Games Like Rebirth evolution

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: City Builder 17.4%, Outbreak Sim 16.2% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Zombies 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build a base in any real-world city while managing survivor squads against waves of infected, mirroring the tactical base-defense gameplay.

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: City Builder 17.7%, Outbreak Sim 16.7% ★, Zombies 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic and mechanical cousin to Rebirth evolution that focuses on reclaiming territory and managing survivors in a turn-based zombie strategy format.

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 30.9%, City Builder 21.6%, Survival 20%, Building 9.6%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony simulator that offers unparalleled depth in survivor management, base construction, and emergent storytelling in a hostile world.

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Base Building 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Survival 17.5%, City Builder 13.2%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar blend of base-building and tactical combat against demonic forces in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 35.6%, Survival 31.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Building 8.3%, Simulation 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: This hardcore survival simulation provides the most realistic zombie apocalypse experience with complex base-building and character-driven survival mechanics.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Zombies 13.4%, RTS 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines tactical base-building with real-time strategy elements to defend against swarms of enemies in a dark, post-apocalyptic world.

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: City Builder 20.5%, Real Time Tactics 16.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 12.2%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulator that captures the struggle of rebuilding society in a post-apocalyptic world with a strong focus on base defense and resource management.

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: Base Building 20%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, City Builder 13.4%, Survival 9.9%, RTS 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused city builder that tasks you with managing a survivor settlement while dealing with the harsh realities of a post-apocalyptic environment.

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: Base Building 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Survival 23.2%, Resource Management 8%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic management game that emphasizes resource gathering, base maintenance, and the emotional toll of keeping a family alive.

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 28.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a broader city-builder experience where you must manage a colony while exploring the wasteland for resources and survivors.

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: City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Zombies 13.5%, RTS 11.7%, Survival 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of base defense and resource management against relentless zombie hordes.

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 38.9%, Base Building 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the gritty, management-heavy side of survival where you must make difficult moral choices to keep your group of survivors alive.

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: Outbreak Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Zombies 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony simulator that tasks you with rebuilding civilization after a collapse, featuring strong base-building and survival mechanics.

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: City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Zombies 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony simulator where you must manage and 'cure' zombies to turn them into productive members of your settlement.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: RTS 20.9%, Base Building 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Character Customization 14%, Survival 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends base-building, combat, and social simulation in a zombie-infested world where you must recruit and manage a community.

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 46.7%, Survival 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Strategy 6.2%, Base Building 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based RPG that focuses heavily on shelter management and the complex social dynamics of survivors during a zombie outbreak.

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: Outbreak Sim 20.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Base Building 13.9%, City Builder 12.8%, RTS 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and management of a settlement in a post-apocalyptic world with a heavy emphasis on sandbox gameplay.

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 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Base Building 15%, Survival 12.3%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city builder that emphasizes the challenges of survival and resource management in a world devastated by solar flares.

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: City Builder 14.1%, Zombies 13%, RTS 12.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that emphasizes base-building and colony management in a dark, zombie-filled world.

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: City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 12.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that requires you to manage resources and infrastructure to keep your colony alive in a hostile environment.

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: Zombies 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 15.8%, Character Customization 14%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that focuses on tactical combat and survival within a city overrun by zombies.

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 30%, Base Building 27.6%, Survival 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a third-person perspective on base management and survivor recruitment, emphasizing the tactical clearing of zombie infestations.

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: Survival 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Zombies 19.4%, Building 16.4%, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy survival game that combines turn-based combat with base management in a zombie-infested world.

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 44.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled pixel art survival game that captures the desperate, resource-constrained feeling of a zombie apocalypse.

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: City Builder 29.1%, RTS 20.9%, Base Building 20.6%, Zombies 17.9%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense hybrid that focuses on the tactical placement of defenses to protect your base from zombie waves.

A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Building 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy simulation that focuses on the long-term survival and growth of a post-apocalyptic society.

Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

Why similar: Base Building 31.3%, City Builder 23.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it shares the base-building and resource-management DNA found in Rebirth evolution.

DEFENSURVIVOR is a strategy game where you build obstacles and place and move units to block zombies. There are various units with unique characteristics and powerful high-level units that can be obtained through combination. Use randomly given units to survive until the end!

Why similar: Base Building 32.5%, RTS 29.8%, Zombies 15.2%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual strategy game that centers on base-building and defending against waves of enemies.

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Base Building 25.9%, Zombies 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 6.1%

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 42.5%, Simulation 28.6%, Strategy 24.9%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused strategy game that tasks you with guiding a settlement through various challenges and eras.

Survive the Zombies War in this RPG game of Apocalypse and Survival

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 23.7% ★, City Builder 19.6%, RTS 15.4%, Real Time Tactics 14.7%, Zombies 9.8%

Pixel Survivors is a god management game. Create some land and build structures to keep your small society settled. See how long you can keep your village alive!

Why similar: Simulation 32.8%, Zombies 25.7%, Resource Management 18%, Strategy 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 5%

Why You'll Like It: A casual simulation game that captures the pixel-art aesthetic and resource-management focus of the seed game.

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: City Builder 24.4%, Base Building 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Survival 15.4%, Resource Management 7.6%

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: City Builder 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 10.6%

Guide a group of survivors trying to strive in this alien yet familiar environment. Fight against mutated creatures and use their parts to craft and upgrade your weapons.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 34.9%, Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, Character Customization 20.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Survival 5.2%

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: City Builder 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 13.5%, Building 9.3%

Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.6%, Base Building 21.8%, Resource Management 18.1%, Survival 15%, Building 10.9%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Survival 17.2%, RTS 16.9%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 9.7%

Revival and Exploration is an oriental simulation game. Decorate your town with diverse landscapes and buildings, recruit residents to live in, and build a thriving city! You can also lead armed residents on traveling to different landscapes such as grassland, desert, snow, and volcanoes.

Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 12.5%, Simulation 9.5%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 43.1%, RTS 14.2%, Survival 12.4%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Simulation 10.3%

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 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 15.1%, Resource Management 13.8%

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: Survival 32.8%, Resource Management 22.8%, Strategy 20.4%, Exploration 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 4.4%

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 21.1%, City Builder 18.3%, Survival 15.4%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 13.1%

This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Base Building 20.5%, Real Time Tactics 17.3%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.6%

Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.

Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Real Time Tactics 15.2%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.3%

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: Outbreak Sim 49.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 5.8%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 35%, Survival 15.2%, Building 13.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Resource Management 8.5%

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: City Builder 25.7%, Base Building 19.7%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 8.9%

In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence. But at night you have to resist hordes of zombies and guard your camp!

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 41.4% ★, Zombies 25%, Base Building 18.3%, Exploration 7.3%, Simulation 6%

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 31.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Strategy 5.7%

Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.

Why similar: Strategy 49%, Simulation 44.6%, Indie 6.4%

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 39.7%, Survival 21.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%

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: Zombies 16.1%, RTS 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, Survival 11.2%

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 27%, Survival 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 10.4%

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 41.7%, Survival 23.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Real Time Tactics 14%, RTS 12.8%, Resource Management 9.7%

Zombo Buster Advance is a tower defense game taking place inside buildings with interchangeable elevators. Deploy, swap and shoot like a boss!

Why similar: Zombies 23.4%, Real Time Tactics 20.4%, RTS 19.9%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 7.8%

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 34.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 10.7%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 9.7%

The world has fallen victim to a deadly virus, zombies now roam the lands. While running for your life you stumble upon a small city. Claim this city as your own, protect it with your life and maybe other survivors will find you.

Why similar: Zombies 21.1%, Base Building 20%, Real Time Tactics 16.2%, Survival 13.5%, Building 11.7%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Base Building 23.6%, Zombies 18.5%, RTS 18.1%, Survival 17.1%, Building 9.6%