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 30.3%, Survival 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Management 7%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It most directly mirrors Fallout Shelter's bunker-management loop, with survivors to feed, equip, send scavenging, and protect after a nuclear disaster.

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 22.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a dedicated underground-colony simulator built around constructing a self-sufficient bunker and managing every resident's work and needs.

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 37.9%, Survival 26.5%, Management 12.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: You build and maintain a hidden underground shelter while crafting supplies, expanding rooms, and preparing for an oppressive post-apocalyptic future.

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 43.7%, Survival 24%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.4%, Sandbox 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its room construction, worker assignments, resource chains, and constant life-support crises make it a deeper systems-driven alternative to running a Vault.

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 29.5%, Base Building 23.6%, Survival 20.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic colony builder combines specialist management, scavenging expeditions, resource shortages, and defenses against a hostile wasteland.

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 39.8%, Survival 21.5%, Management 11.5%, Building 7.4%, Sandbox 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the individual-colonist stories, base building, raids, needs management, and emergent disasters of Fallout Shelter into a much deeper colony sim.

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 25%, Survival 20.9%, Management 8.3%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It retains the original's bunker survival and survivor management while adding a larger overworld, factions, and more demanding expedition planning.

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 26.5%, Base Building 25.4%, Survival 22.4%, Strategy 6%, Building 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: You guide survivors through a radiation-scarred world by building a settlement, securing clean resources, and enduring environmental catastrophes.

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 29.1%, Survival 22%, Management 15.3%, Building 12.1%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its central focus is administering an underground post-apocalyptic shelter, balancing inhabitants and facilities in a compact management format.

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 30.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Survival 19.8%, Management 5.9%, Building 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a fortified refuge, assigning survivors, researching upgrades, and sending teams out for supplies gives it a very Vault-like survival rhythm.

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 5.8%, RPG 4.7%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its settlement-building system lets you create defended wasteland communities, assign settlers to jobs, and explore the same Fallout setting as Fallout Shelter.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Base Building 31.2%, Survival 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Management 11.8%, Crafting 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This harsh post-collapse colony simulator emphasizes building a defensible community, allocating labor, scavenging, and surviving raids and shortages.

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 29%, Survival 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Management 11.2%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Instead of a Vault, you construct a spaceship habitat room by room while keeping its crew supplied, healthy, safe, and productive.

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 27.6%, Post-apocalyptic 26.7%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a far harsher version of survival management, asking you to build a refuge and make difficult decisions to keep a desperate population alive.

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 23.4%, Management 7.7%, Building 6.9%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its enclosed settlement design, compartmentalized construction, colonist roles, and fragile supply chains recreate the satisfying operational side of Vault building.

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 21.2%, Survival 17.9%, Management 9.9%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: You reclaim a zombie-ravaged city by assigning survivors to jobs, securing resources, expanding safe territory, and making difficult community decisions.

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 38.4%, Management 15.4%, Building 14.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although its setting differs, its room-by-room construction, staff deployment, scheduling, and crisis management strongly suit players who enjoy optimizing a busy Vault.

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 38.7%, Base Building 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Management 7.4%, Crafting 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Fallout Shelter's survivor-care and scavenging tension, but presents them in a more intimate and emotionally severe war-torn shelter setting.

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 35.1%, Survival 28.6%, Management 18.6%, Strategy 8.1%, 2D 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its nuclear-shelter premise, rationing, scavenging choices, and unpredictable resident problems offer a smaller-scale but thematically close survival experience.

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%, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Survival 14.3%, Management 10.6%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a secure scientific settlement, assign staff to facilities, gather resources outside its walls, and survive a zombie apocalypse.

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 37.7%, Post-apocalyptic 28.1%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 6.9%, Simulation 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic sandbox centers on recruiting survivors, building a safe base, organizing scavenging, and maintaining morale amid threats.

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 33.6%, Building 24.6%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: Building a vertical complex, placing specialized rooms, and keeping its occupants and services functioning captures Fallout Shelter's accessible management appeal.

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: Base Building 34.3%, Survival 19.4%, Management 13.9%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: You construct modular strongholds for survivors, manage limited resources, and defend your settlement from nightly waves of monstrous threats.

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 34%, Survival 20.1%, Building 13.2%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This side-view colony builder has you expand an underground city, assign citizens to work, and sustain an economy through threats and shortages.

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: Base Building 34.2%, Survival 19.6%, Management 13.8%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its roguelite settlement building focuses on limited resources, worker needs, dangerous conditions, and adapting each new colony to survive.

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: Base Building 28.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Survival 16.7%, Management 11.9%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing workers, layered buildings, water supplies, and disaster preparedness makes this an excellent systems-focused colony-builder alternative.

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: Survival 32.6%, Post-apocalyptic 28.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.4%, RPG 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes turn-based expeditions with managing a survivor camp's food, crafting, defenses, and relationships during a zombie outbreak.

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 43.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 13.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival-city-building focus on labor allocation, food stores, housing, and keeping a vulnerable population alive matches the management core of Fallout Shelter.

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Base Building 36.9%, Survival 29%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 7.8%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: You grow a small survivor settlement, assign jobs, gather supplies, and defend the community from dangerous nighttime attacks.

Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.

Why similar: Base Building 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 32.6%, Survival 20.8%, Multiplayer 6%, RPG 3.5%

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 10.7%, Singleplayer 3.3%, Sandbox 2.8%, 2D 2.6%

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 74.8%, RPG 9.9%, Great Soundtrack 3.8%, Sandbox 3.2%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 62.5%, Survival 16.3%, RPG 7.6%, Sandbox 4.6%, Singleplayer 4%

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 73.6%, RPG 8.4%, Sandbox 5.6%, Singleplayer 4.3%, Great Soundtrack 2.7%

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 26.5%, 2D 18.4%, Strategy 13.9%, Casual 12.6%, Singleplayer 9.2%

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 31.6%, Survival 17.2%, Management 11.9%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 8%

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 76%, RPG 7.8%, Sandbox 5.4%, Singleplayer 4.4%, Adventure 2.5%

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 34.6%, Survival 31.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Multiplayer 2.8%, Crafting 2.7%

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

Why similar: Building 23.3%, Strategy 22.2%, Base Building 19.1%, RPG 6.9%, 2D 6.9%

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 40.7%, 2D 10%, Funny 8.8%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 8.5%

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 30.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.2%

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 34.1%, Survival 20.5%, Management 13.9%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 6.5%

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

Why similar: Management 50%, Simulation 20.5%, 2D 12.1%, Funny 10.8%, Casual 6.6%

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 36.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.3%, Survival 13.8%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 4.8%

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 50.9%, Management 21%, Crafting 12.9%, Simulation 8.5%, RPG 4.1%

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 46.8%, Survival 13.4%, Management 8.1%, Crafting 7.3%, Building 6.3%

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 35.5%, Survival 28.2%, Management 19.1%, Strategy 8.1%, 2D 4.8%

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 74.1%, Strategy 12.1%, RPG 6.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%, Multiplayer 1.9%

The world's greatest communism simulator!

Why similar: Simulation 29.6%, Strategy 23.4%, Singleplayer 13.1%, Casual 12.7%, Funny 10.5%

Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!

Why similar: Management 36.9%, Simulation 25.7%, Strategy 15.3%, Singleplayer 11.5%, Funny 6.8%

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 44.2%, Post-apocalyptic 33%, Strategy 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.6%, RPG 3.6%

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 32.9%, Survival 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Management 9.3%, 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%, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Survival 14.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Building 5.7%

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 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 25.6%, Building 11.5%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 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 31.2%, Simulation 16.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 2.7%

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 70.8%, Building 15.4%, 2D 4%, Singleplayer 3.6%, Funny 3.1%

In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

Why similar: Base Building 29.4%, Survival 18%, Management 11.7%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 7.5%

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: Base Building 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Management 8.6%, Survival 8.2%, Building 7.4%

Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is a Dungeons & Dragons strategy management game uniting Champions from throughout the D&D multiverse into a grand adventure.

Why similar: Management 33.2%, Strategy 31.7%, 2D 7.3%, RPG 6.2%, Funny 5.8%