Games like Polity Painter

Want something that feels relaxing and minimalist the way Polity Painter does? These games are worth a look next.

Fantasy Map Simulator
Draw a world, fill it with nations, and watch centuries of invented history unfold: wars, alliances, dynasties rising and falling. You can play god and steer it all, or let it run as your desktop wallpaper while you work. A quiet, endlessly replayable toy for anyone who ever doodled kingdoms in a school notebook.
Relaxing, Replayable
89% of 4,270 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$7.99
Doodle Empires
Draw your own nations onto a map, name them, and watch history unfold one card at a time. Kingdoms expand, split, unite and collapse while you decide which stories deserve to happen. A calm, turn-based sandbox for anyone who ever doodled empires in a school notebook.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Replayable
92% of 1,347 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 71$6.99
Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
A map simulator for watching custom AI nations fight over the world. Paint terrain and borders, set stats and behaviour, then sit back while alliances form, revolts spark and puppet states flip the map. Made for history and geography nerds who like asking what if and watching chaos answer.
Replayable, Colorful
96% of 9,527 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 715$6.99
Observe
A grand strategy sandbox where history writes itself. Watch nations rise, ally and collapse on their own, reach in with God Mode to redraw the map, or take command of any country, including the 1912 First World War campaign. Then build your own worlds, campaigns and national AI from scratch.
Replayable
92% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 24$7.99
Provinces
A world-building sandbox where you create provinces, cultures, nations and characters to build your own custom worlds. Then influence the world you have just created by giving your characters ambitions make your own sandbox stories.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Replayable
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
EarthRoyale
EarthRoyale is a Map simulation Observer game where the game each turn chooses one of many events to edit the world map
Minimalist, Replayable
85% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Canvas of Kings
A mapmaking tool that draws medieval maps for you: sketch paths and plots, and Canvas of Kings fills them with hand-drawn houses, forests and walls. Relaxing to use, quick to learn, and made for tabletop maps you can print or play on.
Relaxing, Minimalist, Replayable
93% of 839 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$18.99
Things That Happen on the Map - Realm Simulator
A sandbox world simulator where you generate a world and watch history emerge from interacting systems. Track wars, alliances, economies, cities, families, and individuals, then zoom from shifting borders to personal lives.
Relaxing, Replayable
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$1.99
Countryballs: Rise of Europe
In this game you play for countries of the modern and old world, or create your own. 🔹 World generator - creates flags, borders and even whole new maps. 🔹 Smart AI - from diplomacy to revolutions, it will make every game interesting. 📜 Create your story, change the fate of the world
Minimalist, Replayable
55% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
GatoCat World Maker
GatoCat World Maker is a lightweight fantasy map creation tool that lets you quickly generate and edit procedural worlds. Designed for worldbuilders, writers, and game designers who want a fast, visual way to develop and organize their settings.
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Age of History II
Age of History II is a turn-based grand strategy wargame about running a civilization from the dawn of history to the far future. You manage economy, technology, diplomacy and armies to unify the world or conquer it, province by province. Simple to learn and easy to replay, it suits map lovers who want big alternate-history what-ifs without heavy rules.
Replayable
89% of 48,369 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 949$5.99
Atlas Architect
A creative game where your imagination is your limit.
Relaxing, Replayable, Colorful
69% of 203 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Cheaper than Polity Painter

GatoCat World Maker

GatoCat World Maker is a lightweight fantasy map creation tool that lets you quickly generate and edit procedural worlds.

$2.99

Things That Happen on the Map - Realm Simulator

A sandbox world simulator where you generate a world and watch history emerge from interacting systems.

$1.99

Countryballs at War

Countryballs at War is a grand strategy wargame that combines turn-based empire building with real-time battles.

$2.99

Countryball: Europe 1890

Discover the 19th and 20th centuries with countryballs!

$3.99

NationWar:Annals

This is a deep focus on the Spring and Autumn period of the Warring States period of the grand strategy and real-time combat fusion sandbox game.

$3.99

Genesis Relic: Idle Sandbox Simulator

A diverse sandbox idle sim featuring multiple maps from Three Kingdoms to cultivation, cats to cosmos.

$3.99

sok-worlds

Make and explore 3d collage worlds in sok-worlds! Release your inner creativity and use internet images to create weird, funny or artsy worlds!

$2.99

Timeline

Timeline is a turn-based strategy game where you can play through the human history from stone age to modern times.

$2.99

Socialism Simulator

The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country.

$3.99

Making History: The Calm & the Storm

Making History® delivers the open-ended gameplay of strategy-game classics, but with compelling new economic, military, and diplomatic systems and…

$3.99

Dynastic Era

Simple map coloring game, And about history of ancient civilized, Mini ancient strategy game with a large world map to explore, in which you can…

$1.99

Dictators:No Peace Countryballs

Run a country as a simple economy and a bigger army, then take the whole map one neighbour at a time.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Polity Painter

States of Power

Command a World War II nation's armies, economy and diplomacy in a grand strategy wargame that fits a full match into one session.

$11.99

Earth Simulator

Shape continents and climates, then watch civilizations rise under your hand, with friends along for the ride.

$4.99

Doodle Empires

Sketch kingdoms onto a blank map, deal out their fates card by card, and see which empires rise, fracture or fade.

$6.99

Countryballs at War

Countryballs at War is a grand strategy wargame that combines turn-based empire building with real-time battles.

$2.99

Nations

Select an era, a nation and lead it to greatness or decay. Develop the economy and society, or focus on military and territorial expansion.

$14.99

Observe

Watch nations rise and fall on their own, redraw the map as a god, or take command of any country in a world you can build from scratch.

$7.99

Age of History 2: Definitive Edition

Guide any civilization across thousands of provinces, from ancient times to the far future, through war, diplomacy and alternate paths history never…

$9.99

Warnament

Pick a nation, build alliances and armies, and take your own version of history into turn-based matches with friends.

$9.74

Canvas of Kings

Sketch the paths and plots, and watch hand-drawn houses, forests and walls fill in around them at your own pace.

$18.99

Fantasy Map Simulator

Draw a world, seed it with nations, and steer or simply observe as wars, alliances and dynasties shape its history.

$7.99

Countryball: Europe 1890

Discover the 19th and 20th centuries with countryballs!

$3.99

EarthRoyale

EarthRoyale is a Map simulation Observer game where the game each turn chooses one of many events to edit the world map

$7.99

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