Games Like Organ Trail: Director's Cut

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 60.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Survival 8.3%, Great Soundtrack 4.6%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the road-trip survival vibe with its humorous take on zombie apocalypses, party management, and randomized events.

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: Zombies 60%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Survival 15.1%, Indie 2.3%, Simulation 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive hardcore zombie survival experience, offering deep resource management and a brutal, realistic approach to staying alive.

Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Why similar: Zombies 34.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Perma Death 13.5%, Retro 12.1%, Survival 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival roguelite that focuses on the journey of a group of survivors, emphasizing the same resource-scavenging and difficult decision-making found in Organ Trail.

The Oregon Trail is back in a beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments, and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects!

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 62.6%, Adventure 20.7%, 2D 16.7%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct inspiration for the seed game, it provides the foundational mechanics of managing a party and supplies while traveling across a dangerous frontier.

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Retro 13.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Roguelike 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the road-trip survival loop by forcing you to manage a convoy of vehicles while scavenging for parts and fighting off raiders in a wasteland.

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 36.1%, Post-apocalyptic 27.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Survival 9.8%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the atmospheric dread of traveling through a dying world by train, forcing you to manage your passengers and supplies while exploring infected areas.

Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 53.3%, Strategy 24.3%, Survival 17.9%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based strategy game centers on a road trip across a post-apocalyptic America, focusing on tactical combat and managing limited supplies.

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: Zombies 52.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Survival 8.1%, RPG 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based RPG combines zombie survival with party management, requiring you to make tough choices that impact your group's survival.

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: Post-apocalyptic 39.3%, Survival 19.7%, Perma Death 17.6%, Strategy 6.9%, Roguelike 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival RPG that emphasizes the brutal reality of scavenging for basic needs like food, water, and shelter in a post-apocalyptic world.

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Perma Death 29.2%, Strategy 21.4%, Roguelike 14.1%, Survival 10.6%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: While set in space, it shares the exact same tension of managing a crew, limited resources, and making difficult moral choices while constantly moving forward to escape a threat.

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 47.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelike that emphasizes the granular details of survival, such as hunger, thirst, and crafting, in a zombie-infested city.

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 65.7%, Survival 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Strategy 5.9%, RPG 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This RPG focuses on the social and strategic aspects of managing a shelter of survivors during a zombie outbreak, emphasizing resource gathering and diplomacy.

HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.

Why similar: Zombies 48.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based game that strips zombie survival down to its most difficult elements, focusing on positioning and resource conservation.

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...

Why similar: Zombies 51.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 9.2%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that focuses on the logistics of securing a safe house and managing a group of survivors during a zombie apocalypse.

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

Why similar: Zombies 75.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Indie 4.8%, Great Soundtrack 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique real-time tactical game that focuses on the logistics of evacuating civilians from zombie-infested zones, mirroring the urgency of survival.

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: Post-apocalyptic 40.4%, Survival 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Strategy 10%, Zombies 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival management game where you must protect your family in an underground bunker, focusing heavily on resource allocation and scavenging.

Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors from the doomed city of Riga towards a ferry sailing across the North Sea. Scavenge for supplies, battle the undead, decide the fate of your team. What are you willing to sacrifice in order to survive?

Why similar: Zombies 39.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Perma Death 15.9%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based zombie survival RPG that emphasizes party management and the narrative consequences of your survival choices.

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 53.2%, Strategy 10%, Survival 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Perma Death 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-survival game that tasks you with leading a group of survivors through a zombie-infested world using tactical combat and resource management.

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 39.6%, Post-apocalyptic 29.2%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 5.9%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the civilian perspective of survival, forcing you to make agonizing moral choices while managing a small group of survivors in a war-torn city.

A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 66.4%, Retro 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Survival 4.8%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled side-scrolling shooter that captures the gritty, pixelated aesthetic and zombie-survival theme of the seed game.

Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a fast-paced 2d shooting game with a random story. You control a group of three migrants traveling west along a wagon trail. The game consists of short scenes that are sequenced together in a semi-random way to tell a crazy adventure story.

Why similar: Perma Death 31.1%, Retro 23.1%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Comedy 7.6%, Roguelike 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action game that directly parodies the wagon-travel mechanics of the Oregon Trail in a chaotic, arcade-style format.

In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.5%, Survival 20.3%, Strategy 17.1%, Indie 7.4%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a train crew during a global pandemic, focusing on resource management and the difficult decisions required to keep your train moving.

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

Why similar: Zombies 59.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Survival 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game where you control a squad of survivors, focusing on exploration and tactical combat in a world overrun by the undead.

The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Zombies 47.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Retro 10.4%, Strategy 7%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An expansion of the original's concepts, offering deeper RPG mechanics and more complex party management in a zombie-filled world.

Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 60.5%, Strategy 13.3%, Survival 7.9%, RPG 6%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-simulation game that focuses on the management of survivors, requiring you to balance resources and combat to stay alive.

A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 52.6%, Strategy 27.5%, RPG 8.4%, Survival 4.6%, Adventure 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical strategy game that features a small group of survivors traveling through a post-apocalyptic world, emphasizing stealth and resource management.

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 44.1%, Strategy 18%, Indie 10.8%, RPG 7.6%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An indie RPG that blends strategy and action, focusing on surviving against hordes of zombies in a hostile environment.

OUTTA GAS is a post-apocalyptic RPG featuring a turn-based SHOOTING GALLERY combat mechanic where blasting away body tiles damages monster health and decreases their combat stats. Explore four unique acts to find gas and get back on the road to the Party at the End of the World!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, RPG 19.6%, Indie 18.6%, Retro 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that focuses on the struggle for fuel and resources in a post-apocalyptic setting, mirroring the road-trip survival theme.

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 37.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Survival 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival game that forces you to make difficult choices while traveling through a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!

Why similar: Zombies 35.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24%, Strategy 13.4%, Survival 12.8%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that emphasizes base building and survivor management during a zombie apocalypse.

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 47.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Strategy 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Indie 6.4%

Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!

Why similar: Zombies 35%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 10%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Why similar: Zombies 43.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Perma Death 14%, Survival 9%, Strategy 7.7%

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 65.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Survival 11.9%, RPG 1.9%, Simulation 1.5%

In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.

Why similar: Zombies 29.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Indie 10.5%, Retro 9.8%, Horror 6.6%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 56.6%, Indie 15.2%, Retro 7.6%, Survival 4.7%, RPG 4.6%

You and up to three friends fight to survive the Zombie outbreak in this game inspired by early '80s horror films!

Why similar: Zombies 81.5%, Strategy 15.7%, Action 1.8%, Adventure 1%

Don't Bite Me Bro! is a 1-4 Player Couch Co-op open-world zombie apocalypse game. Explore the world for resources, find and save survivors throughout the world, each which become playable characters with unique traits and abilities.

Why similar: Zombies 56.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Survival 9.5%, Indie 6%, Simulation 5.3%

Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Why similar: Zombies 65.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Indie 4.1%, Retro 1.9%

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Zombies 46.6%, Post-apocalyptic 25.2%, Survival 10.2%, Strategy 9.4%, RPG 3.5%

Rescue your fellow Hunters, and with their help locate and destroy Dracula!

Why similar: Zombies 46.6%, Strategy 19%, Perma Death 12.9%, Indie 9.1%, Survival 6.4%

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Zombies 44.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Survival 7.2%, Strategy 7.2%

Undeadz! is an open world Zombie Survival game with a retro art style!

Why similar: Zombies 70.3%, Retro 15.7%, Indie 11.6%, Action 2.4%

From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 59.8%, Strategy 15.2%, RPG 10.9%, Survival 5.2%, Indie 3.5%

Cards of the Dead is a survival card game. Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Zombies 50.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 4.2%

A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.

Why similar: Zombies 67.1%, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Survival 4.4%, Adventure 3.6%, Action 1.8%

Survive the zombie apocalypse and make humanity's last stand in this three-game legacy bundle, revamped for modern hardware. Explore, build, and survive for as long as you can in The Last Stand, The Last Stand 2, and The Last Stand: Union City.

Why similar: Zombies 56.4%, Post-apocalyptic 29.1%, Survival 9.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%, Action 1.3%

Command your Squad of Survivors in a game where Line of Sight is extremely important, you cannot shoot what you cannot see. Develop your formations, move as a unit and cover every corner. Leave no man behind!

Why similar: Zombies 46.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Survival 9%, Indie 7.4%

Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!

Why similar: Zombies 35.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Perma Death 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, RPG 4.3%

You are a mysterious wanderer traveling through the wilderness of the wild west. In cities and towns, people began to disappear, as in many cities the population became infected with a virus which turns people into zombies, and it is rumored that people from the government are behind this.

Why similar: Retro 41.4%, Pixel Graphics 25.6%, Indie 10.5%, RPG 6.6%, 2D 6.6%

After the outbreak of the zombie virus, a group of survivors hit the zombie to survive! You can get a variety of special professional roles, weapons, supplies props, etc. - and perhaps a little white dog!

Why similar: Zombies 60.8%, Strategy 17%, Survival 9.9%, Indie 7.6%, Adventure 4.8%

Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.

Why similar: Zombies 54.9%, Post-apocalyptic 24%, Strategy 9.6%, Indie 4.9%, RPG 3.5%

Face massive zombie swarms in this funny post-apocalyptic tactical sandbox! Do you know what it's like to be surrounded by 100,000 zombies? Well, you're about to find out!

Why similar: Zombies 45.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Strategy 17.2%, Indie 7.3%, Simulation 6.7%

Guide a group of unprepared strangers through the apocalypse, in Dead Season, a turn-based tactics adventure, created by the one-man studio Snail Bite. Plan carefully to outlast swarming zombie hordes, but remember: noise attracts danger. Can you escape the outbreak's deadly grip?

Why similar: Zombies 78.5%, Strategy 11.4%, RPG 4.6%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Survive zombie apocalypse! Plunder resources for survival!

Why similar: Zombies 63.2%, Strategy 29.2%, Indie 7.6%

A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.

Why similar: Zombies 44.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24.7%, Survival 9.3%, Roguelike 4.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%

Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Why similar: Zombies 38.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Perma Death 12.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Survival 7.7%

Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 44%, Pixel Graphics 17.1%, Survival 9.6%, Indie 8.2%, Great Soundtrack 6%

Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!

Why similar: Zombies 51.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Strategy 13.5%, Roguelike 6.2%, RPG 5.4%

Battle through Zombie Apocalypse horror! Which is better - shotgun, pistol or AK-47? Blast their rotten, infected brains out and choose your favorite! Scavenge weapons and armor to pimp out your souped up zombie slaying car - then plow down the man-eating hordes to Escape the Undead City, and try not to get your guts torn out!!!

Why similar: Zombies 85.1%, Indie 10.2%, Singleplayer 2.4%, Action 2.3%