Games Like Sheltered 2

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 24.4%, Survival 22.4%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: The direct predecessor to the seed game, featuring the same core bunker-management and survival mechanics.

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: Colony Sim 38.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 15.2%, Management 7.9%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering unparalleled depth in survivor management, base building, and emergent storytelling in a harsh environment.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Mirrors the bunker-management and scavenging loop of the seed game while adding occult and tactical combat elements.

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: Colony Sim 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar post-apocalyptic colony-building experience with a focus on world exploration and resource management.

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 35.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the emotional and resource-heavy struggle of a small group of survivors trying to endure a war-torn environment.

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 45.8%, Post-apocalyptic 28.9%, Building 10.4%, Open World 6.5%, RPG 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly detailed and unforgiving survival simulation that captures the tension of scavenging and maintaining a base in a post-apocalyptic world.

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: Colony Sim 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Resource Management 17.1%, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival management game where every decision impacts the survival of your colony against extreme environmental threats.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Base Building 23.7%, Survival 19.7%, Resource Management 10%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony-sim that emphasizes survival against environmental threats and managing the unique needs of your survivors.

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Survival 14.1%, Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep resource management and base-building mechanics within a confined, hazardous space that requires constant monitoring.

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: Survival 34.1%, Base Building 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Open World 6.3%, RPG 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines community management, base building, and scavenging in a dangerous, zombie-infested open world.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Base Building 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Manages a crew in a confined, resource-scarce environment that mirrors the claustrophobic survival of a bunker.

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: Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Survival 17.3%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on rebuilding society in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with a strong emphasis on survival and resource scarcity.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 16.2%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with base construction in a harsh, unforgiving world that requires careful resource planning.

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 22.1%, Base Building 21.6%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a post-apocalyptic settlement with a heavy emphasis on survival and infrastructure development.

Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

Why similar: Base Building 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 24.7%, Survival 20.6%, Management 8.6%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: The most recognizable bunker-management game, sharing the same aesthetic and core loop of managing dwellers in a vault.

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: Post-apocalyptic 24.9%, Base Building 22.4%, Colony Sim 22.1%, Survival 11.3%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense base defense and scavenging mechanics that can be played on real-world map data.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Base Building 16.6%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, unforgiving sandbox survival game where you build a faction from nothing in a harsh, desolate world.

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: Colony Sim 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes resource scarcity and the long-term survival of your population.

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: Resource Management 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Survival 21.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Colony Sim 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original's intense survival management mechanics with deeper political and social systems.

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Resource Management 16.9%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder set in a flooded post-apocalyptic world where social management is key.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.4%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 13.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing a self-sufficient colony in a hostile, isolated environment.

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Resource Management 15.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where you manage a settlement on the back of a giant creature, requiring careful resource balance.

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 22.6%, Survival 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Strategy 12%, Resource Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match focusing on the day-to-day management of a subterranean shelter.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 57.7%, Building 19.1%, RPG 7.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Open World 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim focused on survival, family management, and preparing for harsh seasons in a challenging environment.

Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival strategy game focused on defending a base in a post-apocalyptic metro system.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2%, Resource Management 17.1%, Survival 15%, Base Building 13.7%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Manages a space station with similar resource-management and survival pressures to a bunker-based colony.

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: Colony Sim 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based colony-sim focused on reclaiming territory and managing survivors in a zombie-infested city.

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Resource Management 14.7%, Survival 11.9%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony-sim that focuses on managing a family and their social dynamics within a challenging world.

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: Colony Sim 33.2%, Survival 14.9%, Building 11.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes managing limited resources and surviving natural disasters.

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: Colony Sim 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Resource Management 11%

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: Colony Sim 24.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 5.7%

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: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 10.8%

We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Survival 12.6%, Management 8.6%, Building 8.2%

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: Colony Sim 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Survival 15.8%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 12.7%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3%, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 7.1%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Survival 11.8%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49%, Resource Management 17.5%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 7.5%, Building 7.2%

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: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 13.7%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.6%

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 11.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 9.3%

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 40.6%, Survival 35.5%, Strategy 6.5%, RPG 5.2%, Hex Grid 4.8% ★

Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Resource Management 14%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 11.6%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.1%, Survival 15.8%, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 7.9%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Survival 10.3%, Building 8.5%

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: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 13%, Resource Management 8.5%

Build, optimize, and explore at your own pace in Scorchlands, a cozy yet strategic colony builder. Manage resources, shape the environment, and expand your network across a volcanic moon. No rush, no pressure, just satisfying logistics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Resource Management 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Hex Grid 8.2% ★

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.2%, Resource Management 16.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 9.9%, Building 8.2%

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: Colony Sim 24.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%

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: Colony Sim 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Survival 11%

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: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Survival 12.2%, Building 8.9%

Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy RPG 8.5%, Character Customization 8%

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 25.2%, Survival 23.2%, Management 15.5%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 11.3%

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: Colony Sim 24.4%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Survival 14%, Post-apocalyptic 11%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 16.5%, Building 10.7%, Management 8.6%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Base Building 19%, Building 10.2%, Survival 10%, Strategy 8.3%

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: Colony Sim 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Survival 10.8%, Character Customization 8.5%

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: Colony Sim 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Survival 12.6%, Building 6.9%

Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.3%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 42%, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 8.6%