Games Like The Mims Beginning

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 26.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Sandbox 7.9%, Management 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the god-game experience by allowing you to guide a civilization from the Stone Age to the space era while managing planetary resources.

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 30.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Resource Management 7.5%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: You control powerful giants to shape the environment and influence the development of human settlements, mirroring the divine power mechanics of the seed game.

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

Why similar: God Game 29.9% ★, Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Sandbox 9.6%, Resource Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A pure god-game experience that focuses on sandbox creation and managing the growth of your followers across different eras.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 8%, Sci-fi 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for colony-sims, it offers deep management and survival mechanics that mirror the challenges of keeping your population alive in a hostile environment.

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: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, City Builder 24.5%, God Game 24.2% ★, Sandbox 5.3%, Strategy 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully blends god-game mechanics with traditional colony-sim survival, requiring you to protect your villagers from constant threats.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3% ★, City Builder 25.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Management 8.2%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines colony-sim management with a god-like perspective, allowing you to influence the lives and decisions of your subjects directly.

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 38.1% ★, City Builder 28.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, God Game 6.5% ★, Building 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features charming voxel-based building and colony management that captures the whimsical yet strategic feel of The Mims Beginning.

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.1% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 7.4%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox colony-sim allows for deep customization and development of your people, echoing the growth-focused gameplay of the Mims.

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

Why similar: God Game 26.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that incorporates god-game elements and resource management, focusing on the survival of a unique fantasy tribe.

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 30.5% ★, Colony Sim 26.3% ★, City Builder 20%, Sandbox 7%, Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep focus on base-building and managing the evolution of a primitive society, much like the early-game progression in the seed game.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Sandbox 12.7%, Management 9.1%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate colony-sim for depth, providing complex management systems that will appeal to players who enjoy the resource-heavy aspects of the seed game.

The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3% ★, God Game 24.6% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Management 6%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This unique colony-sim features a whimsical setting where you manage a civilization on the back of a giant turtle, matching the quirky tone of the seed game.

Hearthlands is a medieval/fantasy city-building real time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in a procedurally generated world. You can not control your subjects directly; instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, magic, etc.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, City Builder 20.1%, God Game 12.7% ★, RTS 11.8%, Resource Management 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that provides a satisfying management loop and strategic base-building experience.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.5% ★, City Builder 33.2%, Sandbox 6.4%, Strategy 5.4%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that focuses on the harsh realities of survival and resource management, similar to the colony-sim elements of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, God Game 19.4% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on managing a mountain-dwelling society with deep survival and building mechanics.

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

Why similar: God Game 31.7% ★, City Builder 20.1%, RTS 17.5%, Isometric 10%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired god-game that focuses on expanding your influence and managing your followers across various islands.

This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?

Why similar: God Game 24.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy city-builder that emphasizes the growth and management of a goblin tribe, blending strategy with colony-sim mechanics.

Creo God Simulator is a game of city building, resource management, survival, and a ton of villager smiting. As the divinely chosen Creostrider, it's your job to build a society bit by bit, while convincing your new population to believe in you as their one true god.

Why similar: God Game 29.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, City Builder 17.8%, RTS 8%, Isometric 7%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that puts you in the role of a deity managing a city and its growing population.

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 73.6% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 4.4%, Building 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic god-game that emphasizes terrain manipulation and protecting your people from environmental disasters.

You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.

Why similar: God Game 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.7% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy god-game that focuses on the micro-management of your followers and their environment.

Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 18.8%, God Game 18.3% ★, Resource Management 7.9%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on managing a dungeon and its inhabitants, providing a different but satisfying management experience.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 22.9%, RTS 19.6%, God Game 11.4% ★, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused kingdom builder that allows you to manage a fantasy realm with RTS elements.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 53.5% ★, Sandbox 21.9%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 9.9%, Casual 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim set in the Scottish Highlands that focuses on survival, family management, and building a homestead.

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

Why similar: God Game 25.7% ★, Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Sandbox 8%, Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes the management of human subjects and base-building within a strategic framework.

Just like the faeries in your garden, we love collecting berries for our prickleberry loaves and finding treasure with our special fribblesham fireworks. Come join us in our faerieland, full of strange adventure!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3% ★, City Builder 28%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 7.6%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This quirky colony-sim features a unique aesthetic and management style that shares the lighthearted charm of the Mims.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, City Builder 25.3%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 11.1%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that requires careful resource management to keep your people alive in a harsh, sci-fi setting.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends colony-sim elements with automation, allowing you to build a thriving society through programmed labor.

Gold makes God. Embrace city-building chaos around a monster-filled dungeon where danger & profit go hand in hand. Assign heroes quests, evolve powerful pets and expand your influence one gold coin at a time. Recruit, defend, explore — all in pursuit of Glory and Gold!

Why similar: God Game 22.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 14.4%, RTS 12.9%, Isometric 7.6%

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 24.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 15.1%, RTS 11.5%, Sandbox 7.3%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 15.3% ★, RTS 13.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Isometric 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style city-builder that focuses on historical management and architectural development.

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, God Game 16.4% ★, RTS 13.7%, Sandbox 7.9%

Restore the equilibrium of magic by saving endangered fantasy creatures. Build your shelter to welcome and protect them, explore unique regions, rally neighboring populations to your cause and rehabilitate creatures in their natural environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on building and managing a sanctuary for mythical creatures, echoing the fantasy themes of the seed game.

In this simulation and adventure game, explore 19th-century Gold Rush California. Join Jim and Emma to build and manage your farm and city. Plant crops, raise animals, construct buildings, complete missions, uncover secrets, and collect treasures. Start your adventure now!

Why similar: City Builder 46.4%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Management 8.5%, Building 8.3%

Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.

Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Sandbox 21.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Building 7.4%, Management 7.1%

Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, City Builder 21.3%, RTS 19.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.6%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 6.8%

Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.

Why similar: God Game 34.7% ★, Action RTS 26.9% ★, RTS 19.7%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Strategy 4.9%

Build, strategize, and conquer with Citizens: Prologue - the free city-building and puzzler game for strategy masterminds! Extract resources, manage your population, and build the ultimate settlement. Ready to take on the challenge? Download now and discover the magic of Citizens: Prologue!

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7% ★, City Builder 30%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 6.4%, Strategy 5.2%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Simulation 11%, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 10%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, God Game 27.8% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Management 7.4%, Sandbox 5.1%

Build your own kingdom on unlimited Map!

Why similar: God Game 29.8% ★, Colony Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.7%, RTS 17.1%, Strategy 4.4%

Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!

Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Isometric 18.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 8.7%, Management 7.7%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, City Builder 23%, RTS 12.4%, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 7%

​Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 46.9%, Sandbox 24.5%, Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 6.4%, Casual 3.1%

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 73.4% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Building 7.3%, Colorful 5.3%, Casual 3.7%

Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

Why similar: God Game 24.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Sandbox 7.6%, Isometric 6.7%

Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. In this prologue, play through chapters 1, 2, and 3, where you learn to manage your resources as you build and battle to bring order to the world.

Why similar: City Builder 66.5%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 13.9%, Colorful 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Wyrmsun is a real-time strategy game which features elements of mythology, history and fiction.

Why similar: RTS 65.1%, Strategy 24.5%, Building 10.4%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 17.1%, RTS 13.4%, Sandbox 8.5%, Resource Management 8.2%

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 54.9% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 10%, Physics 6%

Idling to Rule the Gods is a free to play Idle-Game with a lot of content and some Minigames. Depending on your play-style, you can play it fast or slow. Either way it can be fun for hundreds of hours!

Why similar: God Game 53.2% ★, Management 12.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Sci-fi 7.4%

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 44% ★, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 5.2%, Management 4.4%

Now, you are God, and you bring the first thrust of God.

Why similar: Strategy 34.6%, Simulation 34.4%, Physics 21.7%, Casual 9.3%

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 68% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 5.4%, Resource Management 4.4%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 6%

Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

Why similar: God Game 36.5% ★, City Builder 29.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Isometric 7.8%, Management 5.6%

Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Strategy 7.2%, Sandbox 7%

Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. Embark on quests, hunt down treasures and manage your resources as you build, battle, cast magic and brew potions to bring order to the world.

Why similar: Action RTS 32.7% ★, City Builder 23.1%, RTS 19.5%, Management 8.2%, Building 5.6%

Create your own unique religion in god simulator strategy sandbox games

Why similar: God Game 45% ★, RTS 24.9%, Isometric 13.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3% ★, City Builder 23.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Isometric 6.2%, Strategy 5.1%