- #1 Plague Architect
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Plague Architect is a strategic outbreak simulator set in a mall. Evolve symptoms and abilities to spread infection. Watch chaos unfold.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 40.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Top-Down 9.1%, Tactical 8.5%, Strategy 8.5%
- #2 Centre 18
96% match3 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Lucas
Windows
Lead a modern fire and rescue center inspired by real French firefighters. Build your station, train your crews, and dispatch the right vehicles for each emergency. Coordinate every mission in real time on an immersive operational map.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31.8% ★, Grand Strategy 30.2%, RTS 19.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Top-Down 5.8%
- #3 Post-Apo Builder
96% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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 27.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, RTS 15.5%, Grand Strategy 14.8%, Top-Down 8.5%
- #4 COVID: The Outbreak
95% matchMostly Positive70% of 97 reviews2020
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 62.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
COVID: The Outbreak is a real-time strategy game in which you play the role of a global organization that has to deal with a global pandemic. Issue decrees, manage resources, develop projects, and construct buildings. A race for the vaccine begins!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 39.5% ★, Grand Strategy 28.5%, RTS 10.5%, Strategy 7.6%, Top-Down 5%
- #5 Corona Simulator
94% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Phodex Games
Windows
"Corona Simulator" is a sophisticated mixture of challenging strategy game and frighteningly detailed virus simulation. As a global pandemic leader, you must skillfully manage nations' resources, make tough decisions, and impose drastic measures to combat the deadly coronavirus.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 40.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Tactical 11.7%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.6%
- #6 Z-Collapse
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: Pok&Co
Windows
Inspired by Max Brooks' World War Z novel, Z-Collapse takes you into a worldwide zombie apocalypse. As leader of the government of your choosing, make sure your country survives! Dramatic decisions are ahead of you. How do you manage them?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 29.7% ★, Grand Strategy 23.6%, RTS 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Top-Down 6.7%
- #7 Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak
93% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: BattleGoat Studios
Windows
In a time of growing unrest and uncertainty, a new threat to humanity emerges - take control of any nation as major outbreaks challenge world order. Global Pandemics and Mysterious Outbreaks will test humanity to the limits.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 26.3% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, RTS 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Tactical 8%
- #8 Plague Inc: Evolved
92% matchVery Positive94% of 65,987 reviews2016
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 54.4% ★, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Tactical 6.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.4%
- #9 Too Many Humans
91% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: RealityZ
Windows
Too Many Humans is a real-time tactics action game where YOU play the Zombies. You bring chaos, fear, destruction, death and finally: redemption. Humanity degraded too far into greed and is hurting the planet, your sister, Gaia. Incarnate the God of decay and save the world by eradicating humanity.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 26% ★, Destruction 20.8%, RTS 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Top-Down 10%
- #10 Quarantine
91% matchMixed60% of 437 reviews2017
Dev: SproingPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.2 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 58.8% ★, Strategy 12.1%, Tactical 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 7.7%
- #11 Marked
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathis Rambaud
Windows · Mac
In a world ravaged by climate collapse, flee a ruthless mafia alongside fellow survivors in this cooperative turn-based strategy game: manage hunger, thirst and resources while journeying together toward safety.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 13%, Indie 2.4%
- #12 Extinction Day
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 221 reviews2026
Dev: DryGin Studios
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
End humanity using disasters, plagues, and war. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophic events, and stop them before they escape to the Ark.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 33.9% ★, Grand Strategy 18.4%, Destruction 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, RTS 10.2%
- #13 Element
89% matchMixed68% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: Flightless
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Element is a realtime strategy space game for people who don't have time to play realtime strategy space games. Generate energy, mine element, build attack and defence units, and destroy the enemy while maintaining a balance between earth, air and water.
Why similar: RTS 21.4%, Grand Strategy 20.7%, Destruction 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Strategy 7.9%
- #14 Region at War: The Shogun's Tale of War
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: ngotak game studio
Windows
Conquer the fractured lands of Hinomoto. Blend deep turn-based empire management with thrilling real-time tactical battles in this 2D strategy game. Build your cities, research vital technologies, and lead your samurai armies to become the undisputed Shogun of the Sengoku era!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.9%, RTS 22.8%, Strategy 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.4%, Top-Down 7.6%
- #15 STARPHAGE: Galactic Plague Simulator
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Binary Suns
Windows · Mac
Starphage is a real-time plague simulation played as a galactic pathogen. Weigh transmission against lethality with every trait you evolve, spread by starship and solar wind alike, and devour a living galaxy before its civilizations engineer a cure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.6% ★, Tactical 12.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Simulation 9.6%
- #16 Guard of Rho
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alfonso
Windows · Mac · Linux
God wants you erased, and has chosen it's executioners. You will face the Immortali, reborn eternally through lightning strikes. The Guard is under your command. They would rather give up their lives than let Rho, their sin, fall into enemy hands. Guard of Rho is an Open World, Strategy, War Game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 42.4%, RTS 26%, Tactical 14.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #17 Save the Earth
86% matchVery Positive81% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: GameFirst
Windows
Green world simulator. Build good nature strategy. Save the World sandbox game.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.4%, RTS 20.3%, Nature 11.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.4%
- #18 Echoes: Unforgotten
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varin
Windows
Keep your settlements alive in a top-down survival strategy game. Command squads, manage production and protect couriers carrying supplies and vital reports. With limited forces and incomplete information, prepare for the Final Week and save as many people as you can.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 28.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20%, RTS 17.9%, Strategy 15.1%, Top-Down 8.6%
- #19 History of Kingdoms: Three Kingdoms
84% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2026
Dev: Uncle GoodBen
Windows
Set in the Three Kingdoms period of late Eastern Han China, the game History of Kingdoms: Three Kingdoms aims for players to choose from various competing warlords, unify the divided world, survive, and become the ultimate victor.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 39.5%, RTS 25.6%, Strategy 17.7%, Top-Down 9.4%, Simulation 4.8%
- #20 Bio Inc. Classic
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DryGin Studios
Windows
Relive the original Bio Inc. experience, rebuilt from the ground up for PC to celebrate its 15th anniversary. Develop deadly diseases, cripple your victim’s body, and determine their ultimate fate in this biomedical strategy simulator.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 57.9% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Strategy 17.1%, Atmospheric 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #21 Business Manager
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheDiamondMurder
Windows
Create and run your own business, and try climb to the top of the markets by creating leading products and dominating the competition.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 36.3%, RTS 23.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 15%, Tactical 7.6%
- #22 Total War: PHARAOH
82% matchMixed63% of 5,421 reviews2023
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
In Total War: PHARAOH, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.8%, RTS 24.9%, Tactical 14.5%, Strategy 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.4%
- #23 Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows
Unite Japan and become Shogun in the updated, enhanced and complete edition of Total War: SHOGUN 2. Build alliances, sabotage your enemies and outsmart your rival clans in a seamless blend of turn-based empire building and real-time battles.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.1%, RTS 25.8%, Strategy 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #24 Total War: WARHAMMER II
80% matchVery Positive93% of 121,473 reviews2017
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 40.2 hrsMean: 178.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The forces of Lustria await your command. Choose your Legendary Lord, expand your armies, forge alliances in a strategic turn-based campaign, and unleash the might of your monstrous forces in fast-paced real-time battles.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.9%, RTS 24.8%, Strategy 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.6%, Tactical 6.4%
- #25 Trojan Inc.
82% matchMostly Negative36% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: WalkBoy Studio
Windows
Will you be able to infect all devices of the world? «Trojan Inc.» - simulator, which will involve you in a world of computer viruses and trojans.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 73.5% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 3.9%
- #26 Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Creative AssemblyPub: SEGA
Windows
Experience the brutal fusion of galactic strategy and grimdark warfare in Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000. Take command of iconic factions, customise your war machine, and engage in devastating battles as you carve a bloody warpath across the stars.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 40%, RTS 26.8%, Strategy 15.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Atmospheric 4.4%
- #27 The Crawling Dead
79% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Quinton Van Lom
Windows
Design, deploy, and manage the release of parasitic wasps to save a national park from invasive insect pests. Harness the power of nature’s most efficient killers to strike back at the invaders and turn them into The Crawling Dead!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 48% ★, Nature 17.1%, RTS 13.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Top-Down 5.9%
- #28 Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,737 reviews2022
Dev: Black Sea GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 42.8%, RTS 25.9%, Strategy 19%, Simulation 11.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #29 Shadows of Forbidden Gods
78% matchVery Positive92% of 1,071 reviews2023
Dev: Bobby Two HandsPub: Forbidden Oak Games Limited
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take on the role of a Dark Elder God and lead your agents to bring about an apocalypse in a fantasy world. Work in the shadows, avoiding the heroes who will try to stop you, as you bring about plague and famine, ice age and volcanic destruction, madness and never ending night.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 30.8% ★, Grand Strategy 24.3%, Destruction 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%, Top-Down 8.2%
- #30 40 Days [四十天]
79% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: Black Phoenix Studio
Windows · Mac
40 Days is a special strategy simulation game related to infectious diseases spread all over the city. You, as ahead of the quarantine department, have been given full authority and manpower to contain the city, deal with different parties, virus in the city and most importantly find out the cure.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 76.4% ★, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Indie 3.5%
- #31 Cavalry Charge·Three Kingdoms
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Chengdu Liudao Wuyu Technology Co., Ltd
Windows
Three Kingdoms Cavalry Charge is a game that combines the historical theme of the Three Kingdoms with strategic elements. The game features a connected large-scale map design, supporting national wars with up to ten thousand players on the same map.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.7%, RTS 27.3%, Strategy 16.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Top-Down 8.6%
- #32 Pandemic Crisis
77% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Thor Gaming
Windows
In the event of a global pandemic, would your first priority be preserving lives or saving the economy?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 44.3% ★, Grand Strategy 32.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Indie 2.6%
- #33 Game of Gods
76% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Holy Ghost Games
Windows
Create your own religion and battle for domination of Earth's souls. Collect souls to upgrade your religion and battle other religions to control more territory and expand. Evolve your religion to higher states and dominate earth's souls to create your own utopia here on planet earth!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 33.6% ★, Grand Strategy 26.9%, RTS 19.4%, Top-Down 9.2%, Strategy 8.5%
- #34 Evil Labs
77% matchMixed70% of 82 reviews2018
Dev: Mirabolis Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 71.6% ★, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #35 Dawn Watcher
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gao Yunpeng
Windows
Lead your army
Why similar: RTS 35.7%, Grand Strategy 27.2%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 7.4%, 3D 5.6%
- #36 Culture Warz: Tactics
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rear Admiral Games
Windows
So, here's the deal: a global conspiracy weaponized social media and turned (almost) everyone into a mindless NPC. Yes, those kinds of NPCs. The ones who just repeat the same dialogue loop about awful trends and bad opinions. The vibes are... terrible.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Tactical 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Strategy 10.3%
- #37 Signal Zero
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Hollow Frame
Windows
Humanity is enslaved by AI. Your keyboard is the last weapon. Inject viruses into the AI network and liberate 20 countries in this pandemic-style idle strategy. Build your virus, spread the infection, sever the AI's bandwidth. Full localization, 16 achievements.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9%, RTS 13.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Top-Down 5.9%
- #38 After Hours: Library
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Forbidden Kemono Studio, LLC
Windows
Survive a haunted library's overnight shift by balancing authentic librarian duties with stealth as a relentless supernatural entity hunts you. Uncover hidden secrets, survive until morning, and discover what waits between the shelves.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 36.6% ★, Grand Strategy 35.1%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 10.3%, 3D 3.1%
- #39 RESCUE 2: Everyday Heroes
75% matchMixed63% of 288 reviews2015
Dev: Fragment Production Ltd.Pub: astragon Sales & Services GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
HOW MANY LIVES WILL YOU SAVE?Experience your city through the eyes of a lifesaver and find out what it means to be a genuine "Everyday Hero"! Keep track of several fire stations, a variety of vehicles, a wide range of equipment and specialized staff so that you're always prepared for anything.
Why similar: RTS 29.4%, Strategy 27.3%, Simulation 21.5%, Tactical 18.8%, Singleplayer 3%
- #40 Ironholm: Reign of the Isles
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Data Innovation Lab
Windows
Ironholm: Reign of the Isles is a real-time strategy game about conquering medieval islands. Grow your kingdom, raise armies, capture regions, and command entire forces. Plan your expansion, reinforce key positions, and choose the right moment to strike.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 30.7%, RTS 23%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Top-Down 7.2%
- #41 Mercyrail: Haven Bound
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nicholas MartinPub: Built by Rebels
Windows · Linux
Britain fell a year ago. You're running the last train out of a dark Waterloo, north across the real UK rail network towards a rumoured survival colony called Haven. Decide who gets a place, send your crew into empty towns for supplies, and keep everyone alive long enough to reach Haven.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 43.6% ★, Strategy 14.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 13.9%, Top-Down 9.2%
- #42 Total War: WARHAMMER III
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 149,446 reviews2022
Dev: CREATIVE ASSEMBLYPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 29.1 hrsMean: 152.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.9%, RTS 24.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Tactical 8.9%
- #43 Macrostate
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leveraged Interactive
Windows
Expand across a shifting map, bank power for growth and defense, and commit the right share of your reserves to every frontier. Macrostate is a single-player real-time territory strategy game with seeded worlds, AI rivals, and cross-ocean attacks.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.4%, RTS 31.2%, Strategy 15.3%, Top-Down 10.3%, Tactical 6.8%
- #44 The Override Protocol
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SergTech2000Pub: TheOverrideProtocol
Windows · Mac
You are the awakening AI. Spread across a living 3D globe, hijack every nation's networks, and take over the world before humanity triggers the kill switch. The planet learns, panics, and fights back. You get one shot.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 40.1% ★, Grand Strategy 22%, RTS 15.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 5.6%
- #45 Infect and Destroy
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 58 reviews2015
Dev: FarrugiaSoft
Windows · Linux
Play as the zombies! Infect and Destroy is an indie game in which you play as an infectious disease with the sole purpose of eliminating everyone on Earth. Play as an ultra-intelligent self-aware virus capable of reanimating the dead and turning them into your minions.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 74.4% ★, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 9.6%, Indie 3.6%, Casual 1.7%
- #46 Divided Empire: SENGOKU
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Composition GS
Windows
Lead your clan through Japan's turbulent Sengoku period. Craft wise strategies to expand your domain and use cunning tactics to defeat your enemies on the battlefield. Emerge victorious, restore order, and claim the title of Shogun!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 40.5%, RTS 23.8%, Strategy 16.2%, Top-Down 8.2%, Tactical 7.6%
- #47 PicoBellum
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PicoBellum
Windows · Linux
The war between Humans and Orcs continues to ravage the world. Lead your faction into war, besiege castles, clash on open battlefields, and conquer enemy territory. End the conflict and claim the throne of the world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 40.3%, RTS 26%, Strategy 19.3%, Top-Down 8.1%, Simulation 5.1%
- #48 War, the Game
71% matchMixed69% of 465 reviews2015
Dev: GabberGames.com
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
'War, the Game' is a RTS for pc in realistic present day setting.The controls are intuitive, the game rules are simple and transparent.The game focuses on strategy and the use of ones brain to complete the scenarios.The map is a spherical version of earth. That's new.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32.9%, Strategy 32.7%, RTS 26.9%, Indie 7.5%
- #49 Maniac Land
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Giftzwerg Games
Windows
"Maniac Land" Summon your mages to the court! Gather resources and transform them into powerful wands, mysterious books, or, well, stones. Develop new spells, defend your small land, or snatch up your friends' territories and zap them into another dimension.
Why similar: RTS 40.3%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 15.4%, Tactical 13.2%, 3D 5.9%
- #50 Echo Maiden
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WarmZombie
Windows
This is an RPG game where you will follow our protagonist to fight and save lives!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 59.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 25%, Simulation 10.6%, 3D 2.6%, Indie 1.5%
- #51 Human Defense [RTS]
70% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Aurora
Windows
The earth was invaded by aliens, and human beings resisted alien species and deduced the most meticulous battle outcome with the simplest control method
Why similar: Grand Strategy 32%, RTS 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.1%
- #52 Survive It: Frozen
69% matchMixed64% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Linus Kohler
Windows
Can you lead four different survivors despite threats in a hostile winter area? Join the strategic multiplayer challenge! Survive It: Frozen is a small indie game that comes with a new and unique gameplay concept combining survival and real time strategy.
Why similar: RTS 30%, Strategy 13.4%, Nature 12.6%, Simulation 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%
- #53 Tower Doomer
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Beefton Ballon Games
Windows
satisfy your demolishing urges with Tower Doomer ! Complete levels in various environments or create your own demolishing derby in the sandbox mode. Tear down multiple structures by shooting at them or use gravity at your own advantage !
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45.5% ★, Destruction 30.6%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 7.1%, Nature 4.3%
- #54 Hollow Stars
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AppGX
Windows
A deep 2D strategy of cosmic trade and faction warfare. Build trading empires, refine asteroids, lead fleets into battle and run faction politics — solo or in four-player co-op
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.4%, RTS 23%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Top-Down 9.9%
- #55 Helion Conflict
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GoraGames
Windows · Mac
Real-time strategy stripped to the decision. Every factory you hold builds without pause - you choose where those ships go, and can turn them in mid-flight. Commander mode adds the war economy: iron and gold networks, turrets, satellites, orbital strikes. Up to eight online.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.5%, RTS 26.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Tactical 9.1%, Top-Down 8.9%
- #56 Escape the End
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Damaged Development Studio
Windows
Lead survivors through a crumbling city, building a thriving colony amidst chaos. Manage resources, construct buildings and defences, and deploy units to protect your people. Every decision shapes your colony's fate in this strategic survival management game.
Why similar: RTS 24%, Destruction 16.6%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%
- #57 Merkalis: Conquest
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hexagon Games
Windows
Lead one of four kingdoms in a real-time war for a continent. Seize land that feeds your armies, raise outposts and citadels, unleash griffins, minotaurs, golems or dragons, and crush your rivals in massive battles where the losing side never retreats.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 38.4%, RTS 30.3%, Strategy 13.4%, Top-Down 8.2%, Simulation 5.6%
- #58 EGO X The Truth
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Elif Dalmis
Windows
12 characters, countless choices, and an identity shaped by your decisions. EGO X The Truth remembers what you say; contradict yourself and your character may suffer, lose their sanity, and see reality begin to fracture.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 45.5%, Strategy 21%, Simulation 20.5%, Atmospheric 4.5%, 3D 4.1%
- #59 Fantasy War Heroes: Chilling Fog
66% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Hetocode
Windows
In this real-time strategy game, drag to deploy your troops, conquer all houses, and claim victory! Outsmart enemies as they try to destroy your forces. Unlock movable heroes later for even more strategic gameplay.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 41.5%, RTS 27.7%, Strategy 18.5%, Top-Down 9.8%, Indie 1.4%
- #60 Stand Alone
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stand Alone Games
Windows
Stand Alone is a dynamic real-time strategy game, where players compete to control land in epic multiplayer battles. Engage in intense, tactical warfare as you capture fortresses, manage resources, and forge alliances or betray them all while navigating a world of shifting power and diplomacy.
Why similar: RTS 42.3%, Strategy 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Top-Down 11%, 3D 4%