Games Like SPORE™

Take Your Creature From Zero To Galactic HeroGet out of your starship and turn your Spore creatures into legendary Space Captains. For the first time, beam down with your allies to take on action-packed, planetside adventures. Complete quests, collect rewards, and even create your own missions.

Why similar: God Game 23.4% ★, Space 18.5%, Open World 14%, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This official expansion directly extends Spore’s space-stage creature with user-made planets, missions, and adventure creation tools.

Add horror and humor to your universe. Make grotesque beasts or cuddly critters, then watch them do the robot, zombie walk, break dance and more! Includes over 100 new items. 60 New parts 48 New paint options 24 New animations

Why similar: God Game 36.5% ★, Open World 13.2%, Simulation 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Aliens 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This official parts pack expands Spore’s defining creature creator with many more cosmetic and anatomical options.

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 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 24%, Sandbox 10.4%, Space 8.2%, Aliens 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: You guide a civilization from primitive beginnings toward a spacefaring future while managing its world, technology, and population.

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 27.1% ★, Science 19.4%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Space 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox lets you seed planets with life and shape evolving ecosystems in a hands-off, god-game-like simulation.

An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.

Why similar: Science 52.7%, Sandbox 25.2%, Simulation 12.2%, Family Friendly 5.8%, Casual 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Thrive is a science-minded evolution game that begins as a microbe and develops life through increasingly complex biological stages.

Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

Why similar: God Game 39.9% ★, Science 29.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on watching procedurally evolving animals adapt, compete, and form emergent ecosystems over generations.

A fictional universe sandbox/exploration game. 🪐☄️✨ Shape your own solar system by terraforming planets. Find new species and make beautiful ecosystems . . . or breed destruction with volcanos, lightning storms and wildfires!

Why similar: God Game 38.4% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Space 13.2%, Simulation 6.4%, Exploration 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Heliopedia blends creature collection and evolution with a colorful space simulation built around discovering and developing life.

The Sapling is a simulation game where you design your own plants, animals, algae and fungi, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!

Why similar: God Game 35.3% ★, Science 26.7%, Sandbox 13.9%, Aliens 10.4%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This approachable evolution sandbox lets you design plants and animals, then observe how they survive within changing ecosystems.

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 48.6% ★, Colony Sim 25.7%, Sandbox 19.4%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: WorldBox offers the same playful omnipotence as Spore’s later stages, letting you create worlds, populate them, and alter their fate.

Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Funny 13.3%, Exploration 12%, Family Friendly 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Niche makes heredity and adaptation central as you breed a species with different traits to survive environmental pressures.

Create virtual lifeforms whose development is shaped by a deep simulation of evolution. Guide them as they fight, mate, and adapt to the environment you have built. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game!

Why similar: God Game 29% ★, Colony Sim 26.3%, Science 19%, Sandbox 10.5%, Resource Management 6%

Why You'll Like It: Ecosystem is a detailed artificial-life simulator about designing organisms and watching food chains and evolution emerge naturally.

Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.

Why similar: God Game 42.8% ★, Sandbox 29.2%, Simulation 16.2%, Casual 6.5%, Family Friendly 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Equilinox is a relaxed, colorful ecosystem builder about growing terrain, unlocking creatures, and maintaining a living world.

Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.

Why similar: God Game 37.4% ★, Colony Sim 27.6%, Sandbox 14.3%, Resource Management 6.6%, Funny 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Deisim is a relaxed god simulator about raising terrain, placing resources, and helping autonomous civilizations advance.

The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!

Why similar: God Game 61.6% ★, Sandbox 22.1%, Simulation 11.1%, Cute 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: You build terrain and balance environmental conditions to create habitats where plants, animals, and eventually larger life can thrive.

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Why similar: God Game 27% ★, Science 20.9%, Space 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Universe Sandbox provides another science-driven cosmic sandbox where you can manipulate planets, stars, gravity, and entire solar systems.

Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.

Why similar: Open World 28.9%, Aliens 20%, Exploration 14.3%, Family Friendly 13.5%, Cute 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This strange alien-world adventure centers on evolving a customizable herd of creatures with new adaptations needed to survive.

The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

Why similar: Science 47.8%, God Game 17.8% ★, Space 11.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Sandbox 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the sweep from single cells through humanity and beyond into a casual evolutionary simulation with a strong science theme.

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 76.1% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Adventure 2%, Open World 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: From Dust makes you a powerful environmental force who sculpts terrain and manages natural elements to protect a developing tribe.

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 43.4% ★, Colony Sim 28.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Resource Management 7.9%, Simulation 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like a compact god-game version of Spore’s world-shaping side, it has you use giant powers to cultivate planets and their civilizations.

In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Why similar: Science 29.8%, Space 24.9%, Sandbox 17.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Kerbal Space Program shares Spore’s playful spacefaring ambition, replacing creature evolution with hands-on rocket design and planetary exploration.

Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.

Why similar: Sci-fi 86.7%, Adventure 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its central mechanic is combining animal parts into bizarre custom creatures before using them in a whimsical strategy campaign.

A 3D pet simulation where you raise your own personal hive of mutating dogs, physically simulated all the way down to their guts! Wobbledogs is a casual and chill sandbox for players of all ages who want to care for their very own virtual pets in a surprising, unique, and stress-free environment.

Why similar: Sandbox 31.8%, Funny 16.6%, Cute 15.3%, Family Friendly 11.9%, Simulation 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Wobbledogs offers a cute, experimental pet sandbox where feeding and breeding produce increasingly bizarre procedurally generated dogs.

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 49.8% ★, Simulation 25.8%, Sandbox 24.5%

Why You'll Like It: Galimulator is a hands-off galaxy sandbox where you watch empires explore, expand, wage war, and collapse across the stars.

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Why similar: Space 38%, Sandbox 25.4%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Exploration 12.2%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Stellaris captures Spore’s galactic-scale fantasy through custom species creation, exploration, colonization, and interstellar diplomacy.

Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.5%, Open World 29.5%, Funny 15.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Casual 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: CHKN is a creature-building sandbox where players assemble odd animals from parts and explore a colorful survival world with them.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: God Game 39.7% ★, Colony Sim 31.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 9%, Simulation 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Sapiens follows a small prehistoric population as it develops skills, settlements, and technology in an open-ended simulation.

Explore the enchanting world of Albia and discover the amazing virtual lifeforms called Norns. The Norns in Creatures display real feelings from hunger and pain to frustration and fear. They'll breed, evolve and wage a fierce struggle for survival right on your computer screen!

Why similar: Science 38.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Family Friendly 9.7%, Cute 9.3%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This classic artificial-life simulation is built around raising, teaching, and breeding intelligent virtual creatures with emergent behavior.

The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.

Why similar: Science 26.4%, Space 17.9%, Open World 17.8%, Sandbox 16.8%, Sci-fi 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: SpaceEngine emphasizes the awe of Spore’s space stage by offering a vast explorable universe of real and procedurally generated worlds.

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: Resource Management 29.5%, Family Friendly 20.9%, Cute 20.8%, Colorful 15%, Casual 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: Terra Nil shares Spore’s fascination with planetary life by having you restore barren landscapes into functioning, diverse ecosystems.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Open World 22.7%, Cute 17%, Sandbox 14%, Exploration 13%, Funny 8.7%

The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.

Why similar: Sandbox 37.1%, Simulation 29.2%, Funny 11.8%, Family Friendly 7.1%, Comedy 6.9%

Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

Why similar: Sandbox 26.8%, Funny 15.1%, Cartoony 12.9%, Family Friendly 12.2%, Cute 11.7%

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 73.7% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 6.2%, Resource Management 3.7%, Casual 2.1%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Sandbox 32.9%, Open World 30%, Exploration 15.9%, Family Friendly 15.8%, Adventure 5.4%

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Sandbox 38.7%, Simulation 22.6%, Open World 14.4%, Resource Management 12%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Experience a galaxy of Worlds made entirely from LEGO bricks. EXPLORE gigantic landscapes, DISCOVER countless surprises, and CREATE anything you can imagine by building with LEGO bricks.

Why similar: Open World 29.2%, Sandbox 29.2%, Exploration 9.5%, Family Friendly 9.1%, Funny 8.7%

Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.

Why similar: Open World 22.5%, Sandbox 21%, Funny 18.3%, Simulation 16.5%, Comedy 13.4%

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Simulation 54.7%, Sandbox 19%, Casual 12.8%, Funny 9.4%, Comedy 3.5%

You’re a lowly blob, but with the ability to evolve any DNA you eat, you don’t have to stay that way. Upgrade parts to fight, run, fly and overcome your environment. Mammals, birds, insects, dinosaurs... everything is on your menu!

Why similar: God Game 53.7% ★, Funny 10.1%, Exploration 9.5%, Simulation 8.4%, Cute 8%

Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Science 23.7%, Aliens 13.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Funny 6.8%, Comedy 6.7%

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Why similar: Space 27.3%, God Game 24.4% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Open World 10.2%, Simulation 5.5%

Space for Sale is an interplanetary, top-down Space Realty management game with a focus on problem-solving and exploration. Played either solo or with a friend, it's up to you to transform wild, uninhabited lands into bustling communities!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Aliens 11.1%, Cartoon 8%, Simulation 6.2%

Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.

Why similar: God Game 42.2% ★, Science 20.9%, Sandbox 17%, Simulation 7.4%, Open World 6%

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: Colony Sim 22.6%, God Game 21.2% ★, Space 11.8%, Aliens 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 52.4% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Open World 9.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Funny 6.7%

Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit!

Why similar: God Game 49.2% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Open World 17.1%, Simulation 6.9%, Exploration 6.6%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: Colony Sim 55.3%, Sandbox 19.3%, God Game 10.1% ★, Open World 7.5%, Simulation 5.1%

Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!

Why similar: Cartoon 16.3%, Resource Management 14.9%, Funny 14.9%, Comedy 13.4%, Family Friendly 12.2%

MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.

Why similar: God Game 47.4% ★, Sandbox 18.8%, Open World 11.2%, Family Friendly 7.6%, Simulation 7.2%

Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!

Why similar: God Game 51.4% ★, Sandbox 38.6%, Simulation 10%

Survive your evolution in Neogene Africa starting 10 million years ago. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a third-person open world survival game where you Explore, Expand, and Evolve to advance your clan to the next generation in the exciting new adventure from Panache Digital Games.

Why similar: Science 39%, Open World 31.3%, Exploration 15.1%, Simulation 10.1%, Adventure 4.5%

Raise and train a troupe of cuddly virtual life creatures that live on a Space Station. Because they have neural network brains, Norns can be taught right from wrong, but because they also have their own, individual personalities, they may not always do what you want.

Why similar: God Game 29.7% ★, Science 26.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Cute 6.6%, Family Friendly 6.1%

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Space 19%, Sandbox 11.5%, Open World 10.6%, Resource Management 10.1%

A relaxing evolution simulation where AI-driven block creatures move in unexpected ways. There are no complex ecosystems—just pure movement learning through a physics engine. Watch as these creatures scurry, stumble, and evolve in their own unique, unpredictable ways.

Why similar: God Game 30.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, Science 17.8%, Sandbox 10.5%, Space 7.6%

Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics and evolution sandbox game. Protect and breed unique pixel-art life forms where pixels and color have meaning. Craft tools and buildings and change the environment. Find ancient tech and fend off haywire zombitons. Craft Farm Breed Evolve!

Why similar: God Game 35.4% ★, Science 25.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Open World 8.2%, Simulation 6%

Plentiful is a nature sandbox. You shape the land and everything responds—water, plants, animals, and your people. Learn how this world works. Your tribe’s survival depends on it.

Why similar: God Game 48.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, Sandbox 17%, Simulation 6.5%, Open World 3.9%

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: Sandbox 33.5%, Simulation 18.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Open World 12.5%, Family Friendly 10.6%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6%, Sandbox 21.4%, Open World 12.4%, God Game 12.1% ★, Resource Management 4.1%

Hunt and eat other fish - simply, grow into larger beasts!

Why similar: Open World 33.8%, Simulation 27.3%, Sandbox 16.1%, Funny 9.3%, Colorful 5.2%