- #1 Landlord's Super
97% matchVery Positive81% of 1,660 reviews2023
Dev: MinskworksPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 24.6%, Life Sim 24.3%, Building 15.7%, Open World 11%, Immersive Sim 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the specific gameplay loop of property maintenance and renovation within a gritty, atmospheric setting.
- #2 Nobody - The Turnaround
96% matchMixed60% of 14,298 reviews2022
Dev: U.Ground Game StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12.1 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 24.1%, Management 11.8%, Open World 11.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a realistic and grounded take on urban survival, job management, and the struggle to improve one's life in a harsh city.
- #3 My Summer Car
95% matchVery Positive95% of 113,843 reviews2025
Dev: Amistech Games
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 47.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.
Why similar: Survival 37.6%, Open World 28.7%, Building 24.5%, Indie 3.5%, Adventure 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive gritty, janky, and immersive survival simulation that shares the same focus on vehicle maintenance and harsh living conditions.
- #4 Hobo: Tough Life
96% matchVery Positive84% of 9,762 reviews2021
Dev: Perun Creative
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.
Why similar: Survival 46.5%, Open World 25.9%, RPG 17.9%, Adventure 5.2%, 3D 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the urban survival and social management aspects of living on the fringes of society.
- #5 Mr. Prepper
94% matchVery Positive80% of 5,365 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: Survival 29%, Life Sim 20.8%, Management 19.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, RPG 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival, base building, and resource management within a restrictive, dystopian environment.
- #6 Mon Bazou
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,000 reviews2025
Dev: Santa Goat
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?
Why similar: Life Sim 49.4%, Building 27.4%, Open World 18.5%, 3D 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title combines vehicle maintenance, survival, and rural-urban grit in a way that feels very similar to the Obenseuer experience.
- #7 Ostranauts
94% matchVery Positive80% of 2,556 reviews2020
Dev: Blue Bottle GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Life Sim 35.4%, Survival 25.4%, Open World 14.9%, RPG 12.5%, Immersive Sim 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers hardcore survival and complex ship maintenance mechanics that appeal to fans of Obenseuer's technical management systems.
- #8 NEO Scavenger
93% matchVery Positive90% of 5,372 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 18.2%, Open World 11.7%, Indie 6.2%, Adventure 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game captures the desperate, gritty, and turn-based survival feel of navigating a post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #9 Project Zomboid
91% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 50.4%, Open World 21.5%, Building 14.1%, RPG 7.7%, Indie 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides the deepest urban survival and base management mechanics currently available, emphasizing long-term survival in a decaying world.
- #10 Denizen
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 884 reviews2024
Dev: Departure Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 37.6%, Survival 21.1%, Open World 14.1%, RPG 13%, Immersive Sim 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a sandbox life-sim experience that focuses on urban living and managing daily survival needs.
- #11 Contraband Police
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 24,751 reviews2023
Dev: Crazy RocksPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.
Why similar: Management 27.4%, Survival 26.2%, Open World 25.1%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, Indie 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features dystopian management and a gritty atmosphere that aligns well with the setting of an isolated quarantine district.
- #12 Highrisers
90% matchMostly Negative38% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: Solar Powered GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
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 24.2%, Building 18.1%, Resource Management 14.9%, RPG 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game features urban survival, crafting, and resource management within a vertical, dangerous environment.
- #13 Kenshi
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 112,221 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Survival 29.2%, Open World 23.9%, RPG 15.3%, Building 15.1%, Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a brutal, sandbox RPG that emphasizes survival, base building, and the struggle to rise from nothing in a harsh world.
- #14 Sheltered 2
88% matchMixed46% of 2,191 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 26.8%, Resource Management 17.2%, Management 15.1%, Building 13%, Strategy RPG 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes resource management and survival in a post-apocalyptic setting, requiring careful base maintenance.
- #15 Drug Dealer Simulator
86% matchVery Positive86% of 20,895 reviews2020
Dev: ByterunnersPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW
Why similar: Management 29.5%, Open World 23.6%, Resource Management 23.3%, Indie 13.3%, Adventure 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on urban management, survival, and navigating the dangers of a gritty city environment.
- #16 UnderRail
86% matchVery Positive86% of 7,097 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 60.2%, Open World 21.3%, Indie 10.6%, Adventure 4.1%, Singleplayer 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: This RPG features a dark, dystopian setting with deep survival elements and a focus on exploration in a confined, dangerous world.
- #17 Surviving Ceres
84% matchVery Positive87% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
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 26.7%, Building 21.2%, Management 20%, Open World 14.1%, RPG 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines colony-sim, survival, and building mechanics in a way that mirrors the management needs of Obenseuer.
- #18 Hardspace: Shipbreaker
83% matchVery Positive89% of 21,927 reviews2022
Dev: Blackbird Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 58.3%, Building 23.9%, Open World 11.9%, Singleplayer 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the blue-collar, industrial, and management-heavy feel of working in a dangerous, isolated environment.
- #19 Pacific Drive
82% matchVery Positive83% of 25,653 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 50%, Building 24.9%, Horror 11.6%, Adventure 8.1%, 3D 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes atmospheric survival and vehicle maintenance in a mysterious, hostile, and quarantined zone.
- #20 Urge
84% matchVery Positive90% of 498 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Survival 33.4%, Building 28.7%, Open World 19.3%, Horror 13.1%, Indie 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game features open-world survival and base-building mechanics in a harsh, atmospheric setting.
- #21 The Long Drive
82% matchVery Positive89% of 54,613 reviews2019
Dev: Genesz
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.
Why similar: Survival 41.8%, Open World 27%, Horror 13.2%, Adventure 7.8%, Indie 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on gritty, long-term survival and the constant need for vehicle maintenance in a desolate landscape.
- #22 Gas Station Simulator
81% matchVery Positive88% of 27,112 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Management 37.9%, Building 32.7%, Open World 21.2%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar management-heavy gameplay loop focused on maintaining and upgrading a property in a remote area.
- #23 BOOK OF HOURS
81% matchVery Positive89% of 4,246 reviews2023
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 25.7%, Life Sim 23.5%, Management 16.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a lore-rich RPG experience with deep management and time-based progression systems.
- #24 Outbreak Island
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 35.4%, Building 19.6%, Open World 14.5%, Horror 13.7%, RPG 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It features survival, horror, and sandbox exploration in an isolated, mysterious environment.
- #25 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
78% matchVery Positive87% of 4,265 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 40.6%, Open World 31.3%, RPG 28.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival, colony management, and RPG elements in a dangerous, evolving world.
- #26 Ascent of Ashes
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 298 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
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 26.4%, Survival 23.2%, Management 21%, Building 18.5%, Immersive Sim 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on strategy, colony management, and base-building in a post-apocalyptic survival context.
- #27 Project Cobalt
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Survival 24.8%, Building 18.7%, Management 16.3%, Resource Management 15.5%, Open World 15.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival-focused experience with crafting and resource management in an open-world setting.
- #28 Grimshire
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,830 reviews2025
Dev: Acute Owl Studio
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Life Sim 31.2%, Survival 30.9%, Resource Management 16.1%, RPG 11.6%, Building 8.9%
- #29 The Warhorn
80% matchMixed54% of 346 reviews2019
Dev: Pigeons Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 29.4%, Survival 18.9%, Building 12.3%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It blends RPG, adventure, and survival elements in an open world that requires crafting and base development.
- #30 Dishwashing Simulator
77% matchVery Positive88% of 523 reviews2024
Dev: Frinky
Windows
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 33.2%, Management 31.6%, Immersive Sim 21.9%, Horror 7.3%, 3D 4.6%
- #31 Chef RPG
76% matchVery Positive88% of 2,586 reviews2024
Dev: World 2 Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 29.8%, Management 17.7%, Building 14.3%, RPG 11.2%, Open World 10.8%
- #32 ANEURISM IV
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,988 reviews2025
Dev: Vellocet
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 28.1%, Survival 16.8%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, RPG 10.3%
- #33 SAELIG
77% matchVery Positive87% of 1,110 reviews2017
Dev: Atorcoppe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Management 19.5%, Life Sim 18.3%, Strategy RPG 15.5%, Building 14.8%, RPG 13%
- #34 REAL ESTATE Simulator - FROM BUM TO MILLIONAIRE
76% matchMixed44% of 209 reviews2024
Dev: GeekonPub: Midnight Games
Windows
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 34.1%, Management 18%, RPG 14%, Building 13.1%, Strategy RPG 12%
- #35 Banker Simulator
74% matchMixed62% of 684 reviews2025
Dev: Red Axe Games
Windows
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 26.5%, Management 20.1%, Building 17.4%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Open World 10.8%
- #36 Travellers Rest
74% matchVery Positive88% of 17,329 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 36.2%, Management 21.6%, Building 12.4%, RPG 9.2%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #37 Besmirch
73% matchVery Positive100% of 61 reviews2026
Dev: Gangru GamesPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
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 37.5%, Open World 23.3%, RPG 20%, Horror 15.8%, Singleplayer 3.4%
- #38 Big Ambitions
72% matchVery Positive93% of 12,848 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 37.2%, Life Sim 30.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Immersive Sim 6.9%, Open World 6.8%
- #39 Megastore Simulator
71% matchVery Positive93% of 1,151 reviews2026
Dev: Yolo Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 33.7%, Management 24.4%, Building 14.2%, Immersive Sim 11%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #40 Parcel Simulator
70% matchVery Positive94% of 2,484 reviews2025
Dev: Dansan Digital
Windows
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 27%, Management 21%, Building 14.6%, Investigation 12.4%, Immersive Sim 11.2%
- #41 Saleblazers
72% matchVery Positive83% of 2,039 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 39.9%, Open World 24.8%, Immersive Sim 19.9%, Adventure 8.5%, 3D 6.9%
- #42 Sheltered
73% matchVery Positive82% of 6,241 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 41.8%, Management 16.9%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, RPG 7.8%
- #43 Gloomwood
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,093 reviews2022
Dev: Dillon RogersPub: New Blood Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 44.8%, Resource Management 27.8%, Mystery 22.5%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #44 Rise of Gun
70% matchVery Positive85% of 1,099 reviews2024
Dev: PimpGameStudio
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 28.8%, Management 21.7%, Building 18.7%, Survival 16.6%, Immersive Sim 10.2%
- #45 Mall Simulator
67% matchVery Positive88% of 2,933 reviews2025
Dev: F13 Games
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 29.4%, Management 24.4%, Building 16.1%, Resource Management 12.7%, Immersive Sim 11%
- #46 Zombie Graveyard Simulator
68% matchVery Positive90% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 30.3%, Management 20.9%, Survival 20.9%, Building 18.9%, Resource Management 9%
- #47 Deadwater Saloon
71% matchMixed66% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Tanglefoot GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
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 23.9%, Strategy RPG 22.4%, Management 18%, Building 16.1%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
- #48 Nested Lands
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 444 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
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 35.9%, Survival 26.6%, Open World 16.4%, RPG 13.1%, Adventure 5.6%
- #49 The Dream Office
67% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: BEPLAYERPub: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
Renovate and manage a ruined office building. Clean, repair, and furnish rooms, rent them to picky tenants, fix printers and coffee machines, enjoy an exaggerated office joke system, and survive daily chaos. Turn neglect into profit — money doesn’t print itself, even if the printer tries.
Why similar: Life Sim 29.7%, Management 20.5%, Building 16.2%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #50 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
69% 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: Dystopian 34%, Immersive Sim 23.3%, Management 17.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, 3D 6.5%
- #51 Sorry We're Open
68% matchVery Positive94% of 140 reviews2023
Dev: oates
Windows
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 36.9%, Management 26.1%, Horror 25.7%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #52 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
70% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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%, Resource Management 24.7%, Building 23.4%, Open World 12.1%, Management 5.2%
- #53 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
69% matchVery Positive81% of 2,253 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Survival 39.4%, Management 16.8%, Building 14.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Open World 12.1%
- #54 Storage Hustle
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,519 reviews2023
Dev: Broken Clock
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Storage Hustle is a Simulation RPG where you go into storage auctions to buy different mysterious storages. Discover and sell many items, join Yard Sales and haggle your way for profit!
Why similar: Life Sim 27.4%, Management 19.5%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Resource Management 14%, RPG 10.6%
- #55 The Tenants
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,702 reviews2022
Dev: Ancient Forge
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Life Sim 36.2%, Management 27.3%, Building 21.4%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Indie 2.6%
- #56 KeepUp Survival
67% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Survival 44.7%, Open World 27.1%, Immersive Sim 17.9%, Adventure 7.3%, Singleplayer 2.9%