Games Like Creature Lab

A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility

Why similar: Management 35.2%, Horror 24.9%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 10%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the tension of managing dangerous, supernatural entities within a high-stakes facility.

Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!

Why similar: Simulation 45.9%, Strategy 32.7%, Indie 17.7%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title directly mirrors the mad scientist fantasy by tasking you with creating viruses and managing a secret laboratory.

Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Why similar: Creature Collector 32.8%, Sandbox 20.7%, Crafting 16.8%, Horror 12.2%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core mechanic of building and customizing unique creatures from modular body parts in a sandbox environment.

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 68.7% ★, Horror 18%, Puzzle 4.6%, Indie 4.6%, Atmospheric 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: You play as the monster itself, focusing on body horror and evolution as you escape a research facility.

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 42.7% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to build a villainous lair and manage a roster of monsters, capturing the base-building aspect of the seed game.

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: Sandbox 32.3%, Management 21.1%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Atmospheric 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: With the Biotech expansion, this game offers deep genetic engineering and colony management that rivals the complexity of creature creation.

A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 53.2% ★, Horror 18.7%, Management 17.4%, Simulation 9.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: This management game features dark, villainous themes and crafting mechanics centered around gruesome resources.

KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 38.3% ★, Zombies 19.6%, Sandbox 16.1%, Management 10.4%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: As a dungeon master, you manage your own dark lair and experiment with various minions and defenses.

Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?

Why similar: Medical Sim 40.5% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Zombies 9.9%, Management 8.7%, Horror 7%

Why You'll Like It: This medical simulation focuses on the strategic manipulation of biology, fitting the mad scientist theme perfectly.

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: Simulation 28.3%, Strategy 27.9%, Zombies 23.2%, Sandbox 7.5%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the strategic spread of pathogens, mirroring the outbreak simulation elements of Creature Lab.

A 3D pet simulation where you raise your own personal hive of mutating dogs, physically simulated all the way down to their guts! Wobbledogs is a casual and chill sandbox for players of all ages who want to care for their very own virtual pets in a surprising, unique, and stress-free environment.

Why similar: Sandbox 62.3%, Simulation 27.8%, Indie 6.2%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This simulation focuses heavily on the genetics and physical mutation of creatures, offering a more lighthearted but mechanically deep alternative.

Alone with the dead... Embalm corpses, banish demons, save your soul.

Why similar: Supernatural 28.6%, Horror 26.1%, Medical Sim 16.6% ★, First-Person 6.9%, Dark 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the atmospheric, first-person horror and detailed simulation of working with bodies in a dark, clinical setting.

The most blasphemous, diabolical and insane management game ever created. Aided by a lascivious nun in a grim prison, rig executions, conduct horrid experiments and do the unspeakable to cook up your cure-all: The Kindeman Remedy. Do not be afraid. This time, you're the monster.

Why similar: Medical Sim 40.4% ★, Villain Protagonist 32.2% ★, Horror 11%, Management 9.8%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a dark, medical-themed management experience where you must make unethical choices to succeed.

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Crafting 39.7%, Sandbox 20.8%, Management 16.6%, Simulation 15%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: The experimentation and discovery-based crafting system provides a similar satisfaction to mixing mutagens in a lab.

LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?

Why similar: Supernatural 23.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Horror 12.6%, Management 11.8%, Dark 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with dark, supernatural themes and base-building mechanics.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Horror 41.6%, Management 22.4%, Simulation 20.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features complex base management, crafting, and intense horror elements in a hostile environment.

Zoochosis is a bodycam horror simulation game. You’re a zookeeper. Identify infected mutant animals, make a vaccine and cure them. Will you save all of them and survive?

Why similar: Dark 24.7%, Horror 24%, First-Person 16%, Simulation 14.4%, Atmospheric 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game centers on managing mutated animals in a horror-themed environment, directly echoing the creature-collector tag.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Dark 34.6%, Simulation 23.9%, Atmospheric 21.3%, Puzzle 17.8%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes dark atmosphere, mystery, and the careful identification and use of biological specimens.

Autopsy Simulator is a first-person horror-sim hybrid where players take on the role of a practice pathologist and study case files, created in collaboration with real-world forensic doctors, to help guide their dissection of anatomically accurate bodies to determine each subject’s cause of death.

Why similar: Medical Sim 44.1% ★, Simulation 17.3%, Horror 15.1%, First-Person 8%, Dark 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a realistic, horror-focused simulation of working with human remains in a laboratory environment.

The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 27.1% ★, Horror 23%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that focuses on spreading fear and managing influence, similar to the city-wide impact of your creations.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 53.5% ★, Strategy 40.8%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management game that lets you build a base for monsters and focus on villainous expansion.

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Horror 31.1%, Dark 20.7%, First-Person 16.8%, Atmospheric 13.9%, Puzzle 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It explores deep sci-fi themes of body horror and consciousness that resonate with the experimental nature of the seed game.

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

Why similar: Horror 36.5%, Dark 25%, Strategy 13.5%, First-Person 12.6%, Puzzle 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: The game features dark, atmospheric creature-based mechanics and a sense of mystery that fits the horror genre.

You are a test subject in the underground SCP research facility. When a containment breach occurs, you must find your way out. Escape the SCPs, discover anomalous objects, and collect valuable resources along the way.

Why similar: Horror 65.9%, First-Person 28.7%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the feeling of being trapped in a high-security research facility filled with dangerous anomalies.

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: Medical Sim 47.9% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Management 12.2%, Character Customization 10.2%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: For those who enjoy the medical simulation aspect, this offers the most detailed management experience in a clinical setting.

Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Why similar: First-Person 36.6%, Dark 31.4%, Atmospheric 27.2%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a highly atmospheric, first-person horror experience with a focus on stealth and survival.

Ready to become a mad scientist? Synthesize, evolve, and command an army of unique creatures in your own lab. Manage your laboratory, master genetic essences, and dominate the battle arena in this deep creature collection simulator!

Why similar: Creature Collector 42.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Management 13.1%, Simulation 11.5%, First-Person 9.8%

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Crafting 50%, Sandbox 31%, Character Customization 15.3%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines creature capture and complex crafting systems in a way that allows for significant experimentation.

A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.

Why similar: Creature Collector 39.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, First-Person 11.2%, Puzzle 7.7%, Simulation 6.9%

S.B.T.F. is a very hard arcade-style / rogue-like / perma-death first person shooter. You play as Marines who must brave dark, claustrophobic and terrifyingly intense Space Beast infested spacecraft in order to extract critical data and lucrative upgrades. Can you make it out alive?

Why similar: Horror 61.7%, First-Person 22.8%, Indie 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person horror game that focuses on navigating dark, claustrophobic environments while dealing with monstrous threats.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Crafting 25.4%, Management 25.1%, Strategy 18.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival management game requires careful resource allocation and base maintenance in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Brew potions, create monstrosities, and commit atrocities... Fulfill the collector's sick fantasies by experimenting on goblins with wacky potion ingredients that can modify bodies in grotesque ways. If a goblin seems sad that you turned him into an abomination, just drop him into the meatgrinder!

Why similar: Sandbox 28.9%, Crafting 24.4%, Horror 14.8%, Simulation 13.1%, First-Person 11.4%

Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.

Why similar: Zombies 23.3%, Strategy 22%, Horror 16.8%, First-Person 15.2%, Indie 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the combat and defensive aspects of dealing with monstrous creations in an indie setting.

Monster Lab Simulator is a creature collector where you create, raise, and battle monsters in your own lab. Synthesize essences, hatch eggs, expand your collection, and build the ultimate team!

Why similar: Creature Collector 56.8%, Simulation 23%, First-Person 9.4%, Strategy 7.9%, Indie 2.8%

Turn-based fantasy gladiatorial game with monster breeding. Crossbreed various species to create monster hybrids for gladiatorial combat. Manipulate creatures’ traits with surgery, magic, and alchemy. Manage your enterprise, craft items and upgrade your base. Fight in the arena for gold and glory!

Why similar: Creature Collector 38.6%, Sandbox 20.8%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Manage a care center for adorable monsters in Monster Care Simulator! Treat clients' creatures, hatch eggs, raise your own companions, and keep them happy with fun activities. Hire staff, expand your facilities, and customize your space to build the ultimate monster sanctuary!

Why similar: Creature Collector 46.5%, Management 16.6%, Simulation 14.2%, First-Person 9.4%, Sandbox 8.3%

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Zombies 28.7%, Sandbox 26.6%, Management 17.9%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 10.5%

Scare, terrify and thrill guests as you build the haunted house of your nightmares. Design and customize your creations with incredible detail to scare your guests, or risk losing it all in this tower defense/management/tycoon hybrid.

Why similar: Zombies 21.6%, Horror 18.3%, Management 13.5%, Dark 13.3%, Simulation 10.2%

You are a journeyman alchemist: experiment to learn the secrets of the alchemical sciences, and leverage them to produce a diverse menu of potions for a procession of weird and spooky customers in this compact narrative puzzle experience.

Why similar: Crafting 31%, Simulation 17.6%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Puzzle 13.1%, Dark 10%

Unferat is a warlock simulator, giving the player the opportunity to go from a village boy to a powerful dark sorcerer.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 31.6% ★, Simulation 25.8%, Crafting 9%, Zombies 8.7%, Dark 6.9%

Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit!

Why similar: Creature Collector 40.6%, Character Customization 24.4%, Sandbox 22.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.

Why similar: Horror 41.5%, Simulation 22.1%, First-Person 21.6%, Atmospheric 14.8%

EVIL SCIENTISTS have created a SCARY MAGIC ZOMBIE! Play as a top secret spy, who enters the zombie facility, and collects information about the zombie. But be cautious! The zombie is very dangerous!

Why similar: Zombies 36.2%, Horror 31.8%, First-Person 17.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Indie 3.4%

Blood Bar Tycoon is a vampire bar management game. Build bars and blood factories, lure humans to harvest their blood, process it, and serve your customers: other vampires. Research quirky machines and deal with hunters! Expand through Crimson City to become a mighty Elder!

Why similar: Sandbox 38.8%, Management 23.6%, Simulation 21.3%, Strategy 16.3%

Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Why similar: Medical Sim 37.2% ★, Sandbox 22.6%, Management 17.6%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 8.6%

Navigate your way through an abandoned lab and uncover its mysteries. Search for useful items such as clothing and important potions. Most importantly, try to resist any temptation that comes your way!

Why similar: Horror 64.5%, Atmospheric 18.2%, Puzzle 16.3%, Singleplayer 1%

Become a paranormal renovator! Explore and renovate haunted locations as you deal with pesky spirits that have fun at your expense! Decide if you want to be mean or nice to banished entities, you can also adopt some! Restore old furniture and decorate the interiors as you see fit! Make a profit!

Why similar: Supernatural 29.2%, Horror 16.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, First-Person 12.9%, Simulation 11.7%

Survive the night in a deadly asylum—deliver sinister meds, keep the insane in line, and outwit a killer hiding in the dark.

Why similar: Horror 21.6%, Dark 16%, Simulation 13.5%, First-Person 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.1%

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

Why similar: Zombies 24.3%, Crafting 20.4%, Management 13.9%, Sandbox 13%, Simulation 11.4%

A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 35.9% ★, Zombies 32.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Indie 6.1%

Prepare to be assigned to help investigate and identify anomalous creatures called the LONGEYED.

Why similar: Creature Collector 41.6%, Horror 20.2%, Dark 14%, Strategy 7.2%, Atmospheric 7%

Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.1%, Crafting 23.6%, Management 19%, Simulation 15.1%, Horror 8.2%

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

Why similar: Management 37.4%, Simulation 25.4%, Strategy 23%, Indie 9.9%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: Sandbox 34.7%, Management 27.6%, Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 15.5%, Singleplayer 3%

A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.

Why similar: Character Customization 39.3%, Management 28.9%, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Indie 5.1%

Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.

Why similar: Strategy 88.2%, Singleplayer 11.8%

Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.5%, Management 25.3%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 17.8%

Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 69% ★, Strategy 12.2%, Management 10.4%, Dark 5.3%, Simulation 1.9%

BONELAB is an experimental physics action game. Explore a mysterious lab filled with weapons, enemies, challenges and secrets. Escape your reality, or wreak havoc. No wrong answers.

Why similar: Sandbox 36.8%, First-Person 19.4%, Dark 17%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Puzzle 9.5%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.4%, Horror 21%, Crafting 18.9%, Zombies 17.6%, First-Person 10.7%