Games Like Desktop Bonsai Towns

A city that grows on a bonsai

Desktop Bonsai Towns is an observation sim. A voxel bonsai slowly grows in its pot, and a cyberpunk city builds itself on the trunk and branches: towers, sky bridges, neon signs, holographic ads, an elevated loop line and airships. You are the observer. Leave it running beside your work and glance over now and then. The first world is Cyberpunk Town. We also plan to add worlds with different themes in the future.

Put it on your desktop

Desktop mode hides the background and the interface, so only the bonsai sits on top of your desktop. Clicks on empty space pass through to the apps behind it, you can drag the pot anywhere on screen, and Ctrl+Alt+B brings the full window back from any app. The city keeps growing while you work in other windows.

A living city

A light touch

Grow, finish, replant

A bonsai takes several hours of real time to finish. Each run grows a bonsai in a traditional style, with rare wild variants. Finished trees go on your bonsai shelf, where you can view them in 3D, fill the collection and unlock new pots for the next planting. If the city falls, an end-of-days chronicle shows what went wrong and offers a hint for next time.