- #1 Atrio: The Dark Wild
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 606 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Strategy 61%, Simulation 39%
- #2 Ratopia
95% 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: Strategy 40.9%, Simulation 32.6%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 10.8%
- #3 Evertown
96% matchMostly Negative39% of 119 reviews2016
Dev: cg-imagine
Windows
Evertown is a RTS (real-time strategy) game with some survival elements. The goal is to raise your town to make it safe (the longest you can).
Why similar: Strategy 37.7%, Simulation 29.2%, Adventure 16.8%, Indie 16.3%
- #4 Ragnorium
96% 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: Strategy 53.1%, Simulation 46.9%
- #5 Ascent of Ashes
94% matchMixed70% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Strategy 53.1%, Simulation 46.9%
- #6 Lifecraft
93% matchVery Positive81% of 148 reviews2024
Dev: Pixbits
Windows · Mac
Survive and evolve as an organism with this simulation game in which you will literally start as a single cell and manage and organize all its functions to a fully fledged system! Assemble, breathe, eat, fight threats, produce energy, grow, anything is possible!
Why similar: Strategy 58.6%, Simulation 41.4%
- #7 Dig or Die
91% matchVery Positive90% of 4,291 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Strategy 56.7%, Indie 24.6%, Adventure 18.7%
- #8 Multicellular
92% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Insane Dreamers
Windows
Multicellular will take you back in time, to the dawn of life. Build your multicellular organism and combat hunger, the environment, darkness and other organisms. Everything in this new world can kill you, will you be able to survive?
Why similar: Simulation 55.1%, Indie 24.9%, Adventure 19.9%
- #9 Sapiens
91% matchVery Positive80% of 2,200 reviews2022
Dev: Majic Jungle
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Strategy 36.3%, Simulation 35.3%, Adventure 16.9%, Indie 11.5%
- #10 Stonehearth
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 13,081 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Strategy 50.5%, Simulation 33.8%, Indie 9.5%, Adventure 6.2%
- #11 New Cycle
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,884 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Simulation 45.7%
- #12 Project AURA
90% matchMixed64% of 699 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: Strategy 44.4%, Simulation 40.7%, Indie 14.9%
- #13 The Tribe Must Survive
88% matchMixed67% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Strategy 51.4%, Simulation 48.6%
- #14 Eastern Era
86% matchMixed66% of 3,354 reviews2026
Dev: FunYoo Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!
Why similar: Simulation 41.3%, Strategy 37.6%, Adventure 21.1%
- #15 Life is Hard
87% matchMixed62% of 558 reviews2021
Dev: Pirozhok Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!
Why similar: Strategy 40%, Simulation 31.1%, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 14.3%
- #16 Urge
85% matchVery Positive90% of 524 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Simulation 65.9%, Indie 34.1%
- #17 Maia
86% matchMixed44% of 1,065 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Strategy 43%, Simulation 41.1%, Indie 15.9%
- #18 Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,182 reviews2025
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.
Why similar: Simulation 53.3%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 20.2%
- #19 Start an egg
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 340 reviews2023
Dev: Ting Game
Windows
"Start with an Egg" is a Shan Hai Jingthemed sandbox adventure game. Begin as a beast egg, and through devouring, mating, and exploration, evolve into the ultimate divine beast ruling a mythical open world.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #20 Adaptory
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 112 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Simulation 72.3%, Indie 27.7%
- #21 Dungeon Settlers
81% 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: Strategy 54.3%, Simulation 45.7%
- #22 Craft Hero
82% matchVery Positive83% of 412 reviews2022
Dev: PandaCat 熊喵独立游戏Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Gather resources by day, build and recruit by noon, defend your village by night! A new minimalism sandbox survival with countless new ideas – Craft Hero
Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, Strategy 37.3%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 8.5%
- #23 Settlement Survival
78% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Strategy 36.9%, Indie 13.8%
- #24 CrossWorlds: Escape
80% matchMixed64% of 158 reviews2020
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.
Why similar: Simulation 73.8%, Adventure 26.2%
- #25 Ice Age
77% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Sabertooth Studio
Windows
As primitive human, in the wild Ice Age prehistoric world, Hunt and tame wild beasts such as mammoths and sabretooth, build homes, and survive.
Why similar: Simulation 58%, Adventure 42%
- #26 Rise of Man
81% matchVery Negative18% of 147 reviews2017
Dev: Darkcross Games
Windows · Mac
Rise of Man is a pre historic strategy game with city building and survival elements. Can you guide your people through the ages and conquer all the challenges ahead of them.
Why similar: Strategy 41.9%, Simulation 40.1%, Indie 18%
- #27 Farlight Explorers
79% matchMixed55% of 205 reviews2019
Dev: Farlight Games Industry
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Extract and gather resources from different planets. Manage the supply of electricity, water, food and oxygen of your base in order to survive. Automate the creation of new products. Build a spaceship to transport your products to other places...
Why similar: Strategy 40.9%, Simulation 36.2%, Indie 22.8%
- #28 AntQueen 3D
79% matchMixed65% of 79 reviews2019
Dev: Fernando DudkaPub: Les Technologies inVantage
Windows · Mac
Experience a game where you live through the cycle of an ant colony. You can dig your own tunnels, organize your colony, customize your army, but you need to survive every wave of attack!
Why similar: Strategy 42.1%, Simulation 40.3%, Indie 17.6%
- #29 Elf Manor
78% matchMixed63% of 96 reviews2019
Dev: 巫师工作室Pub: GY Games
Windows
You will be playing as an Elf Master. Build your own manor and grow crops, farm, research, cook, and handcraft by yourself. Your mission is to fight against evil monsters and protect the world from corruption. The most important thing is staying alive.
Why similar: Strategy 31.7%, Simulation 27.8%, Adventure 23.2%, Indie 17.3%
- #30 Eco
76% matchVery Positive81% of 14,085 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.7 hrsMean: 91.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #31 MiniMap Kingdom
76% matchVery Positive86% of 96 reviews2023
Dev: YuruOwO
Windows
Build your own kingdom on unlimited Map!
Why similar: Strategy 42.3%, Simulation 40.7%, Indie 17.1%
- #32 Deep Despair 2
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 93 reviews2021
Dev: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Deep Despair 2 is an open world survival adventure action game with procedural generation and complete freedom of action: building, crafting, hunting, farming, livestock, brewing, cooking, traveling, fight, and more.
Why similar: Simulation 62.9%, Adventure 37.1%
- #33 Masters of Albion
74% matchMixed65% of 632 reviews2026
Dev: 22cans
Windows
A bold reimagining of the God Game genre from the creator who defined it. Shape a living world as a god - or step into it and experience it through your people. Build, guide and defend your town by day, then survive the night when everything is under threat. There is no single solution. Only yours.
Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, Simulation 47.3%
- #34 MineMogul
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Strategy 43.7%, Simulation 40.9%, Indie 15.3%
- #35 Farthest Frontier
72% matchVery Positive86% of 25,602 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #36 Dwarf Fortress
73% matchVery Positive95% of 31,541 reviews2022
Dev: Bay 12 GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Strategy 51%, Simulation 49%
- #37 Night is Coming
74% matchMixed63% of 469 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Forest StudioPub: 101XP
Windows
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Why similar: Strategy 44.1%, Simulation 43.5%, Indie 12.4%
- #38 Ells Tales: Egg
73% matchVery Positive83% of 195 reviews2024
Dev: Ells&Pills
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Welcome to the survival horror clicker! Try to save a chicken egg and at the same time your life.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #39 Vilset
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Simulation 65.2%, Strategy 20%, Indie 14.9%
- #40 Rebirth of Island
75% matchMixed52% of 102 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.
Why similar: Strategy 50.5%, Adventure 27.3%, Indie 22.2%
- #41 Sandustry
67% 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: Strategy 34.7%, Simulation 33.8%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 11.9%
- #42 Dinosaur World
71% matchMixed62% of 176 reviews2025
Dev: Dinosaur StudioPub: CoolRabbit Games
Windows
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
Why similar: Adventure 58.4%, Indie 41.6%
- #43 The Universim
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 10,670 reviews2024
Dev: Crytivo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: Strategy 51.4%, Simulation 48.6%
- #44 CleanFall
68% matchVery Positive93% of 556 reviews2025
Dev: Humanyoyo
Windows
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
Why similar: Strategy 51.7%, Simulation 48.3%
- #45 Gord
71% matchMixed54% of 1,013 reviews2023
Dev: Covenant.devPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
Why similar: Strategy 60.3%, Adventure 39.7%
- #46 Voxelaxy [Remastered]
73% matchMixed61% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: Jakub Klementewicz
Windows
Using only a limited set of tools, you have to survive in a hostile environment. Crafting oxygen and finding food seems almost impossible...
Why similar: Simulation 61.3%, Adventure 38.7%
- #47 Allumeria
66% matchVery Positive93% of 602 reviews2026
Dev: Infinimelon
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Why similar: Adventure 58%, Indie 42%
- #48 Novus Inceptio
71% matchMixed52% of 1,304 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Simulation 50.5%, Adventure 31.2%, Indie 18.3%
- #49 Winter Survival
67% matchMixed63% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #50 Last Wood
69% matchMixed67% of 587 reviews2022
Dev: JustUsGameLab
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.
Why similar: Simulation 51.3%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #51 Surviving the Abyss
68% matchMixed65% of 1,085 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Why similar: Strategy 54.2%, Simulation 45.8%
- #52 Infinite Gravity
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Gravity Wave Interactive
Windows
This is a build sandbox game We have hundreds of elements for your choice We offer a variety of materials in building their ideal architectural works for you We will also open survival mode in the future
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Adventure 28.5%, Indie 22.2%
- #53 Mistward
67% matchMixed62% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Why similar: Strategy 51.6%, Simulation 48.4%
- #54 Dice Legacy
68% matchMixed68% of 1,054 reviews2021
Dev: DESTINYbit
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dice Legacy is a dice-based survival city builder set on a mysterious ringworld. Your ship has reached the shore of an uncharted continent. Roll and use your dice to gather resources, expand and defend your settlement, survive the winter and interact with the strange inhabitants of this eerie world.
Why similar: Strategy 73.1%, Indie 26.9%
- #55 Swarmdustry
65% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Mitchy Studios
Windows
Build a living factory and automate the Swarm. Harvest resources, construct mega factories, and grow a colony of specialized biomechanical bugs. Balance growth, efficiency, and creep spread before hostile robots squish you for trying to consume their world.
Why similar: Simulation 45.4%, Strategy 43.1%, Indie 11.6%
- #56 Mind the Vikings
70% matchMixed43% of 83 reviews2018
Dev: Miso Games
Windows
Start with nothing and build up your viking settlement in harsh Nordic climate in this survival strategy town building game. Start with nothing and prepare for winter. Set forth on raids on other viking settlements and defend yourself from them.
Why similar: Strategy 53.5%, Simulation 46.5%
- #57 Exogate Initiative
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: Strategy 51.7%, Simulation 48.3%