Games Like Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 6.3%, City Builder 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim that perfectly balances base-building, survival, and emergent storytelling in a hostile environment.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 25%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 8.1%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony-sim that emphasizes tactical defense and survival against alien threats, mirroring the combat-heavy focus of the seed game.

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: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 24.9%, Survival 11.8%, Real-Time with Pause 6.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the base-defense aspect of survival, forcing players to build fortifications against massive waves of enemies.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 10.8%, City Builder 8.5%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that features complex defensive building mechanics and survival challenges.

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: Survival 35.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the most immersive scavenging and survival experience, requiring careful resource management and tactical decision-making.

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 29.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the small-group survival and resource management mechanics found in the seed game.

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 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features post-apocalyptic colony management with a strong emphasis on exploration and survival.

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 34.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends base building, scavenging, and squad management with a focus on surviving in a dangerous, dynamic world.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 13.8%, City Builder 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A solid post-apocalyptic city-builder that incorporates survival elements like radiation and resource scarcity.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 9.7%, City Builder 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that brings the survival and tactical combat mechanics into a space-faring setting.

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: Base Building 32.9%, Survival 29.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines squad-based survival, base management, and combat in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, City Builder 18.4%, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 4.9%, Strategy 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the progression and survival of a small group over time, emphasizing resource gathering and defense.

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 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Survival 13.9%, City Builder 11.7%, Resource Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival management game where every decision impacts the survival of your colony in a frozen wasteland.

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: Survival 47.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Base Building 6.4%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based survival game that prioritizes tactical combat and base management during a societal collapse.

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: Base Building 21.5%, Colony Sim 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, City Builder 10.4%, Survival 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Uses real-world maps for base-building and defense against zombie hordes, emphasizing tactical positioning.

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 36.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the gritty, desperate survival aspects of a post-apocalyptic setting where every resource counts.

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 11.2%, Colony Sim 9.6%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic base-building game with a heavy focus on survival and resource gathering.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Open World 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a brutal, open-world survival experience where you must build your own faction and manage squad members.

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 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Real-Time with Pause 11.1% ★, Survival 10%

Why You'll Like It: Combines strategic colony management with turn-based combat in a zombie-infested world.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Survival 10.1%, City Builder 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim with a strong focus on scavenging, base building, and combat.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 14%, Survival 9.7%, City Builder 8.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that requires careful resource management to keep your colony alive.

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Real-Time with Pause 14.3% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique post-apocalyptic survival game where you build a town on the water, scavenging for resources.

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Survival 9.8%, City Builder 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends base building with unique zombie management mechanics, offering a fresh take on the survival genre.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 6.3%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on colony management and defense, focusing on building and protecting your base.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Survival 12.2%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-heavy survival city-builder that requires careful planning to survive environmental challenges.

Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

Why similar: Open World 34.8%, Survival 28.9%, Sandbox 21.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features squad-based management and tactical combat in a harsh, unforgiving world.

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 11.8%, City Builder 8.6%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes post-apocalyptic survival, combat, and base defense.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 9.9%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on survival and family management in a challenging, historical setting.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, Real-Time with Pause 14.2% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 9.7%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Survival 21%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on underground base-building and survival management in a post-apocalyptic world.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, City Builder 8.2%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2%, Base Building 18.1%, City Builder 11.2%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 3.9%

Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 9.5%, City Builder 6.8%, Sandbox 6.8%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, City Builder 8%, Sandbox 6.8%

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: Base Building 24.6%, Survival 23.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.8%, Resource Management 5.4%, Management 5%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Sandbox 6.5%

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, City Builder 14.3%, Simulation 8.2%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.3%, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 5.8%, Strategy 5.2%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 13.7%, City Builder 8.3%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival 9.9%, City Builder 7.5%

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 10.2%, City Builder 9.8%, Crafting 6.7%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Survival 7.4%, City Builder 7.3%

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 13.6%, City Builder 12.4%, Resource Management 7.7%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, City Builder 15.8%, Survival 9.5%, Resource Management 7.2%, Building 4.5%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 13.3%, Resource Management 6.8%, Building 4.8%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.6%, City Builder 8.6%, Crafting 7.2%

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, City Builder 8.1%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Real-Time with Pause 16.3% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Survival 9.3%

In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Base Building 14%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 7.1%, Sandbox 6.8%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 7.1%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 10.2%, Survival 8.6%

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 47.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Strategy 5.5%, Survival 4.8%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Survival 10.5%, City Builder 10.4%, Real-Time with Pause 9.6% ★, Sandbox 8.2%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 10.1%, City Builder 8.6%, Resource Management 5.9%

From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Real-Time with Pause 18.3% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Survival 7.8%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Survival 8.6%

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 11.6%, City Builder 9.3%, Sandbox 8.2%

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, Base Building 19.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 5.9%