Games Like My Townies

Gather resources, craft new tools and build your idle empire on randomly generated islands. This is an idle crafting game like you've never seen. Mine up rare metals, grow food to feed your thriving idle settlement, unlock new buildings, craft new items, and expand to new islands in Tap Craft.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Farming Sim 17.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Cooking 8.8%, Sandbox 7.8%

Hop aboard a delectable management sim in the world of ONE PIECE! Work alongside the Straw Hat Crew to build the greatest floating restaurant of the seas. Collect ingredients, dream up dishes, and decorate to have familiar faces lining up for more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Farming Sim 19.3%, City Builder 18.4%, Idler 9.5%, Simulation 7.2%

Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Farming Sim 19.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Time Management 12.4%, Sandbox 8.5%

Build as many terrariums as you like, enjoying lo-fi peaceful and relaxing music. Sculpt the terrain, choose plants and decorations, and finally take pictures to share with everyone.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, City Builder 20.9%, Farming Sim 20.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 8.7%

You arrive on a barren island seeking a fresh start. Gather resources, farm, fish, and craft to build a thriving society. Unlock advanced technologies, manage resources, and grow your settlement from humble beginnings to exploring the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, City Builder 23.8%, Farming Sim 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%, Building 6.1%

More than a game, a new way of seeing the world

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Farming Sim 18.1%, City Builder 16.5%, Time Management 12.5%, Building 8%

Built by Day, Bitten by Night is a cozy voxel city builder with a small problem: the zombies. And pirates. And yetis, robots, UFOs. Build your kingdom by day — farms, fountains, mansions, dragons. Defend it by night. How long can your keep survive till dawn?

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Farming Sim 15.5%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 7%

Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Colony Sim 21%, Farming Sim 17.9%, Building 8.4%, Political Sim 7.8% ★

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Farming Sim 16.9%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%

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: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 20.8%, Farming Sim 20.8%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 6.9%

Torp is a viking age colony simulator where you guide a group of norsemen in their quest to build a peaceful and thriving settlement.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 23.1%, Farming Sim 22.7%, Simulation 8.5%, Immersive Sim 7.5%

Awaken alone at the crash site of a fallen Ark and rebuild from a single handful of scrap. Gather, wake survivors, level them up, send expeditions, chart the deep, and stabilize a broken sky in this cozy, honest idle game. Play at your pace — online or off.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Farming Sim 17.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Time Management 11.1%, Idler 9.3%

Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 22.1%, Farming Sim 17.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 8.2%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, City Builder 24.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 10.6%, Crafting 9.5%

Control multiple nations on their paths through history. While balancing relations with outer powers. Whether your strategy is trade, war or technological superiority you will always need to be one step ahead of your enemies.

Why similar: Political Sim 25% ★, Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 24.3%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 5.5%

Boss Beek is a beekeeping game that allows you to play the role of a beekeeper! You'll have hours of entertainment building hives with the best parts you can find to house the best queens and make the best honey!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 19.4%, Time Management 14.3%, Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%

Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 19.3%, Cooking 12.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 6.4%

Build and Destroy with satisfying digging and building mechanics in this openworld physics constuction simulator, borrow cash to buy bigger more powerfull machines and Build more! Freely construct your yard and the world around to build a town from nothing.

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.4%, City Builder 23.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 8.8%

Fast Food Manager 2 is a realistic and multifaceted simulator where you will build and grow your own fast food restaurant chain from scratch!

Why similar: Time Management 14.8%, Idler 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Cooking 9.3%

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 34.8%, City Builder 27.2%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 6.7%

Become one of the Mars explorers! Solve mysteries. Find artifacts, abandoned bunkers, buried tunnels and other evidence that the earthlings were not the first ones to visit the planet. Study the paranormal areas, where something supernatural is going on. Build facilities. Develop tourism.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 22.3%, Farming Sim 19.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8.4%

A peaceful open world of forests, rivers and wide meadows. Set out alone or with up to 4 friends to find the place you’ll call home. Build a quiet life or grow your settlement into a thriving new civilization. The choice is yours.

Why similar: Farming Sim 26.3%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Sandbox 11%, Immersive Sim 8.2%, Simulation 7.9%

Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 14.7%, Time Management 14.4%, Idler 12.5%, Building 11.1%

Build a cozy colony for your Boopies! Keep them happy with swings, flowers, and plenty of cozy surprises — and watch your little village grow.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 22%, Farming Sim 16.7%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 8.6%

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: Colony Sim 19.4%, Farming Sim 17%, City Builder 15.8%, Time Management 12%, Crafting 9.3%

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: Farming Sim 28.6%, City Builder 23.7%, Crafting 10%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 7.1%

A cozy fantasy management game where you build and run a tavern for adventurers. Serve humans, dwarves, and elves, gather rumors from your customers, and turn those into quests to grow your fame and expand your tavern.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Time Management 15%, Idler 12.4%, Sandbox 12%, Building 9.1%

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 28.7%, City Builder 25.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Building 8.9%

Stranded after a shipwreck, gather resources, craft tools, rescue survivors, and build a sustainable island village before time runs out in this cosy single-player survival adventure.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Farming Sim 25.5%, Time Management 15%, Building 7.4%, Crafting 6.8%

Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, City Builder 23.2%, Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 11%

In The Drunken Beard, your tavern is a haven for heroes: craft beers, unique dishes, and discerning customers await. Grow your business... one pint at a time!

Why similar: Farming Sim 23.2%, Cooking 19.1%, Time Management 15.8%, Building 14.6%, Crafting 9.5%

A low-fantasy kingdom sim where you never command a single subject. Shape laws, set priorities, and watch an autonomous society build, trade, worship, and fight under your rule.

Why similar: Political Sim 31.1% ★, Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 23.3%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 5.6%

Grow crops on your farm, cook delicious meals, and manage your own restaurant in this relaxing farm-to-restaurant simulation game.

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.4%, Cooking 16.1%, Crafting 13.4%, City Builder 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%

A calm 3D island town-builder spanning nine ages, from stone huts to electric streets. Raise workshops, wire production chains, work a living market, and grow a town that keeps producing while you're away. Settle a new island to advance the age — every shore you leave sends tribute home forever.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 23.1%, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 8.3%, Strategy 8.2%

Build a village on hallowed grounds, in the year 2000 BC. Take care of the needs of the villagers and pilgrims who will want to visit the holy place. Provide enough food to run the village. Build monuments of various shapes from different types of stone. Provide the villagers with clothing and tools

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, Farming Sim 16.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Time Management 11.4%, Building 9.2%

The game simulates the life restoration of ancient Chinese farmers in scientific farming, vegetable planting, animal husbandry, and various handicraft workshops. Free simulation construction

Why similar: Farming Sim 22%, City Builder 18.6%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Political Sim 14.3% ★, Building 10.2%

Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Political Sim 16.5% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Time Management 10.4%, Building 7.3%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 24%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Political Sim 22.4% ★, Building 11.2%, Immersive Sim 8.7%

Build your Italian empire in this realistic medieval RTS that combines truly organic city building and immersive roleplaying. City-states compete for influence, families such as the Medici try to divide power among themselves and artists create masterpieces that define an entire era.

Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Colony Sim 24.8%, Immersive Sim 8.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 8%

Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a captivating Real-Time Strategy game that takes you on an epic journey through different eras, spanning the entirety of history and beyond! Kingdoms Rise & Fall focuses more on culture, science, and keeping your nation happy over time.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, City Builder 23.2%, Time Management 12%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 8.5%

This is a tower-building simulation where you place offices, homes, shops, restaurants, hotels, and more inside a growing high-rise. People move autonomously toward their destinations, using elevators as the building comes to life. Balance profit and expansion as you create a busy tower of your own.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 9.6%

An incremental roguelite colony sim about bees, mutations, and controlled chaos. Experiment with management, crafting, research, and upgrades. When mutations spiral out of control — collapse the hive, keep progress, and start fresh. Every run unlocks new strategies and a buzz of unpredictable fun.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Farming Sim 17%, Idler 14.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 7.1%

《荒野调查队》是一款俯视角殖民地生存与远征游戏。管理各具需求的调查员，建设营地、生产物资、抵御荒野威胁，并组建小队深入洞穴与废墟执行任务，在不断变化的天气和事件中寻找让聚落延续下去的方法。

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 19.9%, Time Management 12.2%, Sandbox 8%, Cooking 7.6%

Build, expand and manage your own skyscraper in this deep building and management simulation. Design every floor, optimize elevators, manage tenants, businesses and finances. Create a vibrant vertical metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 21.8%, Time Management 13.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 22.7%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.6%, Immersive Sim 8.4%

Meer's: Escape is an island version of the classic city simulation. The game expands on some of the deep-rooted tropes of the city-building experience while introducing new gameplay elements to recognize the excitement and challenges of creating and maintaining a real city.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Farming Sim 24.8%, City Builder 22.7%, Strategy 5.7%, Realistic 5%

Village & Monsters is a card game that challenges you to develop a human settlement as well as viruses. The settlement is periodically attacked by monsters, but the monster population is held back by a virus. The goal of the game is to reach a population of 100 people and not let the virus die.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 24%, Farming Sim 20.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 9.7%

Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, City Builder 23.7%, Farming Sim 19.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 8.9%

Shape a new society in Luthenia, a deep colony simulation game. Don't give direct orders—pass laws, respond to crises, and manage a living economy. Guide your people from primitive survival to a complex civilization where every individual settler matters.

Why similar: Political Sim 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Time Management 11.7%, Immersive Sim 8.4%

StarKeeper is a management sim where you run a bar on an asteroid hurtling through the endless cosmos. Unlock new furniture and resources to accommodate your culturally and species-diverse guests. Established relationships will help you survive threats and affect the shape of star systems.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 20.2%, Political Sim 19% ★, Time Management 12.5%, Cooking 8.7%

This is a free prologue of Farmer's Father. You have 60 minutes to explore, have a glimpse of the story and game mechanics. Fight with hunger, wounds, cold, disease, and enemy cruelty. Defend your family and survive the war!

Why similar: Farming Sim 24.1%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

Explore an endless world, build countless settlements, discover lost artifacts, and lead your nation into a new dawn of industry.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 21.5%, Farming Sim 17.7%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.7%

If a giant tornado ended it all, can you rebuild? Guide villagers from the Early Ages to Middle Ages and beyond in this cute chaos village simulator. No progress bars, no tech trees. Paradise or inferno - you decide.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, Political Sim 19.4% ★, Farming Sim 18.4%, City Builder 16.5%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 36%, City Builder 33.7%, Strategy 10%, Building 9.4%, Top-Down 6.5%

Age After Age. Build a thriving settlement, shape society across multiple eras, and dominate a living world economy. Choose your path - classic history, Steampunk, Gothic, and more in a deep city-building strategy with evolving logistics, citizen classes, diplomacy, and research.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 20.4%, Political Sim 17.6% ★, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9%

Create a park full of animals and flowers, with sports fields and playgrounds!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Farming Sim 25%, City Builder 16.2%, Crafting 7.4%, Simulation 6%

First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, Farming Sim 16%, City Builder 16%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 11%

An AI-directed town where anything can happen. Let your NPCs thrive, or turn them against each other. Each character has their own goals and desires and responds to events in real time.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 18.5%, Farming Sim 17.1%, Political Sim 16% ★, Simulation 6.2%

Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

Why similar: Farming Sim 20.4%, Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.1%