Games Like Survival Log

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 27.8%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, 2.5D 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the gritty, resource-starved reality of survival where every decision and scavenge run carries significant risk.

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: Base Building 17.7%, Survival 16.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, 2.5D 12.2%, Life Sim 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on the preparation and hoarding of supplies while reinforcing a home against an encroaching threat.

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: Zombies 36.1%, Survival 29.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Simulation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive zombie survival experience that mirrors the deep inventory management and base fortification mechanics of the seed game.

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: Zombies 30.9%, Survival 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Exploration 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelike that focuses heavily on inventory management and the tactical necessity of scavenging in a zombie-filled city.

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 26.1%, Survival 23.7%, Base Building 22%, Resource Management 10.7%, Crafting 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A core survival management game where you must maintain a shelter and scavenge for resources to keep your family alive.

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: Outbreak Sim 35% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Life Sim 18.9%, Survival 13.5%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the frantic, time-pressured hoarding and resource management aspect of preparing for a post-apocalyptic survival scenario.

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: Outbreak Sim 19.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Zombies 18.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manage a base in a real-world city, focusing on scavenging and fortifying buildings against zombie hordes.

Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 20.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Time Management 13.1%, Survival 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic, turn-based survival game where you must manage a group of survivors and secure a safe house in a zombie apocalypse.

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: Zombies 45%, Survival 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, RPG 6.6%, Strategy 6.3%

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

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 32.7%, Survival 28.4%, Inventory Management 16.2%, Crafting 11.9%, RPG 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a complex, grid-based inventory system and hardcore survival mechanics that reward careful planning and optimization.

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

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25%, Base Building 22.3%, Survival 19.5%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base building and resource management with the constant threat of zombie attacks, requiring strategic defense planning.

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: Zombies 26%, Post-apocalyptic 24.8%, 2.5D 23.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Story Rich 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game that emphasizes scavenging and base management in a desperate, zombie-filled environment.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 58.1%, Survival 25.1%, Roguelite 11.3%, RPG 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A run-based zombie survival game that emphasizes resource management and difficult choices during randomized scavenging trips.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 31.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24.9%, Survival 18.9%, Roguelite 12.7%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game where every run is a desperate attempt to scavenge supplies and survive while infected.

This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 25.7%, Outbreak Sim 16% ★, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 13.4%, 2.5D 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox zombie survival game that emphasizes exploration and the need to secure resources for long-term survival.

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: Outbreak Sim 22.3% ★, Zombies 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Time Management 11.4%, Resource Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that tasks you with managing resources and base defenses while attempting to cure the zombie population.

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 26.1%, Resource Management 21.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Survival 18.2%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the original's resource management and base building with deeper faction and survival mechanics.

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: Zombies 30.5%, Survival 23.2%, Base Building 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive zombie survival sim that emphasizes base management, resource gathering, and community survival.

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: Zombies 25.7%, Survival 21%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 15%, Exploration 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the satisfying loop of breaking down the environment to gather resources for crafting and survival upgrades.

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: Post-apocalyptic 26%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Third Person 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep base-building and survival mechanics with a focus on managing relationships and resources in a hostile world.

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: Zombies 32.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 15.9%, Strategy 7.7%, RPG 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines turn-based combat with resource management and survival choices in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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: Zombies 19%, Outbreak Sim 18.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 12.8%, 2.5D 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with a focus on realistic mechanics and scavenging for supplies in a post-apocalyptic city.

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: Zombies 22.6%, Base Building 18%, Resource Management 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Survival 13%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy colony sim that requires careful base management and defense against zombie threats.

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 22.8%, Base Building 22.1%, Survival 12.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused base builder that requires careful management of resources to protect your survivors from the post-apocalyptic elements.

In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!

Why similar: Inventory Management 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 13.3%, 2.5D 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival strategy game where you manage a train as a mobile base, focusing on resource management and difficult moral choices.

City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.

Why similar: Zombies 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Time Management 15.2%, Base Building 13%, Resource Management 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike strategy game that tasks you with managing defenses and resources to survive waves of zombies.

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 27.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Time Management 14.8%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and management of a settlement in a harsh, post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

Why similar: Zombies 25.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Resource Management 14.3%, Life Sim 12.9%, Base Building 11.9%

2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 19.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Zombies 15.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy survival game that focuses on base building and resource management in a post-apocalyptic world.

Once #1 on both TapTap New Releases and Exclusive Charts, this post-apocalyptic comfort survival game is now on Steam. One-time purchase, no ads, focusing on survival simulation, RV stockpiling and roguelike reincarnation to deliver a relaxing wasteland experience with full preparation and no fear.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Zombies 12.7%, Inventory Management 12.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%

In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence. But at night you have to resist hordes of zombies and guard your camp!

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 33.7% ★, Zombies 22.3%, Inventory Management 16.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Exploration 5.9%

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: Zombies 47.5%, Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic resource management survival game that forces you to make difficult choices while traveling through a zombie apocalypse.

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 39.3%, Survival 28.8%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.6%, RPG 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the crafting and base-building aspects of survival while fending off waves of zombies.

This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.

Why similar: Inventory Management 16.8%, 2.5D 13.9%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%

Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!

Why similar: Zombies 34%, Post-apocalyptic 29.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Survival 10.1%, RPG 7.7%

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Inventory Management 20.8%, Zombies 19%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Roguelite 10.9%

You knew in advance before the zombie crisis breake out, go to the supermarket to buy everything you need! Then stay at home and play your mobile phone in order to survive in this madness!

Why similar: Zombies 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 15%, Resource Management 13.4%, Survival 12.4%

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

Why similar: Zombies 19.4%, Life Sim 17.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.1%

Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.

Why similar: Zombies 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Inventory Management 14.5%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 11.7%

Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.9%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Simulation 11.4%

ZIC: Survival is a survival shooter where you feel The Zombie Apocalypse & become The Undead Hunter!

Why similar: Zombies 16.1%, Inventory Management 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.8%

You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 10.3%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Exploration 7.4%

Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Life Sim 15.6%, Resource Management 14.5%, Time Management 14.4%, Base Building 11.7%

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: Zombies 37.2%, Survival 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Third Person 4%

A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Zombies 21.3%, Inventory Management 20%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 9.9%

Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 39.1% ★, Time Management 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Strategy 8.1%

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Zombies 25.1%, Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.9%

Into the Haze is a single-player survival game set at the beginning of the apocalypse. You wake up on the rooftop on the 40th floor of the abandoned tower. The whole city is cover with poisonous gas. Gather resources, craft, build, and fight zombies. Survive until help arrives.

Why similar: Zombies 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 15%, Crafting 11.1%

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: Zombies 25.6%, Survival 20%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 7.5%

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: Outbreak Sim 30.4% ★, Zombies 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Survival 14.5%, Story Rich 5.7%

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...

Why similar: Zombies 33.6%, Survival 19.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Strategy 12.7%

Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 27% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Zombies 16.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.5%

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Survival 18.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Crafting 7.9%

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: Outbreak Sim 20.3% ★, Zombies 18%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.6%

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Why similar: Zombies 33%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Survival 20.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Exploration 4.5%

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.8%, Survival 28.1%, Zombies 20.4%, Crafting 8%, Simulation 6.4%

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Survival 32.3%, Crafting 21.7%, Resource Management 19.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 10.4%

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 41.9%, RPG 14%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 12.7%, Roguelite 11.3%

Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 18.2%, Zombies 15.7%, Roguelite 14.1%, Crafting 13%