Tiny Glade

Free-form medieval building sandbox for crafting cozy, gridless dioramas

Pounce Light · Released Sep 23, 2024

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 97% of 25K
Recent reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive; 98% of 291 in 30 days
Playing now: 224; peak 24h 281
Steam Deck: Verified
Last update: 2 weeks ago; Sep 8, 2026

Free demo available, 4 playing it now: get the demo.

What is Tiny Glade?

A single-player, free-form building sandbox where you shape medieval buildings, paths, and landscapes into small dioramas. Gridless tools adapt structures as you draw and resize them, with no management, combat, objectives, or failure states.

For you if...

+you want low-pressure building without objectives or failure states
+you enjoy designing small medieval scenes at your own pace
+you prefer single-player sandboxes without combat or management

Not for you if...

−you want large maps for building full cities
−you need extensive props, materials, and customization options
−you prefer guided objectives or active challenges

What players say

97% of 24,684 reviews are positive · 98% of 291 in the last 30 days

Players praise the relaxing pace, art style, and freedom to create detailed buildings and dioramas. The most common complaints are the small building area, limited selection of materials and decorative objects, and missing tools such as copy and paste.

Screenshots and trailer

Tiny Glade system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10+
Processor: AMD Ryzen / Intel Core i5 / Snapdragon X Plus
Graphics: For 720p: A graphics card with Vulkan 1.2 support and 2+ GB of video memory: Radeon R9 270 (driver 21.3.1), GeForce GTX 670 (at least Kepler architecture, driver 472.12 or newer), Intel Iris Xe, or similar.
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 4 GB available space
Notes: A mouse with 2 buttons + scroll wheel is necessary for camera control. ========================================= UNSUPPORTED graphics cards: laptop NVIDIA Kepler series, e.g. GeForce GT 740M, and older Intel HD Graphics series, e.g. 500, 4000, 5000, 6000.

OS: Windows 10+
Processor: AMD Ryzen / Intel Core i5 / Snapdragon X Elite
Graphics: For 1080p: A graphics card with Vulkan 1.2 support and 4+ GB of video memory: Radeon RX 580, GeForce GTX 1060, Intel Arc A380, or similar.
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 4 GB available space
Notes: A mouse with 2 buttons + scroll wheel is necessary for camera control. ========================================= UNSUPPORTED graphics cards: laptop NVIDIA Kepler series, e.g. GeForce GT 740M, and older Intel HD Graphics series, e.g. 500, 4000, 5000, 6000.

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing

Steam Deck: Verified

All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Shows Steam Deck controller icons
In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Text only: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Italian, Turkish, Korean.