Games like How to God
If How to God is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fata Deum - The God Sim, Sapiens and Mars Attracts — 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.
Get personalized picks →About How to God: How to God is an immersive VR god simulation game allowing you to step into the divine sandals of a new god, growing in power as you progress. Build villages, raise a unique creature, follow branching quests, battle rival deities, and command the elements to unlock new powers.

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Steam players who put hours into How to God 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.
Fata Deum - The God Sim
WHY THIS
Top pick for How to God fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with How to God.
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
Sapiens
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for How to God fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How to God.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Mars Attracts
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for How to God fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with How to God.
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Townsmen VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for How to God fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How to God.
Townsmen VR uses the exciting possibilities of virtual reality to further enhance the classic city building game with entirely new gameplay experiences and interactive mechanics. It combines elements of a God-game simulation and a classic building game with the interactive possibilities of VR.
The Universim
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for How to God fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How to God.
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Gnomoria
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for How to God fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How to God.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for How to God fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with How to God.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with How to God.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with How to God.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with How to God.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with How to God.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with How to God.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with How to God.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with How to God.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with How to God.
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!
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Frequently asked about How to God
- What games are most similar to How to God?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside How to God are Fata Deum - The God Sim, Sapiens, Mars Attracts.
- Who developed How to God?
- How to God was developed by Thoughtfish GmbH.
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 How to God.
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