Games like The Universim
If The Universim is your kind of game, the closest matches are Surviving Mars, RimWorld and Space Haven — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative god powers, flexible gameplay options and rewarding civilization growth. 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 →The Universim is a strategy, indie, and simulation title from Crytivo that tasks players with guiding a civilization from its earliest beginnings through to a space-age empire. The game centers on civilization-management, god powers, a research tree, and world-building mechanics that allow players to shape their civilization's development across multiple eras. Reviewers and players have described the experience as both challenging and immersive, highlighting creative god powers, flexible gameplay options, and the rewarding nature of watching a civilization grow. The title supports play on Steam Deck, carries a price of $29.99 USD, and holds an 80% positive rating from over 5,000 Steam reviews.
About The Universim: 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.
Players who liked The Universim also play
Steam players who put hours into The Universim 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.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Universim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Universim.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Universim.
Second-strongest match for The Universim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
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.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Universim.
Third-strongest match for The Universim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Universim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Universim.
Ranked #5 for The Universim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
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.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Universim.
Ranked #6 for The Universim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Universim.
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
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Universim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
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.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Universim.
Ranked #8 for The Universim fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Universim at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under The Universim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Universim.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Universim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Universim.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Universim on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Universim.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under The Universim on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Universim.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Universim on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Universim.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under The Universim on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Universim.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Universim.
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 The Universim.
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 Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Universim.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Universim.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Universim.
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.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The Universim.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
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!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Universim.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
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.
Space Haven
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The Universim.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Universim.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Universim.
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
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Universim.
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.
Frequently asked about The Universim
- Does The Universim run on Steam Deck?
- The Universim 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 The Universim cost?
- The Universim is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Universim?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Universim are Surviving Mars, RimWorld, Space Haven.
- Who developed The Universim?
- The Universim was developed by Crytivo.
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 The Universim.
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