- #1 Silent Storm Gold Edition
97% matchVery Positive88% of 1,061 reviews2013
Dev: NivalPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Silent Storm from leading Russian developer Nival is a true 3D tactical turn-based Role-Playing-Game set against the backdrop of WWII. As the conflict rages on the frontlines, you’ll be leading a small multinational squad behind enemy lines to gather information and wreak havoc on your enemies while trying to thwart a mysterious new...
Why similar: RPG 66.2%, Turn-Based 13.1%, Classic 6% ★, Strategy 4.7%, Tactical 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features highly detailed turn-based tactical combat with destructible environments that perfectly mirror the tactical intensity of Gorky 17.
- #2 X-COM: Apocalypse
96% matchVery Positive89% of 934 reviews2008
Dev: MicroProse Software, IncPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 28%
There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
Why similar: Turn-Based 31.2%, Classic 25.7% ★, Strategy 17.4%, Tactical 6.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 6%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the squad-based tactical combat and sci-fi mystery elements that define the core experience of Gorky 17.
- #3 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
95% matchVery Positive85% of 10,424 reviews2018
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
Why similar: RPG 68.7%, Turn-Based 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%, Isometric 4.3%, Strategy 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the specific post-Soviet survival aesthetic and turn-based combat mechanics that feel like a spiritual successor to Gorky 17.
- #4 Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,721 reviews2021
Dev: Dark Crystal GamesPub: Prime Matter
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
Why similar: RPG 74.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%, Turn-Based 6.9%, Strategy 4.8%, Isometric 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: A strong isometric CRPG with tactical combat and a mysterious, isolated facility setting that mirrors the game's narrative tone.
- #5 UnderRail
94% matchVery Positive86% of 7,028 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Why similar: RPG 81.3%, Turn-Based 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 5.3%, Isometric 3.5%, Sci-fi 0.7%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging isometric RPG set in a claustrophobic, post-apocalyptic underground world that demands careful tactical planning.
- #6 Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
93% matchVery Positive83% of 8,092 reviews2014
Dev: inXile Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.4 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Why similar: RPG 75.6%, Turn-Based 11%, Post-apocalyptic 5.6%, Strategy 2.6%, Isometric 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential post-apocalyptic isometric RPG that emphasizes squad-based survival and tactical decision-making.
- #7 Planet Alcatraz
92% matchVery Positive82% of 735 reviews2014
Dev: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Planet Alcatraz is a 3D role playing game with isometric projection. The player travels through the game world and fights against enemies in the real-time mode.Several genres are mixed in this game but despite that fact it isn't stuck between them and appears to be a classical RPG that is based on a specially developed system.
Why similar: RPG 96.5%, Post-apocalyptic 1.8%, Isometric 1.3%, Atmospheric 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.1%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty, isometric RPG that closely matches the tone, difficulty, and tactical squad-based gameplay of Gorky 17.
- #8 Shock Tactics
91% matchMixed42% of 135 reviews2017
Dev: Point Blank GamesPub: EuroVideo Medien
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shock Tactics is a single player turn-based sci-fi strategy game with tactical combat, exploration, squad management and base building.
Why similar: RPG 92.2%, Strategy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines squad-based tactical combat with sci-fi exploration in a way that feels very similar to the tactical encounters in Gorky 17.
- #9 Marauder
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 761 reviews2014
Dev: ApeironPub: ESDigital Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Marauder, is a squad based and tactical 3D game with RPG elements. It was released in late 2009, in Russia. You may know these names as the former made Brigade 7,62 and the later also published Pathologic.
Why similar: RPG 83.7%, Strategy 5.3%, Turn-Based 4.9%, Post-apocalyptic 2.8%, Tactical 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world that mirrors the squad-based focus and isometric perspective.
- #10 Phantom Doctrine
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,637 reviews2018
Dev: CreativeForge GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The year is 1983. The world teeters on the verge of destruction as the Cold War tightens its icy grip. East or West: trust no one, question everything. The fate of humanity rests in your hands as you pit spy versus spy in tactical Phantom Doctrine.
Why similar: RPG 72.2%, Turn-Based 10.1%, Strategy 6.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 3.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 2.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical turn-based combat with a Cold War espionage theme that aligns with the game's Soviet-era mystery.
- #11 Xenonauts
89% matchVery Positive87% of 5,012 reviews2014
Dev: Goldhawk Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Why similar: Turn-Based 33.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Isometric 11.8%, Tactical 9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the classic tactical squad management and alien-threat tension that fans of Gorky 17's combat will appreciate.
- #12 ATOM RPG Trudograd
88% matchVery Positive84% of 4,354 reviews2021
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ATOM RPG: Trudograd is a turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game, which continues the story of ATOM RPG as a stand-alone sequel/expansion, and follows the traditions set by classic cRPGs such as the early Fallout and Wasteland titles.
Why similar: RPG 72.4%, Turn-Based 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7%, Isometric 4%, Turn-Based Strategy 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A direct expansion that continues the post-Soviet tactical RPG experience with improved mechanics and a familiar setting.
- #13 Septerra Core
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,311 reviews2013
Pub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
At the very heart of Septerra lies the Core, a huge Biocomputer. Seven continents at different elevations, each with its own unique people and culture, orbit around the Core.According to an ancient prophecy, Septerra's continents will one day converge and join in orbit together on one level - this is the Legacy of Marduk, the Creator's...
Why similar: RPG 95.1%, Turn-Based 2.4%, Classic 1.7% ★, Isometric 0.6%, Sci-fi 0.2%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric RPG with a unique turn-based combat system that emphasizes party composition and tactical ability usage.
- #14 Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
87% matchVery Positive89% of 6,474 reviews2014
Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
Why similar: RPG 78.9%, Turn-Based 12%, Isometric 2.6%, Strategy 2.2%, Tactical 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers tight, turn-based tactical combat within a dark, atmospheric setting that rewards careful squad positioning.
- #15 Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,975 reviews2024
Dev: Shanghai Sunborn Network Technology Co., Ltd.Pub: XD
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Experience the newest tactical RPG from the creators of Girls’ Frontline. Some 30 years in the future, AU agent Mendo and the mysterious girl Jefuty find themselves in gruesome battles against armed URNC forces…
Why similar: RPG 78.1%, Strategy 7%, Tactical RPG 6.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 3.2%, Sci-fi 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: A modern tactical RPG with high-stakes turn-based combat and a focus on squad-based mission objectives.
- #16 Metro 2033 Redux
86% matchVery Positive92% of 129,041 reviews2014
Dev: 4A GamesPub: Deep Silver
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 51.4%, Horror 20.1%, Classic 18.7% ★, Atmospheric 6.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the bleak, atmospheric post-apocalyptic horror setting that defines the world of Gorky 17.
- #17 Expeditions: Rome
84% matchVery Positive88% of 6,478 reviews2022
Dev: Logic ArtistsPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?
Why similar: RPG 80.8%, Strategy 4.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 4.3%, Tactical RPG 3.2%, Turn-Based 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features deep turn-based tactical combat and squad management that will satisfy fans of the tactical depth in Gorky 17.
- #18 Hard West 2
84% matchVery Positive82% of 3,037 reviews2022
Dev: Ice Code GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: RPG 66.5%, Turn-Based 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 4.5%, Strategy 4.1%, Isometric 4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers highly tactical turn-based combat with a dark, supernatural atmosphere that complements the horror elements of the seed game.
- #19 Wasteland 3
82% matchVery Positive85% of 21,899 reviews2020
Dev: inXile Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Why similar: RPG 66.7%, Turn-Based 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 6.5%, Isometric 4%, Strategy 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: A modern isometric squad-based RPG with deep tactical combat and a dark, reactive world.
- #20 The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
83% matchMostly Positive70% of 11,991 reviews2013
Dev: 2K MarinPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
Why similar: RPG 73.3%, Tactical 10.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Sci-fi 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical squad-based game set in a secret facility environment that mirrors the game's investigative and combat themes.
- #21 Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
81% matchVery Positive90% of 3,945 reviews2007
Dev: Pyro StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a real-time tactics game set in World War II that puts you in command of a small squad of elite troopers. Send them behind enemy lines on a series of hazardous missions, and bring them back alive.
Why similar: Classic 49.7% ★, Strategy 26.5%, Tactical 13.3%, Isometric 9.5%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic tactical squad game that shares the isometric perspective and high difficulty of Gorky 17.
- #22 1953 - KGB Unleashed
82% matchMixed58% of 649 reviews2013
Pub: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Developed by Phantomery Interactive, 1953 – KGB Unleashed is a tense and atmospheric First Person Adventure set deep within the bowels of a Soviet bunker during the Cold War. Players must uncover the dark and horrifc secrets buried within, fighting their own paranoia along the way as well as the possibility of all-too-real terrors within...
Why similar: Horror 72.5%, Atmospheric 17.3%, Singleplayer 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the specific Cold War secret facility horror aesthetic and investigative feel of the seed game.
- #23 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
81% matchMixed66% of 2,493 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: RPG 94.1%, Horror 2.9%, Strategy 1.3%, Isometric 0.9%, Atmospheric 0.5%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric RPG with a heavy emphasis on horror and dark atmosphere that aligns with the game's unsettling tone.
- #24 Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
80% matchVery Positive88% of 2,368 reviews2013
Dev: SpellboundPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
"Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive" is the first strategy game ever to combine a movie-based and story-driven atmosphere of an adventure game with the intellectual challenge of a real time tactic game.In this western-style title, discover a game of strategy and tactics played out in exceptional real time.
Why similar: Strategy 30.2%, Classic 30.2% ★, Isometric 20.5%, Tactical 16%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the isometric tactical squad management style and the need for precise execution in dangerous environments.
- #25 Chernobylite Complete Edition
77% matchVery Positive82% of 15,165 reviews2021
Dev: The Farm 51
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
Why similar: RPG 82.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Horror 4.6%, Sci-fi 1.8%, Atmospheric 1.2%
- #26 Frozen Synapse
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,618 reviews2011
Dev: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
Why similar: Turn-Based 57.5%, Strategy 20.1%, Tactical 11.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.3%, Sci-fi 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the tactical turn-based planning and squad movement that makes the combat in Gorky 17 so engaging.
- #27 Earth 2160
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,542 reviews2006
Dev: Reality Pump StudiosPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
Why similar: Strategy 75.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Sci-fi 3.8%, Tactical RPG 3%, Atmospheric 1.9%
- #28 World War III: Black Gold
78% matchMixed63% of 908 reviews2013
Dev: Reality PumpPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Actual Armies. Actual Weapons. Actual Political Issues.World War III - Black Gold takes the player to the near future. The political crisis has been going on for months, leading to worldwide turmoil. A secret conference of the UN Central Geological Commission reveals that worldwide oil reserves have reached dangerously low levels: Oil...
Why similar: Strategy 99.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #29 Alien Shooter
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,607 reviews2009
Dev: Sigma Team Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The endless darkness and the somber, long passages of a military complex have become the abode of evil, thousands of blood-thirsty creatures fill its offices, storehouses and mysterious laboratories. About 1,000 monsters on each map, showing up to 100 monsters simultaneously on one playing screen.
Why similar: RPG 83.9%, Isometric 6.3%, Horror 5.4%, Sci-fi 2.6%, Atmospheric 1%
- #30 Earth 2140
78% matchMixed68% of 673 reviews2013
Dev: Reality Pump StudiosPub: Topware Interactive ACE
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The year is 2140. After numerous wars and several environmental disasters, only two world powers remain; the United Civilized States (»UCS«), covering the American continent, Western Europe and North Africa, and the Eurasian Dynasty (»ED«) covering the coherent landmasses of Eastern Europe and Asia.
Why similar: Strategy 99.2%, Sci-fi 0.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #31 Soviet Survival
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 55.7%, Isometric 39.2%, Singleplayer 5.1%
- #32 Sovietpunk: Chapter one
76% matchMixed70% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Hot Chill
Windows
Sovietpunk is a cyberpunk story set in the setting of the Soviet Union after a global nuclear war. You have to guide the main character through the gloomy tunnels, in which the struggle for life is in full swing.
Why similar: RPG 80.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Atmospheric 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #33 RECORD_DrowsyVortex
73% matchVery Positive100% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: LunarHillz
Windows
RECORD_DrowsyVortex is a post-apocalyptic exploration-focused RPG set in the future era of Space Immigration. It is one piece of recorded data transmitted from Planet Drowsy Vortex centuries later, offering an immersive experience of a local post-disaster survivor's weird and memorable story.
Why similar: RPG 88.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Sci-fi 2.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 1.6%
- #34 Collapse
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 962 reviews2014
Dev: CreoteamPub: ESDigital Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In 2013 the Central Europe (Ukraine, Kiev) witnessed a catastrophe. Everybody was mystified by its cause. What happened was beyond our comprehension. Somebody called it the collision of worlds or the stratification of two dimensions.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 88%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #35 Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion – Turn-Based Strategy
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: QuadCom InteractivePub: Brightika, Inc.
Windows
Future War Tactics: SOF vs Alien Invasion - a turn-based strategy where you command SOF forces against an alien threat. Investigate disappearances, fight the invaders, and uncover the mystery. Every decision affects the fate of humanity.
Why similar: Turn-Based 39.4%, RPG 25.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.1%
- #36 The Stalin Subway
75% matchMixed60% of 720 reviews2014
Dev: Orion GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
"The Stalin Subway" is a First Person Shooter-style game where the events take place in post-war Moscow. The game allows to plunge into the depressing atmosphere of the Stalin's period and to play as a Soviet officer.
Why similar: Classic 88.3% ★, Atmospheric 7.3%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #37 Hard to Be a God
74% matchVery Positive83% of 134 reviews2015
Dev: Burut CTPub: Akella
Windows
Hard to be a God is a Sci-Fi RPG with adventure and espionage elements.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #38 Bug Dolls: Soviet Project
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: AK Studio
Windows
This is a horror game about a small town engulfed in dangerous dolls.
Why similar: Atmospheric 100%
- #39 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 714 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: RPG 87.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%, Tactical 2.2%, Sci-fi 2.1%, Atmospheric 1%
- #40 Alien Shooter: Revisited
74% matchMixed64% of 849 reviews2009
Dev: Sigma Team Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Crowds of blood-thirsty monsters, crawling from every corner of the secret research base. Gloomy basements and modern labs, darkness changing into blazing bulbs. The only usual thing is: you're in a bad place alone, and there's no one to help you!
Why similar: RPG 96.5%, Isometric 3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #41 Stirring Abyss
70% matchVery Positive88% of 431 reviews2020
Dev: Sleepy SentryPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.
Why similar: RPG 74.9%, Turn-Based 6.9%, Tactical RPG 3.9%, Strategy 3.7%, Isometric 3.1%
- #42 KnightShift
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,425 reviews2013
Dev: Reality PumpPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Do you like Real Time Strategy? or are Role Playing Games your preference…Why not try both genres in one? … or even both separately? …In one game: KnightShift!In a mystical world beyond fantasy and imagination, where corruption and disaster go hand in hand, not all is as it seems.
Why similar: RPG 98.6%, Strategy 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #43 SKYHILL
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,576 reviews2015
Dev: MandragoraPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
Why similar: RPG 83.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Horror 2.7%, Atmospheric 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #44 Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game
68% matchVery Positive94% of 24,465 reviews2015
Dev: Interplay Inc.Pub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 33.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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: RPG 73.9%, Classic 10.1% ★, Turn-Based 6.1%, Post-apocalyptic 5.8%, Isometric 2.3%
- #45 1953: NATO vs Warsaw Pact
68% matchMixed48% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: Wastelands InteractivePub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Cold War turns hot in 1953: massive hex strategy with nukes, supply, and sabotage.
Why similar: Turn-Based 56.6%, Strategy 20.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Atmospheric 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #46 Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 467 reviews2014
Dev: Rage SoftwarePub: Funbox Media Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In 2032 an Earth that knows only peace is forced to relearn the art of war. Twenty years have passed since the population of Earth did a fine job of destroying nearly everything in one final struggle for power by the politicians and military leaders.
Why similar: Strategy 63.6%, Classic 29.2% ★, Sci-fi 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #47 Nuclear Day
66% matchMixed67% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nuclear Day is a story-based role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore the secrets of this world. Fight monsters. Pass tests and solve puzzles. Become your own in this tragic world.
Why similar: RPG 87.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Horror 4.2%
- #48 Metro: Last Light Redux
67% matchVery Positive91% of 75,789 reviews2014
Dev: 4A GamesPub: Deep Silver
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 61.9%, Horror 22.5%, Atmospheric 8.1%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Sci-fi 3.8%
- #49 The Underground Man
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,389 reviews2016
Dev: Mehsoft
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.
Why similar: RPG 73.1%, Classic 13.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Atmospheric 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #50 Entity Researchers: Prologue
67% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: RPG 83.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.7%, Isometric 5.1%, Horror 3.9%, Sci-fi 1.3%
- #51 Halfway
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,012 reviews2014
Dev: RobotalityPub: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...
Why similar: RPG 80.7%, Turn-Based 9.9%, Strategy 4.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 2.2%, Sci-fi 1.1%
- #52 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition
65% matchMixed60% of 3,609 reviews2025
Dev: GSC Game World
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat follows the story of special service agent Major Degtyarev as he investigates the fate of a lost expedition.
Why similar: RPG 92.1%, Post-apocalyptic 5.5%, Sci-fi 1.3%, Atmospheric 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #53 SCP Operations
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: LUXO InteractivePub: LUK KUS SOFT
Windows
Step into the enigmatic world of SCP OPERATIONS. Lead your team of elite agents through tactical, turn-based combat against the Chaos Insurgency and dangerous SCP objects. Uncover secrets and protect humanity.
Why similar: RPG 80.7%, Strategy 4.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 4.5%, Tactical RPG 4.4%, Horror 3.2%
- #54 Death Below
68% matchMixed54% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: Soft
Windows
Death Below - is a third-person action adventure with elements of survival horror. The plot of the game is based on the legend of the Soviet experiment of the 1940s.You will plunge into a dark world, and begin an exciting investigation, fighting on your way with thousands of distraught people
Why similar: Horror 83.1%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Singleplayer 7.8%