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Games like Deus Novum

If Deus Novum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bulwark, Annihilate The Spance and WorldBox - God Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Deus Novum: Deus Novum is the god game you've been waiting for. Cast miracles with the power of your villager's prayer, train your creature to behave or misbehave, build elaborate villages, and fight back against the forces of evil.

2022StrategyIndieAdventureEarly Access19.99 USDWindowsby Gearworks Games
Deus Novum — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Deus Novum 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. Bulwark

    WHY THIS

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

    Bulwark is a medieval-themed 2D pixel tower defense game with a dynamic block-based building system. Construct and fortify your castle, manage resources, and recruit troops to defend against waves of enemies. Build, strategize, and adapt in this unique blend of fortress construction and combat.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Annihilate The Spance

    WHY THIS

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

    An RTS base builder with huge battles, constant production, and autonomous ships. The Spance approaches, a vast and mysterious storm at the edge of humanity. Who shall claim its riches? Brave the perils of the depths in a story-rich singleplayer campaign with numerous distinct factions and bosses.

    2025StrategyIndieEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. WorldBox - God Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Deus Novum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Early Access with Deus Novum.

    WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

    2021IndieSimulationEarly Access19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Wall

    WHY THIS

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

    [Servers Temporarily Shut Down!] Build. Gather. Breach. The Wall is a never-before seen mix of genres, where dynamic maps, slick combat, base building, and economy management all come together.

    2018ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  5. Pandora's Toybox

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Deus Novum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deus Novum.

    Become a God, build a civilization. In this dynamic Roguelite God Simulator, guide human civilization on a procedurally generated pixel world. Watch your people grow, defend them against heretics, and build an immortal legacy.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Forts

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Deus Novum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Deus Novum.

    Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Legends of Ellaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wooden Battles

    WHY THIS

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

    Build a wooden fort, place your units, watch the mayhem!

    2017ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deus Novum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deus Novum.

    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 ~75% under Deus Novum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deus Novum.

    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 ~50% under Deus Novum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Deus Novum.

    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 ~50% under Deus Novum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deus Novum.

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

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Portal 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deus Novum on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deus Novum.

    The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!

    2011ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deus Novum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deus Novum.

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

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Deus Novum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Deus Novum.

    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 ↗
  8. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~65% under Deus Novum on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Deus Novum.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Lab

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

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

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

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

    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 and Adventure with Deus Novum.

    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. Electoral Carnage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Early Access with Deus Novum.

    Electoral Carnage is an absurd 2D fighting game featuring America's most famous (and infamous) politicians. If you don't download it you hate America. Also JFK can assassinate himself. What more do you need to know?

    2026ActionFree To PlayEarly AccessFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.

    2024ActionSimulationFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Deus Novum

How much does Deus Novum cost?
Deus Novum is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Deus Novum?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deus Novum are Bulwark, Annihilate The Spance, WorldBox - God Simulator.
Who developed Deus Novum?
Deus Novum was developed by Gearworks Games.

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 Deus Novum.

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