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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
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In short: Games like Sapiens

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Sapiens special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Horror Turn-based combat High difficulty Roguelike runs Shooter Pixel art Grind Survival PvP Open world Card game

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Banished

93 %Match

2014USK 12PC, Steam Deck playable90 % positive18.99 €

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

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Settlement Survival

Sandbox with your own goals

A city-builder where you guide survivors to a new home: clear land, grow crops, hunt, gather resources and develop trade and professions until a large, thriving settlement emerges.

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.

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.

Zeus: Master of Olympus

Sandbox with your own goals

A classic city builder set in ancient Greece where you balance housing, economy and sanctuaries while courting the gods and mythological heroes and monsters.

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.

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.

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