- #1 Warranted Humanity
97% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Jovano Software
Windows
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 36.1% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%, Survival 6.8%
- #2 Last Rail
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LunaGames
Windows · Linux
Lead a train carrying the last survivors of humanity across a frozen world. Manage resources, explore abandoned locations, and make difficult decisions that will determine the future of Convoy 07.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%, Strategy 6.3%, Management 5.7%
- #3 The Last Few
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DroniX Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage a base of survivors during the zombie apocalypse. Send squads on sorties on a real map of any city in the world, make decisions via radio when they get into trouble and remember: you are powerless outside the radio range. Build modules, defend the perimeter and don't let the base die.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.2% ★, Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Zombies 6.9%
- #4 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
95% matchMixed68% of 439 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.4%, Base Building 6.1%, Strategy 6%
- #5 Zombie Colony
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31.9% ★, Colony Sim 26.8%, Zombies 10.6%, Strategy 6.5%, Management 5.5%
- #6 Zombie Cure Lab
94% matchMixed68% of 468 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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 30.3% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, Economy 10%, Base Building 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 6.7%
- #7 Project Apocalypse
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Sargonius Games
Windows
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 28.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 8%, Economy 7.2%
- #8 Zombie Motel 96
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OFFtheREAL
Windows
ZOMBIE MOTEL 96 is a tycoon at the end of the world. You check in, ration, quarantine, evict, scavenge and shoot to keep a roadside motel running. Every guest is one more gun on the fence, one more mouth to feed, one more noise the horde can hear. So, manager: how many people, for how many weeks?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Economy 12.1%, Management 9.3%, Zombies 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
- #9 Moonlit Nights
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Umut Bora
Windows · Mac · Linux
Moonlit Nights is a base management game set in a zombie apocalypse world. Form raiding parties and send them out to gather supplies, deal with mysterious visitors, and make difficult choices. How many days can you survive, or can you be freed and return to your normal life? Make your choice wisely.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 48.5% ★, Colony Sim 24.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Zombies 5.7%, Survival 4.6%
- #10 After Inc: Revival
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,512 reviews2026
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 35.6% ★, Colony Sim 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8%, Base Building 7.6%, Zombies 7.1%
- #11 Infection Free Zone
89% matchVery Positive81% of 18,697 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Zombies 9.3%
- #12 Mad Tower Tycoon
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 445 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31% ★, Colony Sim 19%, Economy 12.6%, Trading 9.9%, Management 9.5%
- #13 Undead Defense TD
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sugradh_Dev
Windows
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.3%, Military 8.3%, Zombies 7.8%, Base Building 6.8%
- #14 Dark Moon
88% matchMixed47% of 162 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 25.8%, Economy 15.6%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
- #15 Morvus
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mohiko Games
Windows
Your monastery is the last hope for those with nowhere else to go. Supplies are running out. You cannot save everyone. Every day, you decide who to help and try to save not only their lives but your own soul.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.2% ★, Colony Sim 27.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Management 5.3%, Survival 3.4%
- #16 Never Secure
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.8%, Outbreak Sim 18.5% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #17 Chernobyl 1986
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Detalion Games S.A.
Windows
Chernobyl 1986 is a decision-based game about one of the largest nuclear power plant disasters in history. Play as the manager of a nuclear power plant in a time of a serious crisis that can cost millions of lives.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 31.2% ★, Economy 12.3%, Management 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Survival 7.8%
- #18 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
86% matchVery Positive86% of 2,050 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 23.8% ★, Colony Sim 22.2%, Base Building 8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%, Management 7.2%
- #19 Zombie Survival
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sleepy Dragon Games Inc.
Windows
The theme is literally zombie survival. No Humans Allowed, except as the main course. An apocalyptic city building survival game where you grow the zombie horde and take over the world.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 42.7% ★, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 7.3%, Management 7.1%, Zombies 6.8%
- #20 Doomsday Train
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PAOGE
Windows
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.4%, Outbreak Sim 18.1% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Management 9.3%, Survival 9.2%
- #21 Quarantine
84% 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 71.6% ★, Strategy 8.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.8%, Survival 7.1%, Simulation 3.1%
- #22 Marked
82% 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 63.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Choices Matter 4.2%
- #23 NEED: No End
79% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: PopcornPub: Popcorn Forge
Windows
Build and upgrade production loops, manage resources and workers, and expand your realm. Trade, adapt and survive hunger, pressure, decay, and threats in a tense, multi-layered strategy game where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Trading 15.2%, Economy 13.3%, Management 11.8%, Survival 7.5%
- #24 Evil Labs
82% 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 79% ★, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 4.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #25 By Royal Charter
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Dovren Games
Windows
Build a colony one card at a time in an approachable turn-based strategy game. Buy facility cards, place them on a board-like map, connect production chains, and fulfil royal commissions as you rise through the ranks of the Colonial Office.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Economy 12.2%, Trading 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, Management 8.9%
- #26 Just A Flu
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TheSociopathSoftware
Windows
Just A Flu is a strategy simulation game about fighting the deadly fast spreading disease. Decide how to deal with infected people, when to close transport hubs, declare quarantine, or lockdown. Can you not only stop pandemic but avoid panic and not destroy the economy, causing more harm?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.2% ★, Economy 11.9%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #27 Day Zero
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Z Industries
Windows
The President is dead. As the least incompetent cabinet member, you have been charged with leading the US response to the escalating zombie crisis. Day Zero is a real-time strategy game about managing a rapidly emerging zombie apocalypse from the White House command bunker.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 55.4% ★, Zombies 10.1%, Management 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #28 Infect and Destroy
81% 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 80% ★, Zombies 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%, Survival 3.5%, Simulation 3.5%
- #29 40 Days [四十天]
81% 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 85.6% ★, Strategy 6.4%, Management 4.4%, Simulation 3.6%
- #30 Patient Zero: Plague Idle
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Game GangstersPub: Brightika, Inc.
Windows
Patient Zero: Plague Idle is an idle / incremental outbreak builder where you create the perfect pathogen through mutation trees, global infection, long-term upgrades, and new pathogen unlocks. Turn the world into your lab.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 44.7% ★, Colony Sim 16.1%, Economy 14%, Management 10%, Strategy 5.1%
- #31 Novo: The Colony
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Broken Future Games
Windows
Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Trading 8.2%, Management 7.6%
- #32 Plague Inc: Evolved
78% 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 71% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Zombies 5.9%, Simulation 4.9%, Post-apocalyptic 3.6%
- #33 Echoes: Unforgotten
76% 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 33.5% ★, Economy 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Survival 10%, Strategy 9.8%
- #34 Constant Pressure
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ganduspl
Windows
After a nuclear disaster, you must take cover in an abandoned bunker. Play with friends, gather supplies by day and fight fearsome creatures by night.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 47.8% ★, Colony Sim 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 5.4%
- #35 One More Island
76% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Trading 17%, Economy 15.3%, Base Building 10.6%, Management 10.2%
- #36 Total City Defence
75% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Imprint Gaming
Windows
Total City Defense is a zombie themed survival game where you must complete each level to progress. Using the mouse and keyboard you control various units, including Troops, Turrets and Drones to make your way through each level rescuing civilians, VIPS and destroying enemy strong holds.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.5% ★, Colony Sim 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%, Strategy 6.8%, Survival 3.4%
- #37 Weed Inc.
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: World Map Tycoon
Windows
Weed Inc. is a global strategy simulation. Build a cannabis strain from fragments, introduce it to legal markets, and spread it country by country. Turn Consumers into Addicts, contain the Side Effects, and stay ahead of an escalating Global Response.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 52.6% ★, Management 11.5%, Economy 11%, Strategy 9.4%, Resource Management 5.3%
- #38 Dying Reign
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bryce
Windows · Mac · Linux
Disease spreads across your lands, destabilizing regions, draining your resources, and testing your authority. Quarantine cities, draft troops, balance fear and order… but every choice comes at a cost.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.8% ★, Colony Sim 27.2%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 4.2%, Resource Management 2.9%
- #39 Zomboard
72% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Outbreak Sim 18.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Zombies 9.2%, Strategy 8.4%
- #40 Zombies Aren't Real
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jogamedev
Windows
Zombies aren't Real is a horde-defense, strategy game where you deploy military forces in an attempt to quell a quick-spreading zombie infection and save as many civilians as you can!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 59.5% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Military 11.4%, Management 8.2%, Zombies 4.5%
- #41 Dwellers of Terra
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: McJz
Windows
A first-person survival colony sim. Scavenge, craft and repair a broken colony. Recruit survivors to help you produce valuable resources and defend against a constant barrage of deadly attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Outbreak Sim 16% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Zombies 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
- #42 Sheltered 2
73% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 32.2%, Base Building 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Survival 11.7%, Management 8.9%
- #43 Trojan Inc.
74% 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 87.9% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 4.3%
- #44 Echo Maiden
71% 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 67% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 4.5%, Simulation 4%
- #45 Rows Of Earth
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Glasworks Studios
Windows
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Base Building 16.7%, Zombies 12.1%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 8.3%
- #46 Corona Simulator
73% 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 55.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 7%, Strategy 6.7%, Survival 6%
- #47 Lord Of Anatolia
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Mustafa Aykut Karacan
Windows
Lead a 14th-century Anatolian tribe from a small camp to a great Sancak. Build your dynasty, manage characters with real personalities, survive seasons and raids — a deep colony management game. Made solo over 2 years.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Outbreak Sim 21.4% ★, Military 14.9%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 9.9%
- #48 The Gaming Cafe
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BiliciPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Build, run, and grow your own Gaming Cafe. Set up gaming stations, manage customer flow, and boost profits by selling drinks and shelf products.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 43.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.9%, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 7.1%
- #49 SeaColony
68% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Economy 13.7%, Management 11.7%, Survival 10.3%
- #50 Mutant Meltdown
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 49 reviews2022
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mutant Meltdown is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of mutants, build and upgrade your camp, face hordes of mutants and much more!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 38.2% ★, Colony Sim 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.1%, Management 6.3%, Post-apocalyptic 5.3%
- #51 Oxygen: First Breath
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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 28.4%, Base Building 15%, Economy 14.3%, Survival 9.8%, Management 9.6%
- #52 Cloud Exiles
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 27.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 13.8%, Zombies 10.5%, Survival 10.4%
- #53 Saints of the Fallen Cross
68% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Curtis Ashford
Windows
Blast through an intense top-down zombie survival experience. Scavenge, craft, build, and fight endless hordes of the undead. With heroism, deep progression, and dynamic combat, carve your story in a brutal post-apocalypse. Forge alliances or stand alone—how long can you outlast the rising terror?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 50.6% ★, Economy 13.7%, Management 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #54 The Blighted Frontier
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Management 11.5%, Survival 7.4%, Strategy 7.3%
- #55 Mistlands: Wheats & Demons
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silence Studios
Windows
Become a mayor of a small town in a medieval city builder with advanced villager management. Develop a settlement in lands teeming with demons and other evil spirits. Consider the traits, desires and abilities of residents to survive and prosper.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Trading 13.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 11.5%, Management 10.3%
- #56 Bio Inc. Classic
67% 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 73.7% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 7.6%, Atmospheric 3.2%, 2D 2.9%
- #57 CorruptedZ
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JMVGames
Windows
Lead a handful of survivors through the zombie apocalypse. Raise a colony from the ruins, ration every scrap of food and water, research lost tech, and hold the line against night hordes — and raiders who want their cut. Every survivor ages, sickens, and matters. How long can your camp last?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 51.6% ★, Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.4%, Strategy 5%
- #58 Resilient
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNRDEV
Windows
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Outbreak Sim 18.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Management 9.2%
- #59 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
69% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36.2%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Economy 7.5%
- #60 Drownlight
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Economy 12%, Base Building 12%, Management 9.1%, Survival 9%