Games Like Frostpunk

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 31.8%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 12.1%, Steampunk 11.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its expanded society-management systems, political factions, resource crises, and bleak frozen setting make it the most direct continuation of Frostpunk’s survival-city-builder formula.

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 28.3%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Survival 11.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This tense spacefaring city builder combines population survival, difficult moral tradeoffs, hull maintenance, and relentlessly demanding resource logistics.

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 34.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Survival 13.8%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on rebuilding civilization after catastrophe while managing radiation, droughts, contaminated land, expeditions, and a vulnerable survivor population.

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: City Builder 22.5%, Colony Sim 17%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Survival 10.5%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic settlement building revolves around keeping citizens warm, supplied, and hopeful amid harsh weather and societal collapse.

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: City Builder 23.9%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 10.9%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Although structured as a roguelite, it captures Frostpunk’s pressure through hostile weather, dwindling resources, competing needs, and difficult settlement priorities.

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 29.7%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This apocalypse-focused colony sim mixes settlement construction with disasters, scarce supplies, hostile environments, and specialist-led expeditions.

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: City Builder 27.1%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Building a settlement on the back of a colossal creature creates a similarly precarious survival loop of limited space, toxic hazards, and community management.

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: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Survival 9.7%, Resource Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This colony builder makes environmental survival central through drought cycles, water engineering, food preservation, and carefully managed beaver communities.

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: City Builder 38.9%, Colony Sim 30.3%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 6.1%, Resource Management 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its grounded focus on food, fuel, housing, seasonal hardship, and the consequences of every labor assignment delivers a classic survival-city-builder challenge.

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: City Builder 27.2%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes building a self-sustaining town against severe winters, crop failures, disease, raiders, and demanding supply chains.

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 23.9%, City Builder 13.6%, Steampunk 12% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It trades Frostpunk’s cold for zombie swarms, but retains the high-pressure balance of expanding infrastructure while preventing one disaster from ending the colony.

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 33.2%, City Builder 19.6%, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its emergent colony disasters, individual colonist needs, brutal climates, and storytelling around hard decisions strongly suit Frostpunk’s human-survival appeal.

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: City Builder 24.3%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 12.8%, Resource Management 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its flood-ravaged world, scavenging expeditions, scarce resources, and competing survivor factions offer a compact post-apocalyptic alternative.

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: Colony Sim 36.9%, Survival 18.1%, Resource Management 15.5%, Base Building 11.7%, Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its intricate management of oxygen, heat, food, stress, and closed-loop infrastructure provides an even deeper systems-driven survival colony challenge.

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: City Builder 31.5%, Colony Sim 27.5%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Resource Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: Surviving on an inhospitable planet requires careful control of oxygen, water, power, food, and worker assignments under constant environmental pressure.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Survival 10.8%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the original Endzone’s hazardous rebuilding premise with explorable zones, environmental threats, and interdependent survivor settlements.

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: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Survival 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Keeping a spacefaring community alive through power, oxygen, food, injuries, and external threats shares Frostpunk’s enclosed-society survival tension.

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: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact cities must survive radiation, resource shortages, trade demands, and disasters in a ruined post-apocalyptic Earth.

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: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Real-Time with Pause 7.7% ★, Survival 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Building across dangerous mountain slopes creates a survival-city-builder puzzle shaped by limited land, avalanches, and complex supply routes.

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: City Builder 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This bleak post-apocalyptic strategy game focuses on gathering survivors, building defenses, and making a settlement endure in a devastated world.

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: City Builder 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-view city simulation combines citizen needs, resource production, taxation, class tensions, and survival-oriented settlement growth.

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: City Builder 43.1%, Colony Sim 29.3%, Survival 13.4%, Strategy 5.7%, Resource Management 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Guiding a prehistoric settlement through harsh seasons, food scarcity, population growth, and technological change provides a slower but similarly survival-focused progression.

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 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 14.1%, City Builder 12%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Managing survivors, defenses, research, and supplies during an apocalyptic supernatural invasion delivers a similarly desperate command experience.

Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!

Why similar: City Builder 37.6%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Resource Management 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%, RTS 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh Nordic winters, food and wood constraints, territorial expansion, and clan management make it a strong strategy-focused survival settlement game.

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: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 17.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Survival 9.5%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its exceptionally detailed construction, logistics, utilities, and citizen-supply systems appeal to players who enjoy Frostpunk’s demanding infrastructure management.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Resource Management 32.2%, Survival 29.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Difficult 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative survival-management game emphasizes rationing, crew morale, leadership choices, and the human cost of surviving a lethal polar expedition.

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 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%

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: Colony Sim 29.4%, City Builder 22.3%, Survival 15.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Base Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This approachable settlement survival game still stresses worker assignment, resource gathering, defenses, expeditions, and keeping a small community alive.

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 44.8%, Colony Sim 11%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 5.8%, Building 5.6%

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 40.9%, Resource Management 14%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 7.9%

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 56.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, RTS 4.4%, Economy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its futuristic city building adds ecological balance, resource networks, and faction needs, offering a more economic but still climate-conscious management experience.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 58.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Economy 6.5%, Building 3.3%

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: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Resource Management 9.3%, Base Building 7.3%

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: City Builder 58.2%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 5.9%, Management 5.3%

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 11.1%, Building 7%

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: City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 19%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Resource Management 11%, Survival 10.2%

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, City Builder 20.7%, Resource Management 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Survival 8.1%

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Survival 65.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Atmospheric 4.5%, Strategy 3.8%, Simulation 2.7%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: City Builder 25.5%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Real-Time with Pause 7.6% ★

The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.

Why similar: Survival 24.3%, Strategy 23.2%, RTS 15.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Management 8.1%

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Building 21.3%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 10.5%

Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?

Why similar: City Builder 46.8%, Strategy 31.1%, Building 8.1%, Management 4.9%, Simulation 3.5%

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: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 10.8%, Building 7.2%

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: City Builder 37.8%, Colony Sim 29.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 5.1%

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: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 10.9%, Building 7.3%

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!

Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Colony Sim 19.5%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 11.6%, Building 6%

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: City Builder 24.5%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%

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: City Builder 27.3%, Colony Sim 25.8%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.7%

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: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 20%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 10.2%, Building 6.8%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Resource Management 10.6%, Survival 8.9%, Building 5.8%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Steampunk 18.4% ★, Colony Sim 18.1%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 7.4%

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 29.6%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 6.6%

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 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 7.6%

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Steampunk 22.8% ★, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 8.2%

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 54.7%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 6%, Strategy 5.9%

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: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 7.2%

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Steampunk 23.7% ★, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 7.1%, Base Building 6.1%

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: City Builder 24.1%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 10.6%, Building 7%