Games like Mini Settlers
If Mini Settlers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Captain of Industry, Timberborn and Plan B: Terraform — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its biome specific resource logistics, challenging and contemplative. 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 Mini Settlers: Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
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Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares production chains and a cozy mood with Mini Settlers.
Top pick for Mini Settlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mini Settlers.
Second-strongest match for Mini Settlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
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.
Plan B: Terraform
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Mini Settlers.
Third-strongest match for Mini Settlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mini Settlers.
Ranked #4 for Mini Settlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
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.
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
WHY THIS
Shares city building, resource management and a challenging mood with Mini Settlers.
Ranked #5 for Mini Settlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Mini Settlers.
Ranked #6 for Mini Settlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Mini Settlers: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares production chains, city building, simulation and a cozy mood with Mini Settlers.
Ranked #7 for Mini Settlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mini Settlers.
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Flotsam
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mini Settlers.
Ranked #8 for Mini Settlers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
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Mini Metro
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mini Settlers.
Reviewers of Mini Settlers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a contemplative mood with Mini Settlers.
Reviewers of Mini Settlers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
shapez
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Mini Settlers.
Reviewers of Mini Settlers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Mini Settlers.
Reviewers of Mini Settlers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mini Settlers.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Mini Settlers.
Reviewers of Mini Settlers cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mini Settlers at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Mini Settlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mini Settlers.
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 ~62% under Mini Settlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mini Settlers.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Mini Settlers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mini Settlers.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Mini Settlers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Mini Settlers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
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 ~62% under Mini Settlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mini Settlers.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Mini Settlers on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mini Settlers.
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 ~62% under Mini Settlers on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mini Settlers.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mini Settlers.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mini Settlers.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mini Settlers.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mini Settlers.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mini Settlers.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
100 Asian Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mini Settlers.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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More from Knight Owl Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Knight Owl Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Run Build Pew!
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Mini Settlers.
Another title from Knight Owl Games, the studio behind Mini Settlers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
You’re being Bounty-Hunted! Run, Build your ship piece-by-piece and make it work with the parts you find, Destroy outposts and waves of fleets, and Pick your battles carefully to overcome your hunters in this Fast-Paced Top-Down Action Roguelite Shooter.
Village Tale
WHY THIS
Shares production chains, city building and cozy with Mini Settlers.
Another title from Knight Owl Games, the studio behind Mini Settlers. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mini Settlers.
A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!
Mini Settlers: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares production chains, city building, simulation and a cozy mood with Mini Settlers.
Another title from Knight Owl Games, the studio behind Mini Settlers. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mini Settlers.
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Wandness: WandCraft Survivor
WHY THIS
Another title from Knight Owl Games, the studio behind Mini Settlers.
Craft wands, create synergies, battle monsters, and survive. Dive into the depths of magic crafting, where you'll forge spells from magical components and elemental gems for endless combinations. Explore procedurally generated dungeons, and unleash your magic madness to overcome the darkness.
Frequently asked about Mini Settlers
- Does Mini Settlers run on Steam Deck?
- Mini Settlers is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Mini Settlers cost?
- Mini Settlers is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Mini Settlers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mini Settlers are Captain of Industry, Timberborn, Plan B: Terraform.
- Who developed Mini Settlers?
- Mini Settlers was developed by Knight Owl Games and published by Goblinz Publishing, IndieArk.
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