- #1 SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack
92% matchVery Positive89% of 2,123 reviews2008
Dev: Maxis™Pub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Add horror and humor to your universe. Make grotesque beasts or cuddly critters, then watch them do the robot, zombie walk, break dance and more! Includes over 100 new items. 60 New parts 48 New paint options 24 New animations
Why similar: Simulation 44%, God Game 36.7% ★, Sandbox 15%, Strategy 4.4%
- #2 The Sandbox
92% matchMixed55% of 571 reviews2015
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
Why similar: Sandbox 40.9%, God Game 28.4% ★, Simulation 25.7%, Strategy 5.1%
- #3 Reus
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,899 reviews2013
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
Why similar: God Game 57.2% ★, Simulation 19%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 9.4%
- #4 Europa Universalis IV
85% matchVery Positive88% of 135,857 reviews2013
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 279.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
Why similar: Simulation 48.4%, Sandbox 35.4%, Strategy 16.2%
- #5 Logistics Company
86% matchMixed43% of 123 reviews2014
Dev: Crenetic GmbH StudiosPub: rondomedia GmbH
Windows
As a dock worker in "Logistics Company” it’s up to you to move thousands of tons of cargo and goods and make sure that they’re shipped on time! Build your tiny warehouse into a major logistics hub and expand it bit by bit with new cargo terminals.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #6 Idol Hands
85% matchMixed44% of 188 reviews2015
Dev: Pocket GamesPub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Idol Hands is a strategy game where you gradually take over the world by guiding your people and defeating other gods.
Why similar: God Game 37.3% ★, Simulation 32.3%, Sandbox 20.1%, Strategy 10.4%
- #7 Hearts of Iron IV
82% matchVery Positive90% of 359,811 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30.8 hrsMean: 292.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Why similar: Simulation 41.1%, Strategy 34.7%, Sandbox 24.2%
- #8 Airport Firefighters - The Simulation
82% matchMixed49% of 244 reviews2015
Dev: Visual Imagination Software GbRPub: rondomedia GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Head out on duty with the entire fire department and take on exciting new missions in "Airport Firefighters: The Simulation". As a member of the busy airport fire department, you and your colleagues work to ex-tinguish large airplane fires and fight through the blazing inferno of the passenger terminal.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #9 RimWorld
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,937 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Simulation 44.9%, Sandbox 40.2%, Strategy 14.8%
- #10 Sheep Island
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Arkhamsoft
Windows
You've get a no people island. Then there is only one thing to do. Use your hands to increase the number of sheep.
Why similar: Simulation 39.3%, God Game 38.7% ★, Sandbox 21.9%
- #11 Victoria 3
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 58,114 reviews2022
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.3 hrsMean: 114.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
Why similar: Simulation 47%, Sandbox 34.5%, Strategy 18.5%
- #12 WorldBox - God Simulator
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,750 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 48.6% ★, Sandbox 27.4%, Simulation 24%
- #13 Terra Firma
69% matchVery Positive94% of 567 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
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 37.5% ★, Simulation 35.2%, Sandbox 18.1%, Strategy 9.2%
- #14 People Playground
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 307,981 reviews2019
Dev: mestiezPub: Studio Minus
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 53.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Why similar: Sandbox 66.5%, Simulation 33.5%
- #15 Stellaris
76% matchVery Positive86% of 191,574 reviews2016
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.7 hrsMean: 142.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Why similar: Simulation 43.7%, Sandbox 39.7%, Strategy 16.6%
- #16 Teardown
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 126,071 reviews2022
Dev: Tuxedo Labs
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Why similar: Sandbox 56.2%, Simulation 43.8%
- #17 M.U.D. TV
80% matchMixed41% of 190 reviews2010
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Always wanted to see if you can hack the day-to-day life of a TV producer? Here's your chance! M.U.D. TV is your ticket to the weird wild world of television.
Why similar: Simulation 76.2%, Strategy 23.8%
- #18 Sandbox:God Simulator
70% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: JYS
Windows
This is a pixel sandbox game where you can place multiple different elements into the scene to create a unique little world.
Why similar: God Game 39.9% ★, Simulation 39.7%, Sandbox 20.4%
- #19 Europa Universalis V
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 26,430 reviews2025
Dev: Paradox TintoPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 44.7 hrsMean: 89.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.
Why similar: Simulation 72.1%, Strategy 27.9%
- #20 Crusader Kings III
70% matchVery Positive91% of 137,375 reviews2020
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 28.9 hrsMean: 143.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
Why similar: Simulation 49.6%, Sandbox 28.1%, Strategy 22.3%
- #21 You Are God
76% matchNegative19% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: BefuddleBug
Windows
Control the weather on a planet. Watch the life grow and develop religion and technology. Will they worship you or forget you?
Why similar: Simulation 45.1%, God Game 40.4% ★, Strategy 14.5%
- #22 Legendary mobile phone store simulator
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Gold Treasure
Windows
Start your own local game store. Fix your phone, or hack them. Set your own prices, expand your stores, and open the secret room that has been sealed for a long time.Unravel the secrets left by Xiao Wang.
Why similar: Simulation 37.7%, God Game 33.9% ★, Sandbox 17.3%, Strategy 11.1%
- #23 Tidal Tribe
72% matchVery Positive87% of 94 reviews2019
Dev: PowPit
Windows
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: Simulation 43%, God Game 34.3% ★, Sandbox 18.4%, Strategy 4.3%
- #24 Build a Bridge!
64% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: BoomBit
Windows · Mac
Bridge building game that will test your engineering skills across multiple levels in five different worlds! Complete mind-bending challenges in a stylized and colorful world!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #25 Ravenfield
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 77,853 reviews2017
Dev: SteelRaven7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 61.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!
Why similar: Sandbox 55.1%, Simulation 33.9%, Strategy 11%
- #26 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 146,275 reviews2021
Dev: Landfall
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: Simulation 46.1%, Sandbox 42.1%, Strategy 11.8%
- #27 Coloniam
71% matchMixed40% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: Austin M.
Windows
Colonize islands and grow your population. Manage trade routes and resources to meet the ever increasing needs of your colonist.
Why similar: Simulation 52.5%, God Game 21.5% ★, Strategy 16.8%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #28 Terra Invicta
61% matchVery Positive81% of 8,993 reviews2026
Dev: Pavonis InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Why similar: Simulation 47.1%, Sandbox 37.4%, Strategy 15.5%
- #29 Dwarf Fortress
65% matchVery Positive95% of 30,790 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Simulation 45.4%, Sandbox 40%, Strategy 14.6%
- #30 The Story Of
64% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Mårten JonssonPub: JMJ Interactive
Windows
A collection of 3 relaxing simulators, never before released on PC. Grow the worlds, find all the endings.
Why similar: God Game 41.2% ★, Simulation 39.6%, Sandbox 19.2%
- #31 Hollowhead's VR Time Machine
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hollowhead, Inc.
Windows
You, the time traveler, explore ancient habitats and observe species – from the first bacteria to powerful dinosaurs to modern mammals – in action as they struggle to survive in their environment. Each life-form the time traveler encounters will have a corresponding recorded narration.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #32 我们的大学
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yitian
Windows
加入这个世界,一起来重温大学校园里的点点滴滴吧!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #33 Gravity Tunnel VR
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Qverty.com
Windows
Gravity Tunnel is a VR experience which lets you immerse yourself in space. Sounds cool? Yeah, it feels good too! Your brain will be put to test as you go further – luckily, there's a series of levels on which you can train your sense of balance. We prepared all you may need in space – narrow planks, dynamic obstacles, cool music, colors.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #34 Isotower
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Isotower
Windows
Isotower is a skyscraper management tycoon game, where you start with an empty lot, and construct a building of your dreams. Anything from a small, ratty motel, to a large scale arcology where people never leave the building they're born in.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #35 Psyia
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lachlan Sleight
Windows
In a black void, several hundred thousand tiny cubes dance and flow around gravitational fields emitted from the Vive controllers. Endless hypnotic and beautiful behaviours emerge from the simplest of physical laws.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #36 Time De Tour
64% matchNo user reviews
Windows
By molding time itself, you can create your own universe! Influence the development of mankind! Any change you make early on in the timeline will have lasting repercussions later on. Will you create a utopia or a dystopia? Only time can tell!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #37 K-Pop VR
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reality ReflectionPub: Reality Reflection
Windows
Meet world's first dancing digital human in a virtual world. 'K-pop Dance in VR' is a teaser video of a VR experience where a digital celebrity dancing along her song in front of you.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #38 SPORE™ Galactic Adventures
71% matchVery Positive89% of 7,556 reviews2009
Dev: EA - MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Simulation 44.4%, God Game 26.9% ★, Sandbox 22.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #39 Construct PRO
64% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: EnterUserNamePlease
Windows
Construct PRO is a sandbox-designer, where you can assemble any structure using metal parts, bolts, and nuts and test its physical behavior.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #40 Victoria II
70% matchVery Positive92% of 19,874 reviews2010
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 48.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Why similar: Simulation 47.6%, Strategy 26.7%, Sandbox 25.8%
- #41 Ball's Mod
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: N.C Bana
Windows
Ball’s mod is a 2D physics sandbox game with no missions, no goals. We just give you the tools — everything else is up to you! Custom weapons, custom maps, custom rules…
Why similar: God Game 40.2% ★, Simulation 39.7%, Sandbox 20.1%
- #42 Caves of Qud
59% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,074 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
- #43 Kenshi
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,185 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Sandbox 62.8%, Simulation 24.2%, Strategy 12.9%
- #44 Medieval Playground
64% matchMostly Negative26% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Americo Mateus RodriguesPub: Universus Software
Windows
Medieval Playground. Place and edit 3D Objects freely around the world. When you are happy with it you can take a 8k screenshot that is saved to file. It's a medieval sandbox where you can create without limits. Enjoy have fun with it.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #45 Antbox
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: nonanonanonanonanonanona
Windows
Customize your own ant colony. Test its viability against starvation and predation. Pit rival colonies against each other and see who comes out on top. Do you like to watch ants go about their day?
Why similar: God Game 38.1% ★, Simulation 33.1%, Sandbox 25.1%, Strategy 3.7%
- #46 Palworld
58% matchVery Positive94% of 417,268 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.1 hrsMean: 69.9 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Sandbox 100%
- #47 VRpatients
64% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: VRpatients
Windows
Step into VR/MR as a nurse or paramedic and experience safe, fun, and realistic healthcare scenarios—no prior experience needed!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #48 Substrate: Emergence
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Petri Dish Games LLC
Windows
Grow fluorescent cells that create mesmerizing emergent chaos. Simple mechanics hide deep complexity as cells evolve survival strategies through synergistic interactions. Catalogue successful lines and culture them to develop your own unique biology.
Why similar: God Game 36.1% ★, Simulation 35.3%, Sandbox 18.2%, Strategy 10.3%
- #49 FlyWings 2018 Flight Simulator
64% matchMostly Negative23% of 42 reviews2023
Dev: Thetis Games
Windows · Mac
FlyWings 2018 - Flight Simulator is the masterpiece of flight simulation!Fasten your seatbelts and be ready for the most realistic and beautiful flight of your life!80 AIRCRAFTS to choose, REAL airlines and liveries, REAL audios, AMAZING environment, REALISTIC physics for best simulation.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #50 Crusader Kings II
67% matchVery Positive91% of 73,429 reviews2012
Dev: Paradox Development StudioPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 55.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Why similar: Simulation 47%, Sandbox 29%, Strategy 24%
- #51 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
58% matchVery Positive91% of 25,087 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 72.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Simulation 47.8%, Sandbox 36.7%, Strategy 15.5%
- #52 From Dust
69% matchMixed67% of 2,935 reviews2011
Dev: Ubisoft MontpellierPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 58.4% ★, Simulation 23.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Strategy 4.7%
- #53 Paint the Town Red
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 31,663 reviews2021
Dev: South East Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Paint the Town Red is a chaotic first person melee combat game set in different locations and time periods. The voxel-based enemies can be punched, bashed, kicked, stabbed and sliced completely dynamically using almost anything that isn't nailed down.
- #54 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
60% matchVery Positive95% of 12,415 reviews2022
Dev: Walternate Realities
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 40.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!
Why similar: Simulation 72.7%, Strategy 27.3%
- #55 Avorion
63% matchVery Positive90% of 14,272 reviews2020
Dev: Boxelware
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 98.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.
Why similar: Sandbox 51%, Simulation 49%