- #1 Reus
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,987 reviews2013
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 68.9% ★, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 5.4%, 2D 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core concept of controlling powerful giants to shape the environment and influence the development of human tribes.
- #2 Reus 2
96% matchVery Positive94% of 2,295 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.0 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 48.1% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands on the original's elemental mechanics and strategic depth, making it a perfect follow-up for fans of Reprisal Universe.
- #3 The Universim
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,640 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 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 43.3% ★, City Builder 29.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Open World 5.2%, Strategy 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A modern take on the god-game genre that focuses on guiding a civilization through the ages while managing planetary resources.
- #4 WorldBox - God Simulator
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 56,385 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 52.9% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Mythology 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%, Simulation 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep sandbox experience where you can manipulate the world, create life, and watch civilizations rise and fall from a god-like perspective.
- #5 Deisim
94% matchVery Positive93% of 909 reviews2022
Dev: Myron Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Why similar: God Game 45.6% ★, Mythology 17.3%, Sandbox 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Simulation 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the feeling of being a deity in a sandbox world, allowing you to directly interact with your followers and shape the landscape.
- #6 Fata Deum - The God Sim
93% matchMixed60% of 460 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 33.7% ★, City Builder 20.9%, RTS 16.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the choice between being a benevolent or malevolent deity, directly impacting how your followers grow and interact.
- #7 Simmiland
92% matchVery Positive87% of 1,940 reviews2018
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 67.5% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Strategy 4.6%, Casual 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique card-based god game where you influence the environment and the development of your followers through strategic card play.
- #8 Rise to Ruins
91% matchVery Positive88% of 7,757 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.2 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: City Builder 35.1%, God Game 33.8% ★, Sandbox 7.7%, Strategy 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging mix of colony simulation and tower defense that requires you to manage resources and protect your people from divine-level threats.
- #9 The Mims Beginning
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 295 reviews2016
Dev: Squatting PenguinsPub: The End of the Sun Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
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 31.9% ★, City Builder 20.2%, RTS 17.6%, Isometric 10%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines god-like powers with RTS elements, tasking you with managing a colony on a strange planet while using divine abilities.
- #10 Driftland: The Magic Revival
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,012 reviews2019
Dev: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!
Why similar: God Game 40.7% ★, City Builder 26.9%, RTS 26.1%, Strategy 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique mechanic where you must physically move and rearrange floating islands to expand your kingdom.
- #11 Creo God Simulator
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 241 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 32.4% ★, City Builder 20.2%, Isometric 10.6%, RTS 9.5%, Mythology 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A modern god simulator that focuses on the management of resources and the expansion of your influence over a growing population.
- #12 Fate Tectonics
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 209 reviews2015
Dev: Golden Gear GamesPub: Toy Temp
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.5 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 61.2% ★, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 10%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-strategy game where you build a world on the back of a giant creature, focusing on balancing the landscape to keep it stable.
- #13 Genesis of a Small God
88% matchVery Positive82% of 65 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 39.5% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 10.2%, Strategy 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game puts you in the role of a deity managing a small, evolving world with a focus on simulation and strategy.
- #14 These Doomed Isles
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 232 reviews2024
Dev: Triplevision Games LimitedPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
Why similar: God Game 35.8% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Mythology 16.8%, Strategy 6.5%, Simulation 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival god game that blends deck-building mechanics with the need to protect your followers from environmental disasters.
- #15 Hearthlands
86% matchVery Positive82% of 414 reviews2017
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 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 27.8%, God Game 17% ★, RTS 17%, Isometric 10.9%, Sandbox 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: While more of a city builder, it captures the isometric aesthetic and management focus found in many classic strategy games.
- #16 Religion inc.
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: GameFirst
Windows · Mac
Median: 36 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Create your own unique religion in god simulator strategy sandbox games
Why similar: God Game 42.7% ★, RTS 25.4%, Isometric 17.1%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy simulation that explores the development of belief systems, allowing you to influence the world through divine-like guidance.
- #17 Idol Hands
84% matchVery Positive84% of 969 reviews2022
Dev: 樹懶叫工作室Pub: Mango Party
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Time Management 46.5%, Simulation 27.7%, Casual 13.1%, 2D 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title is a direct spiritual successor to the classic Populous games, focusing on terrain manipulation and tribal warfare.
- #18 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
82% matchVery Positive84% of 764 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 23.4%, God Game 21.6% ★, RTS 19.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building mechanics with survival elements, requiring careful management of your people in a hostile environment.
- #19 MiniMap Kingdom
84% matchVery Positive86% of 96 reviews2023
Dev: YuruOwO
Windows
Build your own kingdom on unlimited Map!
Why similar: God Game 31.4% ★, City Builder 20.4%, RTS 19.4%, Open World 8.9%, Strategy 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A casual strategy game that simplifies the god-game experience into a charming, easy-to-manage isometric format.
- #20 Skyward Collapse
86% matchMixed46% of 329 reviews2013
Dev: Arcen Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?
Why similar: God Game 38.5% ★, Isometric 13%, Mythology 12.8%, Strategy 11.7%, City Builder 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A unique strategy game where you play as a god tasked with managing two warring factions to ensure neither side is completely destroyed.
- #21 Odd Realm
82% matchVery Positive84% of 1,017 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Sandbox 21.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that offers deep management systems and a sense of scale similar to god-game titles.
- #22 Gold Gold Adventure Gold
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 862 reviews2026
Dev: Can Can Can a Man
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 28.5% ★, City Builder 19.1%, RTS 17.8%, Isometric 13.7%, Sandbox 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy simulation game that focuses on resource gathering and expansion in a stylized world.
- #23 Gods and Idols
83% matchMixed69% of 758 reviews2016
Dev: JatteGames
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.
Why similar: God Game 52.5% ★, RTS 32%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: An MMO-style god game that allows you to compete with other deities for influence over a massive, persistent galaxy.
- #24 Lords of Solgrund
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Sillylas
Windows
Lords of Solgrund combines elements of real time strategy, city building and other unique additions. The game features detailed animations, complex gameplay systems inspired by the early middle ages and elements of fantasy.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, RTS 20.7%, Isometric 15.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Strategy 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A city builder that emphasizes sandbox freedom and management, allowing for creative expansion of your territory.
- #25 Pandora's Toybox
78% matchVery Positive85% of 417 reviews2026
Dev: BetaLabPub: 2P Games
Windows
Become a God, build a civilization. In this dynamic Roguelite God Simulator, guide human civilization on a procedurally generated pixel world. Watch your people grow, defend them against heretics, and build an immortal legacy.
Why similar: God Game 40.5% ★, Mythology 15.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 6.2%, Open World 5.7%
- #26 Orbi Universo II
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 85 reviews2025
Dev: Orbi Universo Team
Windows · Linux
Guide your very own civilization's destiny in this abstract strategy sim. Master a complex node system, overcome unique challenges, and evolve your society from humble beginnings to the mastery of the atom. Can your civilization *really* withstand the test of time?
Why similar: RTS 56.4%, Strategy 22.4%, Simulation 16.9%, 2D 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game that allows you to manage the development of a civilization on a global scale.
- #27 El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
80% matchMixed54% of 110 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 29.9% ★, City Builder 23%, RTS 18.8%, Mythology 14.8%, Strategy 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and management of a civilization, emphasizing the need to balance resources and divine favor.
- #28 Crownbound - Fantasy Kingdom Sim
79% matchMixed50% of 78 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 30.3%, RTS 26.9%, God Game 14.6% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Fantasy 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy strategy game that blends kingdom management with RTS combat, providing a similar sense of scale.
- #29 Plentiful
77% matchVery Positive93% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: GabberGamesPub: Learnia Inc
Windows
Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works. Your tribe’s survival depends on it.
Why similar: God Game 47.2% ★, Sandbox 18%, RTS 12.9%, Open World 7.1%, Simulation 6.2%
- #30 Flooded
78% matchVery Positive80% of 137 reviews2023
Dev: Artificial Disasters
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 20%, RTS 19.3%, God Game 18.8% ★, Isometric 12.1%, Time Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: An RTS game that forces you to manage a shrinking landmass, echoing the terrain manipulation challenges of Reprisal Universe.
- #31 Celestial Empire
75% matchVery Positive90% of 718 reviews2025
Dev: President StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 28.9%, RTS 26.4%, Mythology 16.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #32 Solar 2
77% matchVery Positive91% of 2,228 reviews2011
Dev: Murudai
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
Why similar: God Game 37.6% ★, Sandbox 26.4%, Open World 12.9%, Simulation 7.9%, Casual 6.3%
- #33 Terra Firma 2
74% matchVery Positive92% of 191 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
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 53.3% ★, Sandbox 19.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 6.4%, Open World 6.3%
- #34 Gnomoria
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 3,539 reviews2016
Dev: Robotronic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 18.2 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: City Builder 38.3%, Sandbox 20.6%, Isometric 13.2%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.4%
- #35 Tidal Tribe
75% matchVery Positive87% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: PowPit
Windows
Tidal Tribe is a relaxing god game that gives you the power to shape the terrain. Raise and lower the land to protect your villages from waves and floods, all while using that very same water to build lakes and rivers, turning the desert land into a lively forest of trees and bushes.
Why similar: God Game 54.7% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 5.8%, Atmospheric 4.5%
- #36 Imagine Earth
73% matchVery Positive82% of 967 reviews2021
Dev: Serious Bros.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Why similar: City Builder 37.8%, RTS 34.2%, Sandbox 19%, Strategy 9%
- #37 Inspiral: Echoes of Gravity
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: PcZ Games
Windows · Mac
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 48.8% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Open World 8.1%, Strategy 7.6%
- #38 Idol Hands
76% matchMixed44% of 188 reviews2015
Dev: Pocket GamesPub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Idol Hands is a strategy game where you gradually take over the world by guiding your people and defeating other gods.
Why similar: God Game 48.1% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Strategy 11.3%, Open World 11.2%, Simulation 9.9%
- #39 Galimulator
73% matchVery Positive91% of 502 reviews2018
Dev: Snoddasmannen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 47.7% ★, Simulation 22.8%, Sandbox 21.6%, Strategy 7.9%
- #40 Crest - an indirect god sim
74% matchMixed65% of 375 reviews2018
Dev: Eat Create Sleep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 51.1% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 11.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.1%
- #41 Goblin Camp
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Korppi Games Ltd
Windows · Linux
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 34.2% ★, City Builder 23.4%, Mythology 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Strategy 5.1%
- #42 PyramidValley: Reborn
70% matchVery Positive88% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: AuthenTiiq
Windows · Mac · Linux
Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Sandbox 19.2%, Isometric 14.9%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 7%
- #43 The Kingdom of God
72% matchMixed68% 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 54.9%, Sandbox 17%, Open World 13.4%, Simulation 6.6%, 2D 5.1%
- #44 Monarch : Medieval Remastered
69% matchVery Positive81% of 380 reviews2025
Dev: Mr.Lordy
Windows
In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords,develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements
Why similar: Sandbox 41.7%, Strategy 27.6%, Simulation 22.5%, 2D 8.1%
- #45 A Game of Humans
73% 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 38.7% ★, City Builder 32.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 5.2%
- #46 Airborne Empire
67% matchVery Positive87% of 924 reviews2026
Dev: The Wandering Band LLCPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, RTS 20.2%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 13.6%, Strategy 6.8%
- #47 Masters of Albion
68% matchMixed66% of 622 reviews2026
Dev: 22cans
Windows
A bold reimagining of the God Game genre from the creator who defined it. Shape a living world as a god - or step into it and experience it through your people. Build, guide and defend your town by day, then survive the night when everything is under threat. There is no single solution. Only yours.
Why similar: God Game 47.5% ★, City Builder 30.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7%, Combat 6.4%
- #48 Orbi Universo
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 262 reviews2020
Dev: Orbi Universo Team
Windows
Play as the leader of a civilization, make it prosper and stand the test of time. Orbi Universo is a strategy/simulation game in which you manage your civilization with an abstract and complex node system and you make your society evolve through different periods, from cavemen to the Modern Era.
Why similar: RTS 59.1%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 17.1%, 2D 6.6%
- #49 Pixel Survivors
71% matchMixed65% of 294 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 40.9%, Strategy 25.7%, Casual 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Fantasy 10.4%
- #50 Actraiser Renaissance
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 778 reviews2021
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Heaven, earth and mankind - Create and destroy everything according to your will! Experience the revival of the '90s classic hit "Actraiser"
Why similar: City Builder 52.4%, Mythology 20.1%, Retro 14.2%, 2D 7.3%, Simulation 3.4%
- #51 SimPocalypse
70% matchMixed68% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Incremental 25.8%, Time Management 17.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%
- #52 Ink Reverie
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 213 reviews2025
Dev: Rolling Cat StudioPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Ink Reverie is a casual city-building game set in a fictional historical era with art inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties. As a diligent manager, you'll guide hardworking villagers to transform a remote village into a prosperous home through exploration, construction, production, and trade.
Why similar: God Game 42.5% ★, City Builder 27.3%, Incremental 13.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Casual 4.7%
- #53 Godhood
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,090 reviews2020
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.6 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 72.8% ★, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 12%
- #54 Idle Civilization
71% matchMixed51% of 180 reviews2015
Dev: Very Simple Idea Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 62.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Take command of a pair of villagers and help them build a mighty civilization that will spread across the world and conquer it. Idle Civilization is a civilization builder management game where you will oversee the growth of your people into a mighty kingdom through building, research, warfare, religion, diplomacy, culture, heroic...
Why similar: Incremental 61.6%, Strategy 20.4%, Simulation 17.9%
- #55 Populous™
67% matchVery Positive85% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: Bullfrog ProductionsPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Move mountains, part the seas, and lead mortal armies to victory in Populous. Take on the powers of a mighty deity and battle for supremacy against an enemy god, using thoughtful strategy to shape the isometric world and the fate of its people.
Why similar: God Game 63.5% ★, Isometric 25.2%, Strategy 11.3%
- #56 Nova Roma
63% matchVery Positive94% of 2,244 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 43.6%, Sandbox 20.2%, Open World 16.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 9.2%
- #57 Cantata
68% matchMixed64% of 145 reviews2023
Dev: Afterschool StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Crash-landed in the universe of Cantata, will you expand your empire or bring peace to the war torn planet? Grow your army, manage resources and discover the colourful planet of Shoal, its people, and the armed forces overrunning this land in this genre-defining Grand Tactics game.
Why similar: Sandbox 48%, Strategy 23.2%, Pixel Graphics 20%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #58 Celestial Empire: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive86% of 416 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 36.6%, RTS 20.4%, Mythology 18.5%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 7.6%
- #59 Gods of the Fallen Land
68% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2017
Dev: Crow's Key Studios
Windows
Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.
Why similar: RTS 61.7%, Strategy 38.3%