Games Like Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Zombies 55.5%, Post-apocalyptic 23%, Perma Death 11%, Horror 5%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on community survival, base building, and scavenging with a desperate group of survivors.

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: Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Crafting 15.9%, 2.5D 14.8%, Stealth 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same grueling shelter-management and civilian-focused survival mechanics in a grim, oppressive urban setting.

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 30.3%, Post-apocalyptic 27.9%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Management 13.8%, Atmospheric 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Lets you adapt real-world cities into makeshift bases to fend off massive hordes of the infected.

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 43.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Crafting 21%, Horror 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deeply tactical turn-based survival experience where you must escape a city filled with the undead.

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 68.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Horror 6.3%, Survival Horror 5.7%, Action 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines turn-based tactical combat with managing a shelter of diverse survivors during a zombie apocalypse.

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 35.3%, Post-apocalyptic 26.2%, Perma Death 19.2%, Crafting 10.9%, Atmospheric 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Follows infected survivors venturing out from a safe haven into dangerous territory on desperate supply runs.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.1%, Post-apocalyptic 35.2%, Management 14.4%, Horror 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to manage resources, maintain a hardened shelter, and send out expeditions to hostile wasteland areas.

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 55.2%, Post-apocalyptic 26.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines traditional survival management with turn-based combat and difficult narrative choices.

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 48%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Survival Horror 14%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate hardcore zombie survival sandbox focusing on realistic injury management, scavenging, and fortification.

HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Zombies 31.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Crafting 18.4%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Horror 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game where you gather resources and try to carve out an existence in a zombie-infested world.

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Zombies 32.4%, Post-apocalyptic 27.7%, Crafting 19.1%, 2.5D 16.4%, Action 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features top-down open-world survival gameplay centered around scavenging, crafting, and fighting the undead.

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: Colony Sim 28.3%, Zombies 19%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on reclaiming territory, managing survivors, and rebuilding civilization block by block after a zombie collapse.

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

Why similar: Zombies 32.7%, Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Choices Matter 15%, Management 13.3%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you in the role of managing a checkpoint and making critical survival decisions during a viral outbreak.

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 57.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Survival Horror 6.9%, Horror 5.1%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational game for community-driven zombie survival, resource gathering, and base defense.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Post-apocalyptic 42.5%, Management 9.4%, Atmospheric 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Tests your colony management skills in a harsh post-apocalyptic world where every resource counts.

The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is a zombie-apocalypse hoarding survival sim. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.

Why similar: Zombies 26.5%, Post-apocalyptic 25.4%, 2.5D 23.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Story Rich 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on micro-managing daily survival needs and coping with the harsh realities of a post-collapse environment.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 53.6%, Management 20.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Side Scroller 7.6%, Horror 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you in charge of an underground bunker where keeping your family alive requires grim choices and careful scavenging.

A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.

Why similar: Zombies 35.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, 2.5D 16.8%, Side Scroller 14.1%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a similar cinematic, bleak atmosphere of escaping a ruined city overrun by the undead.

This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 50.5%, 2.5D 23.8%, Horror 9%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Story Rich 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world sandbox survival game where you build defenses and rescue stranded survivors from the undead.

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 68.6%, Crafting 26.2%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes crafting, shelter building, and cooperative survival against hordes of zombies.

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 53.9%, Post-apocalyptic 36.8%, Action 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends action RPG elements with tower defense and base building in a mutant-infested wasteland.

Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Side Scroller 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Management 14.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling strategy game where you must defend your underground base from endless waves of mutants.

Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 36.6%, Post-apocalyptic 32.4%, PvE 15.5%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Action 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic first-person survival game centered on fortifying structures and surviving relentless nighttime assaults.

Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from the 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it out alive while uncovering the truth about the incident.

Why similar: Zombies 25.6%, Survival Horror 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Horror 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival horror experience inspired by 90s tropes, emphasizing resource scarcity and tense combat.

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.4%, Zombies 27.5%, Crafting 14%, Horror 7.4%, Side Scroller 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological survival rogue-lite where you scavenge room by room downward from a luxury penthouse after a biological disaster.

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.2%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Horror 14.1%, Multiple Endings 14%, Choices Matter 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an intensely atmospheric, top-down survival horror challenge where scavenging by day and defending your base by night is key.

All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!

Why similar: Zombies 43.2%, Post-apocalyptic 31%, Survival Horror 21.9%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet tense zombie survival game featuring base building, crafting, and defending your refuge.

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: Colony Sim 45.8%, Post-apocalyptic 33%, Management 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Atmospheric 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though set in a freezing ice age rather than a zombie apocalypse, it matches the grim society-survival tone and brutal choices.

Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. Save your camp... The Flood is coming.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival Horror 14.4%, Colony Sim 14%, Crafting 12.2%, Side Scroller 11.2%

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: Post-apocalyptic 45.1%, Perma Death 32.2%, Crafting 22.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore turn-based survival game where every single injury, infection, and resource decision carries massive weight.

As Anling’s zombie infection sets in, her days are numbered. The struggle to survive is made ever more paramount as she must ensure her son Cody stays alive. She must teach him how to survive in this new world at any cost…

Why similar: Zombies 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Crafting 15.9%, Horror 10%

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 48.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Perma Death 8.7%, Crafting 6.9%

Into the Haze is a single-player survival game set at the beginning of the apocalypse. You wake up on the rooftop on the 40th floor of the abandoned tower. The whole city is cover with poisonous gas. Gather resources, craft, build, and fight zombies. Survive until help arrives.

Why similar: Zombies 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Stealth 15.1%, Perma Death 15%

Can you survive a zombie apocalypse? Day Zero is a text-based survival game where choices determine fate and ethical and moral decisions matter. Every choice shapes the story. Are you ready to test your limits in a zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Zombies 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Horror 12%

No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.

Why similar: Zombies 40.4%, Survival Horror 26.7%, Horror 13%, PvE 8.9%, Atmospheric 5.8%

Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.7%, Management 25.1%, Crafting 22.4%, Zombies 12.6%, Horror 6.2%

Immerse yourself in retro top-down visuals as you face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall through intense first-person combat. Scavenge, solve puzzles, and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive—but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.

Why similar: Zombies 27.6%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Why similar: Zombies 54.4%, Post-apocalyptic 34.1%, PvE 8.9%, Action 2.6%

You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.

Why similar: Zombies 35.3%, Post-apocalyptic 30%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Horror 9.9%, Action 5%

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

Why similar: Perma Death 22.3%, Zombies 20.8%, Survival Horror 18%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Choices Matter 10.3%

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 42.4%, Post-apocalyptic 37.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Action 7.5%, Survival Horror 3.2%

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: Colony Sim 34.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Stealth 16.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Zombies 43.5%, Crafting 28.5%, Survival Horror 28%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 33.3%, Post-apocalyptic 29%, Crafting 26.6%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Action 3.9%

The masked protagonist must escape the city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary. Use stealth to scavenge food, or kill everything in your path. Nurture your mental health or descend into madness. How you survive is up to you.

Why similar: Stealth 17%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Side Scroller 13.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 10%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Zombies 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Crafting 19.3%, Horror 17.4%, Story Rich 7.9%

Fight, loot, and escape in a hardcore FPS world filled with deadly zombies and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables, trade items, and survive your escape from the massive Liberty Grand Center complex.

Why similar: Zombies 35.6%, Post-apocalyptic 26.4%, PvE 16.7%, Horror 16.3%, Action 5%

"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: Zombies 73.2%, Perma Death 20.3%, Action 6.5%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Survival Horror 21.2%, Crafting 16%, Story Rich 7.7%

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 38.7%, Post-apocalyptic 29.6%, Crafting 15.1%, Horror 12.5%, Action 4.2%

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 49.5%, Action 17.6%, Perma Death 17.3%, Survival Horror 15.6%

Loot, shoot, and mow down zombie hordes in this bullet heaven fever dream. Embark on a deadly roadtrip, fuel your bus, decide when to extract – and get that sweet inventory management kick when that new slot in your backpack fits just right.

Why similar: Zombies 36.4%, 2.5D 32.6%, Crafting 24.8%, Action 6.2%

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 53.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Perma Death 14.7%, Action 10.4%

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 49.8%, Post-apocalyptic 42%, Action 8.2%

See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.

Why similar: Zombies 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Side Scroller 14.8%, Crafting 12.2%

Escape room meets co-op survival horror. The year is 1998, and an ancient curse has been unleashed, trapping everyone on Mount Bisik. Alone or with up to 4 players, you must explore, find clues, figure out a way to escape...and survive the horror.

Why similar: Zombies 26.4%, 2.5D 25.4%, Survival Horror 24.4%, PvE 12%, Horror 11.7%

"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.

Why similar: Zombies 28.5%, Post-apocalyptic 25.4%, Crafting 19.2%, Side Scroller 16.3%, Atmospheric 6.1%

In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, 2.5D 20%, Crafting 20%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%

The Last Disease Z is a harsh multiplayer survival experience where everything is against you. Abandoned cities, zombies and bandits, a struggle for resources and a place to live. Build, unite, and survive.

Why similar: Zombies 33.5%, Post-apocalyptic 28%, Crafting 21.3%, PvE 13.9%, Action 3.3%