- #1 Post-Apo Builder
97% matchMixed43% of 63 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 26.5%, Base Building 20.1%, Time Management 18.4%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13.2%
- #2 The Last Haven
96% matchMixed61% of 1,526 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 27.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 9.2%
- #3 Surviving the Aftermath
96% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 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 16.3%, War 8.5%, Strategy 8.4%
- #4 The Rule of Land: Pioneers
95% matchMixed68% of 332 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 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 13.5%, Building 12.6%
- #5 Sheltered 2
94% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 27.7%, Resource Management 23.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 14.2%, Building 8.7%
- #6 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 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 26.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 15.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, 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 27.6%, Base Building 21.8%, Resource Management 18.1%, Survival 15%, Building 10.9%
- #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%, Resource Management 18.5%, Base Building 16%, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 11.5%
- #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 35.2%, Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Base Building 17%, Resource Management 11.4%, 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 24.2%, Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Resource Management 13.8%
- #11 Sheltered
90% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 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 29.7%, Base Building 23.3%, Survival 19.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 6.7%
- #12 Oxygen
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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%, Resource Management 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Survival 12.9%
- #13 Endzone 2
88% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 26.7%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 15.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Survival 12.9%
- #14 Ecopunk
87% matchVery Positive84% of 114 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 29.8%, Sandbox 18.1%, Resource Management 17.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 13.4%
- #15 Life in Bunker
89% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 20.8%, Survival 18.9%, Sandbox 15.9%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #16 Project Thea
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 73 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%, Turn-Based Combat 20.1%, Roguelite 18.2%, Survival 13.7%, RPG 7.3%
- #17 Cliff Empire
86% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 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 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Time Management 16.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Building 12.3%
- #18 Zombie Cure Lab
84% matchMixed69% of 448 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 17.7%, Resource Management 16.7%, Base Building 16%, Time Management 14.8%, Building 10.8%
- #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%, War 18.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 14%, Survival 13.8%
- #20 This War of Mine
82% matchVery Positive94% of 96,656 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.6 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 25.3%, War 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 13.9%
- #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%, Strategy 25%
- #22 Ocean Punk
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 166 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 28.7%, Resource Management 17.1%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 10.4%
- #23 Machine Mind
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 374 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%, Base Building 18.7%, Resource Management 18.2%, Building 11.8%, Survival 11.6%
- #24 The Wandering Village
78% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 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 26.3%, Resource Management 19.6%, Life Sim 15.7%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #25 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 35.2%, Building 18.8%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 16.7%, Strategy 12.1%
- #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 22.3%, Building 16.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 14.5%
- #27 Lost Scavenger
80% matchMixed54% of 242 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 26.6%, Life Sim 18.5%, Turn-Based Combat 17.3%, Survival 13.6%, Sandbox 13.4%
- #28 Z Dawn
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 282 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.2%, Turn-Based Combat 18.3%, Roguelite 15.5%, Survival 15%, Building 13.5%
- #29 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
78% matchVery Positive86% of 2,019 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.8 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 26.5%, Base Building 17.9%, Survival 13.6%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #30 Dust to the End
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,241 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 32.1%, Base Building 22.1%, Turn-Based Combat 20.7%, Survival 12.9%, RPG 6.4%
- #31 Mr. Prepper
77% matchVery Positive80% of 5,315 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 28.9%, Resource Management 24.5%, Survival 21.6%, Life Sim 19.7%, RPG 5.3%
- #32 汉尘:腐草为萤
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 400 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 31.8%, Creature Collector 23.7%, Survival 19.5%, RPG 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #33 Ascent of Ashes
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 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 31.9%, Building 20.8%, Survival 20.4%, Sandbox 18.8%, Strategy 8.1%
- #34 NEO Scavenger
76% matchVery Positive90% of 5,359 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.2 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 41.5%, Survival 26.2%, Roguelike 12.5%, Sandbox 9.3%, RPG 6.6%
- #35 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
74% matchVery Positive82% of 338 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 24.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Roguelite 15.9%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Roguelike 10.4%
- #36 Deep Among the Swarm
74% matchVery Positive88% of 137 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%, Resource Management 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Roguelite 11.1%
- #37 Roots of Yggdrasil
72% matchVery Positive88% of 346 reviews2024
Dev: ManaVoid Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.1 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%, Resource Management 21%, Base Building 20.4%, Roguelite 13.4%, Roguelike 10.6%
- #38 Pandemic Train
73% matchMixed57% of 241 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 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #39 Survival Tycoon
76% matchMixed49% of 72 reviews2017
Pub: Displacement Studios
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.8 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 52.7%, Survival 27.1%, Strategy 20.2%
- #40 Oxygen: First Breath
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 21.9%, Survival 13.8%, Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12%
- #41 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 21.8%, Base Building 20.1%, Building 14.7%, Roguelite 14.6%, Survival 13.3%
- #42 Depth of Extinction
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 209 reviews2018
Dev: HOF Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements
Why similar: Roguelite 27%, Post-apocalyptic 26.4%, Turn-Based Combat 22.9%, RPG 10.3%, Strategy 9.2%
- #43 Snow Ash
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 192 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 28.6%, Resource Management 20%, Survival 13.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
- #44 Desktop Tourney World
71% 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 34.1%, Resource Management 28.8%, Survival 18.6%, RPG 11.3%, 2D 7.2%
- #45 The wild darkness
69% matchVery Positive81% of 88 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 24.6%, Roguelite 19%, Survival 18.1%, Roguelike 16.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13.7%
- #46 I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
67% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 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 22%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 13.4%
- #47 After Long Night
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 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: Resource Management 20.4%, Base Building 20%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12%
- #48 Earth 2160
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,542 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 66.8%, Strategy 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #49 CleanFall
67% matchVery Positive93% of 452 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 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Roguelite 10.7%
- #50 Waste Walkers
72% matchVery Positive81% of 212 reviews2015
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.6 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 24.8%, Base Building 20.6%, Turn-Based Combat 16.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Survival 14.7%
- #51 Green Project
70% matchVery Positive80% of 1,437 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%
- #52 Aground Zero
67% matchVery Positive82% of 122 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 21.6%, Sandbox 18.4%, Building 12.9%, Survival 11.3%
- #53 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 35%, Sandbox 22%, Survival 21.9%, Building 21%
- #54 ICY: Frostbite Edition
69% matchVery Positive86% of 400 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 20.4%, RPG 17.6%, Story Rich 8%
- #55 翎之歌
66% matchVery Positive90% of 123 reviews2025
Dev: YuKi制作组Pub: 崩溃猛犸
Windows
《Song of Feathers》 is a deeply immersive post apocalyptic survival adventure game. In this world shrouded in the shadow of the apocalypse, Players will play as the last human in this desperate land, searching for the meaning of survival and the opportunity to rebuild civilization.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.7%, Visual Novel 24.2%, Survival 18.8%, RPG 9%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #56 Help Will Come Tomorrow
68% matchVery Positive80% of 925 reviews2020
Dev: Arclight CreationsPub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.
Why similar: Resource Management 31.7%, Survival 19.4%, Roguelite 17%, Roguelike 12.8%, Story Rich 7.7%
- #57 New Cycle
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Resource Management 19.7%, Base Building 19.6%, Building 14.8%, Survival 14.2%
- #58 Rebirth of Island
70% matchMixed52% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.
Why similar: Resource Management 36.2%, Survival 28.7%, RPG 17.8%, Strategy 17.3%