Games like From The Ruins

"Spring Falls" is a relaxing puzzle game where players help a group of creatures survive in a drought-stricken valley by controlling the water flow. By strategically raising and lowering elevated platforms, players must fill the creatures' water tanks and help them grow gardens while ensuring other animals have enough space to thrive. The game offers a peaceful atmosphere and a minimalist art style, making it perfect for players looking for a calming and engaging experience.

Reus is a single-player fantasy strategy game with excellent graphics, music, and innovative game mechanics. As a player, you control powerful giants to shape the planet, creating terrain and providing for humanity, who will thrive or succumb to greed based on your actions. With countless upgrades, synergies, plants, animals, and minerals to unlock, Reus offers endless styles of play and replayability.

"Shadows of Forbidden Gods" does not have a released version yet, but from its demo, it is a strategy game where you play as a Lovecraftian god aiming to destroy the human world. You can choose various approaches to human extinction, such as causing an ice age, a volcanic eruption, or a plague. As a god, you can also command agents to infiltrate human kingdoms and corrupt them, potentially turning heroes into your own weapons.

In "Fate Tectonics," players build a world by placing terrain tiles, appeasing god-like beings called Fates, and unlocking their powers for more advanced world-building. With easy-to-pick-up gameplay but deeper challenges for strategic players, this puzzle game features handcrafted pixel art, a 16-bit symphonic soundtrack, and two game modes. The Book of Fate tracks progress and chronicles your adventures.

"Growth" is a single-player strategy game featuring cozy, idyllic hex grid-based exploration. Players utilize the unique abilities of 8 different animals to populate procedurally generated worlds, transforming barren landscapes into lush forests and meadows. With challenging navigation around obstacles and highly replayable content, this soft-strategy puzzle game offers points of interest that reward additional animals and special ones, along with 9 different tile types for beautifully crafted maps.

"Epigenesis is a multiplayer shooter/sports game where two teams compete in a futuristic, non-lethal ball game. Players use gravity cannons to navigate platforms and score goals, with the ultimate goal of capturing towers and constructing a node system. Teamwork, tactics, and precision are crucial as you strive for eternal glory in this unique game."

CONCEIT: Neongarten is a minimalist cyberpunk citybuilder where you build from the ground up! Find synergies between buildings to maximize their taxes, pit mega-corps against idealistic hackers, and place toxic waste dumps on top of coffee shops. Chill out to lo-fi tunes while you grow your city block one cube at a time. This full game has been released! More buildings, new factions, Creative mo…

Herdling is a single-player fantasy simulation game where you guide a lovable herd of Calicorns on a breathtaking alpine journey. Navigate stunning landscapes, overcome eerie dangers, and solve environmental puzzles in a masterfully atmospheric, wordless tale of trust, survival, and companionship. With compelling mechanics, stunning graphics, and an emotional soundtrack, Herdling offers an unforgettable adventure.

In Reus 2, play as a god controlling mighty giants to shape worlds and create ecosystems for human civilizations to thrive. With 6 unique giants, each with their own abilities, terraform various biomes and gain inspiration to unlock more skills. Your choices will significantly impact the fates of these human beings, whose autonomy can lead them to great heights or failures.

Dredgeport is spiralling out of control. Gangs rule the slums, corruption trumps the law, and corpses of the war-dead are burned daily for fuel. You are an ex-soldier, mistaken for dead and shipped back to Dredgeport for processing. After a narrow escape, you find yourself alone in the guts of the city, with only two things to your name: your life and your sanity. Keeping both will prove a challen…