Games Like Honey, I Joined a Cult

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

Why similar: Base Building 31.6%, Management 15.1%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title focuses on building a secret lair and managing a villainous organization with a distinct, humorous style.

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: Cult 42.8% ★, Base Building 15%, Faith 12.3% ★, Colony Sim 11.3%, Dark Humor 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the cult-management theme while mixing in roguelike action and base-building elements.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.3%, God Game 13.2% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 9.2%, Dark Comedy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the dark, satirical tone of managing an unconventional base while focusing on resource management and construction.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational colony-management sim, it provides the deep base-building and character-management mechanics that make cult management so engaging.

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Why similar: Base Building 18%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 13.9%, Dark Comedy 11.7%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on managing an underground criminal enterprise, mirroring the illicit and secretive nature of cult management.

A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!

Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Management 16.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim leans heavily into humor and sandbox gameplay, tasking you with building a dungeon that feels both chaotic and rewarding.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Management 24.2%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Dark Humor 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar dark, comedic approach to management, tasking you with running a medieval cemetery with questionable ethics.

Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!

Why similar: Management 16.9%, Resource Management 16.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Dark Humor 11.8%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines legitimate business management with illicit activities, capturing the 'front-facing' versus 'back-end' management loop of a cult.

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Cult 41.6% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Dark Comedy 8.5%, Management 8.3%, God Game 7.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on building a dungeon and managing minions, providing a similar 'villainous' management experience.

Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 14.5%, Sandbox 12%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a structured approach to base-building and personnel management that feels familiar to fans of management sims.

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 13%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the faith-based management theme, focusing on the quirky logistics of running a monastery brewery.

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 28.4%, Base Building 25.2%, Management 13%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for colony management, offering deep simulation and emergent storytelling that mirrors the complexity of managing a cult compound.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 31.3%, Building 20.4%, Simulation 16.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Funny 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the quirky, humorous management style and detailed building mechanics found in Honey, we Joined a Cult.

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Management 27.7%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Comedy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It expands on the humorous management formula with deep customization and building options for a university setting.

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 19.7%, Management 16.5%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a detailed management experience focused on building and maintaining a specific type of institution.

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 24.4%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep colony-management experience where you oversee the lives and needs of your subjects in a medieval setting.

Manage your own church. Perform baptisms, hear confessions, collect donations, oversee weddings and funerals, sell souvenirs, and customize your church. Manage the church’s economy and work to expand your church.

Why similar: Faith 36.4% ★, Management 18%, Resource Management 16.8%, God Game 14.9% ★, Simulation 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: It directly tackles the theme of managing a religious institution with a focus on resource allocation and community growth.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Management 19.3%, Resource Management 17.9%, Simulation 16%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a charming, isometric management experience that focuses on production lines and base efficiency.

Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management

Why similar: Resource Management 19.1%, Management 18.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic management experience focused on the logistical challenges of running a specialized facility.

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 18.2% ★, Management 16.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Dark Humor 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends management with tower defense, focusing on the creation of a dungeon that attracts and challenges adventurers.

Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

Why similar: Management 22.8%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 15.5%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the granular details of building and managing a commercial space, much like designing a cult compound.

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 20.5%, Base Building 18.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, God Game 12.3% ★, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on building and expanding a dungeon, providing a similar sense of progression and management.

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

Why similar: God Game 13.3% ★, Colony Sim 13%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox approach to building and management, focusing on the logistical challenges of a unique setting.

Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: Management 18.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Comedy 13.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a multi-department management experience that requires careful planning and resource balancing.

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Management 17.4%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.8%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the complex logistics of building and managing a large-scale facility with many moving parts.

Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!

Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Management 16.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the mundane yet chaotic nature of office management with a sandbox approach to building.

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Why similar: God Game 16.1% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 11.1%

Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Resource Management 16.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a space station, requiring you to handle diverse needs and resource constraints.

A short incremental game about sacrificing all your cult followers and collecting blood to awaken the devil.

Why similar: Cult 57% ★, Resource Management 14.4%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 6.3%, Strategy 5.4%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing yet deep management experience focused on building a successful resort from the ground up.

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Why similar: Management 25.1%, Resource Management 18.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 12.5%, Simulation 9.5%

Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?! is a wacky spy agency sim where you manage your very own potato spy headquarters, train an elite spy team, and strategize top-secret missions while uncovering the truth behind an evil spy corporation.

Why similar: Simulation 33.6%, Strategy 30.3%, Management 19.3%, Funny 11.2%, 2D 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a humorous, stylized approach to managing a secret organization with quirky characters.

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: Base Building 15.4%, Dark Comedy 12.8%, Management 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.9%

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

Why similar: Political Sim 18.3% ★, God Game 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 13.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.7%

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

Why similar: God Game 16.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.2%, Political Sim 14.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9.9%

Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!

Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Management 12.7%, Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a chaotic, space-based colony management experience that emphasizes building and survival.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: Building 21%, Sandbox 19.3%, Management 18.5%, Simulation 13.6%, Comedy 10.5%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.7%

Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Management 16.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 12.8%, Comedy 10.3%

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 23.8%, Management 16.8%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 8.4%

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 31.9%, Base Building 20.9%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.2%, Management 8.5%

Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, God Game 18.1% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 12%

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Management 53%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Sandbox 6.3%, Funny 3.1%

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: Resource Management 19.2%, Management 18.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 14.8%

Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!

Why similar: Management 24.7%, Sandbox 21.3%, Building 20.1%, Simulation 11.7%, Funny 11.1%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Management 24.4%, Resource Management 16.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Why similar: Management 24.9%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 15%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%

In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.

Why similar: God Game 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Management 13.1%, Sandbox 7.9%

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: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 15.6%, Management 15.5%, Building 10.9%

The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 15.8%, Management 13.9%, Building 11.1%

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 17.2% ★, Colony Sim 15.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12%, Management 11%

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

Why similar: Base Building 41.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Comedy 11.9%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 6%

A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.

Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 18.2%, Management 14.7%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13.4%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Base Building 30.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Management 14.3%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 11.8%

Filmmaker Tycoon is a next generation movie tycoon simulation game! You're the producer of your very own movie studio! Hire actors, build movie sets, make films, move up in the industry, and watch your finished films in Filmmaker Tycoon.

Why similar: Base Building 20.3%, Management 18.8%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 8.8%

All Hail The Orb is a short, quirky pixel-art incremental game about powering a mysterious orb, summoning cultists, exploring a dungeon and slowly unlocking automation as devotion builds. The tone is light-hearted and a little silly with no fail states, relaxed pacing, and yes...many, many ducks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Cult 19.3% ★, Comedy 12.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%

Disco Simulator is a tycoon type game based on club management. Your task will be to set up the club from scratch, put up walls, arrange furniture, hire staff, plan events, invite artists, put on concerts. Create your own club!

Why similar: Management 24.3%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 11%

Movies Tycoon is a simulation game where you dive into the world of film-making. Start with a humble studio, scout and manage top talent, customize unique characters, and direct blockbuster films.

Why similar: Management 24.4%, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 18.5%, Base Building 15%, Simulation 11.7%

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 30.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Management 17.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 8.5%

In this colorful tycoon with unique puzzle elements you are the designer of stunning, glamorous casinos. Your guests, though, have varied and sometimes opposite demands! Analyze their routines, split them up and manipulate them on your way to success!

Why similar: Management 21.3%, Building 19.2%, Comedy 15.1%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.1%