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Games like Microcivilization

If Microcivilization is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eden Universe, CivIdle and SimPocalypse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and intense. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Microcivilization: Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

2026StrategyIndie17.99 USDWindowsby Ondrej Homola
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Deep tiered tech tree reshapes playstylesDev responds quickly to balance issuesEngaging despite repetitive clicker loopsChallengingContemplativeIntense

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Steam players who put hours into Microcivilization also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Eden Universe

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Microcivilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Microcivilization.

    A true God Game where faith, miracles, morality, and your Avatar decide the destiny of Eden itself. Guide your followers, perform divine miracles, and shape a living world as a young god.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. CivIdle

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Microcivilization.

    Second-strongest match for Microcivilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Microcivilization.

    CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. SimPocalypse

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Microcivilization.

    Third-strongest match for Microcivilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Microcivilization.

    A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Halloween Store Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Microcivilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Microcivilization.

    🎃 Begin your Halloween empire building and managing your first Halloween Store! Manage your staff and products to attract new customers! Grow your Halloween empire by building Halloween restaurants, cafes, and entertainment! Expand and make every day and everything Halloween! 🎃

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Military Incremental Complex

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Microcivilization.

    Ranked #5 for Microcivilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Microcivilization.

    Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.

    2025StrategySimulation7.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Pharaoh™: A New Era

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Microcivilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Microcivilization.

    The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

    2023StrategySimulation22.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Farthest Frontier

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Microcivilization.

    Ranked #7 for Microcivilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Microcivilization.

    Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Microcivilization.

    Ranked #8 for Microcivilization fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Microcivilization.

    Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!

    2011StrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Microcivilization at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Microcivilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Microcivilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Microcivilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Microcivilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Microcivilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~72% under Microcivilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Microcivilization on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Microcivilization on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Microcivilization.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Microcivilization.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Microcivilization.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Microcivilization

Does Microcivilization work on Steam Deck?
Microcivilization is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Microcivilization cost?
Microcivilization is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Microcivilization?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Microcivilization are Eden Universe, CivIdle, SimPocalypse.
Who developed Microcivilization?
Microcivilization was developed by Ondrej Homola.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Microcivilization.

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