- #1 Caravaneer 2
97% matchVery Positive95% of 547 reviews2020
Dev: Dmitry Zheltobriukhov
Windows
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 31%, Economy 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Survival 11.9%, Management 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is a deep, turn-based RPG that centers specifically on managing a caravan and navigating the complex economy of a harsh desert world.
- #2 Dust to the End
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,267 reviews2021
Dev: Haojoy GamePub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
Why similar: Trading 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Economy 13.3%, Survival 11.5%, Simulation 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares a nearly identical focus on wasteland trading, caravan management, and post-apocalyptic resource survival.
- #3 NEO Scavenger
96% matchVery Positive90% of 5,426 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 35.6%, Post-apocalyptic 31.4%, RPG 11.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Strategy 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore, turn-based survival experience that emphasizes scavenging and tactical decision-making in a desolate post-apocalyptic setting.
- #4 Keep Driving
94% matchVery Positive94% of 6,576 reviews2025
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 28.7%, RPG 25.1%, Exploration 16%, Simulation 10.8%, Adventure 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the management of a vehicle and its inventory while navigating a world filled with RPG-lite encounters.
- #5 Convoy
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 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: Post-apocalyptic 29.9%, Pixel Graphics 19%, Strategy 15.8%, RPG 15%, Exploration 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the essence of vehicle-based travel and combat in a wasteland, mirroring the caravan-focused gameplay of the seed.
- #6 Wartales
94% matchVery Positive85% of 36,051 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 51.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 30.1%, Survival 20%, Sandbox 19.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Exploration 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: While set in a medieval world, its focus on managing a mercenary company, exploring a dangerous map, and balancing party needs is a perfect mechanical match.
- #7 Sheltered
93% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 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 27.9%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Management 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Building 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the survival and resource management of a small group, capturing the desperate feel of post-apocalyptic life.
- #8 Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,241 reviews2025
Dev: Runner DuckPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Create, customize and command your battle wagon to conquer crazed enemy factions and save innocent survivors scattered throughout the lawless Badlands in the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to Build, Evolve and Fight to survive?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.7%, Building 20.1%, Sandbox 17.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the vehicular combat and management aspects of surviving in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, closely mirroring the 'Dustland' experience.
- #9 The Walking Trade
91% matchVery Positive86% of 2,903 reviews2026
Dev: Microwave GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.
Why similar: Economy 17.9%, Management 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: It is a dedicated trading simulation set in a post-apocalyptic world, focusing on the logistics of moving goods through dangerous territory.
- #10 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
92% matchVery Positive86% of 2,050 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Zombies 14.7%, Survival 14.3%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It balances colony management with strategic survival elements, making it a strong choice for players who enjoy the management side of the seed game.
- #11 Death Road to Canada
90% matchVery Positive93% of 10,537 reviews2016
Dev: Rocketcat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
Why similar: Zombies 41%, Survival 24.7%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, RPG 10%, Indie 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the road-trip survival experience, requiring you to manage a rag-tag group of survivors while dealing with random encounters.
- #12 Kenshi
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 117,010 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 71.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Management 17.6%, Survival 16.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: This ultimate sandbox allows for deep trading, squad management, and survival in a brutal, unforgiving world that rewards exploration and risk.
- #13 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
88% matchVery Positive94% of 4,509 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Zombies 15.2%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival roguelike that requires careful planning and resource management to survive in a city overrun by threats.
- #14 Organ Trail: Director's Cut
89% matchVery Positive88% of 3,148 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: Zombies 34.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic take on the caravan survival genre, forcing players to manage resources and vehicle health while traveling through a zombie-infested wasteland.
- #15 Dust Raiders
87% matchMixed68% of 194 reviews2025
Dev: Vixa GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
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 29.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Economy 15.3%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It directly tackles the post-apocalyptic adventure and strategy genre, focusing on exploration and combat in a wasteland.
- #16 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 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 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.4%, Economy 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines base building with survival and combat, providing a similar strategic challenge to managing a growing settlement.
- #17 Battle Brothers
84% matchVery Positive88% of 28,918 reviews2017
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 18.9 hrsMean: 94.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 50.7%, Strategy 43.8%, Singleplayer 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: The mercenary management and tactical combat systems are highly comparable to the party-building and strategic combat found in Dustland Delivery.
- #18 Sheltered 2
86% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 25.9%, Survival 23.5%, Management 14.9%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 11%
Why You'll Like It: It builds on the original's survival mechanics with deeper faction interactions and resource management, fitting the post-apocalyptic theme perfectly.
- #19 Zafehouse: Diaries
85% matchMixed68% of 443 reviews2013
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.6 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: Zombies 23.5%, Survival 18.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 13.3%, RPG 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the tactical management of a group of survivors, emphasizing the strategy required to stay alive.
- #20 Merchant of the Skies
83% matchVery Positive86% of 2,287 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
Why similar: Trading 31.6%, Economy 14.4%, Management 14%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: While more casual, it captures the core 'trading empire' loop that drives the economic progression of the seed game.
- #21 Dead State: Reanimated
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,564 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: Zombies 35.1%, Survival 26.2%, RPG 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Strategy 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that forces players to manage a shelter and scavenge for supplies, emphasizing the same survival-management loop.
- #22 Snow Ash
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 211 reviews2026
Dev: Ember StudioPub: Paras Games
Windows
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 40.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Survival 17.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This strategy card game incorporates trading and survival elements within a harsh, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #23 SUNLESS SEA
82% matchVery Positive83% of 9,567 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 42.3%, Exploration 24.4%, RPG 18%, Adventure 8.6%, Indie 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at trading, exploration, and survival in a hostile, atmospheric world where every journey is a risk.
- #24 Dustbowl
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 123 reviews2015
Dev: The Pompous Pixel
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.6%, RPG 21.8%, Survival 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Adventure 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven RPG that captures the bleak, pixel-art aesthetic and survival themes of the Dustlands.
- #25 Caravan
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,041 reviews2016
Dev: it Matters GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Trading 45.8%, Strategy 21%, Simulation 19.5%, Adventure 9.7%, Indie 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game is built around the concept of managing a trade caravan, making it a direct thematic match for the seed game.
- #26 ZED ZONE
79% matchVery Positive81% of 3,703 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Zombies 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes scavenging and vehicle management in a post-apocalyptic environment.
- #27 TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,591 reviews2026
Dev: AZAMATIKA
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A challenging trading and combat game with a story and quests, where goods have unique properties, and the more you carry, the more dangerous the journey becomes.
Why similar: Trading 45.4%, Sandbox 19.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Simulation 5.2%
- #28 Space Haven
76% matchVery Positive86% of 11,153 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Management 16.2%, Survival 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.2%
- #29 The Last Gas Station
77% matchVery Positive88% of 1,464 reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.
Why similar: Trading 40.1%, Management 20.7%, Building 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Simulation 9.1%
- #30 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,017 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: Zombies 19.7%, Survival 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Building 10.8%, RPG 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep survival experience with a strong focus on exploration and managing limited resources in a zombie-filled world.
- #31 This Merchant Life
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 186 reviews2019
Dev: Inexplicable Games
Windows
This Merchant Life is a trading strategy game set in the troubled medieval kingdom of Peregrine. Turn a rickety wooden cart, two horses and a few coins into a thriving entrepreneurial triumph!
Why similar: Trading 38.5%, RPG 21.2%, Strategy 19.4%, Management 16.2%, Indie 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the economic side of trading and management, offering a similar progression loop to the trading empire building in the seed.
- #32 Sandustry
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 13.2%, Building 11.7%, RPG 7%
- #33 Cartel Tycoon
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,818 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: Management 17.5%, Economy 17.3%, Survival 15.3%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: While focused on a different theme, its management and logistics-heavy gameplay loop is highly relevant to the trading empire aspect of the seed.
- #34 BIG LOOT
76% matchMostly Positive69% of 94 reviews2026
Dev: Reverie Clouds
Windows
Roguelike caravan survival game about risk, loot, and smart trading. Every run is a journey of hard choices, clever upgrades, and the eternal question: Do I play it safe... or go for the BIG LOOT?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Trading 24.6%, Management 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #35 Medieval Shopkeeper Simulator
78% matchMixed61% of 282 reviews2018
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Keep your stores afloat against unique threats like royal laws, wars and crazy fantasy events. Discover new items, craft, sell them, and create your Merchant Empire in the kingdom! - All in a hybrid 2D-3D style.
Why similar: Trading 38.2%, Management 19.2%, RPG 12.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 10%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed look at the shopkeeping and management mechanics that underpin the trading systems found in the seed game.
- #36 Odd Realm
74% matchVery Positive84% of 1,022 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.
Why similar: Management 20.6%, Survival 17.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 10.3%
- #37 Apocalypse Delivery Service
73% matchVery Positive94% of 148 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
Apocalypse Delivery Service is an exciting survival and adventure game. You will enter a post-apocalyptic world where you play as a courier delivering packages. But don't think it will be easy! Your task is to find necessary items, survive, and most importantly, escape from the city.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 87.1%, Indie 9.5%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #38 The Slaverian Trucker
72% matchVery Positive85% of 849 reviews2026
Dev: SawyerK Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The Slaverian Trucker is a Survival/Truck/Life simulator game. Make enough money to survive and expand your wealth in the harsh semi-post apocalyptic lands of Slaveria, doing legal and illegal work, while maintaining, fixing, building, repairing, tuning your trucks, cars and other vehicles.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.9%, Survival 28.2%, Simulation 23.7%, Exploration 14%, Indie 0.6%
- #39 One More Island
74% matchMixed67% of 268 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Trading 26.7%, Economy 14.8%, Survival 13.5%, Management 13.2%, Building 11.9%
- #40 Surviving the Aftermath
73% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Post-apocalyptic 28.9%, Survival 21.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 13.8%, Management 9%
- #41 Dungeon Settlers
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,361 reviews2026
Dev: CanOpener
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Why similar: Management 27.7%, Survival 24.1%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 12.3%, RPG 11.5%
- #42 Lords and Villeins
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Management 20.7%, Economy 16.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
- #43 Scavland
69% matchVery Positive84% of 983 reviews2026
Dev: NoShadow
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Scavland is a hardcore Top-Down Pixel Art survival RPG set in a Post-Apocalyptic Soviet world. Scavenge the wastes and forgotten bunkers, take dangerous jobs, build your reputation, and customize your arsenal as you fight to survive mutants, hostile survivors, radiation, and the deadly Mist.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.7%, Survival 27.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, RPG 10.9%, Exploration 7.5%
- #44 Aground
71% matchVery Positive94% of 2,039 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Survival 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Management 11%, Building 10.4%
- #45 Z Dawn
72% 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 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Building 15.6%, RPG 13.8%, Zombies 13.8%
- #46 Ratopia
67% matchVery Positive88% of 4,899 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Survival 17.3%, Management 17.2%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12%, Economy 9.8%
- #47 Wasted World
71% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Achrony
Windows
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Why similar: RPG 19.1%, Simulation 17.8%, Open World Survival Craft 16.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Adventure 8.3%
- #48 Pixel Shopkeeper
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel Prototype
Windows · Mac · Linux
Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!
Why similar: Management 29.2%, Economy 19.8%, Simulation 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.3%, Strategy 8.1%
- #49 Raiders! Forsaken Earth
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2020
Dev: Creative Storm EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Management 18.4%, Sandbox 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Economy 15.3%, Building 14.4%
- #50 Ragnorium
70% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Survival 27.6%, Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Sandbox 17.3%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 8.6%
- #51 Ostranauts
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,288 reviews2026
Dev: Blue Bottle GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Why similar: Trading 26.1%, Survival 20.1%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 10.9%, Building 9%
- #52 Scrap Dealer Simulator
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Emre ŞahinPub: Survivillage
Windows
Start from scratch and rise with scrap, dig through trash, process junk, and grow your profits. Buy warehouses, machines, and vehicles to build your own recycling empire.
Why similar: Survival 27.7%, Building 20.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Simulation 19.4%, Exploration 7.7%
- #53 Apocalypse: The Last RV
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 211 reviews2026
Dev: 光年切片工作室
Windows
Reborn seven days before the apocalypse. Make a fortune, hoard supplies, build the ultimate RV, and live comfortably while the world falls apart. A story-rich survival management game with cards, farming, crafting and roguelite progression.
Why similar: Trading 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Survival 18.2%, Zombies 14.9%, RPG 9.3%
- #54 SAELIG
69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,163 reviews2017
Dev: Atorcoppe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: Trading 28.5%, Economy 15.3%, Management 12.8%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #55 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,583 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!
Why similar: Trading 28%, Management 17.2%, Economy 16.6%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.1%
- #56 My Time at Sandrock
65% matchVery Positive88% of 29,103 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!
Why similar: Building 27.3%, Sandbox 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, RPG 14.9%, Simulation 8.3%
- #57 Soulash 2
65% matchVery Positive85% of 2,438 reviews2023
Dev: Artur Smiarowski
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
Why similar: Economy 21.2%, Sandbox 20.9%, Survival 17.4%, RPG 13%, Simulation 10.1%
- #58 Dune Strider
68% matchMixed61% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Dust BunniesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Dune Strider is an Adventure-Strategy Game in which you, the player, take command of a merchant controlling a Sand-Barge in a desert and use it to travel and explore the land around you. The road to settlements to sell your goods is filled with dangers and opportunities. Can you handle it?
Why similar: Trading 43.3%, Economy 18.6%, Sandbox 17.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Exploration 8.5%
- #59 RPG Tycoon
70% matchMixed51% of 487 reviews2016
Dev: Skatanic StudiosPub: Macrocosmic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!
Why similar: Management 27.1%, Building 13.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 10.5%