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 22%, Steampunk 16.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Economy 9%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same charming visual style and aerial/surface logistics loop of building a thriving community while managing resources.

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 23.1%, Economy 15.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 9.3%, Family Friendly 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similarly cozy and non-stressful approach to planetary settlement and resource management.

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 23.5%, Economy 13.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the whimsical, fairytale aesthetic while focusing on lighthearted city-building and economy management.

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 25.3%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 9.9%, Family Friendly 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features cute, character-driven town management where you balance resource production and citizen happiness.

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 21.2%, Economy 15.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized survival city builder with a heavy emphasis on understanding and utilizing your surrounding environment.

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 23.6%, Economy 15.5%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on cute automated resource chains and settlement building that mirrors the logistical depth of SteamWorld Build.

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 35.1%, Building 14.1%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers robust colony-management mechanics driven by keeping your citizens alive and thriving in new lands.

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 26.6%, Economy 14.9%, Building 11.7%, Management 11.3%, Resource Management 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based city builder emphasizing natural resource management and organic district growth.

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 33.2%, Resource Management 15.9%, Management 15.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines charming visual design with unique multi-layered management as you build a settlement on the back of a giant creature.

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 23.7%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Merges cozy management with resource allocation in a distinct, weather-beaten setting.

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 28.3%, Economy 11.6%, Building 9.7%, Management 7.8%, Relaxing 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on relaxed, cozy voxel building to transform a small settlement into a bustling hub.

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

Why similar: Economy 17%, Management 16.2%, Resource Management 15%, Building 13.7%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers micro-management and layout optimization wrapped in a charming, toy-like aesthetic.

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 24.4%, Economy 14.3%, Capitalism 10.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a casual, highly accessible sandbox city-building experience filled with charming details.

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 24.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.1%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: A chill survival and crafting settlement builder on the ocean that shares a cute, inviting presentation.

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 23.2%, Economy 15.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on establishing supply lines and managing an economy within a cozy, structured world.

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 18.2%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on economic layout and management with a relaxed, non-combat sandbox vibe.

"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 22.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A vertical, casual building game that matches the colorful and relaxed nature of SteamWorld Build.

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 25.3%, Building 12.8%, Economy 12%, Management 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a lighthearted, humorous management loop focused on building and running an engaging attraction.

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 20.5%, Steampunk 17.9% ★, Economy 13.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines rail networks and urban planning in a stylized, resource-driven environment.

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 28.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Building 11.4%, Economy 8.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Blends colony simulation with charming building and resource management mechanics.

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 24%, Economy 13.7%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival town-builder set on a watery wasteland with a distinct handcrafted look.

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 26%, Economy 15.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 11.2%, Relaxing 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cute colony builder centered on keeping adorable penguins happy and safe from threats.

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 38.1%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 7.9%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless, organic medieval city builder that emphasizes relaxed, creative community management.

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

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Capitalism 12.5%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Relaxing 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cute graphics with defensive strategy and resource management in a compact layout.

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 22.3%, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 15%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hex-based strategy game focused on resource management and terraforming on a harsh alien world.

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

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Steampunk 29.3% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a steampunk aesthetic with classic city-building and resource management loops.

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 34.5%, Relaxing 14.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Family Friendly 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy reverse city-builder focused on environmental restoration and efficient resource loops.

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 21.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 12.2%, Management 10%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines underground digging, platforming, and economic management with cute characters.

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 22.7%, Economy 15.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 10.4%

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 22.9%, Economy 15.4%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends cozy management and food economy gameplay in a colorful, appealing presentation.

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 26.1%, Resource Management 13.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Family Friendly 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%

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 48.9% ★, Western 45.7% ★, Singleplayer 2%, Sandbox 1.9%, Casual 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the iconic steampunk universe and underground exploration mechanics of the SteamWorld franchise.

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 28.1%, Building 12%, Management 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%

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 23.4%, Base Building 14.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Economy 12.5%, Management 11.2%

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 23.1%, Economy 18%, Management 13%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 34.8%, Economy 20.7%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 14.9%, Strategy 6.8%

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 41.4%, Building 15.3%, Family Friendly 8.1%, Relaxing 7.3%, Resource Management 7%

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 36.3%, Resource Management 20.9%, Capitalism 17%, Management 15%, Casual 5.7%

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 19.3%, Economy 12.4%, Capitalism 11.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 10.2%

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

Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Economy 15.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Base Building 13%, Management 10.3%

Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.

Why similar: City Builder 27.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Economy 11.5%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%

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 25.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 12%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.5%

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 36.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%

Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.

Why similar: City Builder 34%, Building 18.2%, Resource Management 16.7%, Management 12.3%, Cartoony 10%

Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.

Why similar: City Builder 33.9%, Building 14.7%, Management 14.2%, Relaxing 10.4%, Cute 8.8%

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 27.6%, Steampunk 20.7% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 9.4%

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 33.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 9.1%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Economy 17.3%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 10.5%

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 33.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.5%, Relaxing 9.5%, Resource Management 9%

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 18.6%, Capitalism 13.3%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 9.3%

Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Economy 19.2%, Building 13.6%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 13.1%

Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Economy 14.4%, Capitalism 13%, Management 10.5%, Building 10.3%

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 34.3%, Resource Management 16.3%, Sandbox 12.9%, Relaxing 12.5%, Family Friendly 11.5%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: City Builder 36%, Sandbox 14.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Relaxing 8.4%, Strategy 8.1%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 11.6%, Building 8.8%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Management 9.7%

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Management 13.2%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Economy 9.7%

The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Management 14.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Economy 16.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.4%