Games like From Dust
If From Dust is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dimensional Craft, Solar 2 and Deus Novum — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its puzzle solving levels, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 →From Dust is a 2011 god game from Ubisoft Montpellier in which the player reshapes landscapes by directing water, lava, and vegetation to guide tribespeople through puzzle-based levels. The elemental interaction, terraforming, and sandbox experimentation drive a campaign where small changes ripple into large consequences. It holds a Metacritic score of 76, costs 14.99 USD, and is rated Playable on Steam Deck. About 62% of 1,980 Steam reviews are positive. Reviewers describe the mood as atmospheric and contemplative, and players highlight the terraforming as a distinctive hook, though the experience stays single-player throughout. Review confidence on this title is marked medium.
About From Dust: Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
Players who liked From Dust also play
Steam players who put hours into From Dust 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.
Dimensional Craft
WHY THIS
Top pick for From Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
This is an anime-style sandbox game where you can engage in highly free building and creation, designing your own storylines and quests.
Solar 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Second-strongest match for From Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.
Deus Novum
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for From Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
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.
Genesis of a Small God
WHY THIS
Shares terraforming and an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Ranked #4 for From Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Marble World
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with From Dust.
Ranked #5 for From Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
Marble World is a physics sandbox simulator with marbles. Create your own marble races, runs and machines. Customize a variety of tracks, decorations and marbles to create a beautiful world.
Pandora's Toybox
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with From Dust.
Ranked #6 for From Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
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.
Sapiens
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for From Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
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.
Fata Deum - The God Sim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Ranked #8 for From Dust fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
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.
Reviewers mention these as similar to From Dust
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Black & White
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Reviewers of From Dust cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
"Black & White" is a dystopian visual novel + war chess game: black and white, sensibility and reason, freedom and order: follow your beliefs and join your camp.
Populous™
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with From Dust.
Reviewers of From Dust cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Move mountains, part the seas, and lead mortal armies to victory in Populous. Take on the powers of a mighty deity and battle for supremacy against an enemy god, using thoughtful strategy to shape the isometric world and the fate of its people.
Populous™: The Beginning
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Reviewers of From Dust cross-mention this title as a similar play.
In the third part of the Populous series, you control your shaman and the tribe of her followers in a difficult quest to conquer all 25 planets of a star system and ascend to godhood.
Godus
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with From Dust.
Reviewers of From Dust cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
If you’ve not had the chance to play our delightful, Zen-like re-genesis of the god game on Windows PC or Mac OS X, there’s never been a better time to do so! Now more than ever, as we’re currently making full use of our opt-in branch by running a rapid build release schedule during our PC-focused sprint.
Paper Beast
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with From Dust.
Reviewers of From Dust cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
An exploration and adventure game about wildlife sprung from the depths of the internet. An unknown power seems to upset its balance. Join forces with exotic creatures to unravel the mysteries of this universe.
Simmiland
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with From Dust.
Reviewers of From Dust cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
Simmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards 🃏🃏🃏 Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
Tidal Tribe
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Reviewers of From Dust cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
Tidal Tribe is a relaxing god game that gives you the power to shape the terrain. Raise and lower the land to protect your villages from waves and floods, all while using that very same water to build lakes and rivers, turning the desert land into a lively forest of trees and bushes.
Teardown
WHY THIS
Reviewers of From Dust cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below From Dust at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under From Dust on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under From Dust on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
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?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under From Dust on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under From Dust on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with From Dust.
Priced ~47% under From Dust on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under From Dust on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under From Dust on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with From Dust.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under From Dust on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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!
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
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!
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Waltz of the Wizard (Legacy demo)
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Simulation with From Dust.
Store page for the legacy demo of Waltz of the Wizard created as a prototype to showcase the power of room-scale VR. Please find the full product in the description below.
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More from Ubisoft Montpellier
Other recommendable Steam games by Ubisoft Montpellier, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with From Dust.
Another title from Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind From Dust. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
In this action-adventure game, set sail for Ancient Greece to alter its fate. Fight in visceral battles on land and sea, shape your destiny from outcast to legend, and uncover secrets of your past.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with From Dust.
Another title from Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind From Dust. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Another title from Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind From Dust. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
Experience an epic action-adventure story set in feudal Japan! Become a lethal shinobi assassin and powerful legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos.
Steep™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Another title from Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind From Dust.
Ride a massive open world across the Alps, where the powder is always fresh and the run never ends. Defy and master the mountain alone or with friends on skis, wingsuits, snowboards and paragliders. Record and share your best stunts.
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Another title from Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind From Dust. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Another title from Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind From Dust. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a third and first-person action-adventure game set in the Western Frontier. Reconnect with your lost heritage and discover what it means to be Na'vi.
Rayman® Legends
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with From Dust.
Another title from Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind From Dust. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
Michel Ancel, the celebrated creator of Rayman®, Beyond Good & Evil®, and the Raving Rabbids®, returns to unleash his innovative creativity on this new entry into the Rayman® franchise.When Rayman, Globox, and the Teensies discover a mysterious tent filled with captivating paintings, they are suddenly transported to a series of...
Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with From Dust.
Another title from Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind From Dust. Shares Adventure with From Dust.
Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.
Frequently asked about From Dust
- Does From Dust run on Steam Deck?
- From Dust is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does From Dust cost?
- From Dust is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to From Dust?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside From Dust are Dimensional Craft, Solar 2, Deus Novum.
- Who developed From Dust?
- From Dust was developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft.
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