Games Like Insurmountable

Climber: Sky is the Limit is a mountain walking simulator game where you become a winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!

Why similar: Management 19.4%, Resource Management 16.9%, Nature 16.6%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Survival 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the technical challenges and inventory management required for high-altitude mountaineering.

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: Roguelike 30.9%, Roguelite 20.4%, Choices Matter 20%, Exploration 14.9%, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelike exploration game captures the same sense of managing limited resources while navigating dangerous, procedurally generated environments.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Survival 52.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 6%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive mountaineering survival experience, focusing on managing cold, hunger, and fatigue in a brutal, frozen wilderness.

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: Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 13.5%, Management 11.6%, Roguelike 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that forces you to manage limited resources and navigate interpersonal conflicts after a disaster in a harsh landscape.

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: Resource Management 25.2%, Survival 19.3%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the psychological and resource-based struggles of leading a group through an extreme, icy environment where every choice matters.

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: Resource Management 31.1%, Survival 27.9%, Strategy 13.3%, Management 10.1%, Choices Matter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the intense pressure of managing resources and making life-or-death choices to keep a group alive in a harsh, freezing climate.

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: Perma Death 23.9%, Survival 17.9%, Text-Based 14%, Resource Management 10.8%, Roguelike 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep, card-based survival system that requires meticulous management of your character's physical and mental state.

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 35.9%, Resource Management 14.6%, Choices Matter 12%, Management 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: The game excels at forcing difficult moral and survival-based decisions while managing scarce resources in a grim, unforgiving setting.

Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.

Why similar: Survival 24.5%, Stylized 21.4%, Exploration 14%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized mountaineering game that focuses on the physical and mental challenge of climbing and exploration.

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

Why similar: Resource Management 21.4%, Roguelike 18.4%, Survival 14.7%, Roguelite 13%, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This space-themed survival game mirrors the resource-management and roguelike exploration mechanics found in Insurmountable.

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 34.7%, Perma Death 30%, Roguelike 21.3%, Strategy 7%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, turn-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and the constant threat of perma-death.

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 23.2%, Resource Management 15.8%, Perma Death 15.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, resource management, and turn-based combat with a heavy focus on character well-being and difficult decision-making.

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Resource Management 16.1%, Survival 13.9%, Roguelite 12.5%, Tactical 12.2%, Roguelike 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex roguelite that requires constant resource management and tactical decision-making to survive a long, dangerous journey.

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

Why similar: Resource Management 16.1%, Roguelike 13.5%, Survival 13.3%, Management 13%, Choices Matter 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival and resource management in a dark, atmospheric world where you must make tough choices to keep your tribe alive.

Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.

Why similar: Tactical 46.6%, Choices Matter 45.3%, Singleplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes strategic, turn-based card combat and narrative choices that significantly impact the outcome of your journey.

Fling yourself into a mountain climbing adventure! Become the first to reach the top of the highest mountain in the world and meet eccentric characters along the way!

Why similar: Nature 49.6%, Roguelite 20.7%, Exploration 12%, Adventure 11%, Singleplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of mountain climbing with a focus on physics-based movement and the challenge of reaching the summit.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Resource Management 24.6%, Management 18.7%, Survival 12.8%, Nature 12.3%, Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that focuses on the unique challenges of building and managing settlements on high-altitude mountain peaks.

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

Why similar: Roguelike 26.1%, Perma Death 23.6%, Tactical 11%, Strategy 10.2%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for roguelite management, where every jump and resource expenditure is critical to your survival.

In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

Why similar: Survival 32.6%, Adventure 13.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 9.7%, Roguelite 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game that focuses on the grueling journey of a refugee, requiring careful management of hunger and health.

Descend into Netherguild, a tactical grid-based roguelite. Lead expeditions deep into mysterious, strange depths. Explore, battle dangerous foes, and manage resources carefully. Push your limits before returning to resupply. What secrets await below?

Why similar: Perma Death 25.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.2%, Resource Management 15.5%, Roguelike 15.2%, Roguelite 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelite that emphasizes exploration and resource management while delving into dangerous, procedurally generated depths.

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: Tactical 28.3%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Strategy 16.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Adventure 7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a heavy emphasis on journeying, resource management, and making narrative choices that have lasting consequences.

Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…

Why similar: Perma Death 28.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 26%, Roguelike 19.1%, Roguelite 16%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging roguelike deckbuilder that requires careful planning and tactical execution to survive in a frozen world.

The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 30%, Roguelike 24.4%, Roguelite 18.7%, Strategy 11.4%, Choices Matter 11%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that focuses on tactical combat and progression through a dangerous, vertical environment.

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Survival 21%, Resource Management 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Simulation 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival game where your choices determine the fate of your group during a global collapse.

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 28.3%, Exploration 18.8%, Roguelike 17.9%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Roguelite 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric exploration game that forces you to balance fuel, food, and sanity while navigating a dangerous, unknown world.

Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!

Why similar: Management 19.9%, Resource Management 19.1%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Text-Based 16.4%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy adventure game where you must make difficult choices to navigate your caravan through a dangerous world.

Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?

Why similar: Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 11.3%, Survival 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Tactical 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that requires constant resource management and decision-making to protect a city from external threats.

In Barda, it won't be your sword that saves you. It's how you pack your bag. But hunger, fatigue and madness will take up space! Do your best as you climb an ever-changing mountain to spread the ashes of your grandfather, improve your base camp, and try again.

Why similar: Perma Death 26.4%, Resource Management 19.3%, Roguelite 15.5%, Survival 14.2%, Roguelike 13.9%

Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.

Why similar: Roguelike 35.7%, Roguelite 30.8%, Strategy 19.6%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike deckbuilder that focuses on managing resources and tactical combat during a long, perilous journey.

In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Why similar: Roguelike 25.8%, Strategy 20.9%, Roguelite 12.8%, Adventure 11.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused exploration game where you must manage your team's resources and skills to succeed in various expeditions.

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Resource Management 26.9%, Choices Matter 26.3%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 10.3%, Atmospheric 10.1%

Prepare to fend off attacks from all directions in this hybrid strategy roguelite deck builder. On your journey through varied grid-based biomes, battle unique foes and make tough moral choices to restore a corrupted land and decide the fate of your world.

Why similar: Roguelike 27.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 24%, Roguelite 19.5%, Strategy 14.5%, Choices Matter 5.6%

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

Why similar: Survival 42.9%, Roguelike 36.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Adventure 6.8%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional roguelike survival game that emphasizes crafting, exploration, and managing your character's needs in a hostile environment.

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: Perma Death 17.9%, Text-Based 16.9%, Roguelike 16.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Survival 11.3%

One mountain; Zero checkpoints

Why similar: Strategy 65.9%, Atmospheric 26.5%, Singleplayer 7.6%

Travel around The Great Gales to climb challenging peaks in this physics-based climbing adventure set in 1887. Meet like-minded mountaineers, unlock helpful climbing gear, and become a pioneer of mountaineering.

Why similar: Nature 31.5%, Atmospheric 17.5%, Exploration 17.4%, Adventure 12.5%, Stylized 10.7%

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: Choices Matter 38.8%, Text-Based 25.2%, Management 8.5%, Atmospheric 6.3%, Strategy 6.1%

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: Resource Management 22.6%, Survival 17.8%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 8.6%

Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.

Why similar: Perma Death 20.9%, Strategy 15.1%, Roguelite 12.6%, Roguelike 12%, Resource Management 10.2%

A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.

Why similar: Atmospheric 17.3%, Simulation 16.8%, Exploration 13.9%, Strategy 12.1%, Survival 9.8%

Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.

Why similar: Perma Death 21%, Management 16.3%, Nature 14.9%, Roguelike 12.4%, Roguelite 12.4%

Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.

Why similar: Roguelike 39.9%, Survival 33.1%, Strategy 18.2%, Singleplayer 4.5%, Indie 4.2%

Unforgiving storytelling adventure with dice rolls and turn-based management. Make the right choices and roll the dice to rally the monarchs to your medieval kingdom by diplomacy, war or deception.

Why similar: Resource Management 31.1%, Text-Based 30.5%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Indie 13.9%, Singleplayer 4.1%

The unhinged roguelike for the tactically obsessed. Forget maps—your journey is a deck of Tarot cards you build on the fly. Manage a tight inventory, chain questionable combos, and watch your gear shatter. Got unlucky? The virtuous can resurrect; the sinful, however...

Why similar: Perma Death 22.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.8%, Resource Management 19.6%, Roguelike 16.6%, Roguelite 11.9%

A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!

Why similar: Perma Death 32.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 27.2%, Roguelite 17%, Roguelike 15.9%, Strategy 7.6%

From seed to a great tree! Survive the seasons, face crisis and mutate yourself into a tree able to achieve your final form! Grow flowers, mutate, adapt and evolve and finally bear fruits!

Why similar: Perma Death 17.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.6%, Nature 14.2%, Management 11.7%, Survival 10.5%

Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.

Why similar: Management 28.7%, Strategy 17.1%, Atmospheric 13.1%, Exploration 12.3%, Stylized 10.4%

A deck-building roguelite RPG set in a dark and tormented world. Assemble your party and use your cards to survive, fight and build your way through a dark maze of monsters orchestrated by an evil mastermind. Your choices will lead you to judgement.

Why similar: Roguelike 35.5%, Roguelite 27.5%, Strategy 18.2%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 5.7%

A brutally challenging puzzle novel RPG. Reincarnate as a dark lord, plan your path, and conquer the world. *NOT a passive idle game*

Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, Management 17.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Exploration 11%

A highly punishing 3D precision platformer about a goat bouncing up a beautiful mountain to save its scared baby goat. Can you handle the challenge and endure all obstacles that you will face on your way up the mountain?

Why similar: Nature 35.5%, Stylized 23.1%, Adventure 22.9%, Singleplayer 12.1%, Indie 6.5%

Craft your own tools and manage your resources in this tranquil survival adventure. Charming naturescapes and original music frame your quest to conquer the mountain as you endeavor to make the most of your “one wild and precious" life.

Why similar: Perma Death 28%, Nature 26.4%, Survival 21.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Exploration 8.1%

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: Survival 33.8%, Roguelike 30.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Exploration 11%, Adventure 6.6%

Coldridge is a push-your-luck puzzle roguelite! You'll need to carefully plan your moves and gamble on opportunities to survive. Fight adversity and save the city of Coldridge!

Why similar: Nature 21.6%, Roguelike 18.3%, Roguelite 18.3%, Survival 17.8%, Strategy 9.9%

Just you and your bike - take it on a thrilling ride down an unspoiled mountain landscape. Make your way through thick forests, narrow trails and wild rivers. Race, jump, slide and try not to crash - all the way from the peak to the valley!

Why similar: Nature 51.1%, Exploration 17.2%, Simulation 16.2%, Indie 8.9%, Singleplayer 6.6%

TumbleSeed is a deceptively deep roguelike about balancing a seed up a dangerous and ever-changing mountain.

Why similar: Nature 46%, Roguelite 27.7%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 12.6%

Delve into the depths of Deepest Chamber: Resurrection, where card boosting is your key to survival. Employ this unique mechanic to augment your abilities, strategize your next moves and endure a series of increasingly perilous descents in this gripping rogue-lite, card-battling adventure!

Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 35.1%, Roguelike 29.9%, Strategy 15.1%, Exploration 13.2%, Adventure 6.8%

The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.

Why similar: Tactical 19.7%, Resource Management 16.4%, Roguelike 16.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%

Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.

Why similar: Text-Based 38.6%, Exploration 13%, Strategy 12.7%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 8.7%

Forge your own cards with triggers, actions and modifiers. Shape your deck and gamble against Death itself. Make one mistake and you will descend into despair.

Why similar: Roguelike 34.5%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Strategy 17.9%, Tactical 17.7%, Atmospheric 6.1%