- #1 Terra Firma
97% matchVery Positive94% of 569 reviews2025
Dev: Working as Intended
Windows
Play god and create your own world in this complex simulation. Plate tectonics, wind and water erosion and plant life all develop and interact to produce a world that is viewable from a single tree to kilometres across.
Why similar: God Game 38.1% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Nature 9.9%, Physics 7.2%
- #2 Universe Sandbox
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 30,587 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 21.1% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Science 17.1% ★, Physics 12%, Destruction 8.2%
- #3 Planetary Life
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 743 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 35.8% ★, Science 18.3% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Nature 12.1%, Simulation 6.6%
- #4 Equilinox
95% matchVery Positive92% of 2,999 reviews2018
Dev: ThinMatrix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 27.4% ★, Sandbox 21.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Nature 12.3%, Relaxing 11.6%
- #5 Reus 2
94% matchVery Positive95% of 2,219 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 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 45.5% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Nature 12%, Relaxing 6.5%, Building 5.9%
- #6 Tidal Tribe
94% matchVery Positive87% of 94 reviews2019
Dev: PowPit
Windows
Tidal Tribe is a relaxing god game that gives you the power to shape the terrain. Raise and lower the land to protect your villages from waves and floods, all while using that very same water to build lakes and rivers, turning the desert land into a lively forest of trees and bushes.
Why similar: God Game 35.2% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Physics 8.7%, Agriculture 7.5% ★
- #7 WorldBox - God Simulator
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 52,884 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 47.7% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Destruction 9.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Building 7.5%
- #8 From Dust
93% matchMixed67% of 2,936 reviews2011
Dev: Ubisoft MontpellierPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
Why similar: God Game 66.5% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Building 4%, Strategy 3.6%
- #9 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 988 reviews2018
Dev: Quasar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 36.2% ★, Sandbox 22.2%, Science 20.7% ★, Simulation 11.9%, Relaxing 4.2%
- #10 The Sapling
91% matchVery Positive90% of 1,846 reviews2019
Dev: Wessel Stoop
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, 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 34.3% ★, Science 19.6% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Nature 12.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #11 Sandboxels
89% matchVery Positive95% of 844 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: God Game 33.3% ★, Science 19.7% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Nature 12.2%, Building 8%
- #12 Reus
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,900 reviews2013
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 61.8% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 6.9%, Simulation 6.7%, Indie 3.7%
- #13 Creatura
89% matchMixed68% of 228 reviews2021
Dev: Koksny.com
Windows · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Seed, Breed, Create. From single cell organisms to complex ecosystems. Evolve every part of your own unique aquarium / terrarium by applying scientifically accurate principles of natural and artificial selection, in Creatura - ultimate Virtual Evolution Vivarium Simulator.
Why similar: God Game 29.3% ★, Science 22% ★, Sandbox 16%, Nature 11.9%, Simulation 8.1%
- #14 Solar 2
88% matchVery Positive91% of 2,205 reviews2011
Dev: Murudai
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
Why similar: God Game 28.1% ★, Sandbox 25.2%, Physics 10.9%, Relaxing 9.6%, Simulation 8.1%
- #15 Ecosystem
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 594 reviews2024
Dev: Tom JohnsonPub: Slug Disco
Windows
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 34.8% ★, Science 16.9% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Nature 12.1%, Simulation 6.9%
- #16 Birthdays the Beginning
87% matchMixed64% of 965 reviews2017
Dev: Arc System WorksPub: NIS America, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 60% ★, Sandbox 24.8%, Simulation 13.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #17 Awe
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 258 reviews2015
Dev: Badland Development StudioPub: BadLand Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Awe is a god-game about expressing one’s creativity by shaping and building planets’ ecosystems in a soothing and relaxing ambiance carried by beautiful, minimalist lowpoly 3D art style and atmospheric music.
Why similar: God Game 54.8% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Building 9.2%, Relaxing 6.4%, Atmospheric 5.9%
- #18 Earthtongue
86% matchVery Positive90% of 210 reviews2015
Dev: June StringsPub: junestrings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Care for a miniature ecosystem in a strange world, exert limited influence to encourage the growth of different fungi and bugs and try to maintain the balance of life.
Why similar: Nature 33.1%, Simulation 25.2%, Sandbox 21.2%, Relaxing 11%, Indie 7.1%
- #19 Fantasy Map Simulator
82% matchVery Positive89% of 3,843 reviews2024
Dev: The Stranger
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.
Why similar: God Game 61.7% ★, Sandbox 26%, Simulation 6.2%, Strategy 4.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #20 Natural Instincts: European Forest
84% matchMixed47% of 289 reviews2021
Dev: DreamStorm StudiosPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Protect the environment, and save it from harm! Give commands to the animals, observe their rituals and help them survive. Face different disasters, react to human presence and help the animal kingdom flourish in this unique, environmental experience!
Why similar: God Game 32.6% ★, Science 15.3% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Nature 10.6%, Relaxing 6.5%
- #21 Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
84% matchMixed45% of 147 reviews2017
Dev: Pill Bug Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 26%
A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?
Why similar: God Game 30.2% ★, Science 19.1% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Nature 13.5%, Relaxing 6.1%
- #22 Cloud Gardens
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,285 reviews2021
Dev: Noio
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Nature 25%, Relaxing 12.2%, Building 12%, Simulation 8.3%
- #23 Heliopedia
81% matchVery Positive88% of 212 reviews2021
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 45.1% ★, Sandbox 19.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Building 8.4%, Nature 8.2%
- #24 Space Engineers 2
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,293 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Space Engineers 2 is a sandbox about engineering and colonization where you build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible world. Begin the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol, expand humanity’s foothold in the Almagest system, and fight to survive.
Why similar: Science 19.1% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Physics 13.2%, Destruction 12.4%, Building 11.3%
- #25 Deisim
80% matchVery Positive93% of 851 reviews2022
Dev: Myron Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Why similar: God Game 42.3% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 10.8%, Relaxing 7.6%, Simulation 6.2%
- #26 Machine World 2
83% matchMixed49% of 200 reviews2017
Dev: Trino GamesPub: Trino AB
Windows · Mac
Take control of a range of different machines and operate them in a unique environment. Each new game generates a new world, and it is yours to develop: Dig and build anything, anywhere! All machines have been carefully modelled down to small details.
Why similar: Sandbox 37.7%, Simulation 26.6%, Building 11%, Realistic 10.1%, Indie 7.9%
- #27 Crest - an indirect god sim
82% matchMixed65% of 373 reviews2018
Dev: Eat Create Sleep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?
Why similar: God Game 41.7% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Nature 14.5%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 5.2%
- #28 Marble World
79% matchVery Positive90% of 1,278 reviews2022
Dev: Vector Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Marble World is a physics sandbox simulator with marbles. Create your own marble races, runs and machines. Customize a variety of tracks, decorations and marbles to create a beautiful world.
Why similar: God Game 36.7% ★, Sandbox 18%, Physics 14.4%, Building 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%
- #29 Plan B: Terraform
76% matchVery Positive91% of 3,463 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Sandbox 43.3%, Simulation 20.6%, Building 20.4%, Strategy 10%, Indie 5.7%
- #30 Inspiral: Echoes of Gravity
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: PcZ Games
Windows · Mac
Start as an asteroid, grow by absorbing other celestial bodies to become a planet, a star, and ultimately a black hole. Experience realistic gravity and orbital physics in an ever-evolving sandbox universe.
Why similar: God Game 34.2% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, Physics 13.3%, Relaxing 9.4%, Simulation 8.8%
- #31 Grow: Song of the Evertree
77% matchVery Positive81% of 2,538 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.9%, Nature 18%, Agriculture 16.2% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Family Friendly 9%
- #32 Kselebox
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: KseLeroNPub: ONRI Studio
Windows
Kselebox is a sandbox game, which means you can do whatever you want in it! You can build a rocket and go to explore the vastness of space. Or maybe you want to build a huge car? No problem! Players can save their buildings and then publish them to the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: God Game 36.9% ★, Sandbox 19.1%, Physics 13.6%, Simulation 8.9%, Relaxing 7.1%
- #33 Preserve
75% matchVery Positive93% of 713 reviews2025
Dev: Bitmap GalaxyPub: Grindstone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.
Why similar: God Game 32.7% ★, Sandbox 16.5%, Nature 15%, Building 10.4%, Relaxing 8.1%
- #34 Terra Nil
75% matchVery Positive88% of 8,333 reviews2023
Dev: Free LivesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Nature 39.2%, Relaxing 20.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Family Friendly 8.1%
- #35 Fata Deum - The God Sim
74% matchMixed60% of 450 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 47.3% ★, Sandbox 18.6%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 9%, Open World 6.3%
- #36 MMORPG Tycoon 2
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,013 reviews2020
Dev: VectorStorm Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.
Why similar: God Game 42.7% ★, Sandbox 19.1%, Relaxing 8.9%, Simulation 8.1%, Family Friendly 6.9%
- #37 Vilmonic
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 85 reviews2018
Dev: Bludgeonsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.8% ★, Science 17.8% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Nature 13.3%, Agriculture 9.9% ★
- #38 The Sandbox
77% matchMixed55% of 571 reviews2015
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
Why similar: Sandbox 40.8%, God Game 35.2% ★, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 4.3%, Physics 4%
- #39 Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife
71% matchVery Positive90% of 389 reviews2024
Dev: inDirection GamesPub: Slug Disco
Windows · Linux
Horticular is a relaxing garden builder where you grow plants, design habitats and attract a wide range of wildlife. Help the gnome Keepers restore a barren wasteland with magical powers and populate it with adorable critters. Reclaim nature from a looming corruption and create your perfect garden.
Why similar: God Game 34.9% ★, Sandbox 12.9%, Nature 12.8%, Agriculture 11.4% ★, Building 7.7%
- #40 PolyPine
70% matchVery Positive97% of 366 reviews2025
Dev: Cloudberry PinePub: IndieArk
Windows
A forest simulator where you grow trees and create habitats for animals, plants and insects. Click on animals to make them poop, hunt, dig, cut and twerk! Start with a few basic seeds and attempt to grow a thriving ecosystem.
Why similar: God Game 32.6% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Nature 17.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #41 Tea Garden Simulator
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 62 reviews2023
Dev: Flying Robot StudiosPub: SYV Games LLP
Windows
Explore tea production intricacies with real-world research, select ideal terroir and clones, master plucking and processing, and create specialty teas for your unique brand. Unravel new flavors, unleash your inner tea scientist, experiment with endless creative ideas, and grow your Tea empire.
Why similar: Science 29.6% ★, Sandbox 22.8%, Agriculture 14.7% ★, Nature 12.2%, Simulation 11%
- #42 Global Farmer
72% matchMixed50% of 135 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Farm the world in an immersive top-down management game that lets you choose your farm's location anywhere on the real-world map! Want to experience a rich strawberry harvest in the French countryside? Or challenge the hot sun in South America? The choice is yours!
Why similar: Sandbox 18.1%, Agriculture 16.2% ★, Nature 15.9%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 11.7%
- #43 Planet Coaster 2
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 12,780 reviews2024
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
Why similar: God Game 34% ★, Sandbox 20.8%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 6.3%
- #44 The God
73% matchMixed66% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: Struct9
Windows
Feel the power of god and create your dream world in a beautiful low-poly style. Share your creations with your friends and enjoy.
Why similar: God Game 60.7% ★, Simulation 24.1%, Indie 9.4%, Casual 5.8%
- #45 The Universim
69% matchVery Positive80% of 10,483 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 33.9 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 50.7% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 4.5%
- #46 Prehistoric Kingdom
69% matchVery Positive89% of 5,727 reviews2022
Dev: Blue MeridianPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.
Why similar: God Game 29% ★, Sandbox 19.6%, Science 15.7% ★, Building 12.4%, Simulation 9.4%
- #47 Fate Tectonics
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 208 reviews2015
Dev: Golden Gear GamesPub: Toy Temp
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build up a world piece-by-piece using the power of the god-like Fates, while keeping them happy enough to avoid world-shattering temper tantrums!
Why similar: God Game 59.5% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Indie 7%, Puzzle 3.7%
- #48 Lifecraft
69% matchVery Positive81% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: God Game 34.8% ★, Science 22.4% ★, Sandbox 20.2%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 5.3%
- #49 Mountain
70% matchVery Positive88% of 16,289 reviews2014
Dev: David OReilly
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 103.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Existential Nature Simulation
Why similar: God Game 35.9% ★, Simulation 21.4%, Relaxing 20.4%, Indie 7.4%, Nature 7.3%
- #50 Water Physics Simulation
71% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Gaming-Apps.com
Windows
Water Physics Simulation & Sandbox! Build ships and let them sink! Build cars and let them sink! Use bombs and destroy ragdolls. Play with natural disasters or create towns.
Why similar: God Game 23.7% ★, Sandbox 20.5%, Physics 15.1%, Destruction 12.2%, Simulation 11.3%
- #51 Townscaper
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,438 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
Why similar: Sandbox 22.5%, Nature 14.4%, Building 14.4%, Relaxing 11.7%, Simulation 9.1%
- #52 Planet Zoo
68% matchVery Positive91% of 93,912 reviews2019
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 23%, Nature 19.9%, Building 16.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Family Friendly 6.5%
- #53 Tyto Ecology
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 434 reviews2016
Dev: Immersed Games
Windows · Mac
Build your biome! With an empty biodome as your canvas, add plants and animals from three different ecosystems. Observe interactions like hunting, blooming, and even decomposing! Will your biodome last for decades, or will it experience a total ecosystem collapse? You’re in control!
Why similar: Science 44.3% ★, Simulation 30.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Indie 9.5%, Casual 3.9%
- #54 Cities: Skylines II
68% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: Sandbox 28.5%, Building 21.1%, Simulation 19.2%, Relaxing 7.6%, Strategy 7.1%
- #55 Cozyrama
66% matchVery Positive94% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Sandwich Games 🥪Pub: Frozen District
Windows
Cozyrama is a peaceful sandbox where you shape your own magical dioramas. Sculpt it, pick the right colors, decorate with hundreds of items and add cute animals. Observe a cozy world grow around you! No pressure or timers. Just relax, unwind, and let your imagination bloom!
Why similar: Sandbox 25.8%, Nature 21.7%, Building 15.9%, Relaxing 11.1%, Simulation 8.8%
- #56 ANLIFE: Motion-Learning Life Evolution
65% matchVery Positive89% of 132 reviews2026
Dev: Attructure Inc.
Windows
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 37% ★, Science 16.4% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Physics 10.6%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #57 Sapiens
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,103 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 52.2% ★, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 7%, Open World 4.8%
- #58 Doodle Empires
64% matchVery Positive92% of 982 reviews2025
Dev: Turtle Stack Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Doodle Empires is an alternate history sandbox game all about drawing your own nations with your own histories and stories in a variety of maps. Watch your world take shape and evolve over time, and decide which nations will rise and which nations will fall.
Why similar: God Game 47.6% ★, Sandbox 20.6%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 8.3%, Family Friendly 4.7%
- #59 Skyformer
65% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Building 37.2%, Simulation 25.5%, Open World 19.1%, Strategy 13.9%, Singleplayer 4.2%