Games like Crest - an indirect god sim
If Crest - an indirect god sim is your kind of game, the closest matches are RECOG The First Wave, Dwarf Fortress and Rogue AI Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its darkly humorous emergent narratives, 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 →About Crest - an indirect god sim: Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?
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RECOG The First Wave
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Shares a contemplative mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Top pick for Crest - an indirect god sim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
RECOG The Game is truly challenging and strategically entertaining. Build and defend your industry from an enemy who knows you more than you know yourself. Plan each step wisely, for all decisions you make directly impact what’s to come. Be prepared, for you are now entering THE RECOG!
Dwarf Fortress
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Second-strongest match for Crest - an indirect god sim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Rogue AI Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Third-strongest match for Crest - an indirect god sim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Ranked #4 for Crest - an indirect god sim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
The Sapling
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Ranked #5 for Crest - an indirect god sim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Global Farmer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Ranked #6 for Crest - an indirect god sim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Farm the world in an immersive top-down management game that lets you choose your farm's location anywhere on the real-world map! Want to experience a rich strawberry harvest in the French countryside? Or challenge the hot sun in South America? The choice is yours!
Beetle Uprising
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Crest - an indirect god sim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
Reus 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Crest - an indirect god sim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
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Majesty 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Reviewers of Crest - an indirect god sim cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...
RimWorld
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Reviewers of Crest - an indirect god sim cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Reviewers of Crest - an indirect god sim cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Kingdoms and Castles
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Reviewers of Crest - an indirect god sim cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Black & White
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Reviewers of Crest - an indirect god sim cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
"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™: The Beginning
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Reviewers of Crest - an indirect god sim cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Crest - an indirect god sim at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crest - an indirect god sim.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Crest - an indirect god sim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Crest - an indirect god sim.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Crest - an indirect god sim.
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 Crest - an indirect god sim.
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.
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Frequently asked about Crest - an indirect god sim
- How much does Crest - an indirect god sim cost?
- Crest - an indirect god sim is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Crest - an indirect god sim?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Crest - an indirect god sim are RECOG The First Wave, Dwarf Fortress, Rogue AI Simulator.
- Who developed Crest - an indirect god sim?
- Crest - an indirect god sim was developed by Eat Create Sleep.
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