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 40.4% ★, Colony Sim 23%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 8.7%, Management 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the ultimate sandbox experience for players who enjoy the god-game aspect of influencing civilizations and shaping the world.

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 30.4% ★, Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 17.2%, Sandbox 7.5%, Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a giant god shaping the planet and its inhabitants, mirroring the divine intervention mechanics found in The Universim.

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 33.4%, City Builder 13.7%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive colony-sim experience, offering deep management and emergent storytelling that rivals the complexity of 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 23.6%, City Builder 16.6%, Building 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Space 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with space exploration, requiring you to build and maintain a fleet while keeping your crew alive.

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 37.3%, Colony Sim 36.4%, Survival 9.9%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the progression through different eras of human history, starting from the Stone Age just like the early stages of The Universim.

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 31.9%, City Builder 25.4%, Space 9.4%, Survival 8.2%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: You must manage a colony on a remote planet, focusing on resource production and infrastructure to keep your citizens alive.

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 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 24%, Sandbox 10.4%, Space 8.2%, Aliens 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the scope of The Universim by allowing you to guide a species from a single cell through to space exploration.

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 24.4%, Space 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends city-building with space survival, tasking you with managing a space station while navigating the dangers of the cosmos.

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 18.5%, City Builder 15.9%, Sandbox 7.8%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the god-game genre, allowing you to influence the lives of mortals through either benevolent or malevolent actions.

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 35.9%, City Builder 32.1%, Survival 8%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder that forces players to manage resources carefully to survive harsh environmental conditions.

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 14.2%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.1%, Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder focuses on organic growth and complex production chains, providing a relaxing yet strategic management experience.

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 31.3%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Survival 12.1%, Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a high-stakes survival city-builder experience where every decision impacts the survival of your 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 29.4%, City Builder 23.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 9.7%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes building and defense, allowing for complex vertical construction similar to modern city-builders.

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 26.7%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Building 12.4%, Survival 8.7%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep survival-focused city-building experience where managing population needs and natural disasters is key.

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 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Building 8.2%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A prehistoric colony-sim that focuses on the early stages of human development and building a society from scratch.

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Sandbox 9.7%, Space 9.4%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on lunar colonization and industrial automation, capturing the space-age expansion feel of the seed game.

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 35.9%, Colony Sim 27.6%, Management 8%, Building 6.8%, Procedural Generation 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim adds a multiplayer component and a card-based progression system to the traditional city-building formula.

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 40.3%, City Builder 31.8%, Space 5%, Strategy 4.7%, Sci-fi 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It tasks you with building a colony on an alien world, focusing on the sci-fi infrastructure and survival elements.

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 23.6%, God Game 21.1% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Space 7.9%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony sim that focuses on automation and survival, perfect for those who enjoy the technical side of The Universim.

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 21.6%, Real-Time with Pause 12.8% ★, Building 10.8%, Survival 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that requires careful management of resources and societal development to survive.

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 34%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 11%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the grand scale of planetary transformation and automation, perfect for fans of the late-game space expansion.

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 28.9%, Sandbox 14.5%, Management 10.2%, Science 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on planetary management and the environmental consequences of industrial expansion.

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 32.3%, City Builder 25.5%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A charming voxel-based colony-sim that focuses on building, crafting, and defending your citizens.

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 19.2%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: You play as an AI tasked with terraforming Mars, blending planetary-scale strategy with resource management.

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 19.4%, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building and management game that focuses on running a facility that explores the galaxy through portals.

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 31.2%, City Builder 26.9%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.2%, Management 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that emphasizes social management and research, providing a balanced experience for strategy fans.

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 31.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.2%, Sandbox 11%, Procedural Generation 7.5%, Management 7.2%

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 26.2%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder set on cliff tops after a nuclear war, requiring precise management to maintain your population.

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 22.4% ★, Colony Sim 19.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A space-sim city-builder that emphasizes the god-like control of planetary development and resource extraction.

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 18.1%, God Game 16.1% ★, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 46.4%, Space 9.1%, Management 7.5%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a futuristic city-building experience that expands into space, focusing on complex production chains.

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 26%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 7.4%

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 24.4%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 8.4%

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 37.1%, Space 14.1%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, Resource Management 8.5%

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 37.6%, Survival 21.4%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.5%

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 18.3%, Real-Time with Pause 13.2% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 8.3%

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 18.1%, Space 16.4%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 9.5%

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 32.6%, Building 16.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Management 11.6%, Procedural Generation 7.9%

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 27.8%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 7.7%

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 32.3% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Management 7.5%, Sandbox 6%

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 23.5%, City Builder 22.2%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 8%

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 11%, Management 9.3%, Space 7.7%, Sandbox 6.1%

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 20%, Sandbox 10.7%, Procedural Generation 8.3%, Building 7.9%

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

Why similar: God Game 37.2% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 4%

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 28.8%, City Builder 22.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10%, Management 7.5%

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 32.7%, Colony Sim 29%, Survival 11.5%, Building 7%, Strategy 6.1%

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 25.7%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 8.2%

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 23.1%, Building 11.2%, Management 7.9%, Space 7.4%

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 43.7% ★, Sandbox 16%, Space 13.1%, Science 6.8%, Open World 6.4%

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 23%, Real-Time with Pause 15.2% ★, Building 10.4%, Space 7.5%

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 29.1%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 13%, Space 11.4%, Management 9.1%

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 19.2%, God Game 16.7% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Real-Time with Pause 10.8% ★, Management 7.7%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 27%, Building 18%, Survival 8.6%, Management 8.3%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 20.8%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 8.1%

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 26.8%, City Builder 22.2%, Building 10.4%, Survival 7.2%, Space 6.9%

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 27.3%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, Space 9.7%

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 20.3%, Space 18.4%, Management 12.8%, Building 11.2%, Science 8.6%

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 29.4%, Colony Sim 28.9%, Building 12.3%, Management 8.6%, Procedural Generation 6.9%

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 22%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 7.8%