- #1 Punk Wars: Prologue
97% matchMostly Positive73% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Strategy Forge S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows
Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.
Why similar: 4X 23.4% ★, Steampunk 16.6% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #2 Dieselpunk Wars
96% matchMixed63% of 157 reviews2021
Dev: Image Power S.A.Pub: CreativeForge Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Dieselpunk Wars is a vehicle building game, focused on combat with advanced physics and damage simulation. Use over 300 elements to build a war machine of your dreams. Construct vehicles that ride on the ground, soar through the skies, or dive underwater. Prepare for combat and test your skills!
Why similar: Steampunk 65.3% ★, Building 22.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #3 Kaiju Wars
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 272 reviews2022
Dev: Foolish Mortals Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Play out a Kaiju movie as the (hopelessly) outclassed military in this stylish 2D turn-based strategy game. Construct buildings and defend your city with cannon-fodder tanks, jets and more as the devastating kaiju grow in power with every attack.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 27.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.4%, Wargame 21.2%, Isometric 16.1%, Strategy 10.1%
- #4 Industries of Titan
95% matchMixed62% of 1,613 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: 4X 36.9% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Building 8.5%, Strategy 5.7%
- #5 Revival: Recolonization
94% matchMixed69% of 424 reviews2024
Dev: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
Why similar: 4X 56.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.5%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 5.7%, Exploration 5.7%
- #6 Pax Nova
94% matchMixed56% of 450 reviews2020
Dev: Grey Wolf EntertainmentPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.
Why similar: 4X 52.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.9%, Building 10.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Exploration 5.6%
- #7 Burned Land
93% matchMixed56% of 102 reviews2021
Dev: Koya Game
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Burned Land is a 4x game in which you will take control of a nascent human race and try to avoid its extinction. Build, explore, conquer until you are worthy of gods. Then confront their anger.
Why similar: 4X 50.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 19.7%, Survival 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.5%, Strategy 5.7%
- #8 Shardpunk
91% matchVery Positive93% of 774 reviews2023
Dev: Clockwork PilePub: Retrovibe
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Why similar: Steampunk 35.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.8%, Survival 12.6%, Isometric 10.9%
- #9 The Last Haven
91% 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 29.4%, City Builder 22.6%, Survival 15.4%, Strategy 15.1%, Building 8.5%
- #10 Airship Dragoon
92% matchMixed52% of 64 reviews2014
Dev: YorkshireRifles
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Uber-Hardcore, Turn-Based, Steampunk, Squad Tactics. Battle 6 other factions for control of Pangea in emergent, tactical gameplay.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Steampunk 28.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Wargame 10.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%
- #11 Frostpunk
89% matchVery Positive93% of 135,886 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Why similar: Steampunk 29.7% ★, City Builder 26.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Survival 13.3%, Strategy 5.9%
- #12 Z Dawn
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 288 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.3 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: 4X 28.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Survival 14.7%, Building 10.2%
- #13 Necromunda: Underhive Wars
89% matchMixed56% of 2,976 reviews2020
Dev: Rogue FactorPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Deep below the hive cities of Necromunda, lead, customize and grow your gang in the twisted tunnels of the dystopian Underhive. Face rival gangs in tactical gunfights for power, wealth, survival, and honor.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 63%, Strategy 33.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #14 Imperiums: Greek Wars
88% matchVery Positive86% of 544 reviews2020
Dev: Kube Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!
Why similar: 4X 55.3% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 21.5%, Strategy 7.6%, Exploration 6.3%, Simulation 5.3%
- #15 KAISERPUNK
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 847 reviews2025
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Wargame 25.6%, Building 15.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7.9%
- #16 Surviving the Aftermath
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,548 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.3 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: City Builder 31.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.4%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7%
- #17 New Cycle
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,839 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: City Builder 29.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Survival 15%, Building 12.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #18 Twilight Wars
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 254 reviews2025
Dev: Comrade Bear Games
Windows
Twilight Wars is a tactical dungeon crawler set in a neon-drenched cyberpunk future. Corporations rule the world. Rebuild a shattered spy agency, assemble a team of elite operatives, and wage a covert war to reclaim the world from the shadows.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 50.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 32.7%, Strategy 13.5%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #19 Lethis - Path of Progress
85% matchMixed68% of 1,214 reviews2015
Dev: Triskell Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
Why similar: Steampunk 40.5% ★, City Builder 31.6%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.3%
- #20 Vigilantes
84% matchVery Positive81% of 304 reviews2018
Dev: Timeslip Softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Vigilantes is a combat focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in the crime riddled city of Reiker. The game offers hardcore squad-level combat in a gritty neo-noir setting, intel gathering through surveillance and interrogation, a detailed character system, base facilities, crafting, and more.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 24.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.3%, Dystopian 22.1%, Isometric 18.1%, Strategy 11.8%
- #21 Raiders! Forsaken Earth
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2020
Dev: Creative Storm EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 25.7%, Isometric 21.6%, Building 16.9%, Strategy 9.2%
- #22 Frostpunk 2
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,488 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Steampunk 19.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Survival 16.2%, Strategy 8.6%
- #23 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
82% matchVery Positive86% of 2,039 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: 4X 32.3% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.3%, Survival 9.8%
- #24 Marble Age: Remastered
81% matchVery Positive86% of 402 reviews2020
Dev: Clarus Victoria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!
Why similar: 4X 25.6% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Survival 13.7%, Building 10.5%
- #25 Chromosome Evil
80% matchVery Positive83% of 355 reviews2022
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Post-apocalyptic 41.6%, Survival 27%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 12%, Singleplayer 4.2%
- #26 Post-Apo Builder
79% matchMixed43% of 68 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 34%, City Builder 29%, Building 17.8%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 4.8%
- #27 Yield! Fall of Rome
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 263 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
Why similar: 4X 35.7% ★, City Builder 20%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%, Building 8.9%
- #28 IXION
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,436 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 41.6%, Survival 19.1%, Building 11.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%
- #29 Endzone - A World Apart
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,918 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 38.5%, Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Survival 17%, Strategy 8.1%, Building 6.3%
- #30 HUMANKIND™
77% matchMixed69% of 28,527 reviews2021
Dev: AMPLITUDE Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.
Why similar: 4X 41.1% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Survival 2.4%
- #31 Star Traders: 4X Empires
81% matchMixed63% of 82 reviews2014
Dev: Trese Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take command of humanity’s last survivors and rebuild an empire in the stars. In this immersive turn-based strategy game, you will have to fight to protect your people, control rival factions, and unlock lost technology.
Why similar: 4X 56.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 21.8%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 4.7%
- #32 Neuroshima Hex
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Baked Games
Windows
Neuroshima Hex is a post-apocalyptic tactical game from the designers of Neuroshima, the board game. It is all about strategy and tactics on one hexagonal battlefield. The game offers many different units, technologies and special abilities that can be used for an effective strategy.
Why similar: Steampunk 29.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%
- #33 Showgunners
75% matchVery Positive93% of 1,913 reviews2023
Dev: ArtificerPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As a contestant on a high stakes reality game show of the future, you must survive a dangerous urban environment packed with traps, confounding puzzles, and heavily armed psychopaths. Turn-based combat in hand crafted levels, built for entertainment.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 22%, Dystopian 20.7%, Isometric 19.6%, Strategy 8.2%
- #34 Duskpunk
73% matchVery Positive91% of 174 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Why similar: Steampunk 52.6% ★, Dystopian 20.4%, Lore-Rich 19.7%, Exploration 7.3%
- #35 Pandora: First Contact
78% matchMixed63% of 644 reviews2014
Dev: Proxy StudiosPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
Why similar: 4X 61.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Simulation 4.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #36 Emperor of the Fading Suns Enhanced
72% matchVery Positive95% of 183 reviews2025
Dev: Holistic Design, Inc.
Windows · Linux
Command interstellar forces in this epic return of the 4X strategy classic. From planetary politics to galactic warfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher as you lead your Royal House through battles on land, sea, air, and the vast reaches of space.
Why similar: 4X 39.8% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 15.6%, Wargame 15.4%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Building 7.7%
- #37 Skid Cities
75% matchMixed66% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Vittorio Banfi
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Cyberpunk City Building Game. Define the city of a twisted, dark, utopian, or dystopian future. Build it in the sky, underground, on the ground. Navigate evil corporations, the Yakuza, android revolts, and unrest. Or embrace them - your choice.
Why similar: City Builder 43.3%, Dystopian 21.5%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Isometric 8.1%
- #38 After Inc: Revival
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,338 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Dystopian 15%, Building 5.9%
- #39 Urban Strife
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 399 reviews2024
Dev: White Pond GamesPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 19%, Survival 17.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.5%, Isometric 14.4%
- #40 Heart of the Machine
69% matchVery Positive92% of 2,051 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 38.3% ★, City Builder 24.9%, Survival 12.3%, Building 10.7%, Strategy 6.7%
- #41 Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 410 reviews2019
Dev: Tortuga Team
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 27.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 23.4%, Isometric 22%, Stylized 9.8%, Strategy 9.6%
- #42 Epoch Cycle
71% matchMostly Positive69% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: GeometricUniverse
Windows
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world. Every collapse fuels the rise of a new era—your choices will forge a legacy across four monumental epochs.
Why similar: City Builder 58.8%, Building 21.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #43 Rogue State Revolution
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 538 reviews2021
Dev: LRDGames, Inc.Pub: Modern Wolf
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
Why similar: 4X 58.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 24.7%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.3%, Singleplayer 2%
- #44 Stars in Shadow
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 833 reviews2017
Dev: Ashdar GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
Why similar: 4X 63.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.3%, Strategy 10.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 5.4%
- #45 Rogue Hex
70% matchVery Positive87% of 272 reviews2025
Dev: Topstitch Games
Windows · Mac
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
Why similar: 4X 46.9% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 15%, Building 7.5%, Strategy 6.5%
- #46 Dune: Spice Wars
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,441 reviews2023
Dev: Shiro GamesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Why similar: 4X 63.6% ★, Building 15.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #47 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
71% matchVery Positive85% of 10,496 reviews2018
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.1%, Isometric 21.1%, Survival 20.4%, Exploration 9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #48 The Battle of Polytopia
70% matchVery Positive94% of 5,904 reviews2020
Dev: Midjiwan AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.
Why similar: 4X 39% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.6%, Isometric 11.7%, Building 8.7%
- #49 Airships: Conquer the Skies
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,532 reviews2018
Dev: David Stark
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
Why similar: 4X 41% ★, Steampunk 25.8% ★, Wargame 19%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 3.9%
- #50 Tempest Rising
66% matchVery Positive88% of 11,543 reviews2025
Dev: Slipgate Ironworks™Pub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
Why similar: Strategy 54.4%, Isometric 20.5%, Wargame 15.5%, 3D 5%, Singleplayer 4.6%
- #51 Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,769 reviews2021
Dev: Dark Crystal GamesPub: Prime Matter
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.8%, Isometric 23.8%, Strategy 14%, Survival 10.3%, Exploration 7.5%
- #52 Last Days of Old Earth
73% matchMixed60% of 57 reviews2016
Dev: Auroch DigitalPub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Last Days of Old Earth is a rich strategy game set in our far, far future where the sun is dying. Can you command the last noble tribes of humanity as they attempt to survive among the machines and marauding clans?
Why similar: 4X 33% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.2%
- #53 Ratten Reich
68% matchMixed42% of 691 reviews2025
Dev: METALLADLERSTUDIO
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 1.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Ratten Reich is an RTS focusing on realistic combat in a unique, steampunk/dieselpunk world ripped apart by an ongoing war between rats, mice, cockroaches, and lizards.
Why similar: Steampunk 44.2% ★, Wargame 36.7%, Strategy 12.9%, 3D 6.3%
- #54 Cliff Empire
68% matchVery Positive87% of 4,363 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: City Builder 40.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 8%
- #55 Ecopunk
65% matchVery Positive84% of 129 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 47.7%, Survival 27%, Simulation 13.5%, Building 9.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #56 Age of Wonders: Planetfall
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 6,625 reviews2019
Dev: Triumph StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.
Why similar: 4X 44.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 26.1%, City Builder 18%, Strategy 9.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #57 Iron Harvest
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 15,887 reviews2020
Dev: KING ArtPub: Prime Matter
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
Why similar: Steampunk 74.8% ★, Strategy 22.6%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #58 Terra Invicta
62% matchVery Positive81% of 9,434 reviews2026
Dev: Pavonis InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 52.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Why similar: 4X 58.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.8%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #59 Kingdom Wars 4
68% matchMixed66% of 239 reviews2021
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 38%
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
Why similar: 4X 33.9% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Wargame 17.3%, Survival 8.5%, Building 7.4%