- #1 Post-Apo Builder
97% matchMixed42% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Base Building 20.1%, Time Management 18.3%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 13.2%
- #2 The Last Haven
96% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.4%, Base Building 27.3%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 9.1%
- #3 Surviving the Aftermath
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,528 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38%, Base Building 18%, Survival 16.2%, War 8.6%, Strategy 8.3%
- #4 The Rule of Land: Pioneers
95% matchMixed68% of 333 reviews2023
Dev: Horgee GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.
Why similar: Resource Management 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 13.6%, Building 12.7%
- #5 Sheltered 2
94% 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: Post-apocalyptic 28%, Resource Management 22.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 14.2%, Building 8.8%
- #6 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
94% 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: Post-apocalyptic 27%, Base Building 22.3%, Survival 15.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #7 Rebirth evolution
93% matchMixed63% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.8%, Base Building 21.8%, Resource Management 17.8%, Survival 15.1%, Building 11%
- #8 Ragnorium
92% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Resource Management 18.1%, Base Building 16%, Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #9 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
91% 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: Time Management 35.1%, Post-apocalyptic 27.1%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 11.2%, Strategy 9.6%
- #10 After the Collapse
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Base Building 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 14.9%, Resource Management 13.6%
- #11 Sheltered
90% 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: Post-apocalyptic 29.9%, Base Building 23.3%, Survival 19.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 6.8%
- #12 Oxygen
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 879 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Base Building 21.1%, Resource Management 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Survival 13%
- #13 Endzone 2
88% matchMixed69% of 1,027 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 15.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 13%
- #14 Ecopunk
87% matchVery Positive85% of 126 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.4%, Sandbox 17.7%, Resource Management 17%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 13.5%
- #15 Project Thea
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: MuHa Games
Windows
Wake to a brutal world bent on destroying your colony. Rebuild, Explore the Wastelands, and Gather scarce resources. Will you strike a deal with the ruthless Baba Yaga - or hack a rogue Cyber-Rat to turn it into an ally? A dark strategy-survival RPG with card-based tactical combat.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.1%, Turn-Based Combat 20.3%, Roguelite 17.9%, Survival 13.8%, RPG 7.3%
- #16 Life in Bunker
89% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Survival 19%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #17 Cliff Empire
86% matchVery Positive87% of 4,350 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Resource Management 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Time Management 16.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 12.4%
- #18 Zombie Cure Lab
84% matchMixed69% of 455 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Resource Management 16.4%, Base Building 16.1%, Time Management 14.8%, Building 10.9%
- #19 Shelter Manager
85% matchMixed62% of 279 reviews2021
Dev: Hamsters Gaming
Windows
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.1%, War 18.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 14%, Survival 13.8%
- #20 This War of Mine
82% matchVery Positive94% of 97,008 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 25.4%, War 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 13.7%
- #21 Evolution of Ages: Settlements
83% matchVery Positive86% of 292 reviews2018
Dev: TREON Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world. Recruit characters and level their skills and equipment from the stone age until the space age, while trying your best to avoid the very thing that led to our destruction previously.
Why similar: Base Building 50%, RPG 25.1%, Strategy 24.9%
- #22 Machine Mind
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 484 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 17.9%, Building 11.9%, Survival 11.7%
- #23 Ocean Punk
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.4%
- #24 Project AURA
82% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: Resource Management 34.7%, Building 19%, Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 16.9%, Strategy 12.2%
- #25 The Wandering Village
78% matchVery Positive92% of 8,187 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Resource Management 19.3%, Life Sim 15.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #26 Survival Vacancy
81% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Resource Management 21.9%, Building 16.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 14.6%
- #27 汉尘:腐草为萤
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 405 reviews2025
Dev: 兰廷科技 Lanting Technology Co., Ltd.
Windows
“The last day of Han dynasty”It is a survival simulation business game based on the background of the end of the Han Dynasty in China. From the perspective of ordinary people, you can spend a difficult but warm time, and keep warm together with the characters you know in the troubled times.
Why similar: Life Sim 31.6%, Creature Collector 23.9%, Survival 19.6%, RPG 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #28 Lost Scavenger
79% matchMixed54% of 243 reviews2022
Dev: Rockbee
Windows
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: Post-apocalyptic 26.8%, Life Sim 18.4%, Turn-Based Combat 17.2%, Survival 13.7%, Sandbox 13.4%
- #29 Z Dawn
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 285 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Roguelite 15.3%, Survival 15.1%, Building 13.5%
- #30 Dust to the End
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,245 reviews2021
Dev: Haojoy GamePub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.2%, Base Building 22.1%, Turn-Based Combat 20.6%, Survival 13%, RPG 6.4%
- #31 Mr. Prepper
76% 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: Base Building 29.3%, Resource Management 24.1%, Survival 21.7%, Life Sim 19.6%, RPG 5.4%
- #32 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
77% matchVery Positive86% of 2,031 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 13.6%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #33 Ascent of Ashes
75% 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: Base Building 31.8%, Building 20.8%, Survival 20.5%, Sandbox 18.8%, Strategy 8.1%
- #34 Deep Among the Swarm
74% matchVery Positive88% of 138 reviews2024
Dev: Pebble Mountain Games
Windows
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
Why similar: Time Management 15.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Resource Management 15.2%, Roguelite 11%
- #35 NEO Scavenger
76% 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: Post-apocalyptic 41.8%, Survival 26.3%, Roguelike 12.2%, Sandbox 9.3%, RPG 6.6%
- #36 Roots of Yggdrasil
73% matchVery Positive87% of 357 reviews2024
Dev: ManaVoid Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike city-builder! Can you survive the end of the world?
Why similar: Time Management 24.1%, Resource Management 20.8%, Base Building 20.6%, Roguelite 13.4%, Roguelike 10.6%
- #37 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
72% matchVery Positive80% of 348 reviews2025
Dev: EXLIXPub: GRAVITY
Windows
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Roguelite 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Roguelike 10.3%
- #38 Snow Ash
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 201 reviews2026
Dev: Ember StudioPub: Paras Games
Windows
Snow Ash is a post-apocalyptic, wasteland-themed card-based trading and survival game. In this snow-covered world, you’ll take on the role of a messenger, braving blizzards to deliver goods between scattered shelters. In the biting cold and swirling snow, where will your journey lead?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29%, Resource Management 19.6%, Survival 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #39 Pandemic Train
73% matchMixed58% of 243 reviews2023
Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
Windows
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: War 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #40 Depth of Extinction
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 209 reviews2018
Dev: HOF Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
Why similar: Roguelite 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Turn-Based Combat 22.9%, RPG 10.4%, Strategy 9.2%
- #41 Survival Tycoon
75% matchMixed49% of 72 reviews2017
Pub: Displacement Studios
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%
It's the year 2041; the atmosphere is toxic from global warming and nuclear war. Can you survive in an unforgiving world?
Why similar: Resource Management 52.2%, Survival 27.5%, Strategy 20.4%
- #42 The Tribe Must Survive
71% matchMixed68% of 206 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Resource Management 21.5%, Base Building 20.2%, Building 14.9%, Roguelite 14.5%, Survival 13.4%
- #43 Oxygen: First Breath
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Base Building 23.7%, Resource Management 21.6%, Survival 13.9%, Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%
- #44 Homeseek
71% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
Windows
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.2%, Time Management 20.5%, Resource Management 18.3%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 11.4%
- #45 Earth 2160
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,551 reviews2006
Dev: Reality Pump StudiosPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
After the destruction of the EARTH in 2150, the leaders of the Eurasian Dynasty escaped on board an evacuation fleet. Now they are fighting for the survival of the human species. Their base is one large building comprising of smaller variable parts.
Why similar: Base Building 66.9%, Strategy 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #46 CleanFall
67% matchVery Positive93% of 478 reviews2025
Dev: Humanyoyo
Windows
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
Why similar: Creature Collector 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Roguelite 10.5%
- #47 Desktop Tourney World
70% matchMixed68% of 149 reviews2024
Dev: One leaf Games
Windows
Desktop Tourney World is a simulation construction, immortal cultivation survival game, you need to collect food, construct buildings, build equipment, and fight with all kinds of monsters.
Why similar: Strategy 34.2%, Resource Management 28.4%, Survival 18.8%, RPG 11.5%, 2D 7.2%
- #48 The wild darkness
68% matchVery Positive80% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: popeyed inc
Windows
Explore a survival-roguelike RPG set in an unknown and bizarre world. To withstand its many dangers, you'll need to gain new knowledge, scavenge for food, and acquire useful items. Craft, build, and learn your way through a crucial adventure to uncover the world's secrets.
Why similar: Base Building 24.8%, Survival 18.3%, Roguelite 18.2%, Roguelike 16.4%, Turn-Based Combat 14%
- #49 After Long Night
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 442 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Base Building 20.1%, Resource Management 20%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.1%
- #50 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
67% matchVery Positive85% of 4,559 reviews2024
Dev: MandragoraPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!
Why similar: Life Sim 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 13.4%
- #51 Space Haven
65% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Resource Management 17.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.7%
- #52 Waste Walkers
72% matchVery Positive80% of 215 reviews2015
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Turn-Based Combat 16.2%, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 14.7%
- #53 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
66% matchVery Positive92% of 306 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: Base Building 33.7%, Post-apocalyptic 24.6%, Building 19.2%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 11%
- #54 Green Project
69% matchVery Positive80% of 1,445 reviews2020
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 63.3%, Survival 36.7%
- #55 Project Cobalt
67% 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: Resource Management 34.5%, Sandbox 22.2%, Survival 22.1%, Building 21.2%
- #56 Aground Zero
67% matchVery Positive82% of 124 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.9%, Base Building 21.7%, Sandbox 18.4%, Building 12.9%, Survival 11.3%
- #57 ICY: Frostbite Edition
69% matchVery Positive86% of 401 reviews2017
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.
Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, RPG 17.6%, Story Rich 8%
- #58 Dead in Antares
64% matchMostly Positive80% of 181 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Resource Management 40.9%, Survival 24.4%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, RPG 9.9%, Strategy 8.5%