Games Like Home Behind

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 26.5%, RPG 18.7%, Adventure 11.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands on the original's survival mechanics with deeper RPG elements and a more complex narrative.

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 72.5%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Indie 3.7%, Atmospheric 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for managing the survival of civilians in a war-torn environment, mirroring the themes of Home Behind.

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 46.1%, Adventure 13.6%, RPG 12.3%, Simulation 7.2%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game that tasks you with managing hunger and health while descending a dangerous building.

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 55.1%, RPG 11.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Building 6.2%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on post-apocalyptic family survival, requiring constant resource management and base maintenance.

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: Survival 52.9%, RPG 23.2%, Simulation 11.4%, Adventure 10.6%, Atmospheric 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty survival simulation that captures the harsh reality of living on the streets and managing basic human needs.

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: RPG 43%, Strategy 20.3%, Adventure 17.1%, Indie 8.4%, 2D 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a caravan management system that forces you to make difficult choices during a long, perilous journey.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Survival 48%, RPG 19.7%, Roguelike 9.1%, Indie 8.3%, Roguelite 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite road trip survival game that balances resource management with randomized events and combat.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Survival 29.9%, Strategy 18.6%, Indie 13.1%, RPG 11.6%, Adventure 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival road trip game where you must manage resources and health while traveling across a zombie-infested landscape.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Strategy 25.9%, Simulation 23.8%, RPG 13.4%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian management game where you must balance your survival against the moral weight of your choices.

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: Survival 46.3%, Adventure 16%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 11.1%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep survival simulation that uses a card-based system to manage crafting, health, and hunger.

The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Survival 30.1%, RPG 21.5%, Adventure 14.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Casual 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines turn-based combat with survival management and choice-driven narrative paths.

60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Survival 53.5%, Strategy 19.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%, Difficult 11.4%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A time-pressured survival game that forces you to make quick decisions about resource allocation after a disaster.

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: Survival 57.1%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 13.7%, Adventure 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic life-simulation game that focuses on the struggles of survival and economic hardship in a modern setting.

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 59%, Strategy 18%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 6.8%, Difficult 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: An intense survival strategy game where you must manage a city's resources while making brutal moral decisions to keep your people alive.

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 41.8%, RPG 25.2%, Adventure 12%, Difficult 9%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply atmospheric survival game where you must manage hunger, thirst, and sickness in a town collapsing under a plague.

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: Mouse Only 29.6% ★, RPG 27.9%, Roguelite 14.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Roguelike 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike exploration game that requires careful management of your party's health and supplies during expeditions.

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Why similar: RPG 40.4%, Roguelike 14.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Difficult 11.5%, Roguelite 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite that emphasizes the psychological and physical toll of adventuring, requiring careful resource management.

Bringing you to an exotic desert where you’ll recruit, train, and guide your troops into battle against rival cities and factions. Embark on an adventure that’s uniquely yours; Customizable characters, professions, and factions. The land is filled with a variety of hidden secrets.

Why similar: RPG 42.9%, Strategy 23.3%, Adventure 19.7%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world RPG that combines strategy and survival elements in a vast, desert-themed sandbox.

A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Why similar: Survival 64.4%, Adventure 17%, Indie 6.7%, Roguelite 3.5%, Roguelike 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival journey down a river that requires constant scavenging and management of your limited supplies.

Your mission: lead a group of civilians out of the war-torn country.

Why similar: Adventure 42.1%, Strategy 36.9%, Indie 21%

Why You'll Like It: A survival simulation that directly mirrors the refugee experience and the struggle to find safety.

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: Survival 69.9%, Adventure 12.7%, Indie 6.3%, Simulation 3.4%, Roguelike 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game that forces you to master resource gathering and crafting to survive against the elements.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 64.7%, RPG 11.3%, Building 7.6%, Simulation 6.5%, Adventure 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that demands meticulous resource management and planning to survive in a hostile world.

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: RPG 25%, Strategy 18%, Adventure 14.9%, Roguelite 11.1%, Roguelike 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features tactical combat and resource management during a dangerous journey across a wasteland.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Survival 41.4%, RPG 24.7%, Building 9.1%, Strategy 8.9%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: An unforgiving open-world RPG where you start with nothing and must struggle to survive in a harsh, brutal environment.

The Last Warlord is a Turn-based strategy game. The game is based on the famous Chinese historical novel. The Three Kingdoms (A.D. 190 – 280) was the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu.

Why similar: Survival 43.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Building 15.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that requires careful resource management and decision-making to survive in a historical setting.

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Why similar: Survival 51.5%, Adventure 12.2%, Difficult 11.8%, Indie 8.5%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game that captures the feeling of being a small creature in a massive, dangerous ecosystem.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Survival 50.5%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13%, Building 10.7%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game where you must ensure the survival of your group against environmental hazards and external threats.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 74.8%, RPG 13.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Third Person 2.4%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base management and the constant need to scavenge for resources in a zombie-filled world.

The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?

Why similar: RPG 27.4%, Survival 18.5%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 16.4%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space-faring survival game that focuses on resource management and the difficulty of navigating a hostile galaxy.

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Survival 44.6%, RPG 19.2%, Adventure 13.7%, Roguelite 5.9%, Roguelike 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and resource management in a dark, unforgiving world where every decision carries heavy consequences.

In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?

Why similar: RPG 28.7%, Simulation 25.5%, Survival 14.7%, Casual 13.8%, Indie 7.7%

"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.

Why similar: RPG 36.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Adventure 10.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Roguelite 7.2%

Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!

Why similar: RPG 30.2%, Side Scroller 23.3%, Roguelite 18.1%, Roguelike 11.3%, Difficult 10.5%

Tale of Immortal is an open-world sandbox based on Chinese mythology and cultivation. You will grow to become immortal, conquer the beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Season, make your choices carefully and grasp your own destiny.

Why similar: RPG 40.8%, Adventure 25.8%, Simulation 23.9%, 2D 4.8%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Fate Seeker is an original action role-playing PC game developed by JSL ENTERTAINMENT. You play as “the Chosen One”, destined to change the universe. Wonder freely in countless main storyline, and challenge yourself to solve mysteries, master martial art and nurture friendship or even true love.

Why similar: RPG 80.5%, Adventure 18.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%

'Death Coming' is a non-linear puzzle game where you must harvest human souls ‘Final Destination’ style. However, pesky mortals are not your only problem, as the Agents of Light will do everything they can to stop you.

Why similar: Strategy 34.8%, Adventure 23.5%, Casual 23.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Indie 6.9%

Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?

Why similar: RPG 19.7%, Roguelite 15.8%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Building 14.2%

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: Adventure 39.9%, Simulation 39.3%, Indie 20.8%

《觅长生》是一款想要还原真实修仙世界的开放世界角色扮演游戏。 在这里，你可以体验到从零开始一步步积攒修为突破境界的逆天修仙之旅，也可以体验到那些充满修仙味的故事和剧情。当然也少不了寻求奇遇、探索秘境，更可以和游戏中的角色互动，与人为善或是杀人夺宝全都由你自己抉择。

Why similar: RPG 52.9%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 10.9%, Roguelite 9.2%, Indie 7.5%

'Warm Snow' is a Rogue-like action game with a background set in a dark fantasy world, where the eerie 'Warm Snow' holds sway. You will play as the Warrior 'Bi-an' on a crusade against the Five Great Clans, in order to save a world teetering on the brink of destruction.

Why similar: RPG 34.7%, Roguelite 22.8%, Adventure 15.4%, Roguelike 13%, Indie 7.1%

Getting a girl-friend before National College Entrance Exam, I know it's crazy, but from today, we will face everything together.

Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Casual 23.5%, Adventure 21.6%, Indie 16.7%

Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.

Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Adventure 17.1%, RPG 15.9%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 9.3%

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 36.1%, Simulation 22.1%, Adventure 20%, Indie 11%, Difficult 6.7%

A shop game with RPG? Or is it RPG with a shop? Collect materials, Craft weapons, Train your staff and defeat your enemy! This is Weapon Shop Fantasy!

Why similar: RPG 37.3%, Simulation 26.1%, Adventure 16.2%, Casual 10.9%, Indie 8.6%

Path of Wuxia combines classic wuxia world and youthful school life with anime art style, features simulation gameplay well known by Heluo fans. Play as a young Xia who join the academy known as the Hermitic Pavilions of Xia, grow strong along with various schoolmates and seek your own path of Xia.

Why similar: RPG 77.9%, Indie 17.1%, Simulation 5%

《古剑奇谭二：永夜初晗凝碧天》（《古剑奇谭二》）是由网元圣唐旗下上海烛龙自主研发的大型3D仙侠类单机角色扮演游戏，为古剑系列第二代作品， 已于2013年8月18日发售。 《古剑奇谭二》挑战国产单机传统，采用即时制战斗模式及电影化表现手法，更进行种种突破创新，创造了国产单机游戏新高度。

Why similar: RPG 97.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

《古剑奇谭：琴心剑魄今何在》（《古剑奇谭》）由网元圣唐旗下上海烛龙自主研发，于2010年7月正式发行，是国内首部全程配音的大型3D仙侠类单机角色扮演游戏。 游戏采用架空的历史设定，在其中融入了众多真实的人文地理风貌，通过合适的方式，将这些带有浓郁古韵和中国味的风物呈现在玩家的眼前。

Why similar: RPG 100%

Dragon Cliff is a Semi-Idle RPG game with deep and complex itemization/skill systems to support endless character builds. Players are to collect adventurers, kill monsters, advance talent trees, enchant/reforge equipment, discover scrolls and finally assemble the most powerful adventure team!

Why similar: RPG 45.4%, Strategy 16.9%, Adventure 13.3%, Simulation 9.3%, Casual 7.9%

Banner of the Maid is a tribute to the golden age of tactical RPGs. Set in an alternate French Revolution, you play as Pauline Bonaparte, commanding your army on smoke-filled battlefields and navigating the turbulent political salons of Paris to forge a heroic epic like no other.

Why similar: RPG 44.7%, Strategy 33.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Indie 9.5%, 2D 0.7%

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.

Why similar: Survival 36.4%, Adventure 13.6%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 11.8%, Roguelite 9%

Rise up in a search for immortality in this strategy sim and management game based on Chinese mythology. Rebuild your sect and train new disciples through the path of cultivation. Research magic and gather mystical artifacts, face ancient dangers and other sects in your path to spiritual ascension.

Why similar: Survival 28.6%, RPG 27.1%, Simulation 21.8%, Strategy 13.5%, Indie 4.3%

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Survival 43.2%, RPG 34%, Simulation 15.7%, Third Person 7.1%

Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Why similar: Survival 45.7%, RPG 15.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Adventure 11.8%, Casual 5.6%

Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.

Why similar: RPG 58.9%, Adventure 17.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.1%, Singleplayer 2.8%

Hero's Adventure:Road to Passion is a wuxia open-world RPG. You will commence your journey as an underdog in the tumultuous Martial World and will be met with a wide array of choices as you navigate your own heroic saga.

Why similar: RPG 45.3%, Strategy 15.7%, Adventure 15.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Indie 8.1%

Runestone Keeper is a roguelike dungeon crawler that blends classic RPG elements and turn based strategy. Heroes, monsters, equipment, events, magic and skills, traps and devices, shrines and altars, Goddesses and merchants. Choose your weapon and begin an epic adventure!

Why similar: RPG 33.6%, Strategy 24%, Casual 11.6%, Roguelike 11.3%, Indie 9.9%

You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.

Why similar: Survival 34.5%, RPG 16.3%, Adventure 11.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.7%

Become a god and help change the fate of people, even the world! In WILL: A Wonderful World, you will receive letters written by characters living in urban cities. By rearranging the order and combinations of sentences in these letters, you are going to alter the destiny of whomever that wrote them.

Why similar: RPG 40.9%, Adventure 27%, Indie 12.7%, Casual 12%, 2D 3.9%

Tale of Wuxia has been dedicated to providing gameplayers with a player-defined platform, where they can customize their own Wuxia. Instead of being restricted to characters’ basic properties, in this new version, gameplayers can also choose the personalities and talents of their own.

Why similar: RPG 55.2%, Strategy 16.5%, Adventure 12.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Casual 5.1%

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...

Why similar: Survival 34.3%, RPG 21.1%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 16.5%, Indie 8.3%