Games Like Flesh Eaters

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 46.8%, Indie 13%, RPG 9.5%, Survival 9.5%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines strategy, survival, and pixel-art aesthetics to create a challenging experience focused on managing a group of survivors against zombie hordes.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 52.9%, Survival 16.4%, RPG 7.2%, Indie 7.1%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive deep-simulation zombie survival game that perfectly captures the resource management and base-building tension found in Flesh Eaters.

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 52.2%, Indie 19.8%, Action 10%, Survival 9.8%, Real Time Tactics 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical strategy game where you control a squad of survivors through procedurally generated levels, emphasizing the same squad-based survival mechanics.

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 29%, RPG 25.2%, Indie 24.9%, Action 12.4%, Survival 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action RPG that leans heavily into survival and strategic combat, closely matching the gameplay loop of Flesh Eaters.

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: Zombies 46.9%, RPG 17.4%, Survival 12.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game where you manage survivors and reclaim territory, mirroring the strategic city-wide survival goals of the seed game.

Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.

Why similar: Zombies 40.4%, RTS 15.3%, Survival 9.7%, Indie 9.5%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: An RTS-focused zombie survival game that allows for large-scale base building and tactical management against a relentless infection.

Can you survive the horror? … a retro-style survival horror game developed by the two-man indie team of Gonzossm and Iggy Zuk. Survive 30 days and nights in a zombie-infested world by recruiting companions, upgrading weaponry and fortifying your position.

Why similar: Zombies 51.7%, Indie 23.1%, Action 14%, Survival 8.5%, Retro 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival shooter that focuses on barricading and defending your position against waves of undead, similar to the core loop of the seed game.

Golden-age RTS classic. Fast-paced action & strategic decision-making, battling evil arch-enemies, zombies, and retro-futuristic technologies. All to a '90s electro-metal soundtrack and FMV live-action cut scenes.

Why similar: Zombies 44.5%, RTS 22.1%, Tactical 10.9%, Action 10%, Retro 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired RTS that emphasizes base-building and tactical combat, capturing the old-school feel of the seed game.

Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 42.4%, RPG 21.3%, Simulation 10.4%, Indie 8.1%, Survival 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation game that focuses on the management of survivors and resources in a post-apocalyptic zombie world.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 39.9%, RTS 13.9%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, Indie 9%, Tactical 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique RTS that tasks you with rescuing civilians from zombie outbreaks using tactical positioning and resource deployment.

They Are Coming is a hybrid game that combines roguelike, tower defense, and base building in a side-scrolling shooter format. It offers a straightforward gaming experience for pure enjoyment.

Why similar: Zombies 50.3%, Indie 20%, Survival 12%, Action 8.1%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action game centered on defending against massive zombie waves, focusing on the frantic barricade-building aspect of survival.

Undeadz! is an open world Zombie Survival game with a retro art style!

Why similar: Zombies 49.5%, Indie 28.7%, Action 16.1%, Retro 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-themed action game that focuses on open-world survival and zombie combat.

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Why similar: Zombies 42.1%, Survival 12.7%, RPG 12.6%, RTS 8.8%, Action 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that requires you to build settlements and manage survivor needs, offering a similar management-heavy experience.

A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 57.7%, Indie 14.1%, Action 9.1%, RPG 5.8%, Survival 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled side-scrolling shooter that focuses on survival and resource management in a zombie-infested city.

An Urban Survival RPG! Crafting, Exploring and Defending in a desolate metropolis haunted by the mysterious dreamers. Lead a team of 4 survivors through this urban desert of skyscrapers and high-rises, where the streets are crowded with the mutated victims of a strange disease.

Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, RPG 18.3%, Indie 16.4%, Survival 13.4%, Tactical 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that tasks you with scavenging and crafting while trapped in a city, focusing on resource management and base defense.

All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!

Why similar: Zombies 52.8%, Survival 13.1%, Simulation 7.9%, RPG 7.3%, Survival Horror 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a focus on building defenses and managing resources in a post-apocalyptic world.

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 60.7%, RPG 16.2%, Survival 12.5%, Indie 4.7%, Tactical 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that focuses on the social and logistical management of a survivor shelter during a zombie apocalypse.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 56.5%, Indie 11.9%, RPG 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Action 7%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled zombie survival game that emphasizes resource management and difficult decision-making during a desperate journey.

In Fort Zombie, players are trapped in the small town of Piety, Indiana. Organize and build a defense shelter from an impending wave of undead. Choose a building to be your Fort and forage for Food, Weapons, Supplies and People.

Why similar: RPG 30.3%, Indie 29.5%, Zombies 22.8%, Action 17.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic indie title that tasks you with turning a building into a fortress to survive the zombie apocalypse through management and tactical defense.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 37.3%, RPG 19.9%, Indie 15.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival management game where you must protect your family in a bunker, focusing on the resource gathering and base-maintenance aspects.

Real-time combat in the zombie apocalypse! Guide your survivors through hordes of the infected to escape the epicentre of infection!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down strategy game that focuses on tactical combat and survival against zombie hordes in a sci-fi setting.

Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.

Why similar: Zombies 54.8%, RPG 15.9%, Indie 15.5%, Action 11.5%, Top-Down 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-heavy RPG that features massive zombie hordes and tactical combat, similar to the intensity of the seed game.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Zombies 56.6%, Indie 15.2%, Retro 7.6%, Survival 4.7%, RPG 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled survival game that captures the bleak atmosphere and resource-management challenges of a zombie outbreak.

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Zombies 49.6%, Indie 13.4%, Survival 9.7%, Action 9.3%, Adventure 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that incorporates base-building and inventory management, perfect for fans of the seed game's survival focus.

Top-down open world single player / survival / RPG game with zombies and wildlife.

Why similar: Zombies 34.8%, Indie 18.6%, RPG 18.3%, Survival 12.1%, Adventure 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure-survival game that tasks you with building a base and managing resources to survive the undead.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 38.6%, RPG 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Indie 9.6%, Adventure 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes scavenging and crafting, allowing you to slowly reclaim the world from the undead.

Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.

Why similar: RPG 44%, Indie 35.3%, Simulation 20.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-RPG that focuses on base building and resource management in a harsh, survival-oriented environment.

“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!

Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, Indie 13.8%, RPG 13.4%, Survival 10.8%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-simulation game that requires careful resource management and exploration to survive in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world.

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Zombies 41.8%, RPG 12.6%, Indie 11.7%, Survival 11.2%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on crafting and resource management in a zombie-filled environment.

C-Wars is pixel action game with strategy, rogue-like flavor, and a 16-bit graphics which is retro enough to bring you back to 90's. If you love challenge, pixel art, and occasionally play FPS, then C-Wars is worth to try out.

Why similar: Zombies 34.3%, Indie 29.3%, RPG 20.8%, Action 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-RPG that blends real-time action with tactical planning, offering a similar depth to the seed game's mechanics.

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: Zombies 44.7%, RPG 18.2%, Indie 10%, Survival 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 48.7%, RPG 13.8%, Survival 12.8%, Indie 7.8%, Sandbox 6.9%

It's the zombie-slaying survival game with JRPG elements you didn't know you wanted! Get swarmed by zombies in active-time battles, search for other survivors, eat and most importantly: SURVIVE!

Why similar: Indie 63%, RPG 15.4%, Adventure 7.9%, Action 5.7%, Simulation 5.3%

The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.

Why similar: Zombies 34.2%, RPG 14.7%, Indie 12.3%, Survival 9.6%, Action 8%

Eaten Alive is a Point and Click, Adventure, Horror game with Puzzle and Mystery game-play elements. Take control of 'Mia' six years after the apocalypse began, the dead don't stay dead and the earth is in a permanent state of darkness. This game contains adult themes.

Why similar: Indie 46.1%, Zombies 39%, Survival 6.7%, Adventure 4.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.4%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Zombies 44.7%, RTS 17.7%, Survival 9.9%, Real Time Tactics 8.3%, Simulation 7.7%

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Zombies 44.7%, RPG 12.5%, Survival 11.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Sandbox 7.3%

In V1RUZ, you see yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic in the USA. Learn how to craft weapons, tools and fight against the living and the dead to survive in this cruel, rotting world.

Why similar: RPG 27.4%, Indie 26.4%, Simulation 16.1%, Action 15.5%, Adventure 14.5%

As a survivor of the mutant virus, make your way through the city and wipe out the hordes of flesh eating mutants. Teamwork is the key to survive the DEAD HORDE...

Why similar: Zombies 63.5%, Indie 18.7%, Action 12.6%, Survival 5.2%

A wave based FPS where you defend a barricaded house against increasing hordes of the dead.

Why similar: Zombies 59.9%, Action 23.8%, Retro 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%

Cards of the Dead is a survival card game. Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Zombies 41.6%, RPG 12.8%, Survival 9.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Action 8.7%

2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

Why similar: Zombies 43.1%, RTS 14.2%, Survival 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Simulation 10.3%

Zombie Diner — In a post-apocalyptic world, you run the only diner for the undead. Cook grotesque meals, serve hungry zombie patrons, and blast those who lose patience. Survival, management, and dark humor all on the menu!

Why similar: Zombies 60.6%, Simulation 14.2%, Action 13.4%, Adventure 11.9%

They are coming! Ravenous, insatiable, and absolutely unstoppable zombies, a Wunderwaffe that went horribly wrong. It’s up to you to usher in the age of the zombie, by munching on every brain in sight! Build up a horde, dodge enemy weapons, and gnaw a mark on human history!

Why similar: Zombies 73.6%, Action 15.4%, Survival 11.1%

A cross-platform, cooperative, multiplayer, zombie death-fest. Slaughter your way through many different maps, game modes and enemies - With tons of weapons and customization options!

Why similar: Zombies 39.5%, RPG 18.3%, Indie 18.1%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 10%

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Zombies 47.9%, Survival 12.5%, Action 10.2%, Adventure 8.3%, Simulation 7.5%

Barricadez is a mix of tower defense and survival game. Take on your care robot and explore the underground, find new blueprints, gather resources and build your defenses and traps to survive through the night against a myriad of zombie-like creatures. Your goal: to defend the defenseless cradle.

Why similar: Zombies 58.3%, Indie 21.4%, Survival 10.8%, Tactical 9.5%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Zombies 39.2%, RPG 16.8%, Survival 16.5%, Sandbox 11.6%, Action 8.9%

Age of Undead is a multi-genre game (turn-based, RTS, FPS) that allows you to face the frightful Zombie Apocalypse with 3 unique factions: the Army, the Infected, and the Survivors. Make strategic choices in the Campaign, then go into battle and fight to survive!

Why similar: Zombies 54.2%, RTS 27.3%, Tactical 10.2%, Real Time Tactics 8.4%

Command your Squad of Survivors in a game where Line of Sight is extremely important, you cannot shoot what you cannot see. Develop your formations, move as a unit and cover every corner. Leave no man behind!

Why similar: Zombies 40.1%, Indie 22.4%, Action 12.9%, Survival 9.6%, Real Time Tactics 9%

Survival Zombies is a bloody chaotic survival first person shooter that pits heavily armed players against humanity's greatest fear - hordes of undead.

Why similar: Zombies 50%, Indie 18.2%, Action 11.7%, Adventure 10%, Simulation 10%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 60.5%, Survival 19.8%, Adventure 11.1%, Action 8.6%

Action rpg that containst fast-Paced combat and survival elements. Use your skills to defeat the Undead.

Why similar: RPG 83.2%, Action 16.8%

A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!

Why similar: Zombies 43.8%, Action 18%, Simulation 16.4%, Survival 13.1%, Indie 8.7%

Tank controls. Fixed cameras. Pure Terror. Set in a haunting world of twisted experiments and occult nightmares, this game brings back the survival horror mechanics you know and love while pushing the genre into terrifying new depths.

Why similar: Zombies 53.9%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Indie 10.9%, Action 10.6%, Retro 9.1%

See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.

Why similar: Zombies 83%, Survival Horror 17%

Create your character and survive wave after wave of zombies! Gain exp, level up and unlock new skills. Acquire over 20 Weapons with different rarities.

Why similar: Zombies 36.5%, RPG 26.1%, Indie 23.5%, Action 14%

Survive zombie apocalypse! Plunder resources for survival!

Why similar: Zombies 52%, RTS 26.1%, Indie 21.9%

Battle through Zombie Apocalypse horror! Which is better - shotgun, pistol or AK-47? Blast their rotten, infected brains out and choose your favorite! Scavenge weapons and armor to pimp out your souped up zombie slaying car - then plow down the man-eating hordes to Escape the Undead City, and try not to get your guts torn out!!!

Why similar: Zombies 59.7%, Indie 25.2%, Action 15.1%