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Games like Sapiens

30 games alike in Colony Sim, City Builder and Management, with RimWorld, Colony Survival and Stonehearth closest.

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ClosestRimWorld

Sapiens, but 11 times the hours, and even better loved

140 hoursLoved · 98%Its page

Colony SimBase Building

3 games that share both with Sapiens

  1. 1Closest

    RimWorld

    Sapiens, but 11 times the hours, and even better loved

    Loved · 98%

  2. 21

    Oxygen Not Included

    Sapiens, but 2D, and three times the hours

    Loved · 97%

  3. 28

    Space Haven

    Sapiens, but in space

    Liked · 86%

Colony SimCity Builder

20 games that share both with Sapiens

  1. 2

    Colony Survival

    Sapiens, but a tower defense game, and with zombies

    Loved · 92%

  2. 3

    Stonehearth

    Sapiens, but made of voxels, and twice the hours

    Mixed · 75%

  3. 5

    Manor Lords

    Sapiens, but a real-time tactics game, and historical

    Liked · 84%

  4. 6

    Settlement Survival

    Much the same as Sapiens

    Liked · 85%

  5. 7

    Foundation

    Sapiens, but medieval, and relaxing

    Liked · 87%

  6. 8

    Founders' Fortune

    Much the same as Sapiens

    Liked · 80%

  7. 9

    Banished

    Sapiens, but relaxing, and twice the hours

    Loved · 90%

  8. 10

    Life is Feudal: Forest Village

    Sapiens, but medieval, and more divisive

    Mixed · 66%

  9. 11Best loved

    Against the Storm

    Sapiens, but a roguelite, and three times the hours

    Loved · 94%

  10. 12Shortest

    The Wandering Village

    Sapiens, but post-apocalyptic, and cute

    Loved · 92%

  11. 13

    Songs of Syx

    Sapiens, but a grand strategy game, and top-down

    Loved · 94%

  12. 14

    Going Medieval

    Sapiens, but made of voxels, and twice the hours

    Liked · 89%

  13. 16

    Dwarf Fortress

    Sapiens, but even better loved

    Loved · 95%

  14. 17

    Kingdoms and Castles

    Much the same as Sapiens

    Loved · 94%

  15. 19

    Prison Architect

    Sapiens, but 2D, and top-down

    Liked · 85%

  16. 20

    Ratopia

    Sapiens, but harder, and 2D

    Liked · 88%

  17. 22

    Craft The World

    Sapiens, but three times the hours

    Liked · 88%

  18. 24

    Frostpunk

    Sapiens, but steampunk, and post-apocalyptic

    Loved · 93%

  19. 25

    Planetbase

    Sapiens, but sci-fi

    Liked · 80%

  20. 30

    Norland

    Sapiens, but historical

    Liked · 82%

God GameColony Sim

4 games that share both with Sapiens

  1. 4

    The Universim

    Sapiens, but in space

    Mixed · 79%

  2. 15Hidden gem

    Reus 2

    Sapiens, but full of puzzles

    Loved · 94%

  3. 23

    WorldBox - God Simulator

    Sapiens, but pixel art, and with destruction

    Loved · 95%

  4. 29

    Rise to Ruins

    Sapiens, but a tower defense game, and pixel art

    Liked · 88%

And more like Sapiens

Each with the kinds it shares, under its name.

  1. 18

    Sengoku Dynasty

    Sapiens, but medieval

    Mixed · 75%City Builder · Base Building

  2. 26

    SimCity 4 Deluxe

    Much the same as Sapiens

    Liked · 82%God Game · City Builder

  3. 27

    Fallout Shelter

    Sapiens, but free to play, and post-apocalyptic

    Liked · 88%Base Building · Survival

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How this list is made

A game is here when it shares the strongest of Sapiens's Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes, each shared tag counting for more the fewer games carry it: two metroidvanias are alike, two action games barely. Games of Sapiens's own series that play like it stand apart, above the list, and take no place on it. A similar typical length breaks near-ties, and a game sold twice is shown once. A game Steam marks adult-only is listed only for a game that is one too. Games that share the same kinds with Sapiens stand together, under those kinds. Up to 30 games are shown, and the list stops where they grow much less alike. Where to start: the closest; the best loved of the closest fifteen with 10,000 reviews or more; the shortest of the ones 80% or more recommend; and a hidden gem, 90% or more but under 10,000 reviews.

Under each name, how it differs from Sapiens: a kind of game it is that Sapiens is not, a feature its strongest Steam tags carry that Sapiens's barely do, how many hours people play it beside Sapiens, and how its reviewers feel beside Sapiens's.

The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. It is not a time to beat. Under a name, the share of its Steam reviewers who recommend it: loved at 90% or more, liked at 80%, mixed at 65%.