Games Like Garbage: Hobo Prophecy

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

Why similar: Base Building 43%, Survival 36.5%, Simulation 13%, 3D 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most direct thematic parallel, focusing on the raw survival challenges and social dynamics of living on the streets.

Bum Simulator is a sandbox game bursting with inappropriate humor and memorable characters. You live on the streets of Bumsville. Do you have what it takes to adapt, survive and become an urban legend?

Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Base Building 22.5%, Simulation 22.3%, Funny 13.6%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same gritty, humorous, and open-world approach to the homeless experience found in the seed game.

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 26.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 13.3%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the management of a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting, mirroring the base-building and survival needs of the seed game.

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!

Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Colony Sim 17%, Management 12.5%, Dark Comedy 10.8%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim features base-building and resource control with a satirical, tongue-in-cheek look at cult life.

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 34.1%, Base Building 21.1%, Survival 14.8%, Management 7.5%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends colony-sim elements with survival and base-building, focusing on managing a group in a hostile, post-apocalyptic world.

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 38.6%, Base Building 20.7%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the somber, resource-heavy survival management style while forcing players to make difficult moral choices in a harsh environment.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Management 34.9%, Dark Humor 24.8%, Building 20.2%, Simulation 17.7%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines dark humor with complex management and simulation mechanics, providing a similar satirical tone to the struggle for survival.

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.6%, Base Building 19.8%, Management 16.1%, Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and strategy of running an illicit operation, mirroring the base-building and resource-management loop.

Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Auto Battler 19.6%, Management 12.3%, Building 10.6%, Dark Humor 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique mix of tower defense and apartment management with a quirky, humorous tone similar to the seed game's aesthetic.

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 34.2%, Base Building 22.1%, Survival 13%, Management 11.6%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for colony-sims, it offers deep management and survival mechanics that mirror the base-building and struggle elements of the seed game.

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Dark Comedy 15.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Dark Humor 11.6%, Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building and managing a hellish landscape with a dark, humorous tone that aligns with the seed game's vibe.

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Base Building 16%, Management 11.3%, Dark Humor 11.2%, Survival 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic setting, emphasizing the struggle to maintain a functional base.

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: Colony Sim 30.1%, Survival 18%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on extreme survival management where every decision is a matter of life and death, matching the high-stakes atmosphere of the seed game.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Survival 27%, Base Building 24.6%, Building 14.9%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox survival game offers a brutal, gritty world where you start with nothing and must build your way up through management and strategy.

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 28.8%, Survival 22.8%, Strategy 14%, Management 13.8%, Simulation 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep simulation of survival and base-building within a confined, high-pressure environment.

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: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 26.3%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Building 9.8%, Character Customization 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends management and base-building with auto-battler combat mechanics, matching the gameplay variety of the seed game.

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: Colony Sim 34.2%, Management 15.7%, Survival 13.4%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the tactical management of a bunker, requiring careful resource allocation to keep survivors alive.

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: Survival 67.4%, Building 20.1%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is an uncompromising survival simulation that requires meticulous management of health, hunger, and shelter in a hostile environment.

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 31%, Strategy 15.4%, Survival 13.7%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base-building and management in a post-apocalyptic world, emphasizing the struggle for survival against environmental threats.

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Dark Humor 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim requires players to build and manage a floating city, focusing on resource management and survival strategy.

Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Base Building 16%, Dark Humor 12.2%, Management 11.6%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique management experience where you must balance resources and strategy to maintain control of your systems.

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Management 14.3%, Simulation 7.6%, Cartoony 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim uses base-building and colony-sim mechanics to run a school, offering a similar depth of simulation to the seed game.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 11.8%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder where managing limited resources is the key to keeping your population alive in a harsh world.

Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 21.3%, Management 16.6%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy colony-sim that requires constant resource monitoring to survive in a hostile, post-apocalyptic setting.

Conquer and destroy the dirty Humans by sending swarms of bugs to crush their home worlds. Evolve your Buggos into stronger, faster, more murderous creatures that can rip the Human defenses to shreds! No one can stop your evolutionary powers. You are the evil Buggo Hivemind!!!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Auto Battler 20.1%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy-focused colony-sim involves managing a swarm and building a base, sharing the tactical management elements of the seed game.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1%, Management 16.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 12.3%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on managing a sandbox environment with a focus on survival and resource gathering.

A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

Why similar: Auto Battler 34.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Management 16.3%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features auto-battler combat and management mechanics that closely mirror the combat style of the seed game.

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Survival 37.3%, Simulation 33.5%, Dark Comedy 28.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival and farming in a post-apocalyptic world, emphasizing the slow, steady management of resources.

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Why similar: Satire 17% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Dark Humor 11.6%, Management 10.8%

It's the first day of the rest of your life

Why similar: Satire 22.3% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Survival 12.1%, Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This indie survival game features tactical RPG elements and base-building in a post-apocalyptic world, mirroring the core struggle of the seed game.

Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue is a battle sim about managing your own Gladiator Guild in an epic fantasy world. Build and run your own guild, hire and train gladiators, develop unique tactics, manage resources, compete for the rank in the arena, and much more.

Why similar: Auto Battler 34.5%, Management 16%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 10.3%, Simulation 8.1%

Experience the struggle which a homeless man goes through in a humorous manner. Primitive elements of contemporary life that we take for granted, such as staying warm, well-nourished, and hygienic, will become an issue.

Why similar: Auto Battler 18%, Dark Comedy 13.9%, Colony Sim 13%, Base Building 12.8%, Dark Humor 10.3%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 19.6%, Survival 11.7%, Management 10.1%, Building 8.9%

Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Dark Comedy 14.3%, Management 11%, Dark Humor 9.6%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 43.3%, Dark Humor 33.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Singleplayer 2%

Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your company's relentless profit margins. Warning: Contains lethal doses of dark humor and corporate exploitation.

Why similar: Auto Battler 32.4%, Dark Humor 21.3%, Management 17%, Resource Management 11.7%, Strategy 8.9%

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 12.3%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%

Pohinki Simulator is a survival game set in a polish neighbourhood, where you need to explore the open world in search for trash in order to survive and gain power. Build structures, experiment with found items, and become the most powerful bum alive!

Why similar: Base Building 29.9%, Survival 20.3%, Building 19%, Funny 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Survival 15.2%, Management 14.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Strategy 9.9%

Homeless Simulator is a homeless person simulator. Homeless persons are those who find themselves living on the streets because of family conflicts, somebody’s fraud, loss of the job or health problems. They are those who need help.

Why similar: Simulation 48.3%, Survival 47.6%, Singleplayer 4.1%

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: Colony Sim 30.2%, Base Building 17%, Survival 15.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.3%

Hard Times is an extreme urban survival game where you have to put yourself into the shoes of a homeless man, taking on all the challenges that daily survival places in the great metropolis of indifference.

Why similar: Simulation 45.6%, Survival 22.5%, Management 20.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Homeless Simulator 2 is a homeless person simulator. Homeless persons are those who find themselves living on the streets because of family conflicts, somebody’s fraud, loss of the job or health problems. They are those who need help.

Why similar: Survival 42%, Simulation 36.3%, Funny 18.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 17.1%, Management 12.4%, Survival 11.6%, Building 10.7%

Free stand‑alone Prologue. Shape a grand colony where every life bends to your will. Feel the weight of absolute power as you decree laws, then march into chaos, leading squads in roguelite FPS battles from brutal skirmishes to large-scale battlefields. Play Sector One now & wishlist the full game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6%, Base Building 23.6%, Management 12.9%, Dark Humor 10.3%, Simulation 6.4%

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: Base Building 31.5%, Survival 27.3%, Management 13.1%, Building 7.8%, Resource Management 7.7%

Start your journey as a boxer from the ground up, fighting your way to glory. Develop your character, collect fight cards, and face the challenges life throws your way. Train hard, manage stress, and give everything you've got to turn your championship dreams into reality.

Why similar: Boxing 54.5% ★, Management 19.5%, Funny 10.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.8%

Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Base Building 14.7%, Management 13.7%, Dark Humor 11.1%, Character Customization 7.6%

Become a sewage disposal worker and help Petrovich cope with all the difficulties of this difficult profession!

Why similar: Dark Humor 69.1%, 3D 29.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%

A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!

Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Management 18.9%, Building 12.9%, Cartoony 9.7%, Funny 9.3%

The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)

Why similar: Satire 33.5% ★, Management 18.5%, Survival 17.2%, Dark Humor 15.4%, Simulation 7.9%

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: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 19.4%, Management 14.1%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 7.8%

Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Management 13.7%, Building 12.7%, Simulation 9.4%

Action-strategy game, about space hobo, who had his cardboard box stolen.

Why similar: Dark Humor 32.2%, Strategy 25%, Management 24.3%, Funny 18.6%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.9%, Survival 10.8%

Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Strategy 14.7%, Management 8.3%, Resource Management 5.5%

In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.

Why similar: Simulation 51.7%, Strategy 48.3%

Rising Army is a strategy auto-battler game where you can train and equip every single troop, upgrade your camp, and recruit new warriors. Experience a campaign in an open world and take on epic battles.

Why similar: Auto Battler 29%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 9.9%, Building 7.6%

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Management 19.2%, Survival 14.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.7%