Games Like Reus

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 64.4% ★, Sandbox 8.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Resource Management 4.5%, Puzzle 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it refines the core mechanics of planetary shaping and giant-based ecosystem management found in the original.

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 75.3% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 5.7%, Indie 2%, Fantasy 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox experience where you can influence the rise and fall of civilizations through environmental changes and divine intervention.

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: Sandbox 32.3%, Simulation 24.5%, Resource Management 21.1%, Nature 8.4%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a settlement on the back of a giant creature, mirroring the scale and symbiotic relationship between giants and inhabitants seen in Reus.

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 80.7% ★, Sandbox 6.6%, Strategy 4.9%, Simulation 4.9%, Puzzle 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: This classic god-game focuses heavily on manipulating terrain and elements to protect a tribe from natural disasters.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: Strategy 39.3%, Puzzle 14.6%, Nature 13.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Relaxing 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This environmental strategy game focuses on restoring barren landscapes to thriving ecosystems, capturing the satisfying 'shaping' aspect of Reus.

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 74.4% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Indie 6.1%, Strategy 4.6%, Puzzle 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based god game where you indirectly influence human development, requiring careful resource management similar to Reus.

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

Why similar: God Game 67.6% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 6.1%, Resource Management 4.5%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A VR god-game that allows you to physically shape the world and observe the development of your followers in a sandbox environment.

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 62% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 5.5%, Resource Management 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: You act as a god who can only influence followers through commandments, emphasizing the indirect control style of Reus.

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 52.4% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Indie 5.6%, Casual 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on creating and maintaining balanced ecosystems, which appeals to the resource-balancing puzzle aspect of Reus.

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 71.8% ★, Sandbox 12%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 4.3%, Resource Management 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A modern god-game that lets you guide a civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age with various divine powers.

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 76.2% ★, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 8%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game where you grow your own religion and influence followers, focusing on the divine management aspect.

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 64.6% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Sandbox 7.9%, Simulation 5.8%, Resource Management 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends god-game mechanics with colony simulation, forcing you to manage resources and defend against environmental threats.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Sandbox 35.1%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Nature 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex water management and terraforming mechanics that require careful planning to sustain a beaver colony.

Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.

Why similar: God Game 73.4% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Resource Management 3.8%, Casual 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to guide a species through evolution and planetary expansion, offering a grand scale of god-like influence.

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 61.8% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Indie 6.7%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing god-game where you shape the terrain and manage the growth of a small civilization on a procedurally generated island.

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 68.9% ★, Sandbox 11%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 5.4%, 2D 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D god-game that captures the retro aesthetic and territory-expansion mechanics reminiscent of classic genre titles.

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 66.4% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Indie 5.6%, Puzzle 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-strategy game where you build a world tile-by-tile to keep the gods happy, mirroring the world-building mechanics of Reus.

Doodle God is an addicting puzzle & world building game where players use logic and ingenuity to create the entire universe. Starting with the basic elements of earth, wind, fire and air players can build a world filled with locomotives, Dragons, skyscrapers, Aliens and more.

Why similar: God Game 70.6% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Simulation 5.6%, Puzzle 4.8%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game centered on combining elements to create a world, appealing to the creative side of Reus.

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Why similar: God Game 57.2% ★, Sandbox 20.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Indie 6.3%, Relaxing 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-fidelity physics simulation for manipulating planets and stars, perfect for those who enjoy the 'planetary architect' feel.

In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.

Why similar: Sandbox 54.4%, Simulation 14.7%, 2D 9.4%, Casual 6.9%, Relaxing 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual ecosystem management game where you cultivate a garden to attract creatures, sharing the 'nurturing' aspect of Reus.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: Sandbox 41.5%, Simulation 18.2%, Indie 10.8%, Nature 7.4%, Casual 7%

Why You'll Like It: An instant, relaxing building game that focuses on the joy of creating structures without the stress of traditional management.

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: Sandbox 39.1%, Strategy 32.5%, Simulation 17.8%, Singleplayer 5.9%, Fantasy 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale colony sim that requires managing large populations and environmental resources with a high level of complexity.

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: Strategy 35.4%, Sandbox 23%, Simulation 20%, Resource Management 7.5%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes survival and resource management against harsh environmental conditions.

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: Sandbox 39.8%, Strategy 32%, Simulation 19.9%, Management 3.8%, Resource Management 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate simulation of a world and its inhabitants, offering unparalleled depth in environmental and societal management.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.1%, Strategy 27.9%, Simulation 16.6%, Indie 7.7%, Singleplayer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony simulator where you manage the lives of individuals in a procedurally generated world, often leading to emergent storytelling.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Sandbox 25.1%, Simulation 24.2%, Indie 13.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Resource Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automating resource gathering and production, appealing to the management-heavy side of Reus.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Sandbox 43.8%, Resource Management 24.4%, Simulation 21.3%, Nature 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer simulation where players must build a civilization while managing the environmental impact on their planet.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.7%, Resource Management 22.1%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 13%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A complex resource management game where you must master thermodynamics and gas physics to keep your colony alive.

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 71.2% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Simulation 6%, Resource Management 3.9%, Nature 2.9%

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Sandbox 34.6%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a complex ecosystem within a controlled environment, requiring careful balancing of species and resources.

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 64.8% ★, Strategy 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Nature 2.1%

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: Simulation 30.4%, Strategy 23.9%, Indie 11.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Addictive 7.1% ★

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 62.4% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.4%, Indie 3.6%

Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.7%, Indie 23.1%, Puzzle 18.3%, Casual 14.6%, Singleplayer 8.2%

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 36.7%, Strategy 27%, Simulation 15.7%, Indie 8.3%, Resource Management 3.7%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: God Game 34.8% ★, Sandbox 30.4%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 6.2%, Resource Management 4.4%

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 64.6% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 5.4%, Nature 3.1%

Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

Why similar: Simulation 35.6%, Puzzle 24.2%, Indie 21%, Casual 8%, Singleplayer 7%

Step into rhythmic bliss with Runner2! Best Indie Game winner, Guinness World Record holder, and narrated by Charles Martinet. Unleash vibrant moves and beats in 120 levels!

Why similar: Indie 56%, Casual 34.6%, Funny 9.5%

ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.

Why similar: Strategy 42.3%, Puzzle 16.1%, Addictive 13.2% ★, Indie 13.2%, Relaxing 9.4%

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Why similar: God Game 54.4% ★, Sandbox 20.5%, Simulation 7.3%, Indie 7.1%, Casual 4%

Existential Nature Simulation

Why similar: God Game 59.5% ★, Simulation 16.5%, Indie 8.8%, Casual 5.1%, Relaxing 3.7%

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.

Why similar: Puzzle 35.3%, Indie 24.5%, Singleplayer 8.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.8%, 2D 7.5%

The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.

Why similar: Sandbox 39.8%, Puzzle 18.8%, Strategy 12.1%, Casual 8%, 2D 6.2%

Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Why similar: Strategy 47%, Simulation 23.4%, Indie 8.6%, Sandbox 6.6%, Addictive 6.3% ★

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 77.8% ★, Simulation 6.3%, Puzzle 5.4%, Indie 5.1%, Casual 3.3%

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Strategy 31.2%, Simulation 22.5%, Indie 21.9%, Singleplayer 8.8%, Casual 6.6%

You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Why similar: Strategy 66.9%, Indie 15.8%, Singleplayer 7.7%, Fantasy 6.3%, Great Soundtrack 1.8%

Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!

Why similar: Sandbox 24.8%, Strategy 20.5%, Simulation 12%, Resource Management 11.6%, Puzzle 10.3%

Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.

Why similar: Indie 57.9%, 2D 26.5%, Great Soundtrack 6.6%, Singleplayer 6.2%, Funny 2.9%

What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

Why similar: Puzzle 52.9%, Indie 26.2%, Singleplayer 8.3%, 2D 7%, Great Soundtrack 5.5%

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Why similar: Strategy 22.7%, Sandbox 18%, Simulation 17.4%, Resource Management 9.8%, Puzzle 8.4%

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.

Why similar: Indie 44.5%, 2D 27.3%, Singleplayer 17.2%, Puzzle 5.4%, Strategy 4.9%

Joe Danger, the world’s most determined stuntman, returns to embark on a death-defying thrill-ride across the set of the greatest blockbuster movie ever made. Across 100 crazy levels he’ll chase crooks by police bike, destroy laser-firing robots with a stolen jetpack, escape giant boulders in a minecart, time-travel to punch dinosaurs...

Why similar: Indie 66.2%, Casual 33.8%

The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

Why similar: Strategy 29.4%, Puzzle 26%, Indie 15.4%, 2D 15.1%, Singleplayer 8.4%

SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.

Why similar: Indie 41.4%, 2D 19.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Singleplayer 13.9%, Casual 6.7%

Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.

Why similar: Indie 45.7%, Addictive 21.9% ★, 2D 15.3%, Singleplayer 12.3%, Fantasy 4.9%