Games Like Survivor Squad

Strain Tactics is a real-time-with-pause tactical game, where you command a squad of soldiers to liberate earth from an alien infestation. Using your helibase, deploy your custom squad and provide air support. Remember to keep your crew sane and motivated while staying clear of alien contamination!

Why similar: Zombies 34.4%, Strategy 20.5%, Real Time Tactics 12.1%, Action 9.3%, Top-Down 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense real-time squad tactics and top-down management that closely mirrors the gameplay loop of Survivor Squad.

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 45.9%, Strategy 15.7%, Survival 12.5%, Action 8.6%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A squad-based zombie survival game that emphasizes managing a group of survivors with unique abilities in a randomized world.

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 50%, Survival 18.7%, Strategy 16.7%, Indie 5.5%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a small group of survivors through tactical movement and resource scavenging in a zombie-plagued environment.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 41.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Top-Down 8.1%, Procedural Generation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar top-down real-time tactical experience focused on rescuing survivors from zombie-infested zones.

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 47.4%, Survival 16.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.7%, Action 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines squad management with turn-based combat and deep survival mechanics in a post-apocalyptic zombie setting.

HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.

Why similar: Zombies 49.6%, Survival 19%, Strategy 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Indie 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based game that captures the desperate, high-stakes feeling of keeping a small squad alive against zombie hordes.

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 46.3%, Survival 22.5%, Strategy 11%, Crafting 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, turn-based survival experience where managing your squad's needs and scavenging resources is paramount.

Command your Squad of Survivors in a game where Line of Sight is extremely important, you cannot shoot what you cannot see. Develop your formations, move as a unit and cover every corner. Leave no man behind!

Why similar: Zombies 31.3%, Strategy 17.5%, Survival 13.8%, Action 8%, Top-Down 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The direct spin-off of the seed game, offering more of the same tactical squad-based action.

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 59.9%, Survival 22.7%, Strategy 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 4.7%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG that focuses heavily on the challenges of leading a group of survivors and managing resources during a zombie outbreak.

Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

Why similar: Strategy 41%, Top-Down 20.2%, Real Time Tactics 11.9%, Action 10.7%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While not zombie-themed, it is the gold standard for real-time squad tactics and precise control over small teams in dangerous environments.

The Apocalypse has arrived and your goal is simple: Make it 10 miles to safety through a limitless procedurally-generated world overrun with The Infected and packed with the tools and weapons to fight them.

Why similar: Zombies 43.5%, Strategy 17.7%, Survival 11.5%, Top-Down 7.7%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes tactical movement and scavenging while being pursued by zombie hordes.

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: Zombies 46.4%, Survival 23%, Strategy 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, 2D 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic management of survivors and territory in a zombie-infested world, emphasizing long-term survival.

Can you survive the horror? … a retro-style survival horror game developed by the two-man indie team of Gonzossm and Iggy Zuk. Survive 30 days and nights in a zombie-infested world by recruiting companions, upgrading weaponry and fortifying your position.

Why similar: Zombies 57.6%, Survival 17.4%, Action 12.3%, Indie 10.1%, 2D 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling squad-based survival game where you must fortify your position and manage your team's survival through the night.

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 47.5%, Survival 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Top-Down 6.5%, Crafting 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong emphasis on scavenging and survival tactics while navigating through dangerous, zombie-filled areas.

You and up to three friends fight to survive the Zombie outbreak in this game inspired by early '80s horror films!

Why similar: Zombies 66.4%, Strategy 22.7%, Action 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical adventure game that focuses on squad-based survival and puzzle-solving in a zombie-infested setting.

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: Survival 45.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Strategy 16.7%, Crafting 7.6%, Zombies 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that requires you to manage a small group of survivors and their limited resources within a shelter.

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 48.4%, Survival 27.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%, Crafting 6%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate survival simulation that offers unparalleled depth in squad management, scavenging, and tactical decision-making.

Real-time combat in the zombie apocalypse! Guide your survivors through hordes of the infected to escape the epicentre of infection!

Why similar: Indie 55.1%, Strategy 44.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down strategy game that tasks you with managing a squad of survivors in a sci-fi zombie apocalypse.

Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 46.3%, Strategy 18%, Survival 13.7%, Real Time Tactics 7.4%, Crafting 6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy survival game that tasks you with managing a group of survivors and their morale during a zombie apocalypse.

Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

Why similar: Zombies 42.4%, Survival 19.7%, Action 9.6%, Strategy 8%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action game that emphasizes squad-based survival and intense combat against hordes of enemies.

Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.

Why similar: Strategy 75.3%, Indie 24.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on base management and squad-based survival in a harsh, post-apocalyptic world.

A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 69%, Survival 11.2%, Action 8.6%, Indie 6.7%, Multiplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled zombie survival game that emphasizes scavenging and tactical movement through urban environments.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 55.7%, Survival 25%, Post-apocalyptic 6.7%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Action 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a third-person perspective on squad-based zombie survival, focusing on base building and managing individual survivor needs.

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 36%, Strategy 26%, Action 12.2%, Indie 12.2%, Survival 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that features squad-based mechanics and intense tactical combat against zombies.

Dead Sky takes place admist the chaos of a mysterious outbreak where you will fight tooth-and-nail through hordes of undead creatures in order to escape the epidemic and survive. At its core, Dead Sky is an action-packed survival shooter that ties in several strategic tower defense elements.

Why similar: Zombies 65.9%, Action 17.7%, Indie 16.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that captures the frantic, survival-focused atmosphere of managing a small group against waves of enemies.

Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.

Why similar: Zombies 90.6%, Survival 4.1%, Multiplayer 1.6%, Strategy 1.4%, Action 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on building defenses and managing resources to survive as long as possible.

Don't Bite Me Bro! is a 1-4 Player Couch Co-op open-world zombie apocalypse game. Explore the world for resources, find and save survivors throughout the world, each which become playable characters with unique traits and abilities.

Why similar: Zombies 41.4%, Strategy 17.2%, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 12%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes squad cooperation and base building in a zombie-filled world.

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 40.4%, Survival 22.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival RPG that focuses on building a community and managing the needs of your fellow survivors.

As a survivor of the mutant virus, make your way through the city and wipe out the hordes of flesh eating mutants. Teamwork is the key to survive the DEAD HORDE...

Why similar: Zombies 67.5%, Action 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Indie 7.8%, Multiplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down zombie shooter that requires tactical movement and resource management to survive waves of attacks.

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: Zombies 30%, Survival 22.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on resource management and building defenses while navigating a zombie-infested city.

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 52.5%, Indie 19.5%, Action 10%, Survival 9.8%, Real Time Tactics 4.6%

Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Why similar: Zombies 41.3%, Strategy 16.8%, Top-Down 12.4%, Action 10.4%, Indie 8.2%

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: Zombies 26.9%, Survival 22.1%, Strategy 18.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 44.1%, Survival 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Top-Down 7.5%, Action 7.3%

A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.

Why similar: Zombies 58.6%, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 11%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Action 4.4%

Explore war-torn post-apocalyptic landscapes and take fight against enemies using various weapons in this FPS/RTS hybrid.

Why similar: Strategy 31.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 13.8%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Action 11.4%

This is the world after a zombie apocalypse in which the main characters have to go through many perils. It is a story about ordinary people who, when faced with danger, decided not to run away from it, but to fight back. As the story goes along, you will learn what caused the disaster and help other survivors to overcome its aftermath.

Why similar: Zombies 71%, Action 12.6%, Indie 6.8%, Survival 6.6%, Top-Down 2.9%

Sequel to the best-seller ​The Red Solstice​. Plan your strategy and infiltrate a real-time tactical battlefield - alone or with up to 7 squad members. Can you demonstrate the combat prowess to survive and secure a future for humanity?

Why similar: Zombies 49.9%, Strategy 15.4%, Real Time Tactics 15.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Procedural Generation 8.1%

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: Zombies 42.4%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Top-Down 8.3%

Guide a group of survivors trying to strive in this alien yet familiar environment. Fight against mutated creatures and use their parts to craft and upgrade your weapons.

Why similar: Strategy 33.6%, Real Time Tactics 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Survival 10.4%, 2D 3.8%

Form a squad of elemental creatures and face hordes of challenging enemies! Choose your Shards according to their synergies to gain new abilities, and equip relics that will make the winds blow in your favor! Survive through different environments and save your lands!

Why similar: Survival 45.7%, Action 24.9%, Indie 17.8%, 2D 6.8%, Singleplayer 4.8%

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 60%, Strategy 12.3%, Survival 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Indie 6.3%

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 57.6%, Survival 25.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Action 2.6%, Indie 2.3%

Survivors Of The Zombie World is a 3D pixel-style zombie survival game. Survivors fight in a world full of zombies. Your goal is to survive, find food, ammunition, medicine and other supplies on the map and try to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 48.7%, Survival 23.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Action 7.5%, Top-Down 7.4%

In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!

Why similar: Zombies 46.2%, Survival 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Top-Down 8.8%, Strategy 8%

Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.

Why similar: Zombies 58.8%, Strategy 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Indie 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%

A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone or in groups you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by living dead!

Why similar: Zombies 37%, Survival 29.8%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Action 11.3%, Indie 10.2%

Phantom Squad is a 1-4 player co-op tactical top-down shooter blending fast-paced combat with real-time strategy. Play solo or team up through online co-op and matchmaking, coordinating movement, positioning, and split-second decisions to survive intense, high-risk missions.

Why similar: Real Time Tactics 67.1%, Action 15%, Top-Down 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Indie 3.5%

Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Why similar: Zombies 46%, Survival 21.4%, Strategy 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Procedural Generation 6.4%

(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.

Why similar: Zombies 43%, Survival 19%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 7%, Action 6.7%

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 52.5%, Survival 27.2%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 8%, Action 3.8%

Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.

Why similar: Zombies 36.6%, Survival 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Action 9.3%

Survive zombie apocalypse! Plunder resources for survival!

Why similar: Zombies 50.3%, Strategy 41.3%, Indie 8.4%

DEFENSURVIVOR is a strategy game where you build obstacles and place and move units to block zombies. There are various units with unique characteristics and powerful high-level units that can be obtained through combination. Use randomly given units to survive until the end!

Why similar: Zombies 42.7%, Strategy 28.4%, Top-Down 18.1%, Indie 5.3%, 2D 3.8%

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: Zombies 39.9%, Survival 21.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%

Fight through escalating waves of zombies in a singleplayer survival FPS. Buy weapons, manage your ammo, and see how long you can survive against the undead horde.

Why similar: Zombies 47.2%, Survival 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Action 6.9%

Dead Maze is a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. Explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible, to survive the hostile environment and upgrade your gear and camp as you go.

Why similar: Zombies 51%, Survival 26%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 5%, Post-apocalyptic 4.9%

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: Survival 41.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Strategy 11.5%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

Super Squad is a team-based Multiplayer Online Shoot-‘Em-Up (MOSH) where squads duke it out in a manic-strategic battle for domination. Tactics, teamwork and twitch reflexes are vital to claim victory, with top-down shooter controls and a myriad of epic abilities to fire off.

Why similar: Strategy 37.6%, Top-Down 25.4%, Multiplayer 20.5%, Action 16.5%