Tidy Town Mayor

Tidy Town Mayor is a cozy city sim that scales its ambition to your patience. You lay roads, zone houses and shops, and keep your little residents happy. It's not SimCity, and it doesn't pretend to be, but the balancing act between space and services is genuinely engaging.

The controls are clean drag-and-place tools, and the game is smart about letting you undo mistakes without penalty, which keeps the experimenting fun. Watching a scrappy village grow into a tidy grid of streets is oddly moving.

It leans casual and there's not much of a fail state, so if you want tension look elsewhere. But as a relaxing thing to poke at over weeks, it's very easy to love.

What we liked

• Forgiving, undo-friendly building tools
• Satisfying growth from village to town
• Perfect low-stress background game