Wood and Weather is a simulation game where you play god in a wooden toy city.

Wood and Weather is a simulation game where you play god in a wooden toy city. You interact with the world using your floating blue hand to change switches and control the weather.

Islanders is a city-building game where you carefully place structures to earn points from their geographic location and relation to other features and buildings on your islands.

Islanders is a city-building game where you carefully place structures to earn points from their geographic location and relation to other features and buildings on your islands. Earn enough points and you unlock new buildings and eventually the chance to move to a new island.

Viva Pinata is a strategy garden simulation where you tend and care for 60 different piñata animals.

Viva Pinata is a strategy garden simulation where you tend and care for 60 different piñata animals. Play involves interacting with the Pinata themselves, but also creating the right environment to attract new creatures and helping them thrive.

The Sims puts you in charge of a world of characters living normal lives.

The Sims puts you in charge of a world of characters living normal lives. By providing a home, a job, leisure, friendships and even a love interest, you work to make them happy.

Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress.

Dwarf Fortress is a longstanding strategy game set in a fantasy world where you control a group of dwarves wanting to construct a wealthy fortress. It's unusual not only for its text-based appearance but for its expansive scope, and intricately modelled characters, psychology, politics, landscape, creatures, minerals and vegetation.

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.

Nekokami is a world-building narrative game about designing planets to please cat spirits.

Nekokami is a world-building narrative game about designing planets to please cat spirits. Play involves choosing where to place hexagonal tiles to create landscapes that create the right conditions for cute creatures to move in.

Toca Life: World is part of a series of games that comprise what are essentially toys in electronic form.

Townscaper is a creative town-building game where you pick colours from the range available and click to put down a house in the sea.

Townscaper is a creative town-building game where you pick colours from the range available and click to put down a house in the sea. As you continue to add houses of different colours the game automatically orientates the architecture for you.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful village-building strategy puzzle game for one player, inspired by tile-based board games like Carcassonne.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful village-building strategy puzzle game for one player, inspired by tile-based board games like Carcassonne. You have a stack of hexagonal tiles and work to match their edges while creating areas of towns, forests and fields to score points.

Sid Meier's Civilization is a long-running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter-gatherer to space travel.

Sid Meier's Civilization is a long-running strategy game where you develop a society from hunter-gatherer to space travel. There are many ways to approach this challenge; socially, militarily, politically or perhaps by building wonders to impress other nations.

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.

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.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a life simulation game where you design your dream village in a world filled with anthropomorphic animals.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a life simulation game where you design your dream village in a world filled with anthropomorphic animals. Like other Animal Crossing games, you design and decorate your home, collect and sell items, chat and play with villagers, and partake in activities throughout the days and weeks.

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet.

Loddlenaut is an ecological adventure where you are sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. You explore the sea, cleaning up waste products and repurposing marine debris while taking care of friendly alien creatures.

Against the Storm is a construction-based strategy game where you build outposts, towns and villages in an eternally rainy world.

Against the Storm is a construction-based strategy game where you build outposts, towns and villages in an eternally rainy world. Unlike other city builders, this is a game where you attempt and fail over and over.

Hokko Life is a community simulation game like Animal Crossing.

Hokko Life is a community simulation game like Animal Crossing. You pick a town and set up your home, before spending time helping the place develop into a charming rural idyl everyone loves.

Timberborn is a construction strategy game where you control a population of beavers, building a civilisation and preparing for drought.

Timberborn is a construction strategy game where you control a population of beavers, building a civilisation and preparing for drought. You build waterways, storage houses, dams and more in a densely packed city as you manage resources, allocate buildings and ensure you have enough precious water.

Humankind is a strategy game where you develop a civilisation through the many ages of humanity's existence, from the nomadic tribes of ancient history to the space age.

RimWorld is a sci-fi strategy game about survival, trading, exploring and developing your colony.

RimWorld is a sci-fi strategy game about survival, trading, exploring and developing your colony. You start the game with three survivors of a shipwreck on a distant planet and begin to craft structures, weapons and clothes.

Tomodachi Life is a social simulation game where you develop an island to accommodate inhabitants and offer them a fuller life.

Tomodachi Life is a social simulation game where you develop an island to accommodate inhabitants and offer them a fuller life. You do this by interacting with islanders and solving their problems to earn buildings that expand the options for your island inhabitants.

Animal Crossing is a quirky life simulation game where you live in a small village and build your dream home.

Animal Crossing is a quirky life simulation game where you live in a small village and build your dream home. You develop relationships with the animal townsfolk, collect fossils, fish and insects and build a home to help the village grow.

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.

Alt254 is a minimalistic adventure game.

Alt254 is a minimalistic adventure game. Using just a few pixels, it boils down the elements of adventuring (exploration, chests, enemies and landscapes) to the absolute minimum visual representation.

Green New Deal Simulator is a strategy game where you must shift the US economy to net zero carbon.

Green New Deal Simulator is a strategy game where you must shift the US economy to net zero carbon. You place Effect cards on the map to choose how each area grows its green energy while also minimising unemployment.

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.

Monterona is a creative game where you build Italian-style towns, inspired by your grandma’s stories.

Monterona is a creative game where you build Italian-style towns, inspired by your grandma’s stories. Play focuses on imaginatively placing and detailing houses, walkways, green spaces and canals to create your own unique town.

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault is an action role-playing game about an adventurous shopkeeper who longs to become a successful hero.

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault is an action role-playing game about an adventurous shopkeeper who longs to become a successful hero. It's a game with two sides, defeating enemies to collect loot, and selling the rare items you find to build a shop for the locals.

River Towns is a world-building puzzle about strategically constructing towns and districts along river banks to score points.

River Towns is a world-building puzzle about strategically constructing towns and districts along river banks to score points. Play involves placing Tetris-shaped town pieces in a limited grid to coordinate their shape and colour to maximise points earned.