Gods and Idols

Gods and Idols

JatteGames · December 12, 2016 · Free to Play, 4X, God Game, RTS, Strategy

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About Gods and Idols

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Lead your divine followers as an immortal god commanding planets, fleets, and cosmic forces to build a galactic empire while defending against rivals and cosmic horrors. Reshape worlds, harvest resources, wage stellar warfare, and erect monuments to your power as the universe's entropy threatens everything.

The Father of all Gods, Oberon, has become a myth even to the immortals of the universe, to those willful spirits that have ascended beyond the form of humanity and now flit through the tides of the universe as naturally as walking occurs to mortal men. You are one of these immortal beings, once human but now a divinity that seeks power through worship, seeking to guide your faithful in this darkness from the dangers of all sides.

There is much ruin and destruction - wrecks in the battlefield of the gods, but you are yet capable of sculpting planets into hospitable, even lush, wonderlands for your followers. Their temples will exalt you, and in your name, they will launch great fleets to expand your divine empire. You will shield them from the stellar radiation, the envy of their rivals, and much darker entities that lurk between the space of the cosmos.

But mere benevolence is not always enough.

There will be enemies, but you need not rely only upon your posthuman followers to deal with them; the primal forces of the universe are at your disposal. Disrupt the asteroid belts, plunging a hail of destruction upon the entire stellar system of your foes. Kidnap their planets into a pocket universe of our holding, their populations ready to be dealt with at your will. Or simply destroy their suns in artificial supernovas, leaving nothing alive in their wake.

There was a time when such acts would have been thought horrific. But now, as the end of the universe approaches, as the forces of entropy threaten to extinguish all life, light and hope, you must gather what power you can to brace against the incoming horrors of the Black Sun.
  • Command the power to destroy entire star systems
  • Create raw planets and their moons from asteroid belts
  • Develop an intricate economy with dozens of resources
  • Upgrade and develop your planets with gleaming cities
  • Construct powerful fortresses to crush your foes
  • Erect monumental temples in your own honor
  • Command vast fleets faithful to your godliness
  • Duel ancient monsters in the depths of space
Gods and Idols is free to download, and free to play. If you want to support us there will be an ingame shop where you can purchase Essence, a resource used for many things in the game. Essence is also gained by just playing the game. We'd love to hear your feedback on this, please let us know if we screw up!

Gods and Idols — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Online PvP, Online co-op
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended May 23, 2026
Game sucks, spend 30 minutes staring at a building saying "3 minutes remaining" I get this is suppose to be an MMO but with an average player count of 3 for the last couple months, just bite the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bullet and make a single player version or something. Cause if you're going to just make it so removing a building doesn't refund you _even during construction_ there's literally no reason to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ do anything especially when there's adjacency bonuses but it takes 30 minutes to build a 3 minute construction time building- just why? If this game is as dead as a door nail as it is, please just take it down or actually push the 'update' you mentioned over a year ago.
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Not recommended Dec 4, 2025
glad to see this game has not added anything new since release keep up the good work
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 25, 2026
Ive had this game since 2016, and not much has changed. There has been no real update for nearly 4 years, and the most recent new item was to just say that the website was back online. I wouldn't recommend this game. Its a dead game that isnt going anywhere, no dev responses, no updates, and no new material.
Not recommended Jul 30, 2026
abandoned game avoid
Not recommended Jun 16, 2026
this game has been forgotten and most of the stuff has not even been added cant even expand to other planets ships are not in the game now you are stuck on one planet in tell you fill it up get bored and quit
Recommended May 29, 2026
very cool and in-depth, massive passion project the dev has been working on for a long while!

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