Games like ShantyTown
If ShantyTown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ourlands, Furnish Master and Mini Worlds — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, cozy and relaxing. 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 ShantyTown: ShantyTown is a relaxing diorama-building game about finding beauty in everyday chaos. Bring new locations to life, stack your urban buildings high, and fill each little nook and cranny with your own touch. Try your hand at shaping a cozy little town that is unique to you.
Players who liked ShantyTown also play
Steam players who put hours into ShantyTown 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.
Ourlands
WHY THIS
Top pick for ShantyTown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Ourlands is a cozy island builder where you handcraft and play around in bespoke little lands and truly explore your creativity. No goals, no management, just vibes.
Furnish Master
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with ShantyTown.
Second-strongest match for ShantyTown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Furnish Master is a relaxing game about furnishing apartments, houses, commercial estate and even outdoor territory! Realize your design dreams!
Mini Worlds
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ShantyTown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Mini Worlds is a cozy building toy about creating tiny cities on a small world. Build and decorate with no goals or timer.
Cozy Home Cleanup
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ShantyTown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with ShantyTown.
Clean floors, fix crooked decorations, organize clutter, and transform messy rooms into warm, peaceful homes. Relax and enjoy a satisfying cozy cleanup experience.
DEEPLANDERS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ShantyTown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
DEEPLANDERS is a minimalist construction puzzle game about populating the depths and bringing light into them. Build cozy underground cities and find the perfect place for each Deeplander to live in harmony.
Le Château
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ShantyTown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Create your own Medieval Kingdom and watch your world come to life in this minimalistic city builder. Choose your world's size and shape, and turn it into a kingdom any ruler would be jealous of.
Painting PC
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ShantyTown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Think you've got what it takes to become a famous artist? Start with one brush and absolutely no followers. Take on commissions, gain fans, unlock new tools, and build your reputation one painting at a time. Will clients happily pay the full amount, or wonder what they've just spent their money on?
Twinkleby
WHY THIS
Shares atmospheric and a cozy mood with ShantyTown.
Ranked #8 for ShantyTown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Twinkleby is a cozy decoration game where you map out an archipelago of floating islands and build dioramas for a society of spacefaring Neighbours. Expand your collection, discover antique secrets, decorate, and when you change your mind – evict everyone and throw their furniture into space!
Reviewers mention these as similar to ShantyTown
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Townscaper
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with ShantyTown.
Reviewers of ShantyTown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
Tiny Glade
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with ShantyTown.
Reviewers of ShantyTown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Tiny Glade is a small diorama builder where you doodle whimsical castles, cozy cottages & romantic ruins. Explore gridless building chemistry as the game adorns your glades with procedural detail. No management, combat or goals: just kick back and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ShantyTown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with ShantyTown.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Cloud Gardens
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ShantyTown.
Reviewers of ShantyTown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ShantyTown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under ShantyTown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
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 ~67% under ShantyTown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ShantyTown.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under ShantyTown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ShantyTown.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under ShantyTown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ShantyTown.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under ShantyTown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ShantyTown.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under ShantyTown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
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 ~67% under ShantyTown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ShantyTown.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under ShantyTown on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with ShantyTown.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ShantyTown.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ShantyTown.
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 ShantyTown.
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 ShantyTown.
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 ShantyTown.
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 ShantyTown.
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.
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Frequently asked about ShantyTown
- How much does ShantyTown cost?
- ShantyTown is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ShantyTown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ShantyTown are Ourlands, Furnish Master, Mini Worlds.
- Who developed ShantyTown?
- ShantyTown was developed by Erik Rempen and published by Kinephantom Games.
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 ShantyTown.
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