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LakeSide
A cozy minimalist city builder. Build and manage a quiet town by the lake or expand it into a picturesque city state in this side-scrolling city builder featuring hybrid mechanics. Construct marvelous buildings, epic wonders and become the envy of the known world!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“The game is very chill and relaxing. Pixellart is good quality and building designs are great. The game play quickly becomes repetitive and eventually you just sit and stare at the screen waiting for new building to unlock. Achievements are bugged : i have not gotten any…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“LakeSide is a textbook example of a game that is carried by its aesthetics. The gameplay itself is very simple and I was able to do three complete playthroughs and get all achievements in under six hours, but the pixel art is so beautiful that I cannot resist giving it a…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Well, it looks great, but the normal mode is super slow, and, given the limited land mass, you need to spend a lot of time doing nothing and waiting for new upgrades, even if you have enough housing and production.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Version 1.0.5
Hello! A new small but important update is now live! Added a new city background called 'Minas' to the legendary game mode New UI showing output for each resource Fixed some bugs related to some soldi
Patch 1.0.2b - Portuguese added
Hello! With this minor patch we just added Portuguese translation to the game! Thank you!
Hotfix 1.0.2a
Hello! It seems there was an issue with one of the maps in Legendary mode that made the UI unresponsive. We fixed the issue and all the affected saves should get back to normal. Happy holidays!
New Mode: Legendary
Hello! With version 1.0.2 we introduce a new game mode! Legendary Mode: A mode for longer game runs so you can be able to build larger and even more epic cities. This mode uses larger maps, so you hav
Patch 1.0.1
Hello! With this small patch we fixed some issues and started the work for some new updates coming in the future. A reminder that if you achieve a victory in a save game you can continue playing, but
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Strategy · Side Scroller · Base-Building · Cozy · 2D · Relaxing · Multiple Endings · Pixel Graphics · Medieval · Colony Sim · Building (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal |
| Achievements | 8 |
| Official site | http://massivegalaxy.com/lakeside/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 2.2Ghz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: intel hd 3000 Storage: 150 MB available space