- #1 Hell Architect
97% matchMixed69% of 451 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 20.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, City Builder 13.6%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the exact thematic premise of managing a hellish landscape with dark humor and complex construction mechanics.
- #2 Ruinarch
96% matchMixed63% of 1,420 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 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Dark Humor 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It allows you to play as an evil god-like entity manipulating the lives of inhabitants, perfectly mirroring the villainous management style of Sintopia.
- #3 Honey, I Joined a Cult
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,926 reviews2022
Dev: Sole Survivor GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 16.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.3%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features similar management and resource-gathering loops, but applied to the satirical administration of a cult.
- #4 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
95% matchMixed69% of 13,234 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 19.8 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 32.1%, Management 17.3%, Building 16.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the bureaucratic and base-building aspects of being a villainous mastermind running a secret lair.
- #5 War for the Overworld
94% matchVery Positive86% of 8,111 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 23.8% ★, Base Building 18.4%, Management 14.9%, City Builder 14%, Colony Sim 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic dungeon management game that captures the dark, villainous spirit of building an empire underground.
- #6 Dungeons 4
94% matchVery Positive87% of 3,289 reviews2023
Dev: Realmforge StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 18.9 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: City Builder 29.9%, Dark Humor 23.5%, Cartoon 14.8%, Funny 9.1%, Strategy 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: You act as an absolute evil force managing a dungeon, balancing resource production with the need to thwart heroes.
- #7 Startopia
93% matchVery Positive90% of 971 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 16.1%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 13%, Management 12%
Why You'll Like It: A classic management simulation that balances base-building with quirky, humorous administrative tasks.
- #8 Prison Architect
92% matchVery Positive89% of 73,696 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 15.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 11.2%, Management 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the blueprint for complex bureaucratic management and facility design that Sintopia builds upon.
- #9 The Universim
91% 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 29.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 18.1%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to influence the development of a civilization, capturing the scale and power fantasy of Sintopia.
- #10 Graveyard Keeper
91% matchVery Positive85% of 55,062 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Management 33.5%, Dark Humor 26.6%, Building 22.3%, Simulation 14.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a dark, humorous take on management and resource gathering that feels tonally aligned with the bureaucratic nature of Hell.
- #11 Reus 2
89% 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 28.1% ★, Colony Sim 16%, City Builder 14%, Base Building 11%, Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A god-game that emphasizes the strategic management of a planet and its inhabitants through environmental manipulation.
- #12 Fata Deum - The God Sim
90% matchMixed60% of 460 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the god-game aspect of influencing mortal lives through direct intervention and strategic choices.
- #13 Cult of the Lamb
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 128,545 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 25.5 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: Base Building 27.8%, Colony Sim 26.1%, Dark Humor 21.2%, Building 12.8%, Funny 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines dark, occult humor with colony management and god-like authority over your followers.
- #14 Two Point Hospital
88% matchVery Positive92% of 34,907 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 35.3 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 31.1%, Building 22.5%, Simulation 15%, City Builder 10%, Funny 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: While lighter in tone, it excels at the bureaucratic management and facility optimization that defines the core gameplay loop of Sintopia.
- #15 Rogue AI Simulator
87% matchVery Positive82% of 396 reviews2023
Dev: Nerdook ProductionsPub: Surefire.Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Dark Humor 10.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Puts you in the role of an all-powerful AI managing a facility, blending dark themes with resource management.
- #16 Dungeon Tycoon
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,918 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.7 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 24% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Dark Humor 14%, Management 12.8%, Base Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a dungeon facility, blending strategy with the building mechanics seen in Sintopia.
- #17 Captain of Industry
84% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 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%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, City Builder 10%, Colony Sim 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust automation and resource-management experience for players who enjoy the logistical side of Sintopia.
- #18 Spellcaster University
85% matchVery Positive83% of 4,300 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 19.7%, Management 15.4%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique management experience where you build and run a magical institution with complex resource requirements.
- #19 Evil Genius
86% matchVery Positive93% of 3,606 reviews2009
Dev: Elixir StudiosPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.1 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 12.4%, Strategy 12%, Management 10.6%, God Game 8.3% ★
Why You'll Like It: The original villain-management simulator that established the base-building and minion-management tropes found in Sintopia.
- #20 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,559 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 17.6%, Dark Humor 16.3%, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 12.2%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A management game about running an illicit business empire, sharing the theme of managing a morally questionable organization.
- #21 Little Big Workshop
83% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 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 19.6%, Management 16.6%, Resource Management 13%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A charming management game that focuses on the automation and production lines essential to running a business.
- #22 Tropico 6
82% matchVery Positive88% of 29,404 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Why similar: City Builder 40.1%, Management 17.7%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep bureaucratic management experience with a heavy dose of dark political satire.
- #23 RimWorld
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 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 31.1%, Base Building 22%, City Builder 14.1%, Management 12.6%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deep colony-sim that frequently forces players into dark moral dilemmas while managing a base.
- #24 Academia : School Simulator
82% matchVery Positive86% of 3,073 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 16.9%, Capitalism 14%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the administrative and facility-building aspects of management, similar to the bureaucratic tasks in Sintopia.
- #25 Hotel Architect
79% matchVery Positive94% of 2,276 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 17.1 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 24.7%, Capitalism 18.1%, Management 16.8%, Building 15.1%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A building and management game that allows for detailed facility design and operational oversight.
- #26 Blood Bar Tycoon
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 817 reviews2025
Dev: Clever Trickster StudioPub: Clever Trickster Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.2 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 20%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.3%, Management 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that leans into dark themes and management, fitting the aesthetic of a hellish business.
- #27 Good Company
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,792 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 21.5%, Base Building 14.7%, City Builder 13.1%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A management game that emphasizes the automation and logistical challenges of running a growing company.
- #28 Frostpunk
79% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
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: City Builder 29%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Resource Management 15.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes management game that forces you to make brutal, dark decisions to ensure the survival of your city.
- #29 Rise to Ruins
78% 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: Colony Sim 26.3%, God Game 24.2% ★, City Builder 22.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 5%
Why You'll Like It: A hybrid of god-game and city-builder that requires constant management of resources and threats.
- #30 Amazing Cultivation Simulator
78% matchVery Positive86% of 23,604 reviews2020
Dev: GSQ Games
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Simulation 17.9%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A complex management game based on Chinese mythology that allows for deep god-like control over your sect.
- #31 Mars Attracts
77% matchVery Positive91% of 260 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 17.5% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Base Building 8.6%, Capitalism 8.1%
- #32 Microtopia
76% matchVery Positive87% of 966 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 18.3%, Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #33 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
75% matchVery Positive89% of 1,348 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 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 15.1%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 12.3%, Building 10.4%
- #34 Another Brick in The Mall
77% matchVery Positive83% of 2,448 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 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 21.7%, Management 14.1%, Colony Sim 12.7%, City Builder 12.6%, Building 10.5%
- #35 Gold Gold Adventure Gold
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 862 reviews2026
Dev: Can Can Can a Man
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.
Why similar: God Game 26.5% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10.1%
- #36 Ratopia
73% matchVery Positive88% of 4,853 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 22.4%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 13%, Management 11.6%
- #37 Hell Architect: Prologue
76% 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 20.2%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 10.5%, Dark Humor 10.2%
- #38 News Tower
70% matchVery Positive94% of 4,551 reviews2025
Dev: Sparrow NightPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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 25.6%, Capitalism 19.4%, Resource Management 16%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 8.8%
- #39 Goblins of Elderstone
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Outerdawn
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
Why similar: God Game 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 14.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Management 9.2%
- #40 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
71% matchVery Positive84% of 764 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, God Game 16.8% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12%, Management 9.9%
- #41 One Military Camp
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 739 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 20%, Base Building 16.3%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 11.5%
- #42 Creo God Simulator
72% 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 33.1% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Management 11.2%, Capitalism 7.7%
- #43 Worshippers of Cthulhu
71% matchVery Positive81% of 1,542 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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%, City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 14.2%, Building 11.1%
- #44 Grand Casino Tycoon
74% matchMixed59% of 58 reviews2021
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 19.9%, Building 13.9%, Management 13.7%, Comedy 10.1%, City Builder 9.9%
- #45 Kubifaktorium
73% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 20.1%, Colony Sim 18%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 9.7%
- #46 Pax Autocratica
68% matchVery Positive92% of 2,850 reviews2026
Dev: Multiverse
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a grand totalitarian colony and personally storm roguelite battlefields with your soldiers. Shape citizens fears, loyalties, bonds, and feuds. Capture enemies, convert them into true believers. Sacrifice the weak. Feed the strong. Wield absolute power and make every life bend to your will.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Automation 21%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 12.4%
- #47 Genesis of a Small God
71% 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 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 12.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Automation 12%, Base Building 10.1%
- #48 IXION
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,592 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.7 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 25.9%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Base Building 13.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Building 9.7%
- #49 Blacksmith Master
69% matchVery Positive83% of 2,724 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 18.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #50 Office Management 101
72% 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 17.6%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 13.9%, Building 12.2%
- #51 Two Point Museum
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 13,230 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 25.4 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 30.1%, Building 19.7%, Management 16.2%, Simulation 10.3%, Comedy 9%
- #52 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 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 18.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 12%, Management 10.3%
- #53 Go To Hell Must
68% 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 38.2% ★, Dark Humor 18.4%, City Builder 17.7%, Management 6.7%, Simulation 5.7%
- #54 Lords and Villeins
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 977 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 21.8%, Management 14%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #55 Mad Games Tycoon 2
66% matchVery Positive94% of 7,786 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.1 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 20.3%, City Builder 18.8%, Capitalism 15.4%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 11.3%
- #56 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 20.4%, God Game 18.4% ★, Capitalism 15.4%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.1%
- #57 United Penguin Kingdom
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 452 reviews2024
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 15%, Management 14.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 8.4%
- #58 Sacrifices
67% matchMixed62% of 53 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 33.2% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.2%
- #59 Dungeons 3
66% matchVery Positive94% of 18,710 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 31% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Management 12%, Comedy 8.2%
- #60 Dungeon Overseer
69% 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 18.5%, God Game 16.8% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Resource Management 8.9%