Games Like The Happy Hereafter

Hey, you just died. But don't worry! All the major religions were wrong! Instead of ascending to a new plane of existence, you are now self-employed in the Afterlife with your own haunted house to run. Keep people just scared enough to keep believing in you, but not enough to alert the local authorities.

Why similar: Strategy 62.2%, Casual 37.8%

Why You'll Like It: It directly mirrors the theme of managing the afterlife, tasking you with building a spooky empire for the deceased.

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: Strategy 87.2%, Simulation 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core concept of managing an afterlife facility with a focus on building and resource management.

Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!

Why similar: Strategy 59.2%, Casual 28%, Simulation 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique blend of building management and monster-themed colony simulation that feels very similar in tone.

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!

Why similar: Strategy 78.3%, Simulation 21.7%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim focuses on building and maintaining a community, echoing the village-building mechanics of the seed game.

Holy Potatoes! What the Hell?! is a whacky hell-themed cooking management sim where you take on the role of a chef in an Afterlife populated by potatoes!

Why similar: Strategy 60%, Casual 25.7%, Simulation 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines quirky afterlife management with the same casual, humorous simulation style found in the seed game.

Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.

Why similar: Strategy 59.7%, Casual 27.1%, Simulation 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, charming city-builder that focuses on the needs and happiness of your villagers.

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why You'll Like It: It balances base-building and management with a dark yet adorable aesthetic that fits the afterlife theme perfectly.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deeper, more narrative-driven take on managing the afterlife and its inhabitants.

As a new Manager, build a happy community and trade with other races... for profit. Yes, that's right, we need their happiness so we can power up our portals. The Lings, your workers, will obey you and help you with your village. But beware, they can cause a lot of problems too.

Why similar: Strategy 80.2%, Simulation 19.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the management of a small, growing community with a focus on resource gathering and building.

Care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. They need to become farmers, builders, scientists, parents and make decisions about unpredictable 'island events'! Guide their day-to-day lives and help them explore and restore their new home.

Why similar: Casual 67.1%, Simulation 32.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic casual colony simulation that captures the same 'guide the people' gameplay loop.

Build a heroic hamlet that warriors and merchants can call home!

Why similar: Casual 71.8%, Simulation 28.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a lighthearted, casual approach to building and managing a village for adventurers.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Strategy 50.3%, Simulation 34.3%, Casual 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same humorous, management-heavy gameplay style while focusing on building an efficient facility.

Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Casual 31%, Simulation 14.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy city-builder that focuses on charm and growth, mirroring the lighthearted village-building aspects of the seed game.

The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...

Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Casual 40.1%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual colony simulation that tasks you with building and managing a settlement in a new world.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Strategy 82.3%, Simulation 17.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulation game that offers deep building mechanics and management challenges in a historical setting.

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: Strategy 86.4%, Simulation 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends colony management with building mechanics, allowing you to guide your units through various tasks.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Strategy 81%, Simulation 19%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder focuses on expanding and defending your settlement, providing a satisfying management experience.

This is a simulated business game with the theme of hell. The player will play the zombie girl to open a grocery store in the underworld. You can expand the store and decorate freely, and even hire employees to improve their skills.

Why similar: Strategy 41.9%, Casual 40.9%, Simulation 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a casual life-simulation experience set in a quirky, hellish environment.

Peace, Death! is an arcade simulator with difficulties. In this game you play as the Reaper working for your boss, Death, and send clients to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory.

Why similar: Casual 73.5%, Simulation 26.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the afterlife theme with a humorous, casual approach to managing souls.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Casual 30.7%, Simulation 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished, humorous management experience centered on building and organizing a public space.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Strategy 72.8%, Simulation 19.4%, Casual 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more complex, it shares the fundamental 'build and manage a facility' loop found in the seed game.

Blood Bar Tycoon is a vampire bar management game. Build bars and blood factories, lure humans to harvest their blood, process it, and serve your customers: other vampires. Research quirky machines and deal with hunters! Expand through Crimson City to become a mighty Elder!

Why similar: Strategy 55.9%, Casual 30.7%, Simulation 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that focuses on running a business in a dark, supernatural setting.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Casual 45%, Strategy 35.3%, Simulation 19.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management sim that focuses on building and maintaining an attraction, offering a similar casual yet strategic feel.

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Strategy 70.6%, Simulation 20.3%, Casual 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This building management game focuses on the logistics and satisfaction of your tenants, similar to managing souls in the afterlife.

A relaxing idle village-building simulator nestled in the corner of your screen! Build, Craft, and Trade to guide your village from humble beginnings to a thriving trading hub, it's time to write your own Village Tale!

Why similar: Strategy 51%, Casual 37%, Simulation 12%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, pixel-art simulation game that focuses on village life and automation.

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: Strategy 85.4%, Simulation 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines village-building with survival elements, providing a more challenging take on the colony simulation genre.

Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!

Why similar: Strategy 51.5%, Casual 35.1%, Simulation 13.3%

Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: This serves as a great introduction to the mechanics of afterlife building and management.

Build a village in a world of magic and care for the people who live there, with the help of hidden spirits you discover along the way. Watch your town grow and flourish as you expand, create, and decorate.

Why similar: Casual 70.7%, Simulation 29.3%

Want to decide where mortals go when they die? Welcome to hell! With one click, you can decide whether mortals should go to heaven or stay in hell.

Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Casual 34.5%, Simulation 12.7%

Sent by the Moon Goddess, you arrive in Heaven’s Dale to run a carpenter workshop and uncover its former owner’s fate. Mysterious ghosts drift through everywhere! Live a cozy life planting, fishing, mining, and caring for animals while restoring the town at your own pace.

Why similar: Casual 71%, Simulation 29%

TownCraft is a chill-out crafting and city-building game. Instead of just surviving, you must turn your empty plot of land and its rarely-used road into a bustling town full of shops, workers and taverns.

Why similar: Strategy 80.5%, Simulation 19.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on crafting and building a village, offering a relaxed simulation experience.

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Why similar: Strategy 79.7%, Simulation 20.3%

Necromancer accountant. Undead scourge tycoon simulation game.

Why similar: Strategy 55.9%, Casual 30.5%, Simulation 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: It uses an afterlife theme to frame its management and strategy gameplay in a humorous way.

Discover the wonders of an uncharted island and help the natives restore their ravaged land to its former glory in Moai: Build Your Dream! Overcome the fury of an active volcano, hordes of attacking ghosts and the threat of dwindling resources as you guide the hero and a native princess on their quest.

Why similar: Strategy 56.2%, Casual 32.4%, Simulation 11.4%

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Casual 70.5%, Simulation 29.5%

Garlic Builder is a unique building game. As the new builder of the Garlic Family, can you inherit your father's building hammer, take various orders, follow the blueprint, or use your imagination to fulfill the strange needs of your customers?

Why similar: Casual 100%

Welcome to the Voodoo Garden! You're owner of a little hut in a bustling swamp. With the help of little spirits you can earn powers and gold by producing various voodoo supplies.

Why similar: Casual 58.7%, Simulation 20.6%, Strategy 20.6%

Become a paranormal renovator! Explore and renovate haunted locations as you deal with pesky spirits that have fun at your expense! Decide if you want to be mean or nice to banished entities, you can also adopt some! Restore old furniture and decorate the interiors as you see fit! Make a profit!

Why similar: Casual 70.3%, Simulation 29.7%

You're a skeleton shopkeep who hires adventurers to collect loot for you after your untimely demise. Send adventurers into battle, sell what they find, and build up your town in this laid-back idle game!

Why similar: Casual 42.2%, Strategy 39.3%, Simulation 18.6%

Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.

Why similar: Strategy 50.1%, Casual 28.6%, Simulation 21.2%

Build and manage the ultimate Japanese hot springs inn.

Why similar: Strategy 44.2%, Casual 38.4%, Simulation 17.4%

Glimvale is a solo cosy city-builder with idle mechanics where you manage, decorate, and grow a charming MMO village. Keep adventurers happy and shape the world at your own pace. After all, you’re the game master.

Why similar: Casual 100%

Build your casino empire in Las Venas alongside cute animals! Blooming Business: Casino is a cosy management game. Build and run your casino in a bustling world full of drama. Complete quests and manage your clientele. Keep everyone happy, from the clients, to the employees (and beware of the bear).

Why similar: Strategy 54.5%, Casual 30.8%, Simulation 14.7%

Enjoy building and running a ski resort in this cool simulation game!

Why similar: Strategy 54.6%, Casual 31.1%, Simulation 14.3%

Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Casual 31%, Simulation 14.8%

HEXAROMA is a charming village builder set on a tiny island village where you start your Hexling colony! Place your buildings, and manage Hexling villagers on a hexagonal island. Plan your placements wisely, grow your settlement, optimize your colony and help your villagers thrive.

Why similar: Strategy 56.2%, Casual 31.9%, Simulation 11.9%

Build the town of Heropolis.Gather your strongest heroes and destroy Evilcorp!

Why similar: Casual 51.3%, Strategy 28.3%, Simulation 20.4%

Now you’re the new apprentice for Death. And it's your job to help gather souls. Only thing is, you can't just go and kill people to get the souls, it has to look natural. Like an accident. And that means setting up bottles, knives, brooms, and other regular objects in such a way as to create deadly chain reactions.

Why similar: Casual 100%

A town sim where you raise generations of residents. Unlock new stores and facilities, help your residents find love, or cash in on the stock market!

Why similar: Strategy 55.9%, Casual 30.5%, Simulation 13.6%

Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.

Why similar: Strategy 63.3%, Casual 28%, Simulation 8.7%

Construct charming toy towns and cities atop tiny terrain. Combine building blocks to create new megastructures. Test your skills in the physics-based Challenge stages or simply unwind and obliterate everything with an array of cute catastrophes!

Why similar: Strategy 45.6%, Casual 39.4%, Simulation 15%

Create the gaming paradise of your dreams! Reach 5-stars and host tournaments!

Why similar: Strategy 53.4%, Casual 31.1%, Simulation 15.4%

You and several others have passed away. You have three options: either take the trials to earn your place in Heaven, live it up in Hell, or remain lost in Limbo for the rest of eternity. Repurpose is an LGBT+ positive dating sim about death, love, and finding your purpose.

Why similar: Casual 100%

Build an Adventure Park from the ground up! The PuPu clan had just rented a new "playground" from the Dark Goblins. Manage the park, construct park facilities, and grow your clan to serve the expansion of the Park for "hero" customers summoned from other planets!

Why similar: Strategy 80.8%, Simulation 19.2%

A chill incremental strategy game where you restore souls, build a Faith economy, automate your realm, and rebirth for permanent progress before corruption takes over.

Why similar: Strategy 64.8%, Casual 22%, Simulation 13.1%

Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster. Build your city, manage your resources while defending the chaos from demons who steal and kill your folks....and also that GIANT TITAN lurking around.

Why similar: Strategy 77.7%, Simulation 22.3%

Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!

Why similar: Strategy 80.6%, Simulation 19.4%

A calming, relaxing, yet slightly disturbing casual game in which you attempt to completely burn down a village.

Why similar: Strategy 55.1%, Casual 31.5%, Simulation 13.5%