- #1 Plague Inc: Evolved
97% matchVery Positive94% of 59,582 reviews2016
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 71.8% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 7.5%, Tactical 3.7%, Survival 1.3%
- #2 Bio Inc. Redemption
96% matchVery Positive88% of 2,788 reviews2018
Dev: DryGin Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Bio Inc.: Redemption is a realistic simulation and strategy game in which you make life or death decisions. Create a deadly illness to infect and torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your human patient. Will you be the plague or preserve humanity?
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 76.7% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 6.8%, Difficult 3.4%, Atmospheric 2%
- #3 Infection Free Zone
95% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 67.1% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Survival 10.1%, Simulation 6.9%, Dark 1.8%
- #4 Rebel Inc: Escalation
94% matchVery Positive82% of 7,070 reviews2021
Dev: Ndemic CreationsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.
Why similar: Tactical 38.3%, Strategy 37.7%, Simulation 24%
- #5 Quasimorph
93% matchVery Positive83% of 5,924 reviews2023
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based extraction RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.9%, Tactical 21%, Strategy 18.3%, Difficult 7.3%
- #6 COVID: The Outbreak
94% matchMostly Positive69% of 95 reviews2020
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 53.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
COVID: The Outbreak is a real-time strategy game in which you play the role of a global organization that has to deal with a global pandemic. Issue decrees, manage resources, develop projects, and construct buildings. A race for the vaccine begins!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 83.8% ★, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 4%, Indie 1.7%
- #7 Breach & Clear
92% matchVery Positive82% of 2,423 reviews2014
Dev: Mighty Rabbit StudiosPub: Gun Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...
Why similar: Tactical 29.8%, Strategy 29.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 4.6%
- #8 Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,375 reviews2019
Dev: Mi-Clos StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A Turn-based Strategy game in a futuristic global cold war from the award-winning creators of Out There. Recruit a squad of special agents and run your intel agency to secure the control of the singularity.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 34.8%, Strategy 23.4%, Tactical 20.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Difficult 8.1%
- #9 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
89% matchVery Positive82% of 10,961 reviews2026
Dev: Brigada GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.
Why similar: Simulation 80.4%, Atmospheric 19.6%
- #10 Surviving the Aftermath
90% 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: Strategy 36.9%, Survival 29.6%, Simulation 23.2%, Tactical 6.6%, Difficult 2.4%
- #11 Rencounter
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 373 reviews2016
Dev: SPVDPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.
Why similar: Strategy 34.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 31.2%, RPG 13.7%, Difficult 10.2%, Indie 6.3%
- #12 Recon Control
89% matchVery Positive84% of 132 reviews2021
Dev: Dmitry KozlovPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Recon Control is a turn-based strategy and 2D platformer hybrid focused on combat. Lead your special operations squad through a set of challenging and deadly missions.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 23.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 22.9%, Strategy 17.7%, Tactical 16.6%, Simulation 10.1%
- #13 End State
87% matchMixed63% of 137 reviews2022
Dev: Finger Squad
Windows
End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 26.7%, Strategy 22.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.4%, Tactical 17.6%, RPG 7%
- #14 Pandemic Train
86% 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: Survival 37.2%, Strategy 31.8%, Simulation 19.4%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Indie 4.3%
- #15 Infect and Destroy
88% matchMostly Negative36% of 58 reviews2015
Dev: FarrugiaSoft
Windows · Linux
Play as the zombies! Infect and Destroy is an indie game in which you play as an infectious disease with the sole purpose of eliminating everyone on Earth. Play as an ultra-intelligent self-aware virus capable of reanimating the dead and turning them into your minions.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 82.6% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 5.4%, Survival 2.8%, Indie 1.3%
- #16 Dead Age
86% matchVery Positive82% of 5,580 reviews2016
Dev: Silent DreamsPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Strategy 26.7%, Survival 26.4%, Simulation 15.8%, RPG 14.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%
- #17 Chromosome Evil
85% matchVery Positive83% of 348 reviews2022
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Strategy 26.5%, Survival 24.1%, Tactical 19.8%, Simulation 17.6%, Atmospheric 6.2%
- #18 Quarantine Zombies
84% matchMixed57% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Stones Games
Windows
A first-person shooter meets quarantine inspection in post-apocalyptic Chicago. You’ve got 30 days until the army arrives. Hold out, fix your car, and fight your way through Chicago to the main checkpoint to save your little brother.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 83.2% ★, Survival 9.6%, Simulation 5.8%, Atmospheric 0.7%, Indie 0.6%
- #19 Wanna Survive
84% matchVery Positive93% of 301 reviews2019
Dev: PINIX
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Turn-Based Strategy 22.9%, Tactical 20.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.3%, Survival 13.9%, Strategy 12.9%
- #20 Urban Strife
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 371 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: Turn-Based Strategy 20.8%, Survival 19.6%, Strategy 18.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.2%, Tactical 16.5%
- #21 Strain Tactics
83% matchVery Positive85% of 239 reviews2017
Dev: Touch Dimensions Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Strain Tactics is a real-time-with-pause tactical game, where you command a squad of soldiers to liberate earth from an alien infestation. Using your helibase, deploy your custom squad and provide air support. Remember to keep your crew sane and motivated while staying clear of alien contamination!
Why similar: Strategy 77.3%, RPG 12.6%, Indie 10.1%
- #22 All Quiet in the Trenches
80% matchVery Positive90% of 855 reviews2024
Dev: Totally Not Aliens
Windows · Linux
All Quiet in the Trenches is a narrative turn-based strategy RPG set in World War I. Get to know your soldiers, take care of their needs and lead them in battle, trying to strike a precarious balance between the ambitions of your superiors and the survival of your men.
Why similar: Survival 34.8%, Strategy 30.8%, Simulation 16.1%, RPG 10.9%, Atmospheric 4.3%
- #23 Classified: France '44
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 931 reviews2024
Dev: Absolutely GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Command an elite team of allied special operators in Nazi-occupied France wreaking havoc in the run up to D-Day in this ambitious turn-based tactics game. Take on the might of Germany's war machine and launch daring raids in occupied territory. Can you do enough to ensure Allied victory?
Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 27%, Turn-Based Strategy 26.2%, Tactical 22.7%, Strategy 18.7%, RPG 5.5%
- #24 As We Descend
79% matchVery Positive87% of 1,106 reviews2025
Dev: Box DragonPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 36%, Turn-Based Tactics 33.5%, Strategy 26%, Simulation 4.6%
- #25 War Of The Zombie
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 67 reviews2018
Dev: Van der Veer Games
Windows · Mac
War of the Zombie brings together the best of turn-based simulation and real-time strategic gameplay action across the entire world at the very start of a mysterious undead outbreak.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 77% ★, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 9.2%
- #26 Counter Terrorist Agency
81% matchMixed45% of 538 reviews2019
Dev: Play2ChillPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Counter Terrorist Agency lets you fight international terrorism and prevent attacks all over the world. Use modern invigilation techniques, discover connections, interrogate suspects, eliminate threats and dismantle terrorist networks.
Why similar: Strategy 48.4%, Simulation 33.1%, Indie 7.6%, Difficult 6.3%, Atmospheric 4.7%
- #27 Xenonauts 2
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,657 reviews2023
Dev: Goldhawk InteractivePub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 27.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 25.2%, Tactical 20%, Strategy 19.9%, RPG 7.7%
- #28 MENACE
74% matchVery Positive91% of 10,002 reviews2026
Dev: Overhype StudiosPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 26.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.3%, Strategy 21.8%, Tactical 18.7%, RPG 8.5%
- #29 Tactical Combat Department
78% matchMixed63% of 111 reviews2022
Dev: LukasHPub: Render System
Windows
Tactical Combat Department is a tactical turn-based strategy game inspired by Swat games. You command a special intervention squad that intervenes in various situations and environments.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 24.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 24.1%, Tactical 20.7%, Strategy 15.6%, RPG 7.2%
- #30 Broken Lines
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 693 reviews2020
Dev: BirdIsland/PortaPlayPub: SuperGG.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Broken Lines is a story-driven tactical RPG set in an alternate-history version of WWII. Lead a squad of soldiers and face the horrors of war. In the included expansion, 'The Dead and the Drunk', guide your troops through fights against both the living and the undead.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 72.9% ★, Turn-Based Tactics 12.9%, Strategy 10.3%, RPG 3.9%
- #31 Z Dawn
77% 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: Turn-Based Strategy 30.1%, Strategy 26.8%, Survival 25.3%, RPG 9.9%, Indie 4.1%
- #32 Gears Tactics
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,500 reviews2020
Dev: Splash DamagePub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
Why similar: Strategy 47.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 28.6%, Tactical 16.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 5.2%, RPG 2.7%
- #33 Stories from the Outbreak
74% matchVery Positive81% of 153 reviews2024
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Survival 45.6%, Strategy 36.3%, RPG 13.5%, Atmospheric 4.6%
- #34 Ascent of Ashes
73% 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: Survival 38.7%, Strategy 37.5%, Simulation 23.8%
- #35 Dead State: Reanimated
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,543 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Survival 39.7%, Strategy 21.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, RPG 12.7%, Tactical 6.4%
- #36 Quarantineer
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: Papaonn
Windows · Mac
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 71.5% ★, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 7.6%
- #37 Othercide
72% matchVery Positive82% of 5,143 reviews2020
Dev: Lightbulb CrewPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
Why similar: Strategy 30.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 25.1%, Tactical 14.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Dark 5.3%
- #38 Xenopurge
70% matchVery Positive88% of 329 reviews2025
Dev: TrapticsPub: Firesquid
Windows
Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
Why similar: Strategy 40.3%, Tactical 31.2%, Simulation 22.6%, Atmospheric 5.9%
- #39 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
73% 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: Outbreak Sim 53.9% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 6.3%
- #40 Forsaken Fortress Strategy
76% matchMostly Negative34% of 197 reviews2015
Dev: Photon ArenaPub: KISS ltd
Windows
Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.
Why similar: Strategy 49.2%, Simulation 26.1%, RPG 18.1%, Indie 6.5%
- #41 No Plan B
69% matchVery Positive87% of 793 reviews2024
Dev: GFX47
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Carefully plan your team's tactics in close quarters battles. Use the timeline to synchronize each door breach, grenade throw and room entry with precision. Watch your team execute your plan autonomously in epic cinematic replays. Take on challenging roguelike campaigns or standalone missions.
Why similar: Strategy 39%, Tactical 19.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.7%
- #42 Darkest Dungeon®
70% matchVery Positive92% of 158,223 reviews2016
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Why similar: Strategy 33.1%, RPG 24.1%, Difficult 21.1%, Dark 10.5%, Atmospheric 7%
- #43 Vigilantes
71% matchVery Positive81% of 301 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 27.3%, Strategy 24.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.6%, Tactical 16%, RPG 7%
- #44 Sheltered
71% 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: Survival 53.2%, Strategy 25.3%, Simulation 9.6%, RPG 7%, Difficult 2.5%
- #45 Infectious
72% matchMixed65% of 80 reviews2020
Dev: Ziggy Makes Games
Windows
Play as a lethal virus infecting various organs in your host's body while trying to outsmart the immune cells that seek to eliminate you and your kind. Generate clones and watch them propagate, infecting cells and taking down bosses.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 82.1% ★, Survival 8.1%, Simulation 7%, Atmospheric 1.9%, Indie 1%
- #46 中国战疫
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: 不吃蛋黄
Windows
《中国战疫》是一款科普防疫知识的模拟经营类游戏,玩家将临危受命地前往不同地区进行疫情控制,展示中国防疫的成功经验,最终达成疫情控制和经济稳定的双赢。
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 84.7% ★, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.5%
- #47 Dead Season
68% matchMixed69% of 188 reviews2024
Dev: Snail BitePub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
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: Turn-Based Strategy 24.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.7%, Tactical 20.2%, Strategy 16.1%, RPG 6.5%
- #48 This War of Mine
67% 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 55.9%, Strategy 22.8%, Simulation 13.4%, Atmospheric 5.6%, Indie 2.3%
- #49 Anoxia Station
66% matchVery Positive80% of 195 reviews2025
Dev: BonereadersPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 31.3%, Survival 23.3%, Strategy 20.9%, Simulation 13%, Dark 7.7%
- #50 Black Legend
69% matchMixed65% of 208 reviews2021
Dev: Warcave
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A dark, immersive Turn Based Strategy RPG. Master tactical combat and the art of 17th century alchemy to liberate a doomed city from a bloodthirsty cult inspired by the great alchemist Mephisto.
Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 21.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.2%, Tactical 19.8%, Strategy 17.9%, Difficult 6%
- #51 The Fabulous Fear Machine
66% matchVery Positive90% of 560 reviews2023
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: AMC Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Fabulous Fear Machine is a narrative-driven strategy game with a pulp horror style. As the Machine's new Master, you must sow fear and expand your influence by creating Legends, harvesting resources, manipulating events, and spying on your enemies.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.1% ★, Strategy 9%, Simulation 6.4%, Difficult 3.4%, Indie 1.6%
- #52 Self-Isolation
67% matchVery Positive86% of 491 reviews2020
Dev: Dymchick1
Windows
This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.
Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, Dark 23.1%, Atmospheric 15.1%, Difficult 11.9%, Indie 11.1%
- #53 911 Operator
66% matchVery Positive89% of 19,330 reviews2017
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!
Why similar: Strategy 44.9%, Simulation 34.7%, Tactical 13.9%, Indie 4.2%, Atmospheric 2.3%
- #54 Deep Among the Swarm
65% 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: Survival 36%, Strategy 32.5%, Simulation 22%, Difficult 5.9%, Indie 3.6%
- #55 Depth of Extinction
68% 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: Turn-Based Tactics 34.6%, Strategy 29.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.5%, RPG 11.5%