Games Like The Flame in the Flood

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Survival 58.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.4%, Exploration 5.9%, Open World 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same intense focus on survival, resource management, and atmospheric isolation in a harsh, unforgiving wilderness.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 62.6%, Crafting 16.8%, Adventure 5.9%, Indie 3.5%, Exploration 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features similar rogue-like survival mechanics, crafting, and a distinct art style that emphasizes the danger of the environment.

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: Survival 37.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Adventure 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Exploration 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the feeling of a solitary, atmospheric journey through a post-apocalyptic landscape using a unique vehicle.

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 51.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Crafting 13.3%, Roguelike 6.7%, Difficult 3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a gritty, turn-based take on post-apocalyptic survival that demands careful scavenging and crafting to stay alive.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Survival 44.4%, Crafting 19%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Exploration 7.4%, Adventure 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it emphasizes a dangerous road trip where you must maintain your vehicle and scavenge for resources to survive.

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Survival 45.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Great Soundtrack 11.6%, Adventure 7.5%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the post-apocalyptic journey theme, requiring you to manage resources while traveling through a dying world.

Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Female Protagonist 18%, Survival 12%, Exploration 12%, Great Soundtrack 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the aquatic, post-apocalyptic setting and emphasizes exploration and a relaxing, yet melancholic, atmosphere.

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 69.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Atmospheric 5%, Indie 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the emotional and mechanical weight of survival in a post-societal setting, emphasizing resource scarcity and difficult choices.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Survival 49.3%, Crafting 21.8%, Adventure 6.8%, Exploration 6.5%, Open World 6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a satisfying loop of exploring a post-apocalyptic world, breaking down objects for materials, and crafting better survival gear.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 68.9%, Crafting 19.8%, Adventure 4.6%, Open World 4.3%, Indie 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on survival and crafting while navigating a flooded world, mirroring the water-based traversal of the seed game.

The Forbidden Islands are Calling, Unlock their Secrets. Shipwrecked on an island, explore, adapt and navigate the land and perilous seas to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 43.8%, Crafting 17.5%, Adventure 15.8%, Female Protagonist 7.7%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival and crafting while navigating between islands, sharing the water-based exploration theme.

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Survival 43.2%, Great Soundtrack 17.5%, Exploration 11.3%, Adventure 6.9%, Roguelike 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a dark, atmospheric exploration journey where managing your ship and crew is essential for survival.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Survival 61%, Crafting 18.7%, Adventure 4.9%, Open World 4.7%, Exploration 4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly realistic and intense survival experience that forces you to master your environment to avoid death.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Survival 51.9%, Crafting 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Exploration 5.9%, Adventure 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This survival game focuses on scavenging and building in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world filled with environmental hazards.

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 61.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Indie 2.1%, Adventure 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting, emphasizing resource gathering and base maintenance.

Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.

Why similar: Adventure 81%, Great Soundtrack 11.1%, Indie 3.4%, Action 2.8%, Isometric 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a narrative-driven adventure with rogue-like elements that reward exploration and decision-making.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Survival 60.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Great Soundtrack 9.9%, Atmospheric 2.6%, Difficult 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the desperate struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world where every resource decision is critical.

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Adventure 10%, Difficult 8.4%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares a similar focus on atmospheric storytelling and exploration in a ruined, mysterious world.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Survival 49.8%, Crafting 18.6%, Adventure 7.7%, Atmospheric 6.1%, Indie 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, crafting, and exploration in a hostile environment, requiring constant management of your life-support systems.

RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, Great Soundtrack 18.5%, Roguelite 10.2%, Action 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a post-apocalyptic action rogue-like that emphasizes exploration and adapting to a mutated, dangerous environment.

Experience a different take on the roguelike genre. Explore a world created on the fly by your actions. Wonder about your purpose.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 42.1%, Great Soundtrack 21.8%, Adventure 12.8%, Indie 8%, Action 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fast-paced action-rogue experience that focuses on navigating through challenging, procedurally generated environments.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 60.2%, Crafting 20%, Open World 5.2%, Adventure 5.2%, Exploration 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic survival experience focused on crafting and scavenging in an isolated, water-heavy environment.

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Survival 64.8%, Open World 11.7%, Adventure 7.9%, Exploration 6.6%, Difficult 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the difficulty of survival and exploration, where preparation and resource management are key to overcoming the world.

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 63.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 5.5%, Isometric 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a deep, complex survival simulator that forces players to scavenge and craft in a persistent, dangerous post-apocalyptic world.

Basingstoke is a tense rogue-like that mixes stealth and arcade action. Explore the smouldering ruins of Basingstoke, a world of reanimated undead and ferocious alien monsters. Scavenge as you go, crafting equipment to help you in your mission: escape Basingstoke!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33%, Survival 23.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 8.8%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is an action-oriented rogue-like set in a post-apocalyptic world that requires careful movement and stealth.

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Survival 53.9%, Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Exploration 10.8%, Difficult 9.3%, Strategy 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: It highlights the frantic nature of gathering resources before a disaster and the subsequent struggle to survive in a confined space.

Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.

Why similar: Adventure 28.8%, Post-apocalyptic 27.5%, Indie 16.7%, Action 11.8%, Exploration 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features underwater exploration and a somber, post-human atmosphere that resonates with the setting of the seed game.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Survival 45.2%, Crafting 22.9%, Exploration 8.2%, Adventure 7.4%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It involves managing a mobile base to survive in a hostile environment, requiring constant exploration and resource gathering.

The world's been flooded, and all you have is your Super Raft Boat. Can you reach The Final Island?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 52.5%, Crafting 20.5%, Roguelite 11%, Female Protagonist 7.9%, Action 6.4%

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 46.9%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 17.3%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Singleplayer 6.3%

Survive a Wild West where dinosaurs never went extinct. Fight off predators, outlaws, and the elements as you journey across deadly biomes to rescue your kidnapped sister. Hunt or be hunted in this ruthless survival roguelike.

Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Action Roguelike 24.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Roguelike 5.7%, Adventure 4.9%

Explore and conquer the high seas in this post-apocalyptic sandbox water world survival game where you must fight, build, and craft to survive.

Why similar: Survival 42.1%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%, Crafting 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Adventure 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is a survival simulation set in a flooded world where you must manage your resources and build a base to survive.

Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 24.8%, Indie 17.6%, Isometric 13.9%, Action 13.3%, Open World 13.3%

The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.

Why similar: Isometric 30.2%, Adventure 21.5%, Indie 18.3%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Atmospheric 7.7%

Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 58%, Adventure 11.7%, Difficult 10.2%, Atmospheric 10.2%, Indie 6.8%

Prologue: Go Wayback! is a single-player open-world emergent survival roguelike where every journey is unique. Traverse a new wilderness that is generated for you every time you play. Chart your path, overcome the elements, and write your own story of exploration.

Why similar: Survival 52.2%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Exploration 9.5%, Roguelite 6.2%, Open World 6.2%

2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.

Why similar: Difficult 40.7%, Atmospheric 37.5%, Singleplayer 12.1%, Strategy 9.7%

Stranded on a desert island, explore, craft, build and fight in this action survival game!

Why similar: Survival 56.1%, Crafting 23.5%, Adventure 11%, Indie 4.9%, Action 3.6%

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Why similar: Survival 45.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Difficult 8.8%, Exploration 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.3%

A first-person psychological horror with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and storytelling. Explore an ever-shifting Victorian mansion as a painter seeking to complete his masterpiece, even at the cost of his own sanity.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 40.5%, Atmospheric 20.8%, Adventure 15.5%, Exploration 9.8%, Indie 9.2%

Fortified is an explosive strategy shooter where players will defend the Earth against a menacing Martian invasion in the 1950s. Play as one-of-four pulp inspired heroes as they fight swarms of terrifying robots with an arsenal of Cold War era weapons and experimental technology.

Why similar: Action 92.1%, Indie 6.6%, Strategy 1.4%

Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

Why similar: Survival 32.2%, Great Soundtrack 20.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 5.9%

Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla. Impress the Gods!

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 27.7%, Adventure 18.6%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Difficult 7.1%, Exploration 6.7%

Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.

Why similar: Strategy 77.8%, Indie 12.5%, Difficult 7.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: Survival 65.9%, Adventure 12.5%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises. You play as a ranger adventuring through a vast, unforgiving forest in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm, rescuing children who have lost their way.

Why similar: Roguelike 67.5%, Indie 24.9%, Adventure 7.7%

Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.

Why similar: Adventure 69.4%, Great Soundtrack 26.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%, Indie 1.6%

The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

Why similar: Action 46.7%, Adventure 16.7%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Singleplayer 12%, Strategy 6.3%

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Survival 54.8%, Crafting 22.4%, Roguelike 9.9%, Adventure 5.8%, Open World 3.9%

Murderous Pursuits is a kill-or-be-killed Victorian stealth-em-up for 1-8 players in which you must hunt and kill your quarry before your hunters do the same to you, all while avoiding witnesses.

Why similar: Action 92.6%, Indie 6%, Strategy 1.5%

Echo of the Wilds is a puzzly narrativy adventure, featuring randomised wilderness survival. Explore and survive this mysterious tale of wilds. Gather resources to build gear and sustain yourself, learning new skills, lore and the intertwining interactions between the various areas, seasons, and weather.

Why similar: Survival 41.3%, Crafting 20%, Adventure 7.3%, Roguelite 7.1%, Exploration 6.4%

A perfect-information strategy game inspired by RTS, deckbuilders, and board games. Choose from three distinct technology classes and outwit your foes by snowballing your starting resources into a powerful cybernetic army. ABSOLUTELY NO PAY-TO-WIN.

Why similar: Indie 68.8%, Strategy 20.4%, Singleplayer 10.8%

ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.8%, Adventure 14.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.6%, Indie 9.9%, Roguelite 8.9%

Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.

Why similar: Adventure 32.3%, Indie 32.2%, Action 31.7%, Strategy 3.7%

Selected by the fickle finger of fate, Abe™, floor-waxer first class for RuptureFarms, was catapulted into a life of adventure when he overheard plans by his boss, Molluck the Glukkon™, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into Tasty Treats as part of a last-ditch effort to rescue Molluck's failing meat-packing empire.

Why similar: Adventure 94.8%, Difficult 1.7%, Atmospheric 1.5%, Singleplayer 1%, Action 0.5%

Remains is a hardcore mix of platformer, 2D-shooter and roguelike with RPG elements. Travel around a post-apocalyptic world and explore its various corners, communicate with locals and help them, level up and fight enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons and magic.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 46.1%, Exploration 17.5%, Roguelike 16.8%, Adventure 11.2%, Action 5.8%

Explore procedurally generated labyrinths in this challenging, narrative-rich roguelike. Master deep combat. Slide blocks of ancient ruins. Defeat bestial abominations. Loot, level up, strategize, fight, die and wake up anew. Unlock the secrets of the Loot River. Immortality is a bittersweet gift.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 51.3%, Roguelike 12.3%, Difficult 10.9%, Roguelite 10.6%, Isometric 7.9%

Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.5%, Female Protagonist 22.3%, Adventure 16.3%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Indie 6.9%