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Games Like Life in Bunker

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

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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: 7.3 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 56%

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    97% 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: Survival 28.5%, Base Building 26.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Strategy 8%, Management 7.3%

  2. #2 Planetbase
    96% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,262 reviews2015
    Dev: Madruga Works
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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 33.6%, Survival 23.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Management 6.9%

  3. #3 The Last Haven
    96% 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: Base Building 28.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 15.8%, Simulation 8.5%

  4. #4 Surviving the Aftermath
    95% 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: Survival 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 14.1%

  5. #5 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 31.1%, Survival 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 7.1%

  6. #6 Stranded: Alien Dawn
    94% matchVery Positive85% of 10,890 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 32.6%, Survival 26.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 8.3%

  7. #7 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    93% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 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 14.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 7.8%

  8. #8 Oxygen
    92% 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: Base Building 22.2%, Survival 17.4%, Sandbox 14%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.3%

  9. #9 Cliff Empire
    91% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 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 20.9%, Sandbox 16.2%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Management 12.6%

  10. #10 Infection Free Zone
    90% 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: Base Building 28.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Survival 14.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 10.7%

  11. #11 Endzone - A World Apart
    91% 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: Survival 23.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 8.7%

  12. #12 The Crust
    89% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
    Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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: Base Building 25.7%, Sandbox 15%, Survival 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Management 9.2%

  13. #13 Mr. Prepper
    89% matchVery Positive80% of 5,315 reviews2021
    Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

    Why similar: Base Building 29.9%, Survival 28.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 9.2%

  14. #14 Ragnorium
    88% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
    Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows

    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: Survival 24.5%, Base Building 20%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Sandbox 14.6%, Strategy 8.7%

  15. #15 Shelter Manager
    87% matchMixed62% of 279 reviews2021
    Dev: Hamsters Gaming
    Windows

    We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

    Why similar: Survival 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Sandbox 18.8%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 13.6%

  16. #16 Post-Apo Builder
    86% matchMixed43% of 63 reviews2025
    Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

    Why similar: Base Building 27.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Sandbox 17.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Management 8.5%

  17. #17 New Cycle
    84% 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: Base Building 21.6%, Survival 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 9.4%

  18. #18 Project AURA
    86% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
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    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

    Why similar: Strategy 20.1%, Simulation 18%, Base Building 15.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Management 15.2%

  19. #19 After the Collapse
    85% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
    Dev: Anarkis Gaming
    Windows

    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: Base Building 21.9%, Survival 17.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Management 9.9%

  20. #20 Frostpunk
    82% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    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: Survival 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 12.1%

  21. #21 Space Haven
    81% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
    Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    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: Base Building 20.9%, Survival 17%, Sandbox 14%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Management 10%

  22. #22 Maia
    83% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%

    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: Survival 22.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 14.3%, Management 12.4%

  23. #23 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
    81% 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 25.2%, Base Building 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Management 7.6%

  24. #24 This War of Mine
    80% matchVery Positive94% of 96,656 reviews2014
    Dev: 11 bit studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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 39.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Simulation 7.6%

  25. #25 Base One
    82% matchMostly Negative38% of 478 reviews2021
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    Windows · Mac

    Base One is a space base builder game where you take control of a network of space stations and its crew's tasks and wellbeing. Maintain your resources and defenses as you navigate the wide array of dangers ahead of you!

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  26. #26 Oxygen: First Breath
    79% 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: Base Building 24.1%, Survival 17.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Simulation 10%

  27. #27 Sheltered 2
    79% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
    Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    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: Base Building 22.6%, Survival 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Strategy 12%, Resource Management 10.5%

  28. #28 Zombie Cure Lab
    75% matchMixed69% of 448 reviews2025
    Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%

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    Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Survival 16.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Management 9.5%

  29. #29 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    78% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
    Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%

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  30. #30 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
    76% matchMixed61% of 343 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.

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    77% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
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    Windows
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    Why similar: Base Building 24.8%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 13.1%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9.8%

  32. #32 Survival Vacancy
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  33. #33 Ecopunk
    73% matchVery Positive84% of 114 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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  34. #34 Settlement Survival
    73% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
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    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    Why similar: Survival 24%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 15.8%, Management 14%, Simulation 10.7%

  35. #35 After Long Night
    72% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
    Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
    Windows

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    Why similar: Base Building 22.3%, Survival 16.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, Strategy 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%

  36. #36 Little Big Workshop
    74% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
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    Windows · Mac
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    Why similar: Simulation 24.9%, Strategy 22.9%, Management 15.8%, Sandbox 13.9%, Resource Management 10.2%

  37. #37 Spacebase DF-9
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 4,324 reviews2014
    Dev: Double Fine Productions
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.

    Why similar: Base Building 31.9%, Simulation 17.2%, Sandbox 16.5%, Strategy 13.5%, Survival 12.1%

  38. #38 Oxygen Not Included
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
    Dev: Klei Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: Base Building 33.5%, Survival 24.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 7.8%

  39. #39 Power to the People
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 543 reviews2022
    Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    Why similar: Base Building 27.1%, Management 23.5%, Simulation 16.2%, Resource Management 15.8%, Strategy 15.8%

  40. #40 Rebirth of Island
    76% matchMixed52% of 101 reviews2016
    Dev: Yo_Serjio
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%

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    Why similar: Survival 31.8%, Strategy 27.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Top-Down 9.2%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%

  41. #41 Rise to Ruins
    71% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
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  42. #42 IXION
    70% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
    Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
    Windows
    Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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  43. #43 Stable Orbit - Build your own space station
    75% matchMixed51% of 380 reviews2017
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  44. #44 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
    67% matchVery Positive82% of 10,961 reviews2026
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    Windows
    Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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    69% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
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    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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  46. #46 Banished
    70% matchVery Positive90% of 42,988 reviews2014
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    Windows
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  48. #48 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
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  49. #49 Aven Colony
    71% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,731 reviews2017
    Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows
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    Windows
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%

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  51. #51 Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
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    Windows · Linux
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  53. #53 Founders' Fortune
    69% matchVery Positive80% of 2,168 reviews2020
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    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

    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 29.7%, Survival 16.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 10.8%

  54. #54 Exogate Initiative
    67% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 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 28.7%, Sandbox 19.2%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 12.3%

  55. #55 Kingdoms and Castles
    67% matchVery Positive93% of 30,837 reviews2017
    Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

    Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Strategy 18.6%, Sandbox 17.7%, Survival 12.9%, Simulation 11.4%

  56. #56 Startup Company
    68% matchVery Positive81% of 6,175 reviews2020
    Dev: Hovgaard Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

    Why similar: Management 33.1%, Simulation 24.7%, Strategy 17.1%, Sandbox 13.5%, Base Building 2.9%

  57. #57 Until We Die
    68% matchMixed64% of 4,581 reviews2021
    Dev: Pixeye Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    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: Base Building 28.1%, Survival 26.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Management 10.8%

  58. #58 Automation Empire
    69% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
    Dev: DOG HOGGLER
    Windows
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

    Why similar: Base Building 29.3%, Sandbox 17.5%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 14.4%, Management 10.1%

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