Games Like Reus

Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!

Why similar: God Game 64.1% ★, Sandbox 8.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Resource Management 4.6%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel expands upon the original's core mechanics with deeper planet-shaping possibilities and more complex human interactions.

WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Why similar: God Game 75.2% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 5.7%, Indie 2%, Fantasy 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game offers unparalleled freedom to shape worlds, influence civilizations, and watch the consequences of your divine interventions unfold.

Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!

Why similar: God Game 80.6% ★, Sandbox 6.7%, Strategy 5%, Simulation 4.9%, Puzzle 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core theme of manipulating terrain and natural elements to protect and guide a primitive tribe.

Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

Why similar: God Game 67.3% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 6.2%, Resource Management 4.6%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: This VR-focused god-game captures the same feeling of building a world and managing the growth of humanity from a divine perspective.

Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?

Why similar: God Game 61.8% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 5.6%, Resource Management 4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Reus, this game focuses on indirect control where you influence followers through commandments rather than direct manipulation.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: God Game 71.6% ★, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 4.3%, Resource Management 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This modern take on the genre allows you to guide a civilization from the stone age to the space age while managing planetary resources.

Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!

Why similar: God Game 74.1% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Indie 6.1%, Strategy 4.6%, Puzzle 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based god-game that mimics the resource-management and cause-and-effect nature of Reus in a more compact, puzzle-like format.

Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.

Why similar: God Game 68.7% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 5.4%, 2D 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the classic 2D god-game aesthetic and mechanics, focusing on terrain manipulation and tribal expansion.

Create your Religion, raise your Disciples, and guide them to bring you glory! Inspire growth in your Disciples so they may challenge the false gods and convert their followers. Defeat your rivals, and become the One Truth!

Why similar: God Game 76% ★, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based strategy game lets you build your own religion and influence the world, echoing the divine management themes of Reus.

Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.

Why similar: God Game 52% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Simulation 11.9%, Indie 5.7%, Casual 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing simulation game where you manage ecosystems and evolve new species, focusing on the biological aspect of Reus.

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.6%, Strategy 27%, Simulation 15.8%, Indie 8.3%, Resource Management 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony-sim that requires careful management of resources and terrain to keep your civilization thriving.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.1%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Nature 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes environmental manipulation and water management, forcing you to reshape the landscape to ensure your colony's survival.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: God Game 34.7% ★, Sandbox 30.2%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 6.3%, Resource Management 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines resource management and building with a side-scrolling perspective, requiring you to guide dwarves through a dangerous environment.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: God Game 64.3% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Sandbox 8%, Simulation 5.8%, Resource Management 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends god-like management with colony simulation, requiring you to protect your villagers from environmental threats.

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: Strategy 42.5%, Puzzle 15.9%, Indie 13.3%, Addictive 13.2% ★, Relaxing 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on city-building, its puzzle-like approach to placing structures in harmony with the environment feels very similar to Reus.

Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

Why similar: God Game 71% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Simulation 6.1%, Resource Management 4%, Nature 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the development of life on a planet, capturing the sandbox feel of Reus.

Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.

Why similar: God Game 73.2% ★, Sandbox 13%, Simulation 6.4%, Resource Management 3.9%, Casual 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a grand-scale look at evolution and civilization building, allowing you to influence life from the cellular level to space exploration.

Play god and create your own world in this complex simulation. Plate tectonics, wind and water erosion and plant life all develop and interact to produce a world that is viewable from a single tree to kilometres across.

Why similar: God Game 64.6% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Nature 2%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation game emphasizes the strategic management of a planet's resources and the growth of life.

Tidal Tribe is a relaxing god game that gives you the power to shape the terrain. Raise and lower the land to protect your villages from waves and floods, all while using that very same water to build lakes and rivers, turning the desert land into a lively forest of trees and bushes.

Why similar: God Game 61.5% ★, Simulation 11.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Indie 6.7%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing god-game where you shape the land and manage the growth of a tribe, focusing on a peaceful experience.

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Simulation 30.6%, Strategy 24%, Indie 11.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Addictive 7.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: It shares the strategic management and progression-based gameplay loop found in many simulation titles.

Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.

Why similar: God Game 62.2% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel refines the original's simulation mechanics, offering more control over the planetary environment.

Build up a world piece-by-piece using the power of the god-like Fates, while keeping them happy enough to avoid world-shattering temper tantrums!

Why similar: God Game 66.2% ★, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Indie 5.7%, Puzzle 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This puzzle game focuses on building a world on the back of a giant, directly mirroring the giant-based mechanics of Reus.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Sandbox 43.4%, Strategy 32.9%, Simulation 15.7%, Fantasy 4.6%, Management 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a god-like ruler who influences the lives and decisions of mortals in a persistent, simulation-heavy world.

Awe is a god-game about expressing one’s creativity by shaping and building planets’ ecosystems in a soothing and relaxing ambiance carried by beautiful, minimalist lowpoly 3D art style and atmospheric music.

Why similar: God Game 77.7% ★, Simulation 6.4%, Puzzle 5.4%, Indie 5.2%, Casual 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This minimalist puzzle game tasks you with creating a vibrant world through careful placement of elements.

Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.

Why similar: God Game 70.3% ★, Sandbox 9%, Simulation 5.7%, Puzzle 4.8%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game that focuses on the elemental creation aspect of being a god, challenging you to combine items to build a world.

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Why similar: God Game 56.9% ★, Sandbox 20.9%, Simulation 10.5%, Indie 6.3%, Relaxing 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more scientific, it provides the ultimate sandbox experience for manipulating planetary bodies and environmental physics.

Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works. Your tribe’s survival depends on it.

Why similar: God Game 64.4% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 5.5%, Nature 3.1%

Existential Nature Simulation

Why similar: God Game 59.3% ★, Simulation 16.6%, Indie 8.9%, Casual 5.2%, Relaxing 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: An abstract simulation that focuses on the meditative aspects of observing a world evolve over time.

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Why similar: God Game 54.1% ★, Sandbox 20.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 7.1%, Casual 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox game lets you grow your own solar system, capturing the scale and creative freedom of planetary management.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Strategy 35.4%, Sandbox 22.9%, Simulation 20.1%, Resource Management 7.6%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the harsh realities of managing a population's survival against environmental challenges, a key theme in Reus.

Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.8%, Indie 23.2%, Puzzle 18.1%, Casual 14.8%, Singleplayer 8.2%

Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

Why similar: Simulation 35.8%, Puzzle 24%, Indie 21.1%, Casual 8.1%, Singleplayer 7%

Step into rhythmic bliss with Runner2! Best Indie Game winner, Guinness World Record holder, and narrated by Charles Martinet. Unleash vibrant moves and beats in 120 levels!

Why similar: Indie 55.8%, Casual 34.8%, Funny 9.4%

Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.

Why similar: God Game 56% ★, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Pilot the mecha Strike Suit across massive fleet battles where your dogfighting skills decide Earth's fate. Fast, frantic space combat with capital ship destruction, multiple endings, and a universe that's anything but empty. This is space combat reborn.

Why similar: Simulation 47.4%, Indie 34.4%, Singleplayer 10%, Great Soundtrack 8.2%

You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Why similar: Strategy 67.1%, Indie 15.8%, Singleplayer 7.7%, Fantasy 6.1%, Great Soundtrack 1.7%

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 52.8%, Indie 26.6%, Singleplayer 8.4%, 2D 7.1%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%

Embark on an epic 2D pirate simulator RPG adventure, where you navigate both land and sea. Upgrade your ship, recruit and level up your crew, and uncover hidden treasures as you become a legendary pirate.

Why similar: Sandbox 75.8%, Simulation 24.2%

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.5%, Strategy 24.4%, Simulation 17.3%, Resource Management 9.3%, 2D 5.4%

Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.

Why similar: Indie 40.5%, 2D 21.6%, Singleplayer 16.2%, Fantasy 10.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.7%

An epic open-world puzzle Metroidbrainia that respects your intelligence! Knowledge is your superpower. Use creatures as tools to determine your own path.

Why similar: Puzzle 29.4%, Indie 21.5%, 2D 16.7%, Singleplayer 14.3%, Casual 10.8%

Joe Danger, the world’s most determined stuntman, returns to embark on a death-defying thrill-ride across the set of the greatest blockbuster movie ever made. Across 100 crazy levels he’ll chase crooks by police bike, destroy laser-firing robots with a stolen jetpack, escape giant boulders in a minecart, time-travel to punch dinosaurs...

Why similar: Indie 66%, Casual 34%

Feel the power of god and create your dream world in a beautiful low-poly style. Share your creations with your friends and enjoy.

Why similar: God Game 74.3% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Indie 7.9%, Casual 4.7%

Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Why similar: Strategy 47.1%, Simulation 23.5%, Indie 8.6%, Sandbox 6.5%, Addictive 6.3% ★

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Indie 18%, Simulation 15.1%, Singleplayer 8.1%, 2D 6.1%

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

Why similar: Indie 44.5%, 2D 27.3%, Singleplayer 17.2%, Puzzle 5.3%, Strategy 5%

The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Why similar: Strategy 29.5%, Puzzle 25.7%, Indie 15.5%, 2D 15.2%, Singleplayer 8.4%

Set out on a grand adventure in this turn-based, retro style, pixel-art RPG, inspired by the great titles of the 90's. Take on the roles of in-game players taking on the roles of their characters in a traditional pen and paper RPG session in the ultimate meta roleplaying experience.

Why similar: Indie 44.8%, Singleplayer 15.5%, Fantasy 13.8%, Casual 13.8%, 2D 7.7%

The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.9%, Puzzle 18.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Casual 8.1%, 2D 6.2%

Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.

Why similar: Indie 58.2%, 2D 26.6%, Singleplayer 6.2%, Great Soundtrack 6.1%, Funny 2.9%

You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.

Why similar: God Game 62.1% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 5.8%, Resource Management 5.3%

You are Tiny, a nerdy inventor, who tries to reclaim his most beloved possession - Grandpa's underpants!

Why similar: Indie 53.6%, Puzzle 29.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.3%, Singleplayer 4.9%, Funny 1.3%

Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.

Why similar: Indie 45.9%, Addictive 21.8% ★, 2D 15.3%, Singleplayer 12.3%, Fantasy 4.7%

Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.

Why similar: God Game 72.9% ★, Strategy 9%, Sandbox 7.1%, Simulation 6.1%, Indie 3.8%

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: God Game 66.3% ★, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 6%, Resource Management 5.1%

A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!

Why similar: Strategy 66.9%, Indie 24.9%, Singleplayer 3.6%, Casual 3.1%, Funny 1.4%

Care for a miniature ecosystem in a strange world, exert limited influence to encourage the growth of different fungi and bugs and try to maintain the balance of life.

Why similar: Simulation 33.9%, Sandbox 26%, Indie 14.7%, Nature 11.2%, 2D 5.2%