- #1 ZERO Sievert
97% matchVery Positive85% of 15,588 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.4%, Survival 21.6%, Open World 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Shooter 8.7%
- #2 SurrounDead
96% matchVery Positive91% of 27,054 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.4%, Survival 28.1%, Open World 20.8%, Shooter 7.2%, Exploration 4.6%
- #3 Stoneshard
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 35,730 reviews2020
Dev: Ink Stains GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 38.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
Why similar: Survival 34.1%, RPG 24.1%, Pixel Graphics 21.5%, Open World 10.9%, 2D 6.5%
- #4 Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut
95% matchVery Positive88% of 1,885 reviews2021
Dev: Rotorist Workshop
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.1%, Survival 18.9%, Cold War 16.3% ★, Action RPG 10.4%, Action-Adventure 5.8%
- #5 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
94% matchVery Positive80% of 141,394 reviews2024
Dev: GSC Game WorldPub: GSC Game World (worldwide)
Windows
Median: 32.5 hrsMean: 64.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.3%, Open World 21.8%, Survival 21.8%, Shooter 9.3%, Exploration 5.4%
- #6 iZolated
94% matchMixed69% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.8%, Open World 14.5%, Survival 14.4%, Inventory Management 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%
- #7 Road to Vostok
93% matchVery Positive84% of 8,911 reviews2026
Dev: Road to Vostok Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.
Why similar: Survival 35%, Post-apocalyptic 34.8%, Inventory Management 13.8%, Shooter 10.9%, Action 2.9%
- #8 Atomic Exile
92% matchVery Positive81% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: Inferno Muse Interactive
Windows
Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28%, Survival 20.6%, Open World 13.1%, Shooter 9.8%, Top-Down 8.5%
- #9 Soviet Survival
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26%, Survival 22.4%, Isometric 17.2%, Open World 17.1%, Shooter 10%
- #10 NEO Scavenger
91% matchVery Positive90% of 5,426 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.4%, Survival 33.5%, Inventory Management 10.3%, Open World 8.4%, RPG 7.2%
- #11 Next Day: Survival
90% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 29.8%, Open World 21.5%, Shooter 7%, RPG 3.6%
- #12 Pathogenesis: Overcome
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 228 reviews2023
Dev: 269th lab games softworks
Windows
Narrative-driven action RPG set in post-pandemic Russia, featuring hardcore gameplay, tactical combat, open-environment exploration, and survival elements. Personal story set in a collapsed world, where armed survivors and emerging factions pose a far greater threat than the infected.
Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Isometric 21.6%, Open World 11.2%, Action RPG 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9%
- #13 ZED ZONE
89% matchVery Positive81% of 3,703 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.6%, Survival 21.9%, Open World 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Top-Down 8.6%
- #14 Atomfall
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,914 reviews2025
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.2%, Open World 18.4%, Survival 15%, Action RPG 10.2%, Action-Adventure 6.2%
- #15 Death Trash
87% matchVery Positive92% of 3,724 reviews2021
Dev: Crafting Legends
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Death Trash features a post-apocalyptic world where cosmic horrors long for humanity but meet punks with shotguns. It combines old-school role-playing, modern action gameplay and player freedom. Create your own character and explore a handcrafted world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.9%, Isometric 16.9%, Open World 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Action RPG 10.5%
- #16 Dead Engine
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 220 reviews2026
Dev: Chocolate Dungeon GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
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: Post-apocalyptic 26.2%, Inventory Management 17.3%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%
- #17 Dustbowl
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 123 reviews2015
Dev: The Pompous Pixel
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world where the player must search for food, water and essential supplies to survive. Discover a world filled with colourful NPCs, quests and secrets.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 45%, Survival 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, RPG 14.5%, Adventure 8.7%
- #18 Decision: Red Daze
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 905 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Survival 20.6%, Open World 15%, Isometric 11.7%, Action RPG 10.6%
- #19 Survivors Of The Zombie World
84% matchVery Positive81% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Dafu Game Studio
Windows
Survivors Of The Zombie World is a 3D pixel-style zombie survival game. Survivors fight in a world full of zombies. Your goal is to survive, find food, ammunition, medicine and other supplies on the map and try to survive.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.1%, Survival 25.5%, Shooter 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #20 Lost Scavenger
85% matchMixed53% of 245 reviews2022
Dev: Rockbee
Windows
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.4%, Survival 22.1%, Open World 14.7%, Tactical RPG 13%, Top-Down 6.7%
- #21 Frozen State
83% matchMixed64% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
Why similar: Survival 30.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Open World 11.9%, Isometric 11%, Top-Down 9%
- #22 SKYHILL
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,780 reviews2015
Dev: MandragoraPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40.5%, Survival 39.6%, RPG 6.6%, Adventure 6.2%, 2D 3.8%
- #23 Dustland Delivery
79% matchVery Positive88% of 1,290 reviews2024
Dev: Neutron Star StudioPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.7%, Survival 27.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, RPG 10.9%, Exploration 7.5%
- #24 Krai Mira: post-apocalyptic Crimea
82% matchMixed60% of 252 reviews2016
Dev: TallTech studio
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Explore the post-apocalyptic Crimea, its radioactive wastelands, swamps, dead settlements, and free the island from invasive occupants. Get the weapon you are most fit for, find comrades-in-arms, and punish those who ravaged your world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 53.6%, RPG 23%, Isometric 12.9%, Adventure 10.5%
- #25 Adventure Craft
81% matchVery Positive83% of 232 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a procedurally generated open-world PvE survival crafting action RPG. Explore, gather resources, hunt monsters, craft weapons and armour, build a home, train companions, and survive a dangerous world that changes from day to night.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Survival 18.8%, Open World 14.1%, Action RPG 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 10%
- #26 DYSMANTLE
78% matchVery Positive91% of 11,622 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Survival 35.2%, Open World 26.9%, Top-Down 10.9%, RPG 9.2%, Exploration 8.4%
- #27 Junk Survivor
79% matchMixed70% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.3%, Survival 24.2%, Open World 17.6%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Action 4.7%
- #28 Heat Guardian
80% matchMostly Positive70% of 141 reviews2018
Dev: DENYS RUDYI GAMES
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Hardcore top-down shooter in a world of eternal winter. Traverse frozen post-Soviet ruins in search of humanity’s last refuge. Brutal mutants, scarce ammo, and merciless nature will push your skills to the limit. No safe places — only relentless combat for survival.
Why similar: Survival 77.2%, Action 22.8%
- #29 DYSPLACED
76% matchVery Positive88% of 344 reviews2026
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows
Grenades are holy relics. Shotguns are spellcraft. In this top-down survival action-RPG, discover a fantasy realm invaded by modern world and destroy nearly everything. Scavenge artifacts, forge weapons, build outposts, brew potions, and hunt the corruption devouring the land. Play solo or co-op.
Why similar: Survival 36%, Open World 33.2%, Top-Down 17.1%, Exploration 13.6%
- #30 Dustland
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: RedPad Games
Windows
Dustland is a reimagined take on the survival genre. A world where expeditions, looting, and battles are just the tip of the iceberg, hiding secrets and mysteries of a fallen region in its depths.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.5%, Survival 30.4%, Inventory Management 20.6%, RPG 10.5%
- #31 UnderRail
77% matchVery Positive86% of 7,264 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40.4%, Isometric 24.2%, RPG 15.1%, Open World 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%
- #32 Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 930 reviews2024
Dev: DAWINSTONE
Windows
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The open-world survival role-playing game "Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse" tells the story of Delta Team and his comrades as they work to rebuild a world devastated by humans and their race turned into zombies.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.4%, Survival 18.8%, Open World 15.4%, Action RPG 12.3%, Shooter 10.3%
- #33 Beyond the Map
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: Glitch Goblins
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Isometric survival ARPG set in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Build your base, gear up, and venture out, chasing stronger enemies and better loot.
Why similar: Isometric 25.2%, Survival 21.4%, Action RPG 15.9%, Open World 13.9%, Top-Down 7.9%
- #34 Blood Running
75% matchMixed70% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: Dead Unicorn
Windows
Blood Running is a stylish extraction shooter where you'll enter the cyber-wasteland, fight off creatures and bandits, loot valuable gear, and venture into the remnants of a world in ruins. Are you willing to bleed to survive, Blood Runner?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.4%, Survival 19.9%, Open World 13.6%, Shooter 9.9%, Top-Down 8.4%
- #35 Survival Nation: Lost Horizon
76% matchMixed58% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.Pub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29%, Survival 20.6%, Open World 15.8%, Action RPG 11.6%, Top-Down 9.1%
- #36 Cataclysm: The Last Generation
73% matchVery Positive90% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: Worm Girl
Windows · Mac · Linux
A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.5%, Survival 21.8%, Inventory Management 16.8%, RPG 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
- #37 DREADZONE
73% matchMixed51% of 1,239 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
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: Post-apocalyptic 29.6%, Survival 27%, Open World 20.9%, Exploration 7.7%, Action-Adventure 6%
- #38 V.O.D.K.A. Open World Survival Shooter
75% matchMostly Negative38% of 100 reviews2021
Dev: Guilty Pleasure Games
Windows
V. O. D. K. A. is a survival shooter in the open world, the game takes place in a fictional state in eastern Europe, most of the territory of which is infected with radiation. Your main task is survival.
Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Open World 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, RPG 12.4%, Exploration 7.4%
- #39 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Survival 21.1%, Inventory Management 14.1%, RPG 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8%
- #40 Undead World
72% matchVery Positive89% of 134 reviews2023
Dev: Undead World Team
Windows · Linux
Action rpg that containst fast-Paced combat and survival elements. Use your skills to defeat the Undead.
Why similar: Isometric 32%, Action RPG 21.5%, Action-Adventure 21.1%, RPG 17.8%, Singleplayer 4.2%
- #41 Nuclear Day
71% matchMixed64% of 135 reviews2025
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nuclear Day is a story-based role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore the secrets of this world. Fight monsters. Pass tests and solve puzzles. Become your own in this tragic world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.7%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 15.4%, Action RPG 9.5%, RPG 7.5%
- #42 No Man's Home
69% matchVery Positive87% of 284 reviews2025
Dev: radrunner
Windows
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Survival 25.3%, Open World 14.5%, Shooter 13.3%, Inventory Management 12.1%
- #43 Project Zomboid
70% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Survival 38%, Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Open World 20.8%, Isometric 8.9%, RPG 4.2%
- #44 Crafting Dead
73% matchMixed57% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.4%, Survival 22.5%, Open World 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Action-Adventure 6.5%
- #45 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
71% matchVery Positive85% of 10,558 reviews2018
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 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 31.2%, Survival 21.7%, Isometric 18.7%, Open World 11.8%, RPG 7.9%
- #46 Pixel Survivors : Roguelike
70% matchVery Positive80% of 474 reviews2023
Dev: Amrita
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down. Choose your abilities, build your favorite combat style, become stronger and survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Pixel Graphics 18.2%, RPG 12.9%, Top-Down 11.3%, Action RPG 10.6%
- #47 Emerald Flower
68% matchVery Positive97% of 72 reviews2026
Dev: Trash Men Studios
Windows · Mac
A miraculous fuel, or a parasitic plague that spells the end of humanity? In a civilization collapsed by global war, fight for survival against the brain-controlling Emerald Flower, feral armies, and ruthless factions, each driven by their own desperate ideologies.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Action RPG 13.5%, Survival 12.9%, RPG 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
- #48 Lost Lives
67% matchVery Positive91% of 323 reviews2025
Dev: Maystra
Windows
Lost Lives is a multiplayer 2D shooter with RPG elements set in the post-Soviet wasteland. Fight players in PvP or stand against hostile factions in co-op and endless survival. Hunt for loot, sell it for profit, and build a loadout that fits your playstyle. The right gear means life or death.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.7%, Survival 21.7%, Shooter 20.5%, 2D 8.7%, Action 6.2%
- #49 Deadzoned
66% matchVery Positive97% of 95 reviews2026
Dev: caiysPub: caiysware
Windows
Deadzoned is a sci-fi turn-based action Roguelike. Blast your way through zones battling the beasts, bandits, and monsters that stalk the blackouts. But you'll need your wits to make best use of the gear you stumble upon to survive and save the fate of the planet!
Why similar: Top-Down 24.7%, Pixel Graphics 23.5%, RPG 19.2%, Exploration 14.8%, 2D 13%
- #50 Apocalypter
66% matchVery Positive90% of 365 reviews2026
Dev: SawyerK Games
Windows
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic, driving, survival, fps, open-world game. Fight, help, trade with different factions. Find different cars and customize them. Scavenge, loot and survive the procedurally generated, open world of Apocalypter.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.5%, Survival 22.7%, Open World 18.8%, Shooter 11.1%, Adventure 4.7%
- #51 Mist Survival
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,394 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Survival 57.8%, Open World 32.8%, Adventure 3.4%, Singleplayer 3.2%, Action 2.8%
- #52 Herd is Coming
70% matchMixed68% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Proximity Games
Windows
"Herd is Coming" is a survival RPG set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. It's the story of Mike who's survived for 10 years since the outbreak.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.5%, Survival 20.9%, Open World 18.1%, RPG 8.6%, Action RPG 7.6%
- #53 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
65% matchVery Positive94% of 4,509 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Why similar: Survival 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Open World 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, RPG 7.6%
- #54 Exiled Kingdoms
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,146 reviews2018
Dev: 4 Dimension Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Roam freely through a huge open world full with dangers, ancient secrets and adventure. An old-school action-RPG with a challenging environment, tough choices and a unique setting. Explore, fight, make friends and enemies... and above all, Roleplay!
Why similar: Open World 24.8%, RPG 20.6%, Isometric 20.6%, Adventure 8.6%, Action RPG 7%
- #55 Escape From Duckov
63% matchVery Positive84% of 104,533 reviews2025
Dev: Team SodaPub: bilibili
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.
Why similar: Survival 28.9%, Shooter 17.9%, Top-Down 13.3%, Exploration 10.8%, Action-Adventure 8%
- #56 Wasted World
69% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Achrony
Windows
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Why similar: RPG 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Survival 13.5%, Adventure 12.6%, Action 12.4%
- #57 Ruins To Fortress
67% matchMixed66% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Survival 25%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Open World 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Shooter 10.1%
- #58 SAVAGE: The Shard of Gosen
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: Planet Tobor
Windows
A 2D action/platforming adventure with a healthy dose of RPG elements set in the hostile world of Lor, a classic sword and sorcery setting. The slave-hungry Argeshii empire dominates the known world, old and false gods conspire; brutal combat is the only means of survival!
Why similar: Action RPG 21.9%, Pixel Graphics 21.5%, RPG 15.8%, Action-Adventure 13.3%, Adventure 8.4%