Games Like Islands & Trains

Islands & Trains

Craft tiny railway dioramas in a stress-free island sandbox. No rules or timers - just design, build, and enjoy.

★ GOURDLETS ★ SHANTYTOWN ★ THE ARCHITECT: PARIS ★ SUMMERHOUSE ★ THE BLOCK ★ FANTASTIC HAVEN: PROLOGUE ★ TOWN TO CITY ★ OUTSIDE THE BLOCKS ★ TOWNSCAPER ★ URBO ★ OUTLANDERS ★ STEAMWORLD BUILD ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Gourdlets

93% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

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!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Decorate Island Homes
  • …Welcome Gourdlet Trains
  • …Watch Residents Fish
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ShantyTown

98% 👍 OF 474
About This Game

ShantyTown is a relaxing diorama-building game about finding beauty in everyday chaos. Bring new locations to life, stack your urban buildings high, and fill each little nook and cranny with your own touch. Try your hand at shaping a cozy little town that is unique to you.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …line up two or more bicycles and have them merge into an actual bicycle rack.
  • …finish a location, frame the shot, take a photo, and file it into a dossier for that place.
  • …move on to the next map and still see earlier settlements hanging in the background or on the horizon.
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The Architect: Paris

73% 👍 OF 234
About This Game

The Architect: Paris is a construction game that allows you to shape the city of Paris into what you want. Destroy, draw, build your own architectural projects, customizing each building carefully or entire districts at once.

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The Block

71% 👍 OF 185
About This Game

The Block is the world's smallest city builder. Place randomly generated buildings on a square and build up a tiny but perfectly formed city block! It's a very small game - more of a tiny little toy with no goals or challenges - hence the very small price :)

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Fantastic Haven: Prologue

75% 👍 OF 280
About This Game

Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.

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Town to City

97% 👍 OF 7.1K
About This Game

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch decorations change form depending on where you place them—like one lamp becoming a wall light, door light, or floating water lamp.
  • …zoom from a citywide view down to street level, then walk around your own town in first person and go inside shops.
  • …link multiple towns into a shared region with farms, tourism, trade routes, and travel connections so they support each other.
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Townscaper

95% 👍 OF 21K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …design a whole town and export it as a .OBJ for 3D printing or use as a map reference.
  • …drop a single block and watch it turn into houses, arches, stairways, bridges, or rooftop roads.
  • …delete blocks under a building and it reshapes into stilts or opens into arches.
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URBO

92% 👍 OF 681
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Merge Matching Buildings
  • …Grow Floating Towns
  • …Expand Across Islands
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Outlanders

90% 👍 OF 514
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Villagers Choose Jobs
  • …Trade Morale for Output
  • …Build to Mission Goals
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SteamWorld Build

85% 👍 OF 2.3K
About This Game

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build a SteamBot Town
  • …Satisfy Resident Needs
  • …Dig Deeper Mine Levels