Games like ShantyTown
by Erik Rempen
SUMMERHOUSE and Townscaper play most like ShantyTown. Of the 17 closest games below, most share its relaxing and city builder; 5 came out in the last year and 14 are free or under $10. The best known is Dorfromantik, with 27,469 Steam reviews.
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Ranked by how similar the games actually are, not by sales. Released and Price are remembered for next time.
Closest matches
Townscaper
Aug 26, 2021 · Oskar Stålberg
Both: Sandbox · Relaxing · City Builder
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.
ExperimentalBuildingSandboxRelaxingCasualCity BuilderShortSimulationSingleplayerIndie👍 20,089Gourdlets
Aug 15, 2024 · AuntyGames
Both: Sandbox · City Builder · Relaxing
An easygoing sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks. Create your perfect community then watch as the gourdlets make themselves at home. No objectives, no points, just good vibes. Play in full screen, or let your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen!
SandboxCity BuilderRelaxingSimulationBuildingCuteColorfulCozyPixel GraphicsOpen World👍 1,959URBO
Sep 13, 2023 · Door 407
Both: City Builder · Cozy · Relaxing
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.
PuzzleCity BuilderCozyRelaxingWholesomeBuildingCasualMinimalistStylizedIsometric👍 545Cloudscrapers
Sep 14 · Nementic Games
Both: City Builder · Relaxing · Cozy
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.
CasualCity BuilderRelaxingPuzzleStrategyMinimalistSimulationAtmosphericResource ManagementCozy👍 136Dorfromantik
Apr 28, 2022 · Toukana Interactive
Both: Relaxing · City Builder · Sandbox
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!
PuzzleRelaxingCity BuilderCasualTurn-Based StrategyBoard GameStrategySandboxResource ManagementSimulation👍 27,469Hozy
Mar 30 · Come On Studio
Both: Relaxing · Cozy · Sandbox
Restore a forgotten neighbourhood through your favourite hobby, one cozy room at a time. In Hozy, clean, paint, and decorate abandoned homes with satisfying mechanics and intuitive controls. Enjoy the little details as you interact with tools, items and furniture to bring each space back to life.
RelaxingCozyCasualSandboxPuzzleCutePhysicsSimulationColorfulBuilding👍 4,234Pan'orama
May 9, 2023 · Chicken Launcher
Both: City Builder · Relaxing · Stylized
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!
City BuilderRelaxingBuildingProcedural GenerationMinimalistIndieStylizedColorfulColony SimCasual👍 1,142Tiny Glade
Sep 23, 2024 · Pounce Light
Both: Relaxing · Sandbox · Cozy
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.
BuildingRelaxingDesign & IllustrationSandboxCozyCasualCuteMedievalIndieProcedural Generation👍 22,775Outlanders
Mar 7, 2023 · Pomelo Games
Both: City Builder · Cozy · Relaxing
Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.
CuteCity BuilderCozyBuildingStrategy3DSimulationAtmosphericFamily FriendlyRelaxing👍 462Spiritstead
Aug 6 · Turbo Dog Games
Both: Cozy · City Builder · Relaxing
Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.
CozyCity BuilderIncrementalCuteAtmosphericBuildingManagementRelaxingSingleplayerIndie👍 154Airborne Kingdom
Mar 7, 2022 · The Wandering Band LLC
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Relaxing
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.
City BuilderBase BuildingExplorationBuildingSingleplayerResource ManagementSandboxRelaxingSteampunkStrategy👍 2,109Tiny Terra Spaces
Jun 25 · Ludus Pax Studios
Both: Relaxing · Cozy · City Builder
Build your own cosy medieval island with historical inspired 3D buildings. Relax in Sandbox Mode or set sail in Island Hop Mode, shaping lively communities inspired by the beauty and history of Scotland.
RelaxingCozyCasualMinimalistCity BuilderMedievalSingleplayerMedical SimColony SimNatureFabledom
May 13, 2024 · Grenaa Games
Both: City Builder · Relaxing · Sandbox
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!
City BuilderColony SimRelaxingSandboxEconomyDiplomacySimulationFantasyRomanceCartoony👍 6,781Before We Leave
May 13, 2021 · Balancing Monkey Games
Both: City Builder · Relaxing
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.
City BuilderCasualEconomyRelaxingHex GridFamily FriendlyResource ManagementAtmosphericBuildingSingleplayer👍 1,279Hanok: From Thatch to Palace
10 days ago · WATSI
Both: City Builder · Cozy · Relaxing
A cozy building game about Korea's old houses, raised the way they were really built — stone by stone, rafter by rafter. Follow 11 guided builds from a thatched cottage to a pavilion over a pond, then raise a walled town of your own from 210 pieces: palace halls, a market street, townsfolk.
BuildingCasualPuzzleCity BuilderCozyRelaxingHistoricalSandbox3DSingleplayer
Also worth a look
Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24, 2023 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Sandbox
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 65,457
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