Games Like The Universim

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 29.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A direct god-game experience where you use giants to shape the planet and influence the development of human societies.

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 39.9% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 8.7%, Management 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the god-game aspect, allowing you to manipulate the world and watch civilizations rise and fall in a sandbox environment.

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 36.9%, Colony Sim 36.7%, Survival 9.7%, 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 various prehistoric eras.

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 25.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 17.9%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the early stages of civilization, emphasizing building and resource management in a primitive setting.

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 13.6%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in colony management and emergent storytelling that mirrors the survival and development challenges found in The Universim.

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 23.7%, City Builder 16.5%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space-faring exploration with intricate colony management and survival 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 39.8%, Colony Sim 14%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.1%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an organic approach to city-building that emphasizes the growth and needs of your population.

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 32.2%, City Builder 25.1%, Space 9.3%, Survival 8.1%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony-sim that requires careful management of resources and infrastructure to keep your settlers alive.

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 26.8%, City Builder 21.4%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate complex colony-sim that offers deep simulation mechanics for those who enjoy the management aspects of The Universim.

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 31.7%, City Builder 24.1%, God Game 22.3% ★, Survival 7.8%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends god-game powers with city-building and survival mechanics in a challenging, fast-paced environment.

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 28.3%, City Builder 27%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A charming city-builder that incorporates defense and survival elements against external threats.

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: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 25.7%, Building 12.1%, Survival 8.4%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes managing resources and population needs through changing seasons.

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: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 26.7%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces unique water management and vertical building mechanics to the traditional colony-sim genre.

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 30.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Space 8.3%, Aliens 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar evolutionary progression from simple life forms to space-faring civilizations.

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 26.7%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Space 12%, Survival 9.6%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the space-faring aspect of civilization management with a heavy emphasis on survival and resource logistics.

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 72.6% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 6.1%, Simulation 5.3%, Strategy 3.5%

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

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 35.3%, Colony Sim 27.7%, Management 8.3%, Building 6.9%, Resource Management 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with multiplayer capabilities that focuses on expanding your territory and managing your economy.

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

Why similar: God Game 34.6% ★, Colony Sim 28.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A VR-focused god game that lets you directly interact with your followers and shape their world.

Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

Why similar: God Game 35.6% ★, Colony Sim 21.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox god game that focuses on the simulation of life and planetary development.

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 22.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 9.6%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that allows for detailed building and management of a settlement in a historical setting.

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 24.5%, City Builder 20.8%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that keeps the gameplay fresh with constant environmental challenges and progression.

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 32.6%, City Builder 25.2%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a colony with a charming aesthetic and deep crafting systems.

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 30.7%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Survival 11.9%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that forces you to make difficult moral choices to ensure your society's survival.

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% ★, Colony Sim 18.8%, City Builder 15.6%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A modern god game that allows you to influence your followers through either benevolent or malevolent divine powers.

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 23.6%, City Builder 21.2%, Real-Time with Pause 12.6% ★, Building 10.7%, Survival 8.5%

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

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 37.5%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Survival 13%, Building 7.6%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that requires you to manage radiation and environmental hazards to keep your colony alive.

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 28.8%, City Builder 24%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features automation and building mechanics that are essential for growing your civilization's economy.

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: Colony Sim 25.6%, City Builder 25.6%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city-builder that challenges you to manage resources on limited, elevated landmasses.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Building 16.2%, Space 16.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 9.8%

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 26.5%, Survival 10.1%, Building 8.2%, Management 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes social management and research trees to guide your settlement's growth.

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 21.7%, City Builder 17.8%, God Game 15.8% ★, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 21.4%, City Builder 19.1%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8.2%

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 33.8%, Sandbox 14%, Building 10.9%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 9%

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 38.2%, City Builder 30.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 5%

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 40.7%, City Builder 31.4%, Space 4.9%, Strategy 4.8%, Sci-fi 4.5%

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 45.8%, Space 9%, Management 7.7%, Strategy 7.6%, Building 6.4%

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 35.5%, Building 13.8%, Space 13.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 22.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, City Builder 16.1%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.6%

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 31.9% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Management 7.8%, Sandbox 6.1%

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 23.9%, City Builder 21.5%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 8.2%

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 22.3%, City Builder 17.7%, Real-Time with Pause 12.8% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.1%

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 31.9%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 14%, Management 11.9%, Procedural Generation 8%

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

Why similar: God Game 36.2% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 4%

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 23.8%, God Game 20.8% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Space 7.7%, Survival 7.6%

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 26.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.3%, Space 9.1%

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 27.2%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 7.5%

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 37.4%, Survival 21%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.6%

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 23.6%, City Builder 19.5%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.2%

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 26.7%, City Builder 21.6%, Building 10.2%, Survival 7%, Space 6.8%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 21%, Real-Time with Pause 13.9% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 7.5%

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 10.8%, Management 9.5%, Space 7.5%, Sandbox 6.1%

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 30%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Space 11.8%, Management 9.9%

A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, God Game 16.6% ★, City Builder 16%, Real-Time with Pause 10.6% ★, Management 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 25.3%, City Builder 22.6%, Real-Time with Pause 15% ★, Building 10.3%, Space 7.4%

Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

Why similar: Building 24.5%, Space 22.3%, Management 21.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 8.8%

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%, Colony Sim 29.3%, Survival 11.4%, Building 7%, Strategy 6.3%

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 28.6%, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.9%

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 33.1% ★, City Builder 24.3%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%

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 32.5%, Building 17.4%, Sandbox 16.9%, Management 11%, Resource Management 7.9%