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: Unforgiving 31.2% ★, Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Story Rich 6.1%

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 16.5%, Survival 13.2%, Management 11.6%, Roguelike 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%

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 53.3% ★, Survival 26.5%, Exploration 6.4%, Atmospheric 6%, Simulation 3.2%

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 36.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Management 9.8%, Atmospheric 7.9%

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 38.6%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Story Rich 12.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 11.4%

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 38.5%, Adventure 14.4%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 12.5%, Roguelite 9.8%

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: Unforgiving 32.6% ★, Historical 21.9%, Strategy 12%, Survival 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%

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 29%, Resource Management 20%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Adventure 7.8%

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: Political 24.9% ★, Historical 15.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Management 8.3%

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: Resource Management 18.3%, Historical 17.4%, Survival 14.7%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Management 12.9%

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 15.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Survival 12.2%, Management 10.8%, Roguelike 10.1%

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% ★, Survival 23.5%, Exploration 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Simulation 7.7%

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 19.4%, Narration 17%, Survival 13.9%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%

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 28.5%, Survival 26.1%, Simulation 13%, Story Rich 11.3%, Exploration 10.8%

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 23.3%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Roguelike 12.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Story Rich 9.8%

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Simulation 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 33.1% ★, Unforgiving 32.9% ★, Survival 16.2%, Atmospheric 7%, Exploration 6.8%

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 42.5% ★, Survival 19.3%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Exploration 8.5%, Atmospheric 8.3%

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: Survival 36.6%, Management 31%, Simulation 17.8%, Exploration 14.5%

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 30.7%, Roguelite 21.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Exploration 12.7%

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 44.7% ★, Survival 35.7%, Roguelike 6.4%, Adventure 4.7%, Exploration 4.5%

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%, Survival 23.8%, Immersive Sim 17.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Exploration 10.1%

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 21%, Narration 17.4%, Survival 16.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Management 9.6%

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 31.7%, Survival 19.4%, Roguelite 17%, Roguelike 12.8%, Story Rich 7.7%

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 27.9%, Choices Matter 27.8%, Story Rich 19.4%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Adventure 8.9%

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 46.5% ★, Survival 24.2%, Roguelike 17%, Simulation 5.6%, Adventure 3.6%

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: Survival 23.6%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Immersive Sim 20.5%, Story Rich 16%, Atmospheric 13.2%

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 34.5% ★, Survival 19.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Roguelike 14.1%, Strategy 6.4%

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 31.3%, Survival 19.4%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Atmospheric 10%, Simulation 9.4%

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 24.5%, Roguelite 20.2%, Roguelike 19%, Exploration 12.5%, Strategy 12%

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 27.9%, Strategy 24%, Story Rich 19.4%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Adventure 14.3%

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: Political 34.6% ★, Narration 17.7%, Survival 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Story Rich 6.8%

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 25.8% ★, Survival 23.7%, Resource Management 12%, Roguelike 10.2%, Simulation 9.6%

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 53.6%, Roguelike 26.5%, Exploration 19.9%

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% ★, Survival 24.3%, Exploration 9.2%, Atmospheric 6%, Adventure 5.6%

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 33.7%, Survival 23.3%, Strategy 22.3%, Simulation 20.6%

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 47.4%, Strategy 34.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 49.9%, Simulation 35%, Adventure 15%

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

Why similar: Survival 22.5%, Roguelite 18.5%, Roguelike 17.6%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Strategy 9.6%

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 23.6% ★, Simulation 19.1%, Roguelike 17.9%, Survival 14.8%, Strategy 12.7%

This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Resource Management 21.6%, Survival 18.6%, Roguelike 9.2%, Simulation 7.8%

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 29.9%, Resource Management 25.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Exploration 9.7%, Open World Survival Craft 9.3% ★

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 42.1%, Resource Management 19.5%, Management 16.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 5.6%

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 23.5%, Roguelike 18.1%, Adventure 17.4%, Story Rich 13.4%, Atmospheric 9.9%

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 32.5%, Survival 29.1%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 9.6%, Choices Matter 7.3%

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 33.5%, Strategy 22%, Simulation 19.3%, Management 12.3%, Exploration 5.6%

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: Management 24.1%, Historical 23.8%, Survival 23.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Strategy 10.6%

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 28.8%, Exploration 27.8%, Simulation 25.8%, Adventure 17.6%

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

Why similar: Survival 53.9%, Exploration 20%, Atmospheric 16.9%, Adventure 9.2%

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 23.8%, Survival 20.2%, Resource Management 18%, Roguelike 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Survival 32.4%, Resource Management 17%, Management 15.6%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 12.6%

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 21.8%, Roguelike 18.7%, Roguelite 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Exploration 10.3%

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 19.1%, Roguelike 18.3%, Roguelite 16.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 10%

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 39.3%, Strategy 30.3%, Simulation 23.1%, 2D 7.3%

A Robinson Crusoe–inspired VR roguelike survival adventure set in the 17th century. Shipwrecked on a ruthless tropical island, you must survive without guidance. Trust your instincts as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe.

Why similar: Survival 21%, Roguelike 17.2%, Immersive Sim 16.5%, Historical 14%, Atmospheric 8.9%

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 25%, Resource Management 21.2%, Survival 15.4%, Management 14.9%, Immersive Sim 14.7%

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 44.2%, Roguelike 23.3%, Simulation 10%, Adventure 9.6%, Atmospheric 7.4%

A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.7%, Survival 25.9%, Story Rich 14.2%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Exploration 11.8%

Trapped in the past, your survival hinges on your ability to adapt and innovate. From foraging for food to mastering the art of technology, every decision you make shapes your destiny. Will you return to your own time, or make the past your new future in this mind-bending survival game?

Why similar: Historical 20.9%, Survival 17.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.3%, Management 15.9%, Resource Management 13.1%