Games Like Worshippers of Cthulhu

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.4%, Lore-Rich 21.5%, Management 19.1%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the occult, Lovecraftian atmosphere of managing a secret society through complex, lore-rich mechanics.

Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Isometric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy colony-sim that forces you to manage a settlement while dealing with sanity-draining horrors in the wilderness.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Demons 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dark management game where you build and expand an underworld, focusing on the suffering and productivity of your subjects.

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 34.6% ★, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This deep colony simulator allows for dark storytelling and moral dilemmas that mirror the chaotic management of a cult.

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Lovecraftian 21.7%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes managing a tribe's fear and faith in a harsh, dark world.

Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.9%, Isometric 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder focuses on managing a dark, undead civilization, providing a similar 'evil' management perspective.

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: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 8.7%, Economy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based city-builder that requires strict management of resources and crew sanity under extreme pressure.

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 18.2%, Management 16.2%, City Builder 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the classic 'evil' management feel, tasking you with building a dungeon and commanding minions.

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 23.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Economy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished colony-sim that features a dark, atmospheric world and constant pressure to manage resources and morale.

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: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Building 8.1%, Base Building 8%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers high-stakes management and difficult moral choices that force you to decide the fate of your followers in a desperate environment.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: Strategy 61.8%, Base Building 28.1%, Singleplayer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential evil management game that focuses on building a base and commanding dark forces to defeat heroes.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, City Builder 9.7%, Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a group of survivors building a base to defend against demonic forces in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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: Colony Sim 34% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that allows you to influence the development of a civilization, offering a similar sense of divine control.

Become a mad scientist! Conduct crazy experiments, mix mutagens, breed abominable creatures, and attach monstrous body parts to them. Manage your inventory, expand your lab, and make sure your hideout is safe. Send your creations into the city to obtain salvage and test subjects!

Why similar: Supernatural 23.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Horror 12.6%, Management 11.8%, Dark 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A horror-themed simulation where you conduct experiments and manage a laboratory, fitting the mad-scientist vibe of Lovecraftian tales.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 10.8%, Isometric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building strategy game that focuses on defending against waves of enemies in a dark, ruined world.

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: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that forces you to manage a colony in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Economy 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building a settlement and managing the survival of your people through harsh seasons.

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 42.3% ★, City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game and colony-sim hybrid that requires you to manage a settlement against constant supernatural threats.

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: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game lets you play as a deity influencing mortal followers, echoing the cult-leader dynamic of the seed game.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A grand-scale colony sim that allows for complex management of a civilization with deep simulation mechanics.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, City Builder 17%, Sandbox 11.2%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes survival and infrastructure management in a dangerous, irradiated world.

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 24.3% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Economy 9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where you must manage a colony in a post-apocalyptic world with limited resources.

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Economy 13%, Management 11.8%, Supernatural 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management sim that focuses on building a school for magic, providing a lighter but still thematic take on managing supernatural subjects.

DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 69.5%, Horror 12.6%, Atmospheric 8%, Simulation 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on fishing, it masterfully captures the Lovecraftian dread and atmosphere found in the seed game.

Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Why similar: Sandbox 42.3%, Management 18.2%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 14%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: While a grand strategy game, it allows for the roleplay of a fanatical, cult-like empire that can purge or dominate the galaxy.

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 23.2% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Economy 12.1%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city-builder that requires careful management of limited space and resources to ensure colony survival.

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 20.6% ★, City Builder 14%, Alternate History 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 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 32.2% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with a focus on social management and survival, providing a grounded alternative to the cult theme.

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Alternate History 11.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10.1%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, City Builder 14%, Alternate History 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9.9%

Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Economy 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Alternate History 8.6%

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 67.7%, Dark 14%, Horror 9%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy survival game set in a dark, eldritch world where sanity is a precious and dwindling resource.

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 10.4%, Supernatural 9.9%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Economy 10.9%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 9.1%

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 10%, Sandbox 9.6%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Economy 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%

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: Colony Sim 41.8% ★, City Builder 34.3%, Sandbox 7.3%, Strategy 5.6%, Economy 5.3%

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 11%, Management 10.5%

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 9.4%, Building 8.9%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 10%

Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Base Building 23.6%, Building 14.6%, Isometric 13.8%, Horror 9.3%

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 23.4% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 11.2%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.7% ★, Base Building 31.5%, Building 15.5%, Strategy 5.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 47.6%, Colony Sim 13.7% ★, Strategy 12%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 8.4%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Economy 11.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.6%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.4%, Economy 9.3%

Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 14.6%, Management 14.3%, Building 13.4%

A cosmic horror idle game where you build the Yellow King’s cult, spread his living mold, and click yourself hollow. Memory by memory. Scream by silent scream, as the sky blooms with eyes watching your beautiful undoing.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.7%, Strategy 13.7%, Economy 12.7%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 10.9%

Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG. You are the villain - you command disciples, outwit enemies in combat, and shape the fate of the fallen city as you awaken the Dead Gods — Wrath, Desire, and Madness.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 58.5%, Dark Fantasy 25%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Strategy 7.4%

Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 13.2%, Alternate History 12.4%, Isometric 9.2%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 10.1%

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 34.1% ★, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 6.9%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 9.1%, Isometric 7.7%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Economy 10.2%

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 26.5% ★, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.9%

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 26.9% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Building 10.5%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%

A roguelite monster-management simulation inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation, Cabin in the Woods, and Warehouse 13. Order your employees to perform work with the creatures and watch as it unfolds; harness greater energy, and expand the facility

Why similar: Management 39.1%, Lovecraftian 26.4%, Horror 12.7%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7.5%

Take on the role of a Dark Elder God and lead your agents to bring about an apocalypse in a fantasy world. Work in the shadows, avoiding the heroes who will try to stop you, as you bring about plague and famine, ice age and volcanic destruction, madness and never ending night.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.7%, Economy 17.4%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Dark 11.2%, Strategy 9.9%

Colony building RPG with detailed characters, driven by procedurally generated Stories. Build a hut, a village, a town, a city, a kingdom. 5 different races. Ally with unique factions. Rule an Undead empire. Craft Legendary items. Tame creatures. Enslave enemies. It's all here.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Building 8.6%