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Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Price -57% 10.81€
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Sep 2025
Dungeon Warfare 3 Forge invincible defenses with lethal traps and devious machines, and crush relentless waves of adventurers in the ultimate tower defense showdown!

Price 18.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 Aug 2025
Sip Fisher Have you ever wanted to drink an entire lake through a straw? Well now you can in this cozy incremental fishing game! There's so much to sip in the lake, so upgrade your straw, drink up schools of fish, and maybe find what's at the bottom of the Lake!

Price -30% 3.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 27 Aug 2025
Beyond the Map Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.3
Release 25 Aug 2025
Noble Legacy Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?

Price 24.50€
Rating 6.9
Release 12 Aug 2025
The Scouring The Scouring is an RTS with fast pace, high attention to detail and next generation experience. Lead humans or orcs in a Classic Mode or use one of powerful Heroes to fight for victory! Play alone or with friends. Use our modding tools to create maps and custom game modes! Join The Scouring!

Price -68% 8.03€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Aug 2025
CleanFall CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 08 Aug 2025
MakeRoom Build rooms, gardens, and camper vans with 1,100+ objects and the ability to make your own furniture from scratch. Learn with gentle design requests, then relax and create at your own pace.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 07 Aug 2025
Fuel Harvest Together Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!

Price -30% 9.65€
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Aug 2025
Another Farm Roguelike: Rebirth Discover the ultimate farming roguelike experience! Build, craft, and grow your farm to pay off the increasing rent. No slow-paced walking or social distractions—just click! Reclaim the joy of strategic farming in diverse maps and let your cursor guide you to success. Play your way, rent won’t wait!

Price -54% 3.21€
Rating 7.0
Release 01 Aug 2025
Tiny Terraces A cozy idle farming game, watch tiny guys do tasks around the terrace, expand, progress, and decorate your Tiny Terrace.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 31 Jul 2025
Bus Flipper: Renovator Simulator Have you ever wondered “What if I buy an old bus and convert it into a camper? Or maybe a cafe on wheels?”. This bus conversion simulator will give you that! You will get a variety of different buses and vans to convert. Clean, destroy, create, customize, test it, sell and make profit!

Price -40% 9.59€
Rating 7.7
Release 31 Jul 2025
Lakeside Bar A cozy management sim where the jazz is smooth, the cocktails are cooler than the evening breeze, and the lake reflects your perfect escape.

Price -65% 2.07€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Jul 2025
A World of Keflings Keflings may be small, but their kingdom-building adventures are gigantic! Build a world with your friends in A World of Keflings! Harvest resources, construct robots, befriend a dragon, and help a creepy witch get even creepier in this update of the classic 2010 city-building adventure.

Price 11.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Jul 2025
Let Them Trade Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Price -88% 2.31€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Jul 2025
Pile Up! "Pile Up!" is a strategic building game which you need to build houses, fulfill your people’s requests and manage your risky buildings in different ways on a small land. But don’t let your guard down in this chill environment, we only get you relaxed so you destroy everything you did.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Jul 2025
Fill Up The Hole Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Jul 2025
Return from Core Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.

Price -71% 4.82€
Rating 7.2
Release 17 Jul 2025
Gaucho and the Grassland LIVE like a LATIN COWBOY as you EXPLORE, HELP others, and bring HARMONY between HUMANS and MYSTICAL BEINGS in a RELAXING COZY ADVENTURE.

Price -52% 9.37€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 Jul 2025
Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.

Price -83% 1.70€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Jul 2025
Kaizen: A Factory Story Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.

Price -6% 18.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Jul 2025
Devil Spire Falls The open-world action-RPG, where you can do anything, of your dreams… as if it came out 30 years ago!

Price -20% 11.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Jul 2025
Primordialis Primordialis is a physics-based roguelike fish builder. Unleash your creativity to defeat creatures using venomous tentacles, electrical shocks, or exploding children. The possibilities are endless. Explore the primordial depths to reveal its secrets and discover what lies beyond.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 02 Jul 2025
Not Monday Cafe Cozy idle cafe management that keeps you company while you work. Grow fresh ingredients, cook, and serve delicious food to adorable animal customers. Build your dream cafe that sits at the bottom of your screen.

Price -66% 3.00€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Jun 2025
Chinese Frontiers Plan, build, and unwind in medieval China. Lead villagers, fine-tune production, and craft iconic Chinese landmarks brick by brick. Roam passes, deserts, and river valleys; farm, cook, and decorate. Master new crafts, earn imperial favor, and turn smart design into lasting legacy.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Jun 2025
Desk Paws Collect over 100 stylish little pets on your desktop! They can freely move along the bottom of your screen, or live in the little houses you've carefully decorated for them. Hmm... or perhaps send them on adventures to earn treats?

Price -57% 2.55€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Jun 2025
After Inc: Revival Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.

Price 17.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Jun 2025
Cube Chaos Cube Chaos is a complex strategy roguelike about placing units to create giant armies, factories, combos, or self replicating murder crabs, overwhelming and outsmarting your opponents. Build and adapt new strategies each run using a ludicrous variety of units, perks and more.

Price 11.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 17 Jun 2025
Bank Simulator Build and manage your financial empire from a small bank to a global powerhouse. Approve loans, trade bonds, hire staff, and master the market in Bank Simulator a business management sim and banking tycoon where every economic decision impacts your bottom line

Price -53% 7.00€
Rating 7.0
Release 06 Jun 2025
Zombie Graveyard Simulator Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

Price -42% 8.11€
Rating 8.5
Release 05 Jun 2025
Snacko Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!

Price 24.50€
Rating 9.1
Release 25 May 2025
Lynked: Banner of the Spark Build a bright new world alongside a band of rescued robot buddies! In this colorful action RPG, battle waves of enemies in solo or co-op, then return home and use their parts to craft a thriving town. Assemble your crew and grow stronger with each new adventure!

Price -41% 8.00€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 May 2025
Worshippers of Cthulhu LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Price -79% 5.17€
Rating 8.2
Release 22 May 2025
Tales of Seikyu Inspired by the charm of games like Fields of Mistria and Rune Factory, Tales of Seikyu is a cozy adventure filled with warmth, nature, and magic! Farm, decorate and find love in this charming and mystical fantasy farming sim.

Price -57% 10.59€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 May 2025
Blacksmith Master Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Price -81% 3.91€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 May 2025
Preserve Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

Price -78% 2.83€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 May 2025

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