Best World Building Games

Tiny Glade is a simulation game that gets you doodling picturesque castles.

Tiny Glade is a simulation game that gets you doodling picturesque castles. More of a toy than a game, you play by placing and moving different elements of your construction.

My Summer Car is a strategy game about doing up a broken-down car over one long summer.

My Summer Car is a strategy game about doing up a broken-down car over one long summer. It sounds simple, but the level of detail is the attraction here.

Core Keeper is a life-simulation strategy game set in a vast cave system where you construct a sprawling base.

Summerhouse is a creative game where you design little vignettes by constructing buildings by dragging and dropping doors, windows, roofs and other paraphernalia.

Summerhouse is a creative game where you design little vignettes by constructing buildings by dragging and dropping doors, windows, roofs and other paraphernalia. Play is about design rather than success or failure, but it still offers surprising outcomes - particularly for players who wouldn't consider themselves creative.

The Block is a creative city-building game where you place buildings and trees to make beautiful miniature scenes.

Retreat to Enen is a peaceful survival game where you explore a tropical island and make your life there.

Retreat to Enen is a peaceful survival game where you explore a tropical island and make your life there. With no hostile creatures, you craft a base that must exist alongside nature rather than treating it as an endless resource.

Disney Dreamlight Valley is a world building game about restoring a broken Disney world.

Disney Dreamlight Valley is a world building game about restoring a broken Disney world. You interact with famous Disney Characters and decorate the valley with a wide variety of items and famous locations.

Wildmender is a world-building game where you unearth the past in the desert.

Wildmender is a world-building game where you unearth the past in the desert. Play involves exploring to discover what has gone before, so you can restore the environment for your future.

Crashlands is a world-building game where you fight monsters, craft resources, and build a base on an alien planet.

Crashlands is a world-building game where you fight monsters, craft resources, and build a base on an alien planet. As you explore, either on your own or with a friend, you encounter locals, complete quests and missions, and meet strange new enemies.

Imagine Earth is a simulation strategy where you manage space colonies for a huge corporation.

Imagine Earth is a simulation strategy where you manage space colonies for a huge corporation. You gather resources, manage your finances, shape the planets and expand your cities while fending off rival companies and alien invaders.

Cult Of The Lamb is a god-sim strategy game, where you are a cult leader rather than an actual god.

Cult Of The Lamb is a god-sim strategy game, where you are a cult leader rather than an actual god. You play a lamb and start your own cult as you venture out into the world of woodland worshippers.

Fae Farm is a simulation game where you build a farmstead, harvest your crops, and go adventuring.

Fae Farm is a simulation game where you build a farmstead, harvest your crops, and go adventuring. It's an increasingly common set-up for a game.

Dice Legacy is a city-building simulation game where dice represent your civilians.

Dice Legacy is a city-building simulation game where dice represent your civilians. You roll the dice and then place the skill that lands face-up on the map to gather resources, expand your outpost, or fight hostile invaders in real time.

Pan'orama is a simulation-building game where you place tiles to score points and lay out an interconnected tapestry world.

Pan'orama is a simulation-building game where you place tiles to score points and lay out an interconnected tapestry world. Play involves deciding where to place each of your tiles to match adjacent land and score the most.

Seabeard is a simple adventure game where you follow in the footsteps of the great sea captain to explore and civilise.

Seabeard is a simple adventure game where you follow in the footsteps of the great sea captain to explore and civilise. Play involves working on each island, tapping to move around, collecting items, talking to locals and developing your economy.

Common'hood is a squatter simulator where you craft the means to survive in an abandoned factory.

Common'hood is a squatter simulator where you craft the means to survive in an abandoned factory. You work to create a thriving community by growing food, constructing shelters, workshops, and eventually high-tech manufacturing.

Manor Lords is a medieval city-building strategy game with a focus on visual and simulated realism.

Manor Lords is a medieval city-building strategy game with a focus on visual and simulated realism. You grow your settlement, manage its politics and relations with other kingdoms, and fight in real-time battles, all while gathering resources and assigning jobs to your people.

My Little Universe is a world-building adventure game where you are stranded on a barren moon with a set of tools.

My Little Universe is a world-building adventure game where you are stranded on a barren moon with a set of tools. You collect resources and build habitation to incrementally improve life on your lonely planet.

Guild of Dungeoneering is a humorous dungeon exploration adventure, but instead of controlling the heroes, you build the dungeon.

Guild of Dungeoneering is a humorous dungeon exploration adventure, but instead of controlling the heroes, you build the dungeon. You play cards to create rooms and place monsters, traps, and shiny loot to lure the hero where you want them to go.

Heliopedia is a world-building game where you create and manage tiny planets.

Heliopedia is a world-building game where you create and manage tiny planets. You play by exploring a solar system, collecting elements and combining them together to create new discoveries.

Islands & Trains is a world-building game where you place landscape, buildings, bridges, tracks and trains for no other purpose than to make satisfying vignettes.

Islands & Trains is a world-building game where you place landscape, buildings, bridges, tracks and trains for no other purpose than to make satisfying vignettes. Inspired by games like Townscaper and Dorfromantik, you play at your own pace, clicking to make the little model train-set world of your dreams.

Land Above Sea Below is a calm landscape-building puzzle game where you raise an island out of the sea to keep the flora and fauna above water.

Land Above Sea Below is a calm landscape-building puzzle game where you raise an island out of the sea to keep the flora and fauna above water. You work to increase your island’s area and height by placing tiles one after one.

Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world game about farming a new planet.

Lightyear Frontier is a peaceful open-world game about farming a new planet. You work to explore, gather resources and build a working farm to harvest alien crops.

RoboCo is a creative physics-based robot-building game where you design and code robots to perform challenging tasks.

RoboCo is a creative physics-based robot-building game where you design and code robots to perform challenging tasks. With the multitude of parts and templates to build from, there are countless ways to approach each situation, be it by creating an eight-legged walker or a wheeled vehicle.

Urbek City Builder is a city-building and resource management game where you grow, plan and shape a city.

Dinkum is a town and life simulator game set in a fantasy Australia.

Dinkum is a town and life simulator game set in a fantasy Australia. Your main goal is to build a town on an island populated by animals and plants to attract townsfolk and businesses.

Farworld Pioneers is a colony-building strategy game where you must adapt to extreme elements, grow self-sufficient communities and deal with aliens.

Farworld Pioneers is a colony-building strategy game where you must adapt to extreme elements, grow self-sufficient communities and deal with aliens. It's a game with simple visuals but surprisingly open play, as you collect resources, develop technology and craft a home-from-home on the new planet.

Into The Restless Ruins is a dungeon-building action game where you create and then enter a dungeon night after night.

Into The Restless Ruins is a dungeon-building action game where you create and then enter a dungeon night after night. You play cards with different-shaped rooms to gradually expand the dungeon towards The Warden's lair, then battle your way through the labyrinth.

Minami Lane is a cost town simulator where you manage a small Japanese-inspired street to improve the residents' lives and make a little money.

Minami Lane is a cost town simulator where you manage a small Japanese-inspired street to improve the residents' lives and make a little money. Play involves laying out and upgrading buildings on the street, as well as developing shops and setting prices for profit.