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  1. #1 Homeless Simulator
    97% matchMixed58% of 243 reviews2019
    Dev: Kiddy
    Windows

    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 48.1%, Indie 17.9%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 13%, Atmospheric 4.6%

  2. #2 Hobo: Tough Life
    96% matchVery Positive84% of 9,991 reviews2021
    Dev: Perun Creative
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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: Simulation 27.5%, Survival 23.8%, Crafting 16.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Action 11.9%

  3. #3 Homeless Simulator 2
    96% matchMixed42% of 86 reviews2019
    Dev: Kiddy
    Windows

    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: Simulation 36.8%, Action 19%, Indie 15%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 10.9%

  4. #4 Desolate Wastes: Vendor Chronicles
    95% matchMixed57% of 202 reviews2017
    Dev: RotatipyraPub: New Reality Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Vendor Chronicles puts you in the shoes of a Vendor in post-apocalyptia! Manage your trade, set your defences, deal with locals and fight hordes of mutants in this new perspective on post-apocalyptic survival!

    Why similar: Simulation 44.3%, Action 26.4%, Indie 19.8%, Strategy 9.4%

  5. #5 Last Days Motel
    94% matchMixed44% of 116 reviews2019
    Dev: 陌上科技
    Windows

    In the doomsday Hotel, you can experience the hard life in the waste Land World. Stick to hope in motel-based doomsday shelters and fight survival challenges such as hunger, thirst and lack of energy. Risking their lives to collect supplies, develop and build hotel shelters. Do everything possible to survive the cataclysmic world.

    Why similar: Simulation 67.3%, Survival 19.7%, Strategy 13%

  6. #6 Garbage
    94% matchMixed66% of 1,217 reviews2021
    Dev: HomebasedPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    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: Simulation 39.2%, Survival 20.2%, Management 18.6%, Indie 8.8%, Strategy 7.7%

  7. #7 Garbage: Hobo Prophecy
    92% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,402 reviews2021
    Dev: HomebasedPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 54 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%

    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: Simulation 45.6%, Survival 22.8%, Management 20.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%

  8. #8 Life in Bunker
    93% matchMixed59% 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: Simulation 34.4%, Survival 18.1%, Sandbox 14.6%, Management 8.6%, Indie 8%

  9. #9 Deep Despair
    91% matchMixed67% of 284 reviews2020
    Dev: BekkerDev Studio
    Windows
    Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!

    Why similar: Action 19.7%, Simulation 19.1%, Indie 13.6%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%

  10. #10 Alien Squatter
    91% matchVery Positive94% of 109 reviews2019
    Dev: A. Hagen
    Windows

    You are a homeless extraterrestrial living in a futuristic version of Japan. Struggle to survive in this new style of RPG.

    Why similar: Simulation 55.4%, Indie 27.7%, Sandbox 16.9%

  11. #11 Nobody - The Turnaround
    90% matchMixed60% of 14,305 reviews2022
    Dev: U.Ground Game StudioPub: Thermite Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

    Why similar: Simulation 41.1%, Survival 21.7%, Sandbox 18.5%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 5.7%

  12. #12 CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
    89% matchVery Positive91% of 2,841 reviews2020
    Dev: Delve Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!

    Why similar: Management 34.6%, Survival 32.4%, Strategy 18%, 2D 15%

  13. #13 Self-Isolation
    89% matchVery Positive86% of 491 reviews2020
    Dev: Dymchick1
    Windows

    This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

    Why similar: Simulation 45.3%, Indie 23%, Action 16.2%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Singleplayer 3.2%

  14. #14 Unemployment Simulator 2018
    87% matchVery Positive84% of 138 reviews2026
    Dev: Samuel LehikoinenPub: turbolento publishing
    Windows · Linux

    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: Simulation 63.2%, Indie 23.4%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Singleplayer 4.4%

  15. #15 Life is Hard
    88% matchMixed62% of 558 reviews2021
    Dev: Pirozhok Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

    Why similar: Simulation 54.6%, Indie 23.8%, Strategy 14.3%, Atmospheric 4.1%, 2D 3.2%

  16. #16 This War of Mine
    86% matchVery Positive94% of 97,585 reviews2014
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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 34.9%, Simulation 22.7%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 8.8%, Indie 7.1%

  17. #17 Frostpunk
    86% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Survival 36.6%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Management 11.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%

  18. #18 NEO Scavenger
    85% matchVery Positive90% of 5,410 reviews2014
    Dev: Blue Bottle Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

    Why similar: Survival 34%, Inventory Management 18.9%, Crafting 17.2%, Indie 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%

  19. #19 Bum Simulator
    83% matchVery Positive88% of 4,837 reviews2023
    Dev: Ragged Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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: Simulation 46.1%, Action 17.6%, Survival 14.7%, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 7.9%

  20. #20 City 20
    84% matchMostly Positive73% of 197 reviews2024
    Dev: Untold Games
    Windows

    Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and factions who shape your fate.

    Why similar: Simulation 26.5%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 19.5%, Sandbox 19.2%, Indie 13%

  21. #21 FreeHolder
    84% matchMostly Positive76% of 95 reviews2016
    Dev: RogueWare
    Windows · Mac

    Blending strategy, survival, and roguelike elements with RPG style character development, FreeHolder is the story of three escaped slaves in the time of the Roman Republic. Farm, hunt, craft, and cook your way through the years as you live on the edge of the beginning of the Empire.

    Why similar: Simulation 48.7%, Indie 22.8%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

  22. #22 Winter Survival
    81% matchMixed63% of 776 reviews2025
    Dev: DRAGO entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

    Why similar: Survival 29.2%, Action 19%, Crafting 18.5%, Sandbox 18.5%, Atmospheric 11.2%

  23. #23 Home Behind
    82% matchVery Positive84% of 6,144 reviews2016
    Dev: TPP Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

    Why similar: Simulation 36.1%, Survival 30.2%, Indie 20.8%, Strategy 7.6%, 2D 2.1%

  24. #24 The Last Plague: Blight
    79% matchVery Positive89% of 1,472 reviews2024
    Dev: Original Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.

    Why similar: Simulation 25.8%, Crafting 19.8%, Sandbox 18.8%, Survival 18.5%, Action 14.8%

  25. #25 Alaskan Road Truckers
    81% matchMixed62% of 3,262 reviews2023
    Dev: Road Studio S.A.Pub: Green Man Gaming Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Brave the challenging conditions of Alaskan life in the definitive trucker simulator. Be the master of your own destiny as you take jobs, transport cargo and experience a sense of freedom on foot and in your cab.

    Why similar: Simulation 29.5%, Inventory Management 21.1%, Survival 17.5%, Management 12.8%, Indie 10.5%

  26. #26 Kings Of Streets
    82% matchMixed53% of 160 reviews2020
    Dev: TB Games
    Windows

    Starting from a homeless person who wakes up at a bus station. All you have is a penny in your pocket and some cash in your bank account. Go out into the city and work hard to earn your first money. The streets will be your home.

    Why similar: Indie 45.7%, Action 37.5%, Crafting 16.8%

  27. #27 DRUDGE
    78% matchVery Positive96% of 140 reviews2026
    Dev: Writegg
    Windows

    You are a slave. A collar with three lights hangs around your neck: each one fades and shocks you for mistakes or disobedience. Your life is quotas: sorting waste, growing food, and expeditions into lower levels with zombies. Earn, unlock passages, buy gear, and seek a path to freedom.

    Why similar: Simulation 57%, Action 24.9%, Indie 6.3%, Atmospheric 5.8%, Management 5.2%

  28. #28 Project Cobalt
    77% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2025
    Dev: OxygenStudio
    Windows

    ⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

    Why similar: Simulation 18.6%, Inventory Management 17.6%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Sandbox 14%

  29. #29 Ludus
    79% matchMixed69% of 882 reviews2020
    Dev: Cheesecake Dev
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Build the best ludus in the world! and survive in ancient Rome.

    Why similar: Simulation 42.2%, Action 21.2%, Indie 14.6%, Management 10.5%, Strategy 7.5%

  30. #30 MONOTONIA: First Contact
    77% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2023
    Dev: GDH Studio
    Windows

    MONOTONIA: First Contact is a prologue-format experience, free and essential to pave the challenging and definitive cycle of MONOTONY. Work, pay your bills, and survive!

    Why similar: Simulation 79%, 2D 14.6%, Singleplayer 6.4%

  31. #31 Cartel Tycoon
    76% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,802 reviews2022
    Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

    Why similar: Simulation 26.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Survival 15.4%, Management 14.5%, Action 13.6%

  32. #32 Gladiator School
    78% matchMostly Positive72% of 349 reviews2017
    Dev: Raptor Claw Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.

    Why similar: Simulation 42.1%, Indie 15.8%, Management 10.5%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%, Strategy 8.3%

  33. #33 Trailer Shop Simulator
    75% matchMostly Positive75% of 290 reviews2021
    Dev: GidAzGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%

    In this game, you run a shady roadside stall selling outlawed everyday goods while staying one step ahead of the law. Prices rise, tension builds — will you cash in or get shut down in a midnight raid?

    Why similar: Simulation 33.7%, Crafting 17.7%, Survival 17.4%, Management 15.9%, Action 15.4%

  34. #34 Medieval Shopkeeper Simulator
    76% matchMixed61% of 281 reviews2018
    Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 24 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%

    Keep your stores afloat against unique threats like royal laws, wars and crazy fantasy events. Discover new items, craft, sell them, and create your Merchant Empire in the kingdom! - All in a hybrid 2D-3D style.

    Why similar: Simulation 36.7%, Great Soundtrack 17.6%, Inventory Management 15.5%, Management 14.1%, Indie 10%

  35. #35 21 Days
    75% matchVery Positive79% of 68 reviews2017
    Dev: Hardtalk Studio
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.

    Why similar: Simulation 71.6%, Indie 28.4%

  36. #36 No Man's Home
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 251 reviews2025
    Dev: radrunner
    Windows

    You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.

    Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Action 23.4%, Inventory Management 23.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Atmospheric 9.9%

  37. #37 Floodland
    73% matchMixed56% of 1,086 reviews2022
    Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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: Survival 33.3%, Crafting 25.7%, Strategy 15.9%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Simulation 9.1%

  38. #38 Soda Story - Brewing Tycoon
    72% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
    Dev: Upper Class Walrus
    Windows

    Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?

    Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Crafting 29.5%, Management 26.5%, Sandbox 2.6%, Indie 1.9%

  39. #39 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
    72% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
    Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%

    Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.

    Why similar: Simulation 46.3%, Crafting 25.3%, Survival 25.2%, Singleplayer 3.2%

  40. #40 Basement
    73% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,230 reviews2019
    Dev: Halfbus
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    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: Simulation 28%, Great Soundtrack 18.7%, Management 15%, Sandbox 14%, Indie 7.5%

  41. #41 Super Lone Survivor
    71% matchVery Positive93% of 84 reviews2022
    Dev: SuperflatPub: Superflat Games
    Windows

    The masked protagonist must escape the city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary. Use stealth to scavenge food, or kill everything in your path. Nurture your mental health or descend into madness. How you survive is up to you.

    Why similar: Simulation 51.8%, Action 26.2%, Atmospheric 12.6%, 2D 9.3%

  42. #42 Highrisers
    73% matchMostly Negative38% of 122 reviews2021
    Dev: Solar Powered GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Crafting 30.4%, Indie 20.5%, 2D 8.3%, Strategy 6.5%

  43. #43 Landless
    74% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
    Dev: CodeBullet
    Windows

    Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.

    Why similar: Simulation 31.9%, Survival 19.1%, Action 15.6%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%, Crafting 11.3%

  44. #44 Rebirth of Island
    74% matchMixed52% of 102 reviews2016
    Dev: Yo_Serjio
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

    Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20%, Indie 19.9%, Survival 16.6%, Action 13.8%, Crafting 12.9%

  45. #45 The Hermit Chronicles
    71% matchMixed58% of 50 reviews2023
    Dev: WinterTent Studio
    Windows

    The Hermit Chronicles is a 1st-person survival horror game set in a deep forest. Assuming the role of a hermit, you will have to get food, scout your neighborhood, and search for resources to make gear. But after the sun goes down, you'll have to survive for real...

    Why similar: Simulation 29.5%, Inventory Management 22.3%, Sandbox 16.6%, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 15.3%

  46. #46 Driving Life
    68% matchMixed56% of 193 reviews2025
    Dev: Chrysopy GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    Driving Life is a hardcore driving survival game set in rural America. Earn money by driving manual cars, vans, and trucks, transport tourists, pay rent, buy fuel, and survive on a tight budget. Every dollar counts - spend wisely or go broke!

    Why similar: Simulation 41.3%, Sandbox 19.4%, Management 17.1%, Survival 15.1%, Atmospheric 4.2%

  47. #47 Northern Lights
    71% matchMixed67% of 296 reviews2020
    Dev: MadGoat Studio
    Windows

    Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

    Why similar: Simulation 30.2%, Survival 20.4%, Sandbox 19.1%, Crafting 18.2%, Atmospheric 7.8%

  48. #48 Rem Survival
    69% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
    Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

    Why similar: Simulation 29.5%, Survival 20.2%, Crafting 20%, Action 14.6%, Indie 12.2%

  49. #49 Obenseuer
    69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,772 reviews2018
    Dev: Loiste Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.

    Why similar: Survival 38%, Indie 30.1%, Management 29.1%, Singleplayer 2.8%

  50. #50 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
    67% matchMostly Positive77% of 494 reviews2025
    Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
    Windows

    Survival of your people - that's the only thing that matters. Become the leader of a newly founded Viking settlement and lead it to safety and glory. Gather, build, craft, hunt, raid and follow your Gods to endure hardships of nature and save your clan from violent destruction.

    Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Action 23.2%, Sandbox 17.6%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 8.8%

  51. #51 New Cycle
    66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,860 reviews2024
    Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: Simulation 42.4%, Survival 26.5%, Management 18.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Singleplayer 2.8%

  52. #52 DinoSystem
    70% matchVery Positive89% of 335 reviews2015
    Dev: Daniele Ferraro
    Windows
    Median: 30 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%

    DinoSystem is a top-down ecosystem and survival simulation. Shape a prehistoric island as a god, or survive inside it as a human while animals, weather, water, terrain and your own body change over time.

    Why similar: Simulation 36%, Survival 18.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Indie 13.7%, Crafting 8.9%

  53. #53 Indie Dev Simulator
    70% matchMixed64% of 92 reviews2020
    Dev: Egor MagurinPub: Indovers Studio
    Windows · Mac

    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 63.5%, Indie 24.1%, Strategy 12.4%

  54. #54 Pandemic Train
    68% matchMixed59% of 252 reviews2023
    Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
    Windows

    In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!

    Why similar: Simulation 19.3%, Inventory Management 14.8%, Survival 13.6%, Action 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%

  55. #55 Backwoods Town
    66% matchVery Positive94% of 203 reviews2023
    Dev: Andrii Prots
    Windows

    Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.

    Why similar: Inventory Management 32.8%, Survival 24.9%, Sandbox 19.7%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Simulation 7.9%

  56. #56 Desolation Seed
    65% matchNo user reviews67% of 72 reviews2026
    Dev: ECS Software
    Windows

    An atmospheric survival shooter placing you inside a hyper-violent maze of urban waste, environmental biohazards, and societal ruin. Scavenge, explore, and survive while finding a path out of a late stage modern Shinar

    Why similar: Simulation 84.2%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Singleplayer 4.1%

  57. #57 Sheltered
    68% matchVery Positive82% of 6,278 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: Survival 37.2%, Simulation 18.2%, Management 14.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Indie 8.2%

  58. #58 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
    64% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 reviews2026
    Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
    Windows

    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: Simulation 21.9%, Moddable 21.4%, Sandbox 16.3%, Survival 14.1%, Management 12.7%

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