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Builder Bros

Inherit your samurai family's forgotten island and rebuild it by hand — chop, mine, and raise multi-story homes across sunlit beaches, snowy peaks, and glowing caves. Trade tips with the locals, play a hand of cards, fend off bumbling hunters and shinobi, and earn the ancestral katana.

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Neon Planet Studio
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Neon Planet Studio
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About the Game

Rebuild the island your ancestors left behind


You're the heir to a samurai line, and the family island has gone quiet — homes fallen, paths overgrown, the old
katana waiting for someone worthy to draw it. Pick up your axe, pickaxe, and hammer, and bring it back to life, one
hand-placed beam at a time.

Builder Bros is a cozy chibi island-builder with a bit of bite: build a real home, explore five hand-crafted biomes,
befriend the locals — and stand your ground when trouble wanders in.

Build a home that's actually yours

  • Place every piece by hand — floors, walls, windows, doors, roofs, stairs, and furniture, snapped cleanly to the
    grid.
  • Go vertical. Chain staircases into flights and stack multi-storey homes you can walk all the way through.
  • Gather what you need — chop trees, mine stone, and shape the land under a living day/night sky.

Explore one island, five worlds

  • Sunlit main island with beaches, forests, and a buildable homestead.
  • Glowing caves and a deeper underground river world far below.
  • A southern desert — cacti, heat-shimmer, tumbleweeds, and a distant city burning neon on the horizon at night.
  • Snowy northern peaks with a warm onsen bathhouse that heals you while you soak.
  • Ancient torii gates standing watch between the worlds…

A living, friendly island

  • Meet the locals — islanders who greet you, share tips, and have their own daily rhythm.
  • Buildbreaker — a quick, characterful card game to break up a day of building.
  • Earn your blade. Bumbling hunters, reptile shinobi, and a quick-blade kunoichi test your reflexes — prove your
    honor and awaken the ancestral katana.

Cozy, polished, and made to feel good

  • Locked 60fps with quality presets from laptop to Ultra (bloom, outlines, sun flare).
  • Deep accessibility — UI scale, key rebinding, reduce-motion, photosensitivity-safe mode, mono audio, subtitle
    options, and more.
  • Available in multiple languages.

Wishlist now — and follow the island's comeback.

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