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Games Like Life in Bunker

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Survival, Base Building, Strategy.

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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.

Reviews: Mixed — 60% — of 333 reviews
Released: 2016-02-25
Developer: Flox Studios
Publisher: Flox Studios
Genres: Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Median playtime: 1.4 hrs
Mean playtime: 7.2 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 55%

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    97% matchVery Positive82% of 6,241 reviews2016
    Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
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    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: Survival 28.7%, Base Building 26.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Strategy 8%, Management 7.3%

  2. #2 Planetbase
    96% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
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    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: Base Building 33.7%, Survival 23.2%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Management 6.8%

  3. #3 Fallout Shelter
    96% matchVery Positive88% of 81,107 reviews2017
    Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
    Windows
    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    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 31.1%, Survival 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 7%

  4. #4 Surviving the Aftermath
    95% 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: Survival 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 14%

  5. #5 Stranded: Alien Dawn
    94% matchVery Positive84% of 11,043 reviews2023
    Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Base Building 32.9%, Survival 27.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Management 8.1%

  6. #6 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

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

  7. #7 The Last Haven
    93% 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.

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  8. #8 Cliff Empire
    92% matchVery Positive87% of 4,350 reviews2019
    Dev: Lion's Shade
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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: Base Building 21%, Sandbox 16.3%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Management 12.5%

  9. #9 Oxygen
    91% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
    Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    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!

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    91% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,875 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: Survival 23.4%, Base Building 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 8.7%

  11. #11 The Crust
    90% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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.

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  12. #12 Infection Free Zone
    89% matchVery Positive81% of 17,669 reviews2024
    Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 17.7 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!

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  13. #13 Space Haven
    86% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
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    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.

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  14. #14 Mr. Prepper
    88% matchVery Positive80% of 5,365 reviews2021
    Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
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    89% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
    Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%

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  16. #16 Shelter Manager
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    Dev: Hamsters Gaming
    Windows

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  19. #19 After the Collapse
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    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%

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    Windows

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  22. #22 Frostpunk
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  23. #23 Project AURA
    82% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
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    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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  24. #24 This War of Mine
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows · Mac
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    78% matchMixed69% of 434 reviews2023
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows
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  33. #33 Oxygen: First Breath
    74% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
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    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%

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  34. #34 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
    75% matchMixed60% of 348 reviews2024
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    Median: 54 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%

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  35. #35 Oxygen Not Included
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 140,434 reviews2019
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    73% matchMostly Positive78% of 442 reviews2025
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    Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Survival 16.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%

  37. #37 Survival Vacancy
    76% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
    Dev: Mind Leak
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    72% matchVery Positive85% of 126 reviews2025
    Dev: Zerone Games
    Windows

    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.

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  39. #39 Endzone 2
    72% matchMixed69% of 1,027 reviews2025
    Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%

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  40. #40 Power to the People
    74% matchVery Positive82% of 547 reviews2022
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    Windows
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    71% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,116 reviews2026
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    Windows
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    71% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
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    70% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
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    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    75% matchMixed52% of 101 reviews2016
    Dev: Yo_Serjio
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    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%

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    71% matchVery Positive88% of 7,745 reviews2019
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    70% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
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    66% matchVery Positive91% of 25,891 reviews2024
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%

    A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

    Why similar: Base Building 29.9%, Survival 16.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 10.8%

  54. #54 Exogate Initiative
    66% matchMostly Positive76% of 707 reviews2025
    Dev: Xeno Bits
    Windows

    Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

    Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Sandbox 19.4%, Management 14.1%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 12.3%

  55. #55 Blacksmith Master
    65% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
    Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

    Why similar: Base Building 23.5%, Survival 18.3%, Sandbox 16.1%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 11%

  56. #56 The Last Caretaker
    63% matchVery Positive86% of 11,047 reviews2025
    Dev: Channel37 Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

    Why similar: Base Building 22.3%, Survival 18.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Management 10.1%

  57. #57 The Walking Trade
    63% matchVery Positive88% of 2,197 reviews2026
    Dev: Microwave GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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 18.1%, Sandbox 18.1%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 15.7%, Management 14.2%

  58. #58 Aven Colony
    69% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,747 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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: Base Building 31%, Strategy 22.7%, Simulation 17.4%, Survival 12%, Sandbox 5.2%

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