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 26.7%, RPG 18.7%, Adventure 11.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it expands on the original's survival mechanics and narrative depth with a more robust strategy and RPG system.

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 72.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Indie 3.6%, Atmospheric 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same gritty, desperate atmosphere of civilian survival during wartime where every resource decision carries heavy moral weight.

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 46.4%, Adventure 13.7%, RPG 12.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the side-scrolling perspective and roguelite survival mechanics, focusing on scavenging for resources 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 55.4%, RPG 11.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Building 6.2%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting, requiring careful resource allocation 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 53.1%, RPG 23%, Simulation 11.3%, Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a grounded, urban survival experience where you must manage basic needs like warmth, food, and health while living on the streets.

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

Why similar: Survival 64.5%, Adventure 17.1%, Indie 6.6%, Roguelite 3.5%, Roguelike 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a similar journey-based survival loop where you must manage hunger, thirst, and health while traveling through a dangerous, procedurally generated landscape.

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 36.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Strategy 12%, Simulation 11.6%, Roguelite 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in the harsh Siberian wilderness that emphasizes resource management and the complex social dynamics between survivors.

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 30.3%, Strategy 18.3%, Indie 13%, Adventure 11.5%, RPG 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the travel-focused survival gameplay of Home Behind, forcing players to manage limited supplies while dealing with random encounters on the road.

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 48.2%, RPG 19.6%, Roguelike 9.1%, Indie 8.2%, Roguelite 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game that emphasizes the journey and resource management, featuring side-scrolling combat and difficult decision-making under pressure.

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 30.3%, RPG 21.4%, Adventure 14.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Casual 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines turn-based combat with survival management, forcing players to make difficult choices that affect the outcome of their journey.

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 53.8%, Strategy 19%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Difficult 11.4%, 2D 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the frantic, high-stakes resource management and decision-making required to survive in a post-apocalyptic scenario.

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 46.7%, Adventure 16%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Indie 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a highly detailed survival simulation where every action is governed by a card-based system, mirroring the meticulous resource management of Home Behind.

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 25.8%, Simulation 23.7%, RPG 13.4%, Adventure 13.3%, Indie 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian survival game that focuses on moral dilemmas and resource management while living under a repressive regime.

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 29.8% ★, RPG 28%, Roguelite 14%, Strategy 12.2%, Roguelike 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike exploration game that requires careful management of supplies and sanity while traversing dangerous, uncharted territories.

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 40.5%, Roguelike 14.8%, Strategy 12.5%, Difficult 11.6%, Roguelite 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more combat-focused, it shares the punishing roguelite nature and the constant management of stress and health for a party of survivors.

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 40.4%, Simulation 38.9%, Indie 20.7%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival simulation that focuses on the daily struggles of a refugee seeking asylum.

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 24.9%, Strategy 17.9%, Adventure 15.1%, Roguelike 10.7%, Roguelite 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical roguelite that focuses on traveling through a hostile wasteland, requiring players to manage fuel and resources while engaging in combat.

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 59.2%, Strategy 17.9%, Building 11%, Simulation 6.7%, Difficult 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, atmospheric survival management experience where you must make brutal choices to keep your society alive in a freezing world.

'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 34.5%, Adventure 23.9%, Casual 23.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: While more puzzle-oriented, it shares the strategic, top-down perspective and the dark, atmospheric tone of survival-themed games.

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 18.6%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the struggle of a long, arduous journey through space where resource management and navigation are critical to survival.

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 23.4%, Roguelite 17.9%, Roguelike 11.2%, Difficult 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling roguelite that shares the combat style and progression mechanics found in Home Behind.

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 36.2%, Simulation 21.9%, Adventure 20.1%, Indie 11%, Difficult 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the harsh realities of urban survival, requiring players to manage hunger and exposure in a realistic setting.

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 45.5%, Strategy 16.8%, Adventure 13.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Casual 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It incorporates RPG and management elements that appeal to players who enjoy the progression and party-building aspects of Home Behind.

"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 27%, Adventure 11.7%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 9.6%

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 70%, Adventure 12.7%, Indie 6.3%, Simulation 3.4%, Roguelike 3%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival game that forces players to gather resources and manage their sanity in a hostile, ever-changing environment.

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 25.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Casual 10.8%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that requires careful resource balancing, appealing to the logistical side of survival games.

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

Why similar: Adventure 42.5%, Strategy 36.6%, Indie 20.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game directly tackles the refugee experience, focusing on the tactical and emotional challenges of fleeing a conflict zone.

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 20.2%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 8.4%, 2D 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a caravan-based journey where managing morale, food, and the lives of your people is central to the narrative and gameplay.

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 65%, RPG 11.2%, Building 7.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Adventure 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most in-depth survival simulation available, requiring players to manage every aspect of their character's health and 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 44.1%, Strategy 17.5%, Building 15.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep strategic experience that rewards careful planning and resource management, similar to the strategy elements in Home Behind.

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 44.8%, RPG 19.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Roguelite 5.8%, Roguelike 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric exploration game where you must manage fuel and supplies while navigating a treacherous, mysterious world.

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 28.8%, Simulation 25.3%, Survival 14.8%, Casual 13.8%, Indie 7.7%

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 42.8%, Strategy 23.2%, Adventure 19.9%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%

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 80.3%, Adventure 18.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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 26.1%, Simulation 23.7%, 2D 4.8%, Singleplayer 4.6%

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 57.4%, Simulation 19.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Adventure 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 19.8%, Roguelite 15.7%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 15.2%, Building 14.2%

《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%

《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 53.1%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 11%, Roguelite 9.1%, Indie 7.5%

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 78%, Indie 17%, Simulation 5%

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 38.1%, Casual 23.4%, Adventure 21.9%, Indie 16.6%

《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%

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 28%, Adventure 17.3%, RPG 15.9%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 9.3%

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 28.7%, RPG 27.1%, Simulation 21.8%, Strategy 13.5%, Indie 4.2%

Gujian 3 is a mass 3D single-person RPG developed by Aurogon Info & Tech (Shanghai), a subsidiary of Wangyuan Shengtang. As the latest hit of the Gujian series, it boasts more free and smooth combat experience with its full real-time combat system. This generation expands the world of Gujian based on previous works.

Why similar: RPG 86.2%, Adventure 6.1%, Singleplayer 4.3%, Third Person 3.4%

A 3D ancient and fantasy RPG console game is created by Beijing Joyfun. Users will have a fabulous adventure and start their own legend in a fictional world based China’s traditional mythology.

Why similar: RPG 97.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Legendary creature is an independent game with rich playing methods such as roguelike + self-propelled chess + strategy. You can collect all kinds of magic creatures with various talents and skills, and can also evolve to a higher level.

Why similar: RPG 23.1%, Strategy 15.4%, Roguelite 15.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Roguelike 9.6%

'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 34.8%, Roguelite 22.7%, Adventure 15.6%, Roguelike 12.8%, Indie 7.1%

Just another stupid adventure game

Why similar: Adventure 62.8%, Indie 37.2%

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 34.6%, RPG 21.1%, Strategy 16.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Indie 8.3%

Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.

Why similar: RPG 39.4%, Roguelite 24.1%, Strategy 19.1%, Roguelike 11.2%, 2D 3.4%

Defeat your enemies , take their body parts to replace yours and become another strong boss yourself.

Why similar: RPG 37.1%, Adventure 27.3%, Indie 15.3%, Roguelike 11.3%, Difficult 6.1%

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 34.7%, RPG 16.2%, Adventure 11.9%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8.6%

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 59.2%, Adventure 17.8%, Strategy 15.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 5%, 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 45.6%, Adventure 15.7%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Indie 8%

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 34%, RPG 22.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 10.1%

"Night of the Full Moon" is a stand-alone roguelike card game. Take adventure into Black Forest. Random event, random plot leads to different endings.

Why similar: Strategy 29.7%, Adventure 24.4%, Roguelite 16.2%, Indie 13.3%, RPG 7.4%

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: Survival 49.4%, RPG 18.4%, Adventure 10.1%, Roguelike 8.4%, Simulation 7.8%

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 42.3%, Adventure 26.6%, Indie 12.3%, Casual 11.7%, 2D 3.8%

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 16.4%, Adventure 12.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Casual 5.1%