Games Like Sheltered

A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Survival 22.4%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Management 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands on the original's bunker management mechanics with deeper survival systems and faction interactions.

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 43%, Base Building 17%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same emotional weight and desperate resource management of protecting a small group in a hostile 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: Base Building 24.6%, Survival 23.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Resource Management 5.5%, Management 5%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines base building with tactical combat in a post-apocalyptic setting, closely mimicking the gameplay loop of Sheltered.

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: Survival 31.1%, Base Building 29.9%, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 10%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the preparation and maintenance of an underground bunker while managing resources and evading authorities.

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 47.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Open World 7.6%, Building 5.9%, Crafting 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive hardcore survival simulation that offers unparalleled depth in base building and character management.

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 35.1%, Survival 31.5%, Management 14.9%, Strategy 8.5%, Difficult 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the bunker-based survival and high-stakes decision-making of the seed game in a more condensed, frantic 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 36.5%, Survival 29%, Management 11%, Building 6.6%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: While more expansive, it shares the core loop of managing a small group of survivors and building a base to withstand external threats.

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: Survival 29%, Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 12.4%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It elevates the survival management genre by forcing you to make brutal societal decisions to keep your colony alive in a frozen wasteland.

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: Base Building 21.9%, Survival 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Management 9%, Resource Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a crew in a confined, resource-scarce spaceship provides a similar feeling of claustrophobic survival management.

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: Survival 41.2%, Post-apocalyptic 35.8%, Crafting 7.1%, RPG 4.7%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, turn-based survival game that captures the gritty, scavenging-focused nature of post-apocalyptic life.

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.3%, Survival 31.6%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Resource Management 6.4%, 2D 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends side-scrolling survival with resource management and exploration in a bleak, post-apocalyptic world.

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: Post-apocalyptic 31.1%, Survival 24.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Strategy 8.2%, Management 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a broader take on post-apocalyptic colony management, focusing on infrastructure and survivor needs.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 72.7%, Crafting 13%, Open World 4.8%, Indie 2.1%, Difficult 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on crafting, resource gathering, and survival against harsh environments aligns well with the core mechanics of the seed game.

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: Base Building 35.3%, Survival 28.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 7.2%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This complex simulation game requires meticulous base management and resource balancing to keep your colonists alive in a hostile environment.

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

Why similar: Survival 49.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, RPG 8.5%, Strategy 7.2%, Base Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based RPG focuses on managing a shelter of survivors and scavenging for supplies in a zombie-infested world.

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: Survival 24.7%, Base Building 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Management 8%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling strategy game emphasizes base defense and resource management under constant threat.

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 28.5%, Survival 26.8%, Base Building 20.7%, Strategy 6.7%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed city-builder that centers on the challenges of surviving and thriving in a radiation-scarred world.

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 27.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Survival 16.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Resource Management 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy game that tasks you with building a base and keeping your survivors alive through harsh winters and raids.

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 30.4%, Survival 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Management 7.3%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a more accessible take on the bunker management genre with a focus on room building and dweller happiness.

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: Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Survival 22.7%, Base Building 21.4%, Management 9%, Building 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with strategy, requiring you to reclaim territory and manage resources in a post-apocalyptic city.

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: Post-apocalyptic 40.4%, Survival 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Strategy 10%, Zombies 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: The pixel-art style and focus on managing a group's survival during a zombie apocalypse make it a thematic and mechanical cousin to Sheltered.

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: Survival 35.1%, Post-apocalyptic 27.6%, RPG 10.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Crafting 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival RPG that forces you to manage your camp and make difficult choices during a zombie outbreak.

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 36.3%, Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, turn-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging and careful resource management in a city overrun by zombies.

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: Base Building 32.3%, Post-apocalyptic 29.8%, Survival 17.7%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to manage a base in real-world locations, focusing on scavenging and defending against zombie hordes.

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 37.3%, Base Building 31%, Crafting 11%, Open World 8.4%, RPG 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the satisfying loop of scavenging and crafting in a post-apocalyptic world, emphasizing long-term survival.

The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Pixel Graphics 20%, Crafting 16.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a prison, the pixel-art crafting and management mechanics are highly reminiscent of the gameplay in Sheltered.

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: Survival 43.7%, Post-apocalyptic 33.6%, Crafting 5.1%, RPG 4%, Simulation 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of being trapped in a single location while managing health and resources to survive a catastrophe.

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: Survival 28.5%, Base Building 26.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Strategy 8%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated bunker management simulator that focuses on the daily logistics of keeping a subterranean colony functioning.

Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Why similar: Base Building 32.7%, Survival 29.1%, Building 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its minimalist approach to base building and survival creates a unique, atmospheric experience centered on resource management.

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: Survival 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 29.2%, Management 12.7%, Crafting 9%, Strategy 7%

60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.2%, Survival 31.7%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 8.6%, Difficult 4.9%

Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 47.3%, Pixel Graphics 17.8%, Strategy 13.4%, RPG 8.3%, Difficult 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features post-apocalyptic resource management and tactical combat, sharing the gritty, desperate tone of the seed game.

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: Base Building 35%, Survival 31.5%, Management 7.7%, Crafting 7.2%, Strategy 6.4%

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: Base Building 37.3%, Survival 28.1%, Resource Management 7.6%, Strategy 7.4%, Management 6.6%

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 29.4%, Survival 28.6%, Building 9%, Crafting 8%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%

In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

Why similar: Survival 55%, RPG 11.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 6.1%, Simulation 5%

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: Survival 27.6%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Management 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%, Building 7.6%

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: Base Building 29.7%, Post-apocalyptic 29.5%, Survival 20%, Crafting 6.7%, Open World 5.8%

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Why similar: Survival 34.4%, Base Building 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Crafting 5.3%, Open World 5.1%

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: Survival 59.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 7.2%, Simulation 2%

This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Why similar: Management 52.6%, Strategy 30.8%, Simulation 7.9%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 3.2%

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 42.1%, Survival 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Strategy 6.9%, Resource Management 4.4%

As a powerful Lynx, you will make your way through vast open landscapes. In the harsh tundra, you will raise and strengthen your cubs by mastering your skills for hunting prey. Do everything you can to prepare your little ones for the vicious entities dwelling in the wilderness.

Why similar: Survival 71.1%, Side Scroller 9.7%, Simulation 8.9%, Indie 4.3%, Adventure 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: Base Building 26.1%, Survival 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 6.3%

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 31.8%, Survival 28.4%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Building 7.5%

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: Base Building 32%, Survival 28.3%, Management 13.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Strategy 7.3%

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Why similar: Base Building 33.2%, Management 15.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Building 10.3%, Strategy 8.1%

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Base Building 27.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Open World 7.4%, Zombies 2.9%

Merging the smash hit indie game The Escapists with the world wide phenomenon that is The Walking Dead, Team17 have taken the very best of both worlds and are now providing players with the opportunity to play Rick Grimes as he takes on hordes of zombies let loose upon the world.

Why similar: Survival 48.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Open World 8.2%, Zombies 5%

DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Survival 45.2%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 11.6%, RPG 10.3%, Management 5.8%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Survival 48.1%, Strategy 15%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Management 6.6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 34.9%, Survival 29.1%, Management 14.5%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 6.5%

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: Base Building 24.6%, Survival 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Building 6.8%

Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Why similar: Survival 33%, Pixel Graphics 24.3%, Resource Management 14.2%, Strategy 8.5%, Difficult 8.4%

Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.

Why similar: Management 42.7%, Pixel Graphics 26.2%, RPG 14.6%, Simulation 9.8%, 2D 6.6%

Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?

Why similar: Survival 61.8%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Zombies 2.5%

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Survival 40.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Base Building 17.4%, Open World 8.2%, RPG 3.6%

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Survival 40.9%, Post-apocalyptic 38.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, Indie 4.3%

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: Base Building 28.1%, Survival 23.1%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Building 9.2%

Now with over 500,000 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: Survival 29.5%, Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Base Building 19.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Open World 4.9%