Games Like War for the Overworld

At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 25% ★, God Game 17.4% ★, Base Building 16.4%, RTS 11.5%, Management 11.2%

The Dungeon Lord is back – and this time he’s serious! In Dungeons 2, fulfil the Dungeon Lord’s insatiable quest for vengeance by recruiting fearsome new monsters from all corners of the underworld in order to undertake his evil bidding.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 23.7% ★, Dungeon Crawler 16.2%, Management 14.6%, RTS 11.5%, Strategy 6.6%

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 35% ★, Base Building 25.6%, Management 12.9%, Sandbox 7.7%, Simulation 7%

Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 35.5% ★, Base Building 27.6%, Management 7.4%, RTS 6.1%, Strategy 5.8%

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: Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 19.4%, God Game 18.9% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 8.2%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, City Builder 22%, Management 8.3%, Sandbox 5.7%

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, City Builder 10.7%

Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 16%, Base Building 15%, Dungeon Crawler 14.6%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, City Builder 12.5%

Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.

Why similar: Sandbox 79%, Strategy 21%

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 26.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Sandbox 15.6%, Management 12.5%

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.1%, God Game 15.2% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Colony Sim 12% ★, City Builder 11.2%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 37.1%, Colony Sim 24.1% ★, RTS 17.7%, City Builder 10.5%, Strategy 5.6%

Endvasion is a real-time strategy game where you command an army of demons and creatures to conquer a procedurally generated world. Expand your territory, manage resources, and train your creatures to unlock unique abilities in your quest for domination.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 21.7% ★, Dark Comedy 20.9%, God Game 15.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Management 9.4%

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Base Building 21.4%, City Builder 20%, Management 19%, Simulation 9.6%

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...

Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Management 13.1%, God Game 11.8% ★, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, City Builder 10.8%

Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.

Why similar: RTS 51%, Strategy 28.5%, Fantasy 18.5%, Singleplayer 2%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 24.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 6.6%

Armello is a grim fairy-tale board game come to life, with every match combining deep, tactical card play, rich tabletop strategy and RPG elements. Leverage subterfuge, spells and careful strategy to wrangle control of the game's chaotic odds as you quest for the throne.

Why similar: Strategy 55.5%, Fantasy 44.5%

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: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Sandbox 22.5%, City Builder 21.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 5.7%

Goblin Colony is a real-time strategy game with building and settlement management features. As the keeper of the dungeon you will command an ambitious tribe of goblins as you explore, build and do battle with your foes across a huge campaign.

Why similar: God Game 19% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Colony Sim 14% ★, City Builder 13%, RTS 11.2%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 43.7%, Simulation 18.3%, Sandbox 16.1%, Strategy 9.6%, City Builder 7.7%

Gold makes God. Embrace city-building chaos around a monster-filled dungeon where danger & profit go hand in hand. Assign heroes quests, evolve powerful pets and expand your influence one gold coin at a time. Recruit, defend, explore — all in pursuit of Glory and Gold!

Why similar: God Game 16.2% ★, Management 15%, Base Building 14.3%, Colony Sim 12% ★, City Builder 10.7%

Tired of playing the hero? Take up the mantle of a dreaded Dark Lord instead! Lords of Nether is a Dungeon Management game, a hybrid of RTS and God Game genres in which you build deadly dungeons and control armies of fiendish creatures to conquer the world of Man.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 27.8% ★, God Game 19.3% ★, Base Building 17.1%, RTS 13.1%, Management 11.7%

Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech, which seduced hundreds of thousands of players with its dynamic and original gameplay. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered an addictive real-time spaceship construction strategy experience.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

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: Colony Sim 32.1% ★, City Builder 31.8%, Sandbox 12%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 6.3%

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, RTS 20.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Colony Sim 12.9% ★, Management 11.2%

Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 21.7% ★, God Game 16.9% ★, Base Building 14%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, City Builder 9.9%

Squeeze into your toga and slide on your sandals to rally the angry mobs of Okhlos and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece!

Why similar: Comedy 50.7%, Strategy 24.6%, Funny 17.1%, Singleplayer 7.6%

Deity's Domain is a God game with City-building elements. Set on a mystical Norse island, you compete with other deities for supremacy over the faithful. You can choose to be a kind or a cruel god, shaping the world around you with your decisions as you grow your personal Pet companion.

Why similar: God Game 20.1% ★, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Colony Sim 12% ★, Management 11.2%

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Management 23.6%, City Builder 19%, Base Building 17%, Sandbox 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Singleplayer 100%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, God Game 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Management 13.6%, City Builder 11%

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: City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 17.2%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Management 13.8%

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 23.7% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Management 12.6%

Step into a brutal battle between three warring factions In Dawn of War III you will have no choice but to face your foes when a catastrophic weapon is found on the mysterious world of Acheron.

Why similar: RTS 49.4%, Base Building 32.6%, Strategy 16%, Singleplayer 1.9%

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 19.3% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Sandbox 11.4%

C&F Inc. teleporters are going offline all over the place, and it's up to an intrepid frog employee to fix the situation.

Why similar: Fantasy 80.7%, Singleplayer 19.3%

Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 23.5% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Underground 15.3% ★, God Game 12.4% ★, Management 11.6%

An atmospheric city-builder inspired by classics like Caesar III, Anno, and Pharaoh—set on the ocean floor. Build, manage, and expand your underwater colony as humanity flees a dying world. Balance resources, population, and survival in this deep colony sim across a structured campaign.

Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, God Game 16.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Management 11.5%

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: City Builder 34.4%, Sandbox 19.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 11.9%, Strategy 10.8%

Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Sandbox 14.8%, Management 14.1%

World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.

Why similar: Funny 45.8%, Fantasy 39.5%, Singleplayer 14.8%

A bite sized dungeon manager game that requires new strategies every time you play! Mine, build, and fight your way to success.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 25.4% ★, God Game 20.5% ★, Old School 14.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Management 10%

God Brawl is a revival of the classic god game genre, become a god and destroy all others! Use your powers to create land for your followers, send them to capture shrines, and use their belief on deadly powers to wipe out your rivals. The people need something to believe in, why shouldn't it be you?

Why similar: God Game 18.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Old School 12.7%, Colony Sim 12.2% ★, Management 12.1%

Super Rude Bear Resurrection is an ultra-tight, masocore platformer that anyone can beat! Use your corpses to get ahead, or take on the ultimate challenge and try to defeat the entire game without dying!

A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?

Why similar: God Game 18.2% ★, Base Building 17%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Management 13.6%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 35.2%, Colony Sim 31.4% ★, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 4.9%

Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!

Why similar: God Game 17.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Colony Sim 12.5% ★

Run an adventurers shop – a serious business in a fantasy environment. Stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions.

Why similar: Management 51.2%, Simulation 30.7%, Sandbox 11.6%, Fantasy 3.6%, Funny 2.1%

Pilot a mech to hunt down and destroy the oppressive government of a cyberpunk autocracy. In this fast-paced, top-down shooter, use overwhelming firepower to destroy columns of tanks and level buildings. Unlock up to 56 unique vehicles and 40 weapons.

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Management 12.8%, RTS 11.2%, God Game 11% ★

Create a vast, living fantasy world: heroes, creatures, quests and events; cultures, religions and factions; overworlds, interiors and dungeons-filled with stories, wars and choices.

Why similar: God Game 26.5% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Management 15.2%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 10.6%

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: Base Building 20.8%, Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Management 15.6%, City Builder 14.2%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Colony Sim 18% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Management 16.2%, Sandbox 16.2%

Everlords is a strategy game where you shape the battlefield itself. Craft terrain to position vital resources, and fortify your base as you battle to reclaim and restore a fractured world. Every choice you make becomes the foundation of either your triumph—or your downfall.

Why similar: God Game 22.7% ★, RTS 13.9%, Base Building 12%, Management 9.9%, Colony Sim 9.1% ★

Dungeon Keeper-like with electropunk elements. Dig out space for buildings to attract AI-controlled creatures and watch them do your bidding. Cast spells from the god-hand above, and protect your heart while sending minions to defeat theirs.

Why similar: God Game 16.8% ★, Dungeon Crawler 15.9%, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Management 12.8%, Old School 12.2%

Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 32.8% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Management 14.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Experience survival and combat in a point-and-click colony simulation. Gather resources, build structures, and lead your tribe to prosperity. Interact directly with objects, ruling this world with a sacred cursor.

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, God Game 16.7% ★, City Builder 15.6%, Management 11.7%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Sandbox 19.9%, God Game 6% ★, Simulation 5.3%