- #1 Interregnum: False Prophet
97% matchMixed59% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: Spacewalkers
Windows
A tactical, turn-based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic world of eternal winter. As the titular False Prophet, recruit and lead a group of survivors to a promised land. Loot, craft, and make the best of what you find.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 17.1%, Aliens 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Strategy RPG 11.8%, Isometric 10.9%
- #2 Paraside: Duality Unbound
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mistold GamesPub: WhisperGames
Windows
In a fractured world of colliding planes, wield your reality-bending abilities to lead Earth's remnants against cosmic threats. Develop your task force. Explore unknown territories. Manipulate space and minds ingeniously to reignite hope for humanity in this new strategic RPG.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 20%, Strategy RPG 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Isometric 11.1%, Character Customization 9.9%
- #3 Phoenix Point
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 7,018 reviews2020
Dev: Snapshot Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
Why similar: Transhumanism 20.7% ★, Tactical RPG 16.3%, Aliens 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Isometric 10.9%
- #4 First Day
95% matchMixed49% of 136 reviews2019
Dev: BadWolf Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's the first day of the rest of your life
Why similar: Tactical RPG 21.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Zombies 10.6%, Character Customization 9.7%
- #5 Fallout Shelter
94% matchVery Positive88% of 81,107 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 35.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Survival 15.1%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 6%
- #6 Sheltered
94% matchVery Positive82% of 6,241 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 29.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26.7%, Survival 18.7%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #7 Pit Fighter Tycoon
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games by Us
Windows
Abduct. Enhance. Battle. PROFIT. You're an alien that abducts humans to build the most powerful gladiator team in the universe! Surgically enhance your humans, or grind them down for profits. Become the worst kind of corporate overlord in this creature-collector RPG with auto-battle combat!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 21.5%, Aliens 17.8%, Transhumanism 16.8% ★, Strategy RPG 14.5%, Base Building 10.7%
- #8 Veiling Mask
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kopfkino Games
Windows
Veiling Mask is set in a mysterious world, plagued by war and elemental storms. The kingdoms are arming themselves for battle. In these troubled times, a hero appears, who wants to keep the world together at its core.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 37.3%, Strategy RPG 21.3%, Character Customization 13.7%, Strategy 9.7%, RPG 8.5%
- #9 Urban Strife
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 388 reviews2024
Dev: White Pond GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
Why similar: Base Building 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Zombies 12%, Isometric 11.1%, Strategy RPG 10.8%
- #10 Raiders! Forsaken Earth
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 293 reviews2020
Dev: Creative Storm EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...
Why similar: Tactical RPG 21.3%, Base Building 16.2%, Strategy RPG 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Isometric 11.9%
- #11 Sheltered 2
90% matchMixed46% of 2,191 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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: Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Base Building 21.8%, Survival 12.7%, Management 9.2%, Character Customization 8.7%
- #12 Runeroots
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ACEP Games
Windows
Your planet has been destroyed by invaders. Gather, craft, and rebuild your village in your own style. Explore other destroyed planets as you fight back the enemy in tactical turn-based battles. Play solo or up to 4 players in online co-op.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.7%, Base Building 17.7%, Strategy RPG 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Character Customization 10.3%
- #13 Trailblazers: Into the March
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StrangersPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this roguelite colony-sim strategy game. Command your Landship in tactical battles, care for a crew composed of all sorts of characters, shape your home, manage resources, and lead expeditions into the March. Discover what lies at its heart... and in yours.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.3% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Strategy RPG 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%
- #14 The Walking Dead: No Man's Land
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 995 reviews2024
Dev: Deca Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 43.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Step into the dangerous world of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. Lead survivors in turn-based strategy battles, manage resources, and make tough choices to ensure their survival. Fight walkers, build your base, and face endless dangers.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Strategy RPG 14.8%, Zombies 12%
- #15 Cloud Exiles
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Zombies 13.9%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy RPG 10.5%
- #16 The Outer Zone: Survival Tactics
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sappy Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Outer Zone is a turn-based strategy roguelite where you must manage a caravan of survivors through a world on the brink of collapse. Engage in stealth or combat as you scavenge for supplies, upgrade your caravan, and make difficult choices.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.6%, Strategy RPG 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Aliens 12.6%, Isometric 10.5%
- #17 The Resonant
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: East West Infiniti Game Studio
Windows
In a world without sight, you are a warrior who perceives the world through vibrations. Plan and execute turn-based combat sequences, deduce enemy positions and intentions, manipulate the battlefield through deception, and strike with precision to defeat your rivals.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 31.9%, Strategy RPG 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Isometric 12.8%, Strategy 9.4%
- #18 Squad Zero
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Code Bard Pub: Code Bard
Windows
Squad Zero is a squad-based open-world RPG with survival and strategy elements. The world has fallen to a zombie plague. Gather your squad, explore abandoned towns, scavenge resources, and build a base while the living and the dead fight for survival.
Why similar: Base Building 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Zombies 16.6%, Isometric 15.6%, Survival 13.9%
- #19 Dust to the End
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,245 reviews2021
Dev: Haojoy GamePub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Strategy RPG 14.3%, Character Customization 8.7%
- #20 The Last Haven
83% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 32%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Strategy 14.9%, Survival 10.3%, Zombies 5.3%
- #21 Life in Bunker
84% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 30%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Survival 17.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Management 11.4%
- #22 Harrowlands
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BashfulWolf Studio
Windows
Harrowlands is a medieval fantasy colony sim where you shape a thriving settlement in a vast, mystical realm. Master intricate base-building mechanics and guide your inhabitants through the complex social bonds that define their world.
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Strategy RPG 10.9%, Management 10.7%, Survival 10.5%, Procedural Generation 10%
- #23 Warrior Bloodline: Path of Survival
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Turdas
Windows
An epic journey of the fellowship of the children bonded by blood, escaped an experimental camp, wandering the woods and struggling both to survive and to reveal their destiny. An immersive, story-driven exploration game with a strong focus on realistic survival.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 25.7%, Strategy RPG 18.2%, Isometric 12.2%, Survival 10.3%, Character Customization 10.2%
- #24 Mortal Frame: Reforged in Survival
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shangshi Studio
Windows
"Mortal Frame" is a sci-fi RPG combining open-world exploration and sandbox survival. The player explores a challenging world, gathers resources, crafts gear, captures AI companions, and upgrades modification chips to enhance their abilities, facing powerful foes and uncovering hidden mysteries.
Why similar: Transhumanism 28.7% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Zombies 11.7%, Character Customization 9.4%
- #25 Orcania: Curtain
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hemera Starswirl
Windows
Break out of a research facility. Battle alongside cute Animech and Therian allies. Face the hidden world’s darkness—and terrors beyond reason. A roguelite tactical RPG with deep story and hundreds of ways to build your team. Uncover the truth.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 37.4%, Strategy RPG 21.5%, Strategy 12.2%, RPG 10.4%, Aliens 10%
- #26 Dungeon Settlers
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CanOpener
Windows · Mac
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Tactical RPG 19.5%, Management 12.6%, Character Customization 11%, Survival 9.5%
- #27 Zenith Expanse
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glitched Phoenix Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Command a damaged scout ship in a living space colony survival sim. Wake your crew from cryostasis, secure water and food, build fragile settlements, trade or smuggle between factions, and survive the stories that emerge.
Why similar: Base Building 23%, Dynamic Narration 22.7% ★, Management 12.4%, Survival 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.1%
- #28 Nayati River
79% matchMixed64% of 86 reviews2021
Dev: Worlds To Play
Windows
A single-player game of adventure and survival, set in a vast region infested with the dead. Build an autonomous camp, manage a community of survivors, look for the many who are missing, fight ferocious hordes, and unravel the mysteries of the legend of Nayati River!
Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Tactical RPG 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Zombies 15%, Management 9.9%
- #29 RIFT DIGGER
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Osama Ahmed
Windows
Dig into a mysterious world, build robot colonies, and fight to dominate interdimensional rifts. Automate your way to total control.
Why similar: Base Building 30.2%, Isometric 15.3%, Aliens 13.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 10.3%
- #30 Shards of the Realm
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Yevhen Rebrakov
Windows
Create your own story in a deep Strategy/Tactical RPG. Manage your party and fortress, explore, craft gear, research technologies, and make impactful choices that shape the world.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 27.2%, Base Building 22.1%, Strategy RPG 16.9%, Isometric 9.9%, Character Customization 7.9%
- #31 Dead Zone Revive
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RUBY REALMS STUDIOS
Windows
Fight, rebuild, and survive in a zombie apocalypse! Lead your team in real-time missions, gather weapons, gear, and supplies, and defend your base with tactical RPG and strategy gameplay.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.9%, Strategy RPG 21%, Isometric 13%, Strategy 12.2%, RPG 11.6%
- #32 Sheltered from the Storm
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Echo Loop Games
Windows
A calm, atmospheric experience where you rest in shelters—cars, camps, houses, and an underground banker—while rain falls and danger lingers outside. No combat, no survival meters—just immersive weather, ambient soundscapes, and quiet reflection.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.4%, Zombies 19.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13.5%, Management 8.9%
- #33 MEMOLITH: Forsaken by Light
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 194 reviews2026
Dev: Black AnchorPub: Webzen
Windows
A turn-based tactical RPG set in a medieval city overrun by horrific creatures, where only your wits and strategies can keep you alive. Plunge into The Dark Shroud to rescue survivors, inherit the memories of the fallen, and restore the shattered "Memolith" to reclaim the lost light.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 30.2%, Strategy RPG 20%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Zombies 10.6%, Survival 6.9%
- #34 Whispers Of Waeth
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Calm Fox
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on an epic journey: Create, lead, and protect your organization, while facing perilous creatures in the mystical realm of Waeth. Craft, manage, explore, and purge the land of evil.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 18.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Management 14.3%, Character Customization 13.8%, Survival 9.3%
- #35 Among The Dead
75% match6 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Evan Palmer
Windows
Among the Dead is a turn-based zombie RPG. The player fights against zombies and other enemies and walks around a map from a top-down perspective.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 27.6%, Strategy RPG 25.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Zombies 11.2%, Survival 9%
- #36 DISTANT VISITANT
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TriadPixel
Windows
Survive the alien arrival in DISTANT VISITANT, a top-down open-world sandbox. Master talents from marksmanship to cooking while managing hygiene and hydration. Adapt to seasons where winter freezes crops and lakes. Craft, build, hunt, and find survivors. Prepare for them, this is just the start.
Why similar: Aliens 26.1%, Base Building 23.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Survival 12.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #37 The Spatials
76% matchMixed69% of 329 reviews2015
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.
Why similar: Base Building 24%, Management 16%, Isometric 15.3%, Sci-fi 11.7%, RPG 8.8%
- #38 One Military Camp
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 727 reviews2023
Dev: Abylight BarcelonaPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Tactical RPG 18.4%, Strategy RPG 14.9%, Isometric 13%, Management 11.7%
- #39 Ironseed 3 : Vigil
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Robert MorganPub: Red Shadow Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sequel to a sci-fi exploration game Ironseed written in 1994, continued in Ironseed 2: Consensus, and now in Ironseed 3 : Vigil!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 33.4%, Strategy RPG 20.6%, RPG 10.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Aliens 9.3%
- #40 Sole Seeker
73% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dozing Bison
Windows
Land on unique planets to survive the horrors that await in this adventure survival RPG. Use the spoils to upgrade defensive buildings and explore the galaxy further. Can you survive the hunt all alone?
Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Aliens 23.3%, Strategy RPG 17.5%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 9.6%
- #41 Westminster Darkly
74% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: 9432469 Canada Inc.
Windows
A unique turn-based strategy game set in modern time Westminster (UK), after a massive solar storm causes the end of the electric age.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 20.7%, Strategy RPG 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Isometric 13.3%, Management 10.2%
- #42 Stone Creek
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stone Creek Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stone Creek is a multiplayer survival game inspired by the best titles of the zombie apocalypse genre focusing on rebuilding a society in a world destroyed by our worst nightmares. Develop unique abilities to contribute, explore, build and fight!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy RPG 14.5%, Isometric 13%, Management 10.3%
- #43 Last Man
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FUNLINKING
Windows
You're the sole survivor of a global virus that wiped out all men. In this apocalyptic world, your mission is to survive and foster intimate relationships with the most outstanding female survivors, sparking the resurgence of humanity in an epic adventure.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 11.8%, Management 10.7%
- #44 HullRats
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dan Danciu
Windows
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Base Building 25.4%, Isometric 14.2%, Management 13.7%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 8.2%
- #45 VOLOT: Red Odyssey
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Ink
Windows
Year 1980. The sun dies out and humanity, led by the Soviet Union, looking for a new home. In this tactical turn based game you have to take on the role of the commander of the Volot detachment - the instruments of communism - in order to find this home, and, if necessary, take it by force...
Why similar: Tactical RPG 27.3%, Strategy RPG 19.7%, Isometric 16.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Sci-fi 8.8%
- #46 Sky Is Arrows
73% matchPositive81% of 42 reviews2018
Dev: 2,000 Damage
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Real-time tactical roguelike where every second counts. Control a hero and 5 armies, make snap decisions, and adapt to escalating threats. Draft items, counter enemy comps, and survive as long as you can before the Final Boss returns. Time is your enemy.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 27.8%, Strategy RPG 17.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Isometric 12.6%, Character Customization 10.9%
- #47 Relic Space
70% matchPositive81% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: Fourfold Games
Windows · Linux
Experience deeply simulated, hex-based space combat as an elite starship pilot. Explore a ruined solar system, upgrade your ship, and lead your faction to greatness in this tactical, space RPG with 4X elements.
Why similar: Transhumanism 32.2% ★, Tactical RPG 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #48 Constellation Tango
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Code Spectrum
Windows
Constellation Tango is an interstellar 3D turn-based strategy-tactics game. Organize and lead troops to victory in battles across planets. Push back against an oppressive empire to save the galaxy, while making new allies of various species.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.4%, Strategy RPG 16.5%, Aliens 15.6%, Management 12.2%, Sci-fi 11.8%
- #49 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
69% matchVery Positive91% of 511 reviews2023
Dev: CleverRavenPub: KorGgenT
Windows · Linux
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
Why similar: Transhumanism 24.6% ★, Aliens 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Zombies 12.3%, Survival 9.1%
- #50 Shardpunk 2
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Clockwork PilePub: Retrovibe
Windows
The Empire may have fallen, but humanity continues the fight. Shardpunk 2 puts you in command of a human outpost in this potent mix of turn-based tactical strategy, RPG, survival and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources and prepare for a new, evolving threat.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 38.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 11.6%, Management 10.3%
- #51 Bunker KYS
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Hitek Games
Windows
Survive in a bunker in this intense social game for 4-10 players. Form alliances, manipulate opponents, and vote on who to condemn to certain death. In a stylish low-poly atmosphere, your main weapon will be not strength, but your ability to negotiate.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 30.5%, Strategy RPG 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Strategy 9.4%, Psychological 9%
- #52 The Alters
67% matchVery Positive90% of 17,492 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 29.8%, Management 16.1%, Survival 15.2%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Psychological 9.8%
- #53 GearHead Caramel
70% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2022
Dev: Joseph HewittPub: Joseph Warwick Victor Hewitt
Windows · Linux
A turn based tactics style Roguelike mecha RPG set in a world recovering from the apocalypse. Take control of an 18m, 50 ton death machine and build a team of unique lancemates. Features include a detailed mecha design system, procedural narrative, and both mecha + personal scale combat.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.6%, Strategy RPG 17.7%, Isometric 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
- #54 Imago Season
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lunar FinchPub: Haunted Publishing Syndicate
Windows · Linux
A true narrative roleplaying experience. Explore an alien city inhabited by human-insect hybrids. Roll dice, join a revolution, become a mutant yourself. The choices are yours, but so are the consequences.
Why similar: Transhumanism 33.5% ★, Aliens 17.3%, Character Customization 16.2%, RPG 13.3%, Sci-fi 13.1%
- #55 Eden Falling
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Razor Edge Games
Windows
Eden Falling is a new kind of multiplayer, sci-fi, turn-based, strategic survival RPG. As a chosen survivor you travel the wastelands, craft, take on contracts, hunt feral mutants, and navigate the merciless politics of a savage new Earth. Make your mark on the world and create your legend!
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Strategy RPG 12%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Character Customization 11.5%
- #56 Dark Sky
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Ganymede GamesPub: Midwest Games
Windows
Dark Sky is a narrative RPG deckbuilder that features tactical combat and a branching card upgrade system. Assemble your party, customize your deck, and harness powerful synergies to master strategic battles as you unravel the mystery behind a planetary catastrophe.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 22.7%, Strategy RPG 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Isometric 14.5%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #57 DERELICT KINGDOM: THE ANCIENT LIE
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Valentware Games LTD
Windows
Derelict Kingdom is the cinematic, strategy game from one of the influential story - druid stories. Command your squad to hunt down repels, crafting for survival, protect your followers, reorder the realm and seize the crown.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 28.5%, Strategy RPG 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Isometric 15.2%, Strategy 10.4%
- #58 VEIN
65% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Zombies 16.6%, Survival 14.6%, Character Customization 8.7%
- #59 Zafehouse Diaries 2
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 134 reviews2017
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.
Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Zombies 13.8%, Character Customization 11.1%, Survival 9.8%
- #60 ONLY DEAD
67% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Games For Me
Windows
ONLY DEAD is a timebased roleplaying dungeon crawler game in a post apocalyptic zombie survival setting. Manage your inventory, build your deck, fight your way and explore a world where only death awaits you.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 23.2%, Tactical RPG 19.8%, RPG 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Management 8.2%