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 18.8%, Adventure 12.1%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands on the original's survival mechanics and side-scrolling exploration with deeper strategy and RPG elements.

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 73%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Indie 3.6%, Atmospheric 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same grim, atmospheric focus on civilian survival during a conflict, forcing players to make agonizing moral choices.

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 9.2%, Building 6.2%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on managing a family's survival in a post-apocalyptic bunker, mirroring the resource management and stress 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 46.5%, Adventure 13.9%, RPG 12.2%, Simulation 6.9%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game where you must manage hunger and health while descending a dangerous building, similar to the roguelite travel in Home Behind.

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 53.2%, RPG 23%, Simulation 11.1%, Adventure 10.8%, Atmospheric 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: An urban survival game that captures the struggle of living on the streets, requiring players to manage warmth, hunger, and social status.

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 19.7%, Roguelike 9%, Indie 8.2%, Roguelite 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A road-trip roguelite that captures the feeling of a desperate journey across a dangerous landscape with party management and random encounters.

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 30.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Indie 12.9%, Adventure 11.8%, RPG 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival journey game that forces players to manage resources and health while traveling through a zombie-infested landscape.

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 47%, Adventure 16.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 11%, Indie 5.2%

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

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 41%, Simulation 38.5%, Indie 20.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short, impactful simulation game that focuses on the daily struggle of a refugee trying to survive in a new country.

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 43.1%, Strategy 20%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 8.3%, 2D 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on leading a caravan through a harsh, dying world where every decision impacts the survival of your group.

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 28.1% ★, RPG 26.4%, Roguelite 12.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Roguelike 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural exploration game that focuses on managing limited resources and sanity during a dangerous expedition.

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 58%, Strategy 26.7%, Procedural Generation 5.3%, Indie 5.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival game about a road trip across a ruined world, emphasizing scavenging and difficult tactical decisions.

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

Why similar: Survival 64.3%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 6.6%, Roguelite 3.4%, Roguelike 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A journey-based survival game where you navigate a river through a post-societal wilderness, constantly managing limited supplies.

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 30.4%, RPG 21.5%, Adventure 14.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Casual 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines party-based RPG combat with survival management, requiring players to balance resources and base defense.

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 26.9%, Adventure 16.9%, RPG 15.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Refines the procedural exploration and resource management of the original with more dynamic narrative events.

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 25.1%, Strategy 17.7%, Adventure 15.4%, Roguelike 10.6%, Roguelite 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical roguelite set in a wasteland where you manage a convoy of vehicles, dealing with combat and resource scarcity during your journey.

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 13%, Indie 6.2%, Simulation 3.3%, Roguelike 3%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival roguelite that requires constant resource gathering and preparation to survive the environment.

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 44.7%, RPG 19.3%, Adventure 14.1%, Roguelite 5.7%, Roguelike 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric journey-based game where you must manage fuel, food, and sanity while exploring a dark, dangerous world.

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 25.1%, Adventure 12.2%, Difficult 9%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, high-stakes survival game that forces players to manage health and resources in a town collapsing under a plague.

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

Why similar: Adventure 43.1%, Strategy 36.1%, Indie 20.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that specifically focuses on the plight of refugees, emphasizing the strategy of movement and resource allocation.

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 51.8%, Adventure 12.3%, Difficult 11.9%, Indie 8.4%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging side-scrolling survival game that emphasizes ecosystem interaction and the struggle to find food and shelter.

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Strategy 16.7%, Roguelike 13.4%, Adventure 9%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space-faring journey game where resource management and crew survival are critical to reaching your destination.

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: Survival 71.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Simulation 5.8%, Strategy 3%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that focuses on the raw struggle against the elements and limited resources.

"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 27.2%, Adventure 11.9%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 9.9%, Building 9.6%

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Survival 38.7%, Building 15.6%, Adventure 14.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where you must manage resources and build defenses to survive against encroaching threats.

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 40.9%, Roguelike 14.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Difficult 11.7%, Roguelite 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on party management and the psychological toll of survival, mirroring the stress mechanics found in Home Behind.

Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Survival 37.5%, Strategy 14.7%, Roguelite 12.3%, Roguelike 9.1%, Adventure 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space exploration game focused on survival, resource management, and the loneliness of a long-distance journey.

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 59.5%, Strategy 17.7%, Building 11%, Simulation 6.7%, Difficult 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A society-survival game that forces you to make brutal decisions to keep your population alive in a frozen wasteland.

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 6.3%, Adventure 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate survival simulation that demands meticulous resource management and planning to survive in a persistent, dangerous world.

Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.

Why similar: RPG 51.7%, Strategy 25.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Singleplayer 5.5%, Atmospheric 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy journey game where your choices and resource management dictate the survival of your party.

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 29%, Simulation 25.2%, Survival 14.7%, Casual 13.9%, Indie 7.7%

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 80.1%, Adventure 18.6%, 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 36.9%, Adventure 23.9%, Simulation 21.1%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, 2D 4.2%

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 42.3%, Strategy 22.7%, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 11.3%, Singleplayer 3%

《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 53.5%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Roguelite 8.9%, Indie 7.5%

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 45.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Adventure 13.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Casual 7.9%

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 19.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Roguelite 15.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Building 14.2%

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 21.7%, Adventure 20.5%, Indie 10.9%, Difficult 6.8%

'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 34.2%, Adventure 24.4%, Casual 23.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Indie 6.9%

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 30.4%, Side Scroller 23.6%, Roguelite 17.6%, Roguelike 11%, Difficult 10.7%

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 37.4%, Simulation 25.6%, Adventure 16.7%, Casual 10.8%, Indie 8.5%

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 44.3%, Strategy 17.4%, Building 15.7%, Simulation 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.8%

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 78.1%, Indie 16.9%, Simulation 4.9%

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 37.7%, Casual 23.4%, Adventure 22.3%, Indie 16.6%

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 26.8%, Survival 18.2%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 15.7%, Indie 8.2%

《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%

《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%

'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 33%, Roguelite 21.1%, Adventure 15%, Roguelike 12%, Indie 6.7%

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 40.6%, RPG 31.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Procedural Generation 7.5%, Third Person 6.6%

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 86.1%, Adventure 6.3%, Singleplayer 4.2%, Third Person 3.4%

Hey, boy! I am the Deputy Mayor of Crist City. My secretary has already told you the purchasing price of the wardening position of Pompeii Prison, right? Come on son, make up your mind! There are a lot of people competing for this position. I don’t have time and patience to waste on you!

Why similar: RPG 38.7%, Simulation 27.4%, Strategy 21.2%, Indie 12.7%

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 45.1%, Strategy 33.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.4%, Indie 9.5%, 2D 0.7%

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 46.1%, RPG 15.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Adventure 12.1%, Casual 5.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 49.4%, RPG 18.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Roguelike 8.3%, Simulation 7.7%

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 22.7%, Adventure 12.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10%

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 27.3%, Simulation 21.7%, Strategy 13.4%, Indie 4.2%

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 34.7%, RPG 21.2%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 16.2%, Indie 8.3%

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 22.2%, Strategy 14.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Roguelite 14.4%, Roguelike 9.1%

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 46.1%, Adventure 15.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Indie 7.9%

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 97.4%, Singleplayer 2.6%