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2022PC79 % positive24.50 €

You guide a small tribe from a first-person view through millennia of progress, building settlements and industries in a living simulated world where your people work on their own.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting
  • Historical setting
  • Economy and management

The closest matches for Sapiens are Railroad Corporation, Banished and Caesar III. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Sapiens special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Railroad Corporation

94 %Match

2019PCSteam Deck playable75 % positive−82 % 35.10 € 6.31 €

Brings what grabs you about Sapiens: a historical setting, economy and management as well as building and crafting.

A railway tycoon sim set in 19th-century North America: lay track, buy locomotives and connect cities to build an empire against rival barons.

Banished

Sandbox with your own goals

A calm yet unforgiving city builder where you guide a band of exiles through harsh winters. You have to balance food, firewood and population growth carefully, or the whole settlement collapses.

Caesar III

Building and crafting

A classic city builder set in ancient Rome: you keep citizens fed, watered, entertained and protected while managing trade and provinces. The blend of logistics and careful planning is its main appeal.

Dawn of Man

Building and crafting

A settlement-building survival sim where you lead a prehistoric tribe from the Stone Age toward the Bronze Age, managing resources, researching technologies and weathering hunger, seasons and predators.

Railroad Tycoon II

Deep systems to master

Build a railway empire across the 19th and 20th centuries by laying track, running trains, delivering goods and outmaneuvering rivals on the stock market. A classic business sim with plenty of planning depth.

Anno 1503

Building and crafting

A colony-building strategy game about founding and supplying thriving settlements in the New World, centered on production chains, trade and diplomacy, with naval and land combat as a side element.

Pharaoh

Building and crafting

A classic ancient Egypt city builder where you lay out housing, farm around the Nile floods, manage trade and raise monuments like pyramids. Supply logistics, pleasing the gods and occasional invasions make for a calm yet demanding flow.

Ostriv

Sandbox with your own goals

A city-builder set in 18th-century Ukraine where you govern a town, laying out organic settlements without grid or angle limits on 3D terrain while managing the economy and your villagers.

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