God game

Related:
* Godling protagonist
* City building – likely has minor traits of city building games, usually in form of building monuments, totems, or similar.
* Sandbox – most god games can be presumed to be sandbox games or have sandbox mode

Despite the genre name, the player does not always assume the role of anything nor does he always have followers of any kind. The player simply is given close to omnipotent powers (or seemingly so) that they're to toy with.

Traits:
* No direct minion control
* Terraforming or otherwise altering the environment in significant gameplay impacting ways. Either directly or via influencing other beings (minions, followers, etc.).

Likely traits:
* Followers (religious ones) who worship the protagonist

Unlikely traits:
* Protagonist actually appears in the gameworld as a regular entity