Games Like Dead Age

The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Zombies 26.4%, Party-Based RPG 12.3%, Turn-Based 12.1%, Turn-Based Combat 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it expands upon the turn-based combat and survival mechanics of the original with more depth and polish.

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 39.9%, Survival 15.1%, Turn-Based 14.1%, RPG 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep, turn-based tactical experience focused on managing a group of survivors in a realistic zombie apocalypse.

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: Turn-Based 20.1%, Survival 19.1%, RPG 17.6%, Turn-Based Combat 15.7%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the core loop of managing a small group of survivors, balancing their needs, and making difficult narrative choices.

Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors from the doomed city of Riga towards a ferry sailing across the North Sea. Scavenge for supplies, battle the undead, decide the fate of your team. What are you willing to sacrifice in order to survive?

Why similar: Zombies 28.1%, Party-Based RPG 14.5%, Survival 13.4%, Turn-Based Combat 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, party-based RPG that captures the same desperate, roguelite feel of surviving a zombie outbreak.

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: Zombies 27.7%, Survival 13.4%, Turn-Based 9.5%, Turn-Based Combat 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival roguelike that emphasizes exploration and resource management in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic city.

HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.

Why similar: Zombies 32.9%, Turn-Based 18%, Survival 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, turn-based game that focuses on the difficulty of managing limited resources and positioning during zombie encounters.

Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Why similar: Zombies 33.5%, Survival 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, RPG 11.1%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused roguelite that forces players to make tough moral choices while traveling through a zombie-ridden landscape.

DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.

Why similar: Survival 31.6%, RPG 17.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 11.4%, Turn-Based 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same management-heavy gameplay as Dead In Vinland, focusing on keeping a group alive in a survival scenario.

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: Zombies 32.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 16.3%, RPG 12.2%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with zombie survival, requiring strategic planning to reclaim territory.

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: Survival 22.7%, Turn-Based 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, RPG 10.6%, Roguelike 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, turn-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging and crafting to stay alive in a hostile, unforgiving world.

Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.

Why similar: Zombies 21.1%, Turn-Based 14.9%, Turn-Based Combat 12.7%, Survival 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that emphasizes survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Z Dawn 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 zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!

Why similar: Turn-Based 17.5%, Zombies 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.3%, Survival 11.3%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game where you manage a camp of survivors and scavenge for resources to survive the undead.

You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.

Why similar: Zombies 32.1%, Survival 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, RPG 10.2%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy survival game that focuses on scavenging and building relationships with other survivors.

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: Turn-Based Combat 35%, Turn-Based 17.9%, RPG 14.9%, Dungeon Crawler 11.7%, Roguelike 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: While not zombie-themed, its focus on party management, permadeath, and turn-based combat provides a similar sense of dread and tactical challenge.

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 43.5%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 10.7%, RPG 8.8%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused survival game that tasks you with leading a group of survivors through a world overrun by zombies.

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: Survival 35.1%, Post-apocalyptic 27.7%, RPG 10.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Crafting 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a family in a fallout shelter, emphasizing resource scarcity and base maintenance.

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 41.2%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Roguelite 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced roguelite that focuses on managing a group of survivors with unique abilities to fight off zombie waves.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 43%, Survival 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Roguelite 6.2%, Crafting 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game that encourages exploration and scavenging while dealing with the constant threat of infection.

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 50.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A somber survival game that forces players to make difficult moral decisions while managing the needs of civilians in a war-torn city.

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Why similar: Zombies 36.4%, Survival 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, RPG 10.8%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival RPG that focuses on building a community and managing resources in a post-apocalyptic environment.

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 37%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Survival 23%, Adventure 5.2%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on resource management and narrative progression while traveling by train.

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: Zombies 55.4%, Survival 17.1%, RPG 9.5%, Roguelike 7.7%, Roguelite 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A road-trip survival game that features permadeath, resource management, and chaotic combat against zombie hordes.

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...

Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, Turn-Based 13.6%, Survival 13.2%, RPG 11%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique strategy game that focuses on managing survivors inside a house while planning their movements through a zombie-infested town.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 45%, Survival 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, RPG 6.1%, Crafting 5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive zombie survival simulation that offers unparalleled depth in scavenging, crafting, and base management.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 50.5%, Survival 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, RPG 6.1%, Simulation 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes base-building and managing a community of survivors.

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: Survival 38.3%, Strategy 18.3%, Roguelite 14.9%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on managing a group of survivors in a harsh environment while dealing with psychological threats.

Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 37.1%, RPG 18.5%, Survival 10.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation game that tasks you with managing a group of survivors and their camp during a zombie apocalypse.

ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.

Why similar: Turn-Based 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Survival 16.6%, Turn-Based Combat 14.4%, RPG 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, post-apocalyptic RPG that captures the gritty, choice-driven nature of survival in a ruined world.

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 51.9%, Survival 26.8%, RPG 8.3%, Crafting 7.1%, Adventure 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on crafting and base-building to withstand waves of zombies.

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: Turn-Based 42.3%, RPG 21.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Adventure 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed, its focus on party management, turn-based combat, and difficult narrative choices mirrors the structure of Dead Age.

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Zombies 22.3%, Survival 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, RPG 7.9%, Turn-Based Combat 7.6%

Delve into the diverse world of horror movies in this 2D action puzzler. Nothing can prepare you for the R-rated challenges you will face!

Why similar: Action 100%

Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 27.5%, RPG 22.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based 13%, Roguelike 9.1%

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Why similar: Zombies 38.1%, Survival 18%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Crafting 8.5%

DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is a new standalone horror game that takes place in the DreadOut universe. In this missing chapter, you will help Linda face the challenges of the DreadOut world with even more dangers lurking within.

Why similar: Adventure 44.9%, Indie 28.1%, Survival 27%

Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 24.5%, Turn-Based 15.9%, Turn-Based Combat 11.2%, Survival 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.

Why similar: Survival 27.5%, Adventure 25.4%, Zombies 20.6%, Indie 16.8%, Singleplayer 5.3%

When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 25.1%, Turn-Based 21.4%, RPG 16.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 39.9%, Survival 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, RPG 14.1%, Strategy 4.8%

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Zombies 37.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Survival 13.6%, Strategy 7.9%, Roguelike 7.8%

Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.

Why similar: Zombies 35.9%, Turn-Based Combat 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, RPG 11.4%, Strategy 8.2%

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes.

Why similar: Simulation 31.1%, Crafting 23.9%, RPG 18.9%, Indie 11.8%, Casual 10.9%

Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! is a whacky space exploration game where you manage your very own spaceship, craft hundreds of weapons, and explore the vastness of a veggie-filled universe.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 31.6%, Survival 17.1%, Simulation 12.5%, RPG 12.2%, Strategy 11.5%

Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?

Why similar: Zombies 38.6%, Survival 33.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Roguelike 6.1%, Procedural Generation 4.3%

Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.

Why similar: Zombies 28.5%, Party-Based RPG 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Survival 13.2%, RPG 12%

Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 21.4%, RPG 21.4%, Turn-Based 21.1%, Strategy 13.8%, Dungeon Crawler 7.7%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 44.9%, RPG 18.2%, Indie 9.8%, Survival 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%

Get ready to experience the thrills and chills of The Dead Await: Prologue, a free and fully functional demo! Build your deck and try to survive in this deck-building survival RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 27.7%, Party-Based RPG 13.5%, Turn-Based Combat 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Survival 11.6%

Lead your people. Survive the wilderness. Fight for honor. Reclaim your eternal reward. A brand new strategy game from the developers of Cultures and The Settlers II.

Why similar: Strategy 53.1%, Simulation 33.1%, Indie 12.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Guide a group of unprepared strangers through the apocalypse, in Dead Season, a turn-based tactics adventure, created by the one-man studio Snail Bite. Plan carefully to outlast swarming zombie hordes, but remember: noise attracts danger. Can you escape the outbreak's deadly grip?

Why similar: Zombies 42.8%, Turn-Based Combat 25.3%, RPG 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%, Strategy 8.1%

Survive the zombie apocalypse and make humanity's last stand in this three-game legacy bundle, revamped for modern hardware. Explore, build, and survive for as long as you can in The Last Stand, The Last Stand 2, and The Last Stand: Union City.

Why similar: Zombies 48.8%, Post-apocalyptic 23.4%, Survival 19.1%, Action 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%

A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 23%, Turn-Based 19.9%, RPG 11.9%, Dungeon Crawler 10%, Strategy 8.5%

Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!

Why similar: Zombies 38.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, RPG 16.2%, Simulation 8.6%, Survival 8.3%

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Why similar: Turn-Based 23.6%, Turn-Based Combat 20.9%, RPG 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Strategy 9%

In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!

Why similar: Zombies 35.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Survival 14.1%, RPG 11%, Roguelike 7.2%

1 Bit Survivor is a unique blend of turn-based combat and survival horror! Carefully manage your resources to solve procedurally generated combat puzzles. Survive 28 Days and save your Pet Cat from the Zed-pocalpyse!

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 22.5%, Zombies 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Dungeon Crawler 9%, Roguelike 8.3%

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Strategy 34.6%, Simulation 26.9%, RPG 15.2%, Indie 9.4%, Adventure 7.9%

Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!

Why similar: Turn-Based 29.2%, RPG 23.2%, Turn-Based Combat 17.4%, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 6.1%

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 47.4%, Survival 16.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.7%, Action 4.9%

Cards of the Dead is a survival card game. Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Zombies 31.2%, Turn-Based 19.1%, Survival 12.8%, RPG 9.5%, Strategy 6.6%