- #1 Mr. Prepper
97% matchMostly Positive80% of 5,479 reviews2021
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 21.7%, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, 2.5D 12.5%
- #2 Survival Log
96% matchVery Positive83% of 3,044 reviews2026
Dev: Midnight WorkshopPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is a zombie-apocalypse hoarding survival sim. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.
Why similar: Inventory Management 16.5%, 2.5D 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 12.9%
- #3 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
96% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 22.5%, Survival 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #4 Sheltered
95% 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: Survival 23%, Base Building 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Resource Management 9.2%, Building 7.4%
- #5 This War of Mine
94% 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 31.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11%, 2.5D 10.2%
- #6 The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation
94% matchMixed66% of 442 reviews2023
Dev: Supercube
Windows
Deep and innovative space survival simulation experience. Build your station, manage your crew and explore the harsh environment of Io, the innermost moon of Jupiter. Are you brave enough to survive?
Why similar: Base Building 23.7%, Crafting 19.2%, Survival 18.4%, Resource Management 15.1%, Simulation 6.8%
- #7 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
92% matchVery Positive87% of 4,565 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Hunting 20.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%
- #8 The Last Haven
93% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 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: Base Building 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Survival 13.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #9 Project Of Cooling The Earth
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: 人鱼工作室
Windows
Players must survive in the ruins of the human world and face various survival challenges and dangers. Players need to search for resources in abandoned cities and wilderness, including food, water sources, construction materials, etc., to maintain survival and build safe shelters.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Resource Management 19.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 14%, Building 12.9%
- #10 Survival Vacancy
91% matchMixed64% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Inventory Management 15.7%, Base Building 13.7%, Crafting 12%, Building 11.3%
- #11 Stranded: Alien Dawn
89% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 21.4%, Hunting 19.7% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Inventory Management 9.9%
- #12 Sheltered 2
90% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Resource Management 19.2%, Survival 18.3%, Building 10.7%
- #13 Surviving the Aftermath
88% matchMixed70% of 4,648 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: Post-apocalyptic 28%, Survival 21.5%, Base Building 20%, Simulation 10.6%, Building 10.4%
- #14 Rebirth of Island
89% matchMixed52% of 102 reviews2016
Dev: Yo_Serjio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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: Hunting 25.3% ★, 2.5D 16.6%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11%
- #15 Project Cobalt
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Inventory Management 15.7%, Crafting 13.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 12.6%
- #16 Dead In Vinland
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,838 reviews2018
Dev: Ishtar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Survival 32.2%, Resource Management 18.6%, RPG 13.3%, Simulation 12%, Adventure 7.3%
- #17 Dungeon Settlers
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,361 reviews2026
Dev: CanOpener
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.
Why similar: Base Building 33.1%, Survival 24.2%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 9.6%, RPG 7.2%
- #18 After the Collapse
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
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 24.6%, Survival 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #19 Life in Bunker
85% 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: Base Building 26.8%, Survival 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Simulation 10.8%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #20 The Lost Village
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,150 reviews2024
Dev: FunYoo Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 39.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Once there was a prosperous village of Martials, now none of it remains. As the son of the former Master, you will lead your followers to rebuild this village. Recruit followers and enter the mysterious illusional domain, acquire lost wonders. Will you see the rebirth of ancestors’ glory again?
Why similar: Base Building 30.7%, Resource Management 23.3%, Building 17%, Roguelike 8.9%, Simulation 8.1%
- #21 Ruin
82% matchMixed61% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: Echo
Windows
Ruin is a free to play survival sci-fi sandbox MMORPG indie game where you try to survive on mankinds attempt to colonize a distant planet. Chances are stacked against you, but don't give up. You are most likely the last human alive. It is up to you and you alone to do what you must to stay alive.
Why similar: Base Building 26.2%, Inventory Management 24.2%, Crafting 21.6%, Resource Management 15.6%, RPG 7.5%
- #22 Forever Skies
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%
- #23 Ragnorium
83% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
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: Survival 21.2%, Base Building 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Resource Management 16.2%, Roguelike 7.8%
- #24 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
81% matchVery Positive81% of 1,017 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Building 16.3%, Simulation 7.5%, Roguelike 7.1%
- #25 Ecopunk
78% matchVery Positive82% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: Zerone Games
Windows
Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Hunting 18.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 12.2%
- #26 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
79% matchMixed68% of 439 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: Post-apocalyptic 31.5%, Base Building 29.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 8%
- #27 Apocalypse: The Last RV
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 211 reviews2026
Dev: 光年切片工作室
Windows
Reborn seven days before the apocalypse. Make a fortune, hoard supplies, build the ultimate RV, and live comfortably while the world falls apart. A story-rich survival management game with cards, farming, crafting and roguelite progression.
Why similar: Inventory Management 18.3%, Resource Management 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 13.9%
- #28 Wilderness
80% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Hunting 22.4% ★, Inventory Management 12%, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.5%
- #29 Lost Scavenger
79% matchMixed53% of 245 reviews2022
Dev: Rockbee
Windows
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.1%, Survival 28.2%, Crafting 25%, Roguelike 9.3%, RPG 7.4%
- #30 Wayward
77% matchVery Positive86% of 1,370 reviews2016
Dev: Unlok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 15.3%, Inventory Management 8.3%, Roguelike 8.1%
- #31 Cliff Empire
76% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Resource Management 20.4%, Base Building 20.4%, Building 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #32 Rebirth evolution
76% matchMixed64% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
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 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Survival 18.5%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 12.8%
- #33 Aground Zero
74% matchVery Positive82% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 14.9%, Survival 13.7%
- #34 Oxygen
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 21%, Resource Management 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Building 13.3%
- #35 Unclaimed World
77% 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 34.4%, Survival 27.2%, Strategy 16.1%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Indie 10.8%
- #36 Wild West Pioneers
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 326 reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.
Why similar: Base Building 30%, Building 26.6%, Survival 22.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 6%
- #37 Settlement Survival
73% matchVery Positive85% of 8,102 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Building 27.8%, Survival 24.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Resource Management 15%, Simulation 8.5%
- #38 Home Behind
73% matchVery Positive84% of 6,154 reviews2016
Dev: TPP Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?
Why similar: Survival 36.2%, RPG 14%, Adventure 11.4%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 10%
- #39 Evolution of Ages: Settlements
74% matchVery Positive86% of 292 reviews2018
Dev: TREON Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world. Recruit characters and level their skills and equipment from the stone age until the space age, while trying your best to avoid the very thing that led to our destruction previously.
Why similar: Base Building 27.4%, Crafting 26.2%, Simulation 16.7%, RPG 13.7%, Strategy 8.9%
- #40 Infection Free Zone
71% matchVery Positive81% of 18,697 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 38.6%, Post-apocalyptic 29.6%, Survival 18.1%, Simulation 7%, Strategy 4.9%
- #41 Landless
75% matchMixed44% of 194 reviews2017
Dev: CodeBullet
Windows
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: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Hunting 16.7% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #42 Z Dawn
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 292 reviews2019
Dev: GoldenGod Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Survival 22.4%, Crafting 21.1%, Building 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, RPG 8.7%
- #43 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.
Why similar: 2.5D 18.4%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 18.2%, Survival 16.5%, Resource Management 16.2%
- #44 Last Wood
72% matchMixed67% of 587 reviews2022
Dev: JustUsGameLab
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
In Last Wood, it is an oceanic world after the Fall. You will guide several survivors in the ocean from pieces of rafts, survive, build rafts, defense the threats, explore the unknown world, even have their offsprings, and find the truth of the world.
Why similar: Survival 36.5%, Simulation 23.7%, Building 18.3%, Adventure 12.7%, Indie 8.8%
- #45 Prospector
70% matchMixed70% of 152 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.7%
- #46 Ice Age
70% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Sabertooth Studio
Windows
As primitive human, in the wild Ice Age prehistoric world, Hunt and tame wild beasts such as mammoths and sabretooth, build homes, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Hunting 19.3% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 6.7%
- #47 Under A New Sun
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Simulation 3.1%
- #48 Card Survival: Tropical Island
68% matchVery Positive95% of 3,067 reviews2022
Dev: WinterSpring Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Survival 19.8%, Crafting 17.6%, Resource Management 10.3%, Simulation 7%
- #49 Primitive Society Simulator
68% matchVery Positive84% of 760 reviews2024
Dev: YSH BigDovePub: YSH Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Base Building 29.3%, Crafting 22.1%, Building 22%, Resource Management 15.2%, Simulation 6.1%
- #50 City 20
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 201 reviews2024
Dev: Untold Games
Windows
Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and factions who shape your fate.
Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Crafting 21.5%, Survival 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Simulation 6.4%
- #51 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
66% 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: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Roguelike 8.7%
- #52 Post-Apo Builder
69% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
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 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Building 20.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Simulation 4.7%
- #53 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,769 reviews2021
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
Why similar: Base Building 23%, Resource Management 20.3%, Crafting 19.4%, Survival 18.9%, Simulation 5.9%
- #54 Ascent of Ashes
68% matchMixed70% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Base Building 26.9%, Crafting 20.8%, Survival 20.4%, Building 19.6%, Simulation 7.9%
- #55 Vilset
71% matchMostly Negative37% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: Another Reality
Windows
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Building 18.2%, Crafting 16.7%, Survival 16.2%, Resource Management 12%
- #56 Aground
67% matchVery Positive94% of 2,039 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Base Building 19%, Survival 14.6%, Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%
- #57 The Tribe Must Survive
67% matchMixed67% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: Walking Tree Games GmbH
Windows · Mac
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Building 18.5%, Resource Management 18.3%, Survival 17.6%, Roguelike 9.8%
- #58 Endzone - A World Apart
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 24.2%, Survival 22.9%, Base Building 20.8%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #59 The Last Caretaker
63% matchVery Positive86% of 13,935 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 20.3 hrsMean: 37.4 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: Base Building 21%, Crafting 18%, Survival 16.2%, Resource Management 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%