Games Like Once Upon a Time… After the End

Forgotten Grounds is a top-down pixel-art survival game where daylight is deadly. Scavenge, craft, and manage your needs while searching for shelter, safer weather, and another night to survive.

Why similar: Perma Death 23%, Survival 18.2%, Resource Management 16%, Inventory Management 10%, Crafting 9.3%

Creates potions with plants gathered in the woods, discover new ways to make potions and sell those potions to stores

Why similar: Trading 26%, Crafting 16.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Management 10.4%, Inventory Management 10.2%

Story-driven RPG with survival elements. Open seamless world, first person view. Adventures on an island where intelligent life has been destroyed by a zombie virus.

Why similar: Loot 14%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Survival 12.5%, Time Management 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%

A hybrid 2D/3D adventure game pitting the player against countless dangers on a cross-country journey. Manage your resources and keep your party alive!

Why similar: Inventory Management 19.9%, Trading 17.9%, Time Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.1%

OBEY OR ESCAPE You can follow the rules and survive another day.You are a defective clone trapped inside a brutal prison where every day follows a strict routine. Play alone or with up to 4 players as you obey the guards, complete your shifts, stay in order, and avoid suspicion.

Why similar: Perma Death 23.3%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 13.7%, Loot 13.1%, Inventory Management 11.8%

In BARDA, it won't be your sword that saves you. It's how you pack your bag. But hunger, fatigue and madness will take up space! Do your best as you climb an ever-changing mountain to spread the ashes of your grandfather, improve your base camp, and try again.

Why similar: Inventory Management 21.9%, Loot 20.6%, Perma Death 19.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Survival 11.7%

How would you react when facing a near-death experience? Despair? Perseverance? ... Maybe sorrow? Face your inner demons while trying to gather resources and keep your body alive in this run survival game as hard as life itself.

Why similar: Perma Death 21.2%, Time Management 15.7%, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Resource Management 13.2%

Do not stray off the path. Ashes of Alice is an atmospheric, PSX-style narrative survival game where the world has already ended. Follow a fading blood trail through a desolate, ash-choked landscape, piecing together the final moments of humanity before your vision goes dark for good.

Why similar: Perma Death 30.4%, Survival 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Inventory Management 9.1%

Travel and trade in a demon-haunted post-apocalypse. Each playthrough features a new character and a partially randomized world. Between playthroughs, the world around you will grow and develop in response to your actions. Be prepared to make hard decisions.

Why similar: Trading 29.4%, Perma Death 18.7%, Resource Management 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Time Management 10.8%

Trapped by a massive ₩200,000,000 debt from a housing scam, you discover a mysterious portal to the otherworld. Your mission: buy goods in the real world, sell them for huge profits in the otherworld, and pay off your debt. You only have 30 days to earn it all back and start a new life!

Why similar: Trading 33.3%, Resource Management 18.4%, Time Management 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Management 7%

The Witchmade Shop is a witch shop simulator in a provincial town. Listen to the stories of visitors, take orders, brew potions (trying not to poison the one who will use it), earn money, buy ingredients, and everything in a circle.

Why similar: Trading 30.9%, Time Management 20.9%, Crafting 14.3%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 8.4%

Hire miners and help them to extract ore using different tools. Try to control the chaos of the workflow. Trade in the market. Improve your buildings. Craft items. Manage resources wisely to stay profitable.

Why similar: Trading 17.8%, Resource Management 15.4%, Perma Death 14.6%, Time Management 12.4%, Inventory Management 11.9%

Medieval Alchemist is an alchemist survival game set in the medieval period. Survive against the challenges of nature, collect ingredients, produce potions, sell non-essential ingredients in the bazaar, develop your character and build your living space by hiring workers.

Why similar: Trading 24.7%, Inventory Management 16.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Resource Management 14.4%, Survival 12.2%

Evergrind is an idle adventure like you've never experienced before! Discover unknown regions, face dangerous creatures, and create the ultimate loot loop. Master skills, process rare resources, and forge powerful gear on your journey to absolute perfection!

Why similar: Inventory Management 18.8%, Loot 17.1%, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 13.2%, Management 8.4%

Craft items in this high-pressure resource management game to get enough gems to last until tomorrow. By combining resource management, crafting, and roguelike elements the pressure is on the whole time you play!

Why similar: Inventory Management 20.8%, Resource Management 15.5%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 13.7%, Management 10.1%

Escape an evil witch's manor while completing her daily tasks!

Why similar: Time Management 18.6%, Inventory Management 14%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 12.5%, Management 10.7%

A free-to-play 2D sandbox MMORPG inspired by classic old-school MMOs. Train skills, battle powerful bosses, master combat styles, trade in a player-driven economy, and grind your way to greatness on PC and mobile.

Why similar: Inventory Management 20.5%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Resource Management 13.7%, Exploration 8.7%

You lost your memory in a world that lost its past. Survive the wastes, scavenge supplies, fight enemies, navigate factions and recover fragments of lost knowledge to piece together a history no faction remembers the same way. A post-apocalyptic turn-based survival RPG.

Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Trading 14.5%, RPG 13.3%, Resource Management 12.7%

LastAlive is an atmospheric 2D survival simulator set in a post-apocalyptic shelter. Explore an abandoned city on dangerous scavenging runs, craft tools at your workbench, upgrade your bunker, and make life-altering decisions in your survivor's journal.

Why similar: Survival 22%, Resource Management 20.9%, Crafting 15.9%, Loot 12.3%, Management 12.1%

Explore a dangerous medieval world inspired by Welsh folklore. Hunt, loot and gather what you can — but return to the safety of the castle before nightfall, or risk losing everything you carried.

Why similar: Loot 14.8%, Time Management 14.7%, Survival 14.1%, Inventory Management 12.9%, Crafting 10.7%

On a secluded medieval, awake in a small village surrounded by wildlife nature and bandits and many challanges. Evolve your land in search of new adventures.

Why similar: Trading 23.3%, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Loot 10.6%, RPG 8%

Violent Nature is an open world survival game set in a small town after an interdimensional invasion. Manage your status and limited resources as you fight weaponized creatures and push back the spread of cracks to the other side.

Why similar: Survival 17.8%, Inventory Management 16.9%, Loot 15.8%, Perma Death 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%

A co-op roguelite experience set in an apocalyptic world, where cooperation with your partner is the key to continued survival.

Why similar: Perma Death 26.1%, Trading 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Inventory Management 9.2%, Survival 8.4%

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: Inventory Management 17.8%, Resource Management 16%, Time Management 15.7%, Survival 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13%

Night Frontier is a survival-management game about building a camp, preparing squads, and sending them into a dangerous and cursed wasteland. Gather resources, craft equipment, manage injuries and disease, and decide how much risk your people can survive.

Why similar: Inventory Management 18.4%, Resource Management 16.4%, Survival 15%, Crafting 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%

Your task is to keep the house warm by carrying wood chips to the heater. Brave the cold, engage in ice fishing for survival and see how long you can endure the cold challenge!

Why similar: Time Management 30.3%, Resource Management 29.8%, Perma Death 23.5%, Survival 15.4%, Singleplayer 1%

Evil Next Door is a game about survival in a small post-Soviet town called Ensk suffering from a deadly epidemic. Switch between characters, go out for supplies and build a shelter for your people.

Why similar: Perma Death 18.4%, Loot 17.2%, Survival 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Crafting 11.5%

Uncover the lost histories and legends of the mysterious Legumi in a stressfully relaxing survival RPG like none other.

Why similar: Inventory Management 31%, Time Management 24.7%, RPG 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7%, Survival 6.2%

This tomb adventure game mixes combat, farming, survival and crafting. Venture into dangerous tombs, fight feral creatures and undying sentinels. Hunt for ancient relics and rare treasures, gather resources, and craft supplies to survive these perilous wilds.

Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Crafting 23.3%, RPG 17.2%, Combat 10%, Action-Adventure 7.1%

A cozy crafting and workshop-management game about mining rough gems, restoring them by hand, brewing potions, forging fine pieces, and growing a humble workshop into a master artisan atelier.

Why similar: Trading 21.7%, Inventory Management 19.6%, Crafting 18.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Management 10%

Race an exploding volcano in this high-risk extraction survival. Rescue survivors, manage scarce resources, survive fire anomalies, and carve escape routes through ash and lava. Bring them back alive, before the island buries you.

Why similar: Inventory Management 16.3%, Loot 13.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.4%

Guide your survivor in this exploration game with random generation, where every moment could be your last.

Why similar: Perma Death 32.2%, Survival 20.1%, RPG 12.3%, Inventory Management 11.6%, Exploration 11%

Explore and survive in this 2D game set in the urban legend of the “backrooms,” with a wealth of objects, entities, levels, and sublevels at your disposal. Will you be able to survive and escape, or will you be trapped forever in this new reality?

Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Crafting 23%, RPG 14.5%, Exploration 12.6%, Adventure 7.1%

Disaster strikes, and you only have 60 seconds. Scavenge supplies with up to 3 teammates in a lab about to self-destruct, escape into an unknown forest, and use 500 types of random events to write your survival story—will you wait to be rescued alive, or uncover the truth the company is hiding?

Why similar: Inventory Management 23%, Survival 18.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Time Management 12.9%, Crafting 11.1%

Iron Contract is a solo 2D management game where you run an industrial defense company. Manage contracts, suppliers, stock, reputation, buildings and production capacity as your company grows from a small local operation into a stronger industrial actor.

Why similar: Trading 30%, Inventory Management 26.7%, Resource Management 22.4%, Management 17.5%, 2D 2.2%

It was a dark and stormy night when the helicopter had to make an emergency landing on an isolated island. Unfortunately for them, fate had a cruel twist in store. As the storm progressed, the chopper was violently tossed and turned until it landed on an isolated island shrouded in mystery.

Why similar: Survival 25.5%, Resource Management 22%, Loot 21.6%, Crafting 20.6%, Adventure 4.9%

Step into the shoes of a nameless exile left to die on a Mediterranean island in this first-person horror adventure. Explore an open world of haunting beauty, craft your weapons, and confront threats emerging from the depths of the island at dusk.

Why similar: Inventory Management 21.7%, Survival 17.6%, Resource Management 16%, Crafting 15%, Action-Adventure 9.1%

Idly gather and manage resources to repair what's left of a decaying world. Scavenge forgotten ruins, meet scattered survivors, and push back against the inevitable collapse. IDLE_DIRECTIVE is a grid-based inventory and resource management idle game.

Why similar: Trading 31.7%, Loot 17.9%, Crafting 16.2%, Inventory Management 9.8%, Exploration 8.8%

Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.

Why similar: Inventory Management 18.1%, Survival 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Time Management 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%

Burntime is a remaster and expansion of Max Design's 1993 post-apocalyptic strategy RPG. Survive, trade, build camps and compete for control of five cities. Play with remastered visuals and modern controls.

Why similar: Trading 23.2%, Inventory Management 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, RPG 13.8%, Resource Management 10.5%

Hermit is a Hardcore Third-Person Open-World Fantasy RPG. Explore with your Donkey at your side as you navigate dungeons, cast spells, brew potions, hunt monsters, and traverse a vast medieval landscape while uncovering the terrible secrets of a group of magic-wielding outlaws.

Why similar: Survival 18%, Inventory Management 14.3%, Crafting 14%, Resource Management 13.9%, RPG 9.4%

An action roguelite where you find your way through an ever-changing maze, choose combat abilities, and grow stronger with each run. Break through a maze that shifts between day and night, and reach the Demon King after repeated challenges.

Why similar: Survival 21.7%, Inventory Management 14.6%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Exploration 10.6%

Unleash the power of ancient strategy in this exciting jokenpo-based adventure. Wood conquers stone, stone shatters metal, and metal obliterates wood. Master the art of wield the perfect weapon for each battle.

Why similar: Loot 21.3%, Resource Management 20.4%, Inventory Management 20.3%, Crafting 17%, Exploration 8.4%

A story-rich survival sim where every object reacts to what you do. Manipulate, combine, improvise! You escaped your family's cage into space — now broke, undocumented, and wildly unprepared to live down and out. Keep fed, keep a roof over your head, keep yourself alive — and your new friends too.

Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Inventory Management 14.1%, Time Management 13.5%, Crafting 12%

Dive into a medieval trade simulator. Step into the role of a governor, manage caravans, and maximize your profits. Make critical routing decisions and prove that smart logistics can win any war.

Why similar: Trading 36.8%, Time Management 20.1%, Resource Management 20%, Inventory Management 15.7%, Management 6.9%

Life can be tough as a medieval courier. Explore a colourful environment as you plan your daily deliveries, select cards to help optimise your route and purchase upgrades to increase efficiency!

Why similar: Inventory Management 22%, Time Management 20.9%, Resource Management 18.9%, Management 14.2%, Exploration 9.7%

Wield an ever-growing herd of quirky creatures to rebuild broken paths, battle perilous beasts, and solve peculiar puzzles in a rich, interconnected world. Join two young runaways as they unravel the mysteries of a lost realm in this nostalgic storybook fantasy!

Why similar: Time Management 19.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, Loot 14.2%, Crafting 13%, Survival 10.5%

Remains is a hardcore mix of platformer, 2D-shooter and roguelike with RPG elements. Travel around a post-apocalyptic world and explore its various corners, communicate with locals and help them, level up and fight enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons and magic.

Why similar: Perma Death 30%, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Loot 16.7%, Exploration 9.5%, Action-Adventure 8.8%

Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.

Why similar: Survival 24%, Resource Management 21.5%, Inventory Management 18.3%, Crafting 17.5%, Exploration 8.2%

Become the ultimate Guild Master in a pixel art world! Manage your guild, craft epic gear, uncover a vast bestiary, and recruiting a diverse team of adventurers and workers. Prepare your heroes for battle and unravel the mystery surrounding your missing king!

Why similar: Inventory Management 22.9%, Crafting 19.1%, Resource Management 18.4%, Management 11.8%, RPG 8%

The life that we knew has changed, The Chaos took control of the streets. Experience a post-apocalyptic world where your survival skills are crucial.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Survival 23.9%, Trading 16%, Resource Management 11.1%, Action-Adventure 9.4%

Reborn seven days before the apocalypse. Make a fortune, hoard supplies, build the ultimate RV, and live comfortably while the world falls apart. A story-rich survival management game with cards, farming, crafting and roguelite progression.

Why similar: Trading 18.1%, Resource Management 17.3%, Inventory Management 17.1%, Survival 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%

A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.

Why similar: Trading 20.4%, Inventory Management 16.3%, Loot 15.6%, Time Management 15%, Resource Management 13.3%

THE DEAD RISE - Direct a group of survivors in a turn-based strategy survival game. Use survivor abilities, scavenge for resources, all while navigating a warped reality strewn with inexplicable phenomena. Come nightfall, undead seek the living. Can you survive, UNDEADLY?

Why similar: Perma Death 21.9%, Time Management 16.3%, Survival 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Crafting 10.4%

A 2D pixel roguelike where a tiny hero tries to escape from a hotel. Choose a class, explore rooms, collect items, craft powerful weapons, and defeat enemies in turn-based battles. Each run is unique and full of surprises.

Why similar: Perma Death 19.5%, RPG 16%, Loot 14.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 11.8%

Survival Z is an action-adventure game with survival elements, set in a semi-open world inspired by Brazil. Collect and manage resources, level up, hunt and eliminate all infected and other enemies scattered across the map, trade with merchants, and upgrade your arsenal.

Why similar: Inventory Management 23.5%, Survival 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Resource Management 16.1%, Adventure 5.8%

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 26.3%, Perma Death 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Inventory Management 13.3%, Crafting 12.2%

Trade by day. Eat, sleep, and survive by night. Lose everything with a single bad decision. Neo Capitalist is a financial survival roguelite where the richer you get, the harder the system fights back. Play in a realistic stock market simulation or in a dystopian cyber-punk world.

Why similar: Trading 28.7%, Perma Death 22.7%, Time Management 16%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 12.9%

Immerse yourself in an Idle Simulation Tycoon RPG like no other, where you are tasked with managing a thriving item shop, crafting legendary gear for customers, commanding mighty heroes to loot rare artifacts & blueprints all while challenging top-ranked shopkeepers in an epic business adventure!

Why similar: Trading 25.2%, Time Management 17.8%, Inventory Management 15.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Management 8.7%

Vaeria Idle is a single-player idle/incremental game that gives you all the systems of an RPG in a simplified form. Level up your skills, fight enemies, harvest resources, refine materials as you discover the lore throughout.

Why similar: Inventory Management 21.7%, Loot 17.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Management 8%