Games Like The Last Haven

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 17.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Survival 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the post-nuclear setting of the seed game, requiring you to build a settlement while managing radiation and environmental hazards.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on colony management and exploration in a post-apocalyptic world, featuring similar tech-tree and defense mechanics.

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: City Builder 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive post-apocalyptic survival city-builder where you must manage a city's heat and resources to survive a global ice age.

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: Base Building 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Strategy 9.4%, RTS 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to build a base in any real-world city, focusing on scavenging and defending against waves of infected survivors.

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

Why similar: Base Building 23%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 11.2%, Colony Sim 9.7% ★, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base-building with tactical combat in a post-apocalyptic setting, closely matching the tone and management style of the seed game.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 31.2%, RTS 10.7%, Strategy 10.5%, Survival 9.5%, Colony Sim 9.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the RTS and defense aspects of the seed game, this title provides an intense experience of building a base to survive massive zombie hordes.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 30.8%, Survival 12.6%, Colony Sim 12.4% ★, City Builder 10.7%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony simulation, offering deep survival mechanics, base-building, and constant threats that require strategic management.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Base Building 18%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, City Builder 13.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes resource management and societal development after a solar flare destroys civilization.

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 35.1%, Survival 16.3%, Strategy 13.2%, Colony Sim 8.1% ★, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-fidelity survival and base-building game that forces you to manage a small group of survivors against unpredictable planetary threats.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Base Building 17.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Survival 11%, Resource Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes management game where you must maintain a space station to ensure the survival of humanity, featuring intense resource and population management.

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: Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 12%, Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the intimate survival of a small group in a bunker, emphasizing resource scarcity and dangerous expeditions.

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: City Builder 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Strategy 15.4%, Survival 14.3%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original's survival city-building with deeper political and societal management in a frozen wasteland.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, City Builder 11.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim allows for detailed ship-building and survival management, capturing the feeling of keeping a small group alive in a hostile environment.

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: Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 16%, RTS 8.8%, Colony Sim 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where you build your settlement on the back of a giant creature, requiring careful balance between survival and the creature's health.

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: Base Building 20.6%, City Builder 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder where you must manage a settlement in a post-apocalyptic world while dealing with toxic winds and resource shortages.

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: Base Building 27.2%, City Builder 17.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Survival 12.4%, Colony Sim 10.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: A base-building survival game that features complex multi-level construction and defense against raids in a post-plague world.

Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 14.5%, Survival 9.9%, Colony Sim 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: The sequel refines the post-apocalyptic city-building formula with improved exploration and settlement management mechanics.

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: Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, City Builder 16%, Strategy 15.7%, Survival 12.1%, Colony Sim 10.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: A societal survival game set in a flooded world where you must manage resources and laws to keep your colony from collapsing.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Colony Sim 8.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic survival city-builder that challenges you to manage multiple settlements on narrow cliffs above a radioactive wasteland.

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, City Builder 11.5%, Survival 9.1%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony sim where you must build a base to cure zombies and integrate them back into your workforce.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Strategy 15.9%, Survival 12.8%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational survival city-builder that emphasizes the struggle to keep a population fed and warm through harsh winters.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, City Builder 19.1%, Colony Sim 11.5% ★, Strategy 11%, Survival 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder that tasks you with building a self-sufficient colony on a harsh alien planet.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, City Builder 17.1%, Strategy 12.4%, Colony Sim 8.6% ★, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love the deep resource management and logistics of the seed game, this offers an incredibly detailed economic simulation.

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: City Builder 21.8%, Strategy 18.8%, Base Building 14%, Resource Management 10.2%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management and survival game focused on rebuilding civilization after a climate catastrophe, emphasizing technology and resource gathering.

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

Why similar: Base Building 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony sim featuring base-building, scavenging, and combat in a procedurally generated wasteland.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, Building 20.9%, Crafting 19%, Open World 15.1%, Simulation 14%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands that requires careful planning to survive the changing seasons.

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, City Builder 10.6%, RTS 10.5%, Strategy 9.6%

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: Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Colony Sim 9.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder set on the ocean floor that requires you to manage underwater resources and defend your base from deep-sea threats.

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Base Building 28.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 15.8%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the management of an underground bunker, requiring you to maintain systems and keep residents alive.

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, City Builder 11%, Strategy 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 9.7%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, City Builder 11.1%, RTS 9%, Strategy 8.2%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, City Builder 14.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Survival 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%

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: Base Building 21.8%, City Builder 13.1%, Survival 12.9%, Colony Sim 11.9% ★, Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival strategy game where you manage a settlement, build structures, and defend against nightly raids.

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: Base Building 27.7%, Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, Survival 16.8%, Strategy 8.7%, Resource Management 5.2%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, City Builder 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Strategy 8.5%, Colony Sim 8.3% ★

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.

Why similar: Base Building 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Strategy 11.4%, RTS 11.1%, City Builder 11%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 7.2%, Building 6.6%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20%, Base Building 19.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 8.9%

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: Base Building 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, City Builder 12.9%, Strategy 9%, Survival 8.9%

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.

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 12.3%, Colony Sim 10.7% ★, Building 10.6%

The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.

Why similar: Strategy 29.1%, RTS 24.3%, Base Building 23.1%, Survival 12.6%, Management 4.5%

2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.

Why similar: Base Building 20%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, City Builder 13.4%, Survival 9.9%, RTS 8.5%

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: City Builder 29.5%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Resource Management 10%, Survival 9.8%

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: Base Building 18.2%, City Builder 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, RTS 9%, Survival 8.3%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Building 11.4%, RTS 11.1%, Strategy 10.6%

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

Why similar: Base Building 26.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Survival 15.9%, Open World 8.6%, Zombies 8.5%

At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!

Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 13.5%, RTS 9.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Survival 9.2%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Survival 13%, Colony Sim 11.2% ★

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 5.4%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Base Building 18.9%, City Builder 15.9%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Strategy 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%

Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Why similar: Base Building 36.8%, Survival 19.7%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Simulation 8.9%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, City Builder 14%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 8.6%

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 26%, Base Building 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 7.1%

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: Base Building 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Survival 14.9%, Strategy 14.8%, Colony Sim 8.3% ★

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Base Building 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Resource Management 9.3%

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.

Why similar: Base Building 22.7%, RTS 13.5%, City Builder 13.1%, Strategy 12%, Survival 11.1%

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.1%, Base Building 22.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Zombies 9.7%, Simulation 8.6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 25.3%, Strategy 20.9%, Survival 18.2%, Building 12%, Crafting 10.6%

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: Base Building 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, RTS 10.1%, Colony Sim 9% ★, Strategy 9%