Games like Blockville
If Blockville is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factory Town, Rail Route and Foundation — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Blockville: Blockville is a relaxing, funny, stylized city building simulation game where you can build a city inspired by the toys you all used to play with as a child. A mix of modern day city building sim with a comedy twist. Now you have an excuse to play again as an adult in this stylized city sim.
Players who liked Blockville also play
Steam players who put hours into Blockville also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Top pick for Blockville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blockville.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Rail Route
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Blockville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blockville.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Foundation
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Blockville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blockville.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Blockville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blockville.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Blockville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blockville.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Blockville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blockville.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Blockville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blockville.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Blockville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blockville.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Blockville at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blockville on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Blockville.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blockville on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Blockville.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blockville on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blockville.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blockville on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Blockville.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Blockville on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Blockville.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blockville on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Blockville.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Blockville on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Blockville.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Blockville on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Blockville.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blockville.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Blockville.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blockville.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Blockville.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blockville.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blockville.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Blockville.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Blockville.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from SCT
Other recommendable Steam games by SCT, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Prospekt
WHY THIS
Another title from SCT, the studio behind Blockville.
Prospekt begins in the Nova Prospekt prison in the Half-Life universe. Gordon Freeman is slowly being overrun by soldiers in the prison, however unknown to him, his Vortigaunt allies manage to find some help from a forgotten hero.
Gunsmith
WHY THIS
Another title from SCT, the studio behind Blockville. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blockville.
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
JUNKPUNK
WHY THIS
Another title from SCT, the studio behind Blockville. Shares Indie and Simulation with Blockville.
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
Kinetic Edge
WHY THIS
Another title from SCT, the studio behind Blockville. Shares Indie and Casual with Blockville.
Kinetic Edge is a physics platformer based racing game where you have to figure out the best way to overcome obstacle courses with a shape of your choice. Play on your own, with friends or multiplayer!
Frequently asked about Blockville
- How much does Blockville cost?
- Blockville is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Blockville?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blockville are Factory Town, Rail Route, Foundation.
- Who developed Blockville?
- Blockville was developed by SCT.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Blockville.
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