- #1 Pandemic Train
97% matchMixed59% of 253 reviews2023
Dev: Trigger LabsPub: Games Operators
Windows
In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!
Why similar: Trains 41.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Survival 19.2%, Atmospheric 5.5%, Story Rich 5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines train management and survival elements in a harsh, bleak setting.
- #2 FAR: Lone Sails
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 26,499 reviews2018
Dev: Okomotive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 43.5%, Survival 19.3%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Story Rich 7%, Adventure 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features similar atmospheric post-apocalyptic vehicle maintenance and linear journey mechanics.
- #3 Sheltered
96% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 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.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 39.1%, Survival 32.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Resource Management 5.9%, 2D 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on grim post-apocalyptic resource management and keeping a small group alive.
- #4 Organ Trail: Director's Cut
95% matchVery Positive88% of 3,148 reviews2013
Dev: The Men Who Wear Many Hats
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 36.2%, Post-apocalyptic 27.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Survival 10%, Indie 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar pixelated post-apocalyptic journey where managing resources and crew is critical.
- #5 Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,826 reviews2019
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.9%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Survival 12.8%, Great Soundtrack 5.8%, Adventure 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features tight, atmospheric survival puzzle gameplay in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #6 Deadlight: Director's Cut
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,654 reviews2016
Dev: Tequila WorksPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.
Why similar: Zombies 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Survival 8.6%, Action 6.8%, Side Scroller 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Employs a similar 2D side-scrolling perspective amidst a grim zombie apocalypse.
- #7 The Last Stand: Aftermath
93% matchVery Positive81% of 6,818 reviews2021
Dev: Con Artist GamesPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Post-apocalyptic 32.2%, Zombies 29.6%, Survival 22.4%, Shooter 4.7%, Atmospheric 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: Blends bleak zombie survival with scavenging runs across dangerous environments.
- #8 Project Zomboid
92% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Survival 35.1%, Zombies 34.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24.4%, Indie 2%, 2D 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers deep, uncompromising zombie survival mechanics and scavenging dread.
- #9 This War of Mine
91% matchVery Positive94% of 97,826 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Why similar: Survival 51.2%, Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Resource Management 8.3%, Atmospheric 7.5%, Story Rich 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the desperate civilian survival and resource scavenging vibe of a crumbling world.
- #10 Apocalypse Express
89% matchVery Positive82% of 279 reviews2026
Dev: Llamaware Studios
Windows
Conduct, upgrade and repair your train through endless waves of enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting. In this action management roguelike, the player decides to embark on a journey through the wasteland looking to fulfill the dream of seeing the remains of the outside world.
Why similar: Trains 40.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 29.4%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Resource Management 6.3%, 2D 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features fast-paced action roguelike mechanics aboard a post-apocalyptic train.
- #11 Subterrain
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,399 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Survival 42.2%, Zombies 27.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Sci-fi 5.1%, Indie 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on claustrophobic resource management and survival in a hostile environment.
- #12 Dead Age
90% matchVery Positive82% of 5,612 reviews2016
Dev: Silent DreamsPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 37.2%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Survival 22.9%, Adventure 5.2%, Action 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines turn-based combat with classic zombie survival management.
- #13 Voidtrain
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 9,990 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Trains 58.4% ★, Survival 25%, Atmospheric 5.6%, Adventure 4.6%, Action 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features supernatural train travel and resource management in a weird environment.
- #14 Choo Choo Survivor
87% matchVery Positive85% of 593 reviews2023
Dev: GTGD
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!
Why similar: Trains 43.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%, Zombies 12.9%, 2D 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines train themes with chaotic bullet-heaven survival action.
- #15 The Last Train
86% matchVery Positive97% of 489 reviews2023
Dev: CarbonteaPub: Eternal Dream
Windows
In the barren wasteland on the brink of extinction, the last Train departs, supposedly carrying its passengers in search of a place where they can survive. A creature named Eilf boards the Train, determined to travel to Spring - the station that has been said to have vanished.
Why similar: Trains 47.9% ★, Pixel Graphics 16.9%, Survival 9.7%, Story Rich 7%, Atmospheric 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the atmospheric and story-rich train journey experience through a ruined world.
- #16 Infectonator: Survivors
89% matchMixed67% of 1,169 reviews2016
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
"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 39.9%, Survival 26.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Indie 5%, Adventure 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: Uses pixel art and strategic survival mechanics against hordes of the undead.
- #17 Zompiercer
86% matchVery Positive88% of 4,834 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Trains 32.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.5%, Zombies 19.4%, Survival 13.9%, Shooter 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Involves mobile base-building and surviving against waves of zombies.
- #18 Zombie Night Terror
85% matchVery Positive93% of 4,014 reviews2016
Dev: NoClipPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.
Why similar: Zombies 49.4%, Pixel Graphics 21.9%, Horror 6.4%, Indie 4.9%, Action 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes pixel graphics and horde management in a grim apocalyptic scenario.
- #19 SKYHILL
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,780 reviews2015
Dev: MandragoraPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.3%, Survival 28.8%, Zombies 16.6%, Adventure 5.3%, Indie 4%
Why You'll Like It: Immerses players in vertical post-apocalyptic survival and resource scavenging.
- #20 The Last Stand Legacy Collection
82% matchVery Positive90% of 2,799 reviews2021
Dev: Con Artist GamesPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Survive the zombie apocalypse and make humanity's last stand in this three-game legacy bundle, revamped for modern hardware. Explore, build, and survive for as long as you can in The Last Stand, The Last Stand 2, and The Last Stand: Union City.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.9%, Zombies 28.4%, Survival 19.9%, Atmospheric 5.6%, Action 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers classic action-heavy zombie survival gameplay.
- #21 Deadlight
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 12,780 reviews2012
Dev: Tequila Works, S.L.Pub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
“Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se
Why similar: Zombies 34.1%, Post-apocalyptic 26.8%, Survival 6.8%, Side Scroller 5.2%, Platformer 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a cinematic 2D zombie escape adventure.
- #22 Distrust: Polar Survival
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,560 reviews2017
Dev: CheerdealersPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.
Why similar: Survival 48.1%, Horror 14.1%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Adventure 11.2%, Sci-fi 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on isometric survival and resource management against harsh conditions.
- #23 60 Seconds!
82% matchVery Positive85% of 11,700 reviews2015
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 52%, Survival 31.6%, 2D 9.1%, Story Rich 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes frantic resource gathering and post-apocalyptic shelter survival.
- #24 Party Hard
80% matchVery Positive90% of 12,693 reviews2015
Dev: Pinokl GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 50.1%, Great Soundtrack 18.4%, Indie 7.8%, Action 7.3%, 2D 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features top-down pixelated stealth and strategic planning.
- #25 Gods Will Be Watching
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,950 reviews2014
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29.6%, Survival 16.4%, Story Rich 9.9%, Indie 7.4%, Resource Management 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Tests your survival and moral choices in tense, pixelated scenarios.
- #26 The DeadLine
77% matchVery Positive95% of 339 reviews2025
Dev: ROTTEN APPLEPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
The last subway departs in a world overrun by zombies. At each station, gather materials, find better weapons, and fight off the undead. As you get closer to your family, the danger grows. Survive, upgrade, and make it to the final stop.
Why similar: Trains 35.8% ★, Zombies 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Horror 6.1%, Shooter 5.1%
- #27 Tunnels of Despair
81% matchMixed62% of 74 reviews2018
Dev: BearFighterDev
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Tunnels of Despair is an atmospheric game with horror and survival elements, in which you are to explore the tunnels of an abandoned subway system, find a way out and escape the underground.
Why similar: Trains 20.3% ★, Survival 19.2%, Zombies 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Horror 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers dark, indie horror and survival elements underground.
- #28 After Death
79% matchVery Positive89% of 167 reviews2017
Dev: After Death Team
Windows
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.9%, Adventure 11.2%, Indie 9.2%, Action 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Features atmospheric 2D exploration and action in a dark world.
- #29 Punch Club
79% matchVery Positive80% of 15,815 reviews2016
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 47.3%, Story Rich 16.5%, 2D 13.9%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Action 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on micro-management and resource balancing in a retro style.
- #30 Beat Cop
78% matchVery Positive82% of 6,207 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel CrowPub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A retro, pixel art style adventure in New York, inspired by ’80s cop shows. You are Jack Kelly and you’ve been framed for murder. Now as a regular beat cop you have to find out, who did that. Expect thick crime story, a lot of black humour and all the other things you can find on the streets of Brooklyn.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 59.8%, Adventure 11%, Indie 10.9%, Great Soundtrack 6.2%, 2D 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Uses retro pixel graphics to tell a gritty urban story.
- #31 Environmental Station Alpha
78% matchVery Positive82% of 1,660 reviews2015
Dev: Arvi TeikariPub: Hempuli Oy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 42.5%, Great Soundtrack 11.4%, Adventure 9.9%, Indie 7.9%, Platformer 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers atmospheric pixel-art exploration and survival grit.
- #32 Death Road to Canada
76% matchVery Positive93% of 10,537 reviews2016
Dev: Rocketcat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!
Why similar: Zombies 37.4%, Pixel Graphics 23.7%, Survival 20.5%, Great Soundtrack 8.2%, Action 3.6%
- #33 The Way
77% matchVery Positive83% of 1,318 reviews2016
Dev: Puzzling DreamPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Journey to another planet and discover its secrets in order to bring your loved one back to life. Experience an adventure, inspired by old school classics like Another World, Heart of Darkness and Flashback.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 31.5%, Adventure 14.3%, Action 8.8%, Indie 8.8%, 2D 7%
- #34 Zombotron
76% matchVery Positive89% of 3,631 reviews2019
Dev: Ant.Karlov Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Fight to survive on a mysterious alien planet, outwit its vicious inhabitants, and do whatever it takes to find a way off that wretched rock.
Why similar: Zombies 32.5%, Great Soundtrack 9%, Side Scroller 8.5%, 2D 8.4%, Shooter 8%
- #35 Locomotive 115
73% matchVery Positive94% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: Bucket of Fish
Windows · Mac
It's difficult to know how many locomotives have been swallowed by the suffocating blizzards of the Widow's Run. Cursed with creeping tales of things that lurk in the dark and overshadowed by frequent casualties, it now stands as your only path forward. Will you be able to survive?
Why similar: Trains 28% ★, Horror 12%, Adventure 11.4%, Story Rich 10.9%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #36 THE LAST TRAIN: Baquedano
73% matchVery Positive92% of 409 reviews2025
Dev: Matías AvilésPub: Plastic Frog
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 31%
In this short first-person psychological horror game, falling asleep on the subway takes you to the final station, abandoned and eerie. Explore the area and try to survive the entity chasing you in the darkness. Who is it? Its face looks strangely familiar...
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 27.9%, Horror 25%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Adventure 13.4%, Action 10.6%
- #37 Hyper Light Drifter
75% matchVery Positive93% of 19,210 reviews2016
Dev: Heart Machine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Great Soundtrack 16.1%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Adventure 6.7%
- #38 Until We Die
75% matchMixed63% of 4,634 reviews2021
Dev: Pixeye Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.9%, Survival 26.7%, Pixel Graphics 18.1%, Side Scroller 9.8%, Atmospheric 5.4%
- #39 THRESHOLD
71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,354 reviews2024
Dev: Julien EveilléPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Atmospheric 24.6%, Story Rich 23.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 9.5%
- #40 Party Hard 2
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 3,349 reviews2018
Dev: Pinokl GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 43.6%, Great Soundtrack 21.5%, Indie 12.3%, Action 10.7%, Adventure 8.9%
- #41 Kingdom: New Lands
74% matchVery Positive85% of 12,403 reviews2016
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Why similar: Survival 38.6%, Pixel Graphics 24.3%, Side Scroller 15.6%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Adventure 7.4%
- #42 Choo-Choo Charles
71% matchVery Positive91% of 18,001 reviews2022
Dev: Two Star Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Navigate an open-world island in an old train, upgrade it over time, and use it to fight an evil spider train named Charles.
Why similar: Trains 64.7% ★, Horror 10.2%, Shooter 7.7%, Atmospheric 5.3%, Adventure 4.4%
- #43 This Is the Police
73% matchVery Positive82% of 11,246 reviews2016
Dev: Weappy StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?
Why similar: Story Rich 33.2%, Great Soundtrack 20.9%, Atmospheric 16.4%, Indie 12.3%, Adventure 11.1%
- #44 Beholder
70% matchVery Positive92% of 31,198 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 29.6%, Story Rich 20.5%, Atmospheric 19.9%, Indie 10.4%, 2D 7.3%
- #45 Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
72% matchVery Positive85% of 1,306 reviews2012
Dev: Jasper ByrnePub: Superflat Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%
In this original and adult psychological survival horror, the masked protagonist must escape from a city ravaged by disease, by any means necessary.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 24.8%, Horror 13.2%, Zombies 12.7%, Survival 8.3%, Atmospheric 7.7%
- #46 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
67% matchVery Positive94% of 4,509 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 28.5%, Survival 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Horror 4.4%
- #47 Tren0
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 283 reviews2018
Dev: BubblePub: INDIECN
Windows
A pixel game that contains some puzzles. It tells a story about five strangers who were trapped on a mysterious train.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.7%, Horror 16.1%, Great Soundtrack 14.5%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Story Rich 11.4%
- #48 MEAT TRAIN
67% matchVery Positive92% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Kiwiforge
Windows
Meat Train is a FPS game where you operate a train thats uses MEAT for FUEL. Explore a wasteland where everything wants you dead, scavenge for weapons and loot. Upgrade the train and attempt to destroy an evil AI megafactory.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.9%, Zombies 31.9%, Horror 8.4%, Shooter 6.7%, Adventure 5.5%
- #49 Convoy
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2015
Dev: Convoy GamesPub: Indietopia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.7%, Pixel Graphics 24.5%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%, 2D 5.5%, Adventure 5.2%
- #50 Invention 3
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: Falco SoftwarePub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
In this game you have to fight your way through hordes of zombies in search of a safe place.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.8%, Zombies 27.1%, Survival 14.5%, Shooter 7%, Action 5.5%
- #51 Fright Train
65% matchVery Positive87% of 396 reviews2026
Dev: WildArts GamesPub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows
Fight through a train overtaken by monsters and survive Antarctica’s cold as paranormal special agent Doug Barker in this chilling single-player third-person survival horror roguelike.
Why similar: Trains 61% ★, Horror 9.1%, Shooter 8.8%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Adventure 5.4%
- #52 Never Forgotten
67% matchVery Positive89% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: Cody Hodge
Windows
A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 32.1%, Atmospheric 18%, Story Rich 17.9%, Horror 17.7%, Adventure 10.9%
- #53 The Underground Man
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,389 reviews2016
Dev: Mehsoft
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40%, Survival 11.7%, Story Rich 9.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
- #54 DEADBOLT
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,647 reviews2016
Dev: Hopoo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 28.1%, Great Soundtrack 19.6%, Zombies 12.8%, 2D 7.6%, Side Scroller 7.5%
- #55 Touch of Madness
63% matchVery Positive100% of 83 reviews2026
Dev: NLT Productions
Windows
In this 2D Survival-Horror, you switch between two protagonists as you advance through the story: Neo, a man lost in his own mind, trying to survive an endless nightmare, and Lavina, a loyal friend who will do anything to try to save him.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 19.8%, Zombies 16.6%, Survival 11.4%, Horror 10%, Adventure 8.5%
- #56 Post Soviet Zombies
68% matchVery Positive89% of 91 reviews2019
Dev: BRAIN DOES (NOT) WORK
Windows
Post soviet zombies - is an action shooter with a top view, in which you have to get out of the virus infected post-Soviet city for one of the four unique characters. On the way you will meet a variety of zombies, military, marauders and people who need your help in 1993.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31%, Zombies 28.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Indie 6.7%, Action 6.6%
- #57 Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 991 reviews2016
Dev: Sundae Month
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Play as the Janitor, an Alaensee girlbeast with a municipally-subsidized trash incineration job and dreams of leaving the planet of Xabran's Rock far behind her.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 50.9%, Adventure 21.6%, Indie 18.1%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #58 Final Directive
69% matchVery Positive83% of 88 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Monday GamesPub: Lazy Monday Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Final Directive is a story driven shooter set in a space station disastrously infested by alien mutants. Find the crew, contain the infestation, and most importantly: make it out alive.
Why similar: Zombies 46.1%, Adventure 19.4%, Action 18.1%, Indie 16.4%
- #59 I Shall Remain
69% matchMixed66% of 163 reviews2015
Dev: Scorpius Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
An Action RPG at its core, I Shall Remain combines role-playing elements with survival and strategic aspects, and creates a blend never before seen. Through complex, real-time character progression and RPG system, over a hundred abilities to learn and upgrade, dozens of weapons and enhancers, thousands of Infected, over twenty mutations,...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.1%, Zombies 22.4%, Survival 19.2%, Indie 6.2%, Action 5.4%
- #60 Where the forest ends
63% matchMixed70% of 143 reviews2026
Dev: MonkeyBassGames
Windows
Shred zombies and bandits, collect and upgrade weapons, and explore the beauty hidden within industrial decay in a new story-driven, top-down horror shooter. Survive one more day in the post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Zombies 26.2%, Survival 15.4%, Shooter 6.9%, Horror 6.4%