- #1 60 Parsecs!
97% 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 22.6% ★, Outbreak Sim 19.6% ★, Dark Humor 11.3%, Text-Based 9.8%, Life Sim 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this game applies the frantic resource management and survival mechanics to a sci-fi setting.
- #2 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 35.1%, Survival 31.5%, Management 14.9%, Strategy 8.5%, Difficult 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A deep survival management game where you must maintain a fallout shelter and keep your family alive against various threats.
- #3 This War of Mine
96% 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 50.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Management 16.1%, Strategy 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the gritty, moral, and resource-heavy struggle of civilians trying to survive in a war-torn city.
- #4 Sheltered 2
95% 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 37.9%, Survival 26.1%, Management 17.1%, Strategy 13.4%, Horror 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original with more complex faction mechanics and deeper resource management for your shelter.
- #5 SKYHILL
94% 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 34.1%, Survival 33%, Point & Click 12%, Difficult 8.7%, Horror 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game where you must scavenge floor-by-floor to survive in a dangerous hotel.
- #6 Death Road to Canada
94% 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 44%, Difficult 28.7%, Funny 17.8%, 2D 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines dark humor, road-trip exploration, and intense survival decisions in a zombie-infested world.
- #7 Beholder
93% 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 43.7%, Point & Click 27.9%, Strategy 15.2%, 3D 8.8%, 2D 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game that forces you to make difficult moral choices while spying on your neighbors.
- #8 Beholder 2
92% 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: Point & Click 49.9%, Strategy 33.6%, 2D 16.4%
Why You'll Like It: Continues the dark, choice-driven narrative of the original while focusing on climbing the ranks of a totalitarian government.
- #9 Papers, Please
91% 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 60%, Difficult 19.9%, Strategy 10.6%, 2D 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A high-pressure simulation that tests your morality and attention to detail under strict government oversight.
- #10 Organ Trail: Director's Cut
91% 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 49.9%, Survival 19.5%, Strategy 19.2%, 2D 6.4%, Horror 5%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled survival game that balances resource management with the dark humor of a zombie apocalypse.
- #11 Fallout Shelter
89% 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 34.5%, Survival 28%, Management 19.6%, Strategy 8.3%, 2D 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic base-building and management game set in the iconic post-apocalyptic Fallout universe.
- #12 Survive the Blackout
90% 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 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Survival 17.3%, Difficult 13.1%, Strategy 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy survival game where your choices determine the fate of a group traveling through a post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #13 Frostpunk
89% 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 35.6%, Survival 30.1%, Strategy 14.5%, Management 11.7%, Difficult 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Pits you against extreme environmental conditions where every decision impacts the survival of your society.
- #14 Plague Inc: Evolved
88% 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 72.7% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 6.3%, Difficult 3.8%, Survival 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic simulation that flips the script by tasking you with managing a global outbreak.
- #15 Do Not Feed the Monkeys
87% 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 31.2%, Point & Click 22.1%, Management 19.7%, Funny 11.4%, Strategy 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voyeuristic management game that forces you to balance your resources while observing the lives of others.
- #16 Mr. Prepper
86% 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 29%, Management 22.9%, Life Sim 21.9%, Point & Click 18%, Exploration 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the paranoia and preparation of building a bunker while evading the watchful eye of the state.
- #17 Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099
86% 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 29.8%, Life Sim 25.4%, Management 18.2%, Funny 11.6%, Strategy 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Expands the observation-based gameplay with a futuristic setting and even more complex moral dilemmas.
- #18 Death and Taxes
84% 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 36%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Point & Click 23.6%, Strategy 9.9%, 2D 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven simulation where your decisions as a reaper have significant, often dark, consequences.
- #19 Infectonator 3: Apocalypse
85% 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 60.1% ★, Dark Humor 10.3%, Difficult 10%, Strategy 6.3%, Funny 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced outbreak simulator that uses dark humor and strategy to spread chaos across the world.
- #20 Ascent of Ashes
83% 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 24.7%, Immersive Sim 20.9%, Management 18.5%, Survival 17.5%, Strategy 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-building survival game that requires careful management of resources and defense against raiders.
- #21 Reigns: Her Majesty
84% 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: Life Sim 33%, Dark Humor 19.3%, Dark Comedy 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Funny 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A choice-based survival game where you must balance the needs of your kingdom through simple binary decisions.
- #22 Survivor Dieland
82% 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%, Dark Humor 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Life Sim 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy survival game that focuses on the narrative consequences of your actions in a deadly game show.
- #23 The Escapists
81% 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 27.9%, Strategy 24.5%, Survival 22.8%, 2D 13.5%, Funny 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on meticulous planning and resource gathering to execute a successful prison break.
- #24 Garbage
82% 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 25.1%, Dark Humor 21.1%, Management 15.4%, Survival 13.3%, Life Sim 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A management and survival game that offers a unique, dark comedic take on the struggles of the homeless.
- #25 Don't Starve
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Survival 66.9%, Difficult 13.6%, Exploration 10.6%, Horror 5.3%, 2D 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes resource gathering and crafting in a hostile, atmospheric world.
- #26 Self-Isolation
80% 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: Life Sim 42.4%, Horror 26.4%, Difficult 22.6%, 3D 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that captures the tension and isolation of living through a pandemic.
- #27 RimWorld
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 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 39.3%, Management 34.7%, Strategy 16.9%, 2D 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A complex colony management game where you must survive the elements and random events with a group of survivors.
- #28 Deep Sixed
81% 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 24.5%, Strategy 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Difficult 13.3%, Survival 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival game where you must manage complex ship systems while under constant pressure.
- #29 Not Tonight
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,674 reviews2018
Dev: PanicBarnPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.
Why similar: Life Sim 80.1%, Difficult 13.1%, 2D 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game that explores the consequences of your choices in a post-Brexit Britain.
- #30 Unemployment Simulator 2018
76% 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 31%, Dark Humor 27.1%, Life Sim 18.9%, Immersive Sim 16.2%, Horror 6.9%
- #31 Five Nights at Freddy's 2
77% matchVery Positive94% of 25,453 reviews2014
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Welcome back to the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! As always, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Why similar: Difficult 27.9%, Horror 27.5%, Point & Click 18.7%, Survival 17.4%, Strategy 8.5%
- #32 60 Seconds!
78% matchVery Positive85% of 11,636 reviews2015
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. 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%
- #33 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
74% 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 25.9%, Dark Humor 22.8%, Life Sim 15.8%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Management 14.1%
- #34 Quarantine Zombies
76% 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 44.3% ★, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Life Sim 9.8%, Dark Humor 9.7%, Survival 9%
- #35 Beholder 3
77% matchMixed65% of 2,714 reviews2022
Dev: Paintbucket GamesPub: Alawar
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Point & Click 19.8%, Management 16.1%, Strategy 10.3%
- #36 Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse Ep2: Caged
75% 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 31.1%, Dark Humor 22.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Survival 11.8%, Funny 8.9%
- #37 Meteor 60 Seconds!
75% 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 75%, 2D 25%
- #38 Extra Lives
73% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: MDickie
Windows
See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.
Why similar: Wrestling 34.9% ★, Outbreak Sim 30.5% ★, Dark Humor 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Horror 5%
- #39 Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition
74% matchVery Positive83% of 3,505 reviews2016
Dev: Perfectly ParanormalPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Wealthy, handsome, and... dead? Samuel strikes a deal with Death for one last shot at life, but only if he can survive a day doing everything manually. Blink, breathe, walk, and work - Guide Sam in this darkly humorous and brutally difficult adventure!
Why similar: Dark Humor 38.6%, Dark Comedy 33.6%, Funny 12.8%, Difficult 12.8%, 2D 2.1%
- #40 Dark Moon
73% 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 29%, Management 28%, Survival 18.3%, Exploration 11.4%, Strategy 10.1%
- #41 Journey of a Roach
73% 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%
- #42 The Henry Stickmin Collection
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 56,383 reviews2020
Dev: PuffballsUnitedPub: Innersloth
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.8%, Point & Click 26.1%, Funny 23.5%, 2D 7.6%
- #43 Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
71% 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 41.7%, Point & Click 32.7%, Survival 15.5%, 2D 5.8%, Strategy 4.3%
- #44 Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning
72% 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 35.8%, Point & Click 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Dark Humor 15.2%, Funny 7.9%
- #45 Bio Inc. Redemption
71% matchVery Positive88% of 2,788 reviews2018
Dev: DryGin Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 49.9% ★, Management 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Difficult 12.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #46 Not For Broadcast
69% matchVery Positive94% of 12,340 reviews2022
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 40.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Management 18.8%, Point & Click 18%
- #47 Kindergarten 3
67% matchVery Positive95% of 1,676 reviews2025
Dev: Con Man GamesPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 34.8%, Dark Humor 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Funny 10.4%, 2D 4.5%
- #48 Shelter Manager
72% 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 24.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.8%, Management 17.4%, Survival 15.1%, Funny 8.5%
- #49 Five Nights at Freddy's
69% matchVery Positive94% of 57,765 reviews2014
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Welcome to your new summer job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where kids and parents alike come for entertainment and food! The main attraction is Freddy Fazbear, of course; and his two friends. They are animatronic robots, programmed to please the crowds!
Why similar: Horror 33.5%, Difficult 26.1%, Point & Click 23.5%, Survival 16.8%
- #50 Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
68% matchVery Positive99% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 37.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35.3%, Horror 18.7%, Survival 8.2%
- #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 19.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.4%, Survival 17.8%, Management 13.7%, Horror 12.9%
- #52 Fapout 69 ☢️
68% matchMixed58% of 159 reviews2026
Dev: Play and Cum 💦
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fapout 69 ☢️ is an adult visual novel set in a ruined wasteland. As the new owner of a brothel-haven, you must rebuild, recruit girls, fend off raiders and mutants, and turn desire into the most valuable currency: survival through pleasure.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 37.6%, Post-apocalyptic 27.1%, Survival 17%, Horror 12.1%, 3D 6.2%
- #53 Ashwalkers
70% 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 33%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Survival 22.4%, Management 14.5%, 3D 6%
- #54 Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,312 reviews2021
Dev: Silent DreamsPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40.7%, Survival 28.1%, Strategy 17.5%, Horror 13.6%
- #55 Poly Bridge
68% matchVery Positive91% of 18,451 reviews2016
Dev: Dry Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!
Why similar: Difficult 53.2%, Funny 28.7%, Strategy 18.1%
- #56 Kindergarten
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,143 reviews2017
Dev: Con Man GamesPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 54.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to Kindergarten! Have fun trying to learn and share...and not die. That's important too. In a school that's just not quite right, it's important to be friendly...and take out those that aren't.
Why similar: Dark Humor 34.9%, Dark Comedy 28.7%, Funny 19.4%, Difficult 7.1%, Horror 5.2%
- #57 Thief Simulator
67% matchVery Positive88% of 38,738 reviews2018
Dev: Noble MuffinsPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 46.7%, Funny 30.5%, Exploration 22.7%
- #58 First Day
70% 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 28.9%, Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Survival 18.4%, Management 15.9%, Strategy 9.9%
- #59 1 Bit Survivor
65% matchVery Positive99% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: Chaz Acheronti
Windows
1 Bit Survivor is a unique blend of turn-based combat and survival horror! Carefully manage your resources to solve procedurally generated combat puzzles. Survive 28 Days and save your Pet Cat from the Zed-pocalpyse!
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 35.9%, Post-apocalyptic 34.8%, Strategy 12.1%, 2D 8.6%, Horror 8.5%
- #60 Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
66% matchVery Positive90% of 12,409 reviews2016
Dev: Scott Cawthon
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 56.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Welcome to Circus Baby's Pizza World, where family fun and interactivity go beyond anything you've seen at those *other* pizza places! Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment.
Why similar: Horror 34.5%, Difficult 28.3%, Survival 22.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Funny 3.2%