- #1 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 714 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.9%, Survival 24.8%, Dark 19.4%, Exploration 12%, Atmospheric 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival RPG that perfectly mirrors the mining, resource management, and horror elements of Anoxia Station.
- #2 Deadnaut: Signal Lost
96% matchVery Positive87% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Linux
Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 38.9%, Roguelike 21.4%, Horror 16.5%, Exploration 15.4%, Action 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: This turn-based tactical game captures the claustrophobic tension of exploring dark, derelict environments while managing limited resources.
- #3 Darkest Dungeon®
96% matchVery Positive92% of 158,223 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Why similar: Roguelike 39.5%, Dark 21.4%, Strategy 12.6%, Horror 12.1%, Atmospheric 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features the same dark, turn-based combat and psychological horror elements where managing your crew's stress and survival is paramount.
- #4 Chromosome Evil 2
95% matchVery Positive88% of 263 reviews2024
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival for a second time. Assemble your strike team and manage your convoy. It's up to you to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?
Why similar: Survival 27.3%, Dark 26%, Horror 17.3%, Strategy 15.4%, Resource Management 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dark strategy game that focuses on survival and tactical decision-making against overwhelming horror threats.
- #5 Aliens: Dark Descent
94% matchVery Positive88% of 17,771 reviews2023
Dev: Tindalos InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
Why similar: Isometric 23.4%, Strategy 18.9%, Survival 15.9%, Dark 15.9%, Horror 13%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical strategy game that captures the intense, squad-based horror of surviving against alien threats in confined spaces.
- #6 Barotrauma
94% matchVery Positive94% of 84,235 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 54.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
Why similar: Survival 35.4%, Horror 21.6%, Management 17.4%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game set in a hostile, subterranean environment where resource management and horror are constant threats.
- #7 Oxygen Not Included
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6% ★, Survival 15.9%, Resource Management 15.7%, Building 10.1%, Management 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on base-building, it shares the deep resource management and survival-under-pressure mechanics found in Anoxia Station.
- #8 Sheltered 2
93% 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: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Resource Management 14.8%, Survival 12.6%, Building 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal survival management game where you must maintain a base and keep your crew alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- #9 STASIS: BONE TOTEM
91% matchVery Positive94% of 2,560 reviews2023
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...
Why similar: Isometric 37.2%, Investigation 18.2%, Horror 15%, Puzzle 11.7%, Exploration 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric, atmospheric horror game that emphasizes puzzle-solving and dark, industrial storytelling.
- #10 Frostpunk
90% 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: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 15%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A society-survival game that forces players to make difficult, dark choices to keep their colony alive in a frozen, hostile world.
- #11 UnderRail
91% matchVery Positive86% of 7,028 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Why similar: Isometric 47.8%, Post-apocalyptic 41.8%, Atmospheric 4.5%, Exploration 3.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric, turn-based RPG set in a post-apocalyptic underground world that emphasizes survival and tactical combat.
- #12 Drill Core
89% matchVery Positive85% of 2,264 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 39% ★, Roguelike 12.4%, Management 10%, Strategy 9.7%, Exploration 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused roguelite that emphasizes mining and base defense in a hostile subterranean setting.
- #13 IXION
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Resource Management 15.8%, Survival 14.2%, Building 9.8%, Strategy 7%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival strategy game that emphasizes resource management and the survival of your crew in a hostile void.
- #14 Draft of Darkness
88% matchVery Positive94% of 344 reviews2023
Dev: Crawly Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Draft of Darkness is a survival horror RPG with deck building and roguelike dungeon exploration. Recruit allies, synergize their decks to create powerful card combos. Manage your limited resources and explore procedurally generated maps to determine the story's outcome.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Resource Management 14%, Horror 11.8%, Roguelike 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror deckbuilder that emphasizes dungeon crawling and resource management in a dark, post-apocalyptic world.
- #15 Endless Dark
86% matchVery Positive99% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Little Light Studios, LLC
Windows · Linux
An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.
Why similar: Management 31.6%, Roguelike 29.1%, Simulation 19.8%, Atmospheric 19.6%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror roguelite that focuses on atmospheric tension and survival in a dark, isolated setting.
- #16 Crying Suns
86% matchVery Positive86% of 4,448 reviews2019
Dev: Alt Shift
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.3%, Resource Management 20.6%, Roguelike 16.3%, Dark 14.7%, Strategy 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric, tactical strategy game with a dark, atmospheric narrative and deep resource management.
- #17 Fear Equation
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 94 reviews2016
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fear Equation is a turn-based horror strategy game where you play the engineer of a modified freight train, built to protect its occupants from a deadly fog that brings their nightmares to life. Survival depends on analysing passengers' dreams, crafting defenses, upgrading, scavenging and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 10.6%, Building 10.5%, Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique horror-simulation game where you manage a train and its passengers, focusing on survival and difficult moral choices.
- #18 Surviving the Abyss
85% matchMixed65% of 1,047 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Building 12.4%, Survival 12%, Management 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that forces you to manage a base in the crushing, dark depths of the ocean floor.
- #19 The Pale Beyond
84% matchVery Positive89% of 2,115 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Resource Management 28.1%, Survival 22.1%, Dark 13.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival management game that focuses on the psychological toll of leadership and resource scarcity in a harsh environment.
- #20 As We Descend
83% matchVery Positive87% of 1,106 reviews2025
Dev: Box DragonPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 36.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Roguelike 22.1%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelike card-battler that leans into dark, tactical combat and strategic progression.
- #21 Deepest Chamber: Resurrection
84% matchVery Positive80% of 539 reviews2023
Dev: Balcony SoftworksPub: Those Awesome Guys
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Delve into the depths of Deepest Chamber: Resurrection, where card boosting is your key to survival. Employ this unique mechanic to augment your abilities, strategize your next moves and endure a series of increasingly perilous descents in this gripping rogue-lite, card-battling adventure!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 41.4%, Roguelike 26.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Exploration 16%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, turn-based deckbuilder that focuses on dungeon crawling and strategic survival.
- #22 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
82% matchVery Positive89% of 21,702 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Why similar: Simulation 26.3%, Puzzle 22.7%, Building 22.4%, Strategy 15.8%, Singleplayer 10%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique industrial, claustrophobic experience centered on resource extraction and careful management of dangerous environments.
- #23 SIGNALIS
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,986 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Dark 39.6%, Puzzle 23.1%, Atmospheric 20.8%, Action 8.8%, Singleplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game that masterfully blends puzzle-solving, resource management, and a dark, atmospheric setting.
- #24 Chromosome Evil
82% matchVery Positive83% of 348 reviews2022
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25%, Resource Management 20.3%, Survival 16.2%, Dark 10.7%, Strategy 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation game that tasks you with surviving a dark, atmospheric horror outbreak.
- #25 Oxygen
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 27.4% ★, Resource Management 15.1%, Survival 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on survival and resource management in a dangerous, changing environment.
- #26 Inscryption
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,157 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Dark 25.3%, Roguelike 21%, Puzzle 15.9%, Strategy 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric game that blends puzzle-solving, strategy, and horror elements in a confined, unsettling setting.
- #27 Mercury Fallen
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Nitrous ButterflyPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2% ★, Mining 19.6% ★, Isometric 17.8%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi management game that features isometric exploration and survival mechanics in an underground facility.
- #28 Until We Die
80% matchMixed64% of 4,581 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Management 9.6%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game that focuses on base defense and survival in a dark, post-apocalyptic subway system.
- #29 Rogue Station
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 228 reviews2023
Dev: Quint Studio
Windows
This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.
Why similar: Building 24.4%, Survival 21.6%, Management 20.6%, Roguelike 14.5%, Strategy 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A roguelite strategy game that focuses on base-building and survival in a dangerous space environment.
- #30 Worshippers of Cthulhu
77% matchVery Positive82% of 1,460 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8% ★, Isometric 16%, Management 11%, Building 10.1%, Dark 8.6%
- #31 Dark Moon
78% 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: Colony Sim 26% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 11.4%, Dark 9.5%
- #32 Cataclismo
75% matchVery Positive89% of 4,077 reviews2025
Dev: Digital SunPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 22.6% ★, Isometric 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 10.2%
- #33 The Tribe Must Survive
77% matchMixed68% of 206 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Dark 9.7%
- #34 Ascent of Ashes
76% 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: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, Isometric 18.5%, Survival 12.9%, Building 11.7%, Management 10.9%
- #35 Quasimorph
75% matchVery Positive83% of 5,924 reviews2023
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based extraction RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 47.5%, Roguelike 29%, Strategy 16.9%, Singleplayer 6.5%
- #36 ITER-8
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 156 reviews2026
Dev: fluckyMachinePub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Welcome to the surface, ITER employee #8. Mine the Pillar, upgrade your tools, defend your base, reach the top... or die miserably. Each expendable worker pushes the mission forward - one glorious, replaceable iteration at a time.
Why similar: Mining 22.6% ★, Isometric 21%, Resource Management 15.4%, Roguelike 9.6%, Management 9.4%
- #37 Breachway
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,353 reviews2024
Dev: Edgeflow StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Explore the galaxy in this deckbuilding, sci-fi roguelike where ship upgrades and crew management are key to your survival. Optimize resource generation, engage in intense turn-based battles, and take on ever-growing threats as you seek out The Signal.
Why similar: Roguelike 54.4%, Strategy 34.3%, Singleplayer 11.2%
- #38 VOID CRAWLER
73% matchVery Positive89% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: Ricardo Pratas
Windows
Void Crawler is a horror game set in a dystopian future, where you pilot a vehicle nicknamed 'The Mole' into a mysterious void deep within the Earth to collect an extremely valuable material for a company dedicated to solving the world's energy crisis.
Why similar: Mining 28.8% ★, Resource Management 18.2%, Survival 15.6%, Horror 13%, Dark 12.2%
- #39 Trench Face
70% matchVery Positive95% of 531 reviews2025
Dev: Pulse Blue
Windows
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.
Why similar: Isometric 25.6%, Horror 23.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Dark 11.1%, Exploration 10.1%
- #40 Anoxemia
76% matchMixed63% of 433 reviews2015
Dev: BSK GamesPub: Mandragora
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Anoxemia is a story-driven exploration game that puts you in control of the scientist Dr. Bailey and his operations drone, ATMA. Search the ocean floor as you discover and extract samples from the bowels of the underwater caves. Danger lurks in each passageway.
Why similar: Dark 30.1%, Puzzle 18.5%, Horror 15.7%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Exploration 10.2%
- #41 The Banished Vault
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 194 reviews2023
Dev: Lunar DivisionPub: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery. Explore solar systems, harvest resources, construct outposts, and face hazards in the challenging universe of The Banished Vault.
Why similar: Resource Management 35.1%, Building 23.9%, Dark 19%, Strategy 11.5%, Exploration 10.4%
- #42 Netherguild
72% matchVery Positive97% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: David Vinokurov
Windows · Linux
Descend into Netherguild, a tactical grid-based roguelite. Lead expeditions deep into mysterious, strange depths. Explore, battle dangerous foes, and manage resources carefully. Push your limits before returning to resupply. What secrets await below?
Why similar: Isometric 31.4%, Resource Management 28.8%, Roguelike 21.9%, Strategy 14.3%, Singleplayer 3.6%
- #43 Ragnorium
73% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
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 25.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 16.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Roguelike 8.6%
- #44 The Fortress
71% matchMixed70% of 136 reviews2026
Dev: Baryonyx Games
Windows · Mac
The Fortress is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler with turn-based combat, mixing strategy and risk. Choose a class, delve into cursed chambers, roll dice to fight brutal enemies, and grab loot. Face tough choices, survive epic bosses, and fight to escape... or fall to the shadows
Why similar: Dark 35.9%, Roguelike 35.3%, Horror 27.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #45 Xenopurge
69% matchVery Positive88% of 329 reviews2025
Dev: TrapticsPub: Firesquid
Windows
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
Why similar: Management 32.6%, Horror 22.4%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Atmospheric 9%
- #46 Roots Devour
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 515 reviews2026
Dev: Rewinding GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
Why similar: Resource Management 22.3%, Dark 19.3%, Horror 16.4%, Exploration 11.6%, Strategy 11.4%
- #47 Rencounter
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 373 reviews2016
Dev: SPVDPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 39.9%, Strategy 20.8%, Roguelike 18.2%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Horror 7%
- #48 Surviving the Aftermath
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.9%
- #49 Mech Engineer
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 902 reviews2024
Dev: KiberKrekerPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
Why similar: Management 31.1%, Resource Management 28.9%, Building 18.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 9.3%
- #50 Revelatio
68% matchVery Positive93% of 97 reviews2024
Dev: Guild Studio
Windows
"Revelatio" is a turn-based strategy game that combines tile-based combat and elements of roguelike. Strategically summon and control units to claim victory. Stain the world with your darkness by corrupting various units, bosses and even NPCs.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 31.5%, Roguelike 22.2%, Dark 18.7%, Strategy 15.2%, Horror 10%
- #51 Distrust: Polar Survival
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,521 reviews2017
Dev: CheerdealersPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.
Why similar: Isometric 36.5%, Survival 20.2%, Horror 14.7%, Exploration 9.2%, Strategy 8.6%
- #52 Peregrino
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 164 reviews2026
Dev: Inverge Studios
Windows
Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.
Why similar: Isometric 45.1%, Management 18.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Exploration 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #53 REPOSE
67% matchVery Positive93% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: Bozó Attila BertoldPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
In the facility, each step, each shot, each mistake costs precious energy. Rendered entirely in black and white, this mystery can be unravelled. The puzzle can be solved. Don't ask who tried to solve it before. Do the job. Find oxygen and sleep. Go deeper. And don't ask about Aaron.
Why similar: Dark 28.5%, Horror 25.4%, Puzzle 18.1%, Exploration 14.1%, Action 8%
- #54 Endzone 2
67% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 28% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 12.2%, Resource Management 10.7%, Building 9.9%
- #55 After Long Night
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
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 27% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Survival 11%, Building 10.4%
- #56 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
69% 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: Colony Sim 34.7% ★, Isometric 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #57 Gord
69% matchMixed54% of 976 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1% ★, Isometric 21.2%, Survival 15%, Resource Management 14.4%, Strategy 7.2%
- #58 Terraformers
66% matchVery Positive88% of 3,606 reviews2023
Dev: Asteroid LabPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Resource Management 16.7%, Survival 16.4%, Management 12.3%, Roguelike 11.8%
- #59 Dead in Antares
66% matchVery Positive82% of 155 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Resource Management 32.1%, Survival 26.1%, Management 14.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 11.4%
- #60 The Crust
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Resource Management 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.2%