Games Like ISLANDERS: New Shores

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: City Builder 29%, Building 12.7%, Relaxing 11.8%, Colony Sim 11.3% ★, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The original title that defined the minimalist, puzzle-strategy city-builder genre with its satisfying placement mechanics.

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 30.4%, Procedural Generation 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Relaxing 11.1%, Minimalist 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful, ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles.

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 30.1%, Building 18.2%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Relaxing 11.3%, Minimalist 8%

Why You'll Like It: An experimental, purely creative building toy that focuses on the joy of watching colorful, procedural towns emerge from the ocean.

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 31.1%, Relaxing 13.1%, Procedural Generation 12.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A reverse city-builder that focuses on environmental restoration and nature, sharing the atmospheric and relaxing tone of the seed game.

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 25.9%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Building 14.4%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, Relaxing 9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing puzzle game that tasks you with building your own world using hexagonal tiles, perfectly mirroring the core loop of the seed game.

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

Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Building 19.8%, Relaxing 15.3%, Colorful 6.4%, Casual 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A small, cozy building game that strips away all management and objectives to focus entirely on the aesthetic pleasure of creating a home.

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 30.1%, Building 16.7%, Relaxing 10.6%, Minimalist 8.9%, Puzzle 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A meditative puzzle game where you build small, cozy cities on floating islands, capturing the exact visual and mechanical feel of the seed game.

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 28.1%, Building 14%, Relaxing 9.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing strategy game where you build an island landscape while managing the rising water levels, offering a slightly more strategic twist.

A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas

Why similar: Building 22.8%, Procedural Generation 18.3%, Relaxing 17.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Atmospheric 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A meditative game about reclaiming abandoned urban spaces with overgrown nature, sharing a similar 'low-stakes' atmospheric quality.

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

Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Strategy 13%, Building 9.2%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Puzzle 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist city-builder that focuses on placing tiles to create dense, colorful urban clusters in a puzzle-like fashion.

‘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 24.8%, Relaxing 13.9%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Building 10.6%, Puzzle 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, relaxing train-connection puzzle game that uses a beautiful voxel art style and focuses on building networks.

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 18.9%, Strategy 17.5%, Building 14.1%, Minimalist 12%, Relaxing 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game about drawing roads to manage traffic, which shares the clean, satisfying visual language of the seed game.

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 53.3%, Building 19.1%, Relaxing 8.9%, Strategy 8.1%, Colorful 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, voxel-based city-builder that emphasizes simple, satisfying construction without the stress of traditional management games.

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

Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Building 17.8%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, Relaxing 10.3%, Minimalist 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox building game that combines the relaxing nature of island creation with the charm of miniature train sets.

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 29.2%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Building 11.2%, Relaxing 10.2%, Puzzle 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing puzzle city-builder that tasks you with terraforming and building on small, procedural islands.

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 29.7%, Building 16.1%, Minimalist 9.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Relaxing 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, minimalist merge-puzzle game where you build a village from the ground up on a small grid.

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

Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Relaxing 12.2%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing city-builder that uses a deck-building mechanic to place buildings and structures, blending strategy with a calm, puzzle-like experience.

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 25.4%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Building 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Minimalist 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A wholesome, minimalist city-builder that uses hexagonal tiles to create charming, small-scale settlements.

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 35.2%, Building 19.4%, Relaxing 11%, Strategy 9.3%, Colorful 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming and cozy city-builder that focuses on the lives of cute villagers in a peaceful, low-pressure environment.

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

Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Procedural Generation 12%, Relaxing 11.1%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 9%

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 37.5%, Building 13%, Relaxing 10.7%, Minimalist 10%, Procedural Generation 10%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, relaxing city-builder that focuses on building small, cute settlements in a serene, open-ended environment.

"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 30.2%, Building 17.4%, Relaxing 12.4%, Minimalist 9.8%, Strategy 7.7%

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

Why similar: City Builder 31%, Colony Sim 25% ★, Building 11.3%, Relaxing 7.3%, Casual 6.9%

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

Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Strategy 18.2%, Building 13.2%, Casual 10.7%, Puzzle 8.9%

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 26.4%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Building 13.5%, Minimalist 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Procedural Generation 9.8%, Building 8.5%, Relaxing 8.2%

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 40.3%, Strategy 18%, Casual 10.8%, Minimalist 8.8%, Relaxing 8.7%

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 37.7%, Building 16.1%, Relaxing 11.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Puzzle 9.7%

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 51.9%, Building 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.3% ★, Strategy 8.9%, Relaxing 7.7%

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 30.4%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Building 15.8%, Relaxing 7.2%, Strategy 6.3%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 22.3% ★, Building 15.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Procedural Generation 11.1%

Bubblegum Galaxy is a cozy narrative building game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers... all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!

Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Building 17.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Relaxing 8.5%, Puzzle 8.4%

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 38.4%, Building 20%, Relaxing 13.2%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Colorful 6.9%

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 29.6%, Building 18.3%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Minimalist 6.9%, Colorful 5.9%

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 40.1%, Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Building 19.7%, Strategy 5.6%, Colorful 4.2%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Building 18.2%, Procedural Generation 7.4%, Strategy 6.7%

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 35.1%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Building 15%, Relaxing 8.4%, Strategy 8.2%

Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.

Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Building 13.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Relaxing 7.7%

Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Building 16.3%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Relaxing 9.7%

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 26.1%, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, Building 11.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Minimalist 9.6%

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 25.5%, Building 13.4%, Colony Sim 13.3% ★, Relaxing 9.6%, Strategy 7.7%

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 33%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Building 16.1%, Relaxing 10.9%, Strategy 6.3%

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

Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Building 13.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Relaxing 7%

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 31.6%, Colony Sim 25.8% ★, Building 10.3%, Relaxing 8.6%, Strategy 8.5%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Building 21.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.9%

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 35.1%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Building 14.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Procedural Generation 7.9%

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 35.8%, Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Relaxing 12.4%, Strategy 9.8%, Casual 5.1%

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 43.9%, Colony Sim 28.1% ★, Building 14.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Relaxing 1.6%

hexurb is a calm, peaceful city builder where you can relax after a hard day and just have a good time!

Why similar: City Builder 37.4%, Relaxing 12.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Score Attack 9.5%, Strategy 8.8%

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 31.3%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Building 16%, Relaxing 9.5%, Strategy 7.8%

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 28.6%, Casual 23.3%, Building 18.5%, Indie 14.1%, Relaxing 9.5%

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 35.8%, Colony Sim 26.6% ★, Building 14.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Casual 6.1%

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 31%, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Building 14.8%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Strategy 7.4%

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 31.3%, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Building 17.4%, Relaxing 10.6%, Strategy 8.8%

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?

Why similar: City Builder 37.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Relaxing 11.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Puzzle 9.3%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Building 17.7%, Procedural Generation 10%, Strategy 6.9%

Coral Cove is a relaxing match 3-like underwater game in which you try to build the largest reef without running out of corals to place.

Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Building 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Procedural Generation 9.1%, Relaxing 8.9%

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: Colony Sim 31.3% ★, City Builder 31.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Building 8.8%, Casual 7%

Relaxing city builder where you grow a vibrant metropolis, produce goods, manage transit and build iconic landmarks at your own pace.

Why similar: City Builder 49.7%, Building 22.6%, Casual 9.3%, Relaxing 8.8%, Colorful 7.4%

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 41.6%, Building 21.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Puzzle 9.9%, Minimalist 5.8%