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Home Wind

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2022

Should you play it?

Home Wind is a minimalist, relaxing and cozy city builder about creating large settlements based on proximity tactics. All for free!

What works

  • Relaxing and cozy atmosphere
  • Generous free content
  • Strategic and challenging gameplay
  • Beautiful hand-drawn art and music
  • Creative building placement

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of undo feature
  • Some repetitiveness in levels
  • Randomness due to roaming animals
  • Paid dlc content behind paywall
  • Minor ui and placement frustrations

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Factory Town

  • Urbek City Builder: Prologue

  • URBO

  • Islands & Trains

  • Voxel Tycoon

  • Modulus: Factory Automation

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Home Wind but with more leadership over others

  • Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt

  • Pharaoh™: A New Era

  • Outlanders

  • Kingdoms and Castles

  • Cultures - 8th Wonder of the World

  • MicroTown

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Home Wind but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Tower Factory

  • Artisan TD

  • Kingdom's Deck

  • Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense

  • There Are No Orcs

  • Nebuchadnezzar

More violent

Games that feels like Home Wind but with more combat and destruction

  • Ancient Planet Tower Defense

  • Tiny Tactics

  • Iron Sea Defenders

  • Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense

  • Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense

  • Risen Kingdom

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Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Home Wind: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Survival.

Last update: 04/08/2026