Games Like Nuclear Dawn

A fast paced multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival!

Why similar: FPS 19.6%, Team-Based 18.4%, RTS 16.8%, Strategy 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive FPS/RTS hybrid where one player commands the team from a top-down perspective while others fight in first-person.

EXIMIUS is a FPS/RTS hybrid that focuses on squad-based combat. The game features an intense 5v5 multiplayer experience with each team comprising of 4 Squad Officers and one Commander.

Why similar: RTS 16.2%, Team-Based 14.2%, FPS 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the Nuclear Dawn experience by featuring a commander who builds bases and supports infantry players on the battlefield.

Silica blends FPS and RTS in epic, photorealistic battles. Choose to fight on the ground or command from above as humans or aliens. Dive into thrilling multiplayer combat or master strategic command. Are you ready to survive and conquer?

Why similar: RTS 26.4%, FPS 19.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Shooter 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends real-time strategy with first-person shooter mechanics, allowing players to switch between commanding and controlling units directly.

Executive Assault is an indie real-time strategy/first-person shooter where you can not only build your base and create armies, but also take control of your units and fight as one of them.

Why similar: RTS 25.9%, Real-Time 16.8% ★, FPS 15.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Base Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the sequel, it offers the same core loop of managing an RTS base while participating in the action as a soldier.

The RTS/FPS phenomenon has moved into space! Build your base on an asteroid, command fleets of starships for epic battles, pilot fighters, mine and trade resources, assemble robots to defend or assault other stations. Take sole command or share the glory as you fight for control of the quadrant.

Why similar: Real-Time 23.2% ★, RTS 21.8%, FPS 11.4%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows you to build your base from a top-down perspective and then jump into any unit to fight in first-person.

Unique strategy/first person shooter mix: One commander on each team plays from above, choosing research, placing buildings and giving orders. The rest fill the role of soldiers on the ground, with four distinct classes to choose from and customizable vehicles to drive.

Why similar: RTS 19.6%, Team-Based 15.7%, FPS 14.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic mod-turned-standalone that perfectly captures the commander-led FPS warfare style found in Nuclear Dawn.

Call to Arms offers an innovative mix of real-time strategy and 3rd, as well as 1st person controls. Set in the time of modern warfare, the game offers realistically modeled vehicles and heavy weaponry. Command your troops to victory or fight by yourself in the 3rd or 1st person action mode.

Why similar: RTS 22.2%, Real-Time 20.3% ★, Strategy 16.6%, FPS 9.3%, Tactical 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows players to command armies in real-time and take direct control of any unit to engage in shooter combat.

Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.

Why similar: RTS 51%, Strategy 19.9%, Real-Time 10.5% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Multiplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style RTS that captures the post-apocalyptic, sci-fi atmosphere and base-building focus of the genre.

Dystopia is a cyberpunk game with tense combat situations in a high-tech world spanned by computer networks. Playing as either Punk mercenaries, or Corporate security forces, the player will fight through the physical world to gain access, via jack-in terminals, to cyberspace.

Why similar: Dystopian 17.3%, FPS 17.2%, Team-Based 16.4%, Futuristic 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, cyberpunk-themed FPS that emphasizes team coordination and objective-based gameplay similar to the tactical feel of Nuclear Dawn.

In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.

Why similar: FPS 23.2%, Strategy 17.2%, Shooter 14%, RTS 10.7%, Real-Time 10% ★

Why You'll Like It: Combines tactical FPS combat with a grand strategy layer where you manage troops and territory in a war-torn landscape.

After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.

Why similar: Real-Time 40.6% ★, RTS 27.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, sci-fi RTS that emphasizes base construction and unit management in a harsh, futuristic setting.

A Co-Op FPS game with base building in a post-apocalyptic world. Craft weapons, build barricades and automated turrets, unlock new gear and items for visual customization and kill all savages and mutants trying to destroy the remnants of human civilization.

Why similar: Real-Time 21.2% ★, FPS 12.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.9%, Team-Based 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the defensive aspect of team-based shooters, requiring players to build fortifications while fighting off waves of enemies.

2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.

Why similar: Real-Time 21.5% ★, RTS 17.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.4%, Team-Based 10.3%, Tactical 10%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, squad-based game that focuses on intense sci-fi combat and strategic decision-making in a high-stakes environment.

Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.

Why similar: RTS 43.3%, Strategy 18.6%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-quality sci-fi RTS that shares the tactical depth and aesthetic intensity of the strategy side of Nuclear Dawn.

Dark Prospect is an asymmetrical FPSvsRTS multiplayer game. FPS players must survive by gathering resources, building defenses and fighting against a player or AI who summons, commands, upgrades monsters and casts spells from an RTS perspective.

Why similar: RTS 18.8%, FPS 18.6%, Tactical 13.2%, Team-Based 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-RTS hybrid where one player acts as the commander and the others fight in a first-person perspective.

Retro Commander is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy wargame (RTS).

Why similar: RTS 22.6%, Real Time Tactics 13.1%, Alternate History 12.4%, Base Building 11%, Team-Based 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic RTS that focuses on base building and large-scale warfare, capturing the strategic spirit of the genre.

Nuclear Epoch: Open-world survival mixing base building & extraction shooting. Explore with friends, raid dangerous instances for loot, but death means losing everything. Craft weapons with fully customizable stats in this post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.8%, Base Building 24%, FPS 18.3%, Shooter 12.4%, First-Person 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic shooter that focuses on base-building and survival, mirroring the thematic world of the seed game.

A Real-Time Strategy game with First-Person Shooter tactics.

Why similar: Strategy 65.5%, Action 24.1%, Indie 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic RTS that emphasizes unit management and tactical positioning in a gritty, ruined world.

Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.

Why similar: FPS 53.3%, Tactical 11.8%, Team-Based 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Shooter 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: While lacking the RTS element, it provides the same high-stakes, tactical, and realistic infantry combat found in the FPS segments of Nuclear Dawn.

Unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.

Why similar: RTS 47.1%, Strategy 23.7%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Action 8.4%, Multiplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends RTS and action RPG elements, allowing for a dynamic shift between commanding and direct unit control.

Updated in 2026 for modern systems, Krush Kill 'N Destroy 2: Krossfire is a fast and furious post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game where you have to be quick or be dead. Play as one of three unique factions in the struggle to seek out and conquer oil fields to fuel your army.

Why similar: Real-Time 40.2% ★, Strategy 27.5%, RTS 19.2%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style RTS that features the same gritty, sci-fi aesthetic and tactical combat focus.

Command one of three unique factions in a post-apocalyptic old-school RTS. Now featuring Patch 0.4.0 -- new mini-campaign and gamemodes."

Why similar: Real-Time 23% ★, RTS 15.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Alternate History 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A modern RTS that focuses on base-building and tactical combat, suitable for fans of the strategy side of the seed game.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: RTS 29%, Real Time Tactics 22.3%, Tactical 13.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique real-time tactics game that focuses on managing large-scale evacuations and defenses in a chaotic, ruined city.

A Tower Defense hybrid where survival depends on strategy and firepower. Build turrets, mine resources, and hold the line against relentless AI swarms. Switch instantly between commanding the battlefield in RTS view or fighting on the ground in FPS combat.

Why similar: RTS 29.4%, FPS 22.4%, Futuristic 14.3%, Shooter 10.7%, Top-Down 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tower defense and FPS hybrid that requires both strategic placement and direct combat participation.

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Strategy 31%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Real Time Tactics 14.4%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Action 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused survival game that requires careful management of a team in a post-apocalyptic environment.

The enemy attack on your base is imminent; secure your defenses, mobilize your troops, reinforce key positions, and get ready for the next battle. RTS Tactical Warfare will test your resilience and strategic prowess.

Why similar: RTS 28.8%, Real-Time 22.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game that emphasizes base management and war-time logistics.

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.4%, Base Building 20.7%, Dystopian 16.4%, Top-Down 11%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, base-building, and action in a post-apocalyptic world, capturing the atmosphere of the seed game.

Golden-age RTS classic. Fast-paced action & strategic decision-making, battling evil arch-enemies, zombies, and retro-futuristic technologies. All to a '90s electro-metal soundtrack and FMV live-action cut scenes.

Why similar: RTS 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Tactical 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Dystopian 11.4%

ThreadSpace: Hyperbol is an action-strategy game set in the distant future. Players battle each other on roads in space as they pilot massive ships capable of firing a wide variety of weapons. Create defenses, coordinate with your team, and launch an assault against your opponents to achieve victory!

Why similar: Real-Time 41.6% ★, Team-Based 22.9%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Action 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, team-based strategy game that emphasizes coordination and positioning in a sci-fi environment.

Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map. Lead humanity’s last survivors as they build bases, gather resources, and wage massive battles against an overwhelming machine swarm. Progress through technological eras from Stone Age to Atomic Age.

Why similar: RTS 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Base Building 12%, Dystopian 11.4%

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 28%, Strategy 25.4%, Base Building 23.5%, RTS 19.7%, Indie 3.4%

Built from the ground up for PCVR, this action survival game combines detailed visuals, realistic physics, and a handcrafted, interactive, and destructible open world. Explore, fight, scavenge, and survive solo or in co-op with Flatscreen cross-play and the VR features players expect.

Why similar: FPS 32.1%, Post-apocalyptic 25%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Shooter 13.4%, First-Person 8.7%

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: Post-apocalyptic 100%

Age of Undead is a multi-genre game (turn-based, RTS, FPS) that allows you to face the frightful Zombie Apocalypse with 3 unique factions: the Army, the Infected, and the Survivors. Make strategic choices in the Campaign, then go into battle and fight to survive!

Why similar: RTS 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Base Building 14%, Tactical 12.6%, Strategy 12.5%

Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!

Why similar: RTS 27%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Dystopian 11.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Shooter 10.2%

In Dawn of Anarchy, you become an experienced soldier and combat mech pilot tasked with a secret mission. A factory producing artificial intelligence robots has gone out of control. Prepare for the decisive battle at the dawn of anarchy.

Why similar: Strategy 43.6%, Real Time Tactics 30.6%, Action 17.1%, 3D 6.2%, Indie 2.5%

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: RTS 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Real Time Tactics 14.2%, Strategy 11.7%

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: Post-apocalyptic 45.1%, Strategy 39.6%, Action 7.9%, Indie 7.5%

Colonize newly-discovered planets, control the resources found there, and defend your colony against other rival factions in real-time or turn-based action.

Why similar: Strategy 37.9%, RTS 20.5%, Futuristic 12%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Action 10.5%

FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.

Why similar: RTS 36.9%, Tactical 16.2%, Strategy 15.6%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Top-Down 8.8%

Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!

Why similar: Dystopian 25.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Shooter 12.6%

In a post-apocalyptic world build and lead your own colony under the constant threat of the undead. Recruit survivors, assign roles and decide how your group survives. Fight enemy colonies or form alliances in FPS or TPS combat.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32%, FPS 26.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Shooter 9.2%, First-Person 8.1%

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.4%, FPS 31.8%, First-Person 12%, Action 11%, Sci-fi 5.9%

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.9%, Real Time Tactics 24.7%, Base Building 21.1%, Tactical 19.6%, Action 6.8%

Step into a brutal battle between three warring factions In Dawn of War III you will have no choice but to face your foes when a catastrophic weapon is found on the mysterious world of Acheron.

Why similar: RTS 39.7%, Strategy 18.6%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%

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 44.3%, Strategy 28.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Tactical 6%, Multiplayer 1.8%

Slip into the role of Daniel Hanson, commander of the first mission to a remote planet called Meridian. Assured of the fact that the planet is uninhabited, the unexpected reception of a distress call from the surface could mean many things, none of which you are prepared for.

Why similar: RTS 54.9%, Strategy 30.9%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Indie 3.6%

NS2: Combat is a powerful twitch-shooter where space marines battle aliens through a competitive mixture of MOBA & FPS playstyles. Are you ready?

Why similar: FPS 26.9%, Team-Based 16.3%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Action 11.8%, Shooter 11.3%

Place your colony, find an alliance of like-minded players and triumph over thousands of other players to conquer the world through strategy, tactics, diplomacy and skill in the biggest social-interaction based MMO of all time. Upgrade your colony, collect items for your Avatar and become a legend!

Why similar: RTS 17.9%, Team-Based 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Base Building 8.8%

In the late 21st century, the world's civilizations are wiped out by a series of nuclear strikes, seemingly caused by a massive malfunction of the new NASDA (North American Strategic Defense Agency) strategic defense system.

Why similar: RTS 28.4%, Strategy 21.9%, Base Building 14.2%, Real Time Tactics 12.8%, Futuristic 8.4%

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!

Why similar: Tactical 31.9%, Base Building 28%, Strategy 23.1%, Shooter 17%

Fight against the robots and reclaim the land! Attempt to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where it seems like everything wants you dead! Tactical stealth action in a post-apocalyptic settings!

Why similar: Indie 56.5%, Strategy 31.2%, Action 12.3%

Gray Zone is best described as Men of War meets Commandos in a futuristic coat. It's an odyssey of a slave who turned against his masters. Use stealth or direct combat in a squad-based encounters. Expect memorable characters, fun dialogues and lots of action!

Why similar: Real-Time 30.8% ★, RTS 19.5%, Real Time Tactics 12.6%, Tactical 9.8%, Strategy 8.3%

[MARS] Total Warfare uses authentic Martian landscapes to create an intense RTS experience best described as a hybrid between team multiplayer and massively multiplayer online. Fight over natural resources vs human or AI opponents and conquer a crater ridden world, with pink sky and blue seas!

Why similar: Strategy 71.3%, Action 28.7%

WARSHIFT 2 blends RTS, Action, and RPG progression. Build bases and command troops, mechs, battleships, and aircraft carriers. Then take direct control of your hero and fight alongside your army. Customize your heroes with weapons and upgrades.

Why similar: Real-Time 32.6% ★, RTS 22.2%, FPS 15.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.5%

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 38.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Action 17.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Indie 7.8%