Of Life and Land
Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.49
Games like Synergy
If the colorful and relaxing rhythm of Synergy stuck with you, this helps. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Of Life and Land
A settlement builder where nature is a full character. Every animal, plant and villager has needs, seasons change the rules, and your choices ripple through the whole ecosystem. Build a village that fits into the wild instead of flattening it, at whatever pace you like.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Relaxing, Atmospheric, Replayable
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.49Settlement Survival
Lead a band of survivors to a new home and raise a town from nothing: shape the land itself, plant crops, survive winters and disasters, and grow a settlement worth moving to. A colorful, low-pressure survival city builder where every map is new and every town plays out differently.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Colorful, Relaxing, Replayable
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 190$19.99Block'hood
Stack a neighborhood out of 200-plus blocks, each one hungry for inputs and generous with outputs. Water feeds trees, trees feed apartments, and one starving block can drag the whole tower down. A calm, puzzle-flavored city builder about getting an ecosystem to balance.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Colorful, Relaxing, Replayable
73% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Urbek City Builder
A city builder with no money: everything runs on food, coal, skilled work and over 30 other resources. Urbek's cities grow organically around what you build, from farm villages to nightlife districts, and every choice has trade-offs. A calm, thoughtful puzzle in city-builder clothing that rewards planning and patience.
Also in City builder · Relaxing, Replayable
89% of 1,862 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$2.84New Cycle
After solar flares end the old world, you lead survivors from a bare settlement to an industrial metropolis. Balance food, water and work through storms, disease and hard choices, then rebuild the machines of the past. A dark, demanding city builder about dragging civilization back from the edge.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable
79% of 2,617 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$29.99Prosperity
Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Relaxing, Replayable
67% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$9.99The Wandering Village
A village on the back of a giant wandering creature called Onbu. Build your settlement in the space its spine allows, feed and heal the beast, and decide whether to live in trust with it or squeeze it for everything it has, while toxic spores spread across a beautiful, ruined world.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Colorful, Relaxing, Atmospheric
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$29.99Pixel Colony
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources. Protect your settlement and colonists from hostile environment and make a great city!
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Colorful, Relaxing, Replayable
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Songs of Syx
Songs of Syx is a low fantasy city-builder where a scrappy village can grow into a metropolis and empire, simulated citizen by citizen. You lay out houses and streets, balance food, work and upkeep, and lead real-time battles with thousands of soldiers. Deep, systemic, and highly replayable.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable
94% of 9,202 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 622$24.99Against the Storm
A dark fantasy city builder about founding short-lived settlements in endless rain. As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies, raise each outpost to reputation, then start over somewhere new with upgrades in hand.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Atmospheric, Replayable
94% of 33,692 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,102$29.99City idle
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Also in Colony sim · Colorful, Relaxing
71% of 233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6FreeOxygen
Humanity is down to its last breaths, and the machine that breathes for it is yours. Oxygen is a survival city builder where you raise a settlement around the Oxygen Center, stockpile against frosts, droughts and deadly winds, and keep the power flowing. If the generator stops, so does everyone.
Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable
70% of 837 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Cheaper than Synergy
Settlement Survival
Guide your settlers as they clear land, plant crops and turn an empty map into a thriving medieval home.
85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 190$19.99
Block'hood
Stack 200-plus building blocks into a neighborhood where every block feeds another, and keep the whole thing from decaying.
73% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Urbek City Builder
Grow a city from farm village to nightlife district, balancing food, coal, education and dozens of other resources as it expands.
89% of 1,862 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$2.84
Prosperity
Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements.
67% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Pixel Colony
Build and manage your own colony. Citizens are primary resource. Make them happy by producing a variety of resources.
93% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Kingdoms Reborn
Settle a fresh world each run, guide your citizens through the ages, and build, trade or compete alongside up to 18 other players.
90% of 8,895 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 138$19.99
Oxygen
Humanity is down to its last breaths, and the machine that breathes for it is yours.
70% of 837 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$14.99
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Outlanders
Place buildings, set your folk to work, and watch a colorful little settlement grow at its own peaceful pace.
91% of 463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$9.99
The Universim
Guide a tiny civilization from caves to rockets, with tornadoes and lightning at your fingertips.
79% of 8,485 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 508$14.99
Banished
A handful of exiles, one cart of supplies, and a wilderness.
90% of 37,986 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 276$19.99
Hidden gems like Synergy
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood is a city builder about industrious mice raising a colony on scattered islands while paying tribute to their cat overlords.
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 819$29.99
ALL WILL FALL
Lead flood survivors, scavenge a drying seabed and stack a shanty town toward the sky while physics, hunger and factions test every beam.
77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Of Life and Land
Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.49
The Wandering Village
A village on the back of a giant wandering creature called Onbu.
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$29.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
The Final Earth 2
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.
97% of 422 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Outlanders
Place buildings, set your folk to work, and watch a colorful little settlement grow at its own peaceful pace.
91% of 463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$9.99
Pioneers of Pagonia
Settle the foggy isles of Pagonia, befriend its tribes and piece together what broke the world, alone or with friends.
81% of 4,861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Oxygen: First Breath
Build a settlement around the Oxygen Center and keep your people breathing through the disasters of a broken world.
88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Urbek City Builder
Grow a city from farm village to nightlife district, balancing food, coal, education and dozens of other resources as it expands.
89% of 1,862 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$2.84
Tribe: Primitive Builder
You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a realistic island, chopping wood, crafting axes and spears, and raising shelters, kitchens and workshops…
79% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Newest games like Synergy
Beyond These Stars
Found a settlement on a living Space Whale and journey across the galaxy together.
65% of 263 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 75$29.99
MEGACITY
Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy…
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Town to City
Lay out streets and homes on a sunny Mediterranean coast and watch a small settlement grow, with nothing rushing you along.
97% of 6,376 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 198$29.99
CLOUD DWELLERS
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands.
80% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Generation Exile
Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder.
65% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
ALL WILL FALL
Lead flood survivors, scavenge a drying seabed and stack a shanty town toward the sky while physics, hunger and factions test every beam.
77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 92$22.49
Pioneers of Pagonia
Settle the foggy isles of Pagonia, befriend its tribes and piece together what broke the world, alone or with friends.
81% of 4,861 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$20.99
Flotsam
Recycle the drifting garbage of a flooded world into a floating home for your survivors, one plank and garden at a time.
80% of 4,414 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$24.99
Ecopunk
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
80% of 142 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$22.99
Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood is a city builder about industrious mice raising a colony on scattered islands while paying tribute to their cat overlords.
92% of 3,652 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 819$29.99
Farthest Frontier
Grow a handful of settlers into a walled medieval town at the edge of the map.
86% of 24,709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,143$34.99
The Wandering Village
A village on the back of a giant wandering creature called Onbu.
91% of 7,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$29.99