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A relaxing single-player sandbox where you build surreal structures and fill them with strange entities, best enjoyed in short bursts.

Islands & Trains
A stress-free island sandbox for building tiny railway dioramas, with a short, relaxing playtime and occasionally finicky asset placement.
2025-05-29
- Indie
- Simulator

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Games like architect

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Games like architect

A relaxing single-player sandbox where you build surreal structures and fill them with strange entities, best enjoyed in short bursts.

Islands & Trains
A stress-free island sandbox for building tiny railway dioramas, with a short, relaxing playtime and occasionally finicky asset placement.
2025-05-29
- Indie
- Simulator

Sandbox

Diorama Builder

A relaxing single-player simulation of assembling 3D dioramas piece by piece, with a collection you can admire and interact with; roughly 13-16 hours of play.

2024-06-21

Puzzle
Indie
Simulator

URBO

A cozy city-building puzzle game where you create towns on floating islands by placing buildings on an empty grid.

2023-09-13

Puzzle
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Sandbox
Virtual Reality

ISLANDERS: New Shores

A calm, minimalist single-player city builder about building an island retreat through satisfying building combos, with a cozy, low-pressure tone and a relaxed ~10-17 hour experience.

2025-07-10

Puzzle
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Sandbox

Outside the Blocks

A casual single-player diorama builder with terrain shaping and modular houses, offering short relaxing creative sessions despite some limited options.

2025-11-04

Indie
Simulator

The Architect: Paris

A casual construction game focused on architectural creativity, letting players reshape Paris through freeform building and district customization.

2021-09-30

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Business
Sandbox

Atlas Architect

A casual world-building sandbox where simple controls let players shape biomes and elevation.

2021-04-26

Simulator

Tiny Glade

A cozy, goal-free single-player diorama builder for doodling castles and cottages in a meadow, with procedural detail and highly variable session lengths.

2024-09-23

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

SUMMERHOUSE

A cozy, goal-free 2.5D pixel-art sandbox for building small lived-in houses, offering a calm creative escape typically enjoyed in short sessions around two hours.

2024-03-08

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

Townscaper

A peaceful single-player toy about placing blocks to grow idyllic seaside towns and cities, often in short relaxed sessions.

2021-08-26

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Sandbox

Dystopika

A chill, no-goal cyberpunk city-building sandbox focused on creative construction and dark cozy atmosphere, with a short play session length and strong community mod support.