Games Like Endzone 2

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor to the seed game, it offers the most familiar experience in post-apocalyptic colony management and environmental survival.

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: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the post-apocalyptic setting and survival-focused city-building mechanics found in the seed game.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 14.5%, Resource Management 11.3%, Colony Sim 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel expands on the original's survival city-builder mechanics with deeper societal management and complex resource chains.

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: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Survival 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes the struggle to rebuild society while managing limited resources and environmental challenges.

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: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 20%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the intense, high-stakes survival atmosphere where every decision is critical to the survival of your colony against a hostile environment.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival city-builder that demands strict resource management and moral decision-making to keep your population alive.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Resource Management 7.7%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique post-apocalyptic twist where you build your settlement on the back of a giant creature while managing environmental hazards.

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: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite city-builder forces players to adapt to harsh, ever-changing environmental conditions while managing a growing settlement.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim features unique water management mechanics and survival challenges that require clever engineering to overcome.

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: Colony Sim 30.8%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 12%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering unparalleled depth in managing individual colonist needs and base-building in a hostile world.

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: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 19.6%, Building 12.4%, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This challenging city-builder requires careful management of food, water, and protection against harsh weather and disease.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 19.1%, Management 7.3%, Resource Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony-sim that focuses heavily on survival, base-building, and defending your group against alien threats.

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic base-builder that uses real-world map data to create unique survival scenarios against zombie threats.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, City Builder 34.2%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 5.6%, Economy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival of a prehistoric settlement, emphasizing resource gathering and adaptation to changing climates.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 7.7%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder where managing air quality and essential resources is the key to keeping your colony alive.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 16.5%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony-sim mechanics with 3D base-building and survival against raids and environmental threats.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, City Builder 29%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 5.9%, Simulation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that popularized the focus on resource management and population sustainability in harsh conditions.

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: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a spaceship colony where oxygen, temperature, and resource scarcity are constant survival threats.

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: Colony Sim 23.1%, City Builder 21.9%, Building 9.8%, Survival 8.8%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a modular approach to city-building with a strong emphasis on survival, trade, and managing population needs.

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: Colony Sim 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty post-apocalyptic survival management game that focuses on the daily struggles of a small group of survivors.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An automation-heavy colony-sim set on the moon that requires balancing resource extraction with survival infrastructure.

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: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Base Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique post-apocalyptic survival game set on a flooded world where you build a floating town from scavenged debris.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, City Builder 18.3%, Economy 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a futuristic setting where limited space and harsh environmental conditions force players to build vertically to survive.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 13%, Survival 9.3%, Resource Management 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony-sim that tasks players with building a self-sufficient base on alien worlds while managing life-support systems.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Economy 10.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep economic and logistics simulation that appeals to players who enjoy the complex management aspects of city-builders.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Economy 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater city-builder that introduces unique survival challenges related to pressure, oxygen, and marine resource management.

Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.9%, Real-Time 14.2% ★, City Builder 14%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder where water scarcity and difficult choices define the gameplay experience.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 8%, Economy 8%

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.5%, Sandbox 21.4%, Building 20.1%, Simulation 9%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the survival of a family unit through the seasons, emphasizing resource management and long-term planning.

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Base Building 10.1%, Sandbox 7.9%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, City Builder 29.9%, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 4.8%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that challenges players to manage a settlement on an alien world while dealing with environmental hazards and resource shortages.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Economy 8.4%, Sandbox 7.9%, Building 7%

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: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Economy 9%, Base Building 8.7%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, City Builder 8.2%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, City Builder 21.9%, Survival 10.3%, Economy 8.2%, Base Building 7%

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Survival 11.6%, Resource Management 9.5%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, City Builder 30.3%, Resource Management 8.2%, Survival 7.3%, Building 6.7%

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9%, Real-Time 16.2% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8.2%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Economy 7.9%, Survival 7.8%

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 15.1%, Survival 9.8%, Colony Sim 8.6%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 16.2%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.3%

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Base Building 9%, Economy 8.2%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 11.2%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.9%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Economy 8.4%, Survival 7.9%, Sandbox 7.7%

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: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.5%, Survival 8.3%

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 18%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.3%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Building 13.1%, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 8.1%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Base Building 20%, City Builder 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.9%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4%, City Builder 16.9%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Sandbox 8.4%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 7.7%, Building 7.6%, Resource Management 7.5%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Survival 10.5%, Economy 9.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.5%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 8.5%

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: City Builder 25.7%, Economy 11%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.4%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 8.3%, Management 6.4%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Economy 9.9%, Building 8.6%

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: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%