Birthdays the Beginning (2017): A garden game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms. This game has a completely different style to what i’m going for however, it’s the same idea of playing god and completely building your own designs.
Spore (2008): You start as a cell and evolve into different stages, Spore has five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage has its own unique style, challenges, and goals. Spore is similar as in my idea you get to also completely customise the characters.
City Skyline (2015): The main idea is creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience. It’s similar to my idea as is designing you own place in the game and making it run well enough for people to live on it.
Oxygen Not Included (2017): The player gets to try creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience. It has a lovely style and I want to take on the same genre and survival mechanic.