Games Like Mr. Prepper

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 31.6%, Base Building 30.5%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: You must manage a family in an underground bunker, scavenging for resources and maintaining systems to survive a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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 34.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the gritty, desperate struggle for survival in a war-torn environment where every resource counts and moral choices are constant.

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 14.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a besieged city, you must scavenge for supplies and manage your base while avoiding detection, echoing the stealth and survival mechanics of Mr. Prepper.

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 38%, Survival 26.3%, Management 12.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the construction and management of a subterranean vault, requiring you to balance resources and the needs of your dwellers.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Base Building 19.6%, Crafting 19.4%, Survival 15.4%, Life Sim 13.9%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more relaxed take on post-apocalyptic base building, focusing on crafting and managing a rooftop sanctuary.

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Survival 30%, Management 22.1%, Life Sim 21.4%, Point & Click 18.2%, Exploration 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the paranoia and bunker-management gameplay of Mr. Prepper as you scramble to gather supplies before a nuclear strike.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Survival 26.7%, Base Building 24.9%, Crafting 21.7%, RPG 5.8%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes the satisfying loop of breaking down the environment to craft better tools and structures in a hostile world.

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 46.2%, Survival 22%, Management 18%, Simulation 9.7%, Atmospheric 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: You must build and defend a base in a post-apocalyptic city, managing resources and survivors while dealing with constant external threats.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Point & Click 34.2%, Simulation 27.3%, Atmospheric 14.4%, Indie 6.7%, RPG 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: You play as a landlord in a dystopian state, tasked with spying on tenants and managing your own survival while navigating government surveillance.

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 34.3%, Resource Management 24.6%, Base Building 17.5%, Management 9.1%, Economy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: You are tasked with managing the last city on Earth, focusing on resource allocation and difficult moral decisions to keep your society from freezing.

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Management 19.5%, Simulation 18.6%, Economy 17.9%, Realistic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: While less dystopian, it shares the core loop of managing a business, upgrading facilities, and handling customer demands in a solitary setting.

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 32.1%, Survival 25.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-focused base builder requires you to manage the needs of your survivors while defending against the dangers of an alien planet.

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 29.6%, Survival 24.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a group of survivors building a base to fend off demons, combining colony management with resource gathering.

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Why similar: Point & Click 32.4%, Simulation 31%, Atmospheric 15%, Adventure 9.9%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Expanding on the original, this game places you within the heart of the government machine, forcing you to climb the ranks while managing your own survival.

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 33.7%, Base Building 30.4%, Simulation 17.4%, Management 9.9%, Exploration 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a colony of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world, focusing on infrastructure and resource management to ensure the future of your people.

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Management 27.2%, Point & Click 23%, Resource Management 20.9%, Simulation 13.3%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This surveillance-based simulation captures the feeling of paranoia and the need to observe others without being caught yourself.

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 32.9%, Base Building 28.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Management 8.4%, Resource Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes radiation management and survival against harsh environmental conditions.

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 23%, Survival 17.3%, Resource Management 13.2%, Crafting 13%, Economy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder focuses on survival in a post-apocalyptic world where managing air quality and resources is the key to longevity.

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 28.4%, Survival 27%, Resource Management 21.2%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original bunker survival mechanics with deeper faction interactions and more complex resource management.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Survival 32.4%, Base Building 27.9%, Crafting 21.4%, Exploration 7.2%, Adventure 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep base-building and resource-management mechanics set within a hostile, isolated environment that demands constant preparation.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Survival 54.2%, Crafting 18.1%, Exploration 7.7%, Atmospheric 5.9%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game focuses on the harsh reality of managing warmth, food, and tools in a frozen wilderness where every decision matters.

A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

Why similar: Management 38%, Economy 35.3%, Simulation 22.9%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy game focuses on managing a region and its population, requiring a careful balance of military and civilian resources.

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Survival 30.2%, Resource Management 20.3%, Management 19.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Exploration 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game about managing the colonization of Mars, requiring careful resource management and strategic planning.

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 30.6%, Survival 28.9%, Simulation 13.3%, Management 11.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated bunker-management simulation that tasks you with keeping your underground society running despite external disasters.

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 25.2%, Resource Management 19.5%, Economy 18.3%, Management 18.3%, Simulation 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: You must manage multiple cities on cliff tops, balancing resources and trade in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic setting.

The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is a zombie-apocalypse hoarding survival sim. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.

Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Survival 16.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, 2.5D 12.2%, Life Sim 11.8%

Bunker Punks is a fast paced rogue-light FPS set in a dystopian future. Run a group of revolutionaries and raid corporate strongholds for supplies, weapons and armor. Customize your bunker, train your gang and tear down the corporate government.

Why similar: Base Building 67.4%, Action 17%, Indie 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled action game that focuses on building and upgrading your bunker while venturing out to scavenge for supplies.

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Survival 17.6%, Resource Management 16.4%, Management 14.2%, Economy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex management experience where you must build and maintain an illegal operation while avoiding detection by authorities.

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: Base Building 23.4%, Resource Management 17.8%, Management 15.9%, Simulation 13.4%, Life Sim 12.5%

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Point & Click 37.1%, Simulation 31.5%, Indie 12.9%, Atmospheric 6.8%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the oppressive atmosphere of a totalitarian state, forcing you to balance your job duties with the survival of your family.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Base Building 30.9%, Survival 27.9%, Crafting 18.8%, Atmospheric 4.9%, Adventure 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in space that features extensive crafting and base-building mechanics while managing your oxygen supply.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 55.1%, Crafting 27.3%, Adventure 5.1%, Exploration 4.1%, Simulation 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival game that emphasizes crafting, base building, and managing hunger in a dangerous, atmospheric world.

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: Base Building 33.7%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 18.4%, Simulation 9.4%, RPG 8.2%

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 22.7%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 17.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 12.5%

Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.

Why similar: Underground 16.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 9.9%

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 37.9%, Survival 20%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 8.8%

Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.

Why similar: Base Building 28%, Survival 23.3%, Management 15.2%, Crafting 12.6%, Resource Management 11.2%

Builder Simulator is the perfect game for those who want to build a house, from the ground up, one brick at a time. On easy, the game will guide and teach you by showing you full instruction, but on hard you will get no help - instead rely on your builder skills and make everything yourself.

Why similar: Base Building 30.9%, Management 19.9%, Economy 18.7%, Simulation 16.9%, Realistic 8.7%

This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.

Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 16.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, 2.5D 12.4%

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!

Why similar: Base Building 38.9%, Resource Management 23.8%, Management 22.5%, Simulation 13.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%

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 32.9%, Management 25.8%, Economy 25%, Simulation 16.3%

Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.

Why similar: Underground 23.1% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 14.5%, Economy 10.2%

Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Crafting 18.1%, Resource Management 15%, Management 13.6%, Simulation 9.8%

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Survival 46.5%, Simulation 32.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Indie 9.4%, Singleplayer 1%

Once #1 on both TapTap New Releases and Exclusive Charts, this post-apocalyptic comfort survival game is now on Steam. One-time purchase, no ads, focusing on survival simulation, RV stockpiling and roguelike reincarnation to deliver a relaxing wasteland experience with full preparation and no fear.

Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Survival 21%, Crafting 18.6%, Resource Management 15.7%, Simulation 7%

Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Base Building 23.6%, Crafting 15.5%, Simulation 7.2%, RPG 6.6%

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: Survival 26.7%, Management 19.6%, Base Building 18.2%, Resource Management 12%, Simulation 9.5%

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 25.1%, Survival 17.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Management 10.3%, Economy 9.7%

Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

Why similar: Resource Management 78.4%, Singleplayer 12.5%, Simulation 7.2%, Action 1.9%

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: Base Building 19.4%, Management 18.6%, Crafting 18%, Survival 16.5%, Economy 16.4%

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 38.6%, Survival 25.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 6.8%

A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!

Why similar: Crafting 33.3%, Life Sim 25.2%, Simulation 15%, RPG 10.6%, Adventure 6.7%

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: Simulation 18.8%, Base Building 14.1%, RPG 13.3%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.5%

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: Base Building 35.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Economy 13.7%, Management 13.4%, Simulation 10.3%

Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?

Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, Management 23.1%, Life Sim 19.8%, Economy 17.9%, Simulation 8.2%

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Management 50.6%, Simulation 25.4%, Economy 12.9%, Casual 6.4%, Indie 2.4%

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: Survival 55.9%, Simulation 16.6%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 4.7%

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Underground 34.9% ★, Resource Management 25.3%, Simulation 17.3%, Atmospheric 6.7%, Indie 5%

Turn a rundown laundromat into a radical ’90s arcade. Manage your business, expand your neon empire, and balance dirty laundry with over 35 playable arcade games. Build the ultimate arcade! From the team behind Vampire Crawlers.

Why similar: Management 38.6%, Resource Management 20.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Realistic 13.9%, Adventure 10.3%

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Base Building 52.8%, Management 20.8%, Simulation 14.7%, Resource Management 10.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%