- #1 Stacklands
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,157 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!
Why similar: Card Game 56.3%, Simulation 21.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Indie 7.5%, Casual 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core mechanic of using cards to manage resources and build a civilization in a compact, satisfying way.
- #2 WorldBox - God Simulator
96% 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 71.3% ★, Simulation 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Indie 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive sandbox god-game that allows for deep, pixel-art environmental manipulation and civilization observation.
- #3 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 73.6% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Puzzle 4.8%, Strategy 4.3%, Indie 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of indirect god-like control by using giants to influence the development of the world.
- #4 Reus
95% 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 74.4% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Indie 6.1%, Strategy 4.6%, Puzzle 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to Reus 2, it focuses on balancing the growth of humanity through environmental intervention.
- #5 These Doomed Isles
94% 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 55.1% ★, Card Game 16.7%, Simulation 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Strategy 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly merges card-based deckbuilding with god-game mechanics to defend your followers.
- #6 WitchHand
93% matchVery Positive91% of 636 reviews2024
Dev: Jon NielsenPub: HopFrog
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.
Why similar: Card Game 47.5%, Simulation 38.7%, Strategy 11.1%, 2D 2.4%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based management game that emphasizes resource gathering and expansion in a way that feels mechanically similar to Simmiland.
- #7 Godhood
94% 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 70.6% ★, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique take on the god-game genre by focusing on the development of your own religion and followers.
- #8 Card Survival: Tropical Island
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,044 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Card Game 46.9%, Simulation 34.8%, Indie 9.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a card-based interface to simulate survival and environmental interaction in a highly detailed manner.
- #9 Fate Tectonics
92% 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 52.4% ★, Simulation 21.5%, Indie 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Strategy 6%
Why You'll Like It: This game features god-like puzzle mechanics where you manipulate the world's geography to keep your civilization alive.
- #10 Galimulator
91% 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 50.3% ★, Simulation 46%, Strategy 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: A chaotic sandbox god-game that lets you watch civilizations rise and fall across a galaxy.
- #11 Terracards
89% matchVery Positive85% of 761 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Purrfect
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and structures through cards, transforming them into valuable resources and wealth with each turn. But beware - deplete your funds, and it's game over.
Why similar: Card Game 46.2%, Strategy 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Indie 11.3%, Casual 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based farming and management game that shares the same satisfying loop of placing cards to generate resources.
- #12 Doodle God
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,552 reviews2015
Dev: JoyBits Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 61.2% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Card Game 8%, Indie 7.2%, Puzzle 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic puzzle-based god-game that focuses on combining elements to create new life and technologies.
- #13 Tidal Tribe
89% 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 54.6% ★, Simulation 31.1%, Indie 11.3%, Strategy 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing god-game that focuses on terraforming and managing the environment to support your people.
- #14 Cardboard Town
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 2,304 reviews2023
Dev: Stratera GamesPub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Why similar: Card Game 48.8%, Simulation 37.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Casual 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that uses a card-based system to manage resources and development.
- #15 Earthtongue
88% matchVery Positive90% of 210 reviews2015
Dev: June StringsPub: junestrings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Care for a miniature ecosystem in a strange world, exert limited influence to encourage the growth of different fungi and bugs and try to maintain the balance of life.
Why similar: Simulation 65.5%, Indie 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, 2D 2.1%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: An ecosystem simulation that allows you to observe and influence the growth of life in a 2D environment.
- #16 Tiny Civilization
84% matchVery Positive93% of 2,184 reviews2022
Dev: 喜人一个
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Why similar: God Game 90.2% ★, Strategy 7.5%, 2D 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Why You'll Like It: A tabletop-inspired strategy game that focuses on the development of civilizations through card-based choices.
- #17 Empire of the Gods
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: Lonely Troops
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Ancient Egypt cards. Master power, wealth, faith and life. Work your way up from a small tribe to a flourishing Empire. Win the Gods' favor and become the mightiest Pharaoh.
Why similar: Card Game 47.8%, Indie 25.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Casual 8.7%, Puzzle 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based strategy game that puts you in the role of a deity managing a civilization.
- #18 Idol Hands
85% 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: Simulation 80.9%, Casual 11.6%, 2D 4.4%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic god-game experience where you influence the world indirectly to help your followers thrive.
- #19 The Universim
84% 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 81.1% ★, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 3.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Why You'll Like It: A modern god-game that allows you to guide a civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age.
- #20 Super Island God VR
86% matchMixed62% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: Empyrean Interactive
Windows
Jump into Super Island God and take on the role of a lost island tribe's deity in this exciting new God Simulator. Harness your divine power in this built-for-VR game and reward (or punish) your civilization as they journey through dozens of handcrafted challenges.
Why similar: God Game 60.5% ★, Simulation 26%, Indie 7.5%, Strategy 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more immersive, VR-based take on the god-game genre where you interact directly with your island.
- #21 Crop Rotation
82% matchVery Positive94% of 560 reviews2023
Dev: Sprouting Potato
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Crop Rotation is a farming-theme card drafting game. Cards are played automatically so you can focus on the deck building and building synergies.
Why similar: Card Game 47.2%, Simulation 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Indie 10%, Strategy 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A card-based farming game that requires strategic planning to manage your land effectively.
- #22 Rise to Ruins
82% 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: God Game 60.4% ★, Simulation 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Strategy 5.9%, Indie 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title blends god-game mechanics with colony simulation, requiring you to protect your villagers from environmental threats.
- #23 DICEOMANCER
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,602 reviews2024
Dev: 超厚皮猪猪 Ultra Piggy StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.
Why similar: Card Game 64.5%, Strategy 19.7%, Indie 10.9%, Casual 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more combat-focused, its card-based interaction with the world feels similar to the strategic depth of Simmiland.
- #24 LuckLand
81% matchVery Positive95% of 459 reviews2023
Dev: e-Jade
Windows
LuckLand is a strategy casual game that combines elements such as card building and Roguelike. To achieve ultimate victory, all you need to do is rotate the chessboard. This game does not include any real world currency gambling or micro trading.
Why similar: Card Game 39%, Simulation 30.5%, Indie 13.1%, Strategy 9.2%, Casual 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that focuses on resource management and building a thriving community.
- #25 Cat God Ranch
79% matchVery Positive93% of 2,195 reviews2024
Dev: CrazyPotato Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Simulation 47.3%, Card Game 38.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Casual 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy simulation that uses card-based mechanics to run a ranch for cats.
- #26 Rana Card
79% matchVery Positive90% of 1,400 reviews2025
Dev: VisionRanaPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Rana Card is a roguelike deck-builder where you play as a farm manager chasing TimeTech's KPI targets. Draw cards in high-stakes moments, survive Time Explosions, and unlock powerful cards. Build your deck, chart your own path, and face branching events and cataclysmic years on the road to success.
Why similar: Card Game 64.4%, Indie 11.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Casual 8.9%, 2D 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deckbuilding strategy game that focuses on managing resources and growth through card play.
- #27 From Dust
83% matchMixed67% of 2,981 reviews2011
Dev: Ubisoft MontpellierPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 80.5% ★, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 2.4%, Puzzle 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic environmental god-game where you manipulate the terrain to protect your tribe from natural disasters.
- #28 EarthRoyale 3
81% matchMixed67% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Lizzycat / Lizabeth Gidlund
Windows · Mac · Linux
A simulation map observation game where you watch the world simulate into the future in the most chaotic way possible
Why similar: God Game 58.3% ★, Simulation 27.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%, Casual 3.9%, Indie 3%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that lets you act as a god to trigger events and watch how the world reacts.
- #29 Pandora's Toybox
77% 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 68.4% ★, Simulation 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Strategy 4.7%, 2D 1.1%
- #30 Fhtagn Simulator
78% matchVery Positive89% of 569 reviews2022
Dev: 锁眼工作室Pub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Fhtagn Simulator is a Cthulhu Roulette Deckbuilder. Set up card slots on roulette to maximize card's value. Collect evil creatures, spells, items and environment to build your deck. Your ultimate mission is to sacrifice spirit collected by cards to unseal the ancient gods that have come to earth!
Why similar: Card Game 49.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.6%, Indie 11.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Casual 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A unique card-based management game that focuses on cult-building and cosmic influence.
- #31 Doodle Empires
76% matchVery Positive92% of 1,263 reviews2025
Dev: Turtle Stack Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Doodle Empires is an alternate history sandbox game all about drawing your own nations with your own histories and stories in a variety of maps. Watch your world take shape and evolve over time, and decide which nations will rise and which nations will fall.
Why similar: God Game 59.5% ★, Simulation 26.4%, Strategy 5.8%, Indie 4.9%, Pixel Graphics 2%
- #32 Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
75% matchVery Positive97% of 202 reviews2026
Dev: Crux Games
Windows
A mini citybuilding roguelike. Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts to create a tiny thriving metropolis!
Why similar: Card Game 46.8%, Pixel Graphics 24.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Casual 5.1%, 2D 3.5%
- #33 Rogue Hex
76% matchVery Positive87% of 277 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: Card Game 49.4%, Simulation 34.3%, Strategy 14.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #34 Cultist Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 14,130 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.7 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: Card Game 50.5%, Simulation 39.5%, Strategy 10%
- #35 Aotenjo: Infinite Hands
73% matchVery Positive88% of 1,079 reviews2025
Dev: XO CatPub: XD
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Mahjong Roguelike. Aotenjo: Infinite Hands is an deckbuilder where you will use Mahjong styles all over the world to beat innate threats, play different Patterns and combos, reach the "bottom" of Aotenjo, and discover ancient secrets....
Why similar: Card Game 50.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 12.2%, 2D 2.7%
- #36 Awe
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 258 reviews2015
Dev: Badland Development StudioPub: BadLand Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 66.2% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Indie 8.3%, Puzzle 5.3%, Casual 3.7%
- #37 Deisim
73% 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 64.7% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Indie 5%, Casual 2.3%
- #38 Fantasy Map Simulator
72% matchVery Positive89% of 4,296 reviews2024
Dev: The Stranger
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.
Why similar: God Game 81.6% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 3.5%, Indie 2.3%, 2D 1%
- #39 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 766 reviews2022
Dev: Erik RempenPub: Silk Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
Why similar: God Game 82.9% ★, Indie 9.9%, Strategy 6.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #40 Idol Hands
78% 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 62.5% ★, Simulation 24.5%, Strategy 6.5%, Indie 4.2%, Casual 2.3%
- #41 Luck be a Landlord
70% matchVery Positive93% of 11,522 reviews2023
Dev: TrampolineTales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
Why similar: Simulation 42.5%, Pixel Graphics 24.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Indie 10.2%, Casual 5.7%
- #42 Lucky Mayor
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: MadGoat Game Studio
Windows · Mac
This is a Rogue Deck-building game where you play as a mayor, recruit various citizens to earn coins, meet their needs, and submit enough coins by the deadline to complete challenges.
Why similar: Card Game 45.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 12.9%, Indie 6.5%
- #43 Ballionaire
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,593 reviews2024
Dev: newobjectPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
Why similar: Card Game 36.7%, Simulation 27.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Casual 5.4%
- #44 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 67.3% ★, Simulation 17.9%, Indie 6.8%, Strategy 4.6%, Casual 2.7%
- #45 Tiny Kingdom
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 153 reviews2025
Dev: neltile
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tiny Kingdom is a minimalist city-building strategy game where every placement matters. Start with a single hut and grow a thriving kingdom by combining buildings, unlocking synergies, and creating efficient layouts.
Why similar: Card Game 42.9%, Simulation 32.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Strategy 8.3%, 2D 1.9%
- #46 Factory Planner
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 389 reviews2026
Dev: Lebleby GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Factory Planner is a card-based simulation/strategy game that lets you build a factory using cards. The main goal of the game is to make combinations with different cards so that each player can build different factories and feel the sandbox experience to the fullest.
Why similar: Card Game 49.5%, Simulation 28.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Casual 5.2%, Indie 2.7%
- #47 Genesis of a Small God
70% 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 68.4% ★, Simulation 19%, Indie 6.8%, Strategy 5.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #48 Tile Tale
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Push colorful tiles into the grid creating fields of the same type to gain new tile types. Create different worlds such as jungle islands, wasteland volcano land or even a big city!
Why similar: God Game 84.6% ★, Strategy 7.5%, Puzzle 6.1%, Indie 1.1%, 2D 0.5%
- #49 EarthRoyale
69% matchVery Positive85% of 180 reviews2024
Dev: Lizzycat / Lizabeth Gidlund
Windows · Mac · Linux
EarthRoyale is a Map simulation Observer game where the game each turn chooses one of many events to edit the world map
Why similar: God Game 58.7% ★, Simulation 25%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Casual 2.4%, 2D 1.7%
- #50 Wildfrost
67% matchVery Positive83% of 8,823 reviews2023
Dev: Deadpan GamesPub: Chucklefish
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
Why similar: Card Game 81.8%, Strategy 12.9%, 2D 2.9%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #51 Creo God Simulator
68% 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 67.7% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Indie 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Strategy 4.1%
- #52 Card Cultivation
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 785 reviews2026
Dev: DarkIndexPub: IndieArk
Windows
Card Cultivation is a card management game that visualizes the process of cultivating immortality through cards. In the game, you will play as a cultivation practitioner: cultivate techniques, explore treasures, and craft weapons, Throughout re-cultivation, you will recover memory.
Why similar: Card Game 55.4%, Simulation 39.6%, 2D 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #53 Lost In Fantaland
67% matchVery Positive86% of 691 reviews2024
Dev: Supernature StudioPub: NPC Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Lost in Fantaland is a Roguelite game with deck-building at its core, deeply integrated with board-game strategy mechanics. You will choose one of six unique characters and embark on a randomly generated adventure. Use your creativity to build your deck, and uncover the secrets of this world!
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 48.4%, Indie 27.5%, Strategy 24%
- #54 The Simulacrum
68% matchVery Positive83% of 126 reviews2023
Dev: Trynet Games
Windows
The Simulacrum is a deckbuilder with procedurally generated cards. Obtain cards through a roguelite mode, acquire a large collection and challenge the hidden guardians of The Simulacrum.
Why similar: Card Game 66.8%, Strategy 13.2%, Indie 9.1%, Casual 8.1%, 2D 2.2%
- #55 The God
71% matchMixed66% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: Struct9
Windows
Feel the power of god and create your dream world in a beautiful low-poly style. Share your creations with your friends and enjoy.
Why similar: God Game 55.5% ★, Simulation 28.9%, Indie 11.1%, Casual 4.5%
- #56 Technotopia
66% matchVery Positive85% of 693 reviews2024
Dev: YustasPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!
Why similar: God Game 54.2% ★, Card Game 19.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Puzzle 4.9%, Strategy 4.2%
- #57 Hearthlands
69% 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: God Game 49.9% ★, Simulation 29.8%, Indie 11.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Singleplayer 1%
- #58 Planetary Life
63% matchVery Positive94% of 919 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 79.8% ★, Simulation 20.2%
- #59 Beecarbonize
64% matchVery Positive94% of 2,158 reviews2023
Dev: Charles Games
Windows · Mac
Do you have what it takes to save the planet? Beecarbonize is an environmental card strategy game with climate change as your opponent.
Why similar: Card Game 48%, Simulation 37.4%, Strategy 12.6%, 2D 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%