
Build your forces, conquer cities, and unite the wasteland. Cataclysm Era merges real-time tactics, fast-paced top-down battles, and deep management systems to let you forge a new order from the world’s remains.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Tactical, Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Action.

Build your forces, conquer cities, and unite the wasteland. Cataclysm Era merges real-time tactics, fast-paced top-down battles, and deep management systems to let you forge a new order from the world’s remains.

Dustwind: Resistance
Dustwind: Resistance is a single-player tactical game. Lead your squad—including your dog—against a brutal raider army. Pause to plan tactics. Use overwhelming firepower, stealth, traps, turrets, or an armored car to outmaneuver enemies. Protect your home and freedom. No surrender!

Recondo
From the creator of Mud and Blood. Recondo is a hardcore real-time tactics simulation that has you leading a Ranger team behind the enemy lines during the Vietnam war. Plan missions, equip your team and patrol behind enemy lines in a procedurally generated open world.
Dustwind: Resistance is a single-player tactical game. Lead your squad—including your dog—against a brutal raider army. Pause to plan tactics. Use overwhelming firepower, stealth, traps, turrets, or an armored car to outmaneuver enemies. Protect your home and freedom. No surrender!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.1% ★, Tactical RPG 18.2%, Real Time Tactics 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Party-Based RPG 9.5%
From the creator of Mud and Blood. Recondo is a hardcore real-time tactics simulation that has you leading a Ranger team behind the enemy lines during the Vietnam war. Plan missions, equip your team and patrol behind enemy lines in a procedurally generated open world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.5%, Military 14.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, War 11.8%
Nysunder is a true hardcore, open world, FPS. It brings realistic gunplay mechanics & in-depth survival features into one package, to create intense combat. Leave your mark in the world by joining several unique factions, or simply go off-grid with your camper van. The choice is yours!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 19.3%, Military 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Gun Customization 13.6%, Zombies 10.8%
An open-world adventure RPG. Choose your favorite character, train your elite legion step by step, and crush all enemies on the battlefield. Strengthen yourself, establish a powerful family, create a great dynasty, and become the dominator of this fantasy world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 27%, Real Time Tactics 20.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Party-Based RPG 13.6%, Open World 8.4%
Explore and survive a war torn Sweden through the eyes of an unknown soldier, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Gun Customization 19.9%, Real Time Tactics 17.4%, Military 14.1%, Sandbox 13%, War 11.4%
In this top-down tactical shooter RPG, guide a band of cute soldiers through a warzone to safety. Rescue, train and manage your squad for the upcoming war of survival.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 22.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 16.6%, Tactical RPG 15.6%, Military 14.5%, War 11.9%
FallNation is a free-roaming army based RPG adventure mixing a Worldmap stage and FPS battlefield with Real Time Tactics in the middle of an apocalyptic environment where the future depends on you.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, War 12.6%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%, Zombies 10.8%
This is a sandbox game that is deeply rooted in the rich historical information of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The story of the game unfolds slowly in the eighth century BC on the vast and mysterious land of China.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 20.5% ★, Political Sim 14% ★, Military 12.6%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, War 11.8%
Exoborne is an open-world, tactical extraction shooter set in a world torn apart by extreme forces of nature. Customize powerful exo-rigs to gain strategic advantage in ever-changing weather conditions. Face hostile factions, enemy players, and Mother Nature herself in intense high-stakes sessions.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 29.2% ★, Gun Customization 14%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Open World 9.6%
Taurion is a Hybrid of MMO / RTS / 4X. Prospect, Mine, Refine, Build, Fight, Craft, Trade and play to earn. Running Fully Decentralized on the Xaya Gaming Platform.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.4%, Political Sim 22.1% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.6%, War 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads . Good luck Commander!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 30.4% ★, Real Time Tactics 19.6%, Military 15.4%, Tactical 12.3%, Gun Customization 8.5%
Band of Crusaders is a dark medieval strategy RPG in which you become Grandmaster of a knightly order and lead it against a demonic invasion of Europe. Craft your sandbox adventure - explore a vast simulated world, recruit crusaders, grow your camp, and face demons & human foes in real-time combat.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.4% ★, Tactical RPG 14.8%, Party-Based RPG 13.8%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 11%
Beautiful Light, a PvPvPvE tactical first-person extraction shooter where 6 squads of 3 operators are tasked with entering, securing, and extracting an artifact in a hostile, horrific environment. Face other operators and player-controlled anomalies, but beware: mistakes can risk your life and gear.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 29.9% ★, Gun Customization 16.3%, Military 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Tactical 9.1%
Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 29.4% ★, Gun Customization 14.8%, Military 14.6%, Tactical 10.4%, Open World 9.7%
Turn the battlefield into your ally in this tactical rogue-like with indirect controls. Assemble a unique squad, destroy the alien invaders with precise planning, and uncover the truth about the Event and the mysterious disappearance of humans.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 25.1% ★, Tactical RPG 20%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Tactical 9.5%
Take control of any nation and shape its future. Manage resources, trade, and taxes, engage in real-time warfare, navigate global diplomacy, and react to dynamic world events. Build a thriving economy, forge alliances, and command armies in a constantly evolving world!
Why similar: Political Sim 20.2% ★, Real-Time with Pause 16% ★, Real Time Tactics 15.1%, Military 12.8%, War 10.7%
Red Sea is an intense Real-time Tactics game where you control a small team of vigilantes in increasingly challenging battles. It features a Scriptable Tactics system that mixes auto-battling with manual overrides and has a ton of powerful ability interactions to discover.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 29.3% ★, Tactical RPG 22.2%, Real Time Tactics 20.3%, Party-Based RPG 11.3%, Tactical 9.4%
NovaMundi is an open world exploration game with tactical combat. Lead your party into the dangerous lands of the Andes. Recruit people in towns, explore caverns filled with dangerous spirits to gain the blessings of the land, and unite the people to stand against the invaders.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.9%, Real-Time with Pause 21% ★, Real Time Tactics 16%, Open World 10.4%, Tactical 9.7%
ARE YOU READY FOR CLASSIC REALTIME TACTICS? Be the nameless heroine in the wastelands of DUSTWIND's story campaign or find with two friends a new home or fight against and with human players in the elaborate Multiplayer mode or design your very own story campaigns and maps in the mighty map editor!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.6% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.2%, Tactical RPG 17%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Tactical 9.6%
ZERO Sievert 2 is a top-down PvE extraction shooter set in the ruined country of Zakov. Hunt alone or with a crew, face anomalies, bandits, and mutants, and make it out alive.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 30% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Military 14.4%, Top-Down Shooter 11.4%, Sandbox 11.4%
Command your Squad of Survivors in a game where Line of Sight is extremely important, you cannot shoot what you cannot see. Develop your formations, move as a unit and cover every corner. Leave no man behind!
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 23.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Real Time Tactics 18.8%, Zombies 16.9%, Survival 12.3%
The Island Rescue is an open world adventure game for survival in the end of the world. The story takes place on an island called Conavika in the South Pacific Ocean. Use all kinds of weapons to fight zombies and mercenaries, save and help virus experts.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 27.7%, Real Time Tactics 23.8%, Military 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Zombies 11.3%
A gritty, turn-based tactical sandbox set in 2002. No XP grind. No class rails. No buy-your-way skill trees. // 'They said it wasn't our war. So we made it ours.'
Why similar: Tactical RPG 21.8%, Gun Customization 16.3%, Military 15.2%, War 11%, Tactical 10.8%
Open-world survival horror game based in 2030, two years after the "cure". Build, survive, and find the truth of the horrors unknown.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 25%, Real Time Tactics 21.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Gun Customization 10.8%
A contemporary remake of the much-loved series of turn-based mercenary-themed strategy games.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.2% ★, Tactical 19.2%, Tactical RPG 16.9%, Strategy 11.7%, RPG 10.6%
Forge your epic in Huaxia: Warring States. Form your clan, conquer the lands, and build an empire. The fate of heaven & earth lies within you hands.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 20.3%, Real Time Tactics 15.7%, Military 14.7%, War 12.5%, Sandbox 10.6%
Red Sunrise is a shooter that tells about military conflicts in different parts of the world. The player, in the role of a mercenary, will have to perform various combat missions of private military companies and government agencies and other organizations in hot spots around the world
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 19.9%, Military 17.1%, Tactical RPG 15.4%, War 15.2%, Gun Customization 11.5%
With a limited number of moves, move through the selection of the direction of gravity. Defeat all enemies and escape this strange world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.9%, Top-Down Shooter 17%, Sandbox 15%, Military 13.5%, War 10.1%
The Polesie region of Eastern Europe lies quarantined after a catastrophic event transformed its landscape and inhabitants. As a lone survivor, navigate this sealed nightmare of succubi, ghouls, and twisted horrors. Uncover the truth or attempt to tame the unknown.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 32% ★, Gun Customization 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Sandbox 8%, Tactical 7.8%
No Escape from Madness is a thrilling shooting adventure game that blends Lovecraftian elements with extraction gameplay. You will guide the self-sacrificing infantry operators into the Sector where The Elder One is poised to descend.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 45.8% ★, Military 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, Top-Down Shooter 8.6%
A deadly new breed of human monster is on the rise, and it’s up to players to stop the infestation before it spreads. Breach & Clear: DEADline Rebirth is a new and greatly improved version of B&C: Deadline, the follow-up to Breach & Clear, the critically acclaimed hybrid tactical strategy game.
Why similar: Zombies 24.1%, Military 20.7%, Tactical RPG 20.5%, Real Time Tactics 20.4%, Strategy 7.5%
Blade Prince Academy is a new take on tactical RPGs, where you lead your squad of Blade Princes to defend the city of Abjectalia in real-time with pause combat. Use your team's power to devastate any threat, but be vigilant, there is always a price to pay when you make a pact with darkness.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.2% ★, Tactical RPG 23.1%, Real Time Tactics 20.4%, Party-Based RPG 11.2%, Tactical 7.1%
Defend your base against hordes of zombies while using a variety of weapons, vehicles, explosives, soldiers and turrets in this survival tower defense game. Will you be able to create your own strategy and survive for 30 days?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Zombies 15.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Tactical 12.2%, Top-Down Shooter 11.9%
★ Z-Evil Road is Advanced Tower Defense game with many mechanics, find a perfect strategy for every challenge and become master of defending base !
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, War 12.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Zombies 12%
SurvivalMission: A survival adventure that fuses real-time tactical stealth, base building, and squad recruitment. Battle rogue AI in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, gather your team, and rebuild civilization from the ashes.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 21.5%, Tactical RPG 19.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
The open-world survival role-playing game "Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse" tells the story of Delta Team and his comrades as they work to rebuild a world devastated by humans and their race turned into zombies.
Why similar: Gun Customization 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Military 16.3%, War 12.9%, Zombies 11.9%
It's the first day of the rest of your life
Why similar: Tactical RPG 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Zombies 12.3%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.7%
Engage in massive combined arms battles, create and curate combat missions in real time, and shape your experience with endless community mods. Deploy into the Cold War and experience the most authentic and immersive military sandbox ever created.
Why similar: Military 26.3%, Real Time Tactics 16.3%, War 13.7%, Sandbox 12.3%, Tactical 9.6%
Rise to power as any modern day country in a realistic military, political and economic simulation. Command your country's diplomacy, espionage, and resource management to strengthen your position. Use real-time tactical control of your military to fortify your place as the Supreme Ruler.
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 16.6% ★, Military 14.4%, War 14.2%, Political Sim 13.2% ★, Real Time Tactics 11.9%
SPECWAR Tactics is a simple game that lets you build up your ideal special operations team and command them in battle. Manage your facilities and troop roster, and lead them on missions, utilizing stealth, fire and maneuver, and CQB to overcome greater numbers with superior tactics.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 23.2%, Military 22.2%, Tactical 15.7%, Open World 10.5%, Management 9.4%
A rouge top-down bullet screen shooting game
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.2%, Military 18.1%, Top-Down Shooter 14.9%, Zombies 13.4%, Party-Based RPG 12.7%
Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 27.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 18.7%, Military 16.8%, Tactical 12.9%, War 10.9%
Step into the dangerous world of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. Lead survivors in turn-based strategy battles, manage resources, and make tough choices to ensure their survival. Fight walkers, build your base, and face endless dangers.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.5%, Real Time Tactics 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Zombies 12.8%, Party-Based RPG 12.7%
Arena Breakout: Infinite is a high-stakes tactical extraction shooter where every decision matters. Fight, loot, and extract—or lose it all. With stunningly realistic visuals, lifelike sound, and unforgiving PvPvE combat, every raid is a gamble between glory and ruin.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 37.2% ★, Gun Customization 20%, Tactical RPG 14.2%, War 8.3%, Tactical 7.9%
HeatWave is a sandbox, non-linear guerrilla group simulator set in Alaska affected by climate change. It combines mechanics of strategy, manager and adventure games. As leader of a guerilla group, you start a fight for freedom and the shape of a liberated country.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, War 15%, Open World 12.4%, Survival 10.1%
Create your own strategies, tactics and manage your resources in this survival tower defense game. Buy weapons, vehicles, explosives, soldiers, turrets and battle against huge waves of zombies. Can you survive for 25 days?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Zombies 15.4%, Real Time Tactics 14.1%, War 11.6%, Tactical 11.4%
King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.
Why similar: Political Sim 18.4% ★, Military 18.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.8%, War 12.6%, Tactical 10.7%
A turn-based tactical RPG set in a medieval city overrun by horrific creatures, where only your wits and strategies can keep you alive. Plunge into The Dark Shroud to rescue survivors, inherit the memories of the fallen, and restore the shattered "Memolith" to reclaim the lost light.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Party-Based RPG 13.8%, Tactical 10.6%, Zombies 10.6%
The world above is filled with countless walking corpses, You can only live in the dark world underground. However, they still want to destroy your only way up——The abandoned mine elevator, protect it, and also protect yourself. Wait for someone to fight alongside you.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 26.3%, Top-Down Shooter 18.9%, Sandbox 17.4%, Survival 10.7%, Zombies 8.5%
Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Sandbox 17%, Zombies 15.7%, Survival 11.3%, Open World 11%
'HollowCity' is a PvE top-down extraction shooter set in a ruined city. Solo or with up to 4 players, you must explore various zones and gather survival supplies. Hostile humans aren't the only threats to your life. Fight through monsters born from unknown causes and escape safely.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 34.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Gun Customization 17.2%, Top-Down Shooter 11%, Zombies 10.4%
Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 18.4%, Real Time Tactics 15.5%, Sandbox 15.1%, Party-Based RPG 14.4%, Open World 14%
Organize your armies, engage in battles, capture heroes, and enlist them on your epic quest to unite the factions against looming dangers. In a world brimming with cartoon fantasy, courage, and hope, your journey awaits.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 27.6%, Real Time Tactics 21.5%, Military 13.3%, War 10.4%, Tactical 8.8%
《Death Plunder-亡命掠夺者》is a 2D pixel platen survival game,You'll play as a mortal who risks everything for a treasure,Deep into the quarantined zombie island,plunder all kinds of loot and supplies To ensure survival.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 31.2% ★, Gun Customization 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Zombies 12%, Military 10.1%
Status One is a top-down 3D tactical shooter RPG where you create your own task force from scratch and lead your squad while being personally on the field
Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 28.8% ★, Tactical RPG 20.3%, Real Time Tactics 17.1%, Top-Down Shooter 11.7%, Tactical 10.6%
Plunge into a world ravaged by the dead in this hilarious co-op shooter. Blending silly antics with open-world sandbox freedom. Escape with a plethora of loot, or Die Trying!
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 36.9% ★, Gun Customization 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Zombies 10.4%, Sandbox 9.5%
Practical Shooting Simulator contains a wide variety of features for creating stages, exercise planning, and testing abilities in practical shooting. Not just a game, but a unique tool for organizers, competitors, and all enthusiasts of Practical shooting.
Why similar: Real Time Tactics 24.2%, Real-Time with Pause 15.8% ★, Gun Customization 12.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.5%, Management 11.5%
RPG extraction-shooter in a post-apocalyptic setting. Survive in the ruins of the old world, loot gear, level up skills, improve your equipment and shelter. Fight various factions, or complete missions to become their ally.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 31.8% ★, Gun Customization 19%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Top-Down Shooter 10.3%, Open World 9.6%
Guide a group of survivors trying to strive in this alien yet familiar environment. Fight against mutated creatures and use their parts to craft and upgrade your weapons.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 32.9%, Real Time Tactics 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, RPG 6.5%, Tactical 5.9%
Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.9%, Sandbox 16.1%, Open World 14.3%, Party-Based RPG 14.1%, Survival 11.4%