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 27.5%, Life Sim 26.1%, Building 16.7%, Open World 11.9%, RPG 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the specific gameplay loop of property maintenance and renovation within a gritty, atmospheric setting.

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 41.7%, Survival 24%, Management 12.1%, Open World 11.3%, Resource Management 8.6%

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.

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 37.7%, Open World 28.7%, Building 24%, Indie 3.6%, 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.

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 46.1%, Open World 25.7%, RPG 18.3%, Adventure 5.2%, 3D 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the urban survival and social management aspects of living on the fringes of society.

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 28.8%, Life Sim 20.4%, Management 19.8%, Resource Management 13%, RPG 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival, base building, and resource management within a restrictive, dystopian environment.

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 49.3%, Building 27.1%, Open World 18.8%, 3D 4.8%

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.

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 39.8%, Survival 28.8%, Open World 16.9%, RPG 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers hardcore survival and complex ship maintenance mechanics that appeal to fans of Obenseuer's technical management systems.

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 59.8%, RPG 18.5%, Open World 11.7%, Indie 6.3%, 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.

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 50.5%, Open World 21.5%, Building 13.7%, RPG 7.9%, Indie 3.5%

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.

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 39.2%, Survival 22.4%, Open World 15%, RPG 14.1%, Adventure 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sandbox life-sim experience that focuses on urban living and managing daily survival needs.

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 32%, Survival 30%, Open World 28.7%, Indie 5.2%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features dystopian management and a gritty atmosphere that aligns well with the setting of an isolated quarantine district.

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 25.1%, Survival 24%, Building 17.5%, Resource Management 15.1%, RPG 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game features urban survival, crafting, and resource management within a vertical, dangerous 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: Survival 29%, Open World 23.9%, RPG 15.5%, Building 14.7%, Management 10.3%

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.

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 26.7%, Resource Management 17.5%, Management 15.3%, Building 12.6%, Strategy RPG 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes resource management and survival in a post-apocalyptic setting, requiring careful base maintenance.

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 29.7%, Resource Management 23.5%, Open World 23.3%, Indie 13.4%, Adventure 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on urban management, survival, and navigating the dangers of a gritty city environment.

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 59%, Building 23.2%, Open World 11.8%, Singleplayer 6%

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

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 60.3%, Open World 21%, Indie 10.7%, Adventure 4.1%, Singleplayer 3.9%

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.

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

Why similar: Survival 33.6%, Building 28.2%, Open World 19.3%, Horror 13.4%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game features open-world survival and base-building mechanics in a harsh, atmospheric setting.

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 28.3%, Building 21.9%, Management 21.7%, Open World 15%, RPG 11%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony-sim, survival, and building mechanics in a way that mirrors the management needs of Obenseuer.

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 49.9%, Building 24.5%, Horror 11.9%, Adventure 8.2%, 3D 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes atmospheric survival and vehicle maintenance in a mysterious, hostile, and quarantined zone.

Random generated open world semi-post apocalyptic survival car driving game.

Why similar: Survival 41.5%, Open World 26.8%, Horror 13.5%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on gritty, long-term survival and the constant need for vehicle maintenance in a desolate landscape.

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 22.9%, Life Sim 20.8%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Narration 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a lore-rich RPG experience with deep management and time-based progression systems.

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 38.3%, Building 31.9%, Open World 21.3%, Indie 4.9%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar management-heavy gameplay loop focused on maintaining and upgrading a property in a remote area.

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 40.2%, Open World 31.1%, RPG 28.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival, colony management, and RPG elements in a dangerous, evolving world.

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 29.8%, Survival 18.7%, Building 11.9%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends RPG, adventure, and survival elements in an open world that requires crafting and base development.

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 29.5%, Survival 26.1%, Management 24.1%, Building 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on strategy, colony management, and base-building in a post-apocalyptic survival context.

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 35.3%, Building 19.2%, Open World 14.5%, Horror 14%, RPG 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features survival, horror, and sandbox exploration in an isolated, mysterious environment.

⚗️ 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 24.7%, Building 18.1%, Management 16.6%, Resource Management 15.8%, Open World 15%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival-focused experience with crafting and resource management in an open-world setting.

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 41.3%, Management 41.3%, Horror 9.5%, 3D 6%, Singleplayer 1.9%

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 31.6%, Management 19.4%, Building 15.1%, RPG 12.3%, Open World 11.6%

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 30.9%, Life Sim 30.4%, Resource Management 16.6%, RPG 12%, Building 8.9%

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 19.9%, Life Sim 17.8%, Strategy RPG 15.4%, Building 14.4%, RPG 13.2%

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 38.3%, Management 23.5%, Building 13%, RPG 10.2%, Resource Management 8.7%

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 33.6%, Management 18.4%, RPG 14.2%, Building 12.8%, Strategy RPG 12%

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 29.3%, Management 23%, Building 19.1%, Open World 12.1%, Resource Management 9.5%

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 41.5%, Management 17.2%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.3%, RPG 7.9%

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 29.9%, Management 21.4%, Survival 20.9%, Building 18.5%, Resource Management 9.3%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Strategy RPG 32.8%, Building 18.5%, Survival 13.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Open World 12.2%

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 31.8%, Management 24.8%, Building 20.4%, Survival 18.6%, Adventure 4.4%

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 38.8%, Life Sim 30.8%, Survival 18.6%, RPG 11.7%

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 30.9%, Resource Management 25.3%, Building 22.8%, Open World 12%, Management 5.3%

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 36.8%, Management 26.1%, Horror 25.7%, Resource Management 11.3%

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 40.7%, Life Sim 32.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Open World 7.2%, RPG 5.9%

Market Tycoon is a Tycoon game where you Grow your Market from a small Mini Market all the way up to a Hyper Market. Manage, create, and customize your market from wall paint to placing cashiers, shelves, and fridges.

Why similar: Management 44.6%, RPG 23.8%, Building 18.3%, Indie 11.5%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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 39.2%, Management 17.2%, Building 14.3%, Resource Management 13%, Open World 11.9%

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 44.4%, Management 23.2%, Resource Management 15.7%, 3D 8.5%, Indie 6.5%

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: Resource Management 50.6%, Mystery 40.3%, Singleplayer 9.1%

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 54.4%, Open World 32.9%, Adventure 9%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Build trust or spark conflict with NPCs and factions, uncover mysteries, and watch the world change with your every choice.

Why similar: Life Sim 35%, Survival 33.7%, Open World 22.3%, Indie 6.1%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night. Gather resources, hunt deadly creatures, upgrade your caravan, care for your companions, and lead them through the vast wilderness in search of New Eden.

Why similar: Management 50.9%, RPG 34.6%, Adventure 7.9%, Singleplayer 3.5%, Indie 3%

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 33.8%, Survival 27%, RPG 14.7%, Open World 13.3%, Indie 4.5%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Management 24.1%, Survival 23.3%, Building 20.2%, Resource Management 15.8%, Open World 14.5%

Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 32.4%, Management 19.2%, Building 17.4%, Resource Management 15.9%, RPG 13.5%

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 32.5%, Management 27.8%, Building 17.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, 3D 2.7%

How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.

Why similar: Life Sim 35.7%, Survival 33.8%, Open World 17.5%, RPG 13%

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 40.5%, Management 31.5%, Building 23.5%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 1.4%