City & colony builders indie games

Sidetrack — Tiny Trains for Your Desktop

Marduk Syndicate

A cozy idle railway game that lives along the edge of your desktop while you work. Buy engines and wagons, deliver cargo, fill contracts and blow the whistle for coins as five districts grow along one long line: vans stop at shop doors, windows light up at dusk and boats drift down the river.

Northrealm Tribes

DevSanja

Build a Viking village, manage resources and guide families through generations. Develop production chains, trade with visiting merchants and defend your settlement against longship raids. Join an online guild to strengthen a shared clan base and wage asynchronous guild wars.

The Mayor’s Hand

JustCodeIt

Build the city, manage resources and services, shape your deck, and face new pressures every quarter. In The Mayor’s Hand, every decision shapes your administration: keep Public Trust high and make it to election day.

Order: The New Dawn

Outer Space Workshop

Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?

Beyond These Stars

Balancing Monkey Games

Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

After the Crash : Colony

Penche Software

Build order on a strange planet, keep your crew alive, and gather the parts needed to repair the crashed main ship. Manage resources, explore new areas, face growing threats, and strengthen your colony a little more with each passing day.

Tiny Monster Village

Congyun

In this cozy village simulation game, you'll help the minions create a unique village and experience a relaxing pastoral life: growing crops, fishing, exploring treasures, and more.

Mischkalon

Clanwirtschaft.de, ElMichaJ

You are the god of a small tribe. Lead your settlers from the Old Stone Age to the High Middle Ages: they gather, carry and build on their own - you provide food, faith and protection from raiders. Free 27 regions on your own or compete against friends.

Dino Island-Jurassic Land

kevinsong11

Go through the dinosaur ages and raise your way up, brace for disasters and catastrophes. Build as you like, and build into a sprawling city! Continue playing after the ending, make your island thrive!

TIMBER! Idle Village Builder

Velron Games

8 titles on Steam

Swing your axe, drop the trees, and watch a village rise from the stumps. Assign villagers to nine trades, unlock a 54-node talent tree, and carry your settlement through five ages — from a primitive camp to a medieval kingdom with a crown of its own.

Life, the Universe, and Restaurants

GARRY

First game from this studio

Run a restaurant in a bizarre universe and cook for customers who call themselves "gods"! Expand your restaurant, deploy robots, and automate your kitchen. Keep business booming—and be ready to deal with any unruly customers.

Aethel Mine

Siva Games

Build a sprawling automated factory across a hand-crafted solar system. Mine, smelt, refine, then route everything by belt, train, and cargo ship — powered by a real electrical grid. 15 orbital launcher milestones stand between you and a finished starship. Steam EA Oct 12.

Powder Inc.

Whirlwind Studios

Build a skier's Valhalla or gouge it into MEGA Resort Inc. Balance the books, weather the storms and avalanches, and keep pace as the mountain demands more. The yeti's real, and it's judging you. A ski resort tycoon based on real world ski development business model, with a taste of mountain culture

WildRoot

Rahul Das

Build a thriving colony in a mysterious forest where every season, setback, and choice creates a different story.

Babel Legacy

Broken Toilet Games

An idle game where you gather resources and grow your city. Sit back and watch your city expand!

Miniciv

yyyz26

Miniciv is an accessible hex‑grid 4X turn‑based strategy. Start with one city and settler, explore and build your budding civilization into a mighty empire. Procedural maps and flexible playtime bring unique runs, pairing easy entry with deep political, trade, faith and industrial mechanics.

Gravebound Rising

Kolbee Lee

Raise a dumb skeleton army. Teach it to think. Build settlements, turn survivors into veteran commanders, and unlock autonomous raids in this single-player necromancy strategy game. You cannot attack directly. Your growing army is your only way to conquer.

Floating Frontiers

Crabeater Games

A minimalist city builder about growing your infinite floating town. Combine 3D blocks to optimize synergies, build idyllic scenery, and chase your high score.

7 days in a little world

kumashin

A living 2D fantasy sandbox where you're one resident, not its ruler. Gather supplies, commission gear, rescue captives and face dragons and giant skeletons. Villagers and monsters act on their own. With the Demon King's assault coming on day seven, whose fate will you change?

Novo: The Colony

Broken Future Games

Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.

Bressnath

Morass

Refound a holding in the drowned Vreldsath fens. Nothing regrows, every load is carried home by hand, and what crawls out of the Sundered Places comes without warning. Push outward, dig up the ruins, hold the line, and win by laying a causeway across water that swallowed every attempt before yours.

Unmoored Isle

liuliu

On a remote Unmoored Isle, players enjoy a simulation game blending farming, business, city-building, and defense. Core gameplay: grow crops, run shops, construct the town, and repel pirate raids. A unique gate-interrogation system lets players screen travelers, balancing order and prosperity.

DreamFisher

KGNF

Looking for a place to unwind with others? A social game where you sit with friends at a private fishing spot - chatting, decorating your space, and capturing memories together. Keep it running and stay a while in your own little retreat.

Realm & Renown

Apokus

Realm & Renown is a fantasy kingdom-building and hero-management game. Build your realm, train different classes, form parties and send them into dangerous dungeons while your heroes develop their own relationships and families.