With godhood being profoundly boring, the gods created the Game of the Gods where human teams play various games against gods. However, throughout human history, no human team has emerged victorious throughout all the various rounds.
However, Fay Theo Philus has proven humanity’s most prestigious hopeful for the Game of the Gods. As such, he is chosen to play against Leoleshea, a god who recently woke from her long slumber where, after beating her, he recruits her onto his team to play against other gods.
Anime can play games all it wants. Maybe one of the series will be hits instead of misses. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Gods’ Game We Play, head on down below.
Anime Like Gods’ Game We Play
For Fans of Game Playing
Liar, Lair
Academy Island is a city of schools where students battle in games against each other to win Stars. Each student shares the same goal, to win and collect enough stars to snatch the prestigious title of Seven Star.
Hiroto Shinohara, a new transfer student, shakes things up by unseating Sarasa, the previous years’ Seven Star, and introducing himself as the Seven Star that will reign over all. However, what they don’t know is that it is all just one big bluff.
Hiroto beat Sarasa by sheer luck and uses the special ability of the star he won to pretend to be the new Seven Star even though his rank is much lower. Now he must use every lie, cheat, and manipulation to stay at the top.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Liar Liar
- Both are fully about main characters who are good at games playing games as the entire plot to the point where they are almost the same anime.
- Harems, or at least harem vibes.
- Games may be taken from real life games with rules changed or added
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Liar Liar
- Lair Liar takes place in a city made up of schools who all play games competitively with each other rather than attend class, so they are not playing games with gods like Gods’ Game We Play.
- Lair Lair is much more focused on the fact that the main character is a big lair and great at bluffing.
- The games in Lair Lair are occasionally nonsensical and/or poorly explained.
No Game No Life
In the real world, siblings Shiro and Sora are NEET shut-ins. However, in the virtual world, they are a legendary gaming duo.
One day, after a strange email, they find their reality taken away as they are transported to the realm of Tet, God of Games. Here, Shiro and Sora must play games to defeat the sixteen races of this world as well as Tet in order to become the new gods.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and No Game No Life
- Main characters good at games playing games is the plot
- They sometimes play games with gods, if not other fantasy beings
- The games are often augmented versions of real life children’s games
- Cute anime girls is the “other” plot of both shows
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and No Game No Life
- What Gods’ Game We Play does, No Game No Life in a better, more likable way.
- No Game No life is about a world where disputes are settled by playing games, so it is not solely about playing games with bored gods.
- No Game No Life has harem hints, but it hints stronger at the main character and his stepsister being into, or at least codependent with, each other.
Kakegurui
Hyakkaou Private Academy is an institution for the elite of society with a very special curriculum.
These students are the children of the wealthiest people in the world, but they won’t need athletic prowess or book smarts for a successful life, they will need to know the art of the deal and how to read people.
So instead of traditional classes, this school features a curriculum of rigorous gambling where the winners live like kings and the losers suffer.
However, they haven’t seen anything yet until they meet new student Yumeko Jabami.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Kakegurui
- Playing games is the entire plot
- The main character is very good at games, and their arrival shakes up the whole system
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Kakegurui
- Kakegurui is more a gambling anime, and is treated with an extra dose of maniacal intensity
- Kakegurui features a female main character, and it is more focused on aggressive female characters beating people swiftly and soundly in games.
These Problem Children are Coming From Another World, Aren’t They?
Three extraordinary teenagers are blessed with psychic abilities, but are bored with their mundane lives.
Unexpectedly, they are invited to go to a mysterious new place to participate in a high-stakes game using their abilities in order to better the new community they live in.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Problem Children Are Coming From Another World
- Both series are fully about doing battle by playing games
- Both offer playing games with, if not gods, then deity-like entities
- The main character team is just godly at games due to their unique abilities
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Problem Children Are Coming From Another World
- Problem Children is technically an isekai series whereas playing games with gods in Gods’ Game We Play is just a normal part of the fantasy world.
- Gods’ Game We Play presents games as something you do to win prizes and alleviate boredom, Problem Children presents games as a way to survive and keep independence.
- Problem Children offers more comedy and a more light-hearted feel to the plot overall
For Fans of Challenging Gods
Campione
After 16-year-old Kusanagi Godou defeats the God of Victory in mortal combat, he is stuck with the position of Campione, or God Slayer.
His job now is to defeat any Heretical Gods that try to muscle in.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, he’s also attracted a bevy of female followers that are there to serve him in his duties.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Campione
- Gods. Gods everywhere, and they all want a piece of the main character.
- Super OP male main characters
- Harems of cute girls with their own abilities
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Campione
- Campione is about fighting and killing out of control gods rather than playing games with them like Gods’ Game We Play.
- Campione is more an unwilling hero story as the main character kind of just trips into sacred responsibilities
- Campione is pretty dedicated to ecchi comedy, though still very much an action harem anime.
Record of Ragnarok
Every 1,000 years, all gods from every religion are convened to decide the fate of humanity.
Due to their abuses against each other and the planet, the gods are about to unanimously vote for ending humanity.
However, just as it is about to pass, Brunhild, a Valkyrie, puts forth a proposal. Humans are given a chance to have 13 warriors from throughout history fight against gods in a one-on-one tournament style battle that will ultimately decide their fate.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Record of Ragnarok
- Gods be acting unwise towards humanity
- Humans and gods compete with each other
- Best of a certain number of matches wins it all
- Both series are really just the characters doing their matches and only a small amount of any sort of other plot in between.
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Record of Ragnarok
- Record of Ragnarok is a battle anime where human warriors from history are fighting gods.
- Records of Ragnarok doesn’t really have a main human character, or even a main character at all, like Gods’ Game We Play does.
- Gods’ Game We Play puts minimal effort into character designs, Records of Ragnarok puts maximum effort into character designs.
KamiKatsu – Working for God in a Godless World
As his father is the leader of a cult religion, Yukito Urabe is often at the mercy of his whims. One whim sees him tossed into the ocean with the belief that their god, Mitama, will save him. As he drowns, Yukito wishes to be reborn in a world without gods and religion.
His wish comes true when he wakes up in a world completely devoid of religion, but learns that the government carries out an end-of-life system where people regularly are killed and those who do not wish to be killed voluntarily toil away in isolated villages until they are taken by force to be executed.
After Yukito’s new friends from one isolation camp are taken to be forcefully executed, he awakens Mitama with a prayer who descends from the sky and annihilates anyone that hurt him and his friends.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Kamikatsu
- Worlds that become fully centered around dealing with the predilections of gods
- Cool-headed, cunning main characters that overcome gods with superior strategy
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Kamikatsu
- Kamikatsu becomes about building a religion rather than playing games with gods
- Kamiktsu is more of a comedy than anything else, and it loves its degenerate/ecchi jokes
- The main character in Kamikatsu is definitely more of a scumbag for comedy and often because he needs to be to get ahead.
- Kamikatsu is an isekai anime whereas Gods’ Game We Play is a straight fantasy.
For Fans of Using Cunning and Manipulation
Classroom of the Elite
Koudo Ikusei High School seems like a paradise with state-of-the-art facilities and where almost 100 percent of students go to university or find employment.
However, while the students appear to have a good amount of freedom, only superior students get favorable treatments.
After being careless on his entrance exams for a particular reason, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka finds himself dumped in D-Class with the other inferior students.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Classroom of the Elite
- Cool-headed main characters who aren’t flashy, but control every situation
- Intelligent thought is the name of the game in both series
- Women slowly start to build up in the main character’s orbit
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Classroom of the Elite
- Classroom of the Elite is about an academically hyper-competitive school that ranks classes and treats the lower ranks poorly, so it is not about playing games with gods like Gods’ Game We Play.
- Classroom of the Elite has a more menacing atmosphere at times as the main character manipulates his peers to solve various problems.
- The main character in Classroom of the Elite has a more emotionally muted personality due to plot.
Tomodachi Game
Although he suffers from financial hardship, Yuuichi Katagiri has always been kept positive by his friends. They even inspired him to furiously work in order to get the funds to go on the school trip with them.
However, when the gathered money goes missing, his friends are blamed.
Days later, the friends all get mysterious letters that end up with them being force to join a Tomodachi Game where each game they win together lowers a debt.
However, when betrayal and secrets start pouring out, these simple games become a malicious test of trust.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Tomodachi Game
- Both series are about a group playing games against others for an overall prize if they win the whole thing
- The main character is cool-headed while his teammates have strong points, but more flaws
- The games are often augmented versions of children’s games
- Clever strategy is key more so than physical might
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Tomodachi Game
- Tomodachi Game is also about how much a friend group secretly hates and betrays each other coming out while they play these games.
- Tomodachi Game is about playing for real money or incurring huge amounts of real debt while trying.
- Tomodachi is a real world-set series, and much more malicious than Gods’ Game We Play
Battle Game in 5 Seconds
It was just a normal day for avid gamer Akira Shiroyanagi who, while playing a game on his phone, was suddenly dragged onto a battlefield by a being named Mion.
He and the other participants are told that they have been erased from society in order to participate in an experiment.
They are each granted a special ability and told to use this power in order to win a series of games.
Similarities Between Gods’ Game We Play and Battle Game in 5 Seconds
- Both series are about competing with others and using unique character abilities
- The main character is OP and teams up with an equally OP girl
- Clever strategy is crucial to winning
- Round-based contests with a bit of plot in between each round
Differences Between Gods’ Game We Play and Battle Game in 5 Seconds
- Battle Game in 5 Seconds is more of a survival game, and as such, is more about fighting and/or games that involve fighting
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