Games Like SteamWorld Build

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Steampunk 16.2% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Economy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with exploration and resource management in a visually distinct, relaxing environment.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Economy 15.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on complex resource management and efficient production chains within a unique, stylized fantasy setting.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Economy 14.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, fairy-tale city-builder that prioritizes charm and accessible management mechanics.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Economy 16.1%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a charming, relaxing take on automation and resource management that feels very similar to the SteamWorld vibe.

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 24.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.1%, Family Friendly 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the cute, cozy aesthetic while focusing on the strategic management of resources and population needs.

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 20.6%, Economy 15.6%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized colony-sim that focuses on resource management and survival in a unique, colorful world.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 12.4%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes verticality and intricate resource management, requiring careful planning to ensure your colony thrives.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 45.6%, Economy 20.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Sandbox 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for the multi-layered production and supply chain mechanics that serve as the core of the SteamWorld Build experience.

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 22.5%, Economy 16%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 9.1%, Family Friendly 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A non-violent, hex-grid city-builder that emphasizes relaxing expansion and resource logistics.

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 31.6%, Building 12.9%, Management 11.8%, Economy 11%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep resource management experience that rewards careful planning and efficient town layout.

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 23.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 11.2%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, sandbox-style city-builder that focuses on building a thriving community on the water.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Economy 17.3%, Management 16.2%, Resource Management 15.6%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a fun, management-heavy experience centered on production lines and resource optimization.

The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.

Why similar: City Builder 62%, Sandbox 20.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the dual-layer gameplay of managing a base while exploring and expanding into underground dungeons.

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 33.9%, Relaxing 14.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Family Friendly 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, eco-focused city-builder that prioritizes environmental restoration through strategic resource placement.

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 11.4%, Economy 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim blends building and management with a lighthearted, approachable art style.

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Economy 16%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 11.4%, Relaxing 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cute, management-focused city-builder that requires balancing resources to keep your penguin colony happy.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Resource Management 16.6%, Management 15.8%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique management mechanic where you build a city on the back of a giant, moving creature.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 15%, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 13.1%, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the production chain and automation aspects that make city-builders so satisfying.

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 23.4%, Economy 14.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic base-builder that focuses on scavenging and resource management in a unique setting.

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Economy 15.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 11.5%, Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building and management without the need for traditional money, relying instead on resource production.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Economy 15.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the production and management side of a business, similar to the crafting loops in SteamWorld Build.

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 21.6%, Economy 15.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hex-grid management game that emphasizes resource extraction and production chains on an alien world.

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 33.6%, Resource Management 17.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, Relaxing 12.5%, Family Friendly 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A peaceful, tile-based building game that captures the relaxing, puzzle-like nature of city planning.

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Sandbox 9.3%, Family Friendly 9.1%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It expands on the exploration and city-building mechanics of its predecessor with more open-world elements.

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 28.3%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, Relaxing 10.9%, Family Friendly 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a pure, stress-free building experience that focuses on aesthetic creation rather than complex management.

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 27.3%, Economy 12.3%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.1%, Relaxing 6.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 45.7%, Relaxing 19.1%, Building 16.7%, Strategy 8.2%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, cozy city-builder that focuses on the satisfaction of placing buildings to maximize efficiency.

Build and manage your own Food Park! Customize food stalls, hire staff, and cater to hungry customers as you find the perfect recipes. Decorate your park to attract and satisfy more customers.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Economy 15.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, management-focused game that tasks you with building and maintaining a successful food park.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 32.7%, Building 25.1%, City Builder 14.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous, management-heavy game that rewards efficient room placement and resource flow.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Building 14.5%, Management 14.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 12.1%, Resource Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy management game where you must balance the needs of your aquatic exhibits and visitors.

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Economy 16.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 9.4%, Base Building 9.4%

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 37.3%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8%, Building 7.3%

A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Economy 14.9%, Capitalism 10.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Sandbox 9.2%

SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.

Why similar: Steampunk 68.9% ★, Western 18.5% ★, Family Friendly 4.1%, Colorful 3.3%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: While a different genre, it shares the same charming steampunk universe and satisfying progression loops.

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 23.1%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 8.2%

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 24.7%, Building 12.8%, Economy 12.7%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: City Builder 20%, Steampunk 17.3% ★, Economy 14%, Base Building 9%, Building 8.9%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 12%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 10%

Build a rabbit town while defending it from the fluffy empire's invasions.

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Capitalism 12.7%, Economy 12%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 6.8%

"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 21.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 10%, Management 9.8%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 9.1%

SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.

Why similar: Steampunk 48.4% ★, Western 46.2% ★, Singleplayer 2%, Sandbox 2%, Casual 1.5%

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 27.6%, Building 11.9%, Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%

A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.

Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Economy 21.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Building 14.8%, Strategy 6.9%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Economy 18.7%, Management 13.3%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.4%

Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.

Why similar: Economy 21.1%, Building 14.3%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 13%, Relaxing 11.5%

Dive into the agricultural life with Farm Manager World! Manage your own farm across vibrant global locations, cultivate exotic crops, and build your agribusiness empire. Welcome to sustainable farming at its finest.

Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Economy 12.8%, Capitalism 11.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 10.3%

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 40.9%, Building 15.5%, Family Friendly 8.2%, Relaxing 7.3%, Resource Management 7.1%

An entire town builder experience packed into a living spreadsheet. Build housing, assign workers, then craft and sell a huge variety of items to level up your town and expand your civilization across the world!

Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Resource Management 21.7%, Capitalism 17.2%, Management 15.2%, Casual 5.6%

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 24.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Economy 15.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Management 10.5%

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Steampunk 20.2% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 9.7%

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 35.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 9.8%, Strategy 9%

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Steampunk 28.9% ★, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 11%, Sandbox 6.4%

Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?

Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Base Building 17%, Management 12.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 9.1%

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 33.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Relaxing 9.6%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9.5%

A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.

Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Capitalism 13.4%, Economy 13%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 9.2%

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Economy 19.3%, Resource Management 13.5%, Management 13.3%, Building 11.9%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Economy 14.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Capitalism 10.8%, Building 9.5%