- #1 Dorfromantik
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,027 reviews2022
Dev: Toukana Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.3 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 17.2%, Board Game 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Resource Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive tile-placement puzzle game that shares the same relaxing, procedural, and strategic DNA as TerraScape.
- #2 ISLANDERS
96% matchVery Positive94% of 16,710 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 43.6%, Relaxing 19.1%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Puzzle 10%, Strategy 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This minimalist city-builder focuses on high-score optimization through clever building placement, mirroring the puzzle-like nature of TerraScape.
- #3 Terra Nil
96% matchVery Positive88% of 8,333 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 21.6%, Procedural Generation 13.8%, Isometric 12.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Relaxing 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: While focused on ecology, it shares the same satisfying, puzzle-driven approach to transforming a barren map into a thriving environment.
- #4 Pan'orama
95% matchVery Positive89% of 1,317 reviews2023
Dev: Chicken LauncherPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 43.6%, Procedural Generation 28.7%, Relaxing 16.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Casual 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a very similar aesthetic and tile-based construction loop that rewards players for creating harmonious landscapes.
- #5 Concrete Jungle
94% matchVery Positive87% of 658 reviews2015
Dev: ColePowered Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Concrete Jungle is a city planning deck-building game. Place buildings using cards in your deck and earn new ones as you progress! A genre-blending game packed with cool ideas that swaps micro-management for a more puzzle-like approach to city planning.
Why similar: City Builder 45.3%, Deckbuilding 29.8%, Isometric 11%, Strategy 7.6%, Puzzle 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly combines city-building with deckbuilding mechanics, making it a direct thematic cousin to TerraScape.
- #6 Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics
94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,652 reviews2017
Dev: Artefacts StudioPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
The official adaptation of the famous board game Carcassonne! A modern classic tile-placement game based on the award winning game in which the players draw and place a tile with a piece of southern French landscape on it. The player can then decide to place one of his followers, called Meeples.
Why similar: Board Game 29.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Medieval 13.1%, Multiplayer 10%, Family Friendly 9%
Why You'll Like It: As the digital version of the classic board game, it provides the foundational experience that inspired the tile-placement mechanics in TerraScape.
- #7 Preserve
92% matchVery Positive93% of 713 reviews2025
Dev: Bitmap GalaxyPub: Grindstone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 23%, Board Game 21.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.6%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Relaxing 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This nature-focused puzzle game uses similar hex-grid mechanics to build ecosystems, offering a similarly relaxing yet thoughtful experience.
- #8 Isle of Arrows
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,065 reviews2022
Dev: Gridpop
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?
Why similar: Board Game 29.6%, Procedural Generation 17.3%, City Builder 16%, Medieval 12.6%, Puzzle 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends board-game-style tile placement with tower defense, appealing to the strategic and deckbuilding aspects of the seed game.
- #9 Tile Town
91% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2023
Dev: One Goose Army
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Tile Town is a chill strategy game set on a hexagonal grid. Plop down various building tiles to get the highest score possible, all while creating a colorful medieval town in the process. Unlock new levels or go for a stroll in the first person mode.
Why similar: Hex Grid 30.5% ★, Board Game 18.6%, City Builder 17.6%, Medieval 11%, Relaxing 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on simple, satisfying hex-grid city expansion that feels like a more casual, bite-sized version of TerraScape.
- #10 Dice Kingdoms
91% matchVery Positive84% of 672 reviews2024
Dev: Fivemid Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Compete against friends in games filled with unpredictable twists and turns. Roll the dice to gather resources and test your adaptability. Lead your kingdom to success through military power, religious knowledge, or architectural ingenuity.
Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Medieval 19.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.4%, PvP 14.9%, Strategy 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the medieval board-game feel of TerraScape while adding a layer of competitive dice-rolling strategy.
- #11 Reefland
90% matchVery Positive93% of 82 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: Hex Grid 26.3% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Procedural Generation 17.5%, Relaxing 9%, Family Friendly 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game features procedural generation and puzzle-based building, focusing on creating beautiful, vibrant island environments.
- #12 Dawnfolk
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 668 reviews2025
Dev: Darenn KellerPub: Astra Logical
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Board Game 18.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Medieval 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on resource management and puzzle-based expansion, sharing the cozy, strategic feel of the seed game.
- #13 Land Above Sea Below
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 145 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 27.8%, Logic 17.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Relaxing 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a logic-heavy puzzle game where you manage land expansion against rising water, echoing the strategic placement challenges of TerraScape.
- #14 Scorchlands
88% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Linux
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: Hex Grid 43.9% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Resource Management 17.8%, Relaxing 8.2%, Strategy 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game utilizes hex-grid exploration and resource management, providing a more complex, sci-fi take on the tile-based building genre.
- #15 Shanshui Haven
86% matchVery Positive99% of 84 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 28.4%, Isometric 18.2%, Procedural Generation 17%, Relaxing 11.1%, Strategy 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A peaceful, 2D city-builder that emphasizes aesthetic harmony and strategic placement in a beautiful, stylized setting.
- #16 hexurb
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2021
Dev: byMixNez
Windows
hexurb is a calm, peaceful city builder where you can relax after a hard day and just have a good time!
Why similar: Hex Grid 35.9% ★, City Builder 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.2%, Logic 8.8%, Relaxing 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A pure, relaxing city-builder that uses hex-grid tiles to create sprawling urban landscapes without the pressure of traditional management games.
- #17 Townscaper
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,438 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.6 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 39.9%, Procedural Generation 23.3%, Relaxing 16.1%, Family Friendly 15.6%, Casual 5%
Why You'll Like It: While more of a sandbox than a game, it is the ultimate relaxing building experience for those who enjoy the visual satisfaction of TerraScape.
- #18 Match Village
86% matchVery Positive83% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Rising Moon Games
Windows
Match Village is a minimalist puzzle and strategy game about merge buildings to create villages on colorful islands.
Why similar: Hex Grid 23.6% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Medieval 10.8%, Logic 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends match-3 puzzle mechanics with city-building, offering a unique twist on the tile-placement genre.
- #19 ISLANDERS: New Shores
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,154 reviews2025
Dev: The StationPub: Coatsink
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 34.6%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Relaxing 12.2%, Strategy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This standalone expansion offers more of the same satisfying, high-score-chasing city-building mechanics found in the original.
- #20 River Towns
84% matchVery Positive93% of 239 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 22.4%, Board Game 21.8%, Logic 13.6%, Isometric 11.2%, Family Friendly 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a logic-based city-builder that challenges players to optimize their layout along riverbanks, similar to TerraScape's terrain-based bonuses.
- #21 Forests, Fields and Fortresses
82% matchVery Positive95% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: 9 Eyes Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Forests, Fields and Fortresses - is a mix of a puzzle and a board game in which you have to build your kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Board Game 23.4%, Medieval 11.2%, Puzzle 10.9%, Strategy 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is a tabletop-inspired strategy game that focuses on building and resource management within a grid-based environment.
- #22 Zen World
83% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2021
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: Hex Grid 21.6% ★, Board Game 15.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Medieval 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on creating balanced, peaceful environments through grid-based puzzle mechanics.
- #23 Tile Cities
81% matchVery Positive94% of 568 reviews2022
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
Why similar: City Builder 43%, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Strategy 13.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Relaxing 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, puzzle-focused city-builder that rewards players for efficient tile placement and pattern recognition.
- #24 Stacklands
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 29,013 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: City Builder 50.1%, Deckbuilding 33.5%, Strategy 13%, Casual 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: This village-builder uses cards to represent everything, offering a unique deckbuilding approach to resource management and construction.
- #25 Cloud Gardens
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,285 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: Procedural Generation 35.9%, Relaxing 24.3%, City Builder 21.4%, Family Friendly 8.6%, Casual 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines creative building with nature-reclamation puzzles, offering a meditative experience similar to the seed game's atmosphere.
- #26 Charterstone: Digital Edition
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 252 reviews2020
Dev: Acram Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build and discover in Charterstone - a digital board game campaign. Shape your village into the new Eternal City!☁️🏙️☁️
Why similar: Board Game 23.5%, Deckbuilding 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.5%, Resource Management 13.5%, Family Friendly 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This digital board game captures the progression and building elements of TerraScape through a legacy-style campaign.
- #27 Pioneers of Pagonia
78% matchVery Positive82% of 5,204 reviews2025
Dev: Envision Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.2%, Online Co-Op 13%, Procedural Generation 13%, Resource Management 12.7%, Medieval 12.7%
- #28 Foundation
77% matchVery Positive86% of 23,481 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 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 49.4%, Medieval 20.8%, Resource Management 14%, Strategy 8%, Relaxing 7.9%
- #29 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,339 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: City Builder 38%, Medieval 17.3%, Strategy 17.1%, Resource Management 10%, Casual 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a more traditional medieval city-building experience that still maintains a charming, accessible aesthetic.
- #30 Land Above Sea Below Prologue
79% matchVery Positive82% of 145 reviews2023
Dev: Glasscannon StudioPub: Skystone Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Land Above Sea Below Prologue is an atmospheric first chapter of the 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 36%, Board Game 29.4%, Puzzle 10.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Logic 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A great introduction to the logic and strategy of the full game, focusing on the core puzzle loop of land management.
- #31 Kingdoms Reborn
78% matchVery Positive91% of 9,531 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 38.3%, Medieval 11%, Resource Management 10.8%, Co-op 9.3%, Multiplayer 9.3%
- #32 Going Medieval
73% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: City Builder 44.6%, Procedural Generation 28.1%, Relaxing 15.4%, Strategy 11.9%
- #33 Let Them Trade
75% matchVery Positive85% of 1,033 reviews2025
Dev: SpaceflowerPub: ByteRockers' Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 30.3%, Resource Management 19.1%, Medieval 17.4%, Board Game 16.8%, Relaxing 11.4%
- #34 URBO
76% matchVery Positive92% of 648 reviews2023
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
URBO is a relaxing cozy city-building puzzle game where you create beautiful towns on floating islands. Begin with an empty grid of landscape, choose an architectural style and build. Watch the population grow and the city flourish.
Why similar: City Builder 30%, Isometric 21.3%, Logic 17.6%, Relaxing 11.4%, Puzzle 9.4%
- #35 Before We Leave
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,697 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 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: Hex Grid 35.3% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Family Friendly 9.6%, Relaxing 8.8%
- #36 Terraformers
75% matchVery Positive88% of 3,606 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Board Game 31.2%, Procedural Generation 25.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.6%, Resource Management 20.7%
- #37 Rising Lords
76% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2024
Dev: ArgonwoodPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
Why similar: Hex Grid 25.8% ★, Medieval 18.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.7%, City Builder 16.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #38 Drop Duchy
73% matchVery Positive90% of 2,795 reviews2025
Dev: Sleepy Mill StudioPub: The Arcade Crew
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!
Why similar: Board Game 29.4%, Medieval 20.9%, Procedural Generation 19.2%, Puzzle 12%, Strategy 9.5%
- #39 Urbek City Builder
74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 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 38.4%, Resource Management 19.6%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Family Friendly 9.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #40 Per Aspera
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,662 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 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: Online Co-Op 32.1%, City Builder 30.2%, Resource Management 18.8%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Strategy 8%
- #41 City Tales - Medieval Era
71% matchVery Positive90% of 542 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: City Builder 35%, Resource Management 17.3%, Logic 13%, Medieval 12.8%, Relaxing 11.8%
- #42 EcoGnomix
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Irox GamesPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Hex Grid 30.5% ★, City Builder 23.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Isometric 12.6%, Procedural Generation 11.1%
- #43 Synergy
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,011 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 35.6%, Isometric 23.7%, Resource Management 20.7%, Relaxing 11.6%, Strategy 8.4%
- #44 Automatic Kingdom
71% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Matthew Pontarolo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the perfect kingdom in this turn-based strategy game that combines elements of automation, board games, and city builders. Keep your kingdom happy, endure hostile Challenges, and unlock new cards as your kingdom becomes more prosperous.
Why similar: Board Game 22.2%, City Builder 21.5%, Resource Management 18%, Medieval 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%
- #45 Virtual City Playground®: Build Your Metropolis
70% matchVery Positive85% of 536 reviews2026
Dev: G5 Entertainment AB
Windows
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%, Isometric 18.7%, Family Friendly 9.6%, Relaxing 7.9%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #46 Flotsam
70% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 38.5%, Resource Management 24.9%, Procedural Generation 23.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Casual 4.2%
- #47 Airborne Kingdom
72% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 50.1%, Resource Management 25.3%, Relaxing 14.4%, Strategy 9%, Casual 1.2%
- #48 Farlanders
71% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
Dev: Andriy BychkovskyiPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 32.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.4%, Resource Management 19.7%, Procedural Generation 18.3%, Strategy 7.4%
- #49 Pile Up!
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,047 reviews2025
Dev: RemoobPub: Catoptric Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
"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 39.3%, Isometric 28.3%, Relaxing 17.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Casual 5.5%
- #50 Dawnmaker
70% matchVery Positive91% of 157 reviews2024
Dev: Arpentor StudioPub: Acram Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Board Game 22.6%, Hex Grid 15.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Deckbuilding 13.9%
- #51 SteamWorld Build
69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,093 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 37.8%, Resource Management 22.2%, Relaxing 13.9%, Family Friendly 13.7%, Strategy 7.8%
- #52 URBO: Dream One
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,320 reviews2023
Dev: Door 407
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
URBO: Dream One is a meditative puzzle game where you build houses around the mysterious Tower. Let your mind wander through visions of an enchanted city on an island in the middle of the crystal clear waters of a vibrant lake.
Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Deckbuilding 19.8%, Family Friendly 12.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Relaxing 11%
- #53 MicroTown
69% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Hex Grid 21.1% ★, Resource Management 15.2%, Medieval 15.1%, Procedural Generation 10%
- #54 Coral Cove
67% matchVery Positive94% of 147 reviews2023
Dev: Sandro FigoPub: MediaCube Games
Windows
Coral Cove is a relaxing match 3-like underwater game in which you try to build the largest reef without running out of corals to place.
Why similar: Hex Grid 35.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.8%, City Builder 15.5%, Procedural Generation 10.5%, Relaxing 7.3%
- #55 Fabledom
65% matchVery Positive85% of 7,347 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 38.7%, Procedural Generation 19%, Resource Management 18.5%, Relaxing 13.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #56 Plan B: Terraform
64% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Hex Grid 48.7% ★, Resource Management 26.2%, Procedural Generation 17.8%, Strategy 7.2%
- #57 Thronefall
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,563 reviews2024
Dev: GrizzlyGamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 43.2%, Medieval 25.6%, Isometric 18.4%, Strategy 12.8%
- #58 Kingdoms and Castles
67% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 52.7%, Medieval 22.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Strategy 10%, Relaxing 2.1%
- #59 Havendock
65% matchVery Positive80% of 1,861 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 36.6%, Resource Management 22.4%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Relaxing 13.4%, Strategy 9.7%
- #60 Civitatem
68% matchMixed63% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: LW Games
Windows
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 39.5%, Medieval 16.8%, Resource Management 15.5%, Strategy 12.6%, Procedural Generation 9.7%