- #1 Dead In Vinland
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,826 reviews2018
Dev: Ishtar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.4 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 32.9%, RPG 14%, Strategy 12.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Turn-Based 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this game refines the survival management and RPG mechanics of the original.
- #2 Sheltered
96% matchVery Positive82% of 6,278 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: Survival 52.1%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 10.1%, RPG 7%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a group of survivors in a confined space while balancing hunger, health, and psychological needs.
- #3 Card Survival: Tropical Island
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,044 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Survival 39.1%, Simulation 13%, Crafting 12.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Turn-Based 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed, card-based survival simulation that captures the essence of island isolation and resource management.
- #4 This War of Mine
95% matchVery Positive94% of 97,585 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.8 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 58%, Strategy 9.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Management 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep management of a group of survivors where every decision impacts the morale and survival of the party.
- #5 Frostpunk
94% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
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: Survival 53.1%, Strategy 18.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 8.4%, Simulation 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes management game where you must balance the survival of a group against harsh environmental conditions.
- #6 Dead Age
94% matchVery Positive82% of 5,605 reviews2016
Dev: Silent DreamsPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!
Why similar: Survival 31.8%, RPG 17.3%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 11.1%, Turn-Based 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines turn-based combat with survival management and decision-making in a zombie-infested world.
- #7 RimWorld
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 245,287 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.6 hrsMean: 266.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Survival 48%, Management 17.3%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 14.3%, Indie 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers complex colony management where you must oversee the needs, relationships, and survival of individual characters.
- #8 The Pale Beyond
91% matchVery Positive89% of 2,234 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: Survival 44.8%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Adventure 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival management game where you lead a crew through a harsh, frozen environment.
- #9 60 Seconds! Reatomized
90% matchVery Positive94% of 19,507 reviews2019
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.
Why similar: Survival 51.6%, Management 22.8%, Strategy 20.7%, Exploration 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines frantic resource gathering with long-term survival management of a group in a bunker.
- #10 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
91% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 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: Survival 47.2%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 11.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Requires you to manage a group of survivors, build a base, and research new technologies in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #11 The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 221 reviews2018
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.
Why similar: Survival 35.8%, Simulation 21%, RPG 17.4%, Strategy 17%, Indie 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A resource management and base-building game that captures the feeling of surviving in a harsh, isolated land.
- #12 Organ Trail: Director's Cut
89% matchVery Positive88% of 3,146 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: Survival 35.1%, Strategy 24.4%, Indie 12.4%, Simulation 11.2%, RPG 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival management game that emphasizes group decision-making and resource conservation during a journey.
- #13 Infectonator: Survivors
88% matchMixed67% of 1,161 reviews2016
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"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: Survival 43.6%, Strategy 20.5%, Simulation 12.8%, RPG 11%, Indie 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Requires you to manage a group of survivors in a strategy-heavy setting with a focus on resource allocation.
- #14 Last Wood
87% matchMixed67% of 587 reviews2022
Dev: JustUsGameLab
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.
Why similar: Survival 47.3%, Simulation 28.8%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival management game where you must lead survivors on a raft, focusing on building and resource gathering.
- #15 Project Zomboid
86% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Survival 68.4%, Crafting 10%, Simulation 8%, RPG 7.5%, Indie 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep survival simulation that requires constant management of health and resources.
- #16 Darkest Dungeon®
85% matchVery Positive92% of 161,643 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 45.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Why similar: RPG 40.9%, Turn-Based 27.1%, Strategy 22.8%, Indie 7.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing the stress, health, and abilities of a party in a turn-based environment.
- #17 Zafehouse: Diaries
86% matchMixed68% of 443 reviews2013
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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: Survival 33.5%, Strategy 18.7%, Simulation 18.7%, RPG 13%, Turn-Based 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game that focuses on the relationships and survival of a group of people during an outbreak.
- #18 Stranded Deep
83% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,770 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Survival 63.6%, Crafting 16.9%, Simulation 6.2%, Adventure 5.3%, Strategy 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes the struggle of living on a deserted island.
- #19 Convoy
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,464 reviews2015
Dev: Convoy GamesPub: Indietopia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.
Why similar: Strategy 37.3%, RPG 28.8%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 13.1%, Exploration 5%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival management game that focuses on resource gathering and tactical combat.
- #20 Windbound
84% matchMixed59% of 1,175 reviews2020
Dev: 5 Lives StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 39%, RPG 23.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Crafting 12.5%, Indie 9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on island survival, crafting, and exploration in a beautiful but dangerous environment.
- #21 Evolution of Ages: Settlements
82% matchVery Positive86% of 292 reviews2018
Dev: TREON Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world. Recruit characters and level their skills and equipment from the stone age until the space age, while trying your best to avoid the very thing that led to our destruction previously.
Why similar: Strategy 22.1%, Simulation 21.4%, RPG 19.1%, Management 15.3%, Crafting 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: A management and survival game where you build and maintain a settlement over time.
- #22 State of Decay: YOSE
81% matchVery Positive82% of 13,143 reviews2015
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Survival 73.2%, RPG 9.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Crafting 6.4%, Adventure 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a community of survivors and base building in an open-world setting.
- #23 Oxygen Not Included
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Survival 51.9%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 11%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A complex simulation game where you must manage the survival needs of a group in a hostile environment.
- #24 Life in Bunker
82% matchMixed59% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Survival 42.8%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 17.6%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and survival of a group of people living in an underground bunker.
- #25 Dead in Antares
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 199 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: Survival 34.8%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 12.1%, RPG 12.1%, Management 9.8%
- #26 Dead State: Reanimated
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,562 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Survival 53.1%, RPG 17.2%, Turn-Based 12.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival management RPG that features turn-based combat and complex group dynamics.
- #27 Radiation Island
79% matchVery Positive81% of 638 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Survival 69.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Indie 7.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features survival mechanics and exploration in an open-world setting with a focus on crafting.
- #28 Forsaken Isle
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 518 reviews2025
Dev: Smoodlez
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!
Why similar: Survival 51.9%, Crafting 17%, RPG 13%, Adventure 9.7%, Indie 5.9%
- #29 SUNLESS SEA
78% matchVery Positive83% of 9,550 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 59.8%, RPG 16.3%, Adventure 9.3%, Exploration 7.5%, Indie 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and resource management with a strong narrative focus in a mysterious, dangerous world.
- #30 Bermuda Survivor
76% matchVery Positive88% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch ModePub: Awaken Realms
Windows
Bermuda Survivor is a unique blend of bullet heaven and world exploration. Your goal is to survive the hordes of enemies and discover the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle. Each run will provide you with new unlockables, story bits, NPC-related quests, and optimal paths to achieve victory!
Why similar: Survival 34.1%, Adventure 27.8%, Crafting 21.9%, Casual 7.4%, Indie 7.4%
- #31 Forsaken Fortress Strategy
80% matchMostly Negative33% of 198 reviews2015
Dev: Photon ArenaPub: KISS ltd
Windows
Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.
Why similar: Strategy 33.3%, RPG 30.3%, Simulation 25.6%, Indie 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A management and survival game that focuses on base building and party management.
- #32 Card Survival: Tropical Island - The First Days
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 79 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Simulation 25.2%, Survival 24.4%, Strategy 16.2%, Adventure 13.6%, Crafting 10.7%
- #33 Beasts of Bermuda
75% matchMixed69% of 9,734 reviews2018
Dev: Sastrei Studios, LLC
Windows
Median: 22.1 hrsMean: 336.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?
Why similar: Survival 59.6%, Simulation 24.7%, Adventure 8.3%, Indie 5.7%, RPG 1.7%
- #34 Island Notes
72% matchVery Positive82% of 896 reviews2025
Dev: KangBaoGame
Windows
Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, choose self-preservation or alliances. Master base-building, farming, fishing, romance and pet taming in this morally-charged survival simulator that blends strategy with human drama. Forge bonds, conquer nature, and evolve your humanity.
Why similar: RPG 64%, Adventure 35.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #35 Mad Island
72% matchVery Positive92% of 4,609 reviews2024
Dev: EmadePlus
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?
Why similar: Survival 60.3%, RPG 13.9%, Crafting 12.4%, Management 9.2%, Exploration 2.1%
- #36 Down in Bermuda
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,659 reviews2021
Dev: Yak & Co
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
An unnatural storm leaves an adventurous aviator stranded for decades within the infamous Bermuda. Overcome creatures of the deep and unravel the islands secrets in search of a way back home.
Why similar: Adventure 66.7%, Indie 26%, Casual 7.3%
- #37 Don't Bite Me Bro! +
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 358 reviews2018
Dev: MUIFWEGO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Don't Bite Me Bro! is a 1-4 Player Couch Co-op open-world zombie apocalypse game. Explore the world for resources, find and save survivors throughout the world, each which become playable characters with unique traits and abilities.
Why similar: Survival 33.2%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 17.6%, RPG 15.4%, Adventure 8%
- #38 Survivors: Island Adventure
70% matchVery Positive85% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: G5 Entertainment AB
Windows
Survive on a mysterious island after a plane crash! Solve match-3 puzzles, restore your camp, craft tools, grow crops, explore jungles and lagoons, uncover hidden treasures and reveal the island’s secrets!
Why similar: Adventure 34.3%, Management 27.6%, Crafting 20.7%, Casual 8.9%, Exploration 7.6%
- #39 Out of Reach
74% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Survival 63.7%, Crafting 18.9%, Simulation 7.2%, Adventure 5%, Indie 2.9%
- #40 Outbreak Island
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,082 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival 57.3%, Crafting 17%, RPG 14.5%, Adventure 6.1%, Exploration 5.1%
- #41 Rebirth of Island
74% matchMixed52% of 102 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.
Why similar: Survival 30.4%, Strategy 18.2%, RPG 16.2%, Crafting 9.6%, Adventure 8.8%
- #42 Z Dawn
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 292 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Survival 36.6%, Strategy 15.8%, RPG 14.5%, Turn-Based 14.4%, Crafting 12.9%
- #43 My Island
69% matchMixed66% of 1,734 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Survival 56.6%, Crafting 14.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Adventure 6.6%, RPG 5.7%
- #44 Peregrino
68% matchMixed69% of 199 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: RPG 25.2%, Management 24.7%, Strategy 24.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Adventure 7.5%
- #45 The Dead Await
67% matchMixed70% of 158 reviews2026
Dev: ShotxPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Survival 37.9%, Strategy 17%, RPG 16%, Crafting 15.2%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #46 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,014 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Survival 44.7%, Strategy 14.1%, RPG 13.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Adventure 7.7%
- #47 GearStorm - Armored Survival
71% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: Survival 28.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 17.8%, RPG 16.9%, Adventure 8.6%
- #48 Aground
68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,018 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Survival 54.6%, Management 20.1%, RPG 17.7%, Exploration 5.3%, Casual 2.5%
- #49 Survival: Fountain of Youth
66% matchVery Positive85% of 4,480 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Survival 51.4%, Crafting 18.6%, Simulation 16.7%, Adventure 7.6%, Exploration 4.2%
- #50 Better Late Than DEAD
73% matchMostly Negative28% of 910 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
Why similar: Survival 70.8%, Crafting 18.2%, Adventure 6.6%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #51 Surviving Ceres
67% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Why similar: Survival 36.4%, Simulation 15%, Crafting 14.5%, Management 13%, RPG 9.9%
- #52 Wayward
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,366 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
Why similar: Survival 47.7%, Crafting 15.7%, RPG 11.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Turn-Based 7.9%
- #53 Betrayal Beach
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Jared Nolen
Windows
Crashed on a strange island, survivors must forage, craft, and complete objectives to stay alive. But ferocious beasts, harsh weather, and secret saboteurs seek to make sure they never escape. Betray your friends or survive the island in Betrayal Beach, a 4-8 player social deduction survival game.
Why similar: Survival 53%, Strategy 21.3%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 6.6%, Indie 5.9%
- #54 Envy the Dead
70% matchMixed66% of 244 reviews2016
Dev: Kazakov Oleg
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Survival 27.6%, RPG 21.7%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 19%, Crafting 8.3%
- #55 Island Paradise
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: GSG
Windows
Island Paradise is a survival game where you build, upgrade, customize your own island and use nearby resources to create a home for generations to come!
Why similar: Crafting 39.1%, Strategy 22%, Simulation 20.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Exploration 8.8%
- #56 Brine
71% matchMostly Negative26% of 383 reviews2016
Dev: BrineTeam
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 15%
Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Survival 59%, Adventure 23.3%, Indie 17.6%
- #57 Faun Town
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: 游乐坊Pub: 2P Games
Windows
After crash-landing on a mysterious island with no memories of the past, set out to explore the island and scavenge for resources to build automated production lines and repair the damaged ship.
Why similar: Strategy 18.1%, Crafting 17.5%, RPG 16.5%, Simulation 16.4%, Resource Management 11.2%