- #1 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
81% matchVery Positive94% of 4,382 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Zombies 15.1%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 10%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%
- #2 SAELIG
80% matchVery Positive86% of 1,076 reviews2017
Dev: Atorcoppe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
Why similar: Trading 28.6% ★, Economy 16.1%, Management 13.1%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #3 Project Highrise
79% matchVery Positive85% of 4,728 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 30.8%, Building 20%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Economy 9.9%
- #4 Survivalist
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,558 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Open World Survival Craft 18.4% ★, Zombies 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #5 Startup Company
76% matchVery Positive81% of 6,156 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Why similar: Management 34.7%, Economy 24.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #6 Zafehouse: Diaries
75% matchMixed68% of 440 reviews2013
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
Why similar: Zombies 23.4%, Survival 18.6%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 14%, RPG 11%
- #7 Necesse
70% matchVery Positive93% of 26,732 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
- #8 The Long Dark
73% matchVery Positive91% of 116,937 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 47.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50% ★, Survival 23.7%, Sandbox 6.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%, Exploration 5.2%
- #9 Realms of Magic
72% matchVery Positive81% of 986 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.1% ★, RPG 13.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Survival 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
- #10 The Guild II
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 833 reviews2010
Dev: 4HEAD StudiosPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 41%
The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!
Why similar: Trading 27.4% ★, Simulation 15.3%, Economy 13.9%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 10.6%
- #11 Sheltered
73% 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: Survival 27.6%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Management 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Building 7.6%
- #12 Kenshi
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,185 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.3%, Survival 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, RPG 11.7%, Building 11%
- #13 X4: Foundations
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 27,902 reviews2018
Dev: Egosoft
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 94.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.
Why similar: Trading 32.1% ★, Economy 17.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Management 9.9%, Building 7.7%
- #14 SurrounDead
62% matchVery Positive92% of 23,327 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Zombies 25.6%, Survival 22.1%, Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, RPG 5.9%
- #15 RimWorld
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,937 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Survival 24%, Management 21.5%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 10.1%
- #16 The Guild 3
62% matchMixed61% of 7,830 reviews2022
Dev: Purple LampPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
Why similar: Economy 27.8%, Trading 12.5% ★, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 9.3%, RPG 8.7%
- #17 Battle Brothers
61% matchVery Positive88% of 27,079 reviews2017
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 19.5 hrsMean: 93.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.4%, RPG 19.7%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 18.5%, Adventure 8.3%
- #18 Wartales
59% matchVery Positive87% of 34,145 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Why similar: RPG 29%, Survival 20.1%, Sandbox 19.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Exploration 8.7%
- #19 Patrician III
61% matchVery Positive82% of 979 reviews2010
Dev: Ascaron Entertainment ltd.Pub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Become a fellow of the famous medieval Hanse trading association in the 13th century. Manage the politics, prestige and economic success in your city and the known parts of Europe!
Why similar: Trading 37.4% ★, Economy 19.6%, Management 15.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 10.2%
- #20 Polygon Survival
60% matchMostly Negative41% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
Polygon Survival is a low-poly zombie survival shooter with simple building and crafting. You find yourself in a mini world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Zombies 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 12.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #21 Dwarf Fortress
57% matchVery Positive95% of 30,790 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Management 21.7%, Survival 18.9%, Sandbox 17.8%, Building 16.6%, Simulation 10.5%
- #22 Life is Feudal: Your Own
60% matchMixed66% of 12,035 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Survival 17%, Sandbox 14.3%, Building 12.1%, RPG 5.9%
- #23 Caves of Qud
56% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,074 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 34.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Why similar: Survival 45.7%, RPG 26.3%, Pixel Graphics 25.1%, Singleplayer 3%
- #24 Going Medieval
55% matchVery Positive90% of 20,101 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Economy 20.6%, Management 19.2%, Survival 17%, Sandbox 15.7%, Strategy 8.9%
- #25 Schedule I
54% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 286,517 reviews2025
Dev: TVGS
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Management 44.3%, Simulation 27.3%, Building 19%, Strategy 9.5%
- #26 DAVE THE DIVER
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 147,604 reviews2023
Dev: MINTROCKET
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.
Why similar: Management 33.3%, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, RPG 13.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Exploration 10.6%
- #27 Project Zomboid
57% matchVery Positive94% of 439,650 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Survival 20.5%, Zombies 18.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #28 DREDGE
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,714 reviews2023
Dev: Black Salt GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
Why similar: Exploration 34.7%, RPG 22.9%, Simulation 21.7%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 3.2%
- #29 Mad Games Tycoon 2
55% matchVery Positive94% of 7,559 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Trading 25.1% ★, Management 21.1%, Economy 19.7%, Building 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #30 The One
56% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: PolyLS
Windows
The One is a game in which your goal will be to explore the world alone or in a group three years after the zombie apocalypse. However, the problem will turn out to be not only zombies, but also others who managed to survive this time behind the gates of the bunkers.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Trading 12.3% ★, Zombies 12.1%, Survival 11.3%
- #31 LifeZ - Survival
58% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Zombies 16.5%, Survival 16.1%, Sandbox 8.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%
- #32 Game Dev Tycoon
57% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,646 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Why similar: Management 45.1%, Simulation 20.4%, Economy 15.8%, Strategy 9.4%, Sandbox 4.9%
- #33 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
54% matchVery Positive88% of 286,135 reviews2022
Dev: TaleWorlds Entertainment
Windows
Median: 61.2 hrsMean: 152.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
Why similar: Sandbox 32.9%, Strategy 24.6%, RPG 23%, Simulation 12.7%, Adventure 5%
- #34 ZERO Sievert
54% matchVery Positive85% of 14,688 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Now with over 500,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Survival 28.3%, Post-apocalyptic 26.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 8.7%
- #35 Shadows of Doubt
54% matchVery Positive83% of 17,105 reviews2024
Dev: ColePowered GamesPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Take on the role of a private investigator in this immersive detective simulator. Solve murders and other crimes in a procedurally generated and persistent city where every NPC lives and breathes their own independent lives. Find the killer quickly… or they will kill again!
Why similar: Sandbox 50.8%, RPG 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Adventure 8.6%, Indie 3.6%
- #36 MENACE
53% matchVery Positive91% of 9,724 reviews2026
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
Why similar: RPG 41.7%, Strategy 38.3%, Adventure 16.1%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #37 The Guild II Renaissance
57% matchVery Positive83% of 3,995 reviews2010
Dev: Runeforge Game StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.
Why similar: Trading 26.9% ★, Economy 23.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Management 9.3%
- #38 Terra Invicta
53% matchVery Positive81% of 8,993 reviews2026
Dev: Pavonis InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Why similar: Economy 28.2%, Management 24.9%, Sandbox 19.9%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 12.7%
- #39 Stoneshard
56% matchMostly Positive75% of 33,259 reviews2020
Dev: Ink Stains GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, RPG 17.5%, Survival 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Sandbox 9%
- #40 Against the Storm
53% matchVery Positive95% of 35,439 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Economy 18.7%, Management 18.3%, Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 14%
- #41 Manor Lords
53% matchVery Positive85% of 85,222 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Economy 19.5%, Management 17.9%, Survival 15.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.8%
- #42 Medieval Dynasty
54% matchVery Positive91% of 49,891 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 24.6%, Survival 20.2%, Management 16.9%, Sandbox 16.3%, RPG 9%
- #43 Foundation
53% matchVery Positive86% of 23,458 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: Management 18.2%, Economy 18%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 12.8%
- #44 Abiotic Factor
52% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,673 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 42.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 18.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 11.7%, Simulation 7%
- #45 Songs of Syx
55% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,732 reviews2020
Dev: Gamatron AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 41.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Economy 20.4%, Sandbox 17.5%, Survival 16.8%, Building 15.8%, Strategy 10%
- #46 Space Haven
55% matchVery Positive86% of 9,707 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Management 16.7%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Building 12.4%
- #47 Quasimorph
54% matchVery Positive83% of 5,897 reviews2023
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based extraction RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: Economy 41.1%, RPG 20%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Strategy 18%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #48 BATTLETECH
55% matchVery Positive84% of 32,615 reviews2018
Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 43.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
Why similar: Strategy 47%, Management 28.7%, RPG 16.2%, Adventure 6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #49 My Summer Car
52% matchVery Positive95% of 111,887 reviews2025
Dev: Amistech Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 46.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
Why similar: Survival 32.1%, Simulation 22.3%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Adventure 3.2%
- #50 Farthest Frontier
52% matchVery Positive87% of 23,572 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Building 25.2%, Economy 24.6%, Management 21.2%, Survival 18.2%, Strategy 10.9%
- #51 NEO Scavenger
56% matchVery Positive90% of 5,355 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Post-apocalyptic 30.1%, RPG 11.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 7.1%
- #52 Hollow Knight: Silksong
51% matchVery Positive89% of 399,080 reviews2025
Dev: Team Cherry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 35.2 hrsMean: 45.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
Why similar: Exploration 41.9%, Adventure 21.9%, 2D 14.7%, Indie 14%, Singleplayer 7.5%
- #53 Norland
53% matchVery Positive81% of 9,633 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Economy 19.4%, Management 18.1%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.7%
- #54 Mad Games Tycoon
55% matchVery Positive91% of 4,411 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 23%, Trading 23% ★, Economy 16.6%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #55 Pacific Drive
53% matchVery Positive83% of 24,824 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 13.8%, Exploration 9.8%
- #56 Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
53% matchVery Positive88% of 42,245 reviews2023
Dev: Owlcat Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 54.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
Why similar: RPG 40.2%, Strategy 37.5%, Adventure 17.6%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #57 Let's Build a Zoo
54% matchVery Positive89% of 4,030 reviews2021
Dev: SpringloadedPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
Why similar: Management 21.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.9%
- #58 Wildermyth
54% matchVery Positive95% of 18,049 reviews2021
Dev: Worldwalker Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
Why similar: RPG 53.2%, Strategy 34.9%, Indie 7.7%, Singleplayer 4.1%
- #59 Dead State: Reanimated
56% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,543 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Why similar: Zombies 35.2%, Survival 26.4%, RPG 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Strategy 7.8%
- #60 Jagged Alliance 3
53% matchVery Positive89% of 14,204 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
Why similar: Strategy 60.3%, RPG 36.6%, Singleplayer 3.1%