- #1 Decision: Red Daze
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 872 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Zombies 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Building 12.8%, Old School 10.6%
- #2 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
96% matchVery Positive94% of 4,386 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Survival 21%, Zombies 19.8%, Crafting 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%
- #3 Zelter
96% matchMixed48% of 1,968 reviews2020
Dev: G1 PlaygroundPub: SuperGG.com
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
Why similar: Zombies 20.2%, Survival 20%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Building 16.7%, Procedural Generation 8.9%
- #4 Survivor Squad
95% matchMixed69% of 884 reviews2015
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.
Why similar: Zombies 29.8%, Survival 22.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Strategy 9.2%
- #5 Sheltered
94% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 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 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.8%
- #6 Z Dawn
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 282 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
Why similar: Crafting 18.7%, Survival 18.1%, Building 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Zombies 10.1%
- #7 Urban Strife
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 371 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: Crafting 19%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Zombies 17.6%, Survival 17.6%, Tactical 10.8%
- #8 Infectonator: Survivors
93% matchMixed67% of 1,151 reviews2016
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Zombies 31%, Survival 25.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Strategy 8.7%, RPG 8.6%
- #9 Flesh Eaters
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,351 reviews2016
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead
Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, RPG 18.3%, Indie 16.4%, Survival 13.4%, Tactical 7.2%
- #10 Dead Age
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,580 reviews2016
Dev: Silent DreamsPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!
Why similar: Zombies 25.6%, Survival 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, RPG 14.3%, Crafting 10.4%
- #11 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 714 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Survival 18.2%, Old School 14.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%, RPG 10%
- #12 Obenseuer
89% matchVery Positive94% of 1,522 reviews2018
Dev: Loiste Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Dystopian 25.1%, Survival 24%, Building 17.5%, Resource Management 15.1%, RPG 11.8%
- #13 Subterrain
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,385 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Crafting 23.1%, Zombies 14.5%, Sci-fi 11%, Procedural Generation 6.3%
- #14 SKYHILL
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,576 reviews2015
Dev: MandragoraPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
Why similar: Survival 31%, Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Zombies 14.7%, Crafting 13%, RPG 7.2%
- #15 Regenesis
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Klopsy
Windows
Guide a group of survivors trying to strive in this alien yet familiar environment. Fight against mutated creatures and use their parts to craft and upgrade your weapons.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.3%, RPG 17.8%, Tactical 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Strategy 10.5%
- #16 Sphere - Flying Cities
86% matchMixed50% of 237 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Crafting 15.3%, Survival 14.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Dystopian 14.6%, Building 12.5%
- #17 The Highrise
86% matchMixed57% of 275 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Hatch Co., Ltd.
Windows
THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.
Why similar: Crafting 37.9%, Survival 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, Exploration 11%
- #18 Shardpunk
83% matchVery Positive93% of 758 reviews2023
Dev: Clockwork PilePub: Retrovibe
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Why similar: Resource Management 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 17%, Retro 11%
- #19 Rebirth evolution
84% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 17.8%, Resource Management 15.5%, Zombies 15.5%, Building 12.7%
- #20 March of the Living
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 536 reviews2016
Dev: Machine 22Pub: Creaky Corpse Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
Why similar: Survival 16.6%, Zombies 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Old School 10.9%, Retro 9.4%
- #21 Envy the Dead
84% matchMixed66% of 244 reviews2016
Dev: Kazakov Oleg
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.
Why similar: Zombies 24.2%, RPG 16.7%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 13.7%, Tactical 9.6%
- #22 2112TD: Tower Defense Survival
81% matchVery Positive88% of 428 reviews2023
Dev: Refinery Games
Windows
Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.
Why similar: Survival 14.4%, Dystopian 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Zombies 11%, Tactical 10.3%
- #23 Until We Die
82% matchMixed64% of 4,581 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Survival 29.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Building 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Strategy 8.1%
- #24 Waste Walkers
82% matchVery Positive81% of 212 reviews2015
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
Why similar: Crafting 24.7%, Survival 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23%, RPG 10.6%, Exploration 9.5%
- #25 Entity Researchers
80% matchVery Positive89% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-C
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Dystopian 17.1%, RPG 12.6%, Exploration 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.9%
- #26 Dead State: Reanimated
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,543 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Why similar: Zombies 35.1%, Survival 29%, RPG 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Strategy 4.7%
- #27 After the Collapse
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Crafting 17.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Procedural Generation 11.8%
- #28 Cataclysm: The Last Generation
77% matchVery Positive94% of 194 reviews2025
Dev: Worm Girl
Windows · Mac · Linux
A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Crafting 17.2%, Survival 17%, Zombies 16.6%, Sci-fi 10.8%
- #29 Forever Skies
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Crafting 19.9%, Survival 16.8%, Resource Management 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Building 14.4%
- #30 Nayati River
79% matchMixed65% of 85 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: Crafting 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, Zombies 20.6%, Building 13.2%, Survival 11.6%
- #31 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
78% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Survival 20.6%, Zombies 19.1%, Building 18.5%, RPG 9.8%
- #32 Ragnorium
78% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
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: Survival 26.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23%, Resource Management 22.5%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 6%
- #33 The Last Haven
76% matchMixed61% of 1,526 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: Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Survival 16.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%
- #34 Dead Engine
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: Chocolate Dungeon GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.7%, Zombies 26.4%, Survival 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Strategy 6.3%
- #35 Oxygen
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Resource Management 22.4%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 18.8%, Building 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%
- #36 Dead Pixels
75% matchVery Positive87% of 2,424 reviews2012
Dev: CSR-Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.
Why similar: Zombies 40.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Survival 14.3%, Retro 9.8%, RPG 5.6%
- #37 Rebirth of Island
77% matchMixed52% of 101 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: Survival 17.7%, Crafting 16.6%, Resource Management 16.1%, RPG 12.9%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
- #38 Post-Apo Builder
74% matchMixed43% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.5%, Building 27.7%, Crafting 21.4%, Strategy 7.8%, Tactical 6.5%
- #39 Dustland Delivery
71% matchVery Positive88% of 1,154 reviews2024
Dev: Neutron Star StudioPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Building 14.9%, Zombies 13.2%, RPG 10.2%
- #40 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
73% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Crafting 14.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Building 10%
- #41 Entity Researchers: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Dystopian 19.4%, Procedural Generation 12.8%, RPG 11.6%, Exploration 10.2%
- #42 ZED ZONE
71% matchVery Positive80% of 3,539 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 16.7%, Zombies 16.3%, Building 14.8%
- #43 Night Raider
70% matchVery Positive86% of 1,917 reviews2024
Dev: TSUKUYOMIC
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...
Why similar: Zombies 31.3%, Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.9%, Exploration 11.7%, 2D 6.8%
- #44 The Rule of Land: Pioneers
72% matchMixed68% of 332 reviews2023
Dev: Horgee GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
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: Resource Management 18.2%, Crafting 18%, Survival 16.2%, Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%
- #45 BARRICADEZ
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 144 reviews2021
Dev: Fly Penguin inc.
Windows · Mac
Barricadez is a mix of tower defense and survival game. Take on your care robot and explore the underground, find new blueprints, gather resources and build your defenses and traps to survive through the night against a myriad of zombie-like creatures. Your goal: to defend the defenseless cradle.
Why similar: Resource Management 15.4%, Crafting 15%, Zombies 13.6%, Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%
- #46 No One Survived
69% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 24.8%, Crafting 18.4%, Zombies 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Building 13%
- #47 iZolated
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Crafting 15.5%, Zombies 13.7%, Survival 13.1%, Procedural Generation 11.3%
- #48 Ascent of Ashes
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Crafting 25.6%, Survival 22.9%, Building 22.8%, PvE 13.9%, Exploration 8.1%
- #49 DREADZONE
69% matchMixed51% of 1,171 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Crafting 21.5%, Survival 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Building 16.9%, Zombies 15.5%
- #50 Crafting Dead
72% matchMixed57% of 158 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22%, Crafting 20.3%, Survival 20.3%, Zombies 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%
- #51 Junk Survivor
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Survival 17.8%, Zombies 16.9%, Crafting 15%, Building 13.7%
- #52 Into The Haze
71% matchMixed57% of 130 reviews2021
Dev: MSOFT
Windows
Into the Haze is a single-player survival game set at the beginning of the apocalypse. You wake up on the rooftop on the 40th floor of the abandoned tower. The whole city is cover with poisonous gas. Gather resources, craft, build, and fight zombies. Survive until help arrives.
Why similar: Crafting 24%, Post-apocalyptic 23.5%, Survival 22.2%, Zombies 20.4%, Exploration 7.3%
- #53 Salvagers
67% matchVery Positive80% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Tomasz Banaś
Windows · Linux
In Salvagers, you command a small crew of greedy explorers that land on abandoned space stations that litter the galaxy, and it's your job to loot them for anything worth a credit. Scrap tech, lost weapons, forgotten treasures - everything has a price.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, RPG 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Zombies 11.1%, Retro 10.7%
- #54 Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 608 reviews2024
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
Why similar: Survival 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Crafting 15.5%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Resource Management 13.1%
- #55 Survival Vacancy
70% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Crafting 23.9%, Building 21.4%, Resource Management 21.2%, Survival 19.1%, Strategy 6.4%
- #56 Peregrino
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 164 reviews2026
Dev: Inverge Studios
Windows
Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.
Why similar: RPG 31.1%, Crafting 27.4%, Exploration 18%, Strategy 16.1%, Singleplayer 5%
- #57 Survive the Fall
66% matchMixed69% of 656 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Crafting 18.9%, Resource Management 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Survival 17%, Tactical 11.2%
- #58 Wanna Survive
68% matchVery Positive93% of 301 reviews2019
Dev: PINIX
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.
Why similar: Zombies 21.3%, Tactical 19.3%, Survival 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
- #59 Surviving the Aftermath
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Post-apocalyptic 36%, Survival 27.3%, Building 13.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Tactical 4.4%
- #60 Ocean Punk
65% matchMostly Positive80% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Resource Management 16.8%, Survival 14.1%, Building 13.9%, Sci-fi 8.4%