- #1 Dorfromantik
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,653 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 26.2%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Relaxing 12%, Puzzle 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful, hex-based puzzle game that shares the same relaxing, landscape-building satisfaction found in Terra Nil.
- #2 Preserve
96% matchVery Positive93% of 789 reviews2025
Dev: Bitmap GalaxyPub: Grindstone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.
Why similar: City Builder 22%, Nature 20.8%, Procedural Generation 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Relaxing 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A nature-focused puzzle builder where you create thriving ecosystems by strategically placing flora and fauna.
- #3 Cloud Gardens
96% matchVery Positive95% of 2,311 reviews2021
Dev: Noio
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
Why similar: Nature 36.6%, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Relaxing 14.7%, City Builder 11.1%, Atmospheric 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric sandbox game that focuses on the beautiful reclamation of urban ruins by nature.
- #4 ISLANDERS
95% matchVery Positive94% of 16,788 reviews2019
Dev: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
Why similar: City Builder 39.9%, Relaxing 20.4%, Strategy 10.8%, Puzzle 9.2%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, relaxing city-builder that emphasizes strategic placement and aesthetic harmony.
- #5 TerraScape
94% matchVery Positive89% of 2,250 reviews2024
Dev: Bitfall StudiosPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.
Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Isometric 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Relaxing 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic puzzle game that uses deckbuilding mechanics to construct diverse landscapes and environments.
- #6 Equilinox
94% matchVery Positive92% of 3,026 reviews2018
Dev: ThinMatrix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.
Why similar: Nature 42.8%, Relaxing 31.5%, Casual 8.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%, Family Friendly 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: A nature simulation game that tasks you with creating and maintaining a balanced ecosystem through evolution and growth.
- #7 Wildmender
93% matchVery Positive84% of 2,245 reviews2023
Dev: Muse GamesPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
Why similar: Nature 50%, Relaxing 23.3%, Strategy 22.3%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival and gardening game where you restore a desert oasis by nurturing plants and managing water sources.
- #8 Pan'orama
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,380 reviews2023
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 36.3%, Procedural Generation 21.4%, Relaxing 15.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Stylized 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing building game that uses procedural generation to help you create stunning, nature-filled landscapes.
- #9 Reus 2
91% matchVery Positive94% of 2,321 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Nature 23.8%, Resource Management 11%, Relaxing 10.6%, Puzzle 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to shape the planet and influence the growth of nature and civilizations.
- #10 Timberborn
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 42.7%, Nature 28.3%, Resource Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that features complex water management and nature-based engineering mechanics.
- #11 Townscaper
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,651 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 26.4%, Nature 18.3%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Relaxing 12.4%, Family Friendly 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: An experimental, minimalist building game that focuses on the pure joy of creating beautiful, atmospheric structures.
- #12 Land Above Sea Below
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 152 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Land Above Sea Below is an atmospheric building strategy and puzzle game where you have to build your island from tiles in order to raise its height as much as possible, to avoid it getting flooded by the constantly rising sea level.
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Nature 18.3%, Relaxing 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic puzzle-builder where you must carefully manage terrain and water levels to keep your island thriving.
- #13 Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,396 reviews2020
Dev: ustwo games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Even the smallest person can make a big difference. Join Alba, as she sets out to save her beautiful island and its wildlife. And possibly start a revolution.
Why similar: Nature 58.5%, Family Friendly 16.1%, Cute 8.1%, Casual 7.7%, Colorful 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming game focused on environmental restoration and protecting local wildlife in a beautiful natural setting.
- #14 The Wandering Village
87% matchVery Positive92% of 8,498 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 37.2%, Nature 23.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Relaxing 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on the symbiotic relationship between a village and the giant creature it lives upon.
- #15 Station to Station
88% matchVery Positive89% of 1,964 reviews2023
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Prismatika
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!
Why similar: Nature 25.3%, City Builder 18.6%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Relaxing 13.2%, Puzzle 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, voxel-based puzzle game that focuses on connecting landscapes and bringing life to the environment.
- #16 Plan B: Terraform
86% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 32.8%, Resource Management 29.8%, Strategy 16.9%, Colorful 11.9%, Cute 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic game focused on the large-scale terraforming of a planet to make it habitable.
- #17 Mini Motorways
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,480 reviews2021
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: Strategy 23.6%, City Builder 22.5%, Relaxing 17.2%, Puzzle 13.1%, Casual 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist strategy game that shares the same satisfying, clean aesthetic and puzzle-management feel.
- #18 Garden Galaxy
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,668 reviews2022
Dev: Anneka Tran
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Discover, collect and organise to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idle / creative sandbox!
Why similar: Nature 33.2%, Isometric 22.1%, Relaxing 15.8%, Family Friendly 7.3%, Cute 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, nature-themed decoration game that rewards you for curating your own peaceful garden space.
- #19 Biomisland
84% matchVery Positive90% of 111 reviews2022
Dev: Remi Song
Windows
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 37.2%, Nature 19.3%, Strategy 18.7%, Relaxing 10%, Casual 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A colorful, nature-focused strategy game that emphasizes building and maintaining diverse biomes.
- #20 Synergy
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,098 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 25.2%, Nature 20.2%, Isometric 14.5%, Relaxing 9.5%, Resource Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that requires careful management of natural resources and environmental conditions.
- #21 Grow: Song of the Evertree
84% matchVery Positive81% of 2,572 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Nature 28%, Family Friendly 8%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Colorful 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A life-simulation game centered on restoring a dying world through gardening and community building.
- #22 Reefland
82% matchVery Positive93% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: UnSweet
Windows
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 27%, Procedural Generation 17.8%, Relaxing 11.8%, Puzzle 8.6%, Strategy 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A procedural puzzle game that tasks you with building and expanding a vibrant coral reef ecosystem.
- #23 SteamWorld Build
81% matchVery Positive85% of 2,285 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
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 relaxing city-builder that blends resource management with satisfying puzzle-like construction.
- #24 Flotsam
79% matchVery Positive81% of 4,643 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 27.3%, Nature 22.6%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-building game set in a flooded world where you must repurpose debris to thrive.
- #25 Terraformers
81% matchVery Positive88% of 3,758 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 36.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.8%, Resource Management 19.2%, Atmospheric 14.8%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game about exploring and terraforming Mars to support life.
- #26 FlowScape
82% matchVery Positive84% of 1,326 reviews2019
Dev: Pixel Forest Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 34%
In FlowScape you can create your own nature scene simply by painting. Choose from 20 landscapes and more than 300 models to create your own little paradise by painting trees, changing the sky, rotating the sun, adding sound effects and adjusting your camera for that perfect photo.
Why similar: Nature 37.1%, City Builder 21.3%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Relaxing 14%, Atmospheric 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A creative sandbox tool that lets you paint beautiful, lush natural landscapes with ease.
- #27 WorldBox - God Simulator
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 56,966 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Why similar: Procedural Generation 49.6%, Relaxing 38.5%, Atmospheric 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox simulation game that lets you manipulate the environment and observe the growth of ecosystems.
- #28 Town to City
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,135 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 45.9%, Relaxing 13.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Resource Management 7.1%, Family Friendly 6.4%
- #29 ISLANDERS: New Shores
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,303 reviews2025
Dev: The StationPub: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 31.6%, Relaxing 13%, Procedural Generation 12.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%
- #30 Before We Leave
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,731 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 35.7%, Relaxing 14.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Family Friendly 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A non-violent city builder that focuses on rebuilding civilization in a peaceful, nature-rich environment.
- #31 BioEden
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 140 reviews2026
Dev: Broken Arms GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Step into a cozy management journey as a Keeper and bring life back to a world quietly waiting to be healed. Craft the perfect biome for dozens of wonderful animal species and use your ingenuity to restore your planet, one ecosystem at a time.
Why similar: Nature 35.2%, Relaxing 12.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Isometric 11.5%, Strategy 6.8%
- #32 Urbek City Builder
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,999 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 40.5%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Puzzle 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A city-building game that emphasizes strategic planning and resource management without the need for traditional combat.
- #33 EVERDAWN
76% matchVery Positive98% of 61 reviews2026
Dev: SOLIDS Studio
Windows
EVERDAWN is a relaxing tile-based puzzle game where every placement shapes a living, evolving world. Stack scoring systems, combine biomes, unlock new and powerful Wonder tiles, and collect adorable Michis, little creatures that provide extra tiles.
Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Relaxing 13.8%, Puzzle 10.8%, Strategy 10.4%
- #34 Cloudscrapers
74% matchVery Positive99% of 151 reviews2026
Dev: Nementic GamesPub: Curve Games
Windows
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 34.5%, Relaxing 15.2%, Puzzle 10.3%, Strategy 10%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #35 Pile Up!
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,182 reviews2025
Dev: RemoobPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
"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 29.2%, Isometric 18.2%, Relaxing 15.1%, Strategy 8.4%, Atmospheric 7.8%
- #36 Block'hood
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,258 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.
Why similar: City Builder 53.4%, Nature 16%, Strategy 11.4%, Isometric 11.4%, Puzzle 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: An eco-focused city builder that challenges you to manage the sustainability and resource flow of your structures.
- #37 Pioneers of Pagonia
73% matchVery Positive81% of 5,512 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Why similar: City Builder 39.5%, Procedural Generation 23.7%, Resource Management 15%, Strategy 12.7%, Family Friendly 9.1%
- #38 River Towns
74% matchVery Positive92% of 257 reviews2025
Dev: Frogsong StudiosPub: Metaroot
Windows
Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Isometric 13.3%, Relaxing 11.4%, Puzzle 10.2%, Strategy 9.4%
- #39 The Greenening
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 504 reviews2026
Dev: Erkberg Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A short and wholesome incremental journey about exploring and reawakening a forgotten world. Wash away the ashes to discover the secrets hidden beneath, upgrade your versatile watering abilities, and grow your own cozy space garden.
Why similar: Nature 36.1%, Relaxing 16.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Cute 6.4%
- #40 Life Below
73% matchVery Positive85% of 212 reviews2026
Dev: MegapopPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.
Why similar: City Builder 30.7%, Nature 28%, Relaxing 11.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 9.5%
- #41 Tile Cities
75% matchVery Positive94% of 577 reviews2022
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
Why similar: City Builder 41.6%, Strategy 15.9%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Puzzle 11.8%, Relaxing 11.1%
- #42 Tiny Glade
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 24,808 reviews2024
Dev: Pounce Light
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Tiny Glade is a small diorama builder where you doodle whimsical castles, cozy cottages & romantic ruins. Explore gridless building chemistry as the game adorns your glades with procedural detail. No management, combat or goals: just kick back and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.
Why similar: Nature 26.5%, Relaxing 24.5%, Procedural Generation 17.8%, Family Friendly 7.2%, Cute 5.8%
- #43 Shanshui Haven
73% matchVery Positive99% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: LeeT Game
Windows
"Shanshui Haven" is a casual city-building game, offering a relaxing and engaging experience with strategic elements.
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Isometric 15.5%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Relaxing 12.7%, Strategy 9.2%
- #44 Earth Simulator
71% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Gamesforfarm
Windows
Shape a planet. Watch history unfold.
Why similar: Strategy 29.7%, Nature 28.3%, Relaxing 12.2%, Family Friendly 8.5%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #45 Farlanders
72% matchVery Positive90% of 598 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.
Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Procedural Generation 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.9%, Resource Management 12%, Strategy 9.8%
- #46 Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife
71% matchVery Positive90% of 422 reviews2024
Dev: inDirection GamesPub: Slug Disco
Windows · Linux
Horticular is a relaxing garden builder where you grow plants, design habitats and attract a wide range of wildlife. Help the gnome Keepers restore a barren wasteland with magical powers and populate it with adorable critters. Reclaim nature from a looming corruption and create your perfect garden.
Why similar: Nature 34.3%, City Builder 34%, Puzzle 11.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Cute 6.3%
- #47 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
70% matchVery Positive84% of 4,696 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Relaxing 48.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Casual 16.9%, Singleplayer 8.8%
- #48 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
69% matchVery Positive82% of 1,491 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: City Builder 43.7%, Nature 17.9%, Resource Management 15%, Strategy 14.2%, Atmospheric 7.1%
- #49 Foundation
69% matchVery Positive87% of 24,287 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 60.8%, Strategy 11.5%, Relaxing 11%, Resource Management 9.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%
- #50 Fabledom
70% matchVery Positive85% of 7,886 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 37.8%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Relaxing 14.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 8.2%
- #51 Terra Firma 2
68% matchVery Positive93% of 213 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.
Why similar: Nature 39.6%, Relaxing 19.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Family Friendly 8.2%
- #52 SUMMERHOUSE
68% matchVery Positive93% of 3,380 reviews2024
Dev: FriedemannPub: Future Friends Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 34%
A tiny building game about beautiful lived-in houses. No rules or restrictions, just pure creativity.
Why similar: City Builder 43.7%, Relaxing 23.3%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Strategy 6.4%, Colorful 6%
- #53 Cliff Empire
70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 55.3%, Resource Management 16.5%, Strategy 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #54 Against the Storm
67% matchVery Positive94% of 37,624 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 57.5%, Resource Management 20.9%, Strategy 18.3%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #55 Zen World
67% matchVery Positive81% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Cartboard Games
Windows
Zen World is a strategy game that can be as relaxing as you want it to be. Build a calm and colorful landscape with hexagonal tiles, matching their borders to each other, collect valuable boxes, and explore the tech tree.
Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Relaxing 12.8%, Procedural Generation 10.7%, Isometric 10%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #56 Two Point Museum
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 13,533 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 38%, Isometric 16%, Strategy 12.6%, Nature 12.3%, Relaxing 5.5%
- #57 Growth
66% matchVery Positive90% of 334 reviews2023
Dev: VoodooDuckPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Growth is a cozy, hexagonal-grid based soft-strategy game. Explore and populate a procedurally generated world by utilizing unique abilities of animals. Growth blends the beauty of cozy exploration with challenging navigation around obstacles.
Why similar: Relaxing 20.5%, Nature 20.4%, Strategy 19.3%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Puzzle 16.2%
- #58 Per Aspera
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,783 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: City Builder 59.7%, Resource Management 21.3%, Strategy 18.9%
- #59 New Cycle
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,884 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 52.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Resource Management 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #60 shapez 2 - Factory
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,399 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 39.1%, Strategy 25.3%, Puzzle 23.6%, Casual 7.8%, Singleplayer 4.1%