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ArchOlden is a meditative puzzle-city-builder.

Why similar: City Builder 41.3%, Strategy 15.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Minimalist 9.4%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

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 35.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Minimalist 8.1%, Relaxing 7.1%

My Little World is a relaxing puzzle game where you strategically place hexagonal tiles to gather points, expand and build your own world.

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Top-Down 8.1%, Minimalist 7.6%

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

Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Strategy 16.4%, Top-Down 8.7%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Relaxing 6.2%

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

Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Relaxing 9%, Top-Down 8.9%

Town Squared is a peaceful city building and puzzle game. Create cute architecture as you take a tiny voyage, discovering and unlocking new buildings along the way.

Why similar: City Builder 44.3%, Strategy 16.7%, Procedural Generation 9%, Relaxing 7.9%, Cute 6.1%

Hexagourds is a casual, relaxing builder and puzzle game where you place tiles on a grid to make your own pumpkin patch! Grow pumpkins, feed animals, and pick apples as you gain points for rotating, placing and connecting different tiles.

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Strategy 10%, Relaxing 8.6%, Top-Down 8.6%, Building 7.6%

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: City Builder 35.1%, Base Building 12.3%, Strategy 10.7%, Procedural Generation 7.9%, Building 7.6%

Touhou Mini Map is a strategy building game that allows you to create a panoramic map of Touhou World

Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Strategy 17.4%, Base Building 16.2%, Top-Down 7.4%, Building 7.3%

Relax and create beautiful homes for your villagers in this simple, stress-free building game.

Why similar: City Builder 47.7%, Base Building 13%, Cute 9.7%, Relaxing 8.6%, Casual 6.9%

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 39%, Strategy 13.2%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Relaxing 9%, Building 8.8%

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 42.9%, Strategy 17%, Base Building 12.4%, Medieval 7.4%, Procedural Generation 6.1%

This is a very chill Sandbox "City Builder", No Goals, just build your island as beautifully as you can with the given buildings.

Why similar: City Builder 33%, Relaxing 10.7%, Building 9.8%, Top-Down 9.5%, Cute 9.4%

Fishermen's Haven is a tranquil manager game in which you take control of a small coastal settlement located on a remote island. Guide your people through the hardships of life on a tropical isle, manage resources, and find the means to expand the village.

Why similar: City Builder 43.1%, Strategy 17.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Top-Down 10.7%, Relaxing 7.5%

Fortifend is a fantasy city builder with a mix of resource management and strategic tower defense. As Lord Mayor, build your settlement into a fortified city capable of fending off waves of demonic invaders. Guard the gates!

Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Strategy 15.7%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Building 5.1%

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 38.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Top-Down 9.9%, Base Building 7.1%, Building 6.6%

A minimalist strategy game about growing your infinite floating town. Combine wacky 3D blocks to optimize synergies, build idyllic scenery, and chase your high score.

Why similar: City Builder 50.8%, Strategy 20.5%, Cute 8.7%, Minimalist 7.5%, Building 5%

Build a medieval town around a thriving market. Defend your citizens and traveling merchants against raiding bandits. A minimalist game blending cozy city-building and intense tower-defense as you grow and protect your town.

Why similar: City Builder 39.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Minimalist 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Base Building 7.7%

A small relaxing roguelike puzzle city builder where you place tiles to grow small towns, gather resources, and expand your capital. Discover new buildings, unlock powerful upgrades, and shape your own evolving landscape.

Why similar: City Builder 43.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Cute 8.5%, Relaxing 8.3%, Base Building 5.4%

Silence the city. A minimalist logistics puzzle where you untangle traffic jams. No stress. Just flow.

Why similar: City Builder 43.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Top-Down 13.5%, Minimalist 12.9%, Relaxing 7.6%

A cosy sandbox city-builder where you solve colourful puzzles to create your world.

Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Strategy 21.7%, Casual 8.9%, Cute 6.6%, Minimalist 6.4%

Dark Fantasy RTS with a tech tree determined by choices in the campaign. Learn the counter play and manage army compositions to challenge the campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Strategy 21.1%, Top-Down 10.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 6.4%

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 41.9%, Strategy 22%, Casual 9.2%, Minimalist 7.8%, Relaxing 6.4%

In most games, you play as a villager. In LoCoMo, you play as the village. Build a cozy, living world where tiny villagers travel, work, and evolve over time. Grow towns and connect them through the routes and railways you design.

Why similar: City Builder 37%, Procedural Generation 9.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Top-Down 9.3%, Building 8.4%

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 33.1%, Procedural Generation 12.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Relaxing 8.1%, Building 8%

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: City Builder 39.9%, Strategy 19.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Top-Down 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.2%

RoundUrbs is a tiny relaxing city builder game where you place different commercial, residential, house, nature, industrial etc. circular tiles connected to each other to create unique and beautiful city.

Why similar: City Builder 47.9%, Strategy 22.4%, Relaxing 10.2%, Casual 9.8%, Building 7.5%

CITYVENTORY is a minimalist city builder/inventory management game where you build colorful cities just like you are organizing your inventory. Place and move your tiles freely, synergize them to earn points and build the best city possible!

Why similar: City Builder 36.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Minimalist 9%, Building 8.3%, Relaxing 7.8%

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 35.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Hand-drawn 7.4%, Building 6.7%

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 45.2%, Strategy 18.9%, Building 9.3%, Medieval 8.6%, Relaxing 6.6%

This is a casual adventure simulation game where you'll manage a small village and explore dark mines. Upgrade villagers and buildings, craft equipment and food, defeat evil goblins, and reclaim lost lands.

Why similar: City Builder 36.6%, Strategy 14.9%, Top-Down 10.9%, Cute 7.1%, Casual 6.1%

Let yourself be enchanted by the new world of Settlers with this modernized History Edition – in the midst of green forests and lush meadows, it will bustle again. You alone hold the fate of your kingdom in your hands. Which strategy will you choose?

Why similar: City Builder 62.9%, Strategy 26.3%, Medieval 10.8%

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 36.2%, Procedural Generation 15.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Relaxing 8.9%, Cute 7.6%

This is a casual simulation building game where a mayor will collect taxes in a city with only one road, and build a prosperous city through the connections between different buildings. It is my first independent game and will continue to be updated. If you have any questions, please contact me

Why similar: City Builder 44.8%, Strategy 23.6%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Top-Down 10.2%, Casual 9.8%

Mini Worlds is a cozy building toy about creating tiny cities on a small world. Build and decorate with no goals or timer.

Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Minimalist 9.3%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Building 7.8%, Relaxing 7.1%

In this chill strategic puzzle city building game, you get to choose when to place land and buildings such as houses, shops and factories, with no RNG. Expand your city by getting points through placing buildings to their desired location or merge the same buildings to upgrade to bigger buildings

Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 12.6%, Minimalist 9.5%, Relaxing 9.2%

It's a cosy sandbox city building game. Create islands and parks. Increase or decrease the size of buildings in your city. Change the colour of trees and bushes.

Why similar: City Builder 48.6%, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Relaxing 9.9%, Building 9.1%, Nature 8.5%

Tired of grey cities full of cars and concrete? Let's build charming European-style old towns full of life, color and bustling energy. Beautiful architecture, parks and cobbled streets lined with cafés, shops and restaurants. Relax as you watch your residents enjoy life in your cozy little town.

Why similar: City Builder 44.8%, Cute 9.6%, Top-Down 8.4%, Base Building 8.2%, Relaxing 7.4%

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: City Builder 50%, Strategy 20.3%, Top-Down 11.2%, Casual 6%, Building 5.7%

Hexpire is a relaxing city builder where you build a prosperous empire by careful building placement.

Why similar: City Builder 47.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Procedural Generation 6.9%, Cute 5.3%

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

Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Relaxing 9.8%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Minimalist 8.6%

Build and explore in this tile placing citybuilding roguelite!

Why similar: City Builder 40.6%, Strategy 21%, Top-Down 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 6.3%

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: City Builder 40.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Relaxing 8.1%, Procedural Generation 8.1%

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 54.5%, Strategy 15.3%, Building 12.2%, Relaxing 9.8%, Casual 6.2%

Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game with a relaxing atmosphere. Build your tower, manage resources, unlock new tools and uncover the secrets hidden in the sky.

Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Strategy 13%, Relaxing 11.8%, Minimalist 8.8%, Hand-drawn 7.5%

A survival citybuilder set in a desert afflicted by relentless sandstorms. Build, farm, research, clear sand and protect your people from the storms. Will you find water or desolation? Will your settlement thrive or be buried in sand?

Why similar: City Builder 56.2%, Strategy 17.6%, Base Building 12%, Building 6.9%, 2D 5.9%

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

Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Relaxing 12.9%, Strategy 12.6%, Building 8.7%, Minimalist 7.6%

Create your own Medieval Kingdom and watch your world come to life in this minimalistic city builder. Choose your world's size and shape, and turn it into a kingdom any ruler would be jealous of.

Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Minimalist 9.3%, Medieval 8.8%, Relaxing 7.3%

Lay connections, build nodes — your network keeps growing. Tokens flow through your body, generating revenue at every node. Revenue builds more nodes, nodes pass more Tokens, and Tokens... you get the idea.

Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 13.4%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, 2D 5.4%

Build your village tile by tile in a relaxing game that blends puzzles with strategy. Carefully place each building to maximize your score based on the map's affinities. Simple, calming, and addictive.

Why similar: City Builder 39%, Strategy 14.8%, Top-Down 9.9%, Building 7%, Base Building 6.9%

Explore Citres, a unique blend of city-building & puzzle gameplay! Place Tetris-shaped buildings, merge them into advanced structures, and grow your population. Embrace strategy in a vibrant, low-poly world.

Why similar: City Builder 45.5%, Strategy 25.4%, Cute 9.6%, Minimalist 8.5%, Relaxing 5.9%

Build and manage your city in this strategic city builder. Optimize resources, place buildings efficiently, and recruit architects to maximize your city's growth.

Why similar: City Builder 45.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Top-Down 12%, 2D 5.6%, Colorful 5.1%

Join the Viking heroes in a race against time to save the world from eternal darkness. As the sun and moon falter and Fenrir threatens to consume them, the Vikings must travel across realms to forge a magical chain that can capture him.

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 15.2%, Building 9.7%, Cute 9%

Build vibrant cities in a medieval world with this modernized version of The Settlers – Rise of an Empire. Each character leads their individual lives and can be observed by you at any time. Will you go down in history as a legendary king?

Why similar: City Builder 57.1%, Strategy 31.2%, Medieval 11%, Singleplayer 0.7%

CaesarIA is a remake of an old-school economic strategy game, Caesar III which is a masterpiece among the games of this genre in our opinion. There are different economic strategy games and they can be broken down to subtypes but from our viewpoint Caesar encompasses planning, constructing, diplomacy and military campaigns.

Why similar: City Builder 74.6%, Strategy 23.5%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%

HexaUrbs is a relaxing minimalistic city builder game about placing variety of hexagonal tiles strategically next to each other to create a beautiful and thriving city.

Why similar: City Builder 53.3%, Strategy 18.9%, Building 10.2%, Relaxing 9.4%, Casual 6.3%

Peaceful Lands is a relaxing minimalist building strategy game where you place tiles to create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape. A great way to relax, sit back and watch your beautiful land grow. Strategize, beat your high score and have fun.

Why similar: City Builder 39.6%, Strategy 12.7%, Relaxing 10.5%, Minimalist 9.7%, Building 5.6%