Games like Thrive
Looking for games like Thrive? Here are top open world strategy recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Niche: A Genetics Survival Game, Timberborn or Startup Company.
1 90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability91% User Score 7,062 reviewsCritic Score 83%1 reviewsNiche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.
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93%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding95% User Score 32,120 reviewsCritic Score 83%2 reviewsHumans are long gone. Will your society of lumberpunk beavers do any better? A city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, and river control. Contains high amounts of wood.
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80%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, monetization80% User Score 2,799 reviewsStartup Company is a business simulation sandbox game. You play as the CEO of a newly formed software company. Your job is to either complete client contracts to make money, or build your very own products.
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75%Game Brain Scoreoptimization, gameplaystability, grinding75% User Score 1,544 reviewsSpecies: Artificial Life, Real Evolution is an evolution simulation with hands on interaction. It allows for direct changes to each creature as well as indirect and gradual environmental changes which affect the species and their evolution.
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90%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplayoptimization, stability90% User Score 2,090 reviewsThe Sapling is a 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!
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability90% User Score 52,442 reviewsUpcoming medieval strategy game for PC that combines deep, organic and realistic city building with large scale, tactical battles.
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78%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, stability78% User Score 468 reviewsGrow and modify an ecosystem, with simulated evolution by natural selection creating the lifeforms that inhabit it. All the creatures in the trailer evolved on their own in the game. None were hand-edited!
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93%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, story93% User Score 4,788 reviewsOstriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities. Ostriv aims to raise the bar of city-building experience by adding a huge amount of possibilities and removing annoying limitations. It allows for truly organic town layouts without the grid and angle restrictions on a three-dimension…
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88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding88% User Score 13,488 reviewsSetting to redefine the city-building genre, Foundation puts the emphasis on the organic aspects of urbanism in the cities of old, powered by Polymorph Games’ proprietary game engine, Hurricane, which allows for full mod support and is optimized for the thousands of moving parts that come with building humongous cities. The game features in-depth resource management akin to the Anno (Dawn of Disc…
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91%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, story91% User Score 5,140 reviewsColony Survival is a voxel RTS developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the monsters that attack every night.
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