- #1 Hell Architect
97% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, City Builder 13.5%, Dark Humor 10.4%, Base Building 10.4%
- #2 Honey, I Joined a Cult
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,917 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: God Game 16.2% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 11%
- #3 Dungeon Tycoon
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,878 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 24% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Dark Humor 14%, Management 12.9%, Base Building 9.9%
- #4 Another Brick in The Mall
95% matchVery Positive83% of 2,437 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Management 14%, City Builder 12.5%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Building 10.4%
- #5 The Universim
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,595 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 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.5%
- #6 Startopia
94% matchVery Positive90% of 966 reviews2013
Dev: My Little Planet Ltd
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 39%
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
Why similar: God Game 18% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 13%, Management 12.2%
- #7 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
93% matchMixed69% of 13,171 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 19.9 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 31.8%, Management 17.3%, Building 16.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 8.9%
- #8 Hell Architect: Prologue
92% 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 20.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 10.6%, Dark Humor 10.2%
- #9 Evil Genius
91% matchVery Positive93% of 3,599 reviews2009
Dev: Elixir StudiosPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Why similar: Base Building 37.3%, Comedy 12.3%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 10.8%, God Game 8.3% ★
- #10 Captain of Industry
90% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 26.5%, Base Building 16%, Resource Management 14.6%, City Builder 9.4%, Colony Sim 9%
- #11 Ruinarch
91% matchMixed63% of 1,410 reviews2023
Dev: Maccima Games LLCPub: Squeaky Wheel Studio Inc
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 15.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Dark Humor 10.6%
- #12 Academia : School Simulator
89% matchVery Positive86% of 3,039 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 18.4%, City Builder 16.7%, Capitalism 14.1%, Base Building 13%, Management 12.3%
- #13 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,530 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!
Why similar: Capitalism 17.7%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Building 9.8%
- #14 War for the Overworld
88% matchVery Positive86% of 8,080 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 23.7% ★, Base Building 18.3%, Management 15.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Colony Sim 13.6%
- #15 Spellcaster University
87% matchVery Positive83% of 4,273 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 27%, Base Building 19.6%, Management 15.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Simulation 7.1%
- #16 Hotel Architect
84% matchVery Positive94% of 1,986 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Capitalism 19.2%, Management 16.4%, Building 14.4%, Funny 7.5%
- #17 Prison Architect
86% matchVery Positive89% of 73,513 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 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 18.6%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 13.9%, Management 11.2%, Building 11.1%
- #18 Little Big Workshop
86% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 19.5%, Management 16.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Building 12.6%, Simulation 12.2%
- #19 Mars Attracts
84% matchVery Positive91% of 256 reviews2025
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: God Game 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 11.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Capitalism 8.2%
- #20 News Tower
82% matchVery Positive94% of 4,431 reviews2025
Dev: Sparrow NightPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
Why similar: Management 25.5%, Capitalism 19.6%, Resource Management 16.2%, Building 14%, Simulation 8.8%
- #21 Office Management 101
85% matchMixed64% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: tulevik.EU
Windows · Linux
Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!
Why similar: Capitalism 17.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 14%, Building 12.1%
- #22 Go To Hell Must
83% 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 38.1% ★, Dark Humor 18.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Management 6.8%, Simulation 5.7%
- #23 Microtopia
82% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #24 Blood Bar Tycoon
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 803 reviews2025
Dev: Clever Trickster StudioPub: Clever Trickster Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Blood Bar Tycoon is a vampire bar management game. Build bars and blood factories, lure humans to harvest their blood, process it, and serve your customers: other vampires. Research quirky machines and deal with hunters! Expand through Crimson City to become a mighty Elder!
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.3%, Management 11.4%
- #25 Two Point Museum
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,692 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Building 19.8%, Management 16.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Comedy 9.1%
- #26 One Military Camp
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 733 reviews2023
Dev: Abylight BarcelonaPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 13.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 11.4%
- #27 Worshippers of Cthulhu
78% matchVery Positive81% of 1,522 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 20.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 14.4%, Building 11.1%
- #28 Two Point Campus
79% matchVery Positive88% of 8,016 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Why similar: Management 24.5%, City Builder 24.5%, Building 17.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Comedy 8.3%
- #29 Good Company
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,782 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 21.8%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 12.9%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #30 Gold Gold Adventure Gold
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 760 reviews2026
Dev: Can Can Can a Man
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10.3%
- #31 Mad Games Tycoon 2
76% matchVery Positive94% of 7,699 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Management 20.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Capitalism 15.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.2%
- #32 Dungeons 3
77% matchVery Positive94% of 18,666 reviews2017
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!
Why similar: God Game 30.9% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Management 12.1%, Comedy 8.2%
- #33 Blacksmith Master
74% matchVery Positive83% of 2,646 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 15%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #34 Grand Casino Tycoon
78% matchMixed60% of 57 reviews2021
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this colorful tycoon with unique puzzle elements you are the designer of stunning, glamorous casinos. Your guests, though, have varied and sometimes opposite demands! Analyze their routines, split them up and manipulate them on your way to success!
Why similar: Capitalism 20%, Management 13.9%, Building 13.8%, Comedy 10%, City Builder 9.8%
- #35 Creo God Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 240 reviews2025
Dev: MKSM Design LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 14.5 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 32.9% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Management 11.4%, Capitalism 7.8%
- #36 Reus 2
73% matchVery Positive95% of 2,271 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 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 27.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 11%, Management 9%
- #37 Software Inc.
76% matchVery Positive94% of 7,733 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 45.8 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: Capitalism 24.9%, Automation 22.1%, Management 20.1%, Building 16.4%, Simulation 7.6%
- #38 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,330 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, Capitalism 15.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Management 12.4%, Building 10.3%
- #39 IXION
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,436 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.7%
- #40 Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
75% matchMixed62% of 184 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: Management 17%, Resource Management 15.6%, God Game 14.8% ★, Building 13.9%, Base Building 11.9%
- #41 The HELL
71% matchVery Positive90% of 92 reviews2025
Dev: METROPOLICE
Windows
Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 19.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.7%
- #42 Rogue AI Simulator
73% matchVery Positive83% of 390 reviews2023
Dev: Nerdook ProductionsPub: Surefire.Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...
Why similar: God Game 24.9% ★, Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Dark Humor 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #43 Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 141 reviews2026
Dev: Jiao Games
Windows
Build and manage your underground scam empire in a city ruled by chaos. Expand your operation through illegal means, grow your workforce, automate your schemes, and uncover the dark mysteries hidden beneath the town.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Management 14%, Building 11.5%
- #44 SimAirport
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,031 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 20.1%, Management 17.1%, Building 14.8%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #45 Fata Deum - The God Sim
71% matchMixed59% of 459 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 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Management 9%
- #46 Lords and Villeins
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 974 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, City Builder 21.5%, Management 14.2%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #47 Two Point Hospital
70% matchVery Positive92% of 34,720 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 35.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Management 31.4%, Building 22.4%, Simulation 15.1%, City Builder 9.9%, Funny 7.8%
- #48 Ratopia
67% matchVery Positive88% of 4,734 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 12.9%, Management 11.8%
- #49 Genesis of a Small God
69% 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 21.4% ★, Colony Sim 12.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Automation 12.2%, Base Building 10%
- #50 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
66% matchVery Positive91% of 26,420 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 71.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 12.4%, Building 11.1%
- #51 Mad Games Tycoon
69% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 22%, Capitalism 15.6%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #52 Sacrifices
69% matchMixed60% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Spooky Games
Windows
Faith and blood! In this god-game-meets-city-builder, rule and guide a mesoamerican village through the trials and tribulations of everyday life in the heart of a ruthless jungle!
Why similar: God Game 33% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%
- #53 InfraSpace
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,928 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Capitalism 10.5%
- #54 Factory Town
67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #55 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 17.3%, Automation 16.7%, Base Building 12%, Management 10.3%
- #56 Cartel Tycoon
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,780 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, City Builder 17.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 14%, Management 13.3%
- #57 Kubifaktorium
68% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Colony Sim 17.9%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 9.8%
- #58 Highrise Mogul
70% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Olli Arkko
Windows
Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, God Game 18.3% ★, Capitalism 15.5%, Building 11.7%, Management 10.2%
- #59 Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,602 reviews2023
Dev: Artefacts StudioPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Management 19.2%, Building 14.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, Funny 9.6%