- #1 Dust to the End
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,241 reviews2021
Dev: Haojoy GamePub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.1 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 30.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Economy 14%, Survival 11.4%, Simulation 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the post-apocalyptic trading and caravan management mechanics of the seed game perfectly.
- #2 Caravaneer 2
96% matchVery Positive95% of 524 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 34.9% ★, Economy 19%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Survival 13.3%, RPG 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep focus on caravan logistics, trading, and survival in a harsh, unforgiving wasteland.
- #3 Kenshi
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 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: Sandbox 21.3%, Survival 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, RPG 11.7%, Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled sandbox experience where you build your own faction and survive in a brutal, post-apocalyptic world.
- #4 NEO Scavenger
95% matchVery Positive90% of 5,359 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.2 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 36.1%, Post-apocalyptic 30.1%, RPG 11.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the gritty, turn-based survival and scavenging aspects found in the Dustlands.
- #5 Merchant of the Skies
94% matchVery Positive86% of 2,255 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 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 31.1% ★, Economy 14.8%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: While less focused on survival, it is the gold standard for the trading and business management mechanics central to the seed game.
- #6 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
93% matchVery Positive94% of 4,386 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.2 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 27.3% ★, Zombies 15.2%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging and managing resources while navigating a dangerous city.
- #7 Sheltered
94% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 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 27.6%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Management 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Building 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting, requiring careful resource allocation.
- #8 Wartales
91% matchVery Positive87% of 34,222 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 29%, Survival 20%, Sandbox 19.7%, Strategy 12.6%, Exploration 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Though set in a medieval world, its mercenary band management and caravan-style exploration feel very similar to the seed game's party mechanics.
- #9 Convoy
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,462 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 28.4%, Pixel Graphics 19.2%, Strategy 17%, RPG 14.9%, Exploration 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a post-apocalyptic caravan traveling through a dangerous wasteland, emphasizing combat and resource management.
- #10 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
91% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 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 14.6%, Zombies 14.5%, Survival 14.2%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends colony management with 4x strategy in a post-apocalyptic world where you must reclaim territory.
- #11 RimWorld
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 236,346 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.1 hrsMean: 259.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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%, Management 21.5%, Sandbox 17.6%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A premier colony management sim that captures the challenge of surviving and thriving in hostile environments.
- #12 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
90% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 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 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 11%, Economy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a base and managing survivors while dealing with demonic threats in a ruined world.
- #13 Space Haven
88% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 16.7%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Building 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep management and survival mechanics in a hostile environment, requiring you to build and maintain your own mobile base.
- #14 Moonlighter
87% matchVery Positive82% of 21,581 reviews2018
Dev: Digital SunPub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.
Why similar: Management 32.9%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%, RPG 16.1%, Simulation 12.2%, Exploration 10%
Why You'll Like It: Combines dungeon crawling with shop management, perfect for those who enjoy the trading aspect of the seed game.
- #15 Zafehouse: Diaries
89% matchMixed68% of 440 reviews2013
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.3 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 23.4%, Survival 18.6%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 14%, RPG 11%
Why You'll Like It: A unique strategy-management game where you control survivors in a zombie-infested town.
- #16 Vagrus - The Riven Realms
86% matchVery Positive85% of 1,691 reviews2021
Dev: Lost Pilgrims StudioPub: Lost Pilgrims Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 50.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, RPG 15.6%, Exploration 10.8%, 2D 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: A complex caravan-based RPG that emphasizes trading, resource management, and survival in a harsh fantasy world.
- #17 Organ Trail: Director's Cut
86% matchVery Positive88% of 3,135 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 35%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 10%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A classic caravan survival game that forces players to manage resources and make tough choices while traveling across a zombie-infested wasteland.
- #18 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,432 reviews2010
Dev: EasyGameStationPub: Carpe Fulgur LLC
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!
Why similar: RPG 33.8%, Management 32%, Simulation 18.1%, Strategy 6.3%, Indie 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential shop management game that focuses on the economics of buying low and selling high.
- #19 SUNLESS SEA
84% matchVery Positive83% of 9,470 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 42.7%, Exploration 24.4%, RPG 17.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a dark, atmospheric world where trading and resource management are essential for survival during exploration.
- #20 Dead State: Reanimated
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,543 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 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 35.2%, Survival 26.4%, RPG 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Strategy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that focuses on managing a shelter and its inhabitants during a zombie outbreak.
- #21 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
83% matchVery Positive81% of 1,006 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.4 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 18.2%, Building 11.2%, RPG 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-adventure game that requires careful planning and resource management to survive the apocalypse.
- #22 Surviving the Aftermath
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 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 26.8%, Survival 21.8%, Strategy 14.9%, Simulation 14.3%, Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that tasks you with managing a colony in a post-apocalyptic world, focusing on resource production and defense.
- #23 Death Road to Canada
82% matchVery Positive93% of 10,135 reviews2016
Dev: Rocketcat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 10.9 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 40.9%, Survival 24.9%, Pixel Graphics 20.3%, RPG 9.8%, Indie 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A chaotic road-trip survival game that emphasizes party management and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #24 One More Island
81% matchMixed68% of 250 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.4 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 26.4% ★, Economy 15.4%, Management 13.6%, Survival 13.2%, Building 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and building a colony, requiring efficient management of resources and trade routes.
- #25 The Walking Trade
77% matchVery Positive88% of 1,435 reviews2026
Dev: Microwave GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 18.7%, Management 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Sandbox 13%, Building 11.7%
- #26 Lords and Villeins
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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%, Economy 16.9%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 14%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy colony sim that allows for deep control over the economic lives of your villagers.
- #27 Project Zomboid
78% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 27.1% ★, Survival 20.5%, Zombies 18.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate sandbox survival experience, focusing on scavenging, building, and managing needs in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #28 Caravan
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,033 reviews2016
Dev: it Matters GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 45.6% ★, Strategy 21.7%, Simulation 19.3%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-adventure game that centers on managing a caravan and trading across a desert landscape.
- #29 ZED ZONE
78% matchVery Positive80% of 3,539 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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%, Survival 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes scavenging and crafting in a post-apocalyptic environment.
- #30 This Merchant Life
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 184 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 38.3% ★, RPG 20.2%, Strategy 20%, Management 16.7%, Indie 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: A trading-focused strategy game that tasks you with managing a merchant business in a medieval setting.
- #31 Medieval Shopkeeper Simulator
79% matchMixed61% of 280 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 19.9%, Simulation 12.5%, RPG 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed look at running a shop, focusing on inventory management and customer interaction.
- #32 Dust Raiders
76% matchMixed68% of 185 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% ★, Economy 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Management 14.7%, Simulation 7.5%
- #33 Apocalypse Delivery Service
75% 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 86.3%, Indie 10.2%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #34 Snow Ash
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 192 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 36% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Survival 15.1%, Drama 11.9%, Strategy 9.1%
- #35 Norland
73% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Economy 19.3%, Management 18.1%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.7%
- #36 Soulash 2
73% matchVery Positive86% of 2,323 reviews2023
Dev: Artur Smiarowski
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 22.3%, Sandbox 20.8%, Survival 17.3%, RPG 12.4%, Simulation 10.2%
- #37 Sheltered 2
77% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 24.3%, Survival 23.4%, Management 15.6%, Building 11.6%, Strategy 11.6%
- #38 Dustbowl
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 123 reviews2015
Dev: The Pompous Pixel
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 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 32.6%, RPG 21.8%, Survival 17%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Adventure 10.4%
- #39 BIG LOOT
72% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2025
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 34.6% ★, Trading 24.8% ★, Management 12.1%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #40 Ratopia
70% matchVery Positive88% of 4,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 17.6%, Survival 16.8%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Economy 10.2%
- #41 Ragnorium
74% 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 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Sandbox 17.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 8.9%
- #42 Aground
71% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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%, Management 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Building 10.7%
- #43 Z Dawn
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 282 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Building 16.1%, Zombies 13.8%, RPG 13.5%
- #44 XenoHaven
69% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
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 30.9% ★, Survival 16.2%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 11.5%, RPG 7.1%
- #45 Keep Driving
67% matchVery Positive94% of 5,783 reviews2025
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 24.2%, Exploration 16.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Adventure 10%
- #46 Raiders! Forsaken Earth
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 291 reviews2020
Dev: Creative Storm EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19%, Sandbox 16.7%, Economy 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Building 14.5%
- #47 Merchant of the Six Kingdoms
70% matchVery Positive92% of 198 reviews2023
Dev: Cory LongPub: GooseGames
Windows
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 36.7% ★, Economy 19.2%, Management 16.5%, RPG 8.8%, Strategy 6.8%
- #48 My Time at Sandrock
67% matchVery Positive88% of 28,280 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 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 27.8%, Sandbox 26.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, RPG 14.4%, Simulation 8.5%
- #49 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 18.7%, Simulation 18.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Adventure 8.2%
- #50 Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,166 reviews2025
Dev: Runner DuckPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.8 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 24.2%, Building 20.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 10.9%
- #51 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 2,463 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 27.6% ★, Management 17.4%, Economy 17%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 10.1%
- #52 Flotsam
65% matchVery Positive80% of 4,240 reviews2025
Dev: Pajama Llama GamesPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Why similar: Economy 18.6%, Survival 17.7%, Sandbox 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Building 13.6%
- #53 SAELIG
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,077 reviews2017
Dev: Atorcoppe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.6 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 28.6% ★, Economy 16.1%, Management 13.1%, Building 8.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #54 Green Project
68% matchVery Positive80% of 1,437 reviews2020
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !
Why similar: Survival 30.6%, Post-apocalyptic 27.8%, Simulation 27.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Indie 5.7%
- #55 Against the Storm
63% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: Economy 18.7%, Management 18.3%, Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 14%
- #56 Cartel Tycoon
66% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,719 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.2 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: Economy 17.9%, Management 17.8%, Survival 14.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 12.6%
- #57 Interstellaria
70% matchMixed56% of 409 reviews2015
Dev: Coldrice Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 42.5% ★, Management 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Exploration 8.8%
- #58 TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer
65% matchVery Positive81% of 1,366 reviews2024
Dev: AZAMATIKA
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Travel. Buy. Sell. Protect. Fight. Do Quests.
Why similar: Trading 44.9% ★, Sandbox 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Simulation 5.4%