Games Like ISLANDERS: VR Edition

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 24.9%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.7%, Building 8.3%, Strategy 7%

Sky Tale is a cute city building game about creating lovely islands using various tiles and buildings.

Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Colony Sim 24.3%, Building 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%, Puzzle 6.4%

A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, City Builder 34%, Strategy 11.5%, Top-Down 6.7%, Building 5.8%

Sudocity - Build your city, solve puzzles, and rule the urban jungle in this minimalist masterpiece of city-building and sudoku. New citizens arrive on each season, will you be ready to welcome them?

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.3%, Building 7.7%, Procedural Generation 6.8%

Planet Pioneers is a relaxing building and puzzle game where you prepare new planets for settlers. Build tiles strategically, fulfill quests for your settlers, keep pollution low and enable new buildings along the way. Shape the planet as you wish until it’s time to move on to your next challenge.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Procedural Generation 7%, Puzzle 6.5%

Duckland is a cozy city-building and simulation game. Procedurally generated islands creativity to transform the island into a perfect living space for ducklings.

Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Puzzle 7.5%, Exploration 6.9%, Strategy 6.5%

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

Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Building 9.2%, Strategy 7.6%, Relaxing 7.2%

Build, advance, reshape! For all those who have missed relaxing strategy classics. LowPolis is a friendly-paced city builder game where you become the ruler of a rising community. Begin with a handful of resources and pave your way to a truly majestic kingdom!

Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 10.2%, Casual 5.2%

Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?

Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, City Builder 33.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Casual 5.9%

A relaxing puzzle city builder where you expand colonies on all sides of asteroids. Balance three core stats while placing buildings with proximity synergies. Plan efficient layouts, build train networks, and watch your settlements bloom in space.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 24.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Puzzle 6.9%, Strategy 6.5%

Fleeting World - a city-building game where the landscape around you is constantly changing. Build a settlement, collect resources, adjust it to the changing terrain, avoid natural hazards, offer the resources to the gods.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, City Builder 29.1%, Strategy 13.7%, Building 11.9%, Colorful 4.2%

A turn-based strategy game focused on building and managing a Mars colony, featuring meticulously handcrafted missions and a procedurally generated sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, City Builder 30.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Building 8.1%, Top-Down 7.4%

Use your actions to build your kingdom and manage resources to achieve prosperity. With each turn, the enemy's ambition grows, but with your wise leadership, you can endure for 100 years.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 14.4%, Building 7.6%, Puzzle 7.4%

A small cozy community builder where all buildings are based on the same foundation! Take your time, build a sustainable community for your residents in this relaxing game, with no time pressure or external forces. Upgrade foundations via tech tree to redefine and refactor your space.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 23.6%, Building 8.1%, Top-Down 6.3%, Strategy 5.5%

Sky Settlers is a minimalistic city building card game in which you build on islands in the sky and encounter different events, disasters and much more. Use different cards, complete quests and unlock new tiles as you progress.

Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Building 8.5%, Puzzle 6.9%, Strategy 6.1%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8%, City Builder 44.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Indie 0.9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 29.4%, Casual 7.1%, Building 7%, Strategy 4.6%

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 44.7%, City Builder 27.8%, Strategy 13%, Casual 6.8%, Building 5.1%

Build upward in a city under corporate control. Place tiles, optimize spatial layouts, and manage powerful adjacency effects while balancing profit-driven demands against the needs of your residents in a dense cyberpunk megastructure.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, City Builder 36.3%, Strategy 11%, Casual 4.8%, 3D 3.3%

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: Colony Sim 45.1%, City Builder 40.3%, Strategy 8%, Building 2.7%, Relaxing 2%

Build, manage, and thrive in Island Master! Procedural islands, resource control, citizen happiness. Become the ultimate Island Master in this top-down city builder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, City Builder 30.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Procedural Generation 7.4%, Top-Down 7.1%

Build a hilltop colony in the last land safe from the toxic mist. Survive, expand, explore ancient monuments, and look for a way out before the mist claims everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, City Builder 30.9%, Strategy 13.7%, Building 6.9%, Exploration 6.2%

Build magical villages across serene, ever-changing realms. Create thriving settlements, gather arcane energy, then teleport to new lands and start anew. Discover endless possibilities as you construct settlements across the Arcane Realms.

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Puzzle 8.7%, Building 8.3%, Top-Down 7.5%

A kingdom's open ended journey from a small village to a patchwork of bustling castles. Build your kingdom block by block. Explore the world, grow your industries, and watch your citizens thrive in your creations. Do it your way - there are no wrong choices.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, City Builder 31.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Building 6.7%, Exploration 6.3%

The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...

Why similar: Colony Sim 58.5%, City Builder 18.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Casual 9.1%, Atmospheric 2.1%

Fatebound is a turn-based kingdom builder where your choices shape the realm’s destiny. Manage resources, build your kingdom, and adapt to dynamic events and seasons that alter the game's flow. Will your empire rise to greatness, or fall to the whims of fate?

Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Colony Sim 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.8%, Building 10%, Strategy 7.7%

Build and lead a Mississippian city centered on sacred mounds. Gather resources, grow your population, and expand your influence while competing with rival chiefdoms in a living world shaped by land and culture.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, City Builder 33.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Building 6.8%, 3D 4.3%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, City Builder 40.6%, Strategy 6.9%, Building 6.4%, Indie 0.2%

Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. As Mayor, your primary mission is to keep people happy. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34%, City Builder 31.2%, Building 10%, Strategy 7.9%, Relaxing 5%

Generations: Utopia is a wry city-building strategy about generational conflict. Build the city of the future, balance the interests of the silent types, boomers, X, Y and Z, and cope with protests, crises and social tensions. Run a city where every generation is sure you’re doing everything wrong.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.4%, City Builder 33%, Strategy 14.5%, Building 6.3%, 3D 4.3%

Arcane Shores is a city-building strategy game infused with magic. Build, defend, and expand your settlement while casting powerful spells that bend nature, restore what’s broken, and turn the tide against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, City Builder 34.3%, Building 9.4%, Strategy 8%, Casual 3.8%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.3%, City Builder 30.6%, Strategy 14%, Top-Down 5.5%, Casual 5.5%

Adamstown is a "Dorf-like", casual, peaceful city builder with elements of a puzzle. Players place city parts that depict housing blocks, offices, roads, and parks. Build your dream city but pay attention to the connection tiles.

Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.4%, Puzzle 8.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Building 7.5%

QuadUrbs is a relaxing minimalistic city builder game where you can place various tiles next to each other to build detailed city quickly without worrying about resource management. You can either place tiles perfectly to get maximum score or place them as you want to create city of your dreams.

Why similar: City Builder 44.1%, Building 14.7%, Puzzle 11.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Casual 6.6%

Design efficient space stations across the solar system in this minimalist puzzle-builder. Solve unique challenges with help from your assistant L.U.N.A., optimize your builds, maximize your score, and lead humanity’s journey beyond Earth!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, City Builder 26.4%, Strategy 8%, Puzzle 7.6%, Top-Down 7.1%

Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, City Builder 31.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Exploration 6.4%, Building 5.7%

A minimalistic urban planning puzzle. Manage resources. Manage building locations. Accumulate knowledge points and discover the secrets of the destroyed planet

Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Relaxing 6%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, City Builder 36.7%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 9.7%, 3D 3%

Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms. Build a colony from nothing, find and unlock unique buildings and re-activate powerful relics to protect yourself. Will you survive and get off the planet?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Puzzle 7%

Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, City Builder 33.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Building 5.5%, Relaxing 5.1%

Build your colony on a floating island, keep your settlers happy and manage your resources wisely. Turn limited space into an advantage, create a peaceful town and enjoy a strategic life in the sky.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.8%, City Builder 36.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 7.9%, Relaxing 3.8%

Embark on a cozy journey to settle and thrive on floating islands in the remnants of a ruptured world. Grow your village, manage resources, and become the renowned pioneer of the clouds. A relaxing city-building experience where you build and optimize your serene sanctuary in the skies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7%, City Builder 31.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Top-Down 7.8%, Colorful 4.9%

Hamlet in a Pond is a unique looking relaxed city builder. Live out your creativity and build your own little slice of paradise in a tiny pond - with no pressure like goals to reach and no stress from juggling resources.

Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Colony Sim 32.1%, Strategy 9%, Building 6.2%, Casual 5.6%

Gnome Glade - a cozy city builder puzzle with deckbuilding. Help gnomes build a village in a magic forest! Grow and merge mushrooms, build your deck of cards, and raise a golden statue. Create a gnome paradise!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 25.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.2%, Puzzle 7.1%, Top-Down 6.1%

Organize a sustainable island and survive growing tourism demand, or the game ends quickly. Island Mojo Blocks is a casual island builder and survival game, with unique delivery and production network management. Quick strategy and planning are key to survival in this fun and challenging adventure!

Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Colony Sim 25.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Building 8.4%, Puzzle 7.6%

Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6%, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Top-Down 6%, Building 5.4%

Island Dwellers is a turn-based strategy game where you guide a tribe through the challenges of rising sea levels. Assign tasks to your people, unlock technologies and build a thriving village. Adapt to new challenges as your tribe sails to different climates in search of a better future.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 25.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Puzzle 6.8%

Nova Origin is a next-generation sci-fi city builder set on a mysterious alien planet. Build, expand, and survive as you establish a thriving colony, manage resources, and uncover the secrets of a hostile new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, City Builder 28.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Building 5.6%, Top-Down 5.1%

A group of travelers has left their home and is trying to restart their lives in a new land. They don't have much but they are determined to thrive. However, an invisible force seems to be guiding them. Will this force help guide them to success or doom them?

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5%, City Builder 34.8%, Building 7.5%, Exploration 7.1%, Top-Down 6.4%

With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.9%, City Builder 30.6%, Strategy 13.5%

Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?

Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, City Builder 38.6%, Strategy 18.4%

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

Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Procedural Generation 8.2%, Top-Down 7.5%, Building 7.2%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, City Builder 36.3%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 6.8%, Indie 0.3%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 46.6%, Colony Sim 45.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Indie 0.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Build and defend a medieval colony in a vast, infinite voxel world. Gather resources, craft gear, train citizens, and survive brutal zombie hordes. Dig deep, explore wild biomes, and turn a handful of survivors into a thriving settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.5%, City Builder 27.3%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Exploration 4.4%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 50.2%, City Builder 39.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Indie 0.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!

Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Colony Sim 42.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, City Builder 31.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 6.7%, Exploration 5.3%

A city builder with a twist - Putting the focus of the game on the peasants who live and grow in your community. Cater for them, deal with their shortcomings and just maybe they will thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3%, City Builder 32.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 8.9%, Colorful 5.3%