- #1 Model Railway Millionaire
97% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Redbrick Studios Ltd
Windows
Model railway builder with economy simulation. Edit the terrain, build the track, and place all the highly detailed objects to create exciting model railway layouts! Deliver food and row materials to the cities to earn money and expand your world! Be a model railway millionaire!
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Life Sim 20%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Building 7.1%
- #2 Zoo 2: Animal Park
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,626 reviews2020
Dev: KING ArtPub: upjers
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Zoo 2: Animal Park – Take care of wild and tame zoo animals in this animal game!
Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Life Sim 16.5%, Building 11.3%, Cartoon 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%
- #3 Hundred Nights: DIFU
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PixelsCove Games
Windows
Run the Chinese Hell in this cozy management simulation! Design your underworld, staff it with quirky soulkeepers, and punish sinful souls. Meanwhile, build Fengdu City where souls enjoy the afterlife, meet legends from Chinese myths, and explore the worlds above.
Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Building 11.1%, Life Sim 10.1%
- #4 BlockUrbs
94% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
BlockUrbs is a small city builder game where you can place a variety of structures and roads on tiles to create tiny, detailed and beautiful city sections without worrying about any goals or scores.
Why similar: City Builder 44.3%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 13.7%, Building 12.4%, Casual 9.6%
- #5 Two Point Museum
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 11,346 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Life Sim 18.5%, Building 12.6%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 9.6%
- #6 Space Mall
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tino Technology
Windows
Hey! Stop sleeping and get up to earn some money! Quickly purchase goods from the interstellar market and become the boss of your own supermarket!
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Life Sim 20.8%, Simulation 15.5%, Strategy 14.5%, Cartoon 9.4%
- #7 Market Simulator
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: KOZGAMES
Windows
Build, manage, and dominate the retail world — from a humble shop to a thriving supermarket empire in Market Simulator.
Why similar: City Builder 40.8%, Building 16.8%, Crafting 14.5%, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 8.1%
- #8 Chonkymon
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chonky Plonki
Windows · Mac
A cuddly 2D-builder game where you breed animals called Chonkymons. Build homes for them, design their rooms and make them happy with food. Create unique and custom Chonkymons by combining them in fusion tanks. Expand your island and home to fit more animals into your Chonkymon Island!
Why similar: City Builder 29.5%, Life Sim 21.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 9%, Cartoony 8.8%
- #9 漂流到岛
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 呀嘿嘿工作室
Windows
"Drift to Island" is a sandbox multiplayer game where you build your home on a tropical island and enjoy island life. Ride a pony, fish, farm, or hire NPCs to help run the island. The game offers a relaxing and immersive experience, letting you create lasting memories with friends in a vibrant world
Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Life Sim 20.4%, Cartoon 12.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Building 8.5%
- #10 我是大房东
90% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: 星九猫
Windows
If you had a plot of land, what would you build on it? In "I Am The Landlord," you'll play as a landlord who owns an apartment building in the city center, starting from an empty plot and using your design skills and creativity to construct unique apartments.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Building 20.6%, Life Sim 18.3%, Simulation 17%, 3D 7.6%
- #11 WEREWOLF UTOPIA
89% match3 user reviews50% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: HuanQUKeJiPub: HuanQuKeJi
Windows
"Werewolf Utopia" follows surviving werewolves rebuilding their tribe after a dragon destroys their home. Players can build and upgrade the main city, raise werewolf offspring with four-tier careers, and train them through expeditions to gain experience, resources, and items.
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Strategy RPG 23.3%, Strategy 14.8%, Cartoon 9.3%, Casual 8.9%
- #12 Site Management Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Wins Games Studio
Windows
"Start with a small apartment and expand into a thriving residential site with buildings, shops, and services. Manage cleaning, security, and fees to keep residents happy and build your dream community!"
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Life Sim 22.1%, Simulation 15.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Casual 9.6%
- #13 Crafty County
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tim Krief
Windows · Linux
A captivating city-building puzzle game, blending strategy with creativity as you help towns by merging groups of four buildings into unique structures to make them grow and prosper.
Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Simulation 18.7%, Casual 11.5%, Cartoony 10.1%, Building 8.3%
- #14 RoundUrbs
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
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 41.2%, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 13.7%, Casual 11.8%, Building 10.7%
- #15 Don't Drop The Wall, Jack!
86% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: Telefix Productions incPub: Telefix Productions
Windows
In this construction game, you’ll play as Jack, a proud contractor. Using his crane, Jack will build various structures, including houses, hotels, and bridges. Skillful crane operation is crucial for progress and achieving new objectives. But above all, be extra careful with your walls!
Why similar: City Builder 37.9%, Simulation 18.6%, Cartoony 11.8%, Casual 11.5%, Building 10.9%
- #16 Sleepy Daniel
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: ZeroPub: Zero Cores
Windows · Mac
Tired of your noisy neighbors? Learn creative ways to silence them and secure a peaceful night of sleep!
Why similar: Life Sim 23.4%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy RPG 19.1%, Cartoon 13.6%, Strategy 12.7%
- #17 Pool Slide Story
85% matchVery Positive90% of 189 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Make a fantastic, dazzling water park!
Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Life Sim 15.5%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 11%, Building 10%
- #18 Parkdens
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
Parkdens is a minimalistic and relaxing nature park building game where you can place tiles and choose variety of objects ranging from statues, sitting areas, shelters to bushes, playgrounds, trees etc. to populate the placed tiles.
Why similar: City Builder 40.8%, Simulation 21.2%, Casual 13.2%, Building 11%, Strategy 7.6%
- #19 Hotel Builder
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Live Motion Games
Windows
Vacations mean various things to people all over the world, but they always have one thing in common: the HOTEL. It’s time to take matters into your own hands and build that dream hotel just the way you always wanted!
Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Life Sim 21.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 11.2%, Building 8.6%
- #20 5 Block of Happiness
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Relis Studio
Windows
A cozy town building simulation about finding happiness in small, everyday moments. Build a peaceful neighborhood block by block, manage villagers needs, and watch a quiet community come to life, one day at a time.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Life Sim 17.9%, Cartoon 8.8%, Building 8.5%, Casual 8%
- #21 Tinytopia
82% matchVery Positive84% of 319 reviews2021
Dev: MeNic GamesPub: Mastiff
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!
Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Building 12.4%, Cartoon 12.1%, Crafting 11%, Simulation 8.4%
- #22 QuadUrbs
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
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 46.3%, Building 17.2%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 9.6%, Casual 7.5%
- #23 Roller Coaster Park Simulator
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frost Panda Studio
Windows
Switch between first- and third-person as you build your park, ride your coasters, and serve your guests. Design rides, manage staff, and keep the chaos under control in your very own roller coaster park!
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Building 13.9%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 12.3%, Life Sim 11.6%
- #24 Biz Builder Delux
81% matchPositive83% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Life Sim 18.4%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 15%, Casual 8.7%
- #25 HexaUrbs
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HidingDev Games
Windows
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 44.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Casual 7.5%
- #26 Dream Park Story
79% matchVery Positive88% of 143 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Life Sim 20.8%, Simulation 18.4%, Strategy 16%, Casual 9.1%
- #27 Country Tales 2: New Frontiers Collector's Edition
79% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Cateia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Join the new sheriff in town, forge strong friendships and explore the Wild West in this fun and dynamic time management strategy game! Enjoy in dozens of unique levels, bonus levels, medals and collectables; build, upgrade, trade, collect, clear the road, explore and much more...
Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Cartoon 15.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 9.8%
- #28 SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited
78% matchVery Positive85% of 706 reviews2024
Dev: MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 32%
SimCity 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of SimCity 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrills of the classic SimCity 3000 are here again!
Why similar: City Builder 51.8%, Simulation 22%, Strategy 18%, Casual 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #29 Meow Island
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1111Dev
Windows
Meow Island is an idle tycoon game where you build a sky island paradise for adorable kittens! Open and upgrade food stores, explore new areas, unlock unique kittens, and fill the skies with cozy cat islands!
Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Life Sim 22.2%, Simulation 12%, Casual 9.6%, Cartoony 7.2%
- #30 Hot Springs Story
77% matchVery Positive86% of 272 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build and manage the ultimate Japanese hot springs inn.
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Life Sim 22.2%, Building 16%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 7.8%
- #31 Rustic City
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Can of Brains
Windows
Design charming habitats for small quirky creatures in this relaxing citybuilder.
Why similar: City Builder 38.2%, Life Sim 26.2%, Simulation 19.3%, 3D 5.3%, Cute 5%
- #32 Tile Cities 2
76% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Strategy 20.4%, Simulation 18.7%, Casual 12.4%, Building 9.5%
- #33 Pocket City
75% matchVery Positive93% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 59%
A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Cartoon 14.6%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 10.8%, Cartoony 9.6%
- #34 Little Moneybags
76% matchMixed42% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Dreamo Tech.Pub: VieweR Technology Co., Limited
Windows
Little Moneybags is a business simulator for money lovers. It's super simple to play yet hard to master. Now, you can experience an adventure journey from moneyless to a super billionaire. Just start your business, maintain it for a while and let the cash flow to your pocket.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 25.6%, Life Sim 24.5%, Cartoon 14.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Cartoony 9.4%
- #35 Kıraathane Tycoon
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cemil Bora Miskioğlu
Windows
Build and manage your own neighborhood coffeehouse. Serve tea, keep your customers happy, and turn a small kıraathane into a legendary chain!
Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 17.2%, Casual 10.9%, Building 8.1%
- #36 Utopia
73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: DOTORI games
Windows
Utopia is a city-building strategy simulation game enjoyed with simple rules and casual graphics. Build a city where citizens thrive with happiness on a map made of tiles with various concepts and themes.
Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Simulation 21.8%, Strategy 13.9%, Casual 10.6%, Building 8.8%
- #37 Venture Towns
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Life Sim 17.7%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Building 8.4%
- #38 Forest Camp Story
73% matchVery Positive84% of 217 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.
Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Life Sim 17.7%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 15.3%, Casual 8.8%
- #39 City Life 2008
75% matchVery Positive81% of 244 reviews2008
Dev: Monte CristoPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life! City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction.
Why similar: City Builder 53.6%, Simulation 23.4%, Strategy 23%
- #40 Lottery Center Simulator
73% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: CHEN YUANJI
Windows
You will act the administrator of a lottery center.
Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Life Sim 23.6%, Simulation 19.5%, Strategy 18.3%, Casual 3.5%
- #41 The Unexpected Quest Prologue
72% matchVery Positive85% of 131 reviews2020
Dev: RionixPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. In this prologue, play through chapters 1, 2, and 3, where you learn to manage your resources as you build and battle to bring order to the world.
Why similar: City Builder 52.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 15.3%, Crafting 7.9%, 3D 4.6%
- #42 Constructor
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 762 reviews2017
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
You can’t rise to the top without taking a few others down. If that means engaging in a workplace accidents, dodgy deals, and a shifty trick or two then so be it! You're going to need every trick in the book if you want to go from small-time slumlord to property tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 47.3%, Strategy 20.8%, Simulation 19.1%, Building 12.8%
- #43 Caribbean Frontier
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Agon Games
Windows · Linux
Start with your ship and a couple of coins to conquer the caribbean frontier. Use trade, diplomancy or piracy to gather wealth. Control cities, build new ships for you fleet and expand your influence! Or become a well known pirate that every vessel fears.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Life Sim 19%, Strategy RPG 16.9%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 13.2%
- #44 Bastide
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 346 reviews2020
Dev: MedievalNexus
Windows
Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you lead a village of peasants toward survival and prosperity. You must contend with bandits, starvation, disease, and brutal winters as you work to develop your settlement into a fortified town.
Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Strategy 23.5%, Simulation 21.5%, Casual 10%
- #45 Constructor Plus
70% matchVery Positive89% of 454 reviews2019
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!
Why similar: City Builder 42%, Strategy 23.5%, Simulation 22.2%, Building 11.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #46 甜味时光
69% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: 欢宝
Windows
"Sweet Time" is a restaurant simulation management game, players need to play the role of a debt-ridden protagonist to run a restaurant and pay off debts, in a year's time, you can expand the restaurant, renovate the layout and recruit employees, a variety of side plots and endings, you start.
Why similar: City Builder 34.6%, Cartoon 14.3%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Cartoony 9.3%
- #47 街头烤肠王
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Ice Games
Windows
从街边小贩到烤肠大亨!在这款轻松有趣的经营游戏中,经营你的烤肠摊位,赚取金币升级设备,扩大经营规模。升级烤肠设备、可乐柜和厨具,为顾客提供最美味的烤肠,打造属于你的美食王国! 主要特色 🌭 经营升级,打造烤肠帝国 💰 赚取金币,提升店铺设备 🎮 简单有趣,轻松上手 踏上你的美食创业之旅,成为街头烤肠王!
Why similar: Life Sim 26.5%, Simulation 18.3%, Cartoon 12.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Casual 11.2%
- #48 Animal Island: The Wolf’s Onslaught
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ChaoticPendulumStudio
Windows
At sunset, starving wolves close in, drawn by your scent. As your tribe’s guardian, enlist forest animals: tame them at a recruitment hut, fortify defenses with wood and ore, and carve a safe haven between dawn and dusk.
Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Strategy 16.7%, Cartoon 13.6%, Cartoony 9%, Building 6.3%
- #49 California Escapades
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 310 reviews2024
Dev: NUTS POWER ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
Windows
In this simulation and adventure game, explore 19th-century Gold Rush California. Join Jim and Emma to build and manage your farm and city. Plant crops, raise animals, construct buildings, complete missions, uncover secrets, and collect treasures. Start your adventure now!
Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Life Sim 21.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 9.4%
- #50 happiness market
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: luolei
Windows
A simple simulation and management game. Build different shops and earn money from passing customers.
Why similar: City Builder 38.8%, Life Sim 22.7%, Building 15%, Simulation 11.7%, Casual 6.9%
- #51 Renovation Plan
68% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2024
Dev: 虚拟游方
Windows
This is a relaxing and leisurely home decoration game, you need to follow the design map to put all kinds of furniture in the corresponding position. Each room has unique furniture and decoration style, more gorgeous large apartment waiting for you to decorate.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.2%, Cartoony 12.8%, Cartoon 12.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Building 12.2%
- #52 Mountain Madness
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Matthew ProctorPub: Imagineering Studios
Windows
Mountain Madness is a chilled, stylized role playing game where you lead a team of climbers and helpers as they travel towards the summit of mountains around the world!
Why similar: City Builder 36.3%, Life Sim 24.8%, Strategy 18%, Crafting 6.5%, Simulation 5.6%
- #53 Gacha Addict Simulator
67% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: r4kujin
Windows
A simulator game where you play as a gacha-addicted human of society. Go to work, earn money, survive, and do what you were meant to do as a human being - play all the gacha games in the world. Gacha pulls earn you collectibles that you can place in and decorate the space of your small apartment!
Why similar: Life Sim 28.1%, Simulation 20%, Strategy 19.4%, Casual 12.3%, Cartoony 9.8%
- #54 Forebearers
69% matchMixed48% of 109 reviews2019
Dev: Sandspire Interactive
Windows
This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 62.2%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 18.2%
- #55 Purgatory Dungeoneer
66% matchPositive88% of 48 reviews2022
Dev: Cannibal InteractivePub: Strange Scaffold
Windows
Purgatory Dungeoneer is a townbuilding roguelite RPG about plundering a psychic hellmaw for personal closure, and the resources to build a village beyond the grave.
Why similar: City Builder 33.8%, Life Sim 23.9%, Strategy RPG 19.6%, Crafting 12%, Strategy 10.2%
- #56 新城镇
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: 初稿
Windows
这是一个休闲放置类的城市模拟游戏,玩家可以通过人口增长和发展经济来建造更多的建筑,在游戏中体验从小乡镇发展成为大城市的过程。
Why similar: City Builder 50.9%, Strategy 20.1%, Simulation 18.7%, Casual 9.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #57 Hotel Keeper
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MakeThings
Windows
Start with an empty building and run your hotel: attract guests, clean rooms, gain windfalls or return lost items, while keeping an eye out for suspicious characters, gradually realizing your dream of a star-rated hotel.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 26.4%, Life Sim 26%, Simulation 18%, Strategy 17%, Casual 9%