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264 games like Thrive

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01 Bronze Age Cover

2017 · Android, Linux, Mac

Bronze Age

90%

Two small classics from Clarus Victoria published in 2013, Stone Age and Bronze Age, are now available on Steam! Manage an ancient tribe in the African Savannah, build the first city in the Fertile Crescent, guide your people across prehistory and lead them to...

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Thrive

90% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Force of Nature Cover

2016 · PC

Force of Nature

73%

Force of Nature is an indie open world sandbox game with fighting, crafting, building and farming systems.

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Thrive

73% Sehr nah dran
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Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Open world Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

03 PC Building Simulator Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

PC Building Simulator

68%

PC Building Simulator lets players get to grips and experiment with building their very own gaming PC, without the associated risks and costs. With tutorials to help master the basics and an array of accurate and lifelike components that function exactly as th...

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Thrive

68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Educational Theme Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Anima Mundi Cover

Year unknown · PC

Anima Mundi

65%

Welcome to Anima mundi! Build an ecosystem, populate your planet, & immerse in the lives of its creatures as they grow and evolve. Each planet holds unique species. Will you be able to uncover the mysteries of each one?

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Thrive

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Survival Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Survival Game feel Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

05 Change: A Homeless Survival Experience Cover

2020 · Android, PC, iOS

Change: A Homeless Survival Experience

63%

Change is an emotional homeless survival experience set in a randomly generated city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items and more to develop your character and escape to a new life.

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Thrive

63% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Frostpunk Cover

2018 · Mac, PC, PS4

Frostpunk

62%

Frostpunk, the newest title from the creators of This War of Mine, is a society survival game where heat means life and every decision comes at a price. In an entirely frozen world, people develop steam-powered technology to oppose the overwhelming cold. You f...

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Thrive

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Survival Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Supreme Ruler Ultimate Cover

2014 · Mac, PC

Supreme Ruler Ultimate

62%

Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make ev...

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Thrive

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Single player Mode
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Saurian Cover

2017 · Linux, Mac, PC

Saurian

61%

Saurian is a video game project focused on living as a dinosaur in a dynamic open world through intense, survival-based gameplay.

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Thrive

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Educational Theme Open world Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

09 Impact Winter Cover

2017 · PC, PS4, XONE

Impact Winter

59%

In 30 days, help is coming... A mysterious radio transmission claims that help is inbound. You are Jacob Solomon: leader of a makeshift team trying to survive the aftermath of a devastating asteroid collision. The world you once knew is no more – buried deep...

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Thrive

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Survival Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Designasaurus II Cover

1990 · DOS

Designasaurus II

59%

Designasaurus II lets players design a dinosaur and travel back to the Mesozoic era (Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods) in search of stolen Gigantodon DNA. Players must fight for their lives and forage for food to survive.

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Thrive

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Educational Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Eon of Life Cover

2025 · PC

Eon of Life

59%

Eon of Life is a game in which you guide the evolution of a creature for as many million years as you can survive! Find food, avoid predators, watch for a mate, and evolve selecting new parts and mutations for your creature, gaining new skills and becoming str...

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Thrive

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Adapt Cover

Year unknown · PC

Adapt

54%

To survive, you must guide your species through a constantly changing world. Compete with strange creatures for food and territory, and find your niche through careful evolutionary choices. The real question is not if you can survive, but for how long.

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Thrive

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Planetary Life Cover

2025 · PC

Planetary Life

54%

Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilisations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

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Thrive

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Educational Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

14 Among Us Cover

2018 · Android, Switch, PC

Among Us

53%

Play with 4-15 player online or via local WiFi as you attempt to prepare your spaceship for departure, but beware as one or more random players among the Crew are Impostors bent on killing everyone! Originally created as a party game, we recommend playing wit...

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Thrive

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Strategy Genre Survival Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Survival Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

52%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

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Thrive

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Open world Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

16 Ecosystem Cover

2024 · PC

Ecosystem

52%

Grow 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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Thrive

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

17 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey Cover

2019 · PC, PS4, XONE

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey

49%

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a single-player survival game played from a third-person view and set in an open world. Players control a member of a hominid clan and manage its needs by eating, drinking, and sleeping while facing predators and other dange...

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Thrive

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Open world Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Open World World design
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18 The Isle Cover

2015 · PC

The Isle

49%

The Isle is intended to be a gritty, open-world survival horror game. Explore vast landscapes of dense forest and open plains, traverse treacherous mountains and wade through dark swamps where horrors lurk. Hidden within are ruins that hold insight as to what...

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Thrive

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Open world Theme Survival Theme Survival Game feel Open World World design
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19 Another Brick in the Mall Cover
49%

Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

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Thrive

49% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Single player Mode
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 No Man's Sky Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

No Man's Sky

48%

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe containing over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade their equipment while following an overarch...

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Thrive

48% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Simulator Genre Open world Theme Survival Theme Single player Mode Survival Game feel Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

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