Games Like ICY: Frostbite Edition

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Survival 41.9%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Story Rich 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like ICY, this game focuses on leading a group through a frozen, unforgiving environment where every choice impacts your survival.

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 47.4%, RPG 42.6%, Indie 5%, Violent 3.7%, Choices Matter 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival management with deep RPG elements and difficult moral choices in a hostile setting.

A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement. Only your choices matters in the face of moral dilemmas. Manage your party, food & equipment in this non-linear narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.

Why similar: Survival 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival game that emphasizes the psychological toll of making difficult decisions in a post-apocalyptic world.

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, RPG 22%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Story Rich 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, choice-driven narrative RPG where your decisions define the protagonist's life and the fate of their society.

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 66.1%, Story Rich 17.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar focus on managing a caravan through a harsh landscape with significant, story-altering choices.

Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Survival 18.1%, Story Rich 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic visual novel that forces players to make difficult moral choices to ensure their family's survival.

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 69.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Story Rich 7.5%, Indie 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the moral dilemmas and resource management required to keep a group alive in a desperate, war-torn environment.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.1%, RPG 34.2%, Story Rich 16.5%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy RPG that uses survival mechanics and dice-based systems to explore themes of isolation and choice.

The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.

Why similar: RPG 41.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Story Rich 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore RPG where choices have significant consequences and combat is often a last resort.

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Why similar: RPG 38.1%, Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Story Rich 9.7%, Choices Matter 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: An illustrated text-based RPG that emphasizes exploration, survival, and the weight of your decisions in a dangerous world.

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 65.2%, Post-apocalyptic 27.4%, Choices Matter 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more strategy-focused, it perfectly captures the desperate struggle for survival in a frozen, post-apocalyptic 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 35.7%, RPG 28.6%, Story Rich 17.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly intense survival experience where narrative, atmosphere, and difficult moral choices are paramount.

Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.

Why similar: RPG 42.3%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Story Rich 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy, post-apocalyptic RPG that places a strong emphasis on philosophical choices and character morality.

Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.1%, RPG 36.1%, Story Rich 15%, Choices Matter 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic narrative strategy game where you lead a tribe through difficult events and moral dilemmas.

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 49.3%, RPG 28.2%, Story Rich 18.5%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, atmospheric survival game where exploration and narrative choices define your journey through a treacherous environment.

A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.

Why similar: Survival 48.1%, Choices Matter 24.2%, Story Rich 18.8%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven thriller set in the Arctic that focuses on survival and the consequences of your 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 58.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, RPG 16.4%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a family in a post-apocalyptic bunker, emphasizing resource scarcity and difficult moral decisions.

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Survival 35%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Story Rich 9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic narrative survival game that relies on text-based choices and resource management.

Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.

Why similar: RPG 30%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Story Rich 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic visual novel that combines exploration with narrative-driven survival.

A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world where the player must search for food, water and essential supplies to survive. Discover a world filled with colourful NPCs, quests and secrets.

Why similar: RPG 43.8%, Survival 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 23.5%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic RPG that emphasizes story and the harsh reality of living in a ruined world.

Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, RPG 23.4%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Story Rich 10%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction game that focuses on branching narratives and impactful decision-making.

Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.

Why similar: Survival 58%, RPG 30.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival RPG set in a frozen, hostile environment that emphasizes scavenging and combat.

A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, RPG 24.2%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, Choices Matter 11%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-rich interactive fiction game that prioritizes character choices and dark atmosphere.

Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.

Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, RPG 17.6%, Story Rich 8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic visual novel that incorporates resource management and multiple endings.

“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.

Why similar: RPG 33.7%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Story Rich 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic RPG that blends exploration with tactical combat and narrative choices.

A tactical, turn-based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic world of eternal winter. As the titular False Prophet, recruit and lead a group of survivors to a promised land. Loot, craft, and make the best of what you find.

Why similar: Survival 40.1%, RPG 36%, Post-apocalyptic 23.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy RPG that features a dark, narrative-driven world.

399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.7%, Visual Novel 21%, Survival 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%

Sovietpunk is a cyberpunk story set in the setting of the Soviet Union after a global nuclear war. You have to guide the main character through the gloomy tunnels, in which the struggle for life is in full swing.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Story Rich 11.1%, RPG 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, post-apocalyptic interactive fiction game with a strong focus on narrative.

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

Why similar: RPG 45.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Story Rich 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, choice-heavy RPG that forces players to make impossible moral decisions.

Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.

Why similar: Survival 25.8%, RPG 24.2%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Story Rich 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: RPG 43.5%, Survival 38.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Indie 4.2%

From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...

Why similar: RPG 28.7%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Survival 11.8%

Imagined Leviathans is a narrative survival game set in a frozen British village. Explore the countryside and unite the survivors to face down your Leviathans together.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.2%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Story Rich 16.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Indie 5.2%

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Build trust or spark conflict with NPCs and factions, uncover mysteries, and watch the world change with your every choice.

Why similar: Survival 56.3%, Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Indie 6%

Survive the arctic research base simply known as Base 75, or die from the freezing cold or by the horrors that lurk within the halls?

Why similar: Survival 50.7%, Violent 30.2%, Story Rich 10.7%, Indie 8.4%

Snow Ash is a post-apocalyptic, wasteland-themed card-based trading and survival game. In this snow-covered world, you’ll take on the role of a messenger, braving blizzards to deliver goods between scattered shelters. In the biting cold and swirling snow, where will your journey lead?

Why similar: Survival 54.2%, Post-apocalyptic 29.8%, Story Rich 16%

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Survival 51.7%, RPG 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Indie 3.2%

The Man Came Around is a survival game with narrative choices. Play five activists fleeing a police state. Cross the border. Evade the cops. Scavenge resources. Survive the elements. Will you put your group at risk to help others along the way, or betray your principles to survive?

Why similar: Survival 33.9%, RPG 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 10.4%

Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Why similar: Survival 36.4%, RPG 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Story Rich 10.4%

A post-apocalyptic, adults only Visual Novel, where you and your choices will shape the future of humanity and those around you. Engage in meaningful relationships with the characters or bring them to depravity.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Survival 23%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%

Frost is a Survival solo Card game. Inspired by deck-building board games like Dominion, Ascension and the like, it's an unique take on the genre as it puts you in charge of a group of people struggling against a restless, lethal storm.

Why similar: Survival 60.7%, RPG 34.1%, Indie 5.1%

Explore a frozen, mysterious land in this top-down survival adventure. Gather resources, craft tools, and fight to stay alive as you uncover a story of memory and redemption. Try to escape The Hollow.

Why similar: Survival 64.9%, Post-apocalyptic 35.1%

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 46.6%, Story Rich 33.1%, Choices Matter 20.3%

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 44.7%, RPG 36.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Indie 7.5%

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.9%, Visual Novel 21.8%, RPG 21.2%, Story Rich 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%

You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.

Why similar: RPG 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 21%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Story Rich 12.3%

An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!

Why similar: RPG 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 34.6%, Story Rich 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Indie 5.9%

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Survival 53.2%, Post-apocalyptic 29.9%, Choices Matter 16.9%

Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.

Why similar: Survival 45.6%, RPG 33.3%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Story Rich 5.3%

可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。

Why similar: Visual Novel 54.1%, Story Rich 24.9%, Choices Matter 21%

"Rust of Steel" is a post-apocalyptic ruins exploration RPG with a high degree of freedom. Take on the world in your own style with multiple scenarios, free stat distribution, and the option to play as the good guy or the bad guy!

Why similar: RPG 48.4%, Survival 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Violent 8.3%, Indie 2.5%

You're gonna get yourself killed out here... There's monsters, bandits, and much, much worse roaming these lands... Do you really think you've got what it takes to survive? Or do you think you're cut out for much more than that... There's only one way to find out, and time is of the essence!

Why similar: Survival 35.7%, Visual Novel 25.7%, RPG 25.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%

A blizzard brought a long winter, Humanity on the brink of extinction. you had to face ferocious beasts, mine ice and snow to build a base, and survive in the cold apocalypse.

Why similar: Survival 65.4%, Post-apocalyptic 34.6%

Z-End is a multiple choice narrative game. During the zombie apocalypse, you'll encounter the mysterious Faye while searching for new members.What secrets is she hiding? Will she join you? Will you be able to overcome the danger of this world?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 72%, Indie 28%

An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.7%, Story Rich 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.8%, RPG 9.2%

Survive as the last horse riders as the world ends and myths die. Plan ahead and manage your clan’s relationships with the remaining gods and their followers in this standalone survival storybook. Immerse yourself in the land of magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.

Why similar: Survival 38.2%, RPG 26%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Story Rich 17.9%

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Survival 55.8%, RPG 29.6%, Violent 7.4%, Indie 7.2%