- #1 The Universim
97% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 31.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Management 8%, Sandbox 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A planet-scale god game that perfectly captures the feeling of guiding a civilization from the stone age to the space age.
- #2 Fata Deum - The God Sim
96% matchMixed60% of 450 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
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 29% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Management 9.1%, RTS 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the direct influence a god has over their followers through choices and divine intervention.
- #3 WorldBox - God Simulator
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,884 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 28.7 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 44.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 6.5%, Simulation 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an unparalleled sandbox experience where you can shape the world and watch civilizations rise and fall.
- #4 Reus 2
95% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique indirect control mechanics where you manipulate nature to help or hinder the development of human societies.
- #5 Rise to Ruins
94% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 28.7% ★, City Builder 26.8%, God Game 26.8% ★, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging hybrid of tower defense and colony-sim that forces you to act as a god to protect your villagers from constant threats.
- #6 RimWorld
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 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: Colony Sim 37.4% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Management 13.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony management, offering deep emergent storytelling and survival mechanics that complement the god-game feel.
- #7 Stonehearth
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 31.2% ★, City Builder 29.6%, Voxel 12.4% ★, Sandbox 7.4%, God Game 6.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that emphasizes building, management, and protecting your settlers from dangerous creatures.
- #8 Noble Fates
92% matchVery Positive83% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Xobermon, LLC
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Management 13%, Sandbox 8.9%, Procedural Generation 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to directly influence the lives and decisions of your mortal subjects in a 3D world.
- #9 Odd Realm
91% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: God Game 26.2% ★, Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Management 10.4%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that blends survival and management with a distinct aesthetic similar to Creo.
- #10 Going Medieval
89% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Voxel 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Management 10%, Economy 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival colony-sim that allows for complex building and management in a historical setting.
- #11 Godhood
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,081 reviews2020
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 72.7% ★, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the religious aspect of being a deity, where you build your own faith and manage your followers' development.
- #12 Deisim
90% matchVery Positive93% of 851 reviews2022
Dev: Myron Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Why similar: God Game 34% ★, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Mythology 9%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an immersive god-game experience focused on direct interaction with a growing civilization.
- #13 Dwarf Fortress
87% matchVery Positive95% of 30,806 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: Colony Sim 28.8% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Management 15.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 7%
Why You'll Like It: The deepest colony simulation available, offering incredible complexity in management and world-building.
- #14 Crest - an indirect god sim
89% matchMixed65% of 373 reviews2018
Dev: Eat Create Sleep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 56.4% ★, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique title where you influence your followers not through direct commands, but through commandments and environmental changes.
- #15 Gnomoria
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,532 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 31.3% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Isometric 7.9%, Strategy 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel-based colony-sim that offers deep management mechanics for your growing settlement.
- #16 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
86% matchMixed56% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Hobo BunchPub: Gameparic
Windows
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.
Why similar: God Game 24.2% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Management 9.2%, Mythology 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on resource management and the expansion of a civilization in a historical context.
- #17 Goblin Camp
85% matchVery Positive90% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows
Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.
Why similar: God Game 26.2% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Economy 7.6%, Management 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access colony-sim that incorporates god-game elements and resource management for a goblin tribe.
- #18 Songs of Syx
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,777 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Economy 12%, Sandbox 9.3%, Strategy 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale city-builder and colony-sim that allows you to manage thousands of citizens at once.
- #19 The Mims Beginning
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 289 reviews2016
Dev: Squatting PenguinsPub: The End of the Sun Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Experience a mystical journey with the Mims in this strategic god-like adventure—build, grow, protect, and wield divine powers. Now it's completely free! Also check out our other story-rich fantasy game, The End of the Sun, where you become a tracker of mythical beings and unravel mysteries.
Why similar: God Game 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 8%, Isometric 7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines god-game mechanics with colony management and resource gathering on alien planets.
- #20 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
82% matchVery Positive85% of 729 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 21% ★, God Game 20.3% ★, Management 10.7%, RTS 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates survival and crafting elements to manage a Roman settlement.
- #21 Goblins of Elderstone
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 394 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: God Game 27.8% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Colony Sim 20% ★, Management 11.1%, Procedural Generation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes tribe management and the unique challenges of leading a goblin society.
- #22 Celestial Empire
81% matchVery Positive89% of 615 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, RTS 13.2%, Economy 13.2%, Management 12.5%, Mythology 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with a focus on simulation and sandbox play within an ancient Chinese setting.
- #23 From Dust
84% matchMixed67% of 2,936 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 79.5% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Sandbox 7.4%, Strategy 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic god-game focused on manipulating terrain and protecting villagers from natural disasters.
- #24 Primitive Society Simulator
80% matchVery Positive83% of 687 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, City Builder 31%, Management 15.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the early development of civilization and agriculture.
- #25 Hearthlands
82% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 22.5%, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, God Game 14.4% ★, Management 8.9%, RTS 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with a focus on simulation and management in a medieval fantasy setting.
- #26 Banished
79% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: City Builder 37%, Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 6.1%, Sandbox 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and the fragility of your population.
- #27 Dungeon Overseer
81% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4% ★, City Builder 20.8%, God Game 20.5% ★, Economy 10%, Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on management and economy within a dungeon-building context.
- #28 Clanfolk
78% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.4% ★, Sandbox 18.3%, Simulation 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Indie 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim focused on survival and family management in a harsh, realistic environment.
- #29 Religion inc.
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 135 reviews2025
Dev: GameFirst
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Create your own unique religion in god simulator strategy sandbox games
Why similar: God Game 48.3% ★, Isometric 14.8%, RTS 14.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy simulation focused on managing a global religion and influencing the world's population.
- #30 Genesis of a Small God
77% matchVery Positive83% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
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 32.1% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #31 Gold Gold Adventure Gold
76% matchVery Positive82% of 284 reviews2025
Dev: Can Can Can a Man
Windows
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 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.6% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 11.6%, Isometric 8.4%
- #32 Reprisal Universe
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 401 reviews2014
Dev: electrolyte
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
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 32.2% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Isometric 10.6%, RTS 9.4%, Mythology 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled god-game that features city-building elements and terrain manipulation.
- #33 Founders' Fortune
76% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9% ★, City Builder 25.7%, Management 8.3%, Sandbox 6.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #34 Sapiens
75% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: God Game 33.2% ★, Colony Sim 22% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 4.9%
- #35 Nova Roma
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Management 14%, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #36 Aztecs: The Last Sun
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Management 10.7%, Economy 10.1%, Isometric 8.6%
- #37 A Game of Humans
77% matchMixed66% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Scion Studios
Windows
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 25.7% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Management 10.2%, Economy 5.8%
- #38 STARIO: Haven Tower
72% matchVery Positive94% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Stargate Games
Windows
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Why similar: God Game 22.4% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, Economy 8.9%, Management 8.8%
- #39 Revive & Prosper
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: God Game 28.6% ★, Voxel 20.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Management 7.1%
- #40 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 763 reviews2022
Dev: Erik RempenPub: Silk Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
Why similar: God Game 36.3% ★, City Builder 28.9%, Procedural Generation 9%, Management 8.2%, Isometric 8.1%
- #41 Settlement Survival
71% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Colony Sim 26.7% ★, Management 13.3%, Economy 7.2%, Sandbox 6.4%
- #42 Pixel Survivors
75% matchMixed65% of 293 reviews2016
Dev: Patagoniart
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Pixel Survivors is a god management game. Create some land and build structures to keep your small society settled. See how long you can keep your village alive!
Why similar: Simulation 40.4%, Management 23.8%, Strategy 21.3%, Indie 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
- #43 Planetary Life
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 743 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 42.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, Management 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #44 City idle
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 214 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.5% ★, Economy 13.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 11.2%
- #45 Crowded Blue Dot
73% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Colony Sim 19.8% ★, Management 16%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #46 Hexagod
70% matchVery Positive89% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Aarimous
Windows · Mac · Linux
A satisfying roguelike village builder set in the eye of an apocalyptic storm. Place hexagon tiles, unlock adjacency bonuses, and find powerful relics to create game breaking synergies. Prove you are worthy of becoming the next Hexagod… before the storm destroys it all.
Why similar: God Game 45.4% ★, City Builder 33.1%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Colorful 3.1%
- #47 The Kingdom of God
71% matchMixed69% of 216 reviews2023
Dev: 明枭网络
Windows · Mac
The Kingdom of God: Creation is an independent game integrating territory management, resource management, strategic chess and exploration. As a new God, players develop their own country in the dangerous universe and eventually become the king of the new generation of gods.
Why similar: Strategy 45.5%, Indie 20.7%, Management 18%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 6.5%
- #48 MicroTown
70% matchVery Positive95% of 472 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Management 12.1%, Economy 10.5%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #49 Dungeon Tycoon
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,751 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: God Game 24.9% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Voxel 16.7% ★, Management 11.7%, Economy 9.5%
- #50 Exodus Borealis
70% matchVery Positive86% of 302 reviews2021
Dev: Smug Marmot Studios
Windows
In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.
Why similar: God Game 29.8% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Mythology 8.8%, Strategy 6.6%
- #51 Celestial Empire: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive85% of 370 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Management 12.6%, Economy 8.5%, Mythology 8.3%
- #52 Empire City Simulator
69% matchMixed61% of 75 reviews2024
Dev: Red Brix Wall
Windows
Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!
Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Isometric 19%, Management 11.1%, Economy 10.9%, Simulation 9.6%
- #53 Flooded
68% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, God Game 19.4% ★, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Management 10%, RTS 9.8%
- #54 Venture Towns
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 131 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Make your own metropolitan utopia! Stores, mansions, towers--anything goes!
Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Colony Sim 23.9% ★, God Game 17.1% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 8.9%
- #55 Fate Tectonics
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 208 reviews2015
Dev: Golden Gear GamesPub: Toy Temp
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 60% ★, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 14%, Indie 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #56 Lords and Villeins
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 25.5%, Management 13.7%, Economy 9%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #57 Land of the Vikings
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,203 reviews2023
Dev: Laps GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Management 10%, Economy 8.6%, Mythology 7.6%
- #58 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
66% matchMixed50% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Bart Mamzer
Windows
You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 22.8% ★, God Game 12.9% ★, RTS 11.8%, Economy 9.1%
- #59 Urbek City Builder
65% matchVery Positive90% of 1,808 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Voxel 23.2% ★, Management 13.1%, Economy 10.2%, Sandbox 7.3%