Games Like Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.

Why similar: Realistic 19.5%, Immersive Sim 16.4%, Management 16.3%, Simulation 14.9%, First-Person 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core gameplay loop of managing a checkpoint, inspecting documents, and making high-stakes decisions about who to let through.

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: Zombies 30%, Post-apocalyptic 25.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 9.8%, Immersive Sim 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar focus on managing a base within a zombie-infested city while dealing with resource scarcity.

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: Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same grim atmosphere and difficult moral choices regarding survival and resource management in a collapsing society.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Simulation 46%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Atmospheric 14.2%, Singleplayer 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive checkpoint management game that forces players to balance bureaucratic rules with moral dilemmas.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Zombies 49.2%, Base Building 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Simulation 5.2%, Atmospheric 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides deep base management and survival mechanics in a world overrun by zombies.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 53.5%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Building 8%, Realistic 7.8%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most realistic and punishing survival and resource management experience in a zombie apocalypse.

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: Post-apocalyptic 32.5%, Resource Management 22.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 9.5%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at forcing players to make impossible moral choices while managing limited resources to keep a society alive.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Dark Humor 29%, Choices Matter 26.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on surveillance and moral choices, forcing you to decide the fate of others while managing your own survival.

Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

Why similar: Life Sim 54%, Simulation 36.8%, Multiple Endings 5.3%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar dystopian border control mechanic where you must screen individuals under strict government guidelines.

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.7%, Dark Humor 23.2%, Life Sim 15.5%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Management 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines intense resource management with time-sensitive choices in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 38.3%, Base Building 24.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 11.6%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the management of a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic bunker where every decision impacts survival.

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

Why similar: Zombies 32.7%, Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Choices Matter 15%, Management 13.3%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a gritty, atmospheric survival-horror experience focused on managing resources during a zombie outbreak.

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 30.3%, Base Building 22.3%, Zombies 10.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a solid base-building and survival game that tasks you with protecting a community in a post-apocalyptic world.

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

Why similar: Zombies 74.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Base Building 3.1%, Simulation 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features turn-based combat and complex base management where you must deal with survivors and resource shortages.

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: Zombies 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 12.6%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with the unique challenge of curing zombies rather than just destroying them.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 38.1%, Management 22.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Building 13.8%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep colony management and survival mechanics where you must constantly manage resources and threats.

Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Zombies 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a colony simulation that tasks you with rebuilding society in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-filled world.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Zombies 38.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.3%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a first-person perspective on zombie survival with a heavy emphasis on base building and defense.

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 30.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Resource Management 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on real-time strategy and base defense against zombie hordes, requiring efficient resource management.

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: Zombies 37.3%, Simulation 29.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Realistic 8.1%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a strategic look at outbreak management, offering a different perspective on the plague mechanics.

Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Zombies 57.4%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Singleplayer 4.3%, First-Person 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers an immersive first-person zombie survival experience that requires careful resource management.

A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!

Why similar: Dark Humor 25.7%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Management 17.1%, Resource Management 14.4%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on surveillance and the moral weight of observing others, similar to the screening process in a checkpoint.

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.4%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Resource Management 16.6%, Simulation 12.2%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the impact of choices and inventory management in a narrative-driven survival experience.

Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Management 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival, crafting, and base management in a post-apocalyptic setting.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.1%, First-Person 23.9%, Atmospheric 18.9%, Simulation 13.1%, Singleplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a masterclass in survival and resource management in a harsh, unforgiving environment.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Zombies 62.8%, Post-apocalyptic 29.4%, Simulation 5%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is a classic survival game that forces you to make difficult choices while managing resources on a dangerous journey.

Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Management 14.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Zombies 10%, Immersive Sim 9.9%

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: Post-apocalyptic 27.2%, Base Building 26.5%, Simulation 18.8%, Management 14.1%, Resource Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a simulation game that tasks you with managing a bunker and ensuring the survival of its inhabitants.

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

Why similar: Zombies 100%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the importance of choices and resource management while traveling through a zombie-infested world.

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

Why similar: Zombies 26.5%, Life Sim 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 11.6%, Building 9.9%

Experience the first four days of the Prologue, where FPS action 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 to the main checkpoint to save your younger brother.

Why similar: Zombies 27.2%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Management 8%, First-Person 7%

The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is a zombie-apocalypse hoarding survival sim. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.

Why similar: Zombies 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Resource Management 14%, Life Sim 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%

Quarantine is an intense turn-based strategy game about waging war on pandemic disease. Recruit a team of specialized operatives to deploy on worldwide missions. Research the contagion, upgrade your tech, and quarantine the outbreak before it kills us all.

Why similar: Simulation 81%, Atmospheric 19%

Why You'll Like It: It is a strategy-based outbreak simulation that requires careful management of resources to stop a global pandemic.

Once you get tangled with the mob, you will forever be a part of the mob. At least they pay a decent salary and all you have to do is clean up after their dirty work, but you know what you’re doing. So clean crime scenes, earn as much money as you can, and get ready for the next mission.

Why similar: Simulation 29.8%, First-Person 20.3%, Realistic 16.8%, Life Sim 16.7%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Dig by day, fight by night in this blend of mining and Tower Defense. As the last Spotter at a ruined gas station, hold back mutant hordes, scavenge the wasteland, and repair your receiver to capture the President’s vital message and humanity’s last hope.

Why similar: Zombies 32.9%, Post-apocalyptic 26%, Base Building 14.6%, Simulation 9.3%, First-Person 9.3%

Zombie Diner — In a post-apocalyptic world, you run the only diner for the undead. Cook grotesque meals, serve hungry zombie patrons, and blast those who lose patience. Survival, management, and dark humor all on the menu!

Why similar: Zombies 20%, Base Building 10%, Life Sim 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Immersive Sim 8.3%

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: Zombies 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Military 11.6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Zombies 14.1%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Life Sim 11.4%

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Management 20.8%, Simulation 20.6%, Life Sim 11%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Resource Management 9.4%

Manage the night shift of an ER during the apocalypse, solo or with friends online: Diagnose patients. Design and grow your hospital, and defend against the undead while treating the living. If you're a creator, connect the game to Twitch and make the audience your patients for even more fun!

Why similar: Zombies 21%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Life Sim 9.9%, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%

Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive

Why similar: Zombies 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Base Building 10%, Life Sim 9.1%

Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

Why similar: Immersive Sim 16.8%, Management 16.6%, Building 13.4%, Life Sim 13.1%, Base Building 13%

Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.9%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Life Sim 14.5%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 12.4%

Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!

Why similar: Zombies 20.9%, Dark Humor 12.6%, Immersive Sim 12%, Resource Management 11.8%, Management 11.4%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Immersive Sim 12.5%, Management 11.6%, Life Sim 11.1%, Simulation 11%, Base Building 9.5%

Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?

Why similar: Zombies 50.6%, Base Building 32.8%, 3D 8.9%, Combat 4.5%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 9.4%, First-Person 8.6%

Zombie apocalypse world! You built a shelter in advance, and countless girls wanted to enter your shelter for self-protection. Female neighbor, flight attendant, female boss, celebrity... All beings are equal before the end of time.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24%, Zombies 18.1%, Immersive Sim 14%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Resource Management 8.8%

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37.5%, First-Person 18%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Simulation 11.3%

Zoochosis is a bodycam horror simulation game. You’re a zookeeper. Identify infected mutant animals, make a vaccine and cure them. Will you save all of them and survive?

Why similar: Realistic 28.6%, Choices Matter 18%, First-Person 12.2%, Simulation 12%, 3D 9.7%

Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!

Why similar: Management 18.4%, Resource Management 18.4%, Immersive Sim 17%, Simulation 14.5%, Building 10.4%

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Simulation 18.5%, Base Building 17.1%, Management 16.4%, Realistic 14.3%, Building 13.1%

Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!

Why similar: Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Management 13.6%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Life Sim 12.7%

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

Why similar: Zombies 26.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Management 10.2%

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 23.7%, Resource Management 17.3%, Management 15.8%, Simulation 13.5%, Life Sim 12.6%

Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.

Why similar: Management 31.5%, Simulation 28.1%, Life Sim 13.2%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, First-Person 7.4%

Too long in this prison, time to get out of here. Pull the carpet and start digging with a teaspoon. Watch out for the guard, sell him the junk you find. Trade toilet paper with the prisoners. Get better items and improve your stats. Expand the tunnel, use glow sticks and dynamite. Will you escape?

Why similar: Simulation 18.9%, Life Sim 18.5%, Immersive Sim 16.2%, Realistic 15.3%, First-Person 12.6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 27.3%, Immersive Sim 19.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Realistic 10%, Resource Management 8.2%

City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.

Why similar: Zombies 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 12%

Can you survive a zombie apocalypse? Day Zero is a text-based survival game where choices determine fate and ethical and moral decisions matter. Every choice shapes the story. Are you ready to test your limits in a zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Zombies 30.9%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Emotional 9.3%, Simulation 7.3%