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 26.2%, RPG 18.7%, Adventure 11.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands on the original's survival mechanics with deeper party management and a more complex strategic layer.

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 72.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.8%, Indie 3.8%, Atmospheric 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same somber, realistic tone, focusing on the desperate struggle of civilians trying to survive in a war-torn environment.

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%, RPG 11.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 6.1%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on managing a small group of survivors and their limited resources in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 45.6%, Adventure 13.7%, RPG 12.4%, Simulation 7.2%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-view survival roguelite where you must navigate a dangerous building floor-by-floor while managing hunger and health.

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 47.6%, RPG 19.7%, Roguelike 9.3%, Indie 8.3%, Roguelite 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the road-trip survival aspect of the seed game, featuring side-scrolling combat and constant resource management under pressure.

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 23.5%, RPG 13.4%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian simulation that emphasizes moral dilemmas and resource management while living under an oppressive regime.

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 52.7%, RPG 23.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on the harsh realities of living on the streets and managing basic human needs.

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 56.8%, Simulation 20.2%, Strategy 13.9%, Adventure 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic life-simulation game that captures the struggle of surviving in an urban environment with limited means.

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 29.6%, Strategy 18.7%, Indie 13.3%, RPG 11.6%, Adventure 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled road trip survival game that forces players to manage supplies and make difficult choices while traveling across a dangerous landscape.

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 53.1%, Strategy 19.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%, Difficult 11.4%, 2D 4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines intense resource management with a time-pressured survival scenario that forces players to make life-or-death decisions.

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 54.4%, Strategy 25.7%, Indie 10.7%, Adventure 5.3%, Atmospheric 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a caravan management system where you must make difficult moral choices and manage resources while traveling through a hostile world.

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 29.9%, RPG 21.4%, Adventure 14.2%, Strategy 12%, Casual 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines turn-based RPG combat with party-based survival and resource management in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 45.1%, Adventure 15.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Indie 5.2%

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

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: RPG 39.3%, Roguelite 20.3%, Strategy 17.4%, Roguelike 16%, 2D 4%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite exploration game that requires careful management of sanity and supplies during dangerous expeditions.

"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 36.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Roguelite 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A complex RPG and strategy game that features deep management systems and a vast, unforgiving 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 41.5%, RPG 25.3%, Adventure 12%, Difficult 8.9%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly oppressive survival experience that forces players to prioritize resources and health in a dying town.

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%, Side Scroller 23%, Roguelite 18.4%, Roguelike 11.4%, Difficult 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling action-roguelite that provides the same arcade-style combat and progression loop found in the seed game.

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 40.3%, Roguelike 15.1%, Strategy 12.5%, Difficult 11.3%, Roguelite 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite that emphasizes party management, stress, and the harsh consequences of survival in a hostile environment.

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 39.1%, Indie 21.1%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the emotional and practical struggles of a refugee seeking asylum.

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 23.4%, Adventure 19.6%, Indie 11.5%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world strategy RPG that allows for large-scale management and survival in a desert 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 58.9%, Strategy 18.2%, Building 10.8%, Simulation 6.8%, Difficult 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A society-survival game that forces players to make brutal moral choices to keep their people alive in a frozen wasteland.

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 25.9%, Adventure 16.2%, Casual 10.8%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on management and crafting, providing a lighter but still engaging resource-driven gameplay loop.

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 40.9%, Adventure 25.8%, Simulation 23.7%, 2D 4.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox RPG that features deep management and survival elements set within a mythological world.

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

Why similar: Adventure 41.7%, Strategy 37%, Indie 21.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival strategy game that mirrors the theme of displacement and the struggle to find safety.

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 80.6%, Adventure 18.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: An RPG that emphasizes player choices and character progression within a martial arts-themed world.

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 69.6%, Adventure 12.7%, Indie 6.4%, Simulation 3.4%, Roguelike 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival game that focuses on exploration, crafting, and managing hunger in a dangerous, stylized world.

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 41.2%, RPG 24.8%, Strategy 9%, Building 8.8%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a brutal sandbox experience where you start with nothing and must survive in a harsh, unforgiving world.

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 64.6%, RPG 11.4%, Building 7.4%, Simulation 6.5%, Adventure 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for hardcore survival, requiring constant attention to health, hunger, and environmental threats.

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 50.4%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 13%, Building 10.4%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management sim that focuses on the survival and emergent stories of a group of people in a hostile environment.

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 29.2%, Simulation 25.5%, Survival 14.8%, Casual 13.9%, Indie 7.8%

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 43.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Building 15.3%, Simulation 11.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that requires careful management of resources and personnel to survive in a chaotic historical era.

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 16.1%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Building 13.7%

'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 35%, Adventure 23.4%, Casual 23.1%, Simulation 9.6%, Indie 7%

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 45.2%, Strategy 17.1%, Adventure 13.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Casual 7.9%

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 38.1%, Casual 23.4%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 16.9%

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 35.9%, Simulation 22.1%, Adventure 20%, Indie 11.2%, Difficult 6.7%

《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 52.8%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Roguelite 9.4%, Indie 7.6%

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 27.5%, Adventure 17.1%, RPG 16%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 9.4%

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

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 33.4%, RPG 22.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.1%

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 18.3%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 16.3%, Indie 8.6%

《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%

This is a martial arts action role-playing game. The core of the game is battle-oriented, and it combines many fighting elements. If you are a player who pursues blood and is brave enough to challenge the limits, it will definitely inspire your adrenaline and bring you the best combat experience.

Why similar: RPG 33.1%, Adventure 21.3%, Roguelite 18.9%, Roguelike 12.2%, Indie 10.7%

《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%

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 22.9%, Roguelite 15.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Adventure 14.5%, Roguelike 9.8%

G2 FIGHTER is a Low Poly, third-person ARPG. Gameplay includes not only fast-paced shooting, but also role play, team fight, base construction and so many other elements. Step on unknown journey with Bern Pierron to seek for the truth of this chaos world.

Why similar: RPG 45.4%, Adventure 27.2%, Casual 14.3%, Indie 13.1%

A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.

Why similar: Survival 48.9%, Strategy 16.1%, RPG 13.4%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 7.4%

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

Why similar: RPG 37.1%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 15.5%, Roguelike 11.5%, 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 34.2%, RPG 16.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.7%

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%, RPG 21.1%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 16.4%, Indie 8.4%

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 77.8%, Indie 17.3%, Simulation 5%

Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”

Why similar: RPG 26.3%, Strategy 19%, Adventure 16.1%, Simulation 14.8%, Casual 10.9%

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 28.7%, RPG 27.2%, Simulation 21.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Indie 4.3%

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 45.4%, RPG 15.4%, Simulation 13.6%, Adventure 11.9%, Casual 5.6%

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 38.2%, Simulation 27.4%, Strategy 21.5%, Indie 12.8%

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 40.9%, Adventure 26.9%, Indie 12.8%, Casual 11.9%, 2D 3.9%

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 86.3%, Adventure 5.9%, Singleplayer 4.4%, Third Person 3.4%

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 55.1%, Strategy 16.7%, Adventure 12.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Casual 5.1%

Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.

Why similar: Survival 46.1%, Adventure 22.8%, RPG 17.3%, Roguelite 9%, Indie 4.8%

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%