- #1 Frostline
97% 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 28.4%, Text-Based 13.6%, Resource Management 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%
- #2 Faultline.Exe
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jason BannPub: VibeAxis
Windows
Initiate a neural handshake with a doomed deep-space facility. Hack through a corrupted AI, evade corporate kill-squads, and uncover a terrifying biological conspiracy. Every keystroke decides who lives and who dies in this immersive sci-fi terminal thriller featuring 12 distinct endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.5%, Dystopian 20.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #3 THE DEEPWATCH
96% 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 24.3%, Resource Management 17%, Colony Sim 14.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #4 Frostveil: The Last Winter
94% matchNo user 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 22.3%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Survival 11.9%
- #5 The Deepwater Witch
93% 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 38.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #6 Organs Please
92% matchVery Positive84% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 28.9%, Resource Management 20.8%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%
- #7 From The Bunker
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DEM Games
Windows
In «From The Bunker» you play as a group of survivors who have found a fortified bunker and are trying to survive in a world filled with the living dead. You'll have to explore the map in search of resources, fight off threats and build relationships with factions. Do whatever it takes to survive!
Why similar: Resource Management 24.3%, Text-Based 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Simulation 11%
- #8 The Westport Independent
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 330 reviews2016
Dev: Double Zero One Zero
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 51.5%, Simulation 30%, Choices Matter 14%, Indie 4.5%
- #9 Void Stalkers
89% match8 user reviews100% of 8 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 36.8%, Resource Management 22.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Simulation 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12%
- #10 Paradise Lost
90% matchMixed64% of 2,474 reviews2021
Dev: PolyAmorousPub: Walkabout
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.0 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%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #11 Vaulted Valor
89% 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 34.2%, Underground 19.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #12 Bunker Life
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameIn
Windows
Survive! You need resources. Explore and search items to live.
Why similar: Resource Management 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Survival 11.7%
- #13 Winter Nest
87% 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 28.8%, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Multiple Endings 5%
- #14 Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,075 reviews2023
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Joystick Ventures
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 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 35.6%, Resource Management 23.6%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Simulation 9.9%
- #15 Monitor State
86% 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 38.3%, Text-Based 21.6%, Simulation 15%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Retro 7.8%
- #16 The Sewers
85% 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 21.1%, Underground 19.4% ★, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #17 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 26.8%, Text-Based 20%, Resource Management 17.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #18 Atomic Griddle
84% 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 22.8%, Dystopian 21.5%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Simulation 15.9%, Multiple Endings 14.2%
- #19 Neo Citizen - Prologue
83% 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 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Simulation 8.3%
- #20 Glaucon Inc.
81% matchPositive93% of 15 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 48.7%, Text-Based 38.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Indie 1%
- #21 Chrono Chasm
82% 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 34.3% ★, Resource Management 25.7%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Quick-Time Events 10.3% ★
- #22 Highrisers
82% matchMostly Negative38% of 121 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 27.7%, Dystopian 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 11.7%, Old School 10%
- #23 Trauma Record
81% 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 30.2%, Text-Based 27.2%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Simulation 10.2%
- #24 Sheltered 2
80% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 33.9%, Colony Sim 23.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Survival 13.9%, Simulation 6.7%
- #25 Pathogen
79% 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 34.6%, Resource Management 26.9%, Text-Based 19.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%
- #26 Subzero Tides
78% 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 35.1%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Resource Management 22.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Survival 7.6%
- #27 The Carcass
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ahmet Babagil
Windows
You wake inside a dead god. Darkness. Decay. No way out. Build your colony among rotting organs and forgotten chambers. Ancient parasites stir. Your species must adapt or join the rot. No two playthroughs tell the same story.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.5%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Resource Management 20.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #28 Recyclic
76% 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 35.5%, Resource Management 23.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #29 The Last Survey
79% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: Nicholas O'Brien
Windows · Mac
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 44.5%, Text-Based 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #30 Rites & Receipts
77% 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 26.7%, Dystopian 24.6%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Multiple Endings 18.4%, Retro 4.7%
- #31 Homeseek
77% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: The Iterative Collective
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 25.4%, Resource Management 19.1%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Choices Matter 11%
- #32 Day Zero
75% matchPositive87% of 47 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 27%, Text-Based 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #33 Dear Edmund
76% 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 44.9%, Choices Matter 22.9%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Simulation 11.1%, 2D 2.4%
- #34 Never Secure
75% matchNo user reviews
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 30.6%, Colony Sim 25% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Survival 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%
- #35 Quarantineer
74% 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 30.4%, Colony Sim 15.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Simulation 9.2%
- #36 System Overload
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jabran
Windows
SYSTEM STATUS: UNSTABLE> System Overload is a resource management sim disguised as a Win95/98 Task Manager. Balance CPU, RAM, and heat while fighting malware across 8 unique endings. Push your hardware to the limit—just don't trigger a meltdown. >DO_NOT_CRASH.
Why similar: Resource Management 45.4%, Simulation 23.3%, Retro 16%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Arcade 2.7%
- #37 Ragnorium
73% 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 24.5%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Survival 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #38 Sapiens Craft
73% 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 34.1%, Simulation 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.1% ★, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #39 Something to Drink?
72% 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 27.7%, Simulation 25.4%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Retro 6.1%
- #40 NOAH: 2050
72% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Team NOAH
Windows
『NOAH: 2050』 is a 2D visual novel game that blends an adventure format where you can explore a school.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.5%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Simulation 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%
- #41 KUU
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Interactive Tragedy, Limited
Windows
Trapped in the fading light of a broken moonhouse, you have 30 nights to balance scarce resources. Grow meager rations in the weak earthlight. Navigate the emotional sanity of a fragile sisterhood. Decode ancient documents in search of secrets. Your only choices will be impossible ones.
Why similar: Resource Management 31.9%, Dystopian 17.7%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Simulation 12%, Survival 11.2%
- #42 AI Protocol
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Little Games Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
AI Protocol is a minimalist strategy game. Control an emerging AI through a single evolving interface. Grow too slowly and you’re left behind. Grow too fast and you’re discovered. Conquer all or lose everything to Detection or runaway AGI. How powerful can you become… without being seen?
Why similar: Simulation 26.5%, Resource Management 25.7%, Text-Based 22.7%, Dystopian 22.7%, 2D 1.3%
- #43 201 - The Bad Number
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 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 33.1%, Text-Based 28%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%
- #44 As We Know It
73% 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 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #45 DECRYPTO Project
69% 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 35.4%, Simulation 18.4%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #46 After Inc: Revival
68% matchVery Positive80% of 1,165 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 24.5%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Resource Management 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Simulation 9.9%
- #47 Will Die Alone
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Dystopian 28.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Simulation 12.7%
- #48 Confessional: Reality TV Manager
69% 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 38.1%, Simulation 27%, Resource Management 18.1%, Choices Matter 13.2%, 2D 3.6%
- #49 Hi! These Are Your Eyeballs
68% matchMixed67% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: WolfgangIs
Windows
Our eyes define and shape everything that happens in life. Become a delivery courier for EyeBallStore and help the residents of Limbo Alley see the world in a new light after a long time spent in darkness.
Why similar: Dystopian 43.2%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Simulation 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Retro 9.9%
- #50 Earth Parasite: Silo
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ISLUOPub: Wise Games
Windows
A post-apocalyptic mining, action tower defense, lightly roguelite, anti-human, hand-drawn sci-fi game. Wield excavators, pile drivers, or flamethrowers to battle humans. Consume human DNA to enhance your abilities—but ultimately lose your humanity in the process.
Why similar: Underground 34.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 24%, Resource Management 22.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, 2D 3%
- #51 Survival Tycoon
71% matchMixed49% of 72 reviews2017
Pub: Displacement Studios
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 28%
It's the year 2041; the atmosphere is toxic from global warming and nuclear war. Can you survive in an unforgiving world?
Why similar: Resource Management 45.2%, Simulation 30.3%, Survival 15.6%, Casual 4.6%, Indie 4.3%
- #52 Alcyone: The Last City
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Joshua Meadows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Dystopian 27%, Text-Based 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
- #53 Underground Nomads
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7% ★, Resource Management 25.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Underground 13.1% ★, Survival 13.1%
- #54 Harmonium
70% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: From The Bard
Windows
Discover the story of this point’n click and lead your town towards a better future! You’ll guide the town of Harmonium Point to a yet unbuilt future after a great war that ravaged the world. React to numerous events that punctuate the life of this town and build relationships with the other citizens!
Why similar: Resource Management 32.6%, Text-Based 30.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Simulation 11%, Indie 3.1%
- #55 War Angels
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leolit GamesPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
War Angels puts you in charge of a hospital in the middle of a war. With scarce food, limited medicine, and waves of critically injured patients, every decision becomes a moral struggle. Who will you save when you can’t save them all?
Why similar: Resource Management 24.5%, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Survival 10.2%
- #56 Dead in Antares
65% matchVery Positive82% of 155 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 38.7%, Choices Matter 21.5%, Simulation 16.6%, Survival 15.1%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #57 Commutator
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: iaroslav motailov
Windows · Mac · Linux
███████████████████████████████████████ *The term “see” is used for illustrative purposes only. ███████████████████████████████████████ Use [TOUCH], [SMELL], and [LICK] modules to gain more information about the new world. -COMTEK ULTRA
Why similar: Dystopian 32.9%, Resource Management 22.7%, Simulation 20.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Retro 8.9%
- #58 Dust Dwellers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crimson Stone Games
Windows
Lead a group of survivors through a dry and desolate wasteland in this turn-based card game. Outfit your survivors with vehicles to fend off metal beasts at night, scavenge for resources, and uncover the path to your next homestead. Can you outwit the dangers of this harsh new world?
Why similar: Dystopian 23.9%, Resource Management 22.7%, Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Survival 10.9%