Games Like Dust to the End

A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.

Why similar: Trading 21.2%, Tactical RPG 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Economy 11.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core focus on long-distance trading, caravan management, and tactical turn-based combat in a harsh post-apocalyptic setting.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Open World 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Survival 13.5%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an unparalleled open-world sandbox experience where you must build your own path through a brutal, post-apocalyptic landscape.

Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!

Why similar: Trading 30.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Economy 13.9%, Survival 11.3%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the logistics of survival and trading across a dangerous wasteland, mirroring the core loop of the seed game.

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: Post-apocalyptic 36.9%, Survival 25.6%, Open World 9.7%, RPG 9.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, turn-based survival RPG that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and making difficult choices in a unforgiving wasteland.

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: Open World 26.2%, Character Customization 23%, Simulation 17.3%, RPG 13.4%, Strategy 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a low-fantasy world, its mercenary management, trading, and brutal turn-based tactical combat loop are the closest mechanical parallels to the seed game.

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: Turn-Based Combat 19.2%, Survival 14.4%, Simulation 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Character Customization 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy RPG that forces you to manage a group of survivors while navigating a war-torn landscape.

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...

Why similar: Tactical RPG 18.9%, Strategy RPG 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tactical RPG elements with sandbox management, tasking you with leading a group of raiders to survive in a dying world.

Death Trash features a post-apocalyptic world where cosmic horrors long for humanity but meet punks with shotguns. It combines old-school role-playing, modern action gameplay and player freedom. Create your own character and explore a handcrafted world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 45.8%, Open World 22.7%, Character Customization 19.7%, RPG 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a striking hand-drawn art style and a gritty, post-apocalyptic world that emphasizes player choice and exploration.

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

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.8%, Turn-Based Combat 16%, Survival 16%, Open World 13.1%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric, turn-based RPG heavily inspired by classic post-apocalyptic games, focusing on exploration and character development.

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: Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy RPG 8.5%, Character Customization 8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and survival aspects of a post-apocalyptic colony, requiring careful resource allocation.

Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

Why similar: Tactical RPG 24%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Turn-Based Combat 15.4%, Character Customization 13.8%, Open World 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A premier isometric, turn-based tactical RPG that perfectly captures the atmosphere and strategic combat of a post-nuclear society.

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 Combat 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Survival 13.8%, RPG 12.6%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival RPG that focuses on resource management and combat against zombies in a desolate world.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 14%, City Builder 12.3%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that forces you to manage survivors and build a base while fighting off supernatural threats.

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: City Builder 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.2%, Simulation 11%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy city-builder where you must manage resources and protect your colony from environmental disasters.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 12.4%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on the challenges of rebuilding society in a radiation-scarred wasteland.

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: Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Turn-Based Combat 14.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy RPG 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival strategy game that emphasizes tactical combat and resource gathering in a zombie-infested city.

UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40.2%, Turn-Based Combat 23.2%, RPG 20.1%, Open World 11.5%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, turn-based RPG set in a post-apocalyptic underground world that rewards tactical thinking and character specialization.

In the dark lands inspired by Slavic myth, life is a struggle for survival against ever increasing odds, be it natural or malevolent. Can you lead your flock to prosperity in this innovative blend of 4X strategy, RPG and card game?

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 25.5%, Strategy 18.4%, RPG 17.6%, Strategy RPG 17.3%, Survival 16.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends turn-based strategy, RPG, and survival elements in a dark, mythological post-apocalyptic setting.

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: RPG 25.8%, Turn-Based Combat 25.1%, Survival 22.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging, turn-based tactical RPG that captures the gritty, unforgiving nature of survival and combat.

ARE YOU READY FOR CLASSIC REALTIME TACTICS? Be the nameless heroine in the wastelands of DUSTWIND's story campaign or find with two friends a new home or fight against and with human players in the elaborate Multiplayer mode or design your very own story campaigns and maps in the mighty map editor!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.5%, Tactical RPG 25.4%, Character Customization 15.2%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time tactical game set in a post-apocalyptic world that focuses on squad-based combat and exploration.

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: Strategy RPG 18.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 17%, Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy RPG that tasks you with managing a group of survivors and scavenging for resources in a post-apocalyptic world.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Base Building 21%, Open World 14.7%, Character Customization 13.7%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that blends colony-sim elements with RPG mechanics.

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.1%, Base Building 27%, City Builder 24.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the base-building and sandbox elements of surviving in a ruined world.

We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Economy 15.3%, Strategy RPG 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game centered on the economy and management of a post-apocalyptic shelter.

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: Tactical RPG 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Strategy RPG 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Combat 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy RPG that emphasizes tactical combat and exploration in a harsh environment.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Economy 16.9%, Futuristic 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on managing resources and survival in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic setting.

Dust Raiders is a management strategy game, set in a lawless wasteland. Upgrade your vehicles, engage in tactical fights against raiders hunting for your resources and gather a crew to rule the area.

Why similar: Trading 30%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Economy 15.8%, Hand-drawn 13%, Simulation 8.8%

A diabolical demon dooms a teeming island to destruction. Five legendary lieutenants and their minions descend every seven days…but that allows ample time to prepare. Survive, craft, train, and gear up to defend the island!

Why similar: Base Building 30%, Post-apocalyptic 25%, Survival 19.4%, RPG 10.9%, Character Customization 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused roguelike that tasks you with building a base and defending it against waves of enemies.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Base Building 18.2%, Economy 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 10.8%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, City Builder 15.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Survival 9.6%

Enter a dark wasteland and fight mutants to survive.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Turn-Based Combat 16.4%, Hand-drawn 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Open World 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A text-heavy adventure game that focuses on the strategic choices required to survive in a wasteland.

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: Post-apocalyptic 28.9%, Base Building 25.9%, Survival 21.1%, Strategy 6.3%, Open World 5.8%

Wake to a brutal world bent on destroying your colony. Rebuild, Explore the Wastelands, and Gather scarce resources. Will you strike a deal with the ruthless Baba Yaga - or hack a rogue Cyber-Rat to turn it into an ally? A dark strategy-survival RPG with card-based tactical combat.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Turn-Based Combat 15.2%, Futuristic 10.6%, Survival 9.3%

Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.2%, Base Building 22.1%, Turn-Based Combat 20.6%, Survival 13%, RPG 6.4%

Snow Ash is a post-apocalyptic, wasteland-themed card-based trading and survival game. In this snow-covered world, you’ll take on the role of a messenger, braving blizzards to deliver goods between scattered shelters. In the biting cold and swirling snow, where will your journey lead?

Why similar: Trading 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Turn-Based Combat 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy RPG 10.1%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Base Building 19.5%, Strategy RPG 18.4%, Survival 12%, Character Customization 10%

How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Tactical RPG 20%, Turn-Based Combat 17.7%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 12.6%

"Survive and thrive in the desert! Lead a group of colonists, build a thriving colony, gather resources, craft tools, and research technologies in 'The Last City' - a challenging survival strategy game."

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Strategy RPG 25.5%, Base Building 17.6%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Survival 8.1%

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Base Building 14.8%, Economy 14.6%, Survival 11.4%

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: Turn-Based Strategy 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 16.5%, Open World 15.4%, Turn-Based Combat 11.9%

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: Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, Base Building 22.2%, Open World 19.4%, Survival 17.8%, RPG 10.3%

Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 28.3%, Simulation 21.6%, Strategy 19.2%, RPG 16.4%, Adventure 8.3%

A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.4%, Turn-Based Combat 27%, RPG 10.6%, Strategy 10.2%, Open World 9%

A post-apocalyptic, turn based, tactical combat and strategy game where you lead your caravan on a quest for revenge.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.7%, Tactical RPG 14.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.1%, Strategy RPG 11.5%

Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Turn-Based Combat 14.7%, Open World 14.6%, Character Customization 13.2%

Leona the gunslinger enters a deadly tournament to win her freedom. Victory means a full pardon, but winning requires more than just firepower. She must use strength, strategy, and wit to outsmart every opponent. Can she conquer the arena and claim her future?

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 47.2%, RPG 25.4%, Hand-drawn 16.3%, Simulation 4.3%, Female Protagonist 3.7%

Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.

Why similar: Trading 25.6%, Strategy RPG 21.9%, Open World 14.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%

Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.8%, Strategy RPG 17.7%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.6%, Character Customization 10.6%

In this dystopic sci-fi Tactical RPG, save your patients from themselves. Craft your skills among millions of combinations, heal the mind and face ever growing nightmares in 10mn runs. Will you overcome the insidious being chasing you across minds?

Why similar: Tactical RPG 26.7%, Strategy RPG 20.5%, Turn-Based Combat 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, RPG 7.1%

The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.

Why similar: Futuristic 38.4%, Female Protagonist 24.5%, Simulation 20.6%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 6.3%

2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

Why similar: City Builder 24%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 11.9%, Character Customization 10.8%

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: Post-apocalyptic 35.3%, Survival 17.3%, Female Protagonist 16%, RPG 10.6%, Simulation 9.8%

Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.

Why similar: Tactical RPG 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Strategy RPG 13.5%

A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world where the player must search for food, water and essential supplies to survive. Discover a world filled with colourful NPCs, quests and secrets.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 46.4%, RPG 19.9%, Survival 14.1%, Adventure 11.7%, Indie 8%

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: Post-apocalyptic 28.9%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 15.6%, Simulation 11.1%, RPG 8.9%

The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.3%, Base Building 21.9%, Character Customization 16.9%, Open World 15.5%, Survival 10.9%

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: Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Base Building 20%, Open World 14.6%, Survival 12.5%, Character Customization 12.3%

“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 30.5%, RPG 15.8%, Strategy 12%, Adventure 6.8%