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 31.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Survival 11.7%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a very similar post-apocalyptic aesthetic and gameplay loop, focusing on radiation management and building a sustainable colony from scratch.

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 29.1%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Survival 12.3%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the definitive high-stakes survival city-builder experience, forcing players to make brutal moral choices to keep their colony alive in a frozen wasteland.

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 22.4%, Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel refines the post-apocalyptic city-building formula with improved exploration and multi-settlement management systems.

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 24.7%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder that captures the tension of survival and resource management under the constant threat of a magical, world-ending storm.

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 22.4%, Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on industrial growth and resource management while dealing with the aftermath of a solar flare.

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 36.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Survival 15%, Strategy 10.6%, Colony Sim 6.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original's survival mechanics with a greater focus on societal management and political factions in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 30.3% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony simulators, providing deep emergent storytelling and complex survival mechanics in a harsh, unpredictable environment.

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 30.6%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 10.6%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival city-builder that emphasizes complex resource chains and the struggle to protect a settlement from harsh weather and disease.

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 26.1% ★, Base Building 22.3%, Survival 21.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This 3D survival colony sim features intense base-building and defense mechanics against hostile alien threats, mirroring the survival focus 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 28.9% ★, Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 15%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building with high-stakes tower defense, requiring constant vigilance to protect your colony from massive swarms of infected.

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 29.8%, Colony Sim 20.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival city-builder that emphasizes resource management and the survival of your crew while navigating a dying solar system.

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 26.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the post-apocalyptic colony theme, tasking you with building a base and defending survivors from demons.

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 28.1%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that focuses on water management and vertical construction, requiring clever engineering to survive recurring droughts.

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 26.2%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Base Building 8%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a creative twist on the genre by having you build your settlement on the back of a giant, moving creature in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 32%, Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 7.2%, Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that emphasizes population management and adapting to unpredictable natural disasters.

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 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses real-world map data to create a post-apocalyptic survival experience where you must fortify buildings against zombie hordes.

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 41.8%, Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that tracks your settlement's progress through the ages, requiring careful management of food and resources to survive the elements.

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 29.7%, Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 10.4%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony survival game where you must manage the needs of your colonists while building a self-sustaining base on remote planets.

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 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A spaceship colony simulator that emphasizes deep survival mechanics, including air quality, temperature, and resource recycling.

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 27.1%, Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that features detailed vertical building and survival mechanics in a post-plague world.

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 25.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the gritty, small-scale survival management of a post-apocalyptic bunker, emphasizing resource scarcity and combat.

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: Colony Sim 25.2% ★, City Builder 25%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A society-survival game set in a flooded post-apocalyptic world that focuses on exploration and the management of different survivor factions.

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 23.8%, Colony Sim 19.9% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder where you must manage atmospheric survival and build a base around a life-sustaining oxygen center.

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 37.5%, Colony Sim 31.9% ★, Survival 10.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that popularized the genre's focus on resource management and surviving harsh winters.

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 28.4%, Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that tasks you with managing a Viking settlement while dealing with harsh weather and environmental challenges.

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 24% ★, City Builder 21%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony sim that combines base-building with exploration and combat in a wasteland setting.

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 29.9%, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Base Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that focuses on social management and the long-term sustainability of your settlement through research and resource planning.

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 27.1%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater survival city-builder that requires players to manage oxygen and pressure while building a civilization on the ocean floor.

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 21.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Survival 9.9%

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 23.1%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.1%

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 38.6%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Strategy 6.3%, Survival 5.1%

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%, Colony Sim 33.7% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Simulation 6.7%

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 28.2%, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Base Building 8.6%, Strategy 8.2%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.2%

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 38.1%, Colony Sim 32.6% ★, Survival 8.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 4.9%

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%, Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Survival 7.5%

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 23.4% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.8%, Strategy 7%

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 22.1% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9%

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 23.4% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Survival 7.5%

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 31.1%, Survival 24.2%, Base Building 19.2%, Strategy 8.2%, Management 4.5%

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 46.3%, Colony Sim 12% ★, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 8%, Base Building 6.3%

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: Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.4%, Strategy 7.9%

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 25.3%, Colony Sim 22.9% ★, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 7.3%

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 22.4%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 10%

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: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Base Building 9.4%, Strategy 6.4%

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 33% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 9.1%, Strategy 8.8%

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 23.2%, Colony Sim 21.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 10%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 22.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 9.9%, Strategy 7.8%

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 29.3%, Colony Sim 25.2% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Survival 7.9%

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 33.2%, Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Simulation 13%, Base Building 9.6%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Strategy 7.5%

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 30.2%, Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.7%, Strategy 9.2%

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: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.1%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, Survival 14%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 7.5%

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 21.5%, Colony Sim 20.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%

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 22.2% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 9.7%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 9.8%, Survival 8.6%

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.6%