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Games like ISLANDERS: New Shores

Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.

StrategyIndieSimulationCasualby The Stationreleased Jul 10, 2025
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Top 12 games similar to ISLANDERS: New Shores

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    ISLANDERS

    ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

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    Tranquil Isle

    Tranquil Isle is a lo-fi strategic townbuilder. Create cozy little settlements on the sun-kissed shores of your very own island paradise.

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  3. 3

    Match Village

    Match Village is a minimalist puzzle and strategy game about merge buildings to create villages on colorful islands.

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  4. 4

    Planet Pioneers

    Planet Pioneers is a relaxing building and puzzle game where you prepare new planets for settlers. Build tiles strategically, fulfill quests for your settlers, keep pollution low and enable new buildings along the way. Shape the planet as you wish until it’s time to move on to your next challenge.

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  5. 5

    Isles & Tiles

    Isles & Tiles is a turn-based colony builder with terraforming and deck-builder elements. Balance resource production and demands while raising your island, growing a colony, and providing for the needs of your settlers.

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  6. 6

    TerraScape

    Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

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    RimWorld

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

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    Pioneers of Pagonia

    Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

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    Dorfromantik

    Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

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    Mini Motorways

    Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

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    Reus 2

    Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

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    Timberborn

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

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