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Genesis of a Small God
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“I wish the dev would realize what kind of treasure trove is being sat on here. The market for god games is stale and would honestly be an easy market to corner. This game is on the right track, needs a few more things and a little more love to be that top notch quality. Could…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“One of the times I wished for a neutral review. I don't think this game was bad per say just... lacking? I get indie devs are on budgets but it uses mostly premade assets which I think hurts the game feeling unique, especially because it just.. lacks content? there was a semi…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedLatest official news
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Release notes v1.7.0 -> 23 January 2025
Hello, Here we are again with another small batch of fixes. As I start working on another project, I’ll continue integrating minor fixes as players report issues. However, I won’t push updates weekly
Hotfixes v1.6.1
Hello, Here are some hotfixes, mainly to address the issue where the ESC button no longer displayed the menu: Bugfix: Menu button not working with the ESC key. Fixed an issue where villagers unassigne
Release notes v1.6.0 -> 19 december 2024
Hello, This week, I mostly focused on optimization and improving VR controls. For optimization, it’s nothing huge, but a collection of smaller tweaks that may make a difference, especially on lower-en
Release notes v1.5.0 -> 13 December 2024
Hello, This week, it looks like the pile of bugs for the desktop version is thinning, so I focused on improving some of the existing pain points, mainly around the end-of-day freeze, to reduce it as m
Release notes 06 December 2024
Hello, This week, once again, it's mostly bug fixes and small improvements, with the notable addition of Santa Claus, as it feels right for the season. Added Christmas Spirit Orb to decorate the villa
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Simulation · God Game · City Builder · Base-Building · Management · Building · Physics · Indie · Resource Management · Colony Sim · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · VR Supported · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Spanish - Spain, German, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Swedish |
| Controller | Full support |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: WIN10 or later Processor: 3 GHz Quad Core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 1070 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 4 GB available space VR Support: OpenXR : Vive, Index, Occilus, Microsoft MXR