- #1 Dungeon Village 2
97% matchVery Positive87% of 653 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!
Why similar: Simulation 40.1%, RPG 38.2%, Casual 21.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the core loop of managing a fantasy town to attract and support various adventurers.
- #2 Littlewood
96% matchVery Positive93% of 6,792 reviews2020
Dev: Sean YoungPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
Why similar: Simulation 41.1%, RPG 40%, Casual 18.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, relaxing town-builder that emphasizes building relationships and developing your land with a charming, lighthearted feel.
- #3 My Time at Portia
96% matchVery Positive92% of 44,040 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Why similar: RPG 33.9%, Simulation 30%, Casual 15.1%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at mixing crafting, building, and social interaction within a growing town setting.
- #4 A Hero's Rest: An RPG Town Simulator
95% matchMixed69% of 176 reviews2024
Dev: Vanargand Games
Windows
Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.
Why similar: RPG 51%, Simulation 49%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on the management of a town designed to cater to the needs of heroes and adventurers.
- #5 Travellers Rest
94% matchVery Positive88% of 16,540 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Why similar: RPG 46.2%, Simulation 25.1%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: You manage a business while interacting with adventurers and gathering resources, creating a similar cozy management experience.
- #6 DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2
94% matchVery Positive92% of 7,831 reviews2019
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.
Why similar: RPG 67.2%, Adventure 32.8%
Why You'll Like It: It masterfully combines block-based building with RPG questing and town management in a vibrant fantasy world.
- #7 Moonlighter
93% matchVery Positive82% of 21,581 reviews2018
Dev: Digital SunPub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.
Why similar: RPG 42.9%, Simulation 33.5%, Adventure 23.6%
Why You'll Like It: It balances the management of a shop with the resource-gathering thrill of dungeon crawling, much like the adventurer-focused gameplay of the seed.
- #8 Forager
92% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Adventure 23.9%, RPG 23.5%, Indie 20.7%, Simulation 19.1%, Casual 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: The satisfying loop of gathering resources and expanding your base with RPG-style progression is a perfect match for the seed game's mechanics.
- #9 Verdant Village
91% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2020
Dev: Exodus Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
You've washed ashore in a foreign land. With nothing to your name other than a few tools you’ll have to learn how to live off the land. Explore, grow crops, and meet the locals. How you live is up to you. Can you create a new life for yourself in the small town of Amberglen?
Why similar: RPG 66.1%, Casual 33.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing mix of farming, crafting, and RPG exploration in a growing town environment.
- #10 Settlement Survival
89% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Simulation 78.3%, Indie 21.7%
Why You'll Like It: A more structured city-builder that emphasizes resource management and survival in a growing community.
- #11 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,432 reviews2010
Dev: EasyGameStationPub: Carpe Fulgur LLC
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!
Why similar: RPG 51.9%, Simulation 28.8%, Indie 15.5%, Adventure 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic management game that focuses on supplying adventurers with the gear they need to succeed in dungeons.
- #12 Roots of Pacha
89% matchVery Positive94% of 4,347 reviews2023
Dev: Soda Den
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Why similar: RPG 33.4%, Simulation 26.7%, Casual 19.9%, Indie 19.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on developing a village and community through resource management and exploration in a prehistoric setting.
- #13 MicroTown
88% 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: Indie 100%
Why You'll Like It: A charming, small-scale approach to town building that emphasizes resource management and citizen needs.
- #14 Potion Permit
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 5,226 reviews2022
Dev: MassHive MediaPub: PQube
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.
Why similar: Simulation 31.5%, RPG 30.9%, Adventure 19.3%, Casual 18.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines town interaction, gathering, and RPG-style quests in a way that feels very similar to the seed game's atmosphere.
- #15 Beastie Bay DX
87% matchVery Positive82% of 101 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Develop a deserted island and collect rare monsters!
Why similar: RPG 38.7%, Simulation 38.2%, Casual 21.3%, Indie 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: A management game that integrates monster taming and exploration, fitting the 'monsters and territory' theme of the seed.
- #16 Graveyard Keeper
85% matchVery Positive86% of 46,799 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 31.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: RPG 40.5%, Simulation 34.2%, Adventure 13.5%, Indie 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique management and crafting experience with a dark, RPG-focused narrative and town-development elements.
- #17 Backwoods Town
84% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2023
Dev: Andrii Prots
Windows
Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.
Why similar: Adventure 65.2%, Simulation 24.4%, Indie 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a cozy, atmospheric building experience with farming and survival elements in a remote setting.
- #18 TownCraft
86% matchMixed40% of 105 reviews2015
Dev: Flat Earth Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
TownCraft is a chill-out crafting and city-building game. Instead of just surviving, you must turn your empty plot of land and its rarely-used road into a bustling town full of shops, workers and taverns.
Why similar: Simulation 69.4%, Indie 30.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of crafting and building a town from scratch in a relaxed, indie environment.
- #19 Crafting Town
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.
Why similar: Simulation 59.2%, Casual 30.3%, Indie 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of gathering and crafting to expand your settlement in a medieval setting.
- #20 Teeny Tiny Town
82% matchVery Positive92% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Short Circuit Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Proving that all good things come in threes! Welcome to Teeny Tiny Town, where you connect three identical tiles to evolve your city, merge by merge. Watch your metropolis grow from scratch, from 'aww' to 'awesome!'
Why similar: Casual 51%, Simulation 34.8%, Indie 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, cozy puzzle-builder that captures the charm of small-scale development.
- #21 RPG Tycoon
84% matchMixed51% of 487 reviews2016
Dev: Skatanic StudiosPub: Macrocosmic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!
Why similar: Simulation 39.7%, RPG 22.1%, Adventure 19.2%, Casual 12.2%, Indie 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manage a fantasy town and attract heroes, directly echoing the core loop of the seed game.
- #22 Kynseed
81% matchVery Positive83% of 3,619 reviews2022
Dev: PixelCount Studios
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.
Why similar: RPG 40.8%, Simulation 33.6%, Indie 15.5%, Adventure 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A life sim with deep town management and RPG progression that spans generations of characters.
- #23 Slime Rancher
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 151,397 reviews2017
Dev: Monomi Park
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
Why similar: Adventure 36.7%, Simulation 33%, Casual 19.4%, Indie 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource collection and expanding your base in a charming, casual world that feels very similar to the seed's tone.
- #24 Settlemoon
81% matchVery Positive86% of 279 reviews2023
Dev: Lepioid LLC
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 34.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
After the moon vanished, the fantasy world of Settlemoon lays abandoned in darkness. Re-light the skies, and provide a rest stop for adventurers in a town that updates in real time. Grow your town to attract strange visitors, and discover happened to this world.
Why similar: Simulation 62.2%, Casual 37.8%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, idle-focused town builder with charming 2D aesthetics that is easy to pick up and play.
- #25 Factory Town Idle
79% matchVery Positive91% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Casual 34.7%, Simulation 28.2%, Adventure 21.2%, Indie 15.9%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, automation-focused take on town building and resource management for those who enjoy the progression aspect.
- #26 Chef RPG
79% matchVery Positive88% of 2,496 reviews2024
Dev: World 2 Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?
Why similar: RPG 60.2%, Simulation 39.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines restaurant management with RPG exploration and gathering, mirroring the multi-faceted gameplay of the seed.
- #27 Market Tycoon
82% matchMixed55% of 405 reviews2017
Dev: Protection GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Market Tycoon is a Tycoon game where you Grow your Market from a small Mini Market all the way up to a Hyper Market. Manage, create, and customize your market from wall paint to placing cashiers, shelves, and fridges.
Why similar: Simulation 37.1%, RPG 29.5%, Casual 18.9%, Indie 14.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic side of managing a growing business and town, similar to the facility-building aspect of the seed.
- #28 Tiny Isle
78% matchVery Positive92% of 139 reviews2026
Dev: Nature Rituals StudioPub: Etherous Games Limited
Windows
Tiny Isle is a cozy island-building simulation game. Grow crops, collect crystals, expand and customize your magical island, and welcome sprites and animal residents. Play actively with hands-on planning, or relax with full idle progression as your island comes to life at your own pace.
Why similar: Simulation 55%, Casual 37.4%, Indie 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cute, relaxing game focused on building and resource management on a small, isolated scale.
- #29 My Time at Sandrock
75% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: RPG 40%, Simulation 24.6%, Adventure 15.4%, Casual 14.2%, Indie 5.9%
- #30 Incremental Town RPG
76% matchMixed60% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Overaction Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Incremental Town RPG lets you build and manage a thriving village. Master resource management, develop a robust economy, and enjoy a relaxing experience as you equip your settlement to conquer new lands and challenges!
Why similar: RPG 32.2%, Simulation 30.7%, Casual 22.1%, Indie 15%
- #31 Distant Kingdoms
78% matchMixed44% of 303 reviews2021
Dev: Orthrus Studios
Windows
A unique blend of City Building, Social Management, Exploration and Adventure gameplay, Distant Kingdoms brings a rich fantasy world to life. Help the Humans, Dwarves, Elves and Orcs of Talam, begin anew in the fabled land of Ineron.
Why similar: Simulation 71%, Indie 29%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy city-builder that incorporates RPG elements and exploration to expand your territory.
- #32 Desktop Tourney World
76% matchMixed68% of 149 reviews2024
Dev: One leaf Games
Windows
Desktop Tourney World is a simulation construction, immortal cultivation survival game, you need to collect food, construct buildings, build equipment, and fight with all kinds of monsters.
Why similar: Simulation 61.8%, RPG 17.1%, Casual 10.8%, Adventure 10.3%
- #33 Border Town
74% matchVery Positive81% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: RPG 59.9%, Adventure 40.1%
- #34 A Little Shop in Squirrel Town
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 60 reviews2021
Dev: Superluminal Cat
Windows
You will become the shopkeeper of grocery shop in Squirrel Town to run your own shop, replenish your stock, sell, make a profit, kill monsters, manufacture outfits, engage in agriculture, angle, cook delicious food, feed monsters and save Monster Forest controlled by the evil crystal.
Why similar: Simulation 41.6%, RPG 36.8%, Casual 21.6%
- #35 Territory: Farming and Warfare
73% matchVery Positive86% of 690 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Simulation 80.6%, Indie 19.4%
- #36 The Lost Village
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,068 reviews2024
Dev: FunYoo Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?
Why similar: Simulation 47.8%, RPG 33.9%, Adventure 18.3%
- #37 PuPu's Adventure Park
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 183 reviews2025
Dev: 西梅树工作室
Windows
Build an Adventure Park from the ground up! The PuPu clan had just rented a new "playground" from the Dark Goblins. Manage the park, construct park facilities, and grow your clan to serve the expansion of the Park for "hero" customers summoned from other planets!
Why similar: Simulation 71%, Indie 29%
- #38 Evertown
77% matchMostly Negative39% of 117 reviews2016
Dev: cg-imagine
Windows
Evertown is a RTS (real-time strategy) game with some survival elements. The goal is to raise your town to make it safe (the longest you can).
Why similar: Simulation 26.9%, RPG 26.5%, Casual 16.7%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 14.1%
- #39 Fantasy Town Regional Manager
74% matchVery Positive80% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Caps Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.
Why similar: Simulation 45%, Casual 36.9%, Indie 18.1%
- #40 放置勇者:远征/Idle Heroes:Odyssey
75% matchMixed52% of 568 reviews2021
Dev: OnigiriStudio
Windows · Mac
As a hero leader, you need to recruit your hero, collect treasures and equipment, and run towns to upgrade the combat team.Facing powerful monsters on the expedition, you also need strategies to match heroes, skills and treasures, finally save the world again.
Why similar: RPG 32%, Simulation 22.7%, Adventure 20%, Casual 18%, Indie 7.2%
- #41 Spirittea
72% matchVery Positive85% of 759 reviews2023
Dev: Cheesemaster GamesPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Hey human, we've got problems! This town is crawling with troublesome spirits, and you're the only one who can see them. You'd better get that old bathhouse up and running, maybe that'll help them chill out!
Why similar: RPG 41.1%, Simulation 41%, Adventure 18%
- #42 Thriving City: Song
71% matchVery Positive81% of 3,278 reviews2024
Dev: White Star StudioPub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In 960 AD, the new Song Dynasty needs you! As magistrate, build a prosperous city from scratch. Develop bustling streets filled with businesses and entertainment, while navigating hidden crises of political strife and foreign invasions. How will you lead through these challenges?
Why similar: Simulation 65.4%, Casual 34.6%
- #43 Crusaders Quest : Hero Town
70% matchVery Positive84% of 253 reviews2026
Dev: CQ LABSPub: LoadComplete
Windows · Mac
Welcome to 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》! A little town inside your PC! Gather heroes and rebuild the town in 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》, a desktop idle RPG that can be enjoyed even during work hours.
Why similar: Simulation 43.8%, Casual 31%, RPG 17.9%, Indie 7.3%
- #44 Faun Town
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: RPG 32.6%, Simulation 31.2%, Casual 18.3%, Adventure 18%
- #45 Doloc Town
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,208 reviews2025
Dev: RedSaw Games StudioPub: Logoi Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Doloc Town is a cozy pixel-art farming simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Build your dream farm from scratch and explore this mysterious wasteland. Harvest, plant, build, and uncover the untold stories of this forgotten land.
Why similar: Simulation 33.4%, RPG 26.6%, Adventure 20.1%, Casual 20%
- #46 Dream Town Island
70% matchVery Positive96% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!
Why similar: Simulation 63.8%, Casual 36.2%
- #47 No-brainer Heroes 挂机吧!勇者
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,693 reviews2019
Dev: 小团团工作室
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 67.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
No-brainer Heroes is a pixel style semi-idle RPG game. As a lord, you need to run your town, recruit your heroes, defeat level monsters, solve random events, collect powerful treasures, and finally defeat evil dragons.
Why similar: RPG 28.9%, Simulation 24.6%, Casual 17.9%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 11.1%
- #48 Dungeon Village
70% matchVery Positive89% of 781 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!
Why similar: Simulation 60.8%, Casual 39.2%
- #49 Snacko
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,002 reviews2025
Dev: Bluecurse StudiosPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!
Why similar: Simulation 62.6%, Adventure 37.4%
- #50 Tinyfolks
69% matchVery Positive93% of 1,077 reviews2022
Dev: Pierre VandermaesenPub: VANDERMAESEN GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Train your folks, defeat monsters and upgrade your town!
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #51 Cattle Country
68% matchVery Positive87% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: Castle Pixel, LLC.Pub: Playtonic Friends
Windows · Linux
Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life. Make a home in the mountains, take on bandits, discover dastardly plots, build a farm, develop your town, and make friends with fellow residents.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #52 Elf Manor
71% matchMixed62% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: 巫师工作室Pub: GY Games
Windows
You will be playing as an Elf Master. Build your own manor and grow crops, farm, research, cook, and handcraft by yourself. Your mission is to fight against evil monsters and protect the world from corruption. The most important thing is staying alive.
Why similar: Simulation 31.8%, Adventure 27.2%, Casual 22.3%, Indie 18.7%
- #53 Go-Go Town!
66% matchVery Positive94% of 2,120 reviews2024
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
Why similar: Simulation 78%, Indie 22%
- #54 Cardboard Town
67% matchVery Positive81% of 2,136 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Simulation 69.5%, Casual 30.5%
- #55 Novice Dungeon Master
67% matchVery Positive90% of 150 reviews2024
Dev: LazyCnD
Windows
[Novice Dungeon Master] is a dungeon management simulation set in a fantasy world of dungeons and adventures. Turn your beginner dungeon into the ultimate dungeon of your dreams. Greet adventurers who come to visit your dungeon, grow herbs, summon monsters, and more!
Why similar: Simulation 48.5%, Casual 33.3%, Indie 18.3%
- #56 REAL ESTATE Simulator - FROM BUM TO MILLIONAIRE
69% matchMixed45% of 206 reviews2024
Dev: GeekonPub: Midnight Games
Windows
Ready to transform from Broke to Rich while forging your real estate empire? Start small, strategize for tycoon status. Engage with diverse NPC clients, oversee properties from affordable to luxurious, and conquer challenges. Ready to dominate the real estate world?
Why similar: RPG 50.1%, Simulation 49.9%
- #57 Cobble: The Stone Forager
65% matchVery Positive98% of 129 reviews2025
Dev: Twenty LensesPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Gather resources and explore to help lost settlers build a new home in this relaxing, foraging RPG.
Why similar: RPG 35.4%, Simulation 33.8%, Casual 18.8%, Adventure 12%
- #58 The City Must Grow
68% matchVery Positive81% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Tunaic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A new city will be established on a flat plain and its administration has been given to you. In order to keep the administration in your hands, the city needs to develop continuously.
Why similar: Simulation 54.2%, Casual 26%, Indie 19.8%
- #59 Critter Cove
64% matchVery Positive95% of 1,823 reviews2024
Dev: Gentleman Rat Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A deep, open world life sim and town building game set in a cozy post-apocalyptic paradise. Restore your town, sail across a mysterious archipelago, rescue animal pals. Hunt for relics and farm, fish & craft everything you need. Can you help turn Critter Cove into a thriving tourist town once again?
Why similar: Simulation 50.3%, RPG 49.7%