Games Like The Universim

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 40.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.9%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 8.7%, Management 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the most direct god-game experience where you manipulate the world, weather, and civilizations to watch them evolve.

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 29.8% ★, Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 17.2%, Sandbox 7.5%, Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on divine intervention and planetary management, tasking you with shaping the environment to help humanity thrive.

Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.

Why similar: God Game 30.6% ★, Colony Sim 24.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Space 8.2%, Aliens 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar sense of evolutionary progression, taking life from a single cell to a space-faring civilization.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 16.6%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Space 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a space-faring colony with deep simulation mechanics and survival challenges.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, City Builder 25.3%, Space 9.3%, Survival 8.1%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony-sim that requires careful resource management and infrastructure planning to survive in vacuum environments.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Survival 21.2%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed 3D survival and base-building experience that captures the challenge of establishing a colony on a new world.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Colony Sim 36.5%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the early-game progression feel of The Universim as you guide a settlement through the ages of human development.

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 33.5%, City Builder 13.7%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering deep emergent storytelling and complex management systems similar to the survival aspects of The Universim.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 24.3%, Space 12.1%, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends space station management with a narrative-driven survival experience as you search for a new home for humanity.

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 28.5%, City Builder 22.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hybrid of colony-sim and god-game that allows you to influence your subjects directly while managing their growth.

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 26.7%, City Builder 21.7%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Survival 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate simulation game that offers unparalleled depth in managing a civilization and its complex interactions with the world.

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 25.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 18%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the early stages of human development, emphasizing exploration and the transition from nomadic life to a settled civilization.

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: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 23.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 9.6%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building and defending a settlement in a post-apocalyptic medieval setting.

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: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 25.8%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a more accessible city-building experience with a focus on defense and managing a growing kingdom.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Colony Sim 25.7%, Building 10.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a distinct colony-sim experience where you manage a beaver society with complex water-management and engineering mechanics.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Colony Sim 14%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.1%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that focuses on organic growth and complex production chains in a medieval setting.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Survival 12%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that forces difficult moral choices while managing a society on the brink of extinction.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, City Builder 27.6%, Management 11%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique twist on the genre by having you build a colony on the back of a giant, moving creature.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 21.4%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder that requires constant adaptation and strategic planning to survive a world plagued by magical storms.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Building 12.3%, Survival 8.7%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed city-builder that incorporates survival mechanics and trade to help your settlement grow and prosper.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4%, City Builder 31.7%, Space 5%, Strategy 4.7%, Sci-fi 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that tasks you with building a sustainable colony on a distant, exotic planet.

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Colony Sim 27.7%, Management 8.1%, Building 6.8%, Resource Management 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-capable city-builder that allows you to manage a settlement while competing or cooperating with other players.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.6%, Survival 12.3%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 7.4%, Resource Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A highly complex management simulation that challenges you to maintain a sustainable colony in a dangerous underground environment.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 37.9%, Colony Sim 17%, Survival 13%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on survival, radiation management, and rebuilding society.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, God Game 21% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Space 7.8%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space colony-sim that allows for massive automation and complex ship management in a procedurally generated universe.

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 36%, City Builder 32%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A pure survival city-builder that emphasizes the struggle of managing resources and population growth in a harsh climate.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 21.5%, Real-Time with Pause 12.8% ★, Building 10.8%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that tasks you with rebuilding society after a global catastrophe.

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 34.4% ★, Colony Sim 20.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Procedural Generation 7.6%, Management 7%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 28.8%, Sandbox 14.5%, Management 10.3%, Science 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A planetary management game that focuses on balancing industrial growth with environmental sustainability on a global scale.

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: Colony Sim 33.9%, Sandbox 14%, Building 11%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 8.6%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, City Builder 25.4%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 7.2%

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, City Builder 24.3%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 8.5%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 26%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 8.1%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Survival 10.9%, Management 9.4%, Space 7.6%, Sandbox 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, sci-fi colony-sim that emphasizes the harsh realities of surviving on a hostile alien world.

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 19.1%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 7.7%

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 24.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.6%, City Builder 15.9%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 7.8%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 17.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.3%, Space 9.3%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 46.3%, Space 9%, Management 7.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 6.5%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 26.7%, Survival 10.2%, Building 8.2%, Management 5.8%

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 21.3%, City Builder 19.3%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Space 14.1%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Resource Management 8.8%

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 21.6%, City Builder 18%, God Game 16% ★, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Management 11.7%, Procedural Generation 8%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 18.2%, Real-Time with Pause 13.2% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.3%

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 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 7.6%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Colony Sim 29%, Survival 11.5%, Building 7%, Strategy 6.2%

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 32.1% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Management 7.6%, Sandbox 6%

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

Why similar: God Game 37.1% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Management 10.6%, Simulation 4%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13%, Space 11.3%, Management 9.2%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in 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 26.6%, City Builder 19.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Building 7.8%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 22.9%, Real-Time with Pause 15.2% ★, Building 10.4%, Space 7.4%

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Sandbox 20.2%, Space 18.2%, Management 13%, Building 11.2%, Science 8.5%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 8.3%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 22.1%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 8%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 28.9%, Building 12.3%, Management 8.7%, Procedural Generation 6.9%

Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?

Why similar: God Game 34% ★, City Builder 25%, Building 13.4%, Management 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Space 9.6%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 23%, Building 11.2%, Management 8%, Space 7.4%

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 22.1%, Building 10.3%, Survival 7.1%, Space 6.9%