- #1 Universe Sandbox
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 31,636 reviews2015
Dev: Giant Army
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 24.1 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 19% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Science 15.3%, Physics 10.6%, Destruction 7.4%
- #2 Terra Firma
96% matchVery Positive94% of 596 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 38.5% ★, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Nature 10%, Physics 7.2%
- #3 WorldBox - God Simulator
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 55,337 reviews2021
Dev: Maxim Karpenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 29.4 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 47.9% ★, Sandbox 21.6%, Destruction 9.3%, Simulation 7.6%, Building 7.5%
- #4 Planetary Life
95% matchVery Positive94% of 867 reviews2025
Dev: Sotenbox
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 36.3% ★, Science 18.3%, Sandbox 14.7%, Nature 12%, Simulation 6.4%
- #5 Equilinox
94% matchVery Positive92% of 3,011 reviews2018
Dev: ThinMatrix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 27.9% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Nature 12.5%, Relaxing 11.4%
- #6 Plentiful
93% matchVery Positive98% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: GabberGamesPub: Learnia Inc
Windows
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 38.9% ★, Sandbox 18.4%, Nature 15.5%, Simulation 6.8%, Relaxing 4.7%
- #7 Tidal Tribe
94% matchVery Positive87% of 95 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 35.7% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 14.2%, Physics 8.6%, Agriculture 7.5% ★
- #8 The Sapling
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,934 reviews2019
Dev: Wessel Stoop
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 34.7% ★, Science 19.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Nature 12.3%, Simulation 5.6%
- #9 Reus 2
90% matchVery Positive95% of 2,271 reviews2024
Dev: Abbey GamesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
Why similar: God Game 46% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Nature 12%, Relaxing 6.3%, Building 6%
- #10 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,000 reviews2018
Dev: Quasar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.4 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 36.6% ★, Sandbox 22%, Science 20.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Relaxing 4.2%
- #11 Solar 2
91% matchVery Positive91% of 2,220 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 28.6% ★, Sandbox 25%, Physics 10.8%, Relaxing 9.5%, Simulation 8%
- #12 Reus
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,972 reviews2013
Dev: Abbey Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 62.2% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%, Indie 3.6%
- #13 Fantasy Map Simulator
87% matchVery Positive89% of 4,127 reviews2024
Dev: The Stranger
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.2 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 26.1%, Simulation 6.2%, Strategy 4.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #14 Sandboxels
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,035 reviews2025
Dev: R74n
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Falling-sand sandbox game with 500+ elements, chemistry, fire, life, food, and anything you can imagine.
Why similar: God Game 33.5% ★, Science 19.7%, Sandbox 16%, Nature 12.1%, Building 8%
- #15 From Dust
89% matchMixed67% of 2,972 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 66.3% ★, Sandbox 12.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Building 4.1%, Strategy 3.6%
- #16 Creatura
88% matchMixed67% of 231 reviews2021
Dev: Koksny.com
Windows · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
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 29.7% ★, Science 22.1%, Sandbox 15.9%, Nature 11.8%, Simulation 8%
- #17 Ecosystem
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 624 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 35.1% ★, Science 17%, Sandbox 14.3%, Nature 12.1%, Simulation 6.8%
- #18 Sand:box
83% matchVery Positive94% of 1,644 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: God Game 30.7% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Science 12.6%, Destruction 9.7%, Physics 9.3%
- #19 Awe
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 258 reviews2015
Dev: Badland Development StudioPub: BadLand Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.6 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 55.3% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Building 9.2%, Relaxing 6.3%, Atmospheric 5.9%
- #20 Birthdays the Beginning
85% matchMixed64% of 981 reviews2017
Dev: Arc System WorksPub: NIS America, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.5 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 60.5% ★, Sandbox 24.6%, Simulation 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #21 Earthtongue
84% 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 33.4%, Simulation 25.1%, Sandbox 21.3%, Relaxing 11%, Indie 7%
- #22 Townscaper
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,548 reviews2021
Dev: Oskar StålbergPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 8.5 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%, Building 14.5%, Nature 14.3%, Relaxing 11.6%, Simulation 9%
- #23 Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox
82% matchMixed45% of 149 reviews2017
Dev: Pill Bug Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 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 30.6% ★, Science 19.1%, Sandbox 16%, Nature 13.5%, Relaxing 6.1%
- #24 MMORPG Tycoon 2
79% matchVery Positive86% of 3,062 reviews2020
Dev: VectorStorm Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.7 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 42.9% ★, Sandbox 19%, Relaxing 8.7%, Simulation 8%, Family Friendly 7%
- #25 Natural Instincts: European Forest
81% matchMixed46% of 293 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 33% ★, Science 15.4%, Sandbox 14%, Nature 10.6%, Relaxing 6.4%
- #26 Heliopedia
79% matchVery Positive88% of 214 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 45.5% ★, Sandbox 19.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Building 8.4%, Nature 8.2%
- #27 OddFauna : Secret of the Terrabeast
77% matchVery Positive90% of 70 reviews2026
Dev: North Channel
Windows
Grow the TerraBeast you live on from a tiny patch of land into a whimsical world! In this fully hand-sculpted, playful systemic sandbox, you'll explore vibrant biomes, farm, craft, build, and befriend the wild OddFauna to create a thriving ecosystem.
Why similar: Sandbox 33%, Nature 29.1%, Relaxing 14.3%, Family Friendly 11.9%, Open World 8.4%
- #28 Cloud Gardens
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,300 reviews2021
Dev: Noio
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
Why similar: Sandbox 25.5%, Nature 25.1%, Building 12.2%, Relaxing 12.1%, Simulation 8.1%
- #29 Terra Nil
77% matchVery Positive88% of 8,613 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 39.5%, Relaxing 19.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Atmospheric 8.7%, Family Friendly 8.1%
- #30 Machine World 2
81% 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 37.6%, Simulation 26.3%, Building 11.1%, Realistic 10.3%, Indie 7.8%
- #31 The Universim
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,595 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: God Game 49.7% ★, Sandbox 19%, Building 11.9%, Simulation 6.2%, Science 4.9%
- #32 Crest - an indirect god sim
78% matchMixed65% of 374 reviews2018
Dev: Eat Create Sleep
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 42.2% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Nature 14.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 5.2%
- #33 Preserve
74% matchVery Positive93% of 740 reviews2025
Dev: Bitmap GalaxyPub: Grindstone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 33% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Nature 15%, Building 10.4%, Relaxing 8%
- #34 Grow: Song of the Evertree
76% matchVery Positive81% of 2,556 reviews2021
Dev: Prideful SlothPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.1 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 23.8%, Nature 18%, Agriculture 16.2% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Family Friendly 9.1%
- #35 Inspiral: Echoes of Gravity
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 65 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 36% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Physics 14.6%, Relaxing 9.1%, Simulation 8.7%
- #36 Kselebox
76% matchMostly Positive75% 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 37.4% ★, Sandbox 19%, Physics 13.4%, Simulation 8.8%, Relaxing 7%
- #37 Marble World
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,313 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 37.2% ★, Sandbox 17.9%, Physics 14.2%, Building 8.4%, Simulation 6.5%
- #38 Fata Deum - The God Sim
73% matchMixed59% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: 42 Bits EntertainmentPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Why similar: God Game 48.2% ★, Sandbox 18.2%, Building 11%, Simulation 8.9%, Open World 6.3%
- #39 Planet Coaster 2
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,823 reviews2024
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 33.7% ★, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 12.9%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 6.2%
- #40 Deisim
72% matchVery Positive93% of 894 reviews2022
Dev: Myron Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Why similar: God Game 45.4% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Building 11.4%, Relaxing 8.9%, Simulation 8.6%
- #41 Plan B: Terraform
69% matchVery Positive91% of 3,542 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 43.4%, Building 20.5%, Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 10%, Indie 5.7%
- #42 The Sandbox
75% matchMixed55% of 572 reviews2015
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 40.6%, God Game 35.7% ★, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 4.3%, Physics 4%
- #43 Farmer's Dynasty 2
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,193 reviews2026
Dev: UMEO StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Build your dream farm and secure your family’s future. Cultivate your fields, raise animals, and shape your dynasty across generations in this beautifully crafted life and farming simulation. Start your dynasty today!
Why similar: Sandbox 29.5%, Agriculture 21.9% ★, Building 18.4%, Simulation 13.5%, Family Friendly 7.9%
- #44 Space Engineers 2
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,798 reviews2025
Dev: Keen Software House
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Space Engineers 2 is a playable Early Access Alpha sandbox focused on engineering, exploration, and colonization in a fully destructible universe. Design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases while uncovering the story of Miro and Ivan Sokol. Help shape the future of the Almagest system.
Why similar: Science 19.1%, Sandbox 18.3%, Physics 13%, Destruction 12.5%, Building 11.4%
- #45 Vilmonic
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 86 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 33.1% ★, Science 17.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Nature 13.2%, Agriculture 9.8% ★
- #46 Tea Garden Simulator
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 65 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 29.9%, Sandbox 22.8%, Agriculture 14.7% ★, Nature 12.2%, Simulation 10.9%
- #47 Global Farmer
70% matchMixed49% of 141 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 18.2%, Agriculture 16.1% ★, Nature 16%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.6%
- #48 The God
72% 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 62.7% ★, Simulation 22.8%, Indie 8.9%, Casual 5.5%
- #49 Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,285 reviews2023
Dev: JoySpark Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!
Why similar: God Game 55% ★, Sandbox 24.4%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 6.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #50 PolyPine
67% matchVery Positive96% of 388 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 33.2% ★, Sandbox 18.1%, Nature 17.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #51 Prehistoric Kingdom
68% matchVery Positive90% of 6,391 reviews2022
Dev: Blue MeridianPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.
Why similar: God Game 29.7% ★, Sandbox 19.4%, Science 15.9%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 9.1%
- #52 Fate Tectonics
71% 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 60% ★, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Indie 6.9%, Puzzle 3.8%
- #53 Water Physics Simulation
69% matchVery Positive81% of 97 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 24% ★, Sandbox 20.4%, Physics 14.9%, Destruction 12.4%, Simulation 11.2%
- #54 Lifecraft
67% 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 35.1% ★, Science 22.5%, Sandbox 20%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 5.2%
- #55 Mountain
68% matchVery Positive88% of 16,292 reviews2014
Dev: David OReilly
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 103.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Existential Nature Simulation
Why similar: God Game 36.5% ★, Simulation 21.1%, Relaxing 20.2%, Indie 7.3%, Nature 7.3%
- #56 SpaceEngine
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,974 reviews2019
Dev: Cosmographic Software
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 45.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Why similar: Science 26.7%, Sandbox 26.1%, Open World 9.9%, Relaxing 9.5%, Simulation 8.6%
- #57 Terrafactor
65% matchNo user reviews88% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: randy
Windows
You have one job — feed The Hole. Harvest the land with your hands. Then build machines to do it for you. Craft more advanced technology... then feed it to The Hole.
Why similar: Sandbox 39.9%, Simulation 21.8%, Building 20.3%, Nature 17.3%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #58 Hillshade Farm
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 67 reviews2026
Dev: NORTHSTAR Games
Windows
You’ve got land, time, and a whole lot to figure out. Start small, work hard, earn what you need, and build the kind of farm you’d never want to leave.
Why similar: Nature 16.2%, Physics 15.1%, Building 13.5%, Agriculture 13.4% ★, Simulation 12.5%
- #59 Thrive
66% matchVery Positive92% of 1,684 reviews2021
Dev: Revolutionary Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 33%, Sandbox 24.2%, Nature 18.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Family Friendly 5.1%