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Games Like The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Simulation, Base Building, Survival.

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Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 77% — of 220 reviews
Released: 2018-03-09
Developer: Xigma Games
Genres: Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Median playtime: 4.0 hrs
Mean playtime: 5.0 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 96%

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    97% matchMixed69% of 360 reviews2020
    Dev: Xigma Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

    Why similar: Survival 41.3%, Simulation 26.1%, Strategy 22.2%, Indie 10.3%

  2. #2 Project AURA
    96% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
    Dev: Nexcentric Games
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

    Why similar: Simulation 38.7%, Strategy 33.2%, Indie 14%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Relaxing 5.5%

  3. #3 The Last Haven
    95% matchMixed61% of 1,526 reviews2023
    Dev: Thunder Devs.
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    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: Strategy 34.9%, Survival 27.4%, Simulation 21.7%, Indie 12.7%, Atmospheric 3.4%

  4. #4 Forsaken Fortress Strategy
    96% matchMostly Negative34% of 197 reviews2015
    Dev: Photon ArenaPub: KISS ltd
    Windows

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

    Why similar: RPG 31.7%, Strategy 28.8%, Simulation 27%, Indie 12.5%

  5. #5 Z Dawn
    94% matchMostly Positive74% of 282 reviews2019
    Dev: GoldenGod Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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: Survival 30.9%, RPG 24.4%, Strategy 21.9%, Indie 11.1%, Atmospheric 8.2%

  6. #6 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
    94% matchVery Positive81% of 2,242 reviews2018
    Dev: Suncrash
    Windows
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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

    Why similar: Survival 47.7%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 20.1%, Indie 5.7%, 2D 3.5%

  7. #7 First Feudal
    93% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
    Dev: Harpoon Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

    Why similar: Simulation 27.2%, Survival 25.2%, Strategy 20.6%, RPG 13.8%, Indie 7.7%

  8. #8 The Unexpected Quest
    92% matchVery Positive80% of 201 reviews2020
    Dev: Rionix
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Adventure game with strategy and management elements in a medieval fantasy setting - drawing inspiration from classics such as Warcraft 3 and The Settlers. Embark on quests, hunt down treasures and manage your resources as you build, battle, cast magic and brew potions to bring order to the world.

    Why similar: Strategy 72.7%, Relaxing 27.3%

  9. #9 The Wandering Village
    89% matchVery Positive92% of 8,074 reviews2025
    Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    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: Simulation 48%, Survival 41.4%, Relaxing 10.6%

  10. #10 Dead In Vinland
    91% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,795 reviews2018
    Dev: Ishtar Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.

    Why similar: Survival 27.4%, RPG 23.3%, Simulation 19.4%, Strategy 17.3%, Indie 7.6%

  11. #11 Your Quest
    91% matchMixed60% of 164 reviews2015
    Dev: Oblivionburn Productions
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    Your Quest is a casual 2D Strategy/RPG with progressive gameplay where you gather resources to construct a village, craft new weapons and armor, and try to survive the depths of a procedurally generated dungeon under the surface.

    Why similar: Simulation 31.3%, RPG 28.6%, Strategy 25%, Indie 15.1%

  12. #12 The Tribe Must Survive
    90% matchMixed68% of 206 reviews2024
    Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
    Windows · Mac

    The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?

    Why similar: Survival 35.8%, Simulation 27.6%, Strategy 22.9%, Atmospheric 13.8%

  13. #13 Folklands
    87% matchMostly Positive75% of 52 reviews2025
    Dev: Bromantic GamesPub: Light Up Games
    Windows · Linux

    Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

    Why similar: Simulation 47.7%, Strategy 39.8%, Relaxing 12.6%

  14. #14 Dawnfolk
    86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 668 reviews2025
    Dev: Darenn KellerPub: Astra Logical
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?

    Why similar: Survival 52.2%, Strategy 34.7%, Relaxing 13.1%

  15. #15 Lantern Forge
    89% matchMixed54% of 284 reviews2014
    Dev: Hearthfire Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    Lantern Forge is a sandbox survival game with building, crafting, and RPG elements. Mine and forage for resources to build a home, plant crops, and craft weapons and armor. Then venture out to explore the wilderness, find hidden dungeons and temples, fight unique monsters, and collect the treasures they guard.

    Why similar: Survival 46.5%, RPG 45.1%, Indie 8.5%

  16. #16 Tempest Citadel
    88% matchMostly Positive74% of 61 reviews2018
    Dev: Aartform Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Tempest Citadel is a base building simulation set on a storm-ruled planet with a vivid sci-fi story. Build a mighty Citadel in the clouds for your crew of explorers and conquer the deadly planet below in automated squad battles!

    Why similar: Simulation 43.4%, Strategy 37.4%, Indie 19.2%

  17. #17 Evolution of Ages: Settlements
    85% matchVery Positive86% of 292 reviews2018
    Dev: TREON Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world. Recruit characters and level their skills and equipment from the stone age until the space age, while trying your best to avoid the very thing that led to our destruction previously.

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    84% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
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    Windows

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  19. #19 Mountaincore
    82% matchMixed66% of 253 reviews2025
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  20. #20 Farlanders
    82% matchVery Positive92% of 569 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

    Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

    Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Simulation 30%, Strategy 26.4%, 2D 7.6%

  21. #21 Surviving Ceres
    81% matchVery Positive87% of 137 reviews2025
    Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
    Windows

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    84% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
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    Windows

    Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.

    Why similar: Survival 44%, Simulation 31.2%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Indie 7%

  23. #23 Into the Emberlands
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 291 reviews2025
    Dev: Tiny RoarPub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Venture out into the Emberlands and uncover an ever-changing world filled with surprising encounters and mystical creatures! Save villagers who got lost in the Miasma, collect resources and rebuild your village to create a safe haven for your people.

    Why similar: Survival 42.7%, Strategy 27.3%, Indie 17.6%, Relaxing 12.4%

  24. #24 Villagers
    83% matchMixed53% of 342 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!

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  25. #25 Sheltered 2
    80% matchMixed46% of 2,183 reviews2021
    Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%

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    78% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,722 reviews2021
    Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%

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    Why similar: Survival 35.6%, Strategy 22.4%, RPG 21.1%, Simulation 20.9%

  27. #27 Gods of the Fallen Land
    79% matchVery Positive82% of 119 reviews2017
    Dev: Crow's Key Studios
    Windows

    Gods of the Fallen Land is an action-strategy game centered around base building and villager management. Take on the role of a leader trying to rebuild humanity in a broken and dangerous world. Lead your followers into battle and make strategic decisions on what to develop and build to survive.

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  28. #28 Settlement Survival
    76% matchVery Positive86% of 7,842 reviews2022
    Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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.

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  29. #29 Grimgrad
    78% matchMixed53% of 87 reviews2023
    Dev: Juvty WorldsPub: Juvty Worlds
    Windows

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  30. #30 Mistward
    75% matchMixed61% of 85 reviews2026
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    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Simulation 33.8%, Strategy 28.3%, Survival 24%, Relaxing 7.2%, 2D 6.8%

  31. #31 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
    73% matchVery Positive83% of 1,314 reviews2026
    Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

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    79% matchMixed52% of 101 reviews2016
    Dev: Yo_Serjio
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%

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  33. #33 Sheltered
    76% matchVery Positive82% of 6,212 reviews2016
    Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    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.

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    73% matchVery Positive85% of 4,518 reviews2024
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    Windows
    Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  35. #35 Prosperity
    77% matchMostly Positive71% of 101 reviews2018
    Dev: Persera Software Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Take on the role of leading a camp of weary peasants, make strategic decisions to fight for survival against the elements. If you're capable, the camp will grow into a settlement, and then a hamlet. Do you have what it takes to grow it into a city?

    Why similar: Simulation 43.5%, Strategy 36.7%, Indie 19.8%

  36. #36 Forest Camp Story
    75% matchVery Positive84% of 217 reviews2022
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Create and customize your own campground in this charming pixel art sim game.

    Why similar: Simulation 51.4%, Strategy 36.7%, Indie 7.1%, 2D 4.7%

  37. #37 Ancient Cities
    74% matchMixed63% of 2,108 reviews2023
    Dev: Uncasual Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%

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

    Why similar: Survival 36.5%, Strategy 26.2%, Simulation 23.3%, Relaxing 7.1%, Indie 6.9%

  38. #38 Farthest Frontier
    70% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
    Dev: Crate Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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    Why similar: Survival 57.8%, Strategy 42.2%

  39. #39 Viking Frontiers
    73% matchMixed54% of 499 reviews2025
    Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
    Windows

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  40. #40 Going Medieval
    69% matchVery Positive89% of 20,287 reviews2026
    Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
    Windows
    Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    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: Survival 30.4%, Simulation 22.1%, RPG 20.6%, Strategy 19.4%, Relaxing 7.4%

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    74% matchMostly Positive70% of 437 reviews2022
    Dev: Frostfall Realms Studios
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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  42. #42 Ascent of Ashes
    72% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
    Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
    Windows

    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

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  43. #43 TownCraft
    77% matchMixed40% of 105 reviews2015
    Dev: Flat Earth Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%

    TownCraft is a chill-out crafting and city-building game. Instead of just surviving, you must turn your empty plot of land and its rarely-used road into a bustling town full of shops, workers and taverns.

    Why similar: Simulation 44.5%, Strategy 35.1%, Indie 20.5%

  44. #44 Backwoods Town
    71% matchVery Positive94% of 193 reviews2023
    Dev: Andrii Prots
    Windows

    Backwoods town is an atmospheric forest survival simulator. Build your base, grow crops, fight bosses and rebuild the destroyed settlement, finding all its inhabitants along the way.

    Why similar: Survival 64.3%, Atmospheric 22.9%, Simulation 8.9%, Indie 3.9%

  45. #45 The wild darkness
    70% matchVery Positive81% of 88 reviews2025
    Dev: popeyed inc
    Windows

    Explore a survival-roguelike RPG set in an unknown and bizarre world. To withstand its many dangers, you'll need to gain new knowledge, scavenge for food, and acquire useful items. Craft, build, and learn your way through a crucial adventure to uncover the world's secrets.

    Why similar: Survival 56.5%, RPG 43.5%

  46. #46 Stonehearth
    72% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,970 reviews2018
    Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    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.

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  47. #47 Oxygen
    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    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: Survival 36.7%, Simulation 29%, Strategy 24.8%, Indie 6%, Atmospheric 3.5%

  48. #48 Surviving the Aftermath
    71% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
    Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%

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  49. #49 Outlanders
    69% matchVery Positive89% of 484 reviews2023
    Dev: Pomelo Games
    Windows

    Outlanders is a town-building strategy game, populated by hard-working, charming folk in search of a simpler life. Some just want to survive off the land, others want to create amazing things.

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  50. #50 Citizens: Far Lands
    70% matchMostly Positive79% of 135 reviews2022
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    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!

    Why similar: Simulation 54.6%, Strategy 45.4%

  51. #51 Clanfolk
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 3,737 reviews2022
    Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    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.

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  52. #52 Among Trees
    68% matchMixed68% of 2,216 reviews2021
    Dev: FJRD Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%

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  53. #53 Cavern Adventurers
    67% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2025
    Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
    Windows

    Build an underground network of caves in this fantasy-themed management sim.

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  54. #54 Viking Frontiers: Prologue
    66% matchMostly Positive78% of 471 reviews2025
    Dev: BLUM EntertainmentPub: GameHunters
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  55. #55 DYSMANTLE
    65% matchVery Positive91% of 11,317 reviews2021
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  56. #56 Scorchlands
    66% matchVery Positive91% of 129 reviews2024
    Dev: RinglabPub: Star Drifters
    Windows · Linux

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    67% matchMixed43% of 63 reviews2025
    Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows

    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.

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    64% matchVery Positive80% of 17,172 reviews2024
    Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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: Survival 34.7%, Strategy 29.4%, Simulation 27.8%, Atmospheric 8.1%

  59. #59 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
    68% matchMixed66% of 5,984 reviews2017
    Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%

    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: Survival 36.4%, Strategy 30.4%, Simulation 28.7%, Indie 4.6%

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