Games like Ruinarch

Want something that feels replayable and chaotic the way Ruinarch does? These games are a good place to start.

Rise to Ruins
A godlike village sim where you build by day and hold the walls at night. Raise a village, keep it fed, then watch monsters pour in and learn from every ruin. Part colony sim, part tower defense, part playing a small, tired deity with a grudge against the dark.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Dark, Retro
87% of 7,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$14.99
Shadows of Forbidden Gods
You are a Dark Elder God with one goal: end the world. Slip agents into farming villages, turn kings against each other, and watch heroes hunt you while plague, famine and madness spread. A slow, patient strategy game where every run tells a different apocalypse.
Replayable, Chaotic, Dark
91% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
Unferat
Unferat is a warlock simulator, giving the player the opportunity to go from a village boy to a powerful dark sorcerer.
Replayable, Chaotic, Dark
89% of 155 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Genesis of a Small God
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.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Chaotic, Retro
78% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
WorldBox - God Simulator
WorldBox is a pixel-art god simulator and sandbox where you paint continents, settle humans, orcs, elves and dwarves, then watch kingdoms rise, sail away, rebel and fall. Shape traits, cultures and laws or erase it all with lightning, plague and Crabzilla. It rewards tinkering, watching and retelling what just happened.
Replayable, Chaotic, Funny
95% of 52,125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,155$19.99
Sinner Maker
The Rapture happened, you got left behind, and God is giving you one last shot: keep a village of sinners alive for 33 days and you ascend. Build homes, feed your flock, and manage their love lives, grudges and sins in a cute little world with a very dark sense of humor.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark, Funny
90% of 708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 64$9.66
Fata Deum - The God Sim
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.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable, Dark
59% of 416 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
The Shrouded Isle
You are the high priest of an island cult, and your god wakes in three years. Keep five noble families happy, uncover hidden sins, and send the right heretics to the altar each season. A short, sharp management game with a wicked sense of humor and seven endings to earn.
Replayable, Dark, Retro
71% of 1,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Noble Fates
A living fantasy kingdom sim where your Nobles have opinions, memories and grudges, and they will tell you about all three. Build a castle or carve a fortress into a mountain, choose what your people believe, and see what happens when a captured raider ends up eating scraps at your feast.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable
83% of 1,423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 55$19.99
Whispers of the Eyeless
Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG. You are the villain - you command disciples, outwit enemies in combat, and shape the fate of the fallen city as you awaken the Dead Gods — Wrath, Desire, and Madness.
Replayable, Dark
74% of 229 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
A Game of Humans
A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs. Luckily they are not alone in their burden, for you possess divine powers. And you would surely never add to the plight of the common man... Right?
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable
63% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Cult of the Lamb
A possessed lamb owes a debt to a strange god, payable in followers. You crawl through shifting dungeons for loot and converts, then return home to build, preach, feed, and ritually sacrifice your adorable woodland flock on the way to becoming a lamb god.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Funny
95% of 113,549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,220$24.99

Cheaper than Ruinarch

Rise to Ruins

Grow a pixel-art village, keep your settlers fed, and hold the walls when the monsters come after dark.

$14.99

Shadows of Forbidden Gods

Play a patient dark god spreading plague, famine and conspiracy across a fantasy world until it falls.

$19.99

Unferat

Unferat is a warlock simulator, giving the player the opportunity to go from a village boy to a powerful dark sorcerer.

$5.99

WorldBox - God Simulator

WorldBox is a pixel-art god simulator and sandbox where you paint continents, settle humans, orcs, elves and dwarves, then watch kingdoms rise, sail…

$19.99

Genesis of a Small God

You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities.

$17.99

Sinner Maker

Run a village of flawed little souls after the Rapture, juggling homes, food, love lives and sins to earn your way into heaven.

$9.66

The Shrouded Isle

Manage a Lovecraftian island village, root out heretics, and choose a human sacrifice every season.

$12.99

Whispers of the Eyeless

Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG.

$12.99

A Game of Humans

A sandbox village simulation fundamentally about people, their thoughts and their needs.

$11.99

Nested Lands

A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline.

$14.99

Soulash

Eat the villagers, murder bunnies, milk cows, or exterminate gods!

$14.99

Grim Realms

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves?

$14.99

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Sinner Maker

Run a village of flawed little souls after the Rapture, juggling homes, food, love lives and sins to earn your way into heaven.

$9.66

dotAGE

You are the Elder, and you have seen the end of the world. Lead your Pips to an empty valley, assign them their daily work and build a village that…

$17.59

Shadows of Forbidden Gods

Play a patient dark god spreading plague, famine and conspiracy across a fantasy world until it falls.

$19.99

Worship

Convert followers into a faithful army, paint occult rituals in blood and prepare a world-ending god's arrival.

$19.99

KeeperRL

Dig a dungeon, raise minions and lead them to war against the forces of good, one risky run at a time.

$19.99

Nested Lands

A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline.

$14.99

Whispers of the Eyeless

Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG.

$12.99

Romestead

Rome has fallen and the dead walk at night. In Romestead you gather, haul, build, and fight to turn a rough camp into a working settlement, wake the…

$13.99

Soulash 2

Carve out a life in a grim open world, then watch your bloodline carry on when death comes for you.

$18.99

Extinction Day

You are the end of the world. Seed plagues, storms, volcanoes and wars across a 3D globe, feed the destruction back into upgrades, and stack…

$14.99

Gold Gold Adventure Gold

Build a hand-drawn fantasy town, send mothmen and undead adventurers into dungeons, and raise a pet Godbeast while every run plays out differently.

$24.99

Grim Realms

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves?

$14.99

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