- #1 Concrete Coffin
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YMV
Windows
Become the Governor of people trapped in a concrete coffin. Manage resources and citizens, make cold decisions, and try to survive inside the shelter.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Resource Management 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Dystopian 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #2 Frostline
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Raptor Entertainment
Windows
In a world gripped by the Ice Age, you manage the last telephone station in the city. Listen to incoming visitors and grant or deny communication according to government orders. Your decisions shape the fate of the region. An atmospheric, story-driven communication simulation: Frostline!
Why similar: Dystopian 28.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Resource Management 13%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #3 Underchoice
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 105 reviews2026
Dev: TG IndiePub: Targem Games
Windows
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.
Why similar: Dystopian 25.7%, Resource Management 15.5%, Underground 14.6% ★, Choices Matter 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%
- #4 THE DEEPWATCH
95% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: LLC Elpy Games
Windows
As the head of security, you will decide the fate of those who try to enter the underwater colony. Among the hundreds of arrivals, you may encounter dangerous criminals, spies, and the infected. You will decide who lives here, who is banished, and who is eliminated.
Why similar: Dystopian 24.4%, Resource Management 16.6%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Choices Matter 11%
- #5 The Carcass
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PiqFocus Interactive
Windows
A typing-driven Lovecraftian colony sim. You wake inside the corpse of a dead god, adrift in space. Carve a roguelike colony from procedurally generated anatomy — negotiate with rival alien factions, evolve occult mutations, find your ending. The carcass remembers.
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Resource Management 17.2%, Choices Matter 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #6 Frostveil: The Last Winter
94% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Alabarda Gaming
Windows
Winter 1920. As a village leader during the War of Independence, you must manage resources to survive the frost. At the breaking point, will you be a savior or a tyrant? Every choice writes a story in the snow. In pursuit of the story.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.7%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Survival 12.1%
- #7 Re:Born Isekai Company
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WantBss
Windows
"Isekai reincarnation? It's all in your hands." Review countless souls at Re:Born Isekai Company and assign them to new worlds. In this text-based inspection sim, a single paperwork flaw or question can birth a legendary hero—or unleash a catastrophic disaster.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Resource Management 23.2%, Choices Matter 16%, Simulation 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
- #8 The Deepwater Witch
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ChattercapPub: Chattercap LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this post-apocalyptic visual novel about a twisted "fairytale" romance in a corrupted world, choose between betrayal and sacrifice. Fully animated with Live 2D-style illustrations.
Why similar: Dystopian 38.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #9 Organs Please
90% matchVery Positive83% of 330 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Dystopian 29.1%, Resource Management 20.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #10 Monitor State
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artur Pukhavoi
Windows
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Why similar: Dystopian 37.5%, Text-Based 18%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Simulation 9%
- #11 Day Zero
88% matchVery Positive82% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Imdie Studios
Windows
Can you survive a zombie apocalypse? Day Zero is a text-based survival game where choices determine fate and ethical and moral decisions matter. Every choice shapes the story. Are you ready to test your limits in a zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Dystopian 25.1%, Text-Based 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Survival 9.5%
- #12 The Westport Independent
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 342 reviews2016
Dev: Double Zero One Zero
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 48%
The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator taking place in a post-war country, governed by the recently elected Loyalist Party. As the editor of one of the last independent newspapers in the country, your job is to remove and edit the content of your paper, affecting the people’s opinion of both the rebels and the Loyalist...
Why similar: Dystopian 51.7%, Simulation 30%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Indie 4.5%
- #13 Sweep Protocol
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dawson Games
Windows
Operate a remote military radar station while struggling to keep your family alive as an escalating invasion pushes your nation to the brink. Track incoming threats and manage scarce resources while balancing the needs of your loved ones. Every sweep matters. Every decision counts.
Why similar: Resource Management 31%, Dystopian 27%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Simulation 15.9%, Survival 7.4%
- #14 Paradise Lost
87% matchMixed64% of 2,503 reviews2021
Dev: PolyAmorousPub: Walkabout
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.
Why similar: Underground 32.7% ★, Dystopian 25%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #15 Vaulted Valor
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: deeplabs
Windows
You are in a post-apocalyptic underground vault where every decision carries weight. As you embark on quests and unravel a deep, twisting story, your actions will permanently alter the lives of your fellow inhabitants.
Why similar: Dystopian 34.3%, Underground 19.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #16 KRAPHIS : DRILLER
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ANIMALZ
Windows
Mining roguelite. The detector pulses. Dig deeper. Find it and it's yours. Fuel is your only limit. 2041 you're a contract driller for STRATUM Corporation. How deep you go, when you return every decision is life or death.
Why similar: Underground 26.4% ★, Dystopian 25.6%, Resource Management 19.6%, Roguelike 8%, Survival 6.7%
- #17 Void Stalkers
84% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: SuperSixStudios
Windows
As the pilot of a Void Rig, it's your job to transport dangerous creatures to various research facilities across the system. Use your ship's security cameras, drone, and other systems to solve problems and stay alive as you travel through The Void.
Why similar: Dystopian 37.2%, Resource Management 22.2%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Simulation 13%, Multiple Endings 12%
- #18 Before the Silence
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Left Bank Interactive
Windows
In this turn-based strategy, you will take control of an anti-disinformation department and protect your citizens from terrorist influence. Manage your agents and resources, analyze media, and restore order in different regions of your country.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.1%, Text-Based 20%, Resource Management 17.4%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #19 Winter Nest
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
You play as a beetle exploring the underground world, working together with ants. Expand the nest, gather resources, and maintain the nest’s temperature to survive the long winter.
Why similar: Underground 30.4% ★, Resource Management 28.1%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Multiple Endings 5%
- #20 Bunker Life
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameIn
Windows
Survive! You need resources. Explore and search items to live.
Why similar: Resource Management 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Survival 11.9%
- #21 Homeseek
82% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
Windows
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: Dystopian 25.6%, Resource Management 18.6%, Colony Sim 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #22 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: afterglow games
Windows
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Simulation 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Resource Management 19.1%, Survival 10.5%
- #23 Doomsday Train
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PAOGE
Windows
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.2%, Simulation 20.7%, Resource Management 19.8%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%
- #24 Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099
80% matchMixed70% of 1,114 reviews2023
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Dystopian 36%, Resource Management 23.1%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Simulation 9.9%
- #25 Atomic Griddle
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pickle SoupPub: Uprising Labs
Windows
Take orders, cook pancakes, and shape a grim wasteland through every choice you make. All while trying not to blow up your nuclear reactor.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Dystopian 21.5%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Simulation 15.9%, Multiple Endings 14.1%
- #26 The Sewers
79% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: BACKDOOR GAMES
Windows
As you are having a rest in your humble abode you have the urge that something is present, something dangerous. Now you trust the urge and decide it's time to leave. You've been pushing your luck for too long down here. As you walk to exit this place you once called home, your urge becomes a reality.
Why similar: Simulation 30.9%, Dystopian 21.2%, Underground 19.4% ★, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #27 Neo Citizen - Prologue
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roosterlandia
Windows
Neo Citizen - Prologue - A management and strategic game in which you will have to manage your resources to the best of your ability. Make connections with the inhabitants, improve the infrastructure and defend yourself from the dangers of a hostile and corrupt world.
Why similar: Dystopian 26.4%, Underground 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Simulation 8.2%
- #28 Glaucon Inc.
76% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Adrien Lee
Windows
Your job is your life. Work for Glaucon Inc. processing debtors and making as much money as you can, while you slowly recall your past, and the truth.
Why similar: Dystopian 48.9%, Text-Based 38.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Indie 1%
- #29 Chrono Chasm
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Waking Wombat Interactive
Windows
Descend into a living, ever-changing mine in this action roguelike! Gather crystals to extract their magical essence, manage resources, upgrade your abilities, and fight back against the encroaching darkness to uncover its source—before it consumes you.
Why similar: Underground 34.5% ★, Resource Management 25.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Simulation 11.7%, Quick-Time Events 10.4% ★
- #30 Stamped : Visa Officer
76% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Dogukan DemirkilicPub: DMade Games
Windows
Work as a visa officer, inspect documents, and decide who gets visa. Balance your job, your family, and your morality as every decision shapes lives including your own.
Why similar: Dystopian 36.3%, Simulation 27.2%, Choices Matter 19%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Indie 1.1%
- #31 Permaban
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: UnrealByte
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's 2007. You moderate a dying internet forum. Ban trolls, enforce contradictory rules, and try not to lose your mind.
Why similar: Dystopian 34.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Simulation 11.3%
- #32 Glorgo's Microplastics Mine
74% matchPositive88% of 40 reviews2026
Dev: Mudbucket Studios
Windows
Become an underpaid, overworked middle-manager for the callous mine boss Glorgo. Amass a hoard of wealth, navigate the vast eerie alien mines, and encounter voracious plastic beasts in a colorful, Y2K-themed dystopia filled with mayhem, microplastics, and monsters.
Why similar: Underground 29.2% ★, Resource Management 28%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Dystopian 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 5%
- #33 Highrisers
78% matchMostly Negative38% of 122 reviews2021
Dev: Solar Powered GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
An Urban Survival RPG! Crafting, Exploring and Defending in a desolate metropolis haunted by the mysterious dreamers. Lead a team of 4 survivors through this urban desert of skyscrapers and high-rises, where the streets are crowded with the mutated victims of a strange disease.
Why similar: Resource Management 27%, Dystopian 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 11.9%, Old School 10.1%
- #34 Trauma Record
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unnamed Moon
Windows
夜を歩く、血だまりの上を走る、永遠を断ち切る。 復讐のための翼は折れない。
Why similar: Dystopian 30.4%, Text-Based 27.1%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Simulation 10.3%
- #35 Recyclic
72% matchPositive97% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: Shellscrape Games
Windows
A deceptively demanding experience of a humble recycling plant worker. Shred, crush, and sort your way through a menial job while trying to keep track of the ever convoluted company policy. Clock in, recycle, get paid, repeat.
Why similar: Dystopian 35.9%, Resource Management 22.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #36 Rites & Receipts
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Infinite Inbox
Windows
Clock in at the Dark Magic Federation. As a ritual clerk, you must verify public requests, consult the manual, and process the paperwork for a world of petty hexes. Stamp requests, catch counterfeits, and avoid costly compliance fines. The quota is rising. Work starts now.
Why similar: Simulation 26.4%, Dystopian 25.6%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Multiple Endings 18.1%, Retro 4.7%
- #37 Sheltered 2
75% matchMixed45% of 2,203 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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: Resource Management 33.2%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Survival 14%, Simulation 6.7%
- #38 Subzero Tides
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Dystopian 35.3%, Colony Sim 23.3%, Resource Management 21.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Survival 7.7%
- #39 Dear Edmund
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mind The Grease
Windows
As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Dystopian 45.2%, Choices Matter 22.6%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Simulation 11.1%, 2D 2.4%
- #40 Dustline
70% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Dustline Studio
Windows
Survive the wasteland in this turn-based post-apocalyptic RPG. Battle mutants, scavenge resources, and upgrade your arsenal as you journey to the mysterious Radio Tower. Strategic combat, weapon progression, and deadly choices await.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.8%, Dystopian 31.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Survival 12.2%, Roguelike 4.1%
- #41 The Last Survey
74% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2020
Dev: Nicholas O'Brien
Windows · Mac
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 44.6%, Text-Based 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Simulation 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #42 Never Secure
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Resource Management 29.9%, Colony Sim 25.3%, Simulation 17.9%, Survival 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
- #43 Dead in Antares
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 192 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Resource Management 38%, Choices Matter 21.5%, Simulation 16.7%, Survival 15.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #44 교수님과 함께하는 대학교 졸업하기
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CHANGDONGSOFTWARE
Windows · Mac
A romance simulation set in your final semester before graduation. Build a special relationship with your professor through grades, assignments, exams, and dialogue. Your choices shape the story and lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.1%, Simulation 20.7%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Old School 9.5%
- #45 Pathogen
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: LMJ Games
Windows
Pathogen is a real-time strategy game, where you take control of a plague that is causing a pandemic. Your goal is to defeat humanity by improving your abilities and earning points from infections.
Why similar: Dystopian 34.9%, Resource Management 26.4%, Text-Based 19.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 6.2%
- #46 Quarantineer
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 321 reviews2021
Dev: Papaonn
Windows · Mac
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
Why similar: Dystopian 30.5%, Colony Sim 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Simulation 9.1%
- #47 201 - The Bad Number
69% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Dystopian 33.2%, Text-Based 27.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%
- #48 Sapiens Craft
70% matchPositive80% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: Abra24
Windows
Begin as a small stone age tribe. End as a global super power in a future age. Craft and research your way through history!
Why similar: Resource Management 33.5%, Simulation 23.4%, Colony Sim 22.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 7%
- #49 Ragnorium
70% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
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: Resource Management 23.9%, Colony Sim 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Survival 14%, Choices Matter 12%
- #50 DECRYPTO Project
67% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: slothJam
Windows
Our algorithm has chosen you for inclusion in the DECRYPTO project. Your job is simple: we send encrypted texts, you decipher them. Loyalty and diligence will be rewarded with upgrades and customization options for your system. Disobedience and sabotage will be punished.
Why similar: Dystopian 35.6%, Simulation 18.3%, Text-Based 16%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #51 Something to Drink?
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Adam's Games
Windows
I'm Tom and I just got a job as a bartender. Now I have to wipe down the same sticky counters where I used to leave my own marks. In this dive, even the rats look like they're hungover. Alright, the boozers won't pour their own drinks - time to get back to work.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.8%, Simulation 25.4%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Retro 6.2%
- #52 Death's Intern
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pink Sakura Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Death’s Intern is a choice-driven adventure game where you review soul case files, talk to the deceased, and decide their fate in the afterlife. Death's Intern combines dark humor with corporate satire; your decisions shape multiple possible endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 41.9%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Simulation 16%, Multiple Endings 14%, Retro 7.7%
- #53 Chinese Newcomer
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 薪火工作室 (Xinhuo Studio)
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Chinese Newcomer" blends deck-building with career simulation. Players choose one of three cards to collect, manage stamina. Use "Legacy Points" to grant Five-Elements talents to descendants, rectifying past regrets. Make choices along paths and embarking on a multi-generational journey.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.5%, Resource Management 25.4%, Choices Matter 18.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Simulation 9%
- #54 Survive The Apocalypse
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mehmet Emin Uyar
Windows
Turn-based roguelite in a post-apocalyptic world where you will have to make meaningful decision (sounds familiar, capitalist world maybe). Make your way out of this ruined city, with eleven quarters (levels) and countless zones. Eat well, sleep well, decide well.
Why similar: Dystopian 29.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Old School 9%, Survival 7.2%
- #55 100 for Justice
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cartoon Rocket Games
Windows
100 lives, one justice. Manage 100 citizens in a country falling to shadow forces. Your choices shape a collective timeline across decades. Lead unions, survive assassinations, and leave a legacy of resistance in this text-based political strategy sim. Words are your greatest weapon.
Why similar: Dystopian 28%, Text-Based 25%, Resource Management 21.4%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Simulation 8.3%
- #56 After Inc: Revival
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,338 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Dystopian 24.4%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Resource Management 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Simulation 9.8%
- #57 As We Know It
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 24 reviews2019
Dev: Jaime Scribbles Games
Windows · Mac
A heavily branching visual novel, featuring love, friendship and life-sim elements in a future destroyed by the sun.
Why similar: Underground 26.8% ★, Dystopian 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #58 Confessional: Reality TV Manager
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mike Hurley
Windows
A reality TV production management game. Cast, create or download contestants, design your season, and watch drama unfold in the most complex relationship sim ever created. Scout hidden talent, manage moods, watch challenges play out, and survive dramatic tribal councils. Build your franchise.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.2%, Simulation 27.3%, Resource Management 17.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, 2D 3.6%