Games Like Help Will Come Tomorrow

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

Why similar: Resource Management 19.7%, Survival 16.1%, Difficult 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 7.9%

Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!

Why similar: Resource Management 15.9%, Survival 13.7%, Roguelike 11.5%, Management 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Survival 27.3%, Resource Management 17.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Difficult 8.8%

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 37.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 7.9%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.8% ★, Survival 25.6%, Exploration 6.1%, Atmospheric 5.7%, Difficult 3.4%

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: Historical 15.4%, Resource Management 15.2%, Time Management 13.8%, Survival 13%, Immersive Sim 11.9%

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: Immersive Sim 14.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 11.2%, Difficult 11.2%, Management 9.5%

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

Why similar: Historical 28.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Survival 14.2%, Difficult 13%, Choices Matter 12.7%

As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!

Why similar: Historical 39%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Story Rich 12.2%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 11.2%

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: Survival 36.9%, Adventure 14%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Roguelite 8.7%

Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.

Why similar: Historical 20.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Survival 19.6%, Difficult 12.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Strategy 10.8%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Resource Management 27.2%, Survival 26.9%, Simulation 13%, Story Rich 11.5%, Exploration 10.9%

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: Survival 23.7%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Roguelike 12.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Story Rich 9.9%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Survival 23.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Atmospheric 9%, Simulation 7.4%

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Survival 33.6%, Difficult 5.8%, Roguelike 5.8%, Adventure 4.5%

Chornobyl Liquidators is not a fantastic tale of exploring the Zone. It's a story about real people facing a real threat — the CNPP disaster. Invisible radiation, KGB, difficult moral choices... Do you have enough courage and strength to take on this challenge?

Why similar: Historical 23.6%, Survival 16.9%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Simulation 7.7%

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Difficult 20.9%, Survival 18.9%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Immersive Sim 16%, Story Rich 12.7%

As a moustached soviet nuclear missile operator, you’re the last frontier of your motherland’s defense. Survive a freezing Siberian winter, untangle nasty bear intrigues and adapt to always changing environment in this cold war simulator.

Why similar: Time Management 27.5%, Survival 27.1%, Management 22%, Simulation 12.8%, Exploration 10.7%

DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.

Why similar: Survival 31.3%, Roguelite 20.9%, Strategy 13.4%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Exploration 12.8%

It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?

Why similar: Resource Management 26.8%, Strategy 24.1%, Story Rich 19.6%, Adventure 15%, Atmospheric 14.5%

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Survival 24.2%, Roguelike 16.5%, Simulation 5.5%, Adventure 3.7%

Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.

Why similar: Survival 28.3%, Choices Matter 27.3%, Story Rich 19.4%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Adventure 9.2%

Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.

Why similar: Resource Management 24.6%, Time Management 19.8%, Survival 16.2%, Roguelite 13.4%, Roguelike 10.3%

Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.8%, Roguelite 19.6%, Roguelike 18.7%, Exploration 12.8%, Strategy 12.1%

A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control. Can the crew manage to survive and get back home?

Why similar: Resource Management 19.5%, Time Management 19.1%, Survival 16.7%, Management 14.4%, Strategy 7.7%

Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.

Why similar: Historical 31.5%, Survival 19.6%, Choices Matter 15%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Exploration 9.3%

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Resource Management 25.9%, Survival 24.6%, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Exploration 10.3%

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Survival 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.3%, Roguelike 13.7%, Strategy 6.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 19.3%, Immersive Sim 13.5%, Exploration 8.4%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Vambrace: Cold Soul is a story-driven roguelite set amidst a frozen landscape. Plan expeditions, then journey to the cursed city surface with your party. Wield unique powers, avoid traps, brave strange encounters, and survive deadly combat in this gothic fantasy adventure!

Why similar: Roguelite 19%, Difficult 16.6%, Adventure 15.1%, Roguelike 14.9%, Story Rich 11.3%

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: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Survival 21%, Difficult 12.6%, Atmospheric 8.9%, Exploration 8.8%

How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.

Why similar: Survival 54.3%, Roguelike 25.8%, Exploration 19.9%

Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.

Why similar: Resource Management 24.5%, Survival 20.6%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Management 11.5%, Simulation 10%

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 41%, Resource Management 17.6%, Management 15.8%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 5.3%

Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Why similar: Survival 23.1%, Roguelite 18%, Roguelike 17.4%, Choices Matter 17%, Strategy 9.6%

Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.

Why similar: Survival 49.1%, Strategy 33%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.9%

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Survival 39%, Resource Management 19.2%, Story Rich 12.1%, Atmospheric 11.1%, 2D 9.6%

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: Survival 31.8%, Strategy 20.4%, Simulation 17.8%, Management 11.1%, Difficult 7.1%

Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

Why similar: Survival 30.7%, Resource Management 24.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Exploration 9.9%, Open World Survival Craft 9.6% ★

The main objective of the game is to survive in the taiga.

Why similar: Survival 50.3%, Simulation 34.2%, Adventure 15.4%

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: Survival 41.2%, Roguelike 20.7%, Difficult 8.9%, Adventure 8.9%, Simulation 8.9%

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: Resource Management 29.3%, Survival 28.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Management 8.9%, Choices Matter 6.8%

Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

Why similar: Management 30.6%, Strategy 25.4%, Simulation 25.3%, Historical 18.7%

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: Survival 21.5%, Resource Management 18.8%, Difficult 17.7%, Strategy 16.2%, Exploration 9.2%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.3% ★, Survival 24.2%, Exploration 9%, Atmospheric 5.8%, Adventure 5.7%

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Why similar: Historical 24.2%, Survival 24%, Management 23.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Strategy 10.6%

Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.

Why similar: Difficult 19%, Resource Management 14.7%, Time Management 13.7%, Survival 12.9%, Management 11.2%

Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Why similar: Difficult 24.1%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Resource Management 13.8%, Survival 13.2%, Story Rich 12.7%

It's the year 2041; the atmosphere is toxic from global warming and nuclear war. Can you survive in an unforgiving world?

Why similar: Resource Management 32.5%, Survival 24.2%, Strategy 22.6%, Simulation 20.7%

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Survival 23.7%, Resource Management 13.4%, Roguelike 10.4%, Simulation 9.5%

Erzurum is a winter survival game which you will struggle against freezing temperatures, the wild nature, hunger and thirst.

Why similar: Survival 54.1%, Exploration 19.9%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Adventure 9.4%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Historical 24.3%, Survival 20.7%, Resource Management 17.1%, Roguelike 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.5%

The Man Came Around is a survival game with narrative choices. Play five activists fleeing a police state. Cross the border. Evade the cops. Scavenge resources. Survive the elements. Will you put your group at risk to help others along the way, or betray your principles to survive?

Why similar: Difficult 23.1%, Survival 21.6%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 9.2%, Roguelike 8.1%

A first-person adventure game with a storyline. You are about to travel on a passenger train along the Trans-Siberian Railway. You can walk around cities, ride a train and watch nature change, talk to passengers and much more.

Why similar: Atmospheric 28.6%, Exploration 27.8%, Simulation 25.4%, Adventure 18.2%

Be the last train conductor roaming the postapocalyptic frozen world! Expand, strengthen, and build synergies on your train. The promised land beyond the toxic zone awaits you and your passengers.

Why similar: Roguelike 39.9%, Strategy 30%, Simulation 22.7%, 2D 7.4%

Home Behind 2 is a Roguelike RPG which set in Scaria, a country engulfed in a ten-year civil war. Lead a patchwork group of revolutionary fighters into the depths of the government's territory as you struggle to overthrow a brutal authoritarian regime!

Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Roguelike 18.1%, Roguelite 15.6%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 10%

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: Survival 25%, Difficult 24%, Simulation 21.6%, Exploration 10.5%, Adventure 10.3%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Historical 22.4%, Resource Management 18%, Survival 14%, Management 12.9%, Immersive Sim 12.7%