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 35.1%, Economy 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 13.1%, RPG 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational title for wasteland trading simulators that shares the exact economic and survival loop found in the seed game.

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 30.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Economy 13.9%, Survival 11.3%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar post-apocalyptic setting with a heavy emphasis on trading, exploration, and squad-based combat.

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 46.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, RPG 14.2%, Exploration 9.7%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the caravan management, trading, and survival mechanics set within a brutal, unforgiving fantasy wasteland.

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: Sandbox 21.3%, Survival 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, RPG 11.8%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the ultimate sandbox experience for squad management and survival in a harsh, unforgiving post-apocalyptic world.

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 31.1%, RPG 11.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the gritty, turn-based survival and scavenging aspects of the post-apocalyptic experience.

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% ★, Zombies 15.1%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival game that emphasizes resource management and careful planning in a zombie-infested city.

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 29.3%, Pixel Graphics 19.2%, Strategy 16.4%, RPG 14.8%, Exploration 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on caravan-based exploration and vehicular combat in a post-apocalyptic setting, closely mimicking the core gameplay loop.

Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31%, Building 20.5%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 13.3%, Exploration 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a complex blend of fleet management, trading, and tactical combat in a gritty, atmospheric, and hostile world.

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 15.2%, Zombies 14.5%, Survival 14.1%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines post-apocalyptic survival with colony management and strategic expansion.

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 29.4%, Survival 20.1%, Sandbox 19.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Exploration 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a mercenary company, trading, and navigating a dangerous world, mirroring the squad management elements.

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 16.8%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep colony management and survival mechanics, translating the wasteland experience to a space-faring setting.

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 14.9%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the trading and management aspects of the gameplay loop, allowing for a more relaxed economic experience.

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 25.2%, Building 20.1%, Sandbox 17.9%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vehicular combat and crew management, which are central themes in the seed game.

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 18.8%, Management 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Directly focuses on the trading and simulation aspects of a post-apocalyptic journey.

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 25.2%, Survival 23.2%, Management 15.5%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and survival in a post-apocalyptic bunker, emphasizing the need for careful planning.

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 32.6%, RPG 19.9%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 18.2%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Excellent for the tactical squad management and mercenary economy aspects that drive progression.

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: Economy 18%, Management 17.9%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep business management and economic simulation experience within a dangerous, high-stakes 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 28.9%, RPG 24.3%, Exploration 16.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Adventure 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the focus on vehicular travel, inventory management, and RPG-lite progression.

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 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 10.8%, Economy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and survival with squad management in a demon-infested post-apocalyptic world.

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 29.8%, Economy 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Management 14.6%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A thematic match that emphasizes adventure and strategy in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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 40.8%, Survival 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, RPG 9.8%, Indie 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the road-trip survival and management loop with a focus on squad dynamics and random events.

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 46.4%, Strategy 21.1%, Simulation 19.3%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-adventure game that centers on managing a caravan through a dangerous desert environment.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Management 21.6%, Sandbox 17.7%, Building 12.2%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in colony management and survival, sharing the sandbox spirit of the seed game.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Survival 20.4%, Zombies 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for deep survival and management mechanics in a realistic, 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 42.6%, Exploration 24.4%, RPG 17.8%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar focus on trading, exploration, and survival in a hostile, atmospheric environment.

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 38.9%, RPG 20.3%, Strategy 19.5%, Management 16.7%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the trading and economic management side of the RPG genre.

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Survival 34.7%, RPG 26.4%, Exploration 21.5%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the trading and exploration loop with a unique aesthetic and challenging survival mechanics.

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 38.6%, Management 19.7%, RPG 12.3%, Simulation 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a dedicated simulation experience for managing a shop and trading goods.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Survival 26.9%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-stakes management and survival decisions required to keep a community alive in a harsh world.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Management 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Building 7.4%

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 41%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 17%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.3%

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 87.1%, Indie 9.6%, Singleplayer 3.4%

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 26.8%, Economy 15.4%, Management 13.5%, Survival 13.1%, Building 11.6%

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%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Strategy 7.6%

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 17.1%, Survival 16.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 11.8%

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 40.6%, Management 21.1%, Building 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Simulation 9.1%

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 14.7%, Strategy 13.7%, RPG 11%

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 34.3% ★, Trading 25.2%, Management 12.1%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 18.9%, Building 10.9%, RPG 8.7%

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 33.5%, RPG 21.6%, Survival 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Adventure 10.2%

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 27.9%, Survival 21.6%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 9.5%

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 18.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Economy 15.9%, Building 14.2%

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 24.9% ★, Survival 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Management 11.6%, Building 10.5%

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 21.1%, Economy 17.1%, Sandbox 14%, Building 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%

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 18.1%, Building 15.7%, Zombies 13.8%, RPG 13.5%

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 37.1%, Economy 19.1%, Management 16.4%, RPG 8.8%, Strategy 6.6%

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

Why similar: Trading 45.5%, Sandbox 19.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Exploration 10%, Simulation 5.3%

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 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, RPG 14.6%, Simulation 8.5%

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 23.7%, Sandbox 17.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.8%

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 17.7%, Survival 16.9%, Building 16.2%, Sandbox 12%, Economy 10.3%

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%, Simulation 24.2%, Exploration 13.9%, Indie 0.6%

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 18.8%, Simulation 18.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Adventure 8.2%

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 22.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Survival 17.2%, RPG 12.5%, Simulation 10.2%

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 17.4%, Economy 17%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 9.9%

Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.

Why similar: Trading 43%, Management 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Exploration 8.7%

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 29.7%, Economy 20.4%, Simulation 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Strategy 8%

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 15.7%, Building 11.4%, RPG 7.2%

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 27.4%, Sandbox 20.7%, Building 20.5%, Simulation 19.7%, Exploration 7.6%