Games Like Dead In Vinland

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 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 shares the exact core mechanics of survival, resource management, and character relationship building.

Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.

Why similar: Turn-Based 36.9%, Survival 20.7%, RPG 15.7%, Strategy 15.3%, Resource Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, turn-based strategy, and RPG elements in a dark, mythological setting that mirrors the gameplay loop of Dead In Vinland.

Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?

Why similar: Turn-Based 33.6%, Vikings 24.3% ★, RPG 18.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Turn-Based Combat 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, historically-grounded Viking RPG experience with tactical turn-based combat and management elements.

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 53.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Management 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in survival management where you must make brutal moral choices to keep a group of survivors alive in a hostile environment.

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 39.1%, Vikings 20.3% ★, RPG 16.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Adventure 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a stunning Viking-inspired art style, narrative-heavy decision-making, and tactical turn-based combat.

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 40.8%, Resource Management 23.7%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 6.2%, Management 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the extreme pressure of resource management and difficult societal choices in a freezing, unforgiving world.

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 46.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 11%, RPG 10.4%, Management 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival management game that shares the focus on keeping a small group of survivors alive against overwhelming odds.

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 33%, Turn-Based 27.3%, RPG 12%, Perma Death 10.8%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival RPG that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and tactical combat in a desolate, unforgiving wasteland.

Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.

Why similar: Turn-Based 26.6%, RPG 23.2%, Survival 19.5%, Turn-Based Combat 11.7%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging turn-based RPG that emphasizes survival mechanics like hunger, thirst, and injury management in a gritty world.

Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

Why similar: RPG 24.5%, Turn-Based 21%, Turn-Based Combat 19.1%, Survival 15.2%, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A mercenary management game that emphasizes party survival, resource gathering, and tactical combat in an open world.

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: Survival 28.9%, Resource Management 18.7%, RPG 14.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival management game that tasks you with sustaining a group of civilians during a brutal siege, mirroring the resource-scarcity gameplay.

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 26.4%, Turn-Based 20.2%, Perma Death 13.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed survival simulation that uses a card-based interface to manage health, hunger, and crafting on a deserted island.

Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

Why similar: RPG 33.2%, Strategy 27%, Simulation 22.5%, Adventure 14.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, turn-based tactical RPG where you manage a company of mercenaries, focusing on survival and long-term party health.

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: Turn-Based 20.3%, Survival 19.3%, RPG 17.8%, Turn-Based Combat 15.5%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival RPG that blends resource management with tactical combat against zombie hordes.

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 29.4%, Turn-Based 24%, RPG 16.2%, Perma Death 9.6%, Difficult 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on stress management and party survival in a punishing, turn-based environment where every decision carries heavy consequences.

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 32.7%, Turn-Based 29.4%, RPG 17.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Turn-Based Combat 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival RPG that focuses on managing a shelter and its inhabitants during a zombie outbreak.

Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.

Why similar: Turn-Based 30.3%, Turn-Based Combat 26.5%, RPG 20.7%, Strategy 14.4%, Atmospheric 4%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven, turn-based RPG where your choices significantly impact the survival of your party members.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Vikings 34.9% ★, Survival 24.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building and managing a Viking settlement, requiring careful resource allocation to survive the seasons.

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 28.3%, RPG 23.3%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist survival and management game where you build a settlement and manage workers to survive the harsh nights.

Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.

Why similar: Turn-Based 29%, Turn-Based Combat 16.4%, RPG 14.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based game featuring dark fantasy themes and a heavy emphasis on survival and resource management.

In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

Why similar: Survival 34%, RPG 22.7%, Adventure 12.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival RPG that tasks you with managing hunger, thirst, and sanity while traveling through a dangerous land.

The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.

Why similar: Turn-Based 28.9%, RPG 27.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Vikings 10.9% ★, Indie 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the narrative and tactical combat of the first game, further refining the party management and survival choices.

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Turn-Based 52.6%, RPG 23.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Indie 4.7%, Choices Matter 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural storytelling RPG that features turn-based combat and character growth that feels personal and impactful.

Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

Why similar: Survival 32%, RPG 21.9%, Resource Management 17.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Adventure 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A Viking-themed survival game that emphasizes crafting, base building, and exploration in a hostile afterlife.

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: Vikings 30.1% ★, Strategy 25.7%, Simulation 20.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A Viking-themed strategy game that requires careful resource management and survival against the elements and rival clans.

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 26.7%, Resource Management 17.6%, RPG 15.7%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 12%

Legends of Eisenwald is an adventure game with tactical battles, RPG and strategy elements. Take the lead of a small feudal army and try to defend your right to survive in this ruthless medieval world.

Why similar: Turn-Based 47.9%, Turn-Based Combat 15.7%, RPG 13.7%, Strategy 10.8%, Difficult 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG that combines exploration with turn-based combat and management of your small army.

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 30.6%, Survival 20.7%, Turn-Based Combat 14.6%, RPG 13.9%, Strategy 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that focuses on scavenging, base management, and surviving against waves of enemies.

For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

Why similar: Turn-Based 40%, Turn-Based Combat 19.7%, RPG 19.3%, Strategy 13.4%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging blend of tabletop-style exploration, turn-based combat, and party management.

Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards.

Why similar: RPG 24.9%, Turn-Based 23.6%, Strategy 20.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.8%, Vikings 9.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: The final chapter in the trilogy, offering the most intense tactical combat and narrative stakes for your surviving party.

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: Turn-Based 27.7%, Survival 19.2%, RPG 14.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.7%, Strategy 10.9%

Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.

Why similar: Survival 36%, Vikings 26% ★, Strategy 16.9%, Resource Management 12.7%, Management 5.6%

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 35.2%, Strategy 25.7%, Management 12.9%, Adventure 9%, Atmospheric 6.6%

This "rogue-like Viking simulator" is an adventure at sea with epic tactical battles and dungeon-crawler elements. Conscript your warriors and prepare for a new raiding season!

Why similar: Strategy 24.8%, Turn-Based 23.4%, Turn-Based Combat 19.4%, Simulation 14.8%, Adventure 9.4%

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.

Why similar: Survival 27.3%, Resource Management 17.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Difficult 8.8%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: RPG 24.1%, Strategy 20.2%, Survival 20.1%, Simulation 16.5%, Adventure 10.9%

A Turn-Based Tactics game set in Viking-Age Norway. Build a settlement, forge alliances, and fight strategic battles. Manage a community of craftspeople, farmers, and warriors, as you grow strong on your path to vengeance in this story-rich saga.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 39.6%, RPG 29.8%, Strategy 23.1%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

Why similar: Vikings 29.4% ★, RPG 25%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 15.3%, Adventure 8.9%

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 23%, Turn-Based 23%, Strategy 16.6%, RPG 15.1%, Simulation 14.6%

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: Survival 35.1%, Resource Management 22.3%, Strategy 16.6%, RPG 10.1%, Simulation 7%

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 20.7%, Survival 17.8%, Turn-Based 16.1%, Strategy 15.1%, Adventure 14.4%

Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?

Why similar: Turn-Based 27.5%, Survival 15.5%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Resource Management 8.1%

Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Lead a traveling company through a harsh, unforgiving world where survival is never guaranteed in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.

Why similar: Turn-Based 36.4%, RPG 19.7%, Resource Management 16.7%, Difficult 11.7%, Strategy 9.8%

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 22.8%, RPG 20.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Resource Management 11.1%, Adventure 9.6%

Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.

Why similar: Turn-Based 45.7%, Survival 30.7%, Strategy 21.1%, Indie 2.5%

Dead Monarchy is an open-world, turn-based tactical RPG set in a low fantasy world. Personally lead and manage your mercenary company as the captain and embark on your personal quest to defeat the arena champions.

Why similar: Turn-Based 23.6%, RPG 21.5%, Strategy 17.9%, Turn-Based Combat 11.2%, Perma Death 8.7%

Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.

Why similar: RPG 28.9%, Resource Management 22.3%, Simulation 16.6%, Management 14.3%, Indie 5.7%

Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.

Why similar: Turn-Based 30.4%, Turn-Based Combat 14.3%, Perma Death 9.7%, Strategy 9.6%, RPG 9.1%

Bad North is a charming but brutal real-time tactics roguelite. Defend your idyllic island kingdom against a horde of Viking invaders, as you lead the desperate exodus of your people. Command your loyal subjects to take full tactical advantage of the unique shape of each island.

Why similar: Vikings 44.4% ★, Survival 31%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 10.4%

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 29.8%, Resource Management 20.2%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 11.9%, Difficult 8.1%

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Survival 51.7%, RPG 21.9%, Adventure 14%, Indie 6.2%, Crafting 3.7%

Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Why similar: RPG 32.6%, Strategy 28.3%, Difficult 13.9%, Adventure 12.3%, Atmospheric 6.3%

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 31.4%, Turn-Based 21.3%, RPG 14.2%, Turn-Based Combat 11.8%, Strategy 10.3%

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

Why similar: Survival 34.9%, Perma Death 24.1%, RPG 19.5%, Strategy 14.8%, 2D 3%

Conquer the New world: In the 16th Century, Spanish explorers and soldiers reached the shores of America. The search for gold, fame, and adventure drove these travelers into a treacherous wilderness where they faced hunger, disease, and dangerous predators. In their wake, the Aztec Empires lay in ruins.

Why similar: Turn-Based 40.9%, RPG 23.7%, Strategy 15.1%, Turn-Based Combat 7.7%, Survival 7.1%

SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.

Why similar: RPG 28.7%, Strategy 21.7%, Simulation 21.3%, Management 10.6%, Indie 6.9%

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 38.8%, Turn-Based 24.1%, RPG 15.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Adventure 5.8%

Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.

Why similar: Vikings 38% ★, Resource Management 24.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Management 8.3%