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2024 PC 27.99 € 👍 81 % Very positive, 10,137 reviews on Steam

A god-game city builder where you guide a small civilization from the stone age to space travel while managing a living, ever-changing planet.

What defines The Universim:

  • Tactical depth
  • Strong character progression
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for The Universim are Flotsam, Star Birds and Nova Lands. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Universim special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Flotsam

89 %

2025 PC 22.99 € 👍 77 % Mostly positive, 2,746 reviews on Steam

  • Pure single-player experience
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
  • Gameplay comes before story

You build and manage a floating town made of salvaged debris on a flooded planet, scavenging wreckage and keeping your citizens alive. A colorful, laid-back blend of city building and survival.

Star Birds

Bright, upbeat tone

A cheerful base-building and resource management game where you mine asteroids, build production chains and lead a colony of spacefaring birds toward new stars.

Nova Lands

Strong character progression

A relaxed factory-building and island-management game on an alien planet where you explore, automate production chains, and handle light combat along the way.

AdvertCity

Strong character progression

A cyberpunk advertising tycoon where you place ads across a procedurally generated city and in cyberspace, watching the city's economy shift in response to your decisions.

Farlanders

Tactical depth

A laid-back colony builder where you design a Martian settlement as its architect, using limited terraforming tools to meet settlers' needs so they don't defect to rival bases.

Plan B: Terraform

Tactical depth

A building and logistics sim where you turn a dead planet into a living world using factories, trains and trucks. A dynamic simulation of atmosphere, water, temperature and forests makes the planet respond to your work.

Nivalis Nights

Distinctive, stylised art style

A cozy life and business sim set in a dreamy voxel cyberpunk city, where you run restaurants and nightclubs, decorate apartments, fish and build relationships.

Learning Factory

Strong character progression

A relaxed factory-building sandbox where you process resources across a multi-layered map, sell goods to cats, and use their data for machine learning to found Catopia on Mars.

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