Games like Reus 2

The Squirrel's verdictCo-op and permadeath are Kingdom Two Crowns' defining features: you and a partner defend a kingdom across islands, losing everything if your crown falls. Where Reus 2 rewards deep synergy planning across multiple villages, Kingdom Two Crowns offers fixed building spots and a repeating island loop. It runs about 34 hours of playtime and costs $3.99, suited to players who want low-pressure management wrapped in survival stakes rather than optimization puzzles.

Not for you if you want to choose where structures go or need mechanical depth beyond repeating the same island loop.

The Squirrel's verdictThe Final Earth 2 scales further than Reus 2's handful of villages, letting you build sprawling vertical cities across multiple maps. Where Reus 2 asks you to craft interlocking ecosystems for a small number of settlements, The Final Earth 2 leans toward open-ended city growth that reviewers call easy to sink time into without a steep learning curve. It runs about 20 hours, costs $9.99, and is PC-only with no co-op.

Not for you if you're drawn to Reus 2's puzzle-like ecosystem management — Final Earth 2 leans toward straightforward city growth with less depth to master, per some reviews.

The Squirrel's verdictBoth are god-adjacent sims where you shape a world for a growing population, balancing resources and environment rather than issuing direct orders. The Universim trades Reus 2's turn-based puzzle structure for real-time city-building at planetary scale. The developers announced abandonment of the game after its 2024 release, leaving it in an unfinished state according to multiple reviewers. Fits players who liked Reus 2's ecosystem-tending but want a longer, less puzzle-focused format.

Not for you if you want a finished, actively supported game or Reus 2's tight turn-based puzzle design.

The Squirrel's verdictSlipways compresses a full run into roughly one hour: you connect planets via trade routes, balancing resource supply and demand across a procedurally generated map, with research as the secondary lever. There is no real-time pressure — every placement is deliberate. At $16.99 and a median of 33.8 hours across many short runs, it fits players who want tight logistical puzzles in a replayable format rather than Reus 2's village-nurturing and giant management.

Not for you if you want ecosystem or creature management rather than planet-to-planet trade route logistics, or need multiplayer.

The Squirrel's verdictDawnfolk is a light-versus-dark tile puzzle dressed as a city builder: you place a limited set of pieces on a single map, manage resource chains, and work out optimal layouts at your own pace, with a median run of about 7 hours. It lacks Reus 2's giant mechanics and multi-village scope, and reviewers note a mascot sidekick whose commentary some find intrusive.

Not for you if you want multi-village management across a long campaign rather than a shorter, single-map puzzle with a scripted story and sidekick.

The Squirrel's verdictPreserve shares Reus 2's unhurried, turn-based structure: place tiles to build biomes, satisfy habitat requirements, and optimize scoring without time pressure. Where Reus 2 builds cascading effects across multiple biomes and villages, Preserve simplifies to card-based habitat and animal placement across three biomes, with reviewers consistently noting that card-draw RNG plays a significant role in achieving high scores.

Not for you if you want multi-biome cascading effects across several settlements rather than a single-map card-placement loop with noticeable RNG in scoring.

The Squirrel's verdictTerraScape has no combat and no loss condition: you place hex-grid tiles, trigger building merges, and score points through terrain combos, all without time pressure. That puts it close to Reus 2's low-pressure optimization loop, though it drops the god-game framing and villages entirely. It supports co-op and costs $14.99. Reviewers note that after a few hours of experimentation, most players settle into repeating a known set of effective combos.

Not for you if you need mounting stakes or a clear win condition — progression stops and play becomes repeating known-good combos for points.

The Squirrel's verdictLandnama shares Reus 2's unhurried single-player structure and small-settlement focus, but compresses everything into one dense run of roughly 8 hours rather than a long-term colony sim. Seasonal outcomes are randomized, and reviewers note that the path to victory is largely linear across runs, with higher difficulty shifting probabilities rather than adding strategic options. Priced at $13.99 with no co-op.

Not for you if you want the long-term replayability and multi-village depth Reus 2 offers, since Landnama's path to victory is largely fixed and short.