Games Like After Inc: Revival

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Zombies 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Colony Sim 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the seed's focus on reclaiming real-world locations from zombie hordes while managing a growing survivor settlement.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Colony Sim 8.8%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly intense focus on societal survival and difficult moral choices in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment.

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: 4X 16.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, Outbreak Sim 14.6% ★, City Builder 11.5%, Zombies 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the 4X-lite strategy and zombie-apocalypse reclamation theme found in the seed game.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Zombies 17.1%, City Builder 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at the high-stakes base defense and city-building mechanics required to survive massive zombie swarms.

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: Colony Sim 40.3%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 15.7%, Management 8.3%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: As the definitive colony simulation, it provides the deep social and survival mechanics that underpin the management style of After Inc: Revival.

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: 4X 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite city-building structure provides a similar sense of urgency and strategic progression to the seed game.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of managing a colony in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with a strong emphasis on resource gathering and expansion.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, 4X 21% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines intricate base-building with tactical defense against waves of enemies, echoing the survival-strategy loop of the seed.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 10.6%, Resource Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim specifically focuses on surviving a demon apocalypse, sharing the same base-building and research-focused gameplay loop.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, City Builder 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A robust post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes long-term survival and exploration of a ruined world.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6%, City Builder 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique survival mechanic where you build your city on the back of a giant creature, adding a fresh layer to the city-builder genre.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony sim that emphasizes base construction and defense against both environmental hazards and raiders.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes the struggle to maintain order and progress after a global collapse.

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: Zombies 53.7%, Post-apocalyptic 27.7%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 5.6%, 2D 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on individual survival, it offers the most realistic and deep simulation of a zombie-infested world available.

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: City Builder 26.9%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Base Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: The original game remains a masterclass in survival city-building, forcing players to manage limited resources under extreme pressure.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, City Builder 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder focuses on water management and engineering, requiring the same careful planning seen in After Inc: Revival.

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 22.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, City Builder 11.8%, Zombies 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim adds a unique twist by allowing you to cure zombies and integrate them into your workforce.

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 61.8% ★, Zombies 11.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developer, it shares the strategic, high-level simulation DNA that defines the After Inc experience.

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Colony Sim 9.1%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends base-building with combat and resource management, focusing on the struggle to survive in a post-nuclear world.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 27%, Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While set in space, its focus on managing a fragile society and limited resources under constant threat is highly comparable.

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: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 16%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep colony-sim experience with a focus on vertical building and defense, perfect for fans of the genre.

2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Zombies 13.6%, Base Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that tasks you with rebuilding civilization after a global catastrophe.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 26.2%, Management 8.6%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony sim that focuses on managing a small group of survivors against alien threats, mirroring the survival-management feel of the seed.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9%, City Builder 36.3%, Strategy 5.5%, Simulation 5.4%, Resource Management 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The classic survival city-builder that set the standard for managing a small population against the harsh realities of nature.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, 4X 20% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet challenging colony-sim that focuses on building a thriving society in a dangerous, resource-scarce world.

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: Colony Sim 22.2%, 4X 20.7% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim that focuses on the complex social dynamics and power struggles of a ruling family.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, City Builder 29.6%, Building 9.9%, Management 8.8%, Base Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep city-builder that focuses on trade, production chains, and population management in a survival context.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder requires you to manage oxygen and resources in a post-apocalyptic world, mirroring the seed's survival focus.

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, City Builder 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 6.7%

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 61.1%, Building 18.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Casual 4.1%, 2D 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival colony sim that emphasizes seasonal preparation and family management in a harsh environment.

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Zombies 14.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 15%, Zombies 14.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 5.4%

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: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 17.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Resource Management 7.6%

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: Zombies 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 8.3%

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Building 7.8%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, 4X 18.9% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 7.3%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 23.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Base Building 9%, Resource Management 8.4%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: 4X 21.7% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Base Building 8.5%

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 39.4% ★, Colony Sim 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Base Building 6.4%, Dystopian 5.5%

A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

Why similar: 4X 61.1% ★, Management 16.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder. Expand your city, manage limited resources and optimize production chains as you navigate difficult choices about humanity’s future among the stars.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.2%, City Builder 25.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.6%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.3%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 9.6%, Management 7.9%

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, City Builder 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%

A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!

Why similar: 4X 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 6.9%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 7.2%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, 4X 20.7% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 7.3%

Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Dystopian 11.5%, Base Building 9.9%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 8.2%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, 4X 14.6% ★, Base Building 10.1%

A sci-fi survival city builder set on an inhospitable alien planet. Faced with imminent destruction of Earth, humanity pooled together their resources and sent sleeper ships to nearby potentially habitable planets. But this one turned out to be much less habitable than expected....

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 29.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 9.1%, Strategy 5.9%

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.

Why similar: 4X 56.2% ★, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 7.7%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 29.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Simulation 9.8%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.9%, City Builder 31.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Strategy 5.7%, Simulation 5.1%

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Resource Management 9.3%

Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, City Builder 28.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 6.6%, Simulation 5.8%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: 4X 20.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 7.9%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 8.4%