TerraScape

I picked up TerraScape because someone pitched it as similar to Dorfromantik. I ended up playing through the puzzle challenges first, which was a good way of learning the building types but not very engaging. After I finished those, I tried the free play mode where you simply build things on a map, which was much more exciting. It’s quite relaxing—the game UI tells you how many points something will give you when you hover over a spot, so you don’t have to remember how many points everything gives.

Game screenshot of a hexagonal map of a farm, with a house and its six surrounding tiles highlighted.
placing a house here would get you 80 points