

Coatsink · Android, Switch, PS5 +4
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.
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289 games like Islanders · 2012 – 2027


Coatsink · Android, Switch, PS5 +4
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.
1 list19 h main storyDescribed alike
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Toukana Interactive · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
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 y
79 rating2 lists5 h main storyOften paired


Grenaa Games · Switch, PS5, Windows +1
Once upon a Village.. Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is the ideal laid back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, trade and use diplomacy to ally or challenge your neighbors, and most importantly, find yourself a
76 rating1 list13 h main storyOften paired


3Division Entertainment · Windows
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the ultimate real-time soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Construct your own republic and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower!
95 rating2 lists68 h main storyOften paired


Dapper Penguin Studios · Linux, Windows, macOS
Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and ada
65 rating6 lists19 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +3
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 wildl
77 rating2 lists5.5 h main storyOften paired


tobspr Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
Dive into a factory-building game where the focus is on just that — building huge factories! Construct sprawling multi-level factories and min-max your layouts without limits. Shapez 2 is tailor-made for enthusiasts who crave the thrill of
88 rating1 list28 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Windows +1
Outlanders is a charming town-builder simulation game that lets you play as the leader of a group of regular people building a town together. Some want to survive, while others want to build amazing things. It’s up to you to guide them towa
83 rating2 lists40 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Linux, Windows, macOS
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 90+ building blocks to arrange and combine and to c
68 rating1 list5.5 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Switch, PS5, Windows +2
A tiny building game about beautiful lived-in houses. No rules or restrictions, just pure creativity.
46 rating1 list0.5 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows
Turn your home into a green haven in Urban Jungle. Find the best place for each plant in your tiny apartment and enjoy gardening without worries. And don't forget to pet the cat!
1 list3 h main storyOften paired


Iceflake Studios · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
Create and manage your own city without restrictions. Offering a deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II will challenge your decision-making skills and allow you to build the cities of your dreams. Get ready for a new epic
73 rating2 lists28 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Windows
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 t
80 rating1 list13 h main story


Iceflake Studios · Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows +1
Build what only you can in LEGO Skylines. In this cozy, customizable city-builder, your choices bring a living, breathing metropolis to life. Go big or obsess over the details. No instructions. Unlimited space. And there’s just one rule. Ma
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Raymond Doerr · Linux, Windows, macOS
A challenging godlike village simulator designed to bridge the gap between the complexities of village simulation with the simplicity of classic 90s real-time strategy. Inspired by games like Towns, Gnomoria, Warcraft, Banished and Dwarf Fo
79 rating2 lists12 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Linux, Windows, macOS
This game was released in 2012 on Steam through Steam Greenlight while still in its beta. The developers decided to abandon its development in 2014, leaving the game in an unfinished state but available for purchase. "The game brings a fre
40 rating1 list16 h main storyAlso in City-building games


The Wandering Band · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
Take a fantastical journey - fly the desert and build your domain. Airborne Kingdom uniquely blends city management and exploration, with a world and lore all its own. Build housing, gather food, satisfy needs, and grow your tribe. Maintain
74 rating2 lists7.5 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Balancing Monkey Games · Switch, PS4, PS5 +4
Before We Leave is a non-violent city building game set on multiple planets in your own cozy corner of the universe. Your people emerge from a long period hidden underground and they’ve forgotten the world above. Rebuild civilization back
77 rating4 lists17 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Oskar Stålberg · Android, Switch, Windows +4
Townscaper is an experimental passion project. More of a toy than a game. Pick colors from the palette, plop down colored blocks of house on the irregular grid, and watch Townscaper's underlying algorithm automatically turn those blocks int
72 rating3 lists1 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Estudios Kremlinois · Switch, PS4, Windows +2
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.
1 list30 h main storyAlso in City-building games


It’s the grand opening of a new RollerCoaster Tycoon, featuring new levels of chaos and wonder as you do whatever it takes to keep guests happy (and injury-free). Customize rides, manage guests, and build wild roller coasters in your theme
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Crytivo Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
The Universim aims to revive the glory days of the god-game genre and bring it into the next generation with fresh ideas and ambitious gameplay. With the powers of a god, you are unleashed upon the universe to begin forging your galactic em
51 rating2 lists15 h main story


Tomas Sala · PS4, PS5, Windows +2
A new city-building game set in the oceanic world of The Great Ursee, by BAFTA-nominated developer Tomas Sala. Design, develop and defend your Bulwark, manage resources and make choices to create unique fortress settlements in a world reeli
85 rating2 lists17 h main storyAlso in City-building games
Timed Xbox exclusive
Switch, Windows, Xbox One +2
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas. In Cloud Gardens players must harness the power of nature to overgrow lo-fi scenes of urban decay and manufactured landscapes. By planting seeds in the right places,
69 rating2 lists5.5 h main story


Brace Yourself Games · Windows
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with the other Great Houses of Titan for resources, territory, and power. Do battle with ships, technology, influence, or the sheer productive power of your factories. Stake your claim to the Indu
60 rating1 list25 h main story


Lion Shield · Linux, PS4, PS5 +4
Inspired by the SimCity series, Banished, and Stronghold, Kingdoms and Castles is a game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the vik
68 rating3 lists20 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Texel Raptor · Linux, Windows, macOS
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks.
82 rating4 lists52 h main story


Windows
Builders Of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!
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Gentlymad Studios · PS4, PS5, Windows +1
Endzone is a post apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after a global nuclear disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant rad
64 rating1 list23 h main story


Pajama Llama Games · Windows, macOS
The premiere floating garbage town survival game! Scavenge whatever debris you can from the ocean's surface and grow your city while doing your best to survive in this colorful post-apocalyptic world.
78 rating3 lists19 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Windows
Setting to redefine the city-building genre, Foundation puts the emphasis on the organic aspects of urbanism in the cities of old, powered by Polymorph Games’ proprietary game engine, Hurricane, which allows for full mod support and is opti
62 rating1 list19 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Funatics Software · Linux, Windows, iOS +1
You spent your whole life in service to the gods of Asgard. You died an honorable death. You earned your place in the halls of Valhalla. But when you knocked on its gates to receive your final reward, none answered. Odin has turned his back
64 rating1 list21 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Gentlymad Studios · Xbox Series, PS4, Windows +1
Endzone is a post apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after a global nuclear disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant rad
64 rating3 listsAlso in City-building games
Timed Nintendo exclusive
AFTERBURN · Android, Switch, Windows +4
A relaxing puzzle game about fixing train connections from the makers of Golf Peaks and inbento!
85 rating3 lists4.5 h main story


Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
In SteamWorld Build, you must escape a dying planet by building a mining town to dig up vital long-lost technology. Meet the ever-growing needs of your citizens, trade resources and defend your mine from the creatures that lurk below.
73 rating3 lists9 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Linux, Windows
Tiny Glade is a small relaxing game about doodling castles. Explore gridless building chemistry, and watch the game carefully assemble every brick, pebble and plank. There's no management, combat, or wrong answers - just kick back and turn
68 rating1 list3 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Gaming Minds Studios · Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows +1
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the a
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Haemimont Games · Linux, PS4, Windows +2
Surviving Mars is a sci-fi city builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process. Choose a space agency for resources and financial support before determining a location for your colony. Build domes and infrastructure, research n
72 rating1 list23 h main story


Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +7
Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and u
78 rating19 lists16 h main storyAlso in City-building games


11 Bit Studios · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series +1
Frostpunk 2 is the sequel to the highly acclaimed, BAFTA-nominated society survival game. The age of steam has passed and now, oil leads the way as humanity’s newest salvation. However, with new threats on the horizon, the future of the cit
81 rating6 lists12 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Linux, Windows, macOS
Cities in Motion 2 (CIM2) is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. Cities in Motion 2 introduces new fea
70 rating3 lists32 h main story


Linux, Windows, macOS
Dressmaker is a cozy game inspired by real dressmaking. Become a dressmaker, choose dress designs, cut out fabric and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) customers.
84 rating2 lists21 h main story


Focus Entertainment · Windows
Design, build, and manage the world's largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL, a sandbox RTS simulator. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling
52 rating2 listsAlso in City-building games
Xbox console exclusive
Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series
Manor Lords is a strategy game that allows you to experience the life of a medieval lord. Grow your starting village into a bustling city, manage resources and production chains, and expand your lands through conquest. Inspired by the art
78 rating7 lists11 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Linux, Windows
Nebuchadnezzar is a classic isometric city builder game inviting players to experience the mysterious history and culture of ancient Mesopotamia. In the campaign, players get to rule over influential historical cities filled with magnificen
64 rating3 lists38 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Eremite Games · Switch, PS4, PS5 +2
A roguelite city builder set in a fantasy world tormented by the everlasting rain. Settle the unknown wilds to discover and rebuild the ruins of a long-forgotten civilization. Develop technologies that will help your citizens tackle destruc
87 rating5 lists6 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Mothership Entertainment LLC · PS4, Windows, Xbox One
Aven Colony is a city-building and management sim that tells the story of humanity’s first settlement of an extrasolar world. Land on exotic Aven Prime, where you must construct and maintain the infrastructure and ensure the well-being of y
68 rating4 lists26 h main storyAlso in City-building games


Windows
Per Aspera is a narrative-driven strategy game with the goal of overcoming the challenge of terraforming Mars. Explore the planet, gather resources, and make strategic decisions as you live the fantasy of scientifically-based interplanetary
80 rating1 list20 h main storyAlso in City-building games