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 45%, Lore-Rich 21.3%, Management 18.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply atmospheric game centered on managing a secret cult and navigating Lovecraftian lore through card-based 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 34.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Isometric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy colony-sim that forces players to manage rituals and the sanity of their followers in a hostile, folklore-inspired world.

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 34.7%, Base Building 16%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim that excels at emergent storytelling, often involving dark moral dilemmas and survival against overwhelming odds.

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 21%, Base Building 18.6%, Sandbox 18%, Management 15.7%, City Builder 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon management game that allows you to embrace an evil persona while building and defending your dark domain.

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 30.7%, City Builder 29%, Building 8.1%, Base Building 8%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival management game that forces players to make brutal moral choices to keep their society alive in a frozen wasteland.

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 16.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite city-builder that captures a dark fantasy atmosphere through its constant struggle against a supernatural, world-ending blight.

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 15.6%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Demons 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management game where you design and maintain a hellish colony, focusing on the suffering and productivity of your subjects.

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 27.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 9.9%, Isometric 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy city-builder focused on managing the undead and performing dark rituals to expand your necromantic empire.

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 23.1%, Lovecraftian 21.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival strategy game that focuses on managing a primitive tribe through cult-like decision-making and dark atmospheric threats.

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 24.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 8.7%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes space city-builder that requires intense resource management and survival decision-making to keep your population alive.

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 52.7%, Dark Fantasy 25%, Dark 7%, Strategy 5.3%, Horror 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that perfectly captures the Lovecraftian theme of managing sanity while exploring horrific environments.

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 34.1%, City Builder 22.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game city-builder that allows you to influence the development of a civilization through divine intervention and management.

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 30.2%, City Builder 26.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that emphasizes resource management and survival against environmental hazards.

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 26.5%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Economy 12%, Sandbox 12%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed colony-sim that offers deep base-building and survival mechanics in a harsh, unforgiving historical setting.

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 18.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 10.7%, Isometric 10.6%

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

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 16.5%, Alternate History 11.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Economy 10%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater city-builder that adds a layer of survival and horror as you manage a base in the deep ocean.

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 68%, Dark 13.9%, Horror 8.9%, Atmospheric 7%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric exploration game that emphasizes resource management and the slow descent into madness within a Lovecraftian setting.

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 29%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 13%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game colony-sim where you manage the lives and moral choices of your followers with significant impact on their fate.

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 42.5%, Strategy 18.2%, Management 18.1%, Simulation 13.9%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game that frequently incorporates Lovecraftian cosmic horror events and eldritch anomalies into its galaxy-spanning gameplay.

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 18.9%, Sandbox 12%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony-sim that provides complex management systems and a dark fantasy aesthetic for building your civilization.

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 36.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, City Builder 9.7%, Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that tasks you with surviving a demonic apocalypse through base-building and strategic combat.

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 28.7%, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder set on the ocean floor that requires careful management and strategic planning to survive.

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 26.9%, City Builder 17.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that focuses on resource management and building a sustainable society in a hostile environment.

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 30.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Economy 12.8%, Management 11.8%, Supernatural 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management game focused on building a school for dark magic, balancing curriculum and student safety.

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 24.5%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game where you act as a deity, influencing the lives and beliefs of your followers through various powers.

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 26.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging colony-sim that blends traditional building mechanics with strong survival and tower-defense elements.

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 20.8%, City Builder 14.1%, Alternate History 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 26.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that combines deep base-building with survival mechanics in a gritty, post-apocalyptic setting.

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.7%, Alternate History 8.4%

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 32.3%, City Builder 22.2%, Economy 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates social management and survival elements to keep your population thriving.

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%, Building 8.6%

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 26.5%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 10.9%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on historical resource management and the expansion of a civilization in a challenging environment.

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 7.3%

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 28.8%, City Builder 18.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%

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: Base Building 21.5%, City Builder 21.3%, Building 19%, Isometric 15.6%, Horror 10.6%

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 20.7%, City Builder 14.1%, Alternate History 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Economy 9.7%

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 24.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Economy 8.9%

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 23.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Economy 10.9%, Sandbox 10.7%

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 16%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.4%, Supernatural 9.8%

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 32.2%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Management 9.3%, Building 8.9%

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 23.3%, City Builder 18.9%, Economy 11.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 9.3%

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 47.7%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Strategy 11.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 8.4%

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 45.8%, Base Building 31.6%, Building 15.3%, Strategy 5%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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 22.5%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%

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 41.9%, City Builder 34.3%, Sandbox 7.4%, Strategy 5.5%, Economy 5.1%

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 58.9%, Dark Fantasy 24.7%, Atmospheric 9%, Strategy 7.3%

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%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 11.1%

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 27.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 13.1%, Alternate History 12.4%, Isometric 9.2%

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 43.9%, Strategy 13.4%, Economy 12.3%, Management 11.3%, Simulation 10.7%

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 24.4%, City Builder 18%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.3%, Building 9.2%

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 20.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Economy 11%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.7%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.8%, Economy 10.4%

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 35.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 14.4%, Management 14.2%, Building 13.5%

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 31.9%, Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 6.9%, Strategy 6.8%

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 17.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.7%

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 27%, City Builder 21.5%, Building 10.6%, Management 10.2%, Sandbox 9.1%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 9.7%

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 15.7%, Management 14.6%, Building 11.1%

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 29.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.2%, Management 11.2%