Games Like Displaced

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: Strategy 79.3%, Indie 20.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for managing civilian survival in a war-torn environment with heavy moral consequences.

The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it focuses on leading a group of people through a dangerous, war-torn region while managing resources.

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: Strategy 87%, Indie 13%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival game centered on traveling across a post-apocalyptic landscape with a small group.

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: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: This game pushes group management and survival to the extreme, forcing players to make impossible choices for the sake of their people.

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: Adventure 41.7%, Strategy 37%, Indie 21.2%

Why You'll Like It: Follows the journey of a refugee trying to return home, mirroring the survival and travel themes of the seed game.

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: Strategy 70.6%, Indie 22%, Adventure 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a caravan-based travel system that requires careful resource management and difficult decision-making while fleeing a threat.

21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.

Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%

Why You'll Like It: Directly tackles the refugee experience, focusing on the struggle to survive and reach safety.

Are you ready to embark on a journey through deserts and dangers? Will you be able to safely navigate your fellowship through the lands of the Orient and uncover your destiny? Through strategic trading and traveling you will overcome obstacles and adversity.

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 18.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a travel-based strategy loop where managing supplies and group morale is essential for survival.

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: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 17.2%, Adventure 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting, emphasizing resource scarcity and base maintenance.

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: Strategy 63.7%, Adventure 36.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy survival game where you must manage resources and lead a crew through an unforgiving, frozen environment.

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: Strategy 54.3%, Indie 29%, Adventure 16.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival-travel game that forces you to manage a group's health and resources while navigating a hostile world.

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: Strategy 52.8%, Adventure 29.1%, Indie 18%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and resource management with complex group dynamics and character relationships.

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: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A travel-based survival game that emphasizes group management and random events during a desperate journey.

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Adventure 59.2%, Indie 40.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival game that emphasizes exploration and the management of limited resources while traveling.

Vanaris Tactics is a short narrative tactical RPG experience that tells a story about refugees fleeing their occupied motherland. You lead a group of refugees looking for freedom outside the walls of Vanaris, unite your people and use tactical prowess to escape your oppressors.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical game that follows a group of refugees trying to escape their homeland, mirroring the seed game's narrative theme.

Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.

Why similar: Strategy 57.7%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 21%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-strategy game focused on managing a fleet and resources while fleeing a hostile threat.

Assume control of a Middle Eastern country recovering from a violent revolution. Forge alliances, grow your economy, invade your neighbors, or pacify your population. Rogue State is a geopolitical strategy game that will force you to always stay one step ahead of your rivals to survive.

Why similar: Strategy 70.9%, Indie 29.1%

Why You'll Like It: A political simulation that requires managing a nation's resources and survival amidst geopolitical instability.

Lead an elite strike team through the wars of a reborn civilisation, and decide the fate of humanity through your achievements and choices. Traverse a dynamic war-map, engage in fast, turn-based battles, and explore the world of 2952.

Why similar: Strategy 65.6%, Adventure 34.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that emphasizes group management and strategic positioning.

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: Adventure 64.3%, Indie 35.7%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric exploration game where managing your ship and crew's survival is paramount.

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 62%, Indie 22%, Adventure 16%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the struggle of survival and moral compromise within an oppressive, dystopian society.

Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.

Why similar: Strategy 73.9%, Indie 26.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-management game that requires careful planning to keep a group alive in a hostile, alien environment.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Indie 57.6%, Strategy 29.3%, Adventure 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: While a different genre, it perfectly captures the atmosphere of a civilian caught in the machinery of a war-torn or oppressive state.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Adventure 50.6%, Strategy 29.7%, Indie 19.7%

Why You'll Like It: A pure survival experience that emphasizes the struggle against the elements and resource scarcity.

Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Strategy 62.9%, Adventure 37.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes group coordination and resource management under extreme conditions.

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: Strategy 67.4%, Indie 20.9%, Adventure 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the narrative-driven travel and management mechanics of the first game, focusing on group survival.

Turn-Based Tactics in the Weird West.

Why similar: Strategy 70.4%, Indie 29.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that incorporates tactical movement and resource management in a western setting.

The realm is dying. As its Guardian, you have one desperate option — tear it apart to rebuild it stronger. Explore a vast open world, master its secrets, and forge salvation from the ruins. Sometimes, saving the world means destroying it first.

Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.

Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Adventure 26.5%, Indie 19.3%

Poly Island is a low poly adventure game packed with beautiful graphics, simple mechanics and challenging levels.

Why similar: Strategy 68.2%, Indie 31.8%

Why You'll Like It: A casual strategy game that focuses on managing resources and expansion in an island setting.

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: Strategy 63.8%, Adventure 36.2%

It is a multi-play strategy game made by the combination of turn-based and roguelike. Master clever tactics, awaken strong talent, recruit powerful troops, create grand city-states, and so on, quickly enter the Uniland, lead your troops to unravel the ultimate mystery of this chaotic continent.

Why similar: Strategy 50.5%, Adventure 28.3%, Indie 21.2%

In Way of Defector you experience the process of a North Korean defector escaping to China and arriving in South Korea. You must overcome starvation and break through the surveillance of the Public Security Officers to find the broker who knows the way to get to South Korea and safely arrive at the destination.

Why similar: Strategy 70.4%, Indie 29.6%

This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.

Why similar: Strategy 71%, Indie 29%

By a twist of fate, you turn out to be the chief of a small tribe of islanders invaded by neighbors. In order to deal with the invasion, collect food and resources, teach an army, and prove yourself as a strategist in captivating step-by-step battles!

Why similar: Strategy 58.6%, Adventure 35.1%, Indie 6.3%

Home Behind 2 is a Roguelike RPG which set in Scaria, a country engulfed in a ten-year civil war. Lead a patchwork group of revolutionary fighters into the depths of the government's territory as you struggle to overthrow a brutal authoritarian regime!

Why similar: Strategy 52.6%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 19.5%

Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.

Why similar: Adventure 63.6%, Indie 36.4%

Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion - a turn-based strategy where you command SOF forces against an alien threat. Investigate disappearances, fight the invaders, and uncover the mystery. Every decision affects the fate of humanity.

Why similar: Strategy 85.1%, Indie 9.2%, Adventure 5.6%

End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.

Why similar: Strategy 76.1%, Indie 23.9%

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: Strategy 62.3%, Adventure 37.7%

Welcome to The Next World - a strategic visual novel telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet. Craft plans, make decisions, and manage your colony's limited resources in a desperate fight to stay alive.

Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, Adventure 34%, Indie 23.2%

Control the rescue workers who rebuild three islands in the wake of devastating weather! Repair damaged restaurants, houses, and sawmills to produce necessary resources. Race against the clock to collect gems, put out fires, and save stranded swimmers!

Why similar: Strategy 89.1%, Indie 10.9%

A story-driven indie adventure game. Lead an army of cute blobs into a war they don’t know why they’re fighting. Can you give them PURPOSE? Also what is mi?!

Why similar: Adventure 77.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Indie 6.5%

Play the Prologue chapter of Vanaris Tactics. Lead a group of refugees looking for freedom outside the walls of Vanaris, and experience the first three battles and story of Vanaris Tactics.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

In a land of enchantment, torn by evil, a hero arrives to save the day! Guide Solar and his band of helpers as they set out to stop the dark sorcerer Grogan from achieving eternal life and to rescue the fair Lumina.

Why similar: Strategy 56.2%, Adventure 36.2%, Indie 7.7%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

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: Strategy 50.6%, Adventure 27.8%, Indie 21.6%

An unexpected assassination attempt leaves you wounded and fleeing across no man's land. To survive in this roguelike, low-fantasy tactical RPG, you must recruit strategically, fight desperately and repent sincerely.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Experimental indie strategy game. Lead the group of Galactic Lords through 7 levels to discover the origin of a world-wide menace!

Why similar: Strategy 71.4%, Indie 28.6%

Take charge of a WW1 field hospital on the Western Front, and make all the decisions necessary to help the soldiers recover and to support the war effort. In this narrative management game, you are the last bastion of humanity.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Earth has been destroyed. Mankind is fractured. The galaxy is at war. But one hope remains: a new home for mankind. Probes detected a habitable planet in the Orion sector. You must fight your way to it, but nothing is as it seems. A more devious plan is underway that threatens the entire galaxy.

Why similar: Strategy 71.4%, Indie 28.6%

Recon Control is a turn-based strategy and 2D platformer hybrid focused on combat. Lead your special operations squad through a set of challenging and deadly missions.

Why similar: Strategy 75%, Indie 25%

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

Why similar: Strategy 100%

A tactical, turn-based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic world of eternal winter. As the titular False Prophet, recruit and lead a group of survivors to a promised land. Loot, craft, and make the best of what you find.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

Why similar: Strategy 70.4%, Indie 29.6%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Strategy 100%