%

Arrange the town islands and see them come to life. Just swap the blocks of a 3D jigsaw puzzle.

Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Relaxing 16.5%, Building 11.1%, Puzzle 11.1%, Minimalist 9.9%

URBO: Dream One is a meditative puzzle game where you build houses around the mysterious Tower. Let your mind wander through visions of an enchanted city on an island in the middle of the crystal clear waters of a vibrant lake.

Why similar: City Builder 48.6%, Relaxing 18.6%, Strategy 15%, Building 6.1%, Atmospheric 5.9%

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 40.1%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Building 19.1%, Relaxing 11.2%, Top-Down 2.2%

Little Incrementisle is an incremental colony-building game where you land on one wild island after another. On each island, you gather resources, construct buildings, recruit villagers, and develop your colony, until you’re ready to set sail for the next one.

Why similar: City Builder 55.4%, Strategy 20.7%, Puzzle 16.8%, Singleplayer 3.9%, Indie 3.3%

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 31.2%, Colony Sim 20.1%, Building 12.6%, Minimalist 11.1%, Relaxing 10.8%

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 42.4%, Relaxing 14.6%, Minimalist 13.4%, Building 12.3%, Strategy 7.9%

Escape your stressful and mundane everyday routine and head to exotic Polynesia to become a grand-master town architect. Turn this sandy wilderness into a beautiful paradise settlement.

Why similar: City Builder 40.4%, Building 22.1%, Indie 16.5%, Relaxing 16.4%, Atmospheric 3%

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: City Builder 55.7%, Building 24.2%, Strategy 12.4%, Colorful 3%, Indie 2.6%

EVERDAWN is a relaxing tile-based puzzle game where every placement shapes a living, evolving world. Stack scoring systems, combine biomes, unlock new and powerful Wonder tiles, and collect adorable Michis, little creatures that provide extra tiles.

Why similar: City Builder 40.6%, Relaxing 18.8%, Puzzle 10.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Minimalist 7.8%

It's vacation time! Try your hand at managing a lush tropical resort!

Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Building 12%, Relaxing 11.1%, Strategy 5%

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

Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Relaxing 20.3%, Building 10.6%, Puzzle 10.6%, Minimalist 9%

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Relaxing 11.5%, Building 9.9%, Puzzle 8.3%

Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!

Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Relaxing 20.8%, Building 17.5%, Strategy 9.3%, Colorful 4.5%

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!

Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Colony Sim 20%, Building 13.9%, Minimalist 12.8%, Puzzle 7.2%

The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.

Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Colony Sim 21.6%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Relaxing 9.7%

Proving that all good things come in threes! Welcome to Teeny Tiny Town, where you connect three identical tiles to evolve your city, merge by merge. Watch your metropolis grow from scratch, from 'aww' to 'awesome!'

Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Building 15.6%, Minimalist 13.4%, Relaxing 12.2%, Strategy 8.8%

Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.

Why similar: City Builder 26%, Building 16.3%, Relaxing 15.1%, Minimalist 13.2%, Strategy 10.5%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 53.5%, Colony Sim 30.1%, Relaxing 14.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%

CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Building 28.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Indie 2.7%

Tile Town is a chill strategy game set on a hexagonal grid. Plop down various building tiles to get the highest score possible, all while creating a colorful medieval town in the process. Unlock new levels or go for a stroll in the first person mode.

Why similar: City Builder 38.4%, Relaxing 17.4%, Minimalist 11%, Strategy 10.4%, Building 8.3%

Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.

Why similar: City Builder 42.8%, Relaxing 15.5%, Building 15.5%, Puzzle 10.4%, Strategy 9.4%

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 45.9%, Building 20%, Relaxing 19.2%, Procedural Generation 5.8%, Colorful 3.4%