Games Like Dustland Delivery

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 31.1%, Economy 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Survival 11.8%, Management 10.7%

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.

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 30.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Economy 13.5%, Survival 11.4%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares a nearly identical focus on wasteland trading, caravan management, and post-apocalyptic resource survival.

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 35.5%, Post-apocalyptic 31.4%, RPG 11.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 6.7%

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.

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 28.5%, RPG 24.8%, Exploration 16.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Adventure 10.1%

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.

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 29.8%, Pixel Graphics 19%, Strategy 15.9%, RPG 14.8%, 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.

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 29.6%, Survival 20%, Sandbox 19.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Exploration 8.9%

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.

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 15.5%, Zombies 14.6%, Survival 14.2%, Management 12.8%, 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.

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 25.5%, Building 20.1%, Sandbox 17.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 10.7%

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.

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 18.2%, Management 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.1%

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.

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 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 23.4%, Management 13%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Building 7.5%

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.

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 20.3%, RPG 9.9%, Indie 2.4%

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.

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 18.4%, Management 17.9%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 14%

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.

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 27.4% ★, Zombies 15.1%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 9.9%, 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.

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 34.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 9.5%, 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.

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 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 10.6%, Economy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines base building with survival and combat, providing a similar strategic challenge to managing a growing settlement.

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 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Strategy 7.4%

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.

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: Sandbox 32.5%, RPG 20.2%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 18.1%, Adventure 8.4%

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.

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 25.7%, Survival 23.3%, Management 15%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 11.1%

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.

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 15.8%, Economy 15.4%, Management 14.4%, 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.

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 23.4%, Survival 18.6%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 13.5%, RPG 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the tactical management of a group of survivors, emphasizing the strategy required to stay alive.

Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!

Why similar: Trading 31.5%, Economy 14.5%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more casual, it captures the core 'trading empire' loop that drives the economic progression of the seed game.

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 40.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Survival 17.1%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy card game incorporates trading and survival elements within a harsh, post-apocalyptic setting.

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 24.5%, RPG 17.9%, 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.

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 21.6%, Survival 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, 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.

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 16.3%, Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 12.2%

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 46%, Strategy 21.1%, Simulation 19.3%, Adventure 9.5%, 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.

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 40.2%, Management 20.9%, Building 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Simulation 9.2%

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 17.7%, Economy 17.5%, Survival 15.1%, 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.

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 29.9% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Survival 13.2%, Building 12%, Simulation 7.1%

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 19.6%, Survival 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Building 10.9%, RPG 8.8%

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.

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 38.6%, RPG 20.8%, Strategy 19.5%, Management 16.4%, 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.

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 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes scavenging and vehicle management in a post-apocalyptic environment.

Once #1 on both TapTap New Releases and Exclusive Charts, this post-apocalyptic comfort survival game is now on Steam. One-time purchase, no ads, focusing on survival simulation, RV stockpiling and roguelike reincarnation to deliver a relaxing wasteland experience with full preparation and no fear.

Why similar: Trading 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Survival 15.9%, Zombies 14.7%, Simulation 6.7%

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 38.3%, Management 19.4%, RPG 12.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

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.

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 20.8%, Survival 17.5%, Sandbox 16.5%, Building 14%, Simulation 10.3%

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%, Indie 9.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Travel. Buy. Sell. Protect. Fight. Do Quests.

Why similar: Trading 45.4%, Sandbox 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Simulation 5.3%

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 14.9%, Survival 13.4%, Management 13.3%, Building 11.8%

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 34.7% ★, Trading 25%, Management 11.9%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 20.9%, Economy 16.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%

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 32.8%, Survival 28.1%, Simulation 24%, Exploration 14%, Indie 0.6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Survival 21.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Management 9.2%

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 25.2% ★, Survival 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Management 11.2%, Building 10.5%

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: Management 17.3%, Survival 17.1%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 12%, Economy 9.9%

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 18.3%, Building 15.7%, Zombies 13.8%, RPG 13.7%

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 18.9%, Simulation 18%, Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Adventure 8.3%

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 18.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Economy 15.4%, Building 14.4%

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 29.4%, Economy 19.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Strategy 8.1%

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: Trading 28.4%, Economy 15.4%, Management 12.9%, Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

Become a medieval merchant and master the arts of bartering, haggling, and investing, Explore 20 markets, barter with 200 characters, and trade in over 1,800 items in a dynamic bartering and haggling system that will challenge and reward.

Why similar: Trading 37.4%, Economy 18.7%, Management 16.1%, RPG 9%, Strategy 6.6%

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 17.3%, Economy 16.6%, Sandbox 13%, Building 10.1%

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 26.2%, Survival 20%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 11%, Building 9%

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 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 24%, Sandbox 17.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 8.7%

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Survival 16.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 11.4%, RPG 7.3%

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 27.5%, Sandbox 20.5%, Building 20.5%, Simulation 19.5%, Exploration 7.6%

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 27.4%, Sandbox 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, RPG 14.7%, Simulation 8.4%

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 18.8%, Sandbox 17.5%, Strategy 9.4%, Exploration 8.4%

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 27.4%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 10.5%

You've landed a job at a courier company, but your boss has to leave town. Now you're the boss. Deliver packages, sign new contracts, expand your office, buy new vehicles. Hire employees, set up parcel lockers around town, and create the most profitable courier company in the world. Simulation game.

Why similar: Trading 60%, Management 21.8%, Simulation 18.2%