- #1 The Pale Beyond
97% 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: Narrative 27.9% ★, Resource Management 17.1%, Survival 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the intense party management and moral weight of survival decisions found in Ashwalkers.
- #2 This War of Mine
96% matchVery Positive94% of 96,656 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Why similar: Survival 38%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Resource Management 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Management 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the definitive experience for managing limited resources while facing agonizing moral choices in a war-torn setting.
- #3 Survive the Blackout
96% matchMixed64% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Baby Bison Games
Windows
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.1%, Survival 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival game that shares the same focus on managing a group through a post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #4 End of Lines
95% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Survival 11%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn narrative adventure that focuses heavily on the emotional toll of survival and difficult choices.
- #5 NEO Scavenger
94% matchVery Positive90% of 5,359 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 50.1%, Survival 43.4%, Indie 4.1%, Adventure 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, turn-based survival experience where every choice and resource counts in a desolate wasteland.
- #6 The Long Dark
94% matchVery Positive90% of 117,376 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Survival 54.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Survival Horror 7.8%, Adventure 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled atmospheric survival experience where the environment itself is your greatest adversary.
- #7 Roadwarden
93% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Adventure 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines text-heavy narrative exploration with survival elements in a harsh, unforgiving world.
- #8 ICY: Frostbite Edition
92% matchVery Positive86% of 400 reviews2017
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.
Why similar: Survival 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Indie 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival RPG set in a frozen wasteland that relies heavily on interactive fiction and moral decision-making.
- #9 Frostpunk
91% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.8%, Resource Management 27.8%, Survival 25.6%, Choices Matter 6.1%, Management 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the societal and moral dilemmas of leading a group through an extreme, frozen survival scenario.
- #10 Dyscourse
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Survival 22.4%, Choices Matter 21%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival adventure that focuses on branching paths and the consequences of group decisions after a disaster.
- #11 7Days Origins
89% matchVery Positive86% of 342 reviews2021
Dev: Buff Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Multiple Endings 18.1%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Stylized 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A story-rich horror game that utilizes a choice-based system similar to interactive fiction to determine your survival.
- #12 March of the Living
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 536 reviews2016
Dev: Machine 22Pub: Creaky Corpse Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Survival Horror 22.6%, Survival 21.8%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 14.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival road trip game that forces you to make tough calls while managing your party's health and supplies.
- #13 The Banner Saga
89% matchVery Positive89% of 15,850 reviews2014
Dev: StoicPub: Stoic Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Why similar: Choices Matter 49.5%, Indie 24.6%, Atmospheric 16.1%, Adventure 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a caravan-based journey where party management and narrative choices determine who lives and who dies.
- #14 Citizen Sleeper
86% matchVery Positive93% of 9,761 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Narrative 45.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Multiple Endings 15%, Conversation 8.1%, Atmospheric 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy survival game that emphasizes character-driven choices and resource management in a decaying world.
- #15 Waste Walkers
88% matchVery Positive81% of 212 reviews2015
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Survival 22.3%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Adventure 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival RPG that emphasizes the harsh realities of life in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #16 Epimutation
86% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Barbieronpa
Windows · Mac · Linux
399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction game that blends horror and choice-based mechanics to create a tense survival atmosphere.
- #17 A Place for the Unwilling
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 67 reviews2019
Dev: ALPixel Games
Windows · Mac
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.
Why similar: Choices Matter 37.5%, Adventure 22.1%, Mystery 15.3%, Indie 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven adventure where your choices shape the fate of a dying city, echoing the non-linear nature of Ashwalkers.
- #18 Last Broadcast
84% matchVery Positive80% of 97 reviews2023
Dev: The Disc JockeysPub: USC Games
Windows
An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choices Matter 13%
Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven narrative game that features multiple endings based on the decisions you make throughout the story.
- #19 Arctic Awakening
82% matchVery Positive87% of 312 reviews2025
Dev: GoldFire Studios
Windows · Mac
A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.
Why similar: Narrative 39.8% ★, Choices Matter 12.9%, Survival 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Conversation 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival thriller that focuses on the emotional journey of a survivor in a frozen environment.
- #20 Dustbowl
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 123 reviews2015
Dev: The Pompous Pixel
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world where the player must search for food, water and essential supplies to survive. Discover a world filled with colourful NPCs, quests and secrets.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 54%, Survival 20.3%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 10%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic RPG that captures the bleak, narrative-focused tone of a world struggling to survive.
- #21 Sheltered
84% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 37.5%, Survival 34.1%, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 9.5%, Indie 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: A resource management game that forces you to make brutal decisions to keep your family alive in a post-apocalyptic shelter.
- #22 SUNLESS SEA
83% matchVery Positive83% of 9,470 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Why similar: Survival 50.1%, Dark 18.5%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Adventure 12.5%, Indie 6%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that prioritizes narrative exploration and the consequences of your choices in a dark, mysterious world.
- #23 Survivor's guilt
82% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: あみそ組
Windows
A great earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 occurred. The day when rescue arrives is unknown. Make full use of your smart phone and the supplies you have left, and continue to fight against the hunger and fear that is attacking you.
Why similar: Resource Management 19.4%, Survival 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror game that emphasizes inventory management and the psychological weight of survival.
- #24 35MM
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,306 reviews2016
Dev: Носков Сергей
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Post-apocalyptic story about two travelers who set out on a long journey in the wasteland, left by people after the global epidemic.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.7%, Survival Horror 24.9%, Multiple Endings 20.3%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Atmospheric 7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic journey that prioritizes atmosphere and the experience of travel over traditional gameplay.
- #25 BlightFog
79% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Zakroutil
Windows
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.1%, Resource Management 19.1%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Dark 7%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-rich RPG that explores themes of survival and moral decay in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #26 Nocturnals
78% matchVery Positive88% of 877 reviews2024
Dev: Cowboy Toad Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short, choose your own adventure game about two boys that find each other in a lonely, post-apocalyptic town.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A short, choice-heavy horror game that explores the consequences of decisions in a dark, post-apocalyptic world.
- #27 Organ Trail: Director's Cut
80% matchVery Positive88% of 3,135 reviews2013
Dev: The Men Who Wear Many Hats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 58.9%, Survival 23.3%, Indie 10.6%, Adventure 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A classic post-apocalyptic road trip survival game that emphasizes resource management and difficult moral trade-offs.
- #28 Death Road to Canada
79% matchVery Positive93% of 10,135 reviews2016
Dev: Rocketcat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
Why similar: Survival 84.9%, Indie 15.1%
Why You'll Like It: A road trip survival game that uses randomized events to force players into difficult, choice-based scenarios.
- #29 Z-End
81% matchMixed57% of 53 reviews2017
Dev: Smart Tale GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Z-End is a multiple choice narrative game. During the zombie apocalypse, you'll encounter the mysterious Faye while searching for new members.What secrets is she hiding? Will she join you? Will you be able to overcome the danger of this world?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 63.8%, Adventure 22.8%, Indie 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic adventure that focuses on the narrative journey through a world filled with danger.
- #30 Dead in Antares
76% 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 26%, Survival 21%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #31 AsHes
78% matchMixed62% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Yanmo Games
Windows
This horror game inspired by Chinese folklore offers an enthralling journey through the depths of the Underworld. As you delve deeper, you'll unravel hidden secrets veiled in the darkness.
Why similar: Survival 38.2%, Survival Horror 20.7%, Mystery 13.4%, Adventure 9.6%, Atmospheric 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: An indie adventure that captures the lonely, survival-focused feel of a world after the collapse.
- #32 BLACKSHARD
76% matchVery Positive93% of 402 reviews2025
Dev: Redlock Studio
Windows
BLACKSHARD is a first-person exploration game. Wander through a strange megastructure, the Labyrinth, to unravel its mysteries... Your behavior within the Labyrinth will define the outcome of your journey. What path will you choose to take?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Multiple Endings 27.9%, Mystery 15.3%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Adventure 9%
- #33 Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
77% matchVery Positive99% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Survival Horror 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%
- #34 翎之歌
75% matchVery Positive90% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: YuKi制作组Pub: 崩溃猛犸
Windows
《Song of Feathers》 is a deeply immersive post apocalyptic survival adventure game. In this world shrouded in the shadow of the apocalypse, Players will play as the last human in this desperate land, searching for the meaning of survival and the opportunity to rebuild civilization.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Survival 16.8%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Emotional 8.6%
- #35 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
73% matchVery Positive94% of 4,386 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Why similar: Survival 47.4%, Post-apocalyptic 38.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 4.1%
- #36 Sub-Verge
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Tragedy, LimitedPub: Pantaloon
Windows · Mac
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Why similar: Narrative 39.2% ★, Survival 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #37 Insurmountable
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 947 reviews2021
Dev: ByteRockers' GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!
Why similar: Resource Management 24.9%, Survival 20.4%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Management 12.6%, Stylized 9.4%
- #38 Ascent of Ashes
73% 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: Survival 61.6%, Management 38.4%
- #39 Ashes
77% matchMixed63% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: FurGoldGames
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Chaos and devastation devoured the last sparkles of life. Surviving is the main task.
Why similar: Survival 46.9%, Adventure 32%, Indie 21.1%
- #40 Peregrino
71% 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: Survival Horror 41.1%, Management 23.9%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Stylized 9.9%, Adventure 8%
- #41 Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,656 reviews2019
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 43%, Survival 16.2%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Mystery 6.4%
- #42 Sheltered 2
73% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.7%, Resource Management 28.8%, Survival 24.3%, Management 9.4%, Indie 1.4%
- #43 Survive In Russia
74% matchMixed65% of 57 reviews2020
Dev: Alexander Sablin
Windows · Mac
Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, Survival 16.9%, Choices Matter 16%, Nonlinear 9.9%
- #44 Broken Roads
72% matchMixed53% of 436 reviews2024
Dev: Drop Bear BytesPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 45.3%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Nonlinear 9.1%, Adventure 6.1%
- #45 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
69% matchVery Positive82% of 338 reviews2025
Dev: EXLIXPub: GRAVITY
Windows
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 44%, Multiple Endings 24.8%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Adventure 9.8%
- #46 Chornobyl Liquidators
71% matchMixed48% of 653 reviews2024
Dev: Live Motion GamesPub: Frozen Way
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Chornobyl Liquidators is not a fantastic tale of exploring the Zone. It's a story about real people facing a real threat — the CNPP disaster. Invisible radiation, KGB, difficult moral choices... Do you have enough courage and strength to take on this challenge?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.4%, Survival 20.3%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Emotional 8.6%
- #47 Gods Will Be Watching
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,923 reviews2014
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.1%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Survival 19.3%, Dark 12.9%, Adventure 10.4%
- #48 Sandwalkers
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 517 reviews2025
Dev: Goblinz StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Build your team, traverse varied hostile environments, face countless dangers, and gain knowledge that will help you find and resurrect the Mother Tree Umama.
Why similar: Survival 100%
- #49 BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 684 reviews2020
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.8%, Multiple Endings 22.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Mystery 10.4%, Adventure 8.2%
- #50 The Story of The Flood
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: ZHANG FANPub: SHEN JIAWEI
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gods decide to bring the flood of water upon the earth. Salvage what you think is valuable and bring it back to base. It's a psychological test of the apocalypse, also an interactive experiment about trade-offs.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Survival 19.8%, Multiple Endings 18.9%, Choices Matter 14.6%
- #51 Vagrus - The Riven Realms
68% matchVery Positive85% of 1,691 reviews2021
Dev: Lost Pilgrims StudioPub: Lost Pilgrims Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
Why similar: Narrative 42.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Resource Management 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #52 The Last Haven
68% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 41.8%, Survival 22.3%, Resource Management 17.6%, Indie 5.9%, Management 5.3%
- #53 While We Wait Here
65% matchVery Positive89% of 2,242 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Multiple Endings 23.3%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Mystery 9.9%
- #54 Empathy: Path of Whispers
70% matchMixed60% of 219 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel NightPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
Why similar: Adventure 50.4%, Atmospheric 28.8%, Indie 20.7%
- #55 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
66% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Management 5.4%, Adventure 4.3%
- #56 Choose Wisely
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: ID Card
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This game features no specific hero. You, as the player, can decide who makes it out alive. Your actions determine the outcome of the game. In total there are 9 playable characters and more than 50 different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.7%, Multiple Endings 25.6%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Mystery 8.4%, Adventure 8.4%
- #57 7th Chance
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Drewid GamesPub: Stasis Booth Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Emotional 7.6%, Adventure 7.4%
- #58 Lost Scavenger
69% matchMixed54% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: Rockbee
Windows
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 45.4%, Survival 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%
- #59 Apocalypse Love Shelter
67% matchMixed65% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: AMEI Network Technology
Windows
Zombie apocalypse world! You built a shelter in advance, and countless girls wanted to enter your shelter for self-protection. Female neighbor, flight attendant, female boss, celebrity... All beings are equal before the end of time.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Survival 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #60 Dead In Vinland
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,795 reviews2018
Dev: Ishtar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Survival 40.6%, Resource Management 27.2%, Adventure 12.2%, Management 7.1%, Indie 6.5%