- #1 60 Seconds! Reatomized
97% matchVery Positive94% of 18,699 reviews2019
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.
Why similar: Wrestling 17.5% ★, Outbreak Sim 15.3% ★, Dark Comedy 8.2%, Dark Humor 6.6%, Text-Based 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive, visually enhanced version of the original game with added content and refined mechanics.
- #2 60 Parsecs!
96% matchVery Positive89% of 3,984 reviews2018
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.
Why similar: Wrestling 25.3% ★, Outbreak Sim 21.1% ★, Dark Humor 11.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this sequel shifts the survival chaos from a fallout shelter to a space station.
- #3 Sheltered
96% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 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: Post-apocalyptic 36.2%, Survival 31.7%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 8.6%, Difficult 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A deep management simulation that tasks you with keeping a family alive in an underground bunker after a global catastrophe.
- #4 This War of Mine
95% matchVery Positive94% of 96,656 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Why similar: Survival 40.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Choices Matter 14%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the grim, realistic survival of civilians in a war-torn city, emphasizing difficult moral choices and resource scarcity.
- #5 Papers, Please
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 78,508 reviews2013
Dev: Lucas PopePub: 3909
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.
Why similar: Point & Click 54.1%, Difficult 18.3%, Story Rich 10.7%, Strategy 9.4%, 2D 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Masterfully captures the high-pressure, bureaucratic decision-making that forces players to choose between survival and morality.
- #6 Beholder
94% matchVery Positive92% of 30,197 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Dark Humor 30.5%, Point & Click 20.7%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Story Rich 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Places you in a dystopian state where you must manage a building while making impossible choices to protect your family.
- #7 Organ Trail: Director's Cut
93% matchVery Positive88% of 3,135 reviews2013
Dev: The Men Who Wear Many Hats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 53.5%, Survival 20.4%, Strategy 20.1%, 2D 6%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled survival game that captures the same bleak, humorous tone while managing supplies during a zombie outbreak.
- #8 Death Road to Canada
92% matchVery Positive93% of 10,135 reviews2016
Dev: Rocketcat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
Why similar: Survival 43.5%, Difficult 29.5%, Funny 18.7%, 2D 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines frantic scavenging and survival with dark humor and randomized events during a road trip through a zombie apocalypse.
- #9 Do Not Feed the Monkeys
91% matchVery Positive94% of 12,088 reviews2018
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.7%, Point & Click 18.6%, Management 16.7%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Funny 10%
Why You'll Like It: A voyeuristic management game where you observe others and make choices that impact their lives and your own survival.
- #10 Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,656 reviews2019
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34%, Point & Click 26.5%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Survival 12.3%, Story Rich 6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the preparation phase of survival, tasking you with fortifying your location before an inevitable disaster occurs.
- #11 Fallout Shelter
90% matchVery Positive88% of 80,218 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: Post-apocalyptic 35%, Survival 27.7%, Management 19.9%, Strategy 8.2%, 2D 5%
Why You'll Like It: A lighter, more accessible take on managing an underground vault and its inhabitants during a nuclear apocalypse.
- #12 NEO Scavenger
89% matchVery Positive90% of 5,359 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: Post-apocalyptic 42.2%, Survival 35.2%, Difficult 15.4%, Strategy 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty, turn-based survival game that emphasizes the brutal reality of scavenging for supplies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- #13 Mr. Prepper
89% matchVery Positive80% of 5,315 reviews2021
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.
Why similar: Survival 36.5%, Management 29.6%, Point & Click 23.2%, Exploration 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the preparation and maintenance of a survival bunker while trying to evade a suspicious government.
- #14 Gods Will Be Watching
88% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,923 reviews2014
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.
Why similar: Point & Click 28.5%, Difficult 26.6%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Survival 11.9%, Story Rich 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, high-stakes point-and-click game that forces players to manage resources under extreme pressure to survive.
- #15 SKYHILL
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,576 reviews2015
Dev: MandragoraPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 37.2%, Survival 35.1%, Point & Click 13%, Difficult 9.6%, 2D 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A rogue-lite survival game that tasks you with descending a dangerous hotel floor-by-floor to find supplies.
- #16 Reigns
86% matchVery Positive87% of 8,051 reviews2016
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.
Why similar: Choices Matter 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Difficult 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a simple binary choice system to manage a kingdom, mirroring the quick, high-stakes decision-making found in 60 Seconds!.
- #17 The Escapists
85% matchVery Positive90% of 16,161 reviews2015
Dev: Mouldy Toof StudiosPub: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
Why similar: Difficult 28.9%, Strategy 24.5%, Survival 22.7%, 2D 12%, Funny 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on daily routine, crafting, and meticulous planning to achieve a goal, much like the preparation phase of 60 Seconds!.
- #18 Plague Inc: Evolved
84% matchVery Positive94% of 59,582 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 72.9% ★, Strategy 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 6.4%, Difficult 3.9%, Survival 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the inverse perspective of an outbreak, requiring strategic management to ensure your pathogen survives and spreads.
- #19 Survive the Blackout
86% matchMixed64% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Baby Bison Games
Windows
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Survival 14.8%, Difficult 11.6%, Choices Matter 10%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival game where you lead a group of survivors through a world plunged into darkness.
- #20 Please, Don’t Touch Anything
84% matchVery Positive89% of 5,501 reviews2015
Dev: Four QuartersPub: ForwardXP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.
Why similar: Point & Click 56.9%, Difficult 24.1%, Funny 7.3%, 2D 6.7%, Choices Matter 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle game where the consequences of your actions are often catastrophic and darkly comedic.
- #21 Frostpunk
82% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.1%, Survival 27.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Management 11%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A society-survival game that forces you to make harrowing moral decisions to keep your city alive in a frozen apocalypse.
- #22 Ashwalkers
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 195 reviews2021
Dev: Nameless XIIIPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement. Only your choices matters in the face of moral dilemmas. Manage your party, food & equipment in this non-linear narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Survival 19%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Management 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-narrative game where your choices determine the fate of your group in a harsh, post-apocalyptic world.
- #23 The Final Station
82% matchVery Positive87% of 9,281 reviews2016
Dev: DO MY BESTPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 52.1%, Survival 31.3%, 2D 9.4%, Story Rich 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines train-based travel with scavenging and resource management in a mysterious, dying world.
- #24 Home Behind
81% matchVery Positive84% of 6,095 reviews2016
Dev: TPP Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?
Why similar: Survival 53.1%, Strategy 19.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Difficult 11.4%, 2D 4%
Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game where you manage hunger, thirst, and health while traveling across a dangerous country.
- #25 Dark Moon
79% 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: Post-apocalyptic 24.6%, Management 23.8%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Survival 15.2%, Exploration 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy game where you must manage a lunar base while staying in the shadows to avoid the sun's lethal radiation.
- #26 Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning
79% matchVery Positive81% of 986 reviews2018
Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Join Hank and Larry, two small defenseless animals, as they manipulate their way through the zombie apocalypse. Meet various characters and get them to scavenge for you while guiding them to "safety." Make life-or-death decisions, bargain, manage inventory, trade, and gamble.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 30.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Point & Click 16.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Dark Humor 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dark comedy adventure that focuses on the absurdity of survival and the importance of making the right choices.
- #27 Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse Ep2: Caged
77% matchVery Positive91% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Join Hank and Larry, two small defenseless animals, as they manipulate their way through the zombie apocalypse. Meet various characters and get them to scavenge for you while guiding them to "safety." Make life-or-death decisions, bargain, manage inventory, trade, and gamble.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.5%, Dark Humor 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Survival 9.9%
- #28 Sheltered 2
80% 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: Post-apocalyptic 39.5%, Survival 26.6%, Management 18%, Strategy 13.7%, 3D 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original shelter management formula with more complex faction systems and survival mechanics.
- #29 Meteor 60 Seconds!
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,804 reviews2018
Dev: AvoCavo
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 12%
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
Why similar: Funny 68.9%, 2D 19.2%, Story Rich 11.9%
- #30 Quarantine Zombies
77% matchMixed57% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Stones Games
Windows
A first-person shooter meets quarantine inspection in post-apocalyptic Chicago. You’ve got 30 days until the army arrives. Hold out, fix your car, and fight your way through Chicago to the main checkpoint to save your little brother.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 48.4% ★, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Dark Humor 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Survival 9.6%
- #31 Deep Sixed
78% matchVery Positive84% of 105 reviews2018
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Deep Sixed is a roguelike space sim that will force you to use strategy, ingenuity and duct tape to keep your ship (and your skull) in one piece as you risk exploring a mysterious nebula protected by dangerous alien creatures.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.9%, Strategy 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Difficult 12.1%, Survival 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A space-survival simulation that forces you to manage complex ship systems while dealing with constant, chaotic failures.
- #32 Ascent of Ashes
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.6%, Immersive Sim 21.3%, Management 19%, Survival 17.5%, Strategy 9.6%
- #33 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
72% matchVery Positive82% of 10,961 reviews2026
Dev: Brigada GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.5%, Dark Humor 21.9%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Management 14.5%
- #34 Journey of a Roach
76% matchVery Positive89% of 2,045 reviews2013
Dev: KoboldgamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Nuclear war, post apocalypse, barren and lifeless wastelands.Lifeless? Not so much!Mutated insects have made their home in a bomb shelter and they're set on exploring the world.Let this point&click adventure welcome you to a hilariously bizarre end time world and join the roaches Jim and Bud on their journey to the surface.
Why similar: Point & Click 67.2%, Post-apocalyptic 32.8%
- #35 Unemployment Simulator 2018
73% matchVery Positive86% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Samuel LehikoinenPub: turbolento publishing
Windows
Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 40.6%, Dark Humor 32%, Immersive Sim 20.4%, Story Rich 7%
- #36 Shelter Manager
76% matchMixed62% of 279 reviews2021
Dev: Hamsters Gaming
Windows
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.8%, Management 16.7%, Survival 14.1%, Funny 8.5%
- #37 Self-Isolation
74% matchVery Positive86% of 491 reviews2020
Dev: Dymchick1
Windows
This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.
Why similar: Difficult 42.4%, Choices Matter 41%, 3D 16.6%
- #38 Garbage
74% matchMixed66% of 1,171 reviews2021
Dev: HomebasedPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Experience the struggle which a homeless man goes through in a humorous manner. Primitive elements of contemporary life that we take for granted, such as staying warm, well-nourished, and hygienic, will become an issue.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.7%, Dark Humor 22.5%, Management 17.6%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 8%
- #39 Game Dev Tycoon
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,663 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 67.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Funny 5%, Difficult 4.6%, 2D 4.5%
- #40 Quarantine
75% matchMixed60% of 435 reviews2017
Dev: SproingPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Quarantine is an intense turn-based strategy game about waging war on pandemic disease. Recruit a team of specialized operatives to deploy on worldwide missions. Research the contagion, upgrade your tech, and quarantine the outbreak before it kills us all.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 67.6% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Survival 8.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Difficult 3.6%
- #41 Dark Scavenger
73% matchVery Positive87% of 243 reviews2014
Dev: Psydra Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.2%, Point & Click 28.6%, Funny 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Exploration 9.9%
- #42 Beholder 2
71% matchVery Positive87% of 7,880 reviews2018
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Why similar: Choices Matter 31.8%, Point & Click 28.6%, Strategy 18.9%, Story Rich 12.5%, 2D 8.2%
- #43 60 Minutes to Extinction: Escape Room
69% matchVery Positive85% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: mc2games
Windows
You have exactly 60 minutes to save humanity from nuclear extinction. There are no second attempts. No manual saves. Explore a collapsing bunker, repair critical systems, and solve puzzles under pressure. Succeed or watch the world end.
Why similar: Point & Click 55.6%, Post-apocalyptic 32.4%, 3D 11.9%
- #44 Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
72% matchVery Positive83% of 1,287 reviews2018
Dev: Toge ProductionsPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 60.4% ★, Difficult 10.2%, Dark Humor 9.7%, Strategy 6.2%, Funny 4.7%
- #45 Youtubers Life
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 15,450 reviews2017
Dev: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!
Why similar: Management 54.6%, Funny 33.5%, Strategy 11.9%
- #46 The Wanderer
71% matchMixed69% of 62 reviews2019
Dev: Cult Software
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Enter a dark wasteland and fight mutants to survive.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 37.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 29.9%, Strategy 20.6%, Exploration 12.3%
- #47 Reigns: Her Majesty
70% matchVery Positive83% of 1,294 reviews2017
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.4%, Dark Humor 21.8%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Funny 9.2%
- #48 Space Prison
67% matchVery Positive85% of 268 reviews2024
Dev: Wooden AlienPub: Firesquid
Windows
Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 31.6%, Dark Humor 29.2%, Survival 14.7%, Exploration 10.3%, Strategy 9%
- #49 Punch Club
70% matchVery Positive80% of 15,468 reviews2016
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.
Why similar: Management 38.6%, Choices Matter 23.3%, Funny 19.1%, Story Rich 10.2%, 2D 8.9%
- #50 Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,075 reviews2023
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Dark Humor 29.9%, Management 19.5%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Funny 12.9%, Strategy 9.4%
- #51 Zafehouse Diaries 2
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 133 reviews2017
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.1%, Survival 17.2%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Management 13.6%
- #52 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
68% 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 56.1% ★, Immersive Sim 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Management 5%
- #53 Death and Taxes
67% matchVery Positive86% of 8,138 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.5%, Point & Click 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Strategy 7.7%
- #54 Survivor Dieland
67% matchVery Positive95% of 233 reviews2021
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You're gonna get yourself killed being out here all by your lonesome... There's monsters on this island! Besides, It's not always the beasts you should be afraid of... Beasts are easy to predict. They just want to kill and eat you. Humans are much harder... They'll pretend to be your friend first...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.9%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Choices Matter 10%
- #55 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
68% 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 33.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 12.6%, Management 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #56 This Is the Police 2
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,468 reviews2018
Dev: Weappy StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.
Why similar: Management 31.9%, Strategy 26.6%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Story Rich 13.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%
- #57 Life in Bunker
69% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Survival 32.9%, Post-apocalyptic 27.5%, Management 20.2%, Strategy 19.4%
- #58 First Day
69% matchMixed49% of 134 reviews2019
Dev: BadWolf Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's the first day of the rest of your life
Why similar: Dark Humor 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 27.6%, Survival 18.4%, Management 16.3%, Strategy 9.9%
- #59 Garbage: Hobo Prophecy
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,399 reviews2021
Dev: HomebasedPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Experience the struggle which a homeless man goes through in a humorous manner. Primitive elements of contemporary life that we take for granted, such as staying warm, well-nourished, and hygienic, will become an issue.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 28%, Dark Humor 19.8%, Management 16.2%, Survival 13.9%, Funny 8.7%