- #1 Ruinarch
97% matchMixed64% of 1,389 reviews2023
Dev: Maccima Games LLCPub: Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.2% ★, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Artificial Intelligence 13.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Dark Humor 9%
Why You'll Like It: You play as a malevolent god manipulating the lives of villagers to cause chaos and destruction.
- #2 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
96% matchMixed69% of 13,065 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 32.8%, Building 18.4%, Management 16%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 10%
Why You'll Like It: This game puts you in the role of a villain building a secret lair to achieve global domination.
- #3 RimWorld
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.4% ★, Base Building 21.2%, Management 11.1%, Building 9%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A deep colony simulator that forces you to make difficult moral choices while managing a group of survivors.
- #4 Prison Architect
95% matchVery Positive89% of 73,112 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 28.4% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Building 15.1%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intricate design and management of a facility, mirroring the base-building aspects of the seed game.
- #5 War for the Overworld
94% matchVery Positive86% of 8,005 reviews2015
Dev: Brightrock GamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: God Game 27.7% ★, Base Building 22.7%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Management 16.8%, Simulation 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A spiritual successor to Dungeon Keeper where you build a dungeon and command minions to defeat heroes.
- #6 Honey, I Joined a Cult
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,875 reviews2022
Dev: Sole Survivor GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!
Why similar: Political Sim 18.3% ★, God Game 13.7% ★, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A management simulator where you build and run a cult, balancing resource management with keeping your followers happy.
- #7 Despotism 3k
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,802 reviews2018
Dev: Konfa Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!
Why similar: Dark Humor 31.7%, Resource Management 16.3%, Roguelite 12.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, humorous management game where you control humans as a rogue AI in a dystopian setting.
- #8 Starmancer
92% matchMixed64% of 1,024 reviews2021
Dev: Ominux GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 20.9%, Management 13.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: You play as an AI managing a space station, balancing the needs of colonists against your own directives.
- #9 Dungeons 4
91% matchVery Positive88% of 3,172 reviews2023
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.
Why similar: Dark Humor 52.5%, Simulation 22.4%, Strategy 20.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines dungeon management with real-time strategy as you play as the Absolute Evil.
- #10 MachiaVillain
91% matchMixed65% of 799 reviews2018
Dev: Wild FactorPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Why similar: Base Building 21.6%, Management 15.6%, Simulation 13.9%, God Game 13.8% ★, Strategy 13%
Why You'll Like It: A base-building game where you manage a house of monsters and must lure victims to their doom.
- #11 Evil Labs
90% matchMostly Positive70% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: Mirabolis Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.4% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Simulation 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on scientific experimentation and managing an outbreak, similar to the test subject management in the seed game.
- #12 Hell Architect
89% matchMixed69% of 442 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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: God Game 22.6% ★, Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A management game where you design and build your own version of Hell to punish sinners.
- #13 Frostpunk
87% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Resource Management 22%, Building 11.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal society-survival game that tests your ability to manage a city under extreme dystopian conditions.
- #14 Cultist Simulator
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 13,737 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Why similar: Resource Management 23.7%, Management 19.9%, Roguelite 16.4%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Simulation 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric management game focused on occult research and manipulation.
- #15 Oxygen Not Included
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, Base Building 21.4%, Resource Management 14.7%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A complex base-building game that requires precise management of resources and life-support systems.
- #16 Space Haven
86% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Resource Management 13.9%, Building 13.2%, Management 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colony management game set in space that emphasizes survival and facility design.
- #17 Odd Realm
84% matchVery Positive85% of 992 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4% ★, God Game 23.4% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A colony simulator that focuses on building and managing a settlement in a procedurally generated world.
- #18 WorldBox - God Simulator
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,884 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Why similar: God Game 31.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Political Sim 16.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 11.5%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox god game where you can create and destroy civilizations at your whim.
- #19 Organs Please
85% matchVery Positive84% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Political Sim 33.9% ★, Resource Management 13.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game where you decide who is worthy of survival in a resource-scarce world.
- #20 Cult of the Lamb
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 121,567 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Base Building 22.6%, Dark Humor 15.2%, Building 11.5%, Roguelite 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines base building with a dark, cult-themed narrative where you manage your followers' loyalty.
- #21 Dungeon Tycoon
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,751 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: God Game 32.4% ★, Dark Humor 17.2%, Management 16.4%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A management simulator where you build a dungeon to attract and challenge adventurers.
- #22 Stardeus
82% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, God Game 21.7% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony sim where you play as an AI managing a ship, focusing on automation and survival.
- #23 Hacknet
80% matchVery Positive94% of 25,824 reviews2015
Dev: Team Fractal AlligatorPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.
Why similar: Choices Matter 41.1%, Simulation 38.7%, 2D 13.1%, Singleplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A terminal-based hacking simulator that captures the aesthetic and feel of being a rogue digital entity.
- #24 The Universim
78% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 31.4% ★, Colony Sim 26.3% ★, Building 11.3%, Management 8.5%, Procedural Generation 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A god game where you guide a civilization through the ages, making choices that impact their development.
- #25 Beetle Uprising
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: Iocane Games, LLCPub: Disco Slug
Windows
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: God Game 22.7% ★, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Base Building 10%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A management game focused on scientific breeding and colony survival with a unique biological theme.
- #26 Satellite Reign
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 5,308 reviews2015
Dev: 5 Lives Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
Why similar: Strategy 72.4%, RPG 21.3%, Singleplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk tactical game where you control a squad of agents to infiltrate and manipulate a dystopian city.
- #27 Software Inc.
79% matchVery Positive94% of 7,637 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Management 36.4%, Building 36.1%, Simulation 16.8%, Strategy 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A deep management simulation where you build a company and manage employees in a complex environment.
- #28 Heart of the Machine
74% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 15%, Building 13.6%, Management 12.7%
- #29 Mainlining
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 359 reviews2017
Dev: RebelephantPub: ReadGraves
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
After MI7 has been hacked, your primary goal is to bring a cyber-criminal network to justice. Played entirely from your computer's desktop, Mainlining is a thrilling point and click hacking adventure that features a gripping narrative which will have you hooked from the very first case.
Why similar: Simulation 89.9%, Singleplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: An investigative hacking game that puts you in the role of a government agent navigating a dystopian digital landscape.
- #30 Gold Gold Adventure Gold
76% matchVery Positive82% of 284 reviews2025
Dev: Can Can Can a Man
Windows
Gold makes God. Embrace city-building chaos around a monster-filled dungeon where danger & profit go hand in hand. Assign heroes quests, evolve powerful pets and expand your influence one gold coin at a time. Recruit, defend, explore — all in pursuit of Glory and Gold!
Why similar: God Game 21.9% ★, Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Management 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Dark Humor 10%
- #31 Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
76% matchVery Positive94% of 52,523 reviews2018
Dev: ProjectMoon
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility
Why similar: Management 49.4%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Cute 9.4%, Roguelite 8.6%
- #32 Project Highrise
78% matchVery Positive85% of 4,730 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 33.6%, Building 30.6%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 11.7%, 2D 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A building management game that requires careful planning and resource allocation to keep tenants satisfied.
- #33 (the) Gnorp Apologue
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,586 reviews2023
Dev: MycoPub: (Myco)
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
Why similar: Building 22.4%, Management 19.5%, Roguelite 15.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Strategy 9.5%
- #34 Covid Simulator
77% matchVery Positive81% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Coldrice Games LLC
Windows
COVID SIMULATOR is an outbreak simulation that visualizes how quickly Covid-19 spreads, becoming a disaster. The game is an open sandbox where you can add (or remove) Covid mandates and see what happens! Create your workplace, enact your mandates, and roll the dice with your workers.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31% ★, Dark Humor 17.2%, Management 16.7%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #35 Game Studio Simulator(我要做游戏)
77% matchVery Positive82% of 180 reviews2019
Dev: FunLab骆驼Pub: WhiteLakeStudio
Windows
Make a Game Company for your self!Get it work,Run for Rich!
Why similar: Dark Humor 21%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Management 13.4%, Roguelite 11.4%
- #36 Cat God Ranch
73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,138 reviews2024
Dev: CrazyPotato Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!
Why similar: Resource Management 26.2%, Management 25.1%, Roguelite 14.2%, Simulation 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #37 Hell Architect: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive82% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
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 31.9% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.3%, Dark Humor 11.5%
- #38 Genesis of a Small God
74% matchVery Positive83% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: God Game 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Outbreak Sim 12.9% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #39 Creo God Simulator
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 237 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 40.2% ★, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Management 13.1%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Simulation 6.7%
- #40 Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
75% matchMixed61% of 179 reviews2021
Dev: Abylight StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
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 20.2%, Management 17.8%, Building 17.5%, God Game 16.5% ★, Base Building 13.9%
- #41 Demon Castle Story
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 142 reviews2026
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Demon Castle Building Dungeon Management Simulation
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.1% ★, RPG 16.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 6.4%
- #42 Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
71% matchVery Positive84% of 3,305 reviews2022
Dev: Konfa GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!
Why similar: Dark Humor 31.7%, Roguelite 20.4%, Procedural Generation 17.5%, RPG 11.9%, Strategy 9.8%
- #43 Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator
68% matchVery Positive93% of 5,341 reviews2025
Dev: Aluba Van+Pub: Spiral Up Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Discover a digital realm shrouded in mystery. Sequel to an award-winning narrative driven hacking simulator puzzle game. Play as an AI assistant in a major corporation. Deploy intricate social engineering tactics and expose hidden truths in a world of ambition and high-tech deception.
Why similar: Dark Humor 40.4%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Simulation 12.4%, RPG 11%, Strategy 9.9%
- #44 The Fabulous Fear Machine
70% matchVery Positive90% of 560 reviews2023
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: AMC Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.4% ★, Dark Humor 14%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 9.8%
- #45 Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
72% matchVery Positive83% of 1,287 reviews2018
Dev: Toge ProductionsPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.9% ★, Dark Humor 16.7%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #46 Go To Hell Must
70% matchVery Positive92% of 155 reviews2024
Dev: Easy S Studio
Windows
Want to decide where mortals go when they die? Welcome to hell! With one click, you can decide whether mortals should go to heaven or stay in hell.
Why similar: God Game 44.6% ★, Dark Humor 19.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Management 7.4%, Strategy 6.4%
- #47 Rogue Station
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 228 reviews2023
Dev: Quint Studio
Windows
This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.
Why similar: Base Building 26.9%, Building 20.8%, Roguelite 17.5%, Management 17.4%, Strategy 8.7%
- #48 Mech Engineer
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 902 reviews2024
Dev: KiberKrekerPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
Why similar: Management 32.1%, Resource Management 27.5%, Building 18.8%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 8.7%
- #49 Dungeon Overseer
72% matchMixed54% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, God Game 18.6% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Building 10.9%
- #50 Drill Core
66% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Roguelite 13.3%, Management 9.8%, Building 7.7%
- #51 The Shrouded Isle
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,510 reviews2017
Dev: Jongwoo KimPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...
Why similar: Political Sim 36.2% ★, Dark Humor 13%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #52 Widget Inc.
66% matchVery Positive86% of 740 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 61.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Resource Management 32.4%, Base Building 31.2%, Procedural Generation 16%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 5.3%
- #53 KingSim
69% matchVery Positive85% of 209 reviews2020
Dev: Fuzzy Pixel Game Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...
Why similar: Political Sim 31.8% ★, Dark Humor 12.6%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #54 Academia : School Simulator
67% matchVery Positive86% of 3,008 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 31.7% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Management 15.7%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 6.6%
- #55 Illuminaria
68% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Selva Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Resource Management 16.3%, Building 14.1%, Management 10.7%
- #56 Spellcaster University
67% matchVery Positive83% of 4,213 reviews2021
Dev: Sneaky Yak Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 32.5% ★, Base Building 19.5%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #57 Goblin Stone
67% matchMixed54% of 775 reviews2024
Dev: Orc Chop Games
Windows · Mac
Goblins have been hunted to extinction by cruel adventurers. Embark on a heartwarming adventure to rebuild their lair and help them thrive in this award-winning turn-based RPG where every decision counts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Base Building 20.1%, Dark Humor 18.2%, Management 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #58 Lairchitect
69% matchMixed61% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Lairchitect is a reverse dungeon crawler! Build your own lair and protect your precious soul core from heroes that try to raid your dungeon. Distracting heroes and using the right minions to defeat them is key in winning the game.
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Building 16.3%, Artificial Intelligence 13.3%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 8.9%
- #59 Fantasy Village Simulator
67% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: CYCLOPS
Windows · Mac
Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.
Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Roguelite 14.6%, Building 11.9%, Simulation 9.7%