Games Like Infectonator: Survivors

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 38.7%, Survival 20.3%, Roguelike 10.1%, Strategy 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based roguelike perfectly captures the desperate struggle for survival and resource management found in the seed game.

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 43.3%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 10.8%, RPG 8.8%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines turn-based combat with intense survival management and narrative choices that impact your team's survival.

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

Why similar: Zombies 34.4%, Survival 17.3%, Perma Death 10.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Roguelike 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game that focuses on making difficult travel decisions and managing a group of survivors.

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 57.5%, Survival 23.6%, Strategy 8.4%, RPG 7.7%, Indie 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep squad management and turn-based tactical combat in a realistic post-apocalyptic setting.

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 44.4%, Strategy 13.9%, Survival 13%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced roguelite strategy game where you manage a group of survivors and use special abilities to fend off zombie waves.

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 52.1%, Survival 24%, Perma Death 8.3%, Procedural Generation 5.4%, Violent 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down roguelite that emphasizes scavenging and survival against overwhelming zombie hordes.

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 48%, Strategy 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Survival 8.4%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: As a direct successor in the franchise, it offers a more refined take on the outbreak simulation and strategic chaos.

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 44.8%, Survival 24%, Strategy 14.6%, RPG 8.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy-management game focuses on reclaiming territory and managing survivors, mirroring the strategic depth of the seed game.

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 49.2%, Survival 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Roguelike 8.6%, RPG 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art roguelike captures the frantic, unpredictable nature of a zombie road trip with high-stakes survival decisions.

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 49.7%, Survival 18.7%, Strategy 16.8%, Indie 5.6%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features squad-based tactical combat where you control a group of survivors exploring procedurally generated levels.

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 53.5%, Survival 32.9%, Simulation 3.7%, RPG 3.6%, Multiplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate deep-simulation survival game that offers unparalleled control over your character's survival and base-building needs.

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 37.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Tower Defense 13.2%, Survival 12%, RPG 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-RPG that focuses on managing a group of survivors and their morale during a zombie outbreak.

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 42.3%, Survival 18.5%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 10%, RPG 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique strategy game that focuses on the management and interpersonal dynamics of survivors trapped in a house.

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 53.2%, Strategy 10%, Survival 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Perma Death 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled survival game that forces you to manage resources and make tough choices while traveling across a zombie-infested country.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Survival 51.1%, Strategy 21.2%, Simulation 11.9%, Procedural Generation 9.9%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base building and managing a group of survivors while researching technology to survive the apocalypse.

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 47.1%, Strategy 17.6%, Survival 13.4%, Gore 6.7%, Violent 6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that emphasizes scavenging and tactical movement in a top-down zombie apocalypse.

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 48.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, RPG 6.5%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic disaster management game where you must keep your family alive in an underground bunker.

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 40.7%, Tower Defense 26.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Procedural Generation 9%, RTS 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: An RTS that tasks you with rescuing civilians from zombie outbreaks, emphasizing tactical positioning and crowd control.

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 30.1%, Tower Defense 26.8%, Survival 19.6%, Strategy 14.1%, RTS 4%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D strategy and tower defense game where you must build a base and protect your villagers from nightly zombie attacks.

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 39.9%, Survival 20.6%, Tower Defense 20.4%, RPG 7.1%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world action-RPG that incorporates base defense and survivor recruitment mechanics.

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 33.3%, Tower Defense 20%, Survival 15.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Gore 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-action hybrid where you manage repairs and defenses during the day to survive the zombie onslaught at night.

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%, Strategy 21.2%, RPG 13.9%, Survival 11.6%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on combat and strategy in a world overrun by supernatural threats.

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 46.8%, Indie 13%, RPG 9.5%, Survival 9.5%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: An indie RPG that focuses on squad-based survival and combat in a zombie-infested urban environment.

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 32.8%, Procedural Generation 17.9%, RPG 16.4%, Simulation 13.5%, RTS 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building, community management, and survival in a sandbox world filled with zombies.

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 57.2%, Survival 18.6%, Indie 7.5%, Action 6.9%, Tower Defense 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling action game where you must fortify your position and survive for 30 nights.

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 67.5%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: While not strictly zombies, it is the gold standard for managing a group of survivors in a desperate, resource-scarce environment.

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 29.7%, Tower Defense 28.9%, Survival 14.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Gore 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense game that focuses on survival against infinite waves of zombies, requiring careful resource allocation.

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

Why similar: Zombies 28.6%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Strategy 18.9%, Survival 9.5%, Roguelike 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused tower defense game that tasks you with managing survivors to hold off zombie waves.

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 40.3%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game focused on defending cities from zombie swarms using various units and tactical deployments.

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 48.4%, Tower Defense 23.6%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 8.4%, Action 2%

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 88.9%, Survival 4.3%, Tower Defense 3.8%, Strategy 1.2%, Indie 0.5%

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 43.6%, Tower Defense 20%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Gore 5.1%

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%, Tower Defense 38.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Indie 3.9%, Adventure 3%

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 43.2%, Strategy 22.2%, Survival 20.6%, Indie 7.1%, Action 6.2%

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 60.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Survival 10.6%, Indie 4.4%, Action 4.2%

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 37.6%, Tower Defense 21.9%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 9.9%, Gore 6.5%

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 36.6%, Survival 17.2%, Tower Defense 16.6%, Strategy 15.5%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game that incorporates strategy elements as you lead a group of survivors through a ruined world.

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 55.1%, Survival 23.4%, Violent 8.2%, Gore 5.8%, Action 5.2%

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 48.9%, Survival 16.3%, Strategy 11.8%, RPG 7.3%, Roguelike 6.8%

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 33.9%, Tower Defense 21.2%, Survival 16.9%, Gore 8.7%, Strategy 5.9%

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

Why similar: Zombies 35.8%, Survival 16%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Strategy 9.5%, Roguelike 8.8%

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 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Indie 3.9%, Gore 3.6%

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 36.7%, Survival 24.5%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Procedural Generation 5.7%

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 20.2%, Strategy 16.9%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Survival 14.3%, Gore 11.2%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Zombies 53.1%, Survival 18.7%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 7.3%, RTS 4.7%

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 43.6%, Survival 26.1%, Strategy 8.8%, RPG 6.5%, Simulation 4.8%

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 40.2%, Tower Defense 21.1%, Survival 17.5%, Gore 5.2%, Violent 5%

Survival Zombies is a bloody chaotic survival first person shooter that pits heavily armed players against humanity's greatest fear - hordes of undead.

Why similar: Zombies 54.2%, Gore 9.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Violent 8%, Indie 5.9%

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

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 24.2%, Strategy 23.2%, Roguelike 18.1%, RPG 14.1%, Action 9%

Survive like a God in this inspiring survival simulation game.

Why similar: Zombies 34.7%, Strategy 21.8%, Survival 17.4%, Simulation 13%, Indie 6.9%

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 38.3%, Zombies 25.9%, Strategy 15.8%, Simulation 8.4%, RTS 6.9%

Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32%, Survival 20.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Indie 7.7%

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 30.3%, Tower Defense 30%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Roguelike 7.8%, Strategy 7.7%

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%, Tower Defense 26%, Strategy 13.6%, Survival 13%, Indie 4.4%

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 45.8%, Survival 19%, Strategy 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Roguelike 5.6%

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 30.6%, Roguelike 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, RPG 14.3%, Action 6.5%

Survive zombie apocalypse! Plunder resources for survival!

Why similar: Zombies 48.8%, Strategy 36.8%, RTS 8.3%, Indie 6.1%

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 47.2%, Survival 24.5%, Roguelike 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Action 4.1%

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%, Survival 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Strategy 9.9%, Indie 3.3%