- #1 Never Secure
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Outbreak Sim 14.2% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #2 Infection Free Zone
76% matchVery Positive80% of 17,140 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Zombies 13.4%, Colony Sim 11.4% ★
- #3 Zombie Colony
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 27.2% ★, Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #4 After Inc: Revival
76% matchVery Positive80% of 1,159 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Zombies 11.1%, Base Building 9.4%
- #5 Resilient
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNRDEV
Windows
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 24.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.9% ★, Zombies 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Base Building 10.4%
- #6 Project Apocalypse
76% matchMixed69% of 36 reviews2022
Dev: Sargonius Games
Windows
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 25% ★, Colony Sim 14.5% ★, Zombies 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%
- #7 Zomboard
73% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Outbreak Sim 14% ★, Zombies 12.9%, Strategy 7.5%
- #8 The Withered
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GummerGames
Windows
Step into a decaying open world where every decision means survival. The Withered is our upcoming zombie survival game, blending horror, exploration, and crafting in a vast post-apocalyptic environment. Face the undead, gather scarce resources, and uncover the truth hidden in the ruins.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 29.6% ★, Zombies 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 12.7%
- #9 Survival Log
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Midnight WorkshopPub: Lilith Games
Windows
The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is an urban survival game about preparation and foresight. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 27% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Zombies 13%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 10.3%
- #10 Barricade Protocol
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Analiz Games
Windows
Barricade Protocol: Survive in the world's last bastion, the Vera Hospital. Farm on the rooftops, generate power on balconies, and transform patient rooms into shops to build your own vertical city within the hospital corridors.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Zombies 14.8%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 7.6%
- #11 Cloud Exiles
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Zombies 14.8%, Colony Sim 12% ★, Survival 11.9%
- #12 Sheltered 2
72% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 13.5%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #13 The Last Haven
71% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 10.4%, Colony Sim 6.7% ★
- #14 Rebirth evolution
71% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 26.2% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Zombies 12.6%, Survival 10.7%
- #15 Moonlit Nights
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Umut Bora
Windows · Mac · Linux
Moonlit Nights is a base management game set in a zombie apocalypse world. Form raiding parties and send them out to gather supplies, deal with mysterious visitors, and make difficult choices. How many days can you survive, or can you be freed and return to your normal life? Make your choice wisely.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.1% ★, Colony Sim 19% ★, Zombies 9.6%, Strategy 7%, Post-apocalyptic 6.4%
- #16 I Am Zombie
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WarmZombie
Windows
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 53.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Simulation 6.3%, Survival 5.2%
- #17 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
70% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Base Building 8.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #18 Plague Inc: Evolved
69% matchVery Positive94% of 59,438 reviews2016
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 60.3% ★, Strategy 11%, Zombies 9.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Post-apocalyptic 5.1%
- #19 Sheltered
70% matchVery Positive82% of 6,211 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Survival 21.3%, Resource Management 7.1%, Management 6.6%
- #20 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
70% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Zombies 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%
- #21 Dead Hourz
67% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Raycand Games
Windows
"Dead Hourz" is a thrilling survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world. In a land ravaged by zombies, bandits, and scarcity, you must protect your family by gathering resources and making tough choices.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 36.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Zombies 14.6%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #22 Undead Defense TD
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sugradh_Dev
Windows
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 33% ★, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Zombies 13.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%
- #23 Constant Pressure
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ganduspl
Windows
After a nuclear disaster, you must take cover in an abandoned bunker. Play with friends, gather supplies by day and fight fearsome creatures by night.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 41.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 5.5%
- #24 Sandbox Apocalypse
66% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: 7Druids GmbH
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandbox Apocalypse is a 3rd person view, open world post-apocalyptic survial game where you are responsible for your own fate. Survive in a world inhabited by zombies, gather loot, build your base and explore the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31.5% ★, Zombies 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 10.1%
- #25 Corona Simulator
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Phodex Games
Windows
"Corona Simulator" is a sophisticated mixture of challenging strategy game and frighteningly detailed virus simulation. As a global pandemic leader, you must skillfully manage nations' resources, make tough decisions, and impose drastic measures to combat the deadly coronavirus.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Survival 7.4%, Difficult 6.7%, Strategy 6.5%
- #26 Zombie Survival
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleepy Dragon Games Inc.
Windows
This is the first game where the theme is literally zombie survival. No Humans Allowed, except as the main course. An apocalyptic city building survival game where you grow the zombie horde and take over the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 41.3% ★, Colony Sim 22.4% ★, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Zombies 8.9%
- #27 Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
68% matchVery Positive83% of 1,283 reviews2018
Dev: Toge ProductionsPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 55.6% ★, Zombies 16.6%, Difficult 6.2%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 5%
- #28 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
67% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 7%
- #29 Infect and Destroy
69% matchMostly Negative36% of 58 reviews2015
Dev: FarrugiaSoft
Windows · Linux
Play as the zombies! Infect and Destroy is an indie game in which you play as an infectious disease with the sole purpose of eliminating everyone on Earth. Play as an ultra-intelligent self-aware virus capable of reanimating the dead and turning them into your minions.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 69.6% ★, Zombies 10.6%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 6%, Survival 4.6%
- #30 Survival Bunker
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Df Games Studio
Windows
Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Strategy 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%
- #31 Embers of the Night
63% matchMostly Positive79% of 118 reviews2026
Dev: 巨浪游戏
Windows
In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence. But at night you have to resist hordes of zombies and guard your camp!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 54.7% ★, Zombies 21.5%, Base Building 16.7%, Simulation 5.1%, 2D 1%
- #32 Evil Labs
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 81 reviews2018
Dev: Mirabolis Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 71% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.3%, Indie 1%
- #33 Garden Apocalypse
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OMEGABYTE
Windows
Once a thriving alien world, now a vast desert—devoured by the relentless Swarm. These towering insect invaders have left only scattered oases and buried ruins. Grow food, craft powerful resources, and uncover lost secrets to push back against the tide and restore balance to a dying world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.2% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Strategy 7.1%
- #34 Oxygen Not Included
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,747 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8% ★, Base Building 23.7%, Survival 15.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 5.8%
- #35 Simulator Z
64% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: CASHPub: GorillaGamesStudio
Windows
A world where you can create your own zombie apocalypse to your liking!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 56.2% ★, Zombies 17.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Simulation 11.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #36 Survival Journals
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elven WorkshopPub: WhisperGames
Windows
Survive with your choices and fortify your safehouse in this text based adventure. The Horde's on it's way, will you be ready when it arrives?
Why similar: Survival 15.9%, Zombies 15.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Crafting 9%
- #37 Stranded: Alien Dawn
63% matchVery Positive85% of 10,878 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 23.7%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #38 Fallout Shelter
64% matchVery Positive88% of 80,143 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 30.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Survival 19.4%, Management 8.9%, Crafting 6.1%
- #39 Colonies of The Remnant
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cat Soul StudiosPub: Ultimate Publishing
Windows
In a post-apocalyptic world, found and develop your own colony under the threat of the undead. Be cautious against enemy colonies or form alliances. Engage in action-fueled battles against the undead and other humans using FPS or TPS game modes. Formulate your strategy and survive!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 37.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Zombies 14.9%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 9.8%
- #40 Chernobyl 1986
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Detalion Games S.A.
Windows
Chernobyl 1986 is a decision-based game about one of the largest nuclear power plant disasters in history. Play as the manager of a nuclear power plant in a time of a serious crisis that can cost millions of lives.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 30.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Survival 11.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8.3%
- #41 Dark Moon
61% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Base Building 18%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 9.9%
- #42 Saints of the Fallen Cross
62% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Curtis Ashford
Windows
Blast through an intense top-down zombie survival experience. Scavenge, craft, build, and fight endless hordes of the undead. With heroism, deep progression, and dynamic combat, carve your story in a brutal post-apocalypse. Forge alliances or stand alone—how long can you outlast the rising terror?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Zombies 8.5%, Survival 7.8%
- #43 Ecopunk
60% matchVery Positive84% of 108 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 10.3%
- #44 Oxygen: First Breath
62% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.4%
- #45 40 Days [四十天]
65% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Black Phoenix Studio
Windows · Mac
40 Days is a special strategy simulation game related to infectious diseases spread all over the city. You, as ahead of the quarantine department, have been given full authority and manpower to contain the city, deal with different parties, virus in the city and most importantly find out the cure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.8% ★, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.6%, Difficult 3.5%, Management 3.4%
- #46 They Are Billions
62% matchVery Positive85% of 50,587 reviews2019
Dev: Numantian Games
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 12%, Post-apocalyptic 6.5%
- #47 After the Collapse
62% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival 12.3%, Management 8.6%
- #48 Lil Guys
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 14.2%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 9%
- #49 STAND: Survive, Team-up, And Never Die
60% matchMixed68% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Perk-CitronPub: Studio Jylko
Windows
Team up with survivors, customize your character, and combine over 70 weapons and items to defend your central tower against endless waves of enemies. Choose your skills, craft insane synergies, and unleash chaos in intense bullet-hell combat.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49.2% ★, Survival 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Zombies 8.8%, Character Customization 7.2%
- #50 Until We Die
62% matchMixed64% of 4,579 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Side Scroller 11.2%
- #51 Grim Realms
60% matchMostly Positive80% of 425 reviews2024
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 13%, Zombies 12.5%, Management 7.6%
- #52 Frostpunk: 1886
61% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 11%
- #53 Entropy Department
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hollow Art Studios
Windows
A facility-building management sim with a physics-fueled sandbox: build the labs, run the shifts, direct your goal-driven staff, and stop anomalies from turning one mistake into a collapse. How long can your facility survive its own research?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Management 10.3%, Simulation 9.3%
- #54 Just A Flu
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheSociopathSoftware
Windows
Just A Flu is a strategy simulation game about fighting the deadly fast spreading disease. Decide how to deal with infected people, when to close transport hubs, declare quarantine, or lockdown. Can you not only stop pandemic but avoid panic and not destroy the economy, causing more harm?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 48.7% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 9.6%, Survival 7.3%, Strategy 7.3%
- #55 Surviving the Aftermath
61% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,511 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Strategy 9.3%
- #56 Oxygen
60% matchMostly Positive73% of 861 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%
- #57 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
59% matchMostly Positive77% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: Exabyte Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Zombies 14.1%, Survival 12.4%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #58 After Long Night
58% matchMostly Positive78% of 432 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Zombies 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Survival 10.4%
- #59 Total City Defence
61% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Imprint Gaming
Windows
Total City Defense is a zombie themed survival game where you must complete each level to progress. Using the mouse and keyboard you control various units, including Troops, Turrets and Drones to make your way through each level rescuing civilians, VIPS and destroying enemy strong holds.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.2% ★, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Survival 4.9%