Games Like Infectonator: Survivors

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 45.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Survival 13%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the pixelated aesthetic and squad-based management of the seed game, focusing on scavenging and surviving a zombie-infested world.

A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.

Why similar: Zombies 49.3%, Strategy 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Survival 8.4%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct successor in the series, it retains the signature pixel art style and chaotic management gameplay while refining the outbreak simulation mechanics.

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: Zombies 44.1%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 10.5%, RPG 8.8%, Simulation 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based survival RPG emphasizes resource management and difficult choices, mirroring the permadeath and survival intensity of the seed game.

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 39.2%, Survival 20.4%, Roguelike 9.8%, Strategy 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelike that excels in detailed survival mechanics and the constant pressure of managing a group of survivors in a hostile city.

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 50.3%, Survival 18.7%, Strategy 16.4%, Indie 5.3%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of leading a group of survivors through dangerous environments while managing their equipment and tactical positioning.

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Zombies 45.4%, Survival 23.9%, Strategy 14.3%, RPG 8.3%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deeper focus on base management and strategic decision-making in a post-apocalyptic setting, perfect for fans of the simulation aspects of the seed game.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 41.4%, Tower Defense 25.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Procedural Generation 8.8%, RTS 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the frantic real-time strategy and tower defense elements of managing large-scale zombie outbreaks from a top-down perspective.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 52.7%, Survival 23.8%, Perma Death 8.1%, Procedural Generation 5.2%, Violent 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite survival game captures the feeling of scavenging and fighting through zombie-infested zones with a focus on permadeath and progression.

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: Zombies 43%, Survival 18.5%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 9.8%, RPG 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the simulation and management side of survival, requiring players to make strategic decisions to keep their group alive.

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 57.9%, Survival 23.4%, Strategy 8.1%, RPG 7.6%, Indie 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, turn-based RPG experience centered on managing a shelter and its inhabitants during a zombie apocalypse.

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: Zombies 49.9%, Survival 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Roguelike 8.3%, RPG 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-oriented, it perfectly captures the roguelite survival journey and the importance of managing a diverse group of survivors.

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

Why similar: Zombies 35.1%, Survival 17.4%, Perma Death 10.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Roguelike 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror roguelite that emphasizes the difficult journey and resource management required to keep a group of survivors moving.

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: Zombies 53.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Survival 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Perma Death 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic pixel-art survival game that emphasizes resource management and the brutal reality of traveling through a zombie-infested landscape.

The Apocalypse has arrived and your goal is simple: Make it 10 miles to safety through a limitless procedurally-generated world overrun with The Infected and packed with the tools and weapons to fight them.

Why similar: Zombies 47.5%, Strategy 17.1%, Survival 13.3%, Gore 6.9%, Violent 6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action-roguelike that emphasizes scavenging and survival in a world overrun by zombies.

Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 38.2%, Strategy 13.1%, Tower Defense 13.1%, Survival 12%, RPG 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy-simulation game tasks players with managing a group of survivors and making tactical decisions to ensure their long-term survival.

Top-down zombie shooter with tower defense elements featuring up to 4 players local and online co-op. Build your base by day, defend it by night, put your skills to the test to stay alive as long as possible! Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?

Why similar: Zombies 38.7%, Tower Defense 21.5%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Gore 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the tower defense and action elements, providing a fast-paced experience for those who enjoy the combat side of the seed game.

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: Zombies 53.9%, Survival 32.8%, Simulation 3.6%, RPG 3.6%, Multiplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for deep survival simulation, offering unparalleled depth in managing a survivor's needs and base defense against the undead.

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Why similar: Zombies 44.1%, Survival 26%, Strategy 8.6%, RPG 6.5%, Simulation 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival, base building, and social management, allowing players to recruit survivors and defend their settlement.

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 51.2%, Strategy 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, RPG 6.9%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a single shelter, requiring players to balance resources and the psychological needs of their survivors.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Zombies 40.6%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Survival 19.7%, Strategy 13%, RTS 5%

Why You'll Like It: It elevates the tower defense and base-building aspects of the seed game to a massive scale, pitting players against thousands of zombies at once.

Team up or face it alone in this top down zombie slaying defense adventure! Featuring up to 4 player online co-op, cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses to build the Ultimate Zombie Defense. Can YOU stop them?

Why similar: Zombies 43.9%, Tower Defense 20.1%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 7.2%, Gore 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that leans heavily into the tower defense and co-op action mechanics of the genre.

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 40.4%, Survival 20.5%, Tower Defense 20.2%, RPG 7.1%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines open-world exploration with base defense and RPG progression, perfect for fans of the seed game's survival mechanics.

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 32.5%, Strategy 20.7%, RPG 13.9%, Survival 11.6%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie RPG that incorporates strategy and action elements, focusing on the harsh reality of surviving a supernatural zombie outbreak.

A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 61.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Survival 10.5%, Action 4.3%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling action game that captures the retro aesthetic and zombie-slaying gameplay of the seed game.

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Zombies 30.9%, Tower Defense 26.5%, Survival 19.5%, Strategy 13.7%, RTS 4%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D strategy game that focuses on base building and tower defense, requiring players to survive waves of enemies each night.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 57%, Survival 27%, RPG 3.4%, Perma Death 2.9%, Simulation 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a 3D open-world experience that still centers on the core pillars of base management, scavenging, and group survival.

Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 33.7%, Tower Defense 19.8%, Survival 15.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Gore 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A focused action-strategy game where players must defend their barricades and manage resources to survive the night.

Rescue your fellow Hunters, and with their help locate and destroy Dracula!

Why similar: Zombies 29.2%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Strategy 18.6%, Survival 9.6%, Perma Death 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy-heavy title focuses on tower defense and RPG elements to fend off zombie hordes.

Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.

Why similar: Zombies 89%, Survival 4.3%, Tower Defense 3.8%, Strategy 1.2%, Action 0.5%

A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.

Why similar: Zombies 49%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Action 2.1%

Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

Why similar: Zombies 34.1%, Tower Defense 20.8%, Survival 16.8%, Gore 9.2%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-packed survival game that focuses on squad-based combat and managing resources in a zombie-infested world.

Kingdoms vs Zombies is a blend of strategy, tower defense, and roguelike gameplay, where you must defend your kingdom against endless hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.1%, Zombies 25.8%, Strategy 23.1%, Roguelike 8.4%, Action 6.3%

The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Zombies 30.1%, Tower Defense 28.6%, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 8%, Gore 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward tower defense game that emphasizes survival against infinite waves of zombies.

Zombie Tower Defense: Join the ongoing war, in an open world, against the undead zombie horde. Choose between multiple powerful heroes all with unique epic gear and skills! With the wide variety of towers you can create your own perfect strategy.

Why similar: Zombies 43.6%, Tower Defense 38%, Strategy 11.5%, Indie 3.8%, Adventure 3.1%

Command your Squad of Survivors in a game where Line of Sight is extremely important, you cannot shoot what you cannot see. Develop your formations, move as a unit and cover every corner. Leave no man behind!

Why similar: Zombies 43.8%, Strategy 21.7%, Survival 20.6%, Indie 7%, Action 6.3%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 47.3%, Indie 12.7%, RPG 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Simulation 6%

Can you survive the horror? … a retro-style survival horror game developed by the two-man indie team of Gonzossm and Iggy Zuk. Survive 30 days and nights in a zombie-infested world by recruiting companions, upgrading weaponry and fortifying your position.

Why similar: Zombies 57.5%, Survival 18.5%, Indie 7.3%, Action 7%, Tower Defense 5.7%

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Zombies 38.7%, Survival 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Roguelike 10.1%

Cards of the Dead is a survival card game. Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Zombies 36.5%, Survival 16%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Roguelike 8.5%

Survive the zombie apocalypse and make humanity's last stand in this three-game legacy bundle, revamped for modern hardware. Explore, build, and survive for as long as you can in The Last Stand, The Last Stand 2, and The Last Stand: Union City.

Why similar: Zombies 55.3%, Survival 23.1%, Violent 8.2%, Gore 6%, Action 5.3%

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: Zombies 49.7%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 11.4%, RPG 7.3%, Roguelike 6.5%

Defense: Abominations is a first person tower defense game where you try to survive the abominations stored in the laboratory, as long as you can.

Why similar: Zombies 20.4%, Strategy 16.5%, Tower Defense 16%, Survival 14.3%, Gore 11.6%

In a near future, the world has been devastated by a virus turning humanity into zombies. You are Iron Corps, the last defense of civilization traveling the world to find resources, help people and find answers. Will you survive long enough?

Why similar: Zombies 41.1%, Tower Defense 24%, Strategy 18.4%, Simulation 8.4%, Indie 4.3%

Survive like a God in this inspiring survival simulation game.

Why similar: Zombies 35.3%, Strategy 21.4%, Survival 17.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Indie 6.8%

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

Why similar: Zombies 39.1%, Tower Defense 23.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Roguelike 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%

Battle zombies, earn experience, collect loot and level up in this dopamine fueled auto shooter filled with roguelike action.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 24.1%, Strategy 22.9%, Roguelike 17.6%, RPG 14.3%, Action 9.3%

Blending horror survival/ Building and tower defence elements Damned Nation gives the player more ways to experience the post apocalypse the ever before.

Why similar: Zombies 37.1%, Survival 17.2%, Tower Defense 16.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Action 4.9%

Kill all the damn zombies in different game modes!

Why similar: Zombies 28.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Gore 11.3%, Tower Defense 9.6%, Simulation 9.1%

Top down, action packed, multiplayer, zombie shooter. Build your base with friends and see how long you can survive the endless horde of zombies. Level up with friends, or alone, how you die is up to you.

Why similar: Zombies 40.5%, Tower Defense 20.8%, Survival 17.3%, Gore 5.3%, Violent 5%

Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Why similar: Zombies 59.1%, Strategy 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Gore 4.7%, Indie 3.7%

Fight an endless horde of evil minions and survive as long as you can. Collect loot and purchase new upgrades and magic abilities. Summon allies to stand along side you and survive the horde!

Why similar: Zombies 30.9%, Tower Defense 29.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Roguelike 7.6%, Strategy 7.6%

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Zombies 37.4%, Survival 24.7%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Strategy 7.6%, Procedural Generation 5.5%

Zombo Buster Advance is a tower defense game taking place inside buildings with interchangeable elevators. Deploy, swap and shoot like a boss!

Why similar: Zombies 37.6%, Tower Defense 25.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Survival 13%, Indie 4.3%

DEFENSURVIVOR is a strategy game where you build obstacles and place and move units to block zombies. There are various units with unique characteristics and powerful high-level units that can be obtained through combination. Use randomly given units to survive until the end!

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.2%, Zombies 26.5%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 8.2%, RTS 7%

Merging the smash hit indie game The Escapists with the world wide phenomenon that is The Walking Dead, Team17 have taken the very best of both worlds and are now providing players with the opportunity to play Rick Grimes as he takes on hordes of zombies let loose upon the world.

Why similar: Zombies 50.5%, Survival 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Indie 3.2%

HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.

Why similar: Zombies 46.5%, Survival 19%, Strategy 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Roguelike 5.3%

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.2%, Roguelike 14.7%, Strategy 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Survival 9.5%

Survive zombie apocalypse! Plunder resources for survival!

Why similar: Zombies 49.6%, Strategy 36%, RTS 8.4%, Indie 6%

Survivors Of The Zombie World is a 3D pixel-style zombie survival game. Survivors fight in a world full of zombies. Your goal is to survive, find food, ammunition, medicine and other supplies on the map and try to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 47.8%, Survival 24.4%, Roguelike 11%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Action 4.2%

A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down. Choose your abilities, build your favorite combat style, become stronger and survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Survival 30.9%, Roguelike 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 20.1%, RPG 14.5%, Action 6.7%