- #1 The Last Haven
97% matchMixed61% of 1,526 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: Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Survival 11.4%, City Builder 11.4%
- #2 求生者:活着
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Survivor-Studio
Windows
"Survivors: Alive" is an SLG+ role-playing game with an environmental crisis as the background, which mixes various gameplays such as construction and multiplayer strategy.
Why similar: Zombies 20.6%, Massively Multiplayer 13.4%, Survival Horror 11.4%, City Builder 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10%
- #3 Endzone - A World Apart
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: City Builder 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 7.8%
- #4 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
95% matchVery Positive81% of 1,006 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: Zombies 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 14.3%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Building 9.9%
- #5 Infection Free Zone
94% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 15.3%, Survival 8.2%
- #6 Fallout Shelter
94% matchVery Positive88% of 80,218 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 31.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Survival 18.7%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.5%
- #7 Surviving the Aftermath
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 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: Post-apocalyptic 23.4%, City Builder 21.3%, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 9.5%
- #8 Cloud Exiles
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Zombies 20.2%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 13.1%
- #9 Kill Me If You Can: Multiplayer Edition
91% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: John Company
Windows
Kill Me If You Can: Multiplayer Edition is an RPG and construction-based zombie survival defense game. Explore by day to gather resources and grow, then build defenses at night to hold back zombie hordes. Each character has unique skills, and you can control multiple characters during gameplay.
Why similar: Zombies 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Survival 17.7%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Building 6%
- #10 The Withering
91% matchMixed49% of 369 reviews2019
Dev: CM Softworks
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Have you ever thought or imagined how our world would look like after an apocalyptic event? What would we do if some of us were to survive? What world would we live in and what challenges would we face? What would you do?
Why similar: Zombies 33%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Survival 15.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Survival Horror 8.1%
- #11 BAIA
90% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: 萌新所长
Windows
Due to the volcanic eruption, the climate has become abnormal. Floodwaters are about to inundate our homes. Commander, please lead the people to quickly build an ark and save them!
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%
- #12 Sheltered
89% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25.7%, Survival 23.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Management 8.3%, Building 7.6%
- #13 Stay Alive: Apocalypse
89% matchMixed50% of 163 reviews2018
Dev: Mehan Games
Windows
You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.
Why similar: Zombies 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Survival 15.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%
- #14 EndZ Village
88% matchMixed54% of 39 reviews2019
Dev: DEVCLIED
Windows · Mac · Linux
EndZ Village is a 2D post-apocalyptic zombie survival game developed by DEVCLIED. This 2D survival game immerses you in a post-apocalyptic world infested with zombies, where humanity is fighting endlessly against the constant onslaught of infected zombie hordes.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Zombies 15.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.2%
- #15 Kill Me If You Can
86% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: John Company
Windows
"Kill Me If You Can" combines RPG, and construction for a survival defense against zombies. Explore by day for growth, and at night, build defenses against incoming zombies. With unique skills per character, control a team, not just one, for dynamic gameplay.
Why similar: Zombies 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Survival 16%, Survival Horror 15%, Building 10.3%
- #16 State of Decay: YOSE
87% matchVery Positive82% of 12,799 reviews2015
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 35.3%, Survival 20.5%, Base Building 16%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Survival Horror 5.9%
- #17 Scrap Bulwark Guide
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CrazyDream Game
Windows
"Scrap Bulwark Guide" is a tower defense game blending exploration and RPG mechanics. As a survivor in a post-apocalyptic city, you must recruit others, scavenge building materials from ruins, build street barricades, and fend off nightly zombie hordes to ultimately lead your group to safety.
Why similar: Zombies 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Building 16.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 12.4%
- #18 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
86% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Zombies 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, City Builder 12.9%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 10%
- #19 VEIN
82% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Zombies 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival Horror 10%
- #20 State of Decay
84% matchVery Positive85% of 17,512 reviews2013
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 40%, Survival 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival Horror 3.9%
- #21 Girl Survivors
84% match9 user reviews22% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: That Girl
Windows
Girl Survivor is a survival, construction, and role-playing game with a zombie themed background.
Why similar: Zombies 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, City Builder 16.9%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Base Building 10.3%
- #22 Rebirth evolution
83% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: Zombies 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.9%
- #23 Junk Survivor
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Zombies 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Survival 15.4%, Building 11.6%, Survival Horror 10.7%
- #24 Zombie Colony
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Zombies 27.4%, City Builder 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 8.1%
- #25 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
81% matchMostly Positive68% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: Dejobaan Games, LLC
Windows
Construct the infrastructure to rebuild civilization. Set up supply lines, mine skyscrapers for plastics, and find a place to process all the poop your people will generate. You have twenty minutes.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 17.5%, Management 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%
- #26 Sheltered from the Storm
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Echo Loop Games
Windows
A calm, atmospheric experience where you rest in shelters—cars, camps, houses, and an underground banker—while rain falls and danger lingers outside. No combat, no survival meters—just immersive weather, ambient soundscapes, and quiet reflection.
Why similar: Zombies 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 10%, Management 7.6%
- #27 TerraStorm
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameLoad
Windows
TerraStorm is a survival city builder set 70 years after the apocalyptic ending of the Second World War. You will be an Architect, responsible for finding a suitable place to start new settlements, self-sufficient Towers, that will become humankind's new bastions.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 14.1%, Building 12.4%
- #28 Beacon of Havoc
78% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Majao Games
Windows
Post-apocalyptic city builder, where you Build, Defend, and Thrive in a desolate landscape overrun by enemy attacks. Manage resources, production and manufacturing to expand your settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Building 16.3%, Survival 10.7%, Simulation 8.9%
- #29 Oxygen: First Breath
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: City Builder 20%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 13.8%, Building 12%, Management 8.8%
- #30 Zafehouse: Diaries
79% matchMixed68% of 440 reviews2013
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
Why similar: Zombies 34.4%, Survival 18.1%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%
- #31 Resilient
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNRDEV
Windows
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Why similar: Zombies 18.1%, City Builder 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.2%
- #32 Island of Embers
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
Build a human settlement on a volcanic island plagued by fireballs, earthquakes and ash. Control golems, unlock buildings through research and face a living landscape that wants you gone. Can your home survive or will the volcano erase it?
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Building 17%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 14.3%, Management 12.9%
- #33 Rise Against the Invaders
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 12.4%
- #34 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
75% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 31.2%, Survival 21.9%, Base Building 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Online Co-Op 4.5%
- #35 Dead State: Reanimated
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,543 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 44.8%, Survival 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, RPG 7.6%, Strategy 6.6%
- #36 Remain
74% matchVery Negative19% of 58 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: Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Massively Multiplayer 16.1%, Building 15.8%, Survival 15.7%, Base Building 9.3%
- #37 After Long Night
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
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: Zombies 20.4%, Base Building 14.2%, City Builder 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Building 11%
- #38 Zombie Defense Shelter
75% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Niko Belik
Windows
You control an elite soldier of the future guarding the entrance of the shelter, which is besieged by crowds of zombies.
Why similar: Zombies 32.9%, Building 16%, Management 13.9%, Survival 13.1%, Strategy 12.4%
- #39 Zombie Cure Lab
72% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
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: Zombies 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.6%
- #40 Oxygen
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 13.4%, Building 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%
- #41 BiteVille
74% matchMixed54% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Veelhoek Studios
Windows
The world has fallen victim to a deadly virus, zombies now roam the lands. While running for your life you stumble upon a small city. Claim this city as your own, protect it with your life and maybe other survivors will find you.
Why similar: Zombies 23.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 13.8%, Survival 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #42 New Cycle
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: City Builder 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Building 12.7%
- #43 Life in Bunker
73% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: Survival 23.1%, Base Building 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 12.7%
- #44 Last Courier
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blightcore Studio
Windows
Every package is a mile closer to home. As the world’s last courier, navigate a silent, zombie-infested city to earn credits for a final evacuation ticket. In this atmospheric journey, your only connection to your family is a flickering screen and a promise that must be kept.
Why similar: Zombies 33.3%, Post-apocalyptic 31.5%, Survival 14.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Realistic 9.3%
- #45 Trailer Park Life
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Northern Dev Studio
Windows
Build and manage your own trailer park to either become a peaceful haven or a pit of unruly partiers. Expand on services and amenities to keep tenants happy. Manage staff to keep your park safe and clean or let chaos run amuck and risk it all for higher gains.
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Building 17.1%, Management 15%, Simulation 14.9%, Base Building 11.7%
- #46 Endzone 2
69% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, City Builder 18.2%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11.7%
- #47 DREADZONE
70% matchMixed51% of 1,171 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
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 21%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 16.5%, Building 13.4%
- #48 Frostpunk: 1886
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 11.9%
- #49 Bleak Frontier
71% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Paladite Games, LLC
Windows
Bleak Frontier is a strategy / city builder game set in a frozen wasteland in the far future, 4087 AD. As the chosen leader of the first permanent settlement in almost a century, you must guide the last survivors of the human race towards an uncertain future. Welcome to the Bleak Frontier.
Why similar: City Builder 19%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Building 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13.8%
- #50 Rail Of Sorrows
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arcadesindo
Windows
In a world overrun by the undead, to stand still is to die. Manage your crew, build your shelter aboard a train, and keep moving to survive!
Why similar: Zombies 25%, Survival 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Management 9.1%
- #51 Make Your Kingdom
69% matchMixed58% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: yo_serjioPub: BigGame Publishing
Windows
Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Building 15.2%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 11.9%
- #52 No One Survived
66% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Zombies 27.2%, Survival 22%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Building 11.2%
- #53 Drownlight
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 12.8%, Building 10.6%
- #54 Lost Heaven Station
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Building 12.2%, Survival 10.2%
- #55 Frostpunk 2
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,240 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Survival 20.1%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 6.7%
- #56 Post Apo Tycoon: Idle Builder
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PowerPlay Studio
Windows
Enter the world of Post Apo Tycoon, where you will revive a post-apocalyptic fallout landscape after a nuclear explosion. 💣 Take on the challenge of exploring, building, and transforming the landscape back into a thriving ecosystem.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, City Builder 21%, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 7.7%
- #57 Broken World
66% matchMixed67% of 36 reviews2024
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
"Broken World" is an exciting post-apocalyptic low-poly game where players have to survive in a world overrun by zombies and chaos. Build and strengthen your shelters, fight various threats and explore a dangerous world full of secrets and dangers.
Why similar: Zombies 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 14.8%
- #58 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
64% matchVery Positive82% of 10,961 reviews2026
Dev: Brigada GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 8.8%, Building 8.2%
- #59 Project Apocalypse
67% matchMixed69% of 36 reviews2022
Dev: Sargonius Games
Windows
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Why similar: Zombies 19.5%, City Builder 16%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.6%