Games Like Fallout Shelter

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: Base Building 30.4%, Survival 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Management 7.2%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same post-apocalyptic shelter-management feel with survivor needs, scavenging runs, upgrades, and constant pressure on your underground home.

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: Base Building 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 24.7%, Survival 20.6%, Management 8.6%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the same bunker-survival formula with deeper faction pressure, survivor management, and base upkeep in a harsher post-apocalyptic setting.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Base Building 43.5%, Survival 23.7%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Fallout Shelter, it is a side-view colony sim about building specialized rooms, assigning workers, and keeping an enclosed population alive through overlapping system failures.

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Base Building 31.1%, Survival 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: This is another underground survival management game focused on expanding a bunker, directing inhabitants, and balancing resources in a ruined world.

Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Why similar: Base Building 37.7%, Survival 26.1%, Management 13%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its core loop of building and optimizing an underground shelter while managing supplies and threats strongly overlaps with Fallout Shelter's bunker fantasy.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.7%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 20.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a post-apocalyptic colony builder where resource chains, specialist expeditions, and keeping survivors healthy and productive are the whole game.

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

Why similar: Base Building 30.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Survival 19.6%, Management 6.1%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: You manage survivors, assign jobs, craft defenses, and fend off disasters in a tense colony sim that scratches a very similar people-and-base management itch.

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: Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Base Building 25.5%, Survival 22.3%, Strategy 6.1%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-nuclear survival theme and emphasis on shelter planning, scarce resources, radiation, and population stability make it a natural Fallout Shelter follow-up.

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 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 26.5%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although bleaker and more demanding, it delivers the same satisfaction of organizing a vulnerable population, expanding infrastructure, and surviving escalating crises.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Survival 38.3%, Base Building 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Management 7.7%, Crafting 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on shelter upkeep, scarce supplies, survivor health, and risky scavenging runs echoes the more survival-heavy side of Fallout Shelter.

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: Base Building 39.6%, Survival 21.2%, Management 11.8%, Building 7.4%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deeper systems but the same core appeal of managing individual colonists, rooms, moods, incidents, and desperate survival in a hostile world.

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: Base Building 28.8%, Survival 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Management 11.5%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps the vault for a spaceship, but its room-based layout, crew assignments, emergencies, and enclosed-colony management are extremely comparable.

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 58.8%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 5.9%, RPG 4.7%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is much more action-focused, but its settlement-building layer and shared Fallout setting make it the closest mainline Fallout game to Shelter's loop.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Base Building 38%, Management 15.7%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The room-building, staff assignment, simulation-driven incidents, and top-down facility optimization mirror Fallout Shelter's management pleasures from a different theme.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Base Building 37.9%, Post-apocalyptic 28.1%, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 6.9%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Recruiting survivors, assigning work, fortifying a home base, and managing social stability makes it a strong match for the dweller-management side of Fallout Shelter.

Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.

Why similar: Base Building 33.8%, Post-apocalyptic 32.4%, Survival 20.8%, Multiplayer 6%, RPG 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily toward exploration and multiplayer, but CAMP building and the Fallout setting give it some overlap for players who want more of the universe.

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: Base Building 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Survival 17.6%, Management 10.2%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This blends post-apocalyptic community management, scavenging, base expansion, and survivor assignments in a way that feels very close in spirit.

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: Base Building 34.5%, Survival 20.6%, Management 14.4%, Crafting 7.7%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Building a defensible colony, assigning settlers, managing their needs, and surviving raids gives it a similar blend of construction and people management.

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: Base Building 45.4%, Survival 23.1%, Management 7.9%, Building 6.9%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Fallout Shelter's appeal of maintaining a closed habitat, expanding production rooms, and keeping colonists alive in a hostile environment.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 41.2%, Survival 30.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Simulation 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its community management, base upgrading, scavenging, and post-apocalyptic survival make it one of the better action-leaning alternatives.

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: Base Building 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Survival 16.8%, Management 11.2%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Managing survivors, constructing a secure base, and handling daily logistics in an apocalypse gives it a familiar shelter-sim rhythm.

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.6%, Survival 28.2%, Management 19.3%, Strategy 8.3%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its darkly comic shelter management, rationing, and disaster decision-making echo Fallout Shelter's emergency-survival side in a much smaller format.

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: Base Building 33.8%, Survival 19.8%, Building 13.1%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This side-view colony sim mixes citizen management, building expansion, and resource balancing in a way that feels mechanically adjacent to Fallout Shelter.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Survival 27.7%, Building 22.7%, Crafting 16.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-on base-building, worker management, crafting, and defense against threats make it a good fit if you like the hands-on building side of Fallout Shelter.

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: Building 27.5%, Crafting 20.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Simulation 14.2%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on individual colonist needs, room planning, production chains, and keeping a small community alive matches the management side of Fallout Shelter well.

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: Base Building 35.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Survival 19.4%, Building 10.1%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This scavenging-focused colony sim is lighter in tone but similar in its constant need to grow a fragile settlement while rationing limited resources.

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Base Building 39.4%, Management 18.7%, Building 15.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers satisfying 2D colony building with population growth, room placement, and efficient resource planning in a compact, accessible format.

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: Survival 43%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 13.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the bunker theme, yet its unforgiving population management and settlement optimization appeal to the same strategic instincts.

You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 77.1%, RPG 10.5%, Singleplayer 3.3%, Sandbox 2.8%, 2D 2.7%

Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 74.9%, RPG 9.8%, Great Soundtrack 3.6%, Sandbox 3.3%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Pop the top on some legendary action with Soda Dungeon, the fresh and fizzy hit mobile RPG adventure, now available on your desktop! Manage your team as you raid the local dungeons, upgrade your tavern, and attract new party members. Gold, legendary items, and more await you.

Why similar: RPG 26.1%, 2D 18.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Casual 12.7%, Singleplayer 9.3%

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 62.5%, Survival 16.2%, RPG 7.5%, Sandbox 4.8%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 73.7%, RPG 8.3%, Sandbox 5.8%, Singleplayer 4.3%, Great Soundtrack 2.5%

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: Base Building 31.4%, Survival 16.9%, Management 12.2%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 8.2%

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Base Building 34.8%, Survival 31.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Multiplayer 2.8%, Crafting 2.7%

Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

Why similar: Management 41.3%, 2D 10%, Funny 8.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 8.5%

Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!

Why similar: Building 23.4%, Strategy 22.8%, Base Building 18%, Simulation 7.1%, 2D 7%

Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 75.9%, RPG 7.8%, Sandbox 5.5%, Singleplayer 4.5%, Adventure 2.5%

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: Base Building 33.9%, Survival 20.2%, Management 14.3%, Building 12%, Sandbox 6.6%

Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

Why similar: Management 50.5%, Simulation 20.5%, 2D 12.1%, Funny 10.5%, Casual 6.4%

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Base Building 66.9%, Building 14.9%, Strategy 5%, 2D 3.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.

Why similar: Base Building 42.7%, Survival 30.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Singleplayer 3.3%

The world's greatest communism simulator!

Why similar: Simulation 30.2%, Strategy 23.7%, Singleplayer 13.2%, Casual 12.7%, Funny 10.5%

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Base Building 46.5%, Survival 13.3%, Management 8.4%, Crafting 7.4%, Sandbox 6.3%

Shop Titans is the ultimate RPG shopkeeper simulation. Craft powerful equipment, stock your shop and sell to aspiring heroes… at a markup! Hire heroes and explore dungeons to gather valuable materials to craft with. There’s never a dull moment in the world of Shop Titans!

Why similar: Base Building 50.5%, Management 21.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Simulation 8.6%, RPG 3.9%

60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 35.1%, Survival 27.8%, Management 19.7%, Strategy 8.2%, 2D 4.9%

Expand your shelter in a unique take on the post-apocalypse genre, thrown straight into a wild world where women reign supreme across the wastelands. You are the last male, and all is for your taking.

Why similar: Base Building 42.1%, Post-apocalyptic 31.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.6%, 2D 4.1%

Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout® Universe! You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling,...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 73.9%, Strategy 12.4%, RPG 6.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%, Multiplayer 1.8%

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: Base Building 32.8%, Survival 17.9%, Management 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Building 8.9%

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: Base Building 36.1%, Post-apocalyptic 22.8%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Building 5.7%

We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.7%, Survival 21.7%, Management 15.7%, Building 12%, Simulation 7.3%

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

Why similar: Base Building 33.5%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Building 11.4%, Management 9%, Sandbox 6.1%

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: Base Building 36.6%, Post-apocalyptic 25%, Survival 13.5%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 5.1%

The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

Why similar: Management 35.4%, Simulation 24%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 6.6%

Bunker Builder Simulator: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Plan your work, dig a hole and build a bunker, that will survive anything! Manage safety, needs and moods of your clients, so you can become the best architect and earn a fortune.

Why similar: Base Building 44.8%, Management 17%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Sandbox 7%

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Strategy 25.7%, Simulation 25.2%, Great Soundtrack 17.5%, Singleplayer 9.7%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: Base Building 39.2%, Post-apocalyptic 30.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 2.7%

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

Why similar: Base Building 36.7%, Survival 22.8%, Building 11%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.6%