Games Like Surviving the Aftermath

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: City Builder 31.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Survival 11.6%, Colony Sim 10.5%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the exact post-apocalyptic premise of building a colony while managing radiation and environmental disasters.

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: City Builder 29.6%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive survival city-builder that forces you to make brutal moral choices to keep your society alive in a frozen wasteland.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sims, offering deep management, emergent storytelling, and intense survival challenges in a harsh sci-fi setting.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 21.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder where you must constantly adapt to a hostile, ever-changing environment to survive.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 31.6%, Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the harsh realities of survival, requiring careful resource management and defense against raids to grow your town.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A highly creative colony-sim where water management and drought survival are central to your success.

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

Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Base Building 7.9%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique post-apocalyptic setting where you build your settlement on the back of a giant, moving creature.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 42.3%, Colony Sim 30.6%, Survival 12%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival of a prehistoric settlement, requiring you to manage resources and adapt to changing seasons.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on societal survival and the restoration of technology after a global collapse.

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

Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes space survival city-builder that requires strict resource management to keep your station and crew alive.

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: City Builder 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Colony Sim 14.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A modern post-apocalyptic builder that allows you to establish a base in any real-world city while fighting off zombie hordes.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original's post-apocalyptic survival mechanics with improved exploration and colony management.

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: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony-sim management with complex 3D base-building and survival elements in a post-plague world.

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: City Builder 38.2%, Colony Sim 31.7%, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that challenges you to keep your population alive through brutal winters and resource shortages.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Survival 11.7%, Building 7.1%, Base Building 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep management game that mirrors the survival-focused city-building mechanics of the seed game.

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: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 15.3%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A intense survival strategy game where you must build a fortified colony to withstand massive waves of infected.

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

Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Survival 14.4%, Strategy 10.4%, Colony Sim 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Builds upon the original's survival intensity with a greater focus on political management and societal factions.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 26%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the post-apocalyptic struggle, combining colony management with tactical combat against demons.

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: City Builder 30.2%, Colony Sim 28.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival colony-sim where you must manage oxygen, food, and energy to keep your remote base functioning.

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 21.8%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 15.2%, Strategy 13%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy city-builder that tasks you with managing a post-apocalyptic settlement and defending it from threats.

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: City Builder 24.2%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder where you must manage atmospheric conditions and resources to keep your people alive.

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: Colony Sim 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 12.1%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty survival game that emphasizes resource management and base defense in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Survival 12%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A societal survival game set in a flooded world where you must make difficult choices to rebuild civilization.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.6%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: City Builder 29%, Colony Sim 26.4%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 9%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-based colony-sim that tasks you with building a Viking settlement while managing resources and natural disasters.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 56.6%, Simulation 16.4%, Building 15.3%, Open World 10.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony-sim set in the Scottish Highlands that emphasizes family management and harsh weather survival.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that features base-building, scavenging, and survival in a dangerous wasteland.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Colony Sim 33.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Base Building 9%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that focuses on environmental survival and managing the needs of your colonists on an alien world.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater survival city-builder that requires you to manage resources and build a colony in a hostile deep-sea environment.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.5%, City Builder 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Base Building 11.4%, Simulation 6.1%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Colony Sim 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 9%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 8%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 39.4%, Colony Sim 22.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 6.1%, Survival 5.1%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 21.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Survival 7.5%

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

Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Colony Sim 32.4%, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 4.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Colony Sim 26.2%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Base Building 7.4%

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 31.7%, Survival 24.3%, Base Building 19%, Strategy 8%, Management 4.4%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 11%, Strategy 8.7%, Survival 7.5%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 22.6%, Survival 21.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.9%

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: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 47.2%, Colony Sim 12.1%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Base Building 6.2%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.4%, Strategy 7.7%

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: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Strategy 6.1%

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: City Builder 22.7%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 9.9%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 22.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10.8%, Building 6.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 9.9%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 7.2%

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: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Colony Sim 26.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Base Building 9.5%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 12%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 10.4%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, City Builder 25.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 8.6%

Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.

Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Colony Sim 32.8%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 7%, Building 6.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 30.1%, Colony Sim 25.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 7.9%, Strategy 7.9%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Post-apocalyptic 25.1%, Survival 12.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 31.1%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 8.9%

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: City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 9.7%