- #1 Organs Please
97% matchVery Positive83% of 334 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Political Sim 19.4% ★, Dystopian 16.1%, Colony Sim 11%, Resource Management 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%
- #2 Floodland
96% matchMixed56% of 1,094 reviews2022
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 26.1%, Political Sim 19.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #3 Novo: The Colony
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Broken Future Games
Windows
Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Dystopian 9.5%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #4 SKY HARVEST
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nadir Kaan Sezi
Windows
The sun is gone. Somewhere above the ash, dead satellites still hold its light. You run Shelter 432: find them, pull the power down, decide who gets it, and write the report the Commission will read. Thirty days. Every number is yours.
Why similar: Dystopian 24.7%, Resource Management 15.8%, Colony Sim 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Choices Matter 11%
- #5 Goblins Please
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SoulMeatGames
Windows
The dark lord has tasked you to decide which heroes pass and which heroes do not. There are becoming too many papers and to top it off the camp with the other goblins will not last long without you. Decide who passes through during the day and manage the camp at night.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.9%, Political Sim 29.7% ★, Resource Management 14.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Strategy 5.5%
- #6 What's on Agenda
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 35 reviews2024
Dev: ORGDPub: ILHI
Windows · Mac
A short, chill social clicker where you shape the narrative of the newly formed SARO Federation. Follow Jan Eteri, a prominent lawyer, and see how propaganda changes society's perception.
Why similar: Political Sim 15.7% ★, Resource Management 14.8%, Dark Comedy 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #7 Directive 220
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SethAngel
Windows · Mac
A dystopian management game where you act as an energy dispatcher in a collapsing regime. Allocate power, make tough decisions, and balance stability, government pressure, and citizen survival in a dark retro-futuristic world.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.6% ★, Dystopian 20.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Choices Matter 10%, Management 8.3%
- #8 AfterRoach
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gavlt
Windows
AfterRoach is a post-apocalyptic game where cockroaches rule the world. Inspect devices from the Old World and decide who gets water, food, and medicine. Every decision has consequences: be too harsh and the people may revolt; be too generous and the authorities will take notice.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.4% ★, Dystopian 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Resource Management 3.9%
- #9 Live on, Until we can't
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pallang Studio
Windows
Between a child's first cry and someone's final breath, a tribe's history takes shape. Place its people in buildings, answer unexpected events, and lead the tribe for as long as it can endure in this turn-based tribal survival rogue-lite.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6%, Simulation 15.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 10.5%
- #10 Motile Works
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Max Estry
Windows
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Political Sim 19.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #11 Bad Government
91% matchMixed42% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: FreeTimeDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage your resources and navigate the shifting sentiment of the population in this decision-based resource management game. Gain power to unlock more individuals, adding complexity as you progress. How long can you maintain balance?
Why similar: Political Sim 29.9% ★, Dark Comedy 23.8%, Aliens 9.9%, Management 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #12 Sheltered 2
89% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 32.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.6%, Resource Management 16.2%, Survival 10.6%, Management 7%
- #13 Down Further
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SeaRuby Games
Windows
Explore the deepest parts of the ocean in this open-world, survival horror game. Fend off unknown creatures with only a few damaged devices in your submarine. Collect creature data, upgrade your vessel, and escape the deep ocean trenches in Down Further.
Why similar: Underwater 41% ★, Dystopian 14.6%, Hand-drawn 10%, Strategy 7%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
- #14 Do Not Feed the Monkeys
88% matchVery Positive94% of 12,785 reviews2018
Dev: Fictiorama StudiosPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Political Sim 26.8% ★, Dystopian 18%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 9.3%
- #15 Aquatico
86% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Underwater 30.7% ★, Colony Sim 28.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Management 7.2%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #16 Not For Broadcast
86% matchVery Positive94% of 12,711 reviews2022
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.2%, Political Sim 20.8% ★, Dystopian 19.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Management 7.3%
- #17 CRADLE PLANT: First Year Operations
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 岡部 正孝Pub: Dayveil Games
Windows
Run a childcare plant where babies spend their first year in automated care. Build conveyor networks for feeding, sleep, hygiene, and play. As babies grow, their needs change. Keep your factory efficient while adapting to each child's unique reactions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Dark Comedy 18.7%, Dystopian 14.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Management 10.3%
- #18 Under the Rust
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rotten Byte Games
Windows
Under the Rust is a tactical UI-based bunker simulation. Take control of the C.O.R.E. system, manage life support resources, assign personnel, and survive the post-apocalyptic decay.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 9.5%, Simulation 7.8%
- #19 Here's My Target
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mug Logic
Windows
Contract killing is just another public service. As a regulator, it's your job to review the documents, listen to the client, and decide the fate of every target, then hope you made the right call.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.6%, Political Sim 26.4% ★, Dark Comedy 21.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Simulation 4.5%
- #20 Zombie Motel 96
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OFFtheREAL
Windows
ZOMBIE MOTEL 96 is a tycoon at the end of the world. You check in, ration, quarantine, evict, scavenge and shoot to keep a roadside motel running. Every guest is one more gun on the fence, one more mouth to feed, one more noise the horde can hear. So, manager: how many people, for how many weeks?
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 8.9%, Survival 8.5%
- #21 Survival Bunker
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Df Games Studio
Windows
Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Survival 10.6%, Strategy 8.8%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #22 I Missed the Apocalypse
81% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: Bork One
Windows
Humanity has fallen under alien control. Every mind but yours is under their influence. Alone and immune, you must gather resources, build robots, and fortify your base against ever-larger nighttime assaults. Grow strong enough to strike back at the purple fortress looming over Neo Roma.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Dystopian 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Aliens 11.1%, Robots 10.8%
- #23 Doomsday Train
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PAOGE
Windows
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Dystopian 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Simulation 12.2%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #24 Editor's Hell
82% matchPositive81% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: Pixelated Goose Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it. First, you have to make a choice. Will you support the government or will you go against it? Dreams, nightmares, don’t matter anymore; you have a new opportunity in your life.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.6%, Political Sim 15.2% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Management 11%
- #25 Love in Space
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Jørn LavollPub: Storedraumen Games A/S
Windows
Write the story, create the lyrics, and sing your way to the moon. A choice-driven Sci-Fi Karaoke-Musical where every decision shapes the story, and the songs you sing as you try to escape from Earth.
Why similar: Underwater 26.5% ★, Dark Comedy 23.3%, Dystopian 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #26 Crow's Requiem
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ex Ignorantia
Windows
A narrative-heavy, comic-infused survival visual novel & puzzle game where you are a licensed body collector navigating a dystopian world of moral dilemmas and resource management; where belief, rebellion, or control will prevail through your choices.
Why similar: Political Sim 21.6% ★, Dystopian 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #27 Concrete Coffin
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YMV
Windows
The surface is gone. 11,581 survivors are crammed into an unfinished 10,000-capacity bunker. Balance 6 core resources, make critical choices on advisor reports, manage your workforce, and keep the shelter from collapsing.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Colony Sim 11.8%, Dystopian 11.3%
- #28 Surviving the Abyss
78% matchMixed65% of 1,085 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket Flair StudiosPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Underwater 28.8% ★, Colony Sim 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Management 7.8%, Choices Matter 7%
- #29 Socialiskigrad
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SgriusoftPub: Sgriusoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to the Republic of Socialiskigrad, a budding nation to shape with bags of cement! Build working-class districts, develop national industry, and govern the metropolises of each region. Only you can become the shining President the country deserves!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Dystopian 17.7%, Political Sim 17.4% ★, Management 7.8%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #30 The Undercity: Last Light
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
Windows · Mac
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.7%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Survival 8.6%
- #31 Frostveil: The Last Winter
76% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Alabarda Gaming
Windows
Winter 1920. As a village leader during the War of Independence, you must manage resources to survive the frost. At the breaking point, will you be a savior or a tyrant? Every choice writes a story in the snow. In pursuit of the story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Resource Management 12.5%, Political Sim 12.5% ★, Choices Matter 11.8%, Survival 10.7%
- #32 Forsaken: Year One
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kymera Games
Windows
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Dystopian 11%, Management 10.3%, Survival 8.8%
- #33 Sweep Protocol
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dawson Games
Windows
Operate a remote military radar station while struggling to keep your family alive as an escalating invasion pushes your nation to the brink. Track incoming threats and manage scarce resources while balancing the needs of your loved ones. Every sweep matters. Every decision counts.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.8%, Resource Management 17%, Strategy 14%, Management 13.5%, Choices Matter 13%
- #34 NO FURTHER ACTIONS
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OFF COURSEPub: SOZDAY GAMES
Windows
You have been assigned as an operator, reading protocols that force you to make decisions using buttons and switches. Every decision shapes your fate — and decides whether you’ve done what was expected of you.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.6% ★, Dystopian 30.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 4.5%
- #35 Green Again
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mattsnippetsPub: Slug Disco
Windows
Make the planet Green Again in this relaxing colony sim game! Help a nation of little plant people reclaim their planet taken over by defective robots, as you build, decorate, and defend your settlement. Grow crops for your citizens, explore the unknown, and protect the new natural order!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Robots 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9%
- #36 Subzero Tides
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.2%, Dystopian 23.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Simulation 6.8%, Strategy 6.3%
- #37 Keeping It Shrimple
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Random Order
Windows · Mac
"Keeping It Shrimple" is a management game where you breed, feed, and care for your adorable shrimp. Experiment with breeding pairs. Manage the water properties of your tanks. Sell rare breeds on the market. With planning, experimentation, and a dose of luck, you may just breed the perfect shrimp!
Why similar: Underwater 29.9% ★, Colony Sim 29.5%, Resource Management 15%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 8.3%
- #38 Clan & Flood
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XF STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Flood. Famine. Betrayal. In ancient times, you lead a small clan to survive in the mud. Build shelters, cultivate fields, construct dams — but the real challenge isn't just nature: your followers have their own ambitions, and your heir may not be who you hoped. The next flood is coming.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Political Sim 24.2% ★, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 9.7%
- #39 Ecopunk
72% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
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 40.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 8.3%
- #40 Oceaneers
71% matchVery Positive88% of 116 reviews2026
Dev: Barrel Smash Studios
Windows
A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.
Why similar: Underwater 32.4% ★, Colony Sim 31.1%, Survival 9.4%, Management 7.8%, Resource Management 7%
- #41 Post Apocalyptic Gas Station (PAGS)
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BearDog Games
Windows
Run the last known gas station in the southwest in this base building colony sim. Set the fuel price, build and staff a fortified outpost, send crews into the wastes, and deal with the factions at your pumps. Weigh morale decisions against one another as you expand your empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Dark Comedy 16.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Strategy 7.7%
- #42 Never Secure
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Resource Management 15.5%, Survival 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Simulation 10.2%
- #43 Dark Moon
71% matchMixed47% of 162 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Resource Management 13%, Management 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #44 Generation Nova
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OatCube Games
Windows
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Political Sim 19.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Management 8%, Simulation 6.8%
- #45 Orc Colony
75% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Luzon Games
Windows
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 8.1%
- #46 Beholder: Conductor
68% matchVery Positive91% of 5,479 reviews2025
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Why similar: Political Sim 39.8% ★, Dystopian 20.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Management 6.5%
- #47 Observing
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Raven's Tale Entertainment
Windows
Survive night after night. During each eight-hour night, question strangers, identify parasite hosts through spore-filled photographs, support expeditions by radio, and convince the group. Manage scarce resources and the protagonist’s mental state before sunrise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Management 10.6%
- #48 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: afterglow games
Windows
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2%, Post-apocalyptic 25.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, Survival 9.1%
- #49 Frostline
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Raptor Entertainment
Windows
In a world gripped by the Ice Age, you manage the last telephone station in the city. Listen to incoming visitors and grant or deny communication according to government orders. Your decisions shape the fate of the region. An atmospheric, story-driven communication simulation: Frostline!
Why similar: Dystopian 29.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Resource Management 10.7%
- #50 Homeseek
70% matchMixed66% of 237 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Colony Sim 23.9%, Dystopian 18%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #51 Night Frontier
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rotwired Studios
Windows
Night Frontier is a survival-management game about building a camp, preparing squads, and sending them into a dangerous and cursed wasteland. Gather resources, craft equipment, manage injuries and disease, and decide how much risk your people can survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Resource Management 14%, Management 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
- #52 100 for Justice
67% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Cartoon Rocket Games
Windows
A text-driven political roguelite and life-management sim about building resistance across up to 100 lives. Choose a profession, survive monthly pressure, carry permanent legacies forward, oppose oppressive laws, organize aid, and return a fictional country to its people.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.5% ★, Dystopian 20.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Management 8.7%
- #53 Frostpunk: 1886
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Survival 9.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #54 Stack Epoch
66% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: StonegrassStudio
Windows
Stack Epoch is a settlement-building card game. Stack cards to gather resources, construct buildings, and battle various creatures. Stack character cards on trees to get wood. Combine wood with other cards to craft huts and expand your territory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6%, Resource Management 18%, Management 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 7.3%
- #55 Dust Dwellers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crimson Stone Games
Windows
Lead a group of survivors through a dry and desolate wasteland in this turn-based card game. Outfit your survivors with vehicles to fend off metal beasts at night, scavenge for resources, and uncover the path to your next homestead. Can you outwit the dangers of this harsh new world?
Why similar: Colony Sim 31%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Dystopian 15.2%, Resource Management 11.1%, Survival 8.5%
- #56 Shopping in a Winter Zombieland
67% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Zombie Zone GermanyPub: Amrun Verlag
Windows · Mac · Linux
An apocalyptic Visual Novel from Zombie Zone Germany for Christmas with German voice acting, lots of decisions and seven different endings. There is only a version in German language.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.7%, Dystopian 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #57 Border Base
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bitzooma
Windows
Set in a gritty, fictional 1960s universe, it’s a colony sim & base-building hybrid where you rebuild a war-ravaged region, fortify your defenses, and control key trade routes that every convoy depends on.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, Political Sim 22.4% ★, Resource Management 12%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7.3%
- #58 Beholder 2
69% matchVery Positive87% of 8,182 reviews2018
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Why similar: Political Sim 29.1% ★, Dystopian 27%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Simulation 6.7%
- #59 Frostpunk 2
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 27,213 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Resource Management 17.8%, Survival 13.1%, Political Sim 11.4% ★, Colony Sim 10.1%