Games Like Obenseuer

Your quintessential construction simulator is here. Take a dodgy loan, restore a property, move in the locals, attend to their grievances, then celebrate with a pint in this fully-simulated, open-world 1980's Britain.

Why similar: Dystopian 24.4%, Life Sim 23.8%, Building 15.9%, Open World 11.1%, Immersive Sim 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of property maintenance and gritty, blue-collar life simulation in a decaying environment.

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Life Sim 42.2%, Survival 24.4%, Management 11.6%, Open World 11.5%, Resource Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the desperate struggle of urban survival and the grind of working your way up from nothing in a realistic setting.

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: Survival 29.6%, Life Sim 20.6%, Management 19.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, RPG 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes base-building, resource management, and survival against a restrictive, dystopian backdrop.

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Management 37.4%, Life Sim 30.6%, Resource Management 9%, Immersive Sim 7.1%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the management and economic growth aspects of life-simulation in a sprawling urban environment.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 23.9%, Survival 17.1%, Management 15.9%, Building 14.7%, Open World 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world RPG offers a brutal, unforgiving sandbox experience where survival and management are key to thriving in a harsh world.

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Survival 30.7%, Life Sim 25.8%, Building 14%, Open World 11%, RPG 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex, gritty management and survival mechanics set in a claustrophobic, decaying environment.

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Survival 60.1%, RPG 18.3%, Open World 11.7%, Indie 6.1%, Adventure 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival RPG that captures the feeling of scavenging and managing health in a desolate, dystopian wasteland.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 50.2%, Open World 21.5%, Building 14.3%, RPG 7.8%, Indie 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for deep, complex urban survival, building, and resource management mechanics.

Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.

Why similar: Life Sim 37.1%, Survival 21.1%, Open World 14.2%, RPG 13.2%, Immersive Sim 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox life-simulation experience that focuses on navigating and surviving in a modern urban setting.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Dystopian 29.3%, Survival 24.1%, RPG 13%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Open World 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deeply atmospheric and difficult survival experience where managing your health and tenement-like surroundings is vital.

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 63.7%, Management 17%, Resource Management 13.1%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the bleak, atmospheric struggle of surviving in a war-torn urban environment with limited resources.

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: Survival 40.7%, Open World 31.2%, RPG 28.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines RPG elements with colony management and survival in a post-collapse world.

An Urban Survival RPG! Crafting, Exploring and Defending in a desolate metropolis haunted by the mysterious dreamers. Lead a team of 4 survivors through this urban desert of skyscrapers and high-rises, where the streets are crowded with the mutated victims of a strange disease.

Why similar: Dystopian 24.7%, Survival 24.3%, Building 18.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, RPG 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features survival and crafting mechanics set within the confines of a vertical, urban environment.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Management 27.8%, Building 25.2%, Survival 19.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Open World 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the specific Eastern Bloc aesthetic and deep infrastructure management focus found in Obenseuer.

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: Survival 27.1%, Resource Management 16.6%, Management 14.9%, Building 13.3%, Strategy RPG 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes resource management and survival within a confined, post-apocalyptic shelter setting.

UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Why similar: RPG 60.4%, Open World 21.4%, Indie 10.3%, Adventure 4.1%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This RPG captures the dystopian, claustrophobic feel of living and surviving in an isolated, underground society.

SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.

Why similar: Life Sim 18.8%, Management 18.6%, Strategy RPG 16.2%, Building 15%, RPG 13%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep simulation and RPG experience that focuses on managing your life and survival in a challenging world.

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Strategy RPG 25.9%, Survival 23.2%, Management 20.6%, Building 18.8%, Immersive Sim 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a mix of colony management and survival in a harsh, dystopian world.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Dystopian 58.5%, Building 24.5%, Open World 11%, Singleplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the blue-collar, industrial, and management-heavy feel of working in a dangerous, isolated environment.

You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?

Why similar: Survival 39.5%, Open World 24.8%, Immersive Sim 20.5%, Adventure 8.4%, 3D 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends shop-keeping management with open-world survival and crafting elements.

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Survival 35.1%, Building 19.8%, Open World 14.5%, Horror 13.8%, RPG 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features survival and exploration mechanics set in a quarantined, mysterious location.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Survival 46.9%, Building 23.2%, Open World 20.3%, Horror 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides extensive building and survival mechanics within a decaying, urban-focused world.

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Life Sim 36.1%, Management 21.3%, Building 12.9%, RPG 9.4%, Resource Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the management and building focus, though with a more stylized and cozy aesthetic.

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: Dystopian 73.6%, Indie 18.7%, Singleplayer 4.5%, Adventure 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the oppressive, bureaucratic, and survival-focused atmosphere of living under a dystopian regime.

The Warhorn is a medieval RPG mixed with city-building and management elements. Play as an adventurer who decided to leave his dull life as a lumberjack behind to explore a dangerous world full of puzzles in the pursuit of the most valuable relic mankind has ever seen: The Warhorn!

Why similar: RPG 29.7%, Survival 18.7%, Building 12.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Open World 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a blend of RPG adventure and survival-crafting in an open world.

A deadly plague threatens the village of Grimshire. Manage your farmland, forage the bounty of the wilds, prevent your harvest from rotting away and keep the root cellar full. Can you help bring the community together and survive?

Why similar: Survival 31.8%, Life Sim 30.2%, Resource Management 15.6%, RPG 11.9%, Building 9.2%

Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels. Building, crafting, research, medicine, resource gathering, and hunting — you decide what your people will do and how your city will develop.

Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Dystopian 22.6%, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 11.7%

A short, unique survival-farming-base-building-tycoon-horror game where you must survive through washing dishes. Explore mysterious depths, manage resources, and unravel a cryptic narrative. In DWS, a chore becomes a journey to freedom.

Why similar: Building 33.4%, Management 30.8%, Immersive Sim 22.6%, Horror 7.3%, 3D 4.5%

Kidnapped for no clear reason to a dazzling yet mysterious island on the Mediterranean Sea, a young girl has to find a way to escape. Armed with only her wits, agility, and the will to stay alive, she must make her getaway or Die Young.

Why similar: Survival 39.3%, Open World 27.4%, Horror 13.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the desperate survival and exploration aspects of being trapped in a hostile, isolated environment.

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Why similar: Life Sim 29.7%, Management 17.4%, Building 14.5%, RPG 11.4%, Open World 10.9%

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 41.9%, Management 16.8%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.7%, RPG 8%

Build and run your own hotel from the ground up. Manage guests, design rooms, hire staff and upgrade floors. Set competitive prices for rooms and turn the tiny 1-floor building into a thriving 100-story luxury hotel.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.1%, Management 26%, Building 19.4%, Immersive Sim 9%, Resource Management 8.5%

A dystopian simulator where your choices shape a decaying city. Join other players to protect the metropolis from ruin, hasten its downfall, or simply work in the factories. With no set goals or rules, every action has consequences in a world teetering on the brink.

Why similar: Dystopian 34.1%, Life Sim 27.6%, Survival 16.7%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, RPG 10.5%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Survival 26.5%, Building 21.5%, Management 19.6%, Open World 14.1%, RPG 10.2%

Banker Simulator is a single-player game where you revive a bankrupt bank. With active and passive (idle) gameplay, make strategic decisions to grow your bank, satisfy customers, and tackle financial crises.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.1%, Management 19.8%, Building 17.8%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Open World 10.9%

The town of Besmirch starves. Stave off the hunger as the latest farmhand in this survival horror farming sim, earning the trust of paranoid townsfolk under the thumb of the corrupt Baron. Tend to both your farm and the town while avoiding unholy terrors that come in the night.

Why similar: Management 37.1%, Open World 23.2%, RPG 20.4%, Horror 16%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Ready to transform from Broke to Rich while forging your real estate empire? Start small, strategize for tycoon status. Engage with diverse NPC clients, oversee properties from affordable to luxurious, and conquer challenges. Ready to dominate the real estate world?

Why similar: Life Sim 33.9%, Management 17.9%, RPG 14.3%, Building 13.5%, Strategy RPG 11.9%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Survival 33.1%, Building 29%, Open World 19.3%, Horror 13.2%, Indie 5.4%

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: Dystopian 61.8%, Resource Management 20.7%, Indie 9.4%, Adventure 5.4%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 46.6%, Resource Management 26.3%, Mystery 22.2%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Megastore Simulator is a first-person management & tycoon game. Start small and grow into a massive two-floor megastore with forklifts, pallet jacks, and staff. Unlock and manage departments like Bakery, Clothing, Electronics, Sports, Music, Toys, Grocery, Seafood, and Vending Machines

Why similar: Life Sim 33.2%, Management 24.7%, Building 14.5%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Resource Management 9.3%

Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive

Why similar: Life Sim 28.3%, Management 21.3%, Building 19.1%, Survival 16.6%, Immersive Sim 10.7%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Life Sim 26.8%, Management 20.8%, Building 15.2%, Investigation 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.6%

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

Why similar: Life Sim 30.1%, Survival 21.1%, Management 20.8%, Building 19.4%, Resource Management 8.7%

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

Why similar: Management 27.9%, Life Sim 19.1%, Open World 15.8%, RPG 12.5%, Resource Management 11.5%

Dive into the wild west as a saloon owner in a volatile frontier town. Customize your character and face the consequences of your choices as you forge friendships and enemies of townsfolk, travellers, outlaws and lawmen. Build the most famous saloon in the territory, or be overwhelmed and destroyed.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.6%, Strategy RPG 22.1%, Management 17.8%, Building 16.5%, Immersive Sim 9%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Building 24.1%, Resource Management 23.7%, Open World 12.2%, Management 5.1%

Sorry, We're Open is a Supermarket Management Horror RPG. As the new Manager of your local supermarket, you'll need to make the hard decisions to keep the store running. Remember, your store's reputation and your employees' livelihoods are in your hands.

Why similar: RPG 37.4%, Horror 26.2%, Management 25.6%, Resource Management 10.8%

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and factions who shape your fate.

Why similar: Life Sim 31.3%, Survival 26.1%, Open World 16%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Indie 4.9%

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: Dystopian 34%, Immersive Sim 24.3%, Management 17.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, 3D 6.5%

Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.

Why similar: Life Sim 42.4%, Survival 31.4%, Open World 19.7%, Adventure 6.6%

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

Why similar: Survival 39.6%, Management 16.5%, Building 15.2%, Open World 12.3%, Resource Management 12.2%

Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?

Why similar: Strategy RPG 25.5%, Life Sim 23.4%, Management 16.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 11.4%

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: Life Sim 40.7%, Survival 29.8%, Resource Management 18.9%, RPG 9%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

Why similar: Life Sim 28.9%, Management 24.4%, Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Immersive Sim 11.4%