Games Like Skyward Collapse

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 62.6% ★, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 9.2%, Indie 5.4%, Resource Management 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: You play as powerful giants who shape the planet and manage the growth of humanity, mirroring the delicate balance of power required in Skyward Collapse.

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 42.3% ★, Strategy 18.6%, City Builder 17.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Resource Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends god-game mechanics with village management, forcing you to protect your people from mythological threats and environmental hazards.

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 59.9% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Mythology 11%, Procedural Generation 7.2%, Fantasy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox god-game allows you to manipulate civilizations, geography, and disasters to observe how they interact and evolve over time.

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 48.6% ★, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 12.7%, City Builder 12.1%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the duality of divine influence, allowing you to choose between benevolent or malevolent paths to shape the world below.

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 47.9% ★, Strategy 24.6%, Simulation 19.4%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic god-game where you must carefully place land tiles to satisfy the whims of gods and prevent the world from falling into chaos.

Reprisal Universe places you in charge of the very elements themselves. Raise and lower land to expand your tribes, harness the power of fire and water. Explore the hidden mysteries of the Universe and gather your people together once again.

Why similar: God Game 38.5% ★, Isometric 13%, Mythology 12.8%, Strategy 11.8%, City Builder 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style god-game that focuses on terraforming and expanding your influence across a procedural map.

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 50.5% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Strategy 11%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A modern god-game that tasks you with guiding a civilization through the ages while managing planetary resources and divine interventions.

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 43.6% ★, Turn-Based 18.4%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: You create your own religion and manage your followers' development, emphasizing the mythological and divine aspects of the genre.

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 39.7% ★, Strategy 10.9%, Isometric 10.2%, City Builder 10%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A focused god-game that emphasizes the management of a growing population and the environmental impact of divine powers.

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 29.2% ★, Mythology 14.1%, Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.6%, City Builder 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that incorporates deck-building mechanics to help you protect your island from waves of enemies and natural disasters.

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 44.7% ★, Strategy 15%, Simulation 12.3%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game puts you in the role of a deity managing a small population, requiring careful resource balancing to ensure survival.

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Strategy 26.8%, City Builder 23.4%, Procedural Generation 19.4%, Simulation 17%, Fantasy 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that gives you god-like powers to influence the personalities and decisions of your subjects in a fantasy world.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Strategy 23.8%, Historical 20.1%, Simulation 19.2%, City Builder 18.9%, Resource Management 16.8%

Why You'll Like It: A complex simulation that focuses on managing the internal politics and rivalries of noble families, similar to balancing factions in Skyward Collapse.

Play as mythological Gods and smite your enemies in this award-winning, mythological Real-Time Strategy classic given new life. Wage war across timeless campaigns, fierce skirmishes, and god-powered multiplayer modes.

Why similar: Mythology 38.2%, Strategy 27.4%, Resource Management 19.2%, Fantasy 13.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more RTS-focused, it captures the mythological scale and divine power fantasy that defines the setting of Skyward Collapse.

You’re the ruler, but your heroes have minds of their own. Recruit heroes, set rewards, build a thriving kingdom and hope your warriors don’t run off chasing squirrels instead of fighting monsters.

Why similar: Strategy 24.6%, God Game 22.7% ★, Simulation 19.6%, City Builder 18.9%, Fantasy 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy game focuses on kingdom management and tactical combat within a fantasy world.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Strategy 31.5%, City Builder 27.8%, Simulation 23%, Fantasy 15.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale city-builder that allows you to manage thousands of citizens, requiring a high-level perspective similar to god-games.

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Strategy 30.8%, City Builder 28.4%, Resource Management 26.4%, Fantasy 13%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused city-builder that tasks you with managing a floating civilization while navigating complex world politics.

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 34.6% ★, Strategy 14.2%, City Builder 11.1%, Simulation 11%, Procedural Generation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that focuses on the growth and survival of a goblin tribe, requiring careful management of resources and deities.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 17.4%, Procedural Generation 16.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, City Builder 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural colony-sim that emphasizes the interaction between different races and the environment in a fantasy setting.

Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?

Why similar: Turn-Based 30%, Strategy 19.7%, Simulation 15.4%, Fantasy 7.6%, City Builder 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy strategy game that focuses on the survival of a magical city through difficult choices and resource management.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Strategy 27%, Procedural Generation 20.6%, City Builder 19.7%, Simulation 15%, Resource Management 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that requires managing multiple factions and resources in a harsh, procedural environment.

Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.

Why similar: Strategy 81.8%, Turn-Based 8.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 4.9%, Fantasy 2.7%, Indie 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game where you act as a god-like master of a shattered world, managing provinces and heroes.

In a time of chaotic upheaval, the player takes the role of a great mage, a warlord vying for ultimate power.

Why similar: Turn-Based 38.8%, Strategy 26.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.5%, Fantasy 10.6%, Magic 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy 4X strategy game that features powerful spells and mythological creatures that can alter the state of the entire map.

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 39.1% ★, Mythology 15.6%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 10.1%, Procedural Generation 6.8%

Become an all-powerful Sorcerer Lord and lead one of 8 different races to the ultimate victory. Explore multiple planes of existence, raid dungeons, and conquer cities. Expand your armies, cast mighty spells, and summon godly creatures to do your bidding. Fight the enemies in D20 OGL battles.

Why similar: Turn-Based 35.8%, Strategy 26.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game that allows you to play as a powerful sorcerer lord conquering multiple planes of existence.

Build your own Slavic settlement. Overcome the hardships of medieval life and don't anger the Gods!

Why similar: Strategy 26.9%, City Builder 23.6%, Isometric 23.5%, Simulation 20.2%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on survival and simulation, requiring you to balance the needs of your citizens against external threats.

Wizard Warfare is a fantasy-themed, 4X-style, turn-based strategy game with a strategic empire management layer supported by a detailed tactical battle simulation layer.

Why similar: Strategy 24.3%, Turn-Based 23.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Fantasy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that emphasizes magical combat and territorial control in a fantasy realm.

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Why similar: God Game 36.2% ★, Strategy 21.8%, Simulation 17.4%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the deep management of a mountain fortress, requiring careful planning to survive environmental and external pressures.

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 22% ★, Strategy 16.5%, City Builder 14.4%, Simulation 12.9%, Isometric 11%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that emphasizes the strategic placement of buildings and management of a growing population.

A fantasy strategy with turn-based tactical combat where your goal is to become a God. Build your empire, forge alliances, ascend to godhood, then watch every ally turn on you the moment you're about to win.

Why similar: Strategy 35.5%, Turn-Based Combat 29.2%, Fantasy 20.8%, Magic 12.3%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Strategy 19.1%, Historical 16.9%, City Builder 16.9%, Isometric 15.9%, Resource Management 15.9%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Strategy 26%, City Builder 22.1%, Simulation 20.1%, Isometric 14.9%, Indie 7.2%

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: God Game 37.9% ★, Strategy 19.3%, City Builder 16.5%, Simulation 15.2%, Resource Management 9.8%

In this city builder and tower defense game, you will command a small band of ship wrecked colonists. Progress from struggling to survive the elements to a thriving kingdom that will smash the demon hordes that dare attack your settlement.

Why similar: God Game 38.1% ★, Strategy 18.5%, Mythology 17.9%, City Builder 13.3%, Fantasy 7.1%

A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?

Why similar: God Game 47.6% ★, Strategy 18.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Simulation 12%, Indie 4.6%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: Mythology 21.5%, Strategy 19.1%, Historical 16.3%, Simulation 15.4%, City Builder 15.1%

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 37.4% ★, Strategy 12.5%, City Builder 12.5%, Procedural Generation 10%, Resource Management 9.2%

As Emperor of a crumbling realm, hold back collapse in this grand strategy epic. Fall of an Empire has you balance deadly politics, manage resources, and command battles to survive invasions and intrigue in a vast, Roman-inspired world.

Why similar: Strategy 40.1%, War 29.3%, Simulation 29.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Why similar: Historical 22.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 20.1%, Simulation 19.7%, City Builder 18.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.2%

Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.

Why similar: Turn-Based 23.8%, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Procedural Generation 9.1%

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 62.4% ★, War 14.8%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 8.9%, Indie 1.9%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Strategy 23.7%, Historical 19.8%, City Builder 19%, Simulation 18.9%, Resource Management 17.3%

Become a battlemage, build a city, and command your troops in this fantasy warfare simulator. Jump into the fray and use your might, magic, and wits to fight enemies in battles of up to a hundred units and fully destructible city siege combat. The fate of an empire is in your hands.

Why similar: Strategy 22.4%, War 19.4%, Procedural Generation 16%, City Builder 15.9%, Fantasy 12.8%

Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!

Why similar: Strategy 31.5%, Simulation 25.4%, City Builder 22.8%, Fantasy 12.4%, Resource Management 7.5%

Lead troops in tense tactical battles, just you and your brain against the dying world. Can you save it? Manage a mercenary company, scavenge supplies, build an army. Go on a quest! Burn down a village or two... Explore the rich medieval fantasy world in a mix of LOTR, Warhammer, FTL and Total War.

Why similar: Turn-Based 38.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Turn-Based Combat 9.9%

Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.

Why similar: Strategy 20.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13.5%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: Strategy 22.1%, Simulation 20.7%, City Builder 18.5%, War 16.5%, Resource Management 15.5%

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: God Game 32.5% ★, Mythology 16.5%, Strategy 12%, City Builder 10%, Simulation 9.8%

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

Why similar: Strategy 18.9%, Mythology 16.2%, Grid-Based Movement 13.3%, City Builder 12.5%, Historical 12.2%

A bold reimagining of the God Game genre from the creator who defined it. Shape a living world as a god - or step into it and experience it through your people. Build, guide and defend your town by day, then survive the night when everything is under threat. There is no single solution. Only yours.

Why similar: God Game 40.1% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Historical 10.5%, City Builder 10.4%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Strategy 24%, Historical 20%, Simulation 19.2%, City Builder 18.7%, Resource Management 16.8%

After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!

Why similar: God Game 54.5% ★, Strategy 17.1%, City Builder 14.5%, War 14%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: God Game 34.4% ★, Strategy 16.8%, City Builder 14.3%, Simulation 13.7%, Resource Management 13.5%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Strategy 30.3%, City Builder 23.7%, Resource Management 21.1%, Simulation 20.1%, Indie 3.4%

The Dragoness mixes HOMM-like exploration, city-building and turn-based strategic combat, with a roguelite twist. Choose your battles, paths and skills as you explore a world ravaged by war. Gather and manage your army of beasts, collect resources and expand your city.

Why similar: Strategy 15.9%, Grid-Based Movement 14.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.7%, Isometric 10.1%, Fantasy 9.3%

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: Strategy 23.7%, Historical 20.4%, Simulation 19.2%, City Builder 18.5%, Resource Management 16.8%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Strategy 23.9%, Historical 20.4%, City Builder 19.1%, Simulation 19.1%, Resource Management 16.2%

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 41.4% ★, Turn-Based 20.4%, Strategy 11%, City Builder 9.3%, Resource Management 8.5%

Build a new home for your goblins! Grow your settlement from a little encampment to a bustling city in a beautiful procedurally generated northern forest. Fish, farm, explore the forest and harness the spirits in a unique fantasy citybuilder inspired by Finnish mythology.

Why similar: God Game 34.6% ★, Mythology 12.2%, Resource Management 10.5%, Strategy 10.4%, City Builder 9.5%