- #1 The Oily Depths
96% matchVery Positive84% of 112 reviews2026
Dev: Ryan R. Burns
Windows
Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen. This is deep-sea horror. Obey or drown.
Why similar: Simulation 49.1%, Management 31.6%, Indie 19.3%
- #2 Oil Enterprise
97% matchMixed49% of 199 reviews2016
Dev: Crafty StudiosPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.
Why similar: Strategy 31.9%, Simulation 31.5%, Management 24%, Indie 12.7%
- #3 Turmoil
96% matchVery Positive93% of 16,116 reviews2016
Dev: Gamious
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Why similar: Management 34.5%, Strategy 32.9%, Simulation 25.4%, Indie 7.3%
- #4 Surviving the Abyss
94% matchMixed65% of 1,077 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: Management 37.6%, Strategy 33%, Simulation 29.4%
- #5 Oil Rush
95% matchMixed59% of 542 reviews2012
Dev: UNIGINE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Oil Rush is a naval strategy game that takes place in a world where nuclear war has melted the ice caps, changing the face of the planet forever. Oil Rush offers unique gameplay, avoiding micromanagement of every single unit, while still providing full control over all important aspects of strategy and economy.
Why similar: Strategy 78%, Indie 22%
- #6 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
94% matchMixed68% of 438 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Strategy 55.7%, Simulation 21.2%, Management 15.4%, Indie 7.6%
- #7 Feral Blue
93% matchMixed52% of 245 reviews2019
Dev: Snowbird Games
Windows
The old world has drowned after the Second Flood. Now, only few survivors are fighting for the new gold - clean water, wood and soil. Become a ship's captain, keep your crew alive and create your sea empire!
Why similar: Strategy 85.8%, Action 14.2%
- #8 Aircraft Carrier Survival
92% matchMixed60% of 1,229 reviews2022
Dev: Gambit Games StudioPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When the harshness of the sea meets the cruelties of war, a challenge for perseverance makes itself known. Welcome to Aircraft Carrier Survival, a strategy game set in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where your prowess as a commander decides the fate of a naval behemoth.
Why similar: Strategy 33.8%, Management 27.9%, Simulation 23.2%, Indie 9.6%, Action 5.4%
- #9 Space Drilling Station
91% matchVery Positive92% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Simulation 37.2%, Management 35.4%, Strategy 27.4%
- #10 Unclaimed World
91% matchMixed50% of 218 reviews2016
Dev: Refactored Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Manage interstellar pioneers and their descendants in this detailed sci-fi colony sim. Centuries after planetfall, colonists are still struggling to gain foothold on their lush and alien planet. You settle on the frontier by carefully managing resources, production and different personalities.
Why similar: Simulation 45.4%, Strategy 40.9%, Indie 13.7%
- #11 Ship Graveyard Simulator
90% matchMixed64% of 2,297 reviews2021
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!
Why similar: Simulation 32.7%, Strategy 25.9%, Management 25%, Indie 11.7%, Action 4.7%
- #12 Oil Strike '75
89% matchVery Positive95% of 126 reviews2024
Dev: Sumo Digital AcademyPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Get ready to earn while you learn in Oil Strike ’75, a fun, exciting, and educational new game from Cadal Corp! Run an oil rig and discover new oil deposits at the bottom of the sea – no matter the cost. Who knows what you’ll find in the official prequel to Still Wakes the Deep?
Why similar: Simulation 50%, Management 37.7%, Indie 8.9%, Action 3.4%
- #13 Ocean Punk
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 169 reviews2024
Dev: Infinite Studio
Windows
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Why similar: Simulation 30.1%, Strategy 29.6%, Management 28.3%, Indie 12%
- #14 Coal LLC
85% matchVery Positive93% of 1,326 reviews2025
Dev: Bye Bye Ocean
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.
Why similar: Management 40%, Strategy 27.1%, Simulation 25.6%, Indie 7.3%
- #15 Indie Dev Simulator
87% matchMixed64% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: Egor MagurinPub: Indovers Studio
Windows · Mac
In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.
Why similar: Simulation 44.3%, Strategy 40.2%, Indie 15.5%
- #16 PeriAreion
88% matchMixed41% of 64 reviews2015
Dev: Explorasaurus Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Prepare for the ultimate test of survival! Do you have the skill necessary to build and manage the first sustainable extraterrestrial colony, or will your colonists become mere footnotes in the history of human space exploration? Their lives and legacies are in your hands!
Why similar: Strategy 41.9%, Simulation 41.5%, Indie 16.6%
- #17 Drill Core
84% matchVery Positive85% of 2,444 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Strategy 60.1%, Management 33.8%, Action 6.1%
- #18 Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon
86% matchVery Positive87% of 120 reviews2022
Pub: Manager Games S.A.
Windows
Drill Deal is a fun oil business simulator. Start from a single tiny rig and expand it to a large complex of connected platforms. Optimize & grow your business. Look out for threats like weather, terrorists, fire, and others. Take care of your working crews.
Why similar: Simulation 34.4%, Strategy 32.5%, Management 24.8%, Arcade 8.3%
- #19 Abyss Manager
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: D4 Laboratory
Windows
Take over a small dungeon that no adventure is interested in as a new manager. You'll start with almost nothing and recruit minions, accumulate money, construct facilities, develop technology, explore the realm, have the dungeon's name up, defeat other dungeons and win the championship of the Dungeon League.
Why similar: Strategy 42.9%, Simulation 40.6%, Indie 16.5%
- #20 Arctic Shift: Fuel Station
83% matchMixed49% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Wildbyte
Windows
Operate a remote fuel station deep in the Arctic. Manage customers, supplies and vital systems while surviving brutal weather, wildlife and isolation.
Why similar: Simulation 56.7%, Management 43.3%
- #21 The Last Gas Station
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,299 reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.
Why similar: Management 52.4%, Simulation 47.6%
- #22 Deep Space Exploitation
82% matchVery Positive96% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: JuhrJuhr
Windows
Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!
Why similar: Arcade 73.2%, Action 26.8%
- #23 Kingdom of Wreck Business
84% matchMostly Negative32% of 132 reviews2023
Dev: WarZoneLab
Windows
The depths of the Atlantic hide more than 12,000 sunken ships out of which at least half haven’t been located yet. As a depth explorer you will earn money from extracting valuable cargo from wrecks, grow your company, buy exploration vessels and real estate.
Why similar: Management 41.3%, Simulation 37.1%, Indie 14.9%, Action 6.7%
- #24 Ship Graveyard Simulator: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive86% of 908 reviews2021
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!
Why similar: Simulation 44.2%, Strategy 42.7%, Management 13.1%
- #25 The Crust
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,724 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Strategy 32.3%, Simulation 30.3%, Management 29.9%, Indie 7.6%
- #26 Fuel Harvest Together
78% matchMixed69% of 978 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!
Why similar: Simulation 53.6%, Management 46.4%
- #27 Project Abyss
81% matchMixed61% of 66 reviews2016
Dev: Tall Story StudiosPub: Prey Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Project Abyss is a deep sea adventure game where you explore as a diver, forced to survive a destiny that goes deeper than anyone imagined.
Why similar: Simulation 62.9%, Indie 25.9%, Action 11.2%
- #28 Life in Bunker
80% matchMixed59% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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: Strategy 37.3%, Simulation 36.7%, Management 18.1%, Indie 7.9%
- #29 Oxygen Not Included
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 143,483 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Management 33.2%, Simulation 30.7%, Strategy 28.5%, Indie 7.6%
- #30 Frick Frack
79% matchMixed45% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Weston Bell-GeddesPub: Spookulele Games
Windows · Mac
Just as you were about to lose all hope, you’ve found a job. It’s not exactly what you dreamed, but it pays the bills. You begin work and quickly learn the consequences of your actions.
Why similar: Simulation 49.1%, Strategy 30.7%, Indie 20.2%
- #31 GeoDepths
77% matchVery Positive87% of 305 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Strategy 69.7%, Indie 30.3%
- #32 UBOAT
74% matchVery Positive84% of 27,151 reviews2024
Dev: Deep Water StudioPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 52.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time.
Why similar: Simulation 55.5%, Management 38.1%, Action 6.4%
- #33 Outworld Station
73% matchVery Positive85% of 841 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Simulation 37.7%, Management 31.9%, Strategy 30.4%
- #34 The Last Haven
76% matchMixed61% of 1,535 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Strategy 50.7%, Simulation 26.1%, Indie 13.6%, Management 9.6%
- #35 Survival Tycoon
78% matchMixed49% of 73 reviews2017
Pub: Displacement Studios
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%
It's the year 2041; the atmosphere is toxic from global warming and nuclear war. Can you survive in an unforgiving world?
Why similar: Strategy 42.6%, Simulation 41.2%, Indie 16.2%
- #36 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
75% matchMixed62% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: Strategy 52.8%, Management 47.2%
- #37 World War III: Black Gold
77% matchMixed63% of 917 reviews2013
Dev: Reality PumpPub: Topware Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Actual Armies. Actual Weapons. Actual Political Issues.World War III - Black Gold takes the player to the near future. The political crisis has been going on for months, leading to worldwide turmoil. A secret conference of the UN Central Geological Commission reveals that worldwide oil reserves have reached dangerously low levels: Oil...
Why similar: Strategy 100%
- #38 Helium Rain
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 339 reviews2018
Dev: Deimos Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Trade your wares and eliminate the competition in a cutthroat world. Buy new ships and stations to mine and haul resources. Explore the vast emptiness of space.
Why similar: Simulation 43.6%, Strategy 37.2%, Indie 14.3%, Action 4.9%
- #39 These Darker Tides
73% matchVery Positive91% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: Pixel Drip Games
Windows
Welcome [EMPLOYEE] to your new job protecting Deep Sea Cables from creatures of the deep. We're not liable for loss of limbs, sanity, or life while on the job. Don't forget to keep your desk clean and your eyes on those cameras!
Why similar: Simulation 76.9%, Indie 23.1%
- #40 Adaptory
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 111 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Simulation 51.7%, Management 30.9%, Indie 17.3%
- #41 Corsair Cove
70% matchVery Positive86% of 3,074 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: Strategy 34.5%, Simulation 34.2%, Management 31.3%
- #42 The Pale Beyond
71% matchVery Positive89% of 2,234 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Simulation 51.3%, Strategy 48.7%
- #43 The Last Caretaker
68% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Management 50.1%, Simulation 49.9%
- #44 PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator
69% matchVery Positive98% of 152 reviews2026
Dev: Simple Software SolutionsPub: Marevo Collective
Windows
Deliver Minerals. Earn Tokens. Meet Deadlines. Upgrade your Infrastructure. Grow the Numbers. Deploy Human Resources. Manipulate the Token Market. Automate the Network with Delivery Drones. Enjoy the Grind. Enjoy the Future. Enjoy the PROFITS.
Why similar: Strategy 59.7%, Arcade 32%, Action 8.3%
- #45 Defrag Incremental
70% matchMixed52% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: Pollo Arcade Low Bit
Windows
A retro incremental where you optimize messy disks, choose the right algorithm, manage heat and wear, make a living from each job, and reboot for permanent BIOS upgrades.
Why similar: Simulation 79%, Indie 21%
- #46 Surviving the Aftermath
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Strategy 45.3%, Simulation 41.5%, Management 13.2%
- #47 A.R.M. PLANETARY PROSPECTORS EP1 Asteroid Resource Mining
74% matchMixed40% of 67 reviews2015
Dev: Nefarious Dimensions Interactive GamesPub: Nefarious Dimensions Inc.
Windows
An expedition finds an artifact in an asteroid, teleporting the crew to an alien realm. Enslaved on a mining barge, they wield mech suits to survive, scavenging and scheming to escape—and wield the device that could rewrite Earth’s fate.
Why similar: Simulation 41.4%, Strategy 37.9%, Indie 14.4%, Action 6.2%
- #48 Into the Stars
73% matchMixed40% of 541 reviews2016
Dev: Fugitive GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.
Why similar: Simulation 42.4%, Strategy 39.8%, Indie 13.7%, Action 4.1%
- #49 Astronomics
67% matchVery Positive90% of 680 reviews2025
Dev: Numizmatic
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Welcome to the asteroid belt. The work is dangerous, the asteroids are temporary, and Earth is prohibitively expensive. Build automated mining operations, complete contracts, and earn your way back home.
Why similar: Strategy 44.6%, Simulation 33.4%, Indie 15.9%, Action 6.1%
- #50 Aquatico
69% matchMixed67% of 871 reviews2023
Dev: Digital Reef GamesPub: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Strategy 46.1%, Management 35%, Simulation 18.9%
- #51 The Meter is Running
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 259 reviews2026
Dev: Debt Driven Games
Windows · Linux
You inherited a taxi dispatch business but it came with debt attached. Hire drivers, dispatch fares, navigate Istanbul’s chaos, deal with bad customers and worse luck. You have 15 days to pay it off or lose everything. The meter is running.
Why similar: Management 35.4%, Simulation 28.8%, Strategy 20.6%, Indie 15.3%
- #52 Airline Director 2 - Tycoon Game
72% matchMostly Negative36% of 61 reviews2016
Dev: Joona Vartiainen
Windows
Airline Director 2 is a management game set in the challenging field of commercial aviation.
Why similar: Simulation 41.6%, Strategy 41.2%, Indie 17.2%
- #53 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Management 36.1%, Strategy 32.5%, Simulation 31.4%
- #54 Space Station Alpha
71% matchMixed46% of 78 reviews2015
Dev: NuclearFirecracker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Build and manage a space station in the outer reaches of space. The challenges will be many, oxygen will escape through every tiny hole in the hull, you'll contend with asteroid showers and nebulous alien blobs.
Why similar: Simulation 45.9%, Strategy 38.7%, Indie 15.4%
- #55 Homeseek
68% matchMixed67% of 235 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: Simulation 30.1%, Strategy 29.5%, Management 28.7%, Indie 11.8%
- #56 Deep Crafter
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Deep Crafter StudioPub: Samar Studio
Windows
Build a self-sustaining industrial empire in the deep sea of an ocean-covered alien world. Explore procedurally generated waters, automate resource production, and turn alien life into renewable industrial output through advanced bio-cultivation systems.
Why similar: Strategy 58.3%, Simulation 41.7%
- #57 Border Officer
69% matchMixed57% of 1,375 reviews2019
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Usually everyone is unemployed here. But by chance you got a job. You'il work for the state.Everyone in your family is sick or unemployed, only you can help them. You're an immigrant officer.
Why similar: Simulation 72.3%, Indie 12.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Action 5.4%
- #58 Rebirth of Island
70% matchMixed52% of 102 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Strategy 67%, Indie 27.1%, Action 5.9%
- #59 Underchoice
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: TG IndiePub: Targem Games
Windows
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.
Why similar: Simulation 47.3%, Strategy 33.2%, Indie 19.5%
- #60 SeaOrama: World of Shipping
67% matchMixed58% of 413 reviews2023
Dev: Hidden TowerPub: PID Games
Windows · Mac
Experience the challenges of running a successful shipping company with Seaorama: World of Shipping.
Why similar: Simulation 50.8%, Strategy 47.2%, Indie 2%