- #1 Rem Survival
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Simulation 24%, RPG 19.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Adventure 12.4%
- #2 Apocalypse Hotel - The Post-Apocalyptic Hotel Simulator!
96% matchMostly Negative35% of 72 reviews2016
Dev: Michael FlynnPub: FlynnFour Games
Windows
Median: 0 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Can you run a successful hotel even though the world has ended? Repair, renovate, and decorate the ‘Apocalypse Hotel’ while fending off zombies, mutants and the alien Gogfang!
Why similar: RPG 53.4%, Simulation 46.6%
- #3 One Last Day
96% matchMixed62% of 103 reviews2015
Dev: Bloodwolf Studio
Windows · Mac
[Alpha] Explore, hunt, be hunted, kill, destroy, build... Fight in a colorful, devastated world that everyone is trying to take for themselves. Do it yours, but remember your main goal at the start of the day; try to survive one last day.
Why similar: Adventure 50.5%, Survival 49.5%
- #4 Hard Times
95% matchVery Positive90% of 89 reviews2020
Dev: Radical Fiction
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hard Times is an extreme urban survival game where you have to put yourself into the shoes of a homeless man, taking on all the challenges that daily survival places in the great metropolis of indifference.
Why similar: Simulation 67.5%, Survival 19.4%, Strategy 13.1%
- #5 New Day: Cataclysm
94% matchMixed60% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: Unorganized GamesPub: Ahlman Game Studio
Windows
New Day: Cataclysm is a free to play Base Defence game, where you strive to survive day by day against a growing horde of hostile monsters. To keep surviving, you must upgrade your base and weapons with resources found by scavenging during the day.
Why similar: Strategy 73.4%, Survival 26.6%
- #6 Lost Scavenger
94% matchMixed54% of 243 reviews2022
Dev: Rockbee
Windows
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
Why similar: Survival 57.1%, RPG 42.9%
- #7 Project Of Cooling The Earth
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 123 reviews2024
Dev: 人鱼工作室
Windows
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.
Why similar: Survival 40%, RPG 32.8%, Strategy 27.1%
- #8 Barren Roads
91% matchMostly Negative39% of 76 reviews2015
Dev: Forcequitapplicatons
Windows · Mac
Nuclear weapons have the left the world barren and scorched the earth. Survival has never been harder for mankind. Resources are scarce as life has left this world. You are forced to constantly move and scavenge the next area for resources. Rivers are dry. Many of wanderers never survived the icy nights as the moon crosses the sky.
Why similar: RPG 42.7%, Survival 34.7%, Adventure 22.5%
- #9 The Day Of Survival
90% matchMixed45% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: xHARDHeMPuS
Windows
The Day Of Survival Immerse yourself in a post-apocalyptic world where every decision is crucial. "The Day Of Survival" is a thrilling survival game that challenges players to explore a harsh, unforgiving landscape filled with zombies and enemy soldiers.
Why similar: Survival 56.2%, Adventure 43.8%
- #10 Surviving the Aftermath
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Strategy 35.8%, Simulation 34%, Survival 30.2%
- #11 Apocalypse Delivery Service
89% matchVery Positive94% of 148 reviews2024
Dev: Teamey
Windows
Apocalypse Delivery Service is an exciting survival and adventure game. You will enter a post-apocalyptic world where you play as a courier delivering packages. But don't think it will be easy! Your task is to find necessary items, survive, and most importantly, escape from the city.
- #12 Drive 4 Survival
88% matchMixed65% of 304 reviews2020
Dev: M3M Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!
Why similar: Survival 100%
- #13 Idle Atomic
87% matchMixed62% of 460 reviews2021
Dev: Checkbox EntertainmentPub: Iron Horse Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 106.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Idle Atomic is an Incremental Idle RPG in a post-apocalyptic world. Level up skills, refine your salvaged materials and hunt mutant creatures to survive!
Why similar: Simulation 47.4%, RPG 29%, Strategy 23.5%
- #14 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
86% matchMixed60% of 348 reviews2024
Dev: Bazura GamesPub: Dreland Enterprises
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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: Survival 39.1%, Simulation 38.8%, Adventure 22.1%
- #15 Sunset Motel: Prologue
84% matchVery Positive92% of 871 reviews2024
Dev: Efkey StudiosPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Sunset Motel: Prologue is a free motel management game. Ensure customer satisfaction, renovate interiors, design entertainment spaces! Manage your motel in your own style and provide travelers with unforgettable experiences!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #16 SKYHILL
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,643 reviews2015
Dev: MandragoraPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Survival 42.9%, RPG 20.2%, Simulation 18.9%, Adventure 18.1%
- #17 Last Wood
84% matchMixed67% of 584 reviews2022
Dev: JustUsGameLab
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.
Why similar: Simulation 45.6%, Survival 29.8%, Adventure 24.6%
- #18 ZED ZONE
82% matchVery Positive80% of 3,558 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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: Survival 40.5%, RPG 30.7%, Simulation 28.8%
- #19 Another Try 2
81% matchMixed54% of 1,116 reviews2025
Dev: Hoki Wolf Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
The virus has devastated cities and lands. Most of the population died, the rest turned into the walking dead. You're one of the last survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another day.
Why similar: Survival 65.4%, Adventure 34.6%
- #20 Dustbowl
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 123 reviews2015
Dev: The Pompous Pixel
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world where the player must search for food, water and essential supplies to survive. Discover a world filled with colourful NPCs, quests and secrets.
Why similar: RPG 50.1%, Adventure 28.7%, Survival 21.2%
- #21 Nomad
82% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Survival 79.5%, Adventure 20.5%
- #22 Remain
80% matchVery Negative18% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: XTop Game
Windows
Remain is an MMO game. Within this open world, you can tame "zombies", making them your labor force, or commanding them to fight your foes. Apart from zombies, you will still have to face the survival challenges of food and water. Remaining warriors, don't let your guard down, and keep surviving...
Why similar: Survival 30.3%, RPG 21.4%, Simulation 20.9%, Strategy 17.1%, Adventure 10.3%
- #23 Survival Camp
81% matchMixed45% of 216 reviews2019
Dev: Skeleton Star Game
Windows
The story takes place on Halloween night, when people are wearing masks to revel, the mysterious virus spreads quietly, and the virus engulfed the world instantly. The world is no longer safe. You need to build a camp and survive. Good luck. . .
Why similar: RPG 37.4%, Simulation 34.4%, Adventure 19.9%, Survival 8.2%
- #24 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,009 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Survival 26.6%, RPG 22.1%, Strategy 19.5%, Simulation 19%, Adventure 12.9%
- #25 Colony Simulator
78% matchMixed67% of 424 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Marc
Windows
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: Simulation 100%
- #26 Death World
79% matchMixed46% of 56 reviews2020
Dev: Millenium Games
Windows
After a long night you wake up alone in the bunker as a bunker security guard. Hunt, kill, gather. Do anything to survive.
Why similar: RPG 69.1%, Adventure 30.9%
- #27 LIFE EFFECT Survival
75% matchVery Positive88% of 453 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: Survival 63.3%, Adventure 36.7%
- #28 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
77% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Strategy 71.6%, Simulation 28.4%
- #29 Countrified
77% matchMixed57% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: Avelar Studios
Windows
Countrified is an online Survival simulator focused on player interaction. Hunt, build, control regions, survive, kill, die and more in our world!
Why similar: Simulation 29.8%, RPG 29%, Survival 24.1%, Adventure 17.1%
- #30 The Last Haven
76% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Strategy 47.8%, Survival 26.6%, Simulation 25.6%
- #31 Nuclear Day
74% matchMixed67% of 99 reviews2025
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nuclear Day is a story-based role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore the secrets of this world. Fight monsters. Pass tests and solve puzzles. Become your own in this tragic world.
Why similar: RPG 40.9%, Survival 37.3%, Adventure 21.8%
- #32 Last Oasis
75% matchMixed62% of 24,224 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 45.4%, RPG 35.9%, Adventure 18.7%
- #33 The Last Plague: Blight
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,393 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Survival 76.7%, Adventure 23.3%
- #34 First Day
76% matchMixed49% of 136 reviews2019
Dev: BadWolf Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's the first day of the rest of your life
Why similar: Survival 36.6%, Strategy 32.7%, RPG 30.7%
- #35 Will To Live Online
73% matchMixed69% of 18,236 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Survival 81.8%, RPG 18.2%
- #36 GASPING.2
74% matchMostly Negative34% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: 公民之箭工作室Pub: CA-Arts
Windows
《GASPING.2》is a single player survival game, with only you and your robot companions in a dangerous and abandoned game world. The open world and lonely gameplay require your patience.Are you ready to challenge?
Why similar: RPG 34.5%, Simulation 31.4%, Adventure 18.4%, Survival 15.7%
- #37 Sunset Motel
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 814 reviews2025
Dev: Efkey StudiosPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Ready for the transformation of neglected rooms? Ensure customer satisfaction, renovate interiors, design entertainment spaces! Manage your motel in your own style and provide travelers with unforgettable experiences!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #38 Winter Survivor Protocol
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 153 reviews2026
Dev: RECAST
Windows
Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!
Why similar: RPG 33%, Simulation 28.4%, Adventure 25.6%, Survival 13%
- #39 汉尘:腐草为萤
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 405 reviews2025
Dev: 兰廷科技 Lanting Technology Co., Ltd.
Windows
“The last day of Han dynasty”It is a survival simulation business game based on the background of the end of the Han Dynasty in China. From the perspective of ordinary people, you can spend a difficult but warm time, and keep warm together with the characters you know in the troubled times.
Why similar: Survival 27.9%, RPG 26.8%, Strategy 19%, Simulation 17.5%, Adventure 8.7%
- #40 Last Message
71% matchVery Positive89% of 177 reviews2021
Dev: JamesGamesNZ
Windows
Use an in-game computer to chat with friends to stay connected and help each other. Explore your 'empty' apartment building for items to assist them and uncover lost messages.
Why similar: Simulation 70.7%, Adventure 29.3%
- #41 The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 220 reviews2018
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.
Why similar: Simulation 29.6%, RPG 28.1%, Strategy 22.2%, Survival 20.1%
- #42 SurvivalZ
72% matchMixed59% of 318 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone or in groups you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by living dead!
Why similar: Survival 61.6%, Adventure 38.4%
- #43 Astrometica: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,290 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Survival 73.1%, Adventure 26.9%
- #44 DARKEST DAYS
69% matchMixed49% of 4,909 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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: Survival 44.7%, RPG 41.7%, Adventure 13.5%
- #45 Wasted World
71% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Achrony
Windows
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Why similar: RPG 37.6%, Simulation 34.6%, Adventure 19.8%, Survival 8%
- #46 The Walking Dead: No Man's Land
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 995 reviews2024
Dev: Deca Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 43.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Step into the dangerous world of The Walking Dead: No Man's Land. Lead survivors in turn-based strategy battles, manage resources, and make tough choices to ensure their survival. Fight walkers, build your base, and face endless dangers.
Why similar: RPG 36%, Strategy 33.2%, Survival 30.8%
- #47 The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
69% matchMixed67% of 438 reviews2023
Dev: Supercube
Windows
Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?
Why similar: Survival 27.2%, RPG 26.2%, Strategy 23.7%, Simulation 22.9%
- #48 Dustland Delivery
66% matchVery Positive88% of 1,224 reviews2024
Dev: Neutron Star StudioPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!
Why similar: RPG 24%, Simulation 23.4%, Survival 22.3%, Strategy 19.9%, Adventure 10.4%
- #49 The Last Hope
71% matchMostly Negative41% of 1,016 reviews2016
Dev: Balti CalarasiPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’ve made the biggest mistake in history. Now, you're the last hope. Explore the UK, Russia, Germany, Norway, Egypt, USA, Mars, and the Moon. Search for food, face creatures, travel through time, and fight to restore humanity. Survive or perish—your choices shape the future.
Why similar: Survival 100%
- #50 Dust to the End
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,245 reviews2021
Dev: Haojoy GamePub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
Why similar: Simulation 29%, RPG 21.8%, Strategy 19.1%, Survival 18.4%, Adventure 11.7%
- #51 21 Days
69% matchVery Positive79% of 68 reviews2017
Dev: Hardtalk Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.
Why similar: Simulation 66.1%, Adventure 33.9%
- #52 Z Dawn
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 285 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
Why similar: RPG 35.7%, Survival 32.2%, Strategy 32.1%
- #53 GearStorm - Armored Survival
68% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: RPG 25.5%, Simulation 23.5%, Strategy 22.3%, Survival 15.6%, Adventure 13.1%
- #54 The Last FARMER
65% matchMixed57% of 305 reviews2024
Dev: GeekonPub: Midnight Games
Windows
"The Last Farmer" is not just a tale of survival; it's a journey of restoration. Amidst the sprawling deserts of a forgotten Texas, your farm becomes a symbol of hope and persistence.
Why similar: Survival 57.5%, Adventure 28.2%, Simulation 14.3%