Strategy: Builder

A floating island with dollhouses and lots of lovely furnishings, from Twinkleby

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Twinkleby is a floating dollhouse village sim with a touch of Animal Crossing

From the creators of Book Of Travels

April 8, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

A hexagonal map of grassy, ocean and rocky tiles, with buildings and a large volcano. From the game Before The Ash.

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It's time to build an ancient Roman city near an exploding volcano

Pompeii? Nah, it's free

April 4, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Gleaming white factory buildings and tidy conveyor belts seen through trees in Modulus

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Modulus is a "Zen" factory builder in which you build pieces of other factories

Now taking demo sign-ups on Steam

March 28, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

5 comments

Two armies face off in the demo for strategy game 9 Kings.

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9 Kings is a roguelike city builder that's actually just an excuse to launch rocks at people

Stratapult

March 17, 2025Nic Reuben

5 comments

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Islanders: New Shores is the follow-up to 2019's gentlest town-builder

Out summer 2025

Feb. 28, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

3 comments

A screenshot from Microtopia showing the game's factory management interface, with ant worker trails, neon plants and other facilities in the foreground.

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How do you turn an ant nest into a factory? A chat with the makers of Microtopia

Circuit of life

Feb. 28, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

4 comments

A tile-based pixelart city in the darkness from the strategy game Dawnfolk

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Dawnfolk is a cheerful pixelart city builder that lets you raise a kingdom in minutes

Out now, still has a demo

Feb. 14, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

3 comments

A collapsing tower in ocean-set city-builder All Will Fall

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What kind of diseased mind makes a city builder with actual building physics

Set on weeny post-apocalyptic islands, no less

Jan. 23, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Defending your kingdom in minimalist city builder The King Is Watching.

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My most anticipated indie of 2025 quietly updated its demo build while I was off eating lunch

The King Is Watching, but I wasn't apparently

Jan. 21, 2025Nic Reuben

7 comments

A group of tanks and artillery shooting at a huge mass of purple vegetation on a desert planet in strategy game Calyx

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In creepy real-time strategy game Calyx you battle a huge mass of alien plants

Rout the sprouts

Jan. 21, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

12 comments

A misty blue-green-white view of underground drilling structures nestled among weird organic objects and rock formations in Anoxia Station

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Petro-horror strategy game Anoxia Station makes Frostpunk look positively welcoming

First demo offers powerful atmosphere and a fussy interface

Jan. 15, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

5 comments

Two huge armadas of spaceships doing battle in Annihilate The Spance

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I reckon you autobattler sickos will like Annihilate The Spance, probably you RTS nutters too

Spance! The final fronntier

Jan. 14, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

17 comments

Subnautica 2, Mushroom Musume, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Monster Hunter: Wilds screenshots.

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Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025

Here's what we're excited about in what looks like a big year

Jan. 8, 2025Graham Smith

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A maze of rooms on tiles in The Deadly Path

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Strategy game The Deadly Path is Dungeon Keeper with a writhing helping of tabletop time management

Dready player one

Jan. 7, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

11 comments

A snowy street in The Bustling World with cross-sections of people mingling indoors

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Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim

Too ambitious for its own good?

Jan. 2, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

31 comments

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Supporters only | Goblin Camp is about weird little guys who get things done

Know no shaman

Dec. 19, 2024Sin Vega

2 comments

An isometric procedurally generated landscape from Times Of Progress, showing cities linked by railways among hills, mountains and forests.

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Times Of Progress is an elegant, focussed city builder set during the Industrial Revolution

More steam engines for Steam

Dec. 18, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

A robot stands on top of a building overlooking a colourful city with giant mechs in the distance.

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The robotic overlords of strategy-RPG Heart Of The Machine have graced us with a release date

Very generous of them

Dec. 3, 2024Brendan Caldwell

5 comments

A map of a post-apocalyptic UK made up of green countryside and city ruins with icons denoting zombies, from After Inc: Revival

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The creators of pandemic sim Plague Inc are back with 4X city builder After Inc: Revival

Start again in an undead UK

Nov. 28, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

9 comments

Two ambulances attend players at the front.

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I play Foxhole as a pacifist medic who refuses to carry a gun but the enemy doesn't seem impressed

Trust me, I'm sort of a doctor

Nov. 28, 2024Brendan Caldwell

15 comments

A player hitting a bunch of enemies in Overthrown

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Overthrown is a city builder where you can throw your whole city at the sky because secretly, you hate city builders

Also supports six player co-op

Nov. 21, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

7 comments

A guest of the water park slides down a body slide into a packed pool.

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Planet Coaster 2 review: a good water park is hard to build

Annoying sliders

Nov. 13, 2024Brendan Caldwell

16 comments

A bunch of weird little critters scurrying around a campfire in Build The Sun, holding logs and stones

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Here's a free god sim from the Shotgun King devs in which you Build The Sun

Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 56

Oct. 22, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

5 comments

A horrible monster train with an eye and fleshy bits, travelling through a dark world with Cthulhu reaching toward it in the sky

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In action strategy builder RailGods, Cthulhu is a train and you'd better keep it fed

All aboard the Azathoth Express

Oct. 21, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

A green landscape with several medieval towns in County Of Fortune

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In medieval strategy sim County Of Fortune you run a whole county's worth of quarrelling towns

Unless you persuade them to get along

Oct. 17, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

18 comments