Games Like Crest - an indirect god sim

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

Why similar: God Game 66.3% ★, Simulation 18.6%, Indie 7.1%, Strategy 4.6%, Casual 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Crest, this game focuses on indirect influence where you use cards to guide a civilization that interprets your actions in unpredictable ways.

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 42.1% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Nature 12.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel refines the environmental manipulation mechanics, offering deeper strategic control over how your human followers evolve.

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 61.5% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 5.7%, Resource Management 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: You control powerful giants to shape the environment, forcing you to manage the needs and growth of human settlements indirectly.

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 52.7% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Artificial Intelligence 12.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Procedural Generation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox simulator excels at emergent behavior, allowing you to watch civilizations rise, fall, and interact without direct control over individual units.

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 43% ★, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 9.9%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Resource Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A modern take on the classic god game genre where you guide a civilization from the Stone Age to the space age while managing their societal development.

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 69% ★, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses specifically on the religious aspect of god sims, tasking you with building a faith and managing your followers' beliefs.

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 74.1% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 5.2%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a god-like entity manipulating the environment to protect a tribe, emphasizing the struggle against nature's forces.

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: Base Building 23.2%, Sandbox 22.7%, Procedural Generation 17.1%, Survival 13.2%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a ruler with god-like powers, observing and influencing the complex social lives and decisions of your subjects.

In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...

Why similar: Strategy 40.6%, Simulation 30.3%, Base Building 24.6%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This classic title is the gold standard for indirect control, as you must incentivize heroes to act rather than commanding them directly.

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

Why similar: God Game 50.9% ★, Sandbox 16.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox god game that allows you to influence the growth of a world and its inhabitants through direct environmental interaction.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Nature 20.2%, Resource Management 20%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Survival 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: You must manage a symbiotic relationship between a village and a giant creature, requiring careful balance to ensure both survive.

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

Why similar: Nature 43.6%, Simulation 25.9%, Sandbox 19.9%, Indie 7.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist simulation focused on managing a fragile ecosystem, mirroring the nature-centric themes found in Crest.

Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!

Why similar: God Game 33.5% ★, Artificial Intelligence 12.9%, Nature 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep biological simulation where you create life forms and observe how they adapt and survive in a complex, evolving environment.

The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!

Why similar: God Game 33.7% ★, Artificial Intelligence 13.5%, Nature 13.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Procedural Generation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to design your own ecosystem and watch how species evolve and interact over time without direct intervention.

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 36.4% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 10%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An upcoming god sim that focuses on the duality of benevolence and malevolence, allowing you to shape the morality of your followers.

Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game. See how Empires rise and fall, and how the people in them climb through the ranks to bring prestige to their Dynasty. Then throw in an invasion of self replicating Smatter monsters if you want to spice things up.

Why similar: God Game 45% ★, Simulation 26.4%, Sandbox 20.4%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, large-scale simulation of galactic empires where you act as an observer and occasional meddler in their history.

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: Base Building 22%, Sandbox 21.8%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 15.5%, Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This massive-scale simulation focuses on managing a growing society where the emergent needs and behaviors of your population are paramount.

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

Why similar: God Game 48% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Indie 6.6%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing god game where you shape the land and influence the growth of a small tribe living on an island.

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 33.3% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, Survival 10.5%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: An emergent colony simulator that captures the feeling of managing a society through various environmental and social challenges.

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

Why similar: God Game 30.1% ★, Sandbox 18.9%, Nature 14.8%, Simulation 12.7%, Great Soundtrack 9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing nature-focused sandbox that emphasizes the evolution and balance of various species within a closed environment.

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

Why similar: God Game 36.8% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends god-like village management with tower defense, requiring you to protect your followers from the elements and threats.

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 23.1%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more direct, its focus on emergent storytelling and the unpredictable nature of its inhabitants makes it a perfect fit for Crest fans.

Create your own unique religion in god simulator strategy sandbox games

Why similar: God Game 64.6% ★, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 12%, Stylized 6.6%, 3D 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy simulation that tasks you with creating and spreading a religion, focusing on the global impact of your beliefs.

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: Sandbox 27.9%, Survival 21.2%, God Game 16.1% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming colony builder that focuses on the growth and development of a town, emphasizing the individual roles of your settlers.

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 23.9%, Sandbox 22.6%, Survival 18.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate emergent simulation, providing an unparalleled depth of history and social interaction for your generated civilizations.

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Base Building 75.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Singleplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique perspective on religious management, forcing you to balance the needs of your cultists with your own divine goals.

Uesugi Wakari, the ex-member of an idol group, was kicked out after a masturbation video leak. How will you rebuild her dream and turn her into a superstar? Your hectic journey (and nasty fun) has begun! With 30+ pornos, 400+ pics, 20+ outfits, and more, Idol Hands will blow your... (Cough)... mind!

Why similar: Simulation 63.9%, Casual 30.4%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style god game that focuses on the tension between divine power and the needs of your growing village.

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: Sandbox 35%, Open World 26.5%, Simulation 17.9%, Casual 8.5%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes the daily lives and social connections of your people in a harsh environment.

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: Survival 23%, Sandbox 17.4%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 15.1%, Resource Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder where you must manage the limited resources and population growth of a small, isolated community.

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 30.4% ★, Real-Time 19.7% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Resource Management 8.9%

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

Why similar: Sandbox 32.7%, Survival 18.3%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 14%, Resource Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A complex colony management game where you must guide your gnomes to build a thriving society in a procedurally generated world.

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

Why similar: God Game 56.4% ★, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8%

Existential Nature Simulation

Why similar: God Game 36.4% ★, Simulation 18.5%, Great Soundtrack 14.5%, Casual 8.3%, Nature 8.1%

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 41.3% ★, Nature 15.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Resource Management 8.1%

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 46.9% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Nature 13.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 10%

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

Why similar: God Game 41.7% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Nature 14.5%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 5.2%

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 43.2% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 10.2%, Open World 7.5%

Protect the environment, and save it from harm! Give commands to the animals, observe their rituals and help them survive. Face different disasters, react to human presence and help the animal kingdom flourish in this unique, environmental experience!

Why similar: God Game 32.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 11.8%, Nature 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8%

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: Artificial Intelligence 26.4%, Sandbox 25.3%, Resource Management 19.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 12.8%

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 43% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.7%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Base Building 22.1%, Survival 18.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Procedural Generation 9.2%

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

Why similar: God Game 67% ★, Simulation 10%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Casual 7.7%, Indie 5.6%

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: God Game 36.4% ★, Artificial Intelligence 13.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 7.7%

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 50.8% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 11.2%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.3%

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 46.3% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Open World 10%

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

Why similar: God Game 60.4% ★, Simulation 20.5%, Casual 10.6%, Indie 8.6%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, Sandbox 17.2%, Resource Management 15.7%, Survival 13.9%, Open World 13.4%

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: Simulation 20.4%, Strategy 18.8%, Sandbox 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Resource Management 12.4%

Jump into Super Island God and take on the role of a lost island tribe's deity in this exciting new God Simulator. Harness your divine power in this built-for-VR game and reward (or punish) your civilization as they journey through dozens of handcrafted challenges.

Why similar: God Game 63.5% ★, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 14.5%, Indie 5.3%

Start as an asteroid, grow by absorbing other celestial bodies to become a planet, a star, and ultimately a black hole. Experience realistic gravity and orbital physics in an ever-evolving sandbox universe.

Why similar: God Game 38.4% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 6.3%

Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

Why similar: God Game 45.9% ★, Sandbox 22%, Simulation 12.9%, Real-Time 12.7% ★, Strategy 3%

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: God Game 25.6% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.8%

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 32.2% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Base Building 9.8%, Nature 9.5%

A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?

Why similar: God Game 35.2% ★, Nature 17.2%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Resource Management 6.8%

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: Base Building 29.3%, Sandbox 27.5%, Resource Management 16.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.2%

Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.

Why similar: God Game 53.1% ★, Artificial Intelligence 18.6%, Sandbox 17.5%, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 4.6%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Survival 31.3%, Strategy 18.2%, Sandbox 17.6%, Simulation 13%, Open World 10.2%

The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!

Why similar: God Game 64.8% ★, Sandbox 21%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

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 38%, Indie 15.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 8.3%

Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!

Why similar: God Game 35.9% ★, Nature 15.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Artificial Intelligence 11.4%, Procedural Generation 8.3%