Games Like This War of Mine

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 40%, Resource Management 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Base Building 8.3%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like This War of Mine, it turns survival into a series of brutal ethical decisions where every resource choice can cost lives and morale.

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 43%, Base Building 17%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Resource Management 6.7%, Management 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the intimate focus on protecting a small group in a bunker while juggling scavenging, crafting, illness, and desperate resource shortages.

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: Survival 22.3%, War 17.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest mechanical match on Steam, built around shelter management, nighttime scavenging, crafting, and keeping civilians alive during a siege.

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 67%, Crafting 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7%, Simulation 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more solitary, it nails the same slow, punishing struggle for warmth, food, medicine, and survival in an unforgiving world.

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.

Why similar: Survival 36.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Management 9.8%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another grim group-survival management game where you ration supplies, maintain morale, and make hard choices under extreme pressure.

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 52.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Management 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survivor management, base upkeep, scarcity, and interpersonal stress in a harsh setting where every day feels like damage control.

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 72.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.8%, Indie 3.8%, Atmospheric 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes side-scrolling survival, scavenging, crafting, and bleak storytelling about civilians trying to endure a collapsing homeland.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.1%, Atmospheric 18.3%, Strategy 17.5%, Simulation 13.6%, Story Rich 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive civilian perspective and constant moral compromises evoke the same feeling of surviving under a system that punishes compassion.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Survival 50%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Story Rich 10.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same oppressive atmosphere, constant lack of food and medicine, and painful trade-offs where helping one person often means failing another.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Simulation 31.4%, Atmospheric 17.2%, Indie 14.6%, Story Rich 13.9%, Strategy 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly forces you to survive through routine, scarcity, and morally ugly decisions that steadily wear down your conscience.

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: War 24.7%, Survival 24.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a stronger fit than most strategy games because it combines wartime survival, limited supplies, and keeping a vulnerable group alive on the move.

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: Survival 34%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The bunker management, crafting, and constant preparation under an oppressive atmosphere echo the domestic survival side of This War of Mine.

All Quiet in the Trenches is a narrative turn-based strategy RPG set in World War I. Get to know your soldiers, take care of their needs and lead them in battle, trying to strike a precarious balance between the ambitions of your superiors and the survival of your men.

Why similar: Survival 29.8%, War 24.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Strategy 6.2%, Psychological 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the anti-war tone and asks you to preserve lives through impossible choices, exhaustion, and scarce resources rather than heroic combat.

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 50.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Resource Management 9%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Story Rich 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-on presentation, scavenging, resource pressure, and melancholy journey through a dying world feel very close in tone and tension.

In Pandemic Train you are in charge of the crew aboard a train roaming the postapocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by both war and a deadly plague. Your goal is to survive long enough to discover the cure… or die trying. Humanity’s fate is in your hands! Start your journey now!

Why similar: Survival 24.8%, War 16.5%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a cramped mobile refuge full of shortages, sickness, and hard survival choices makes it feel spiritually close despite the different setting.

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 56.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Strategy 4.7%, Realistic 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same desperate feeling of scraping together basic necessities where one bad decision can spiral into catastrophe.

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: Survival 41.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Strategy 9.6%, Base Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the same ethos of survival through compromise and resource cruelty, though it operates on a broader societal scale than This War of Mine.

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Why similar: Survival 25.7%, Crafting 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, 2.5D 9.1%, Stealth 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling shelter management, scavenging trips, and emphasis on keeping ordinary survivors alive make it one of the more direct modern parallels.

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: Survival 41.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Management 9%, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes side-view base defense, survivor management, and resource gathering in a bleak world where you are always one mistake from collapse.

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: Survival 33.4%, Resource Management 14.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Psychological 8.6%, Emotional 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same leadership burden of keeping a small group alive through hunger, cold, morale collapse, and ethically ugly decisions.

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: Survival 35.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the original's shelter management and survivor relationships, though it is a bit less focused and atmospheric than the first game.

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: Survival 27%, Base Building 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of base-building, scavenging, survivor relationships, and social tension matches the people-management side of This War of Mine well.

Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.

Why similar: Survival 36.6%, Base Building 17.9%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 9.5%, Crafting 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a mobile base, scarce resources, and psychologically fraught choices gives it a familiar survival-with-consequences feel despite the sci-fi framing.

Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.

Why similar: Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though less focused on crafting, it shares the civilian wartime perspective and the heavy emotional cost of resistance and survival under occupation.

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 50.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Management 16.1%, Strategy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It turns shelter survival into triage, forcing you to ration food, medicine, and risk while deciding who gets what and who goes out.

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

Why similar: Survival 45.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Realistic 6.7%, Atmospheric 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similarly harsh, grounded kind of civilian survival where basic needs, social pressure, and constant scarcity drive the experience.

CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!

Why similar: Survival 42%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Management 16.4%, Strategy 13.6%, Story Rich 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its day-to-day struggle for food, shelter, health, and dignity mirrors the seed game's focus on survival through deprivation rather than combat power.

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 67.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Realistic 4.2%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same tension of scavenging, fortifying a safe place, and trying to preserve life under relentless scarcity, just in a more open-ended sandbox form.

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 16.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Management 8.8%

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

Why similar: Survival 36.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Resource Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its loop of defending a refuge, sending out scavenging parties, crafting essentials, and managing survivors fits many of the seed game's core survival rhythms.

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 76.5%, Crafting 17.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%, Indie 2.1%, Simulation 2%

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: Survival 40.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 5.2%

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: Survival 28.4%, Base Building 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 8.4%

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: Survival 42.9%, Base Building 24.6%, Resource Management 14.8%, Management 7.2%, Strategy 4.2%

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Survival 71.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Strategy 9%, Base Building 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong fit if you want more group shelter survival with scavenging runs, morale management, and ugly choices about limited supplies.

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: Survival 35%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 10.2%, War 8.5%

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Survival 59.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Atmospheric 5.1%, Simulation 5.1%

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

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Survival 55.7%, Choices Matter 18%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Story Rich 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.9%

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: Survival 54.9%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 9.7%, Management 5.1%

Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

Why similar: Survival 38.3%, Base Building 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Management 7.7%, Crafting 5.6%

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: Survival 25.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Crafting 8.8%

Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!

Why similar: Management 23.9%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 18.6%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Realistic 9.2%

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: Survival 39.1%, Base Building 16.9%, Strategy 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Simulation 7.6%

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Survival 39.5%, Realistic 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Emotional 7.8%

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: Survival 38.2%, Base Building 19.7%, Crafting 11%, Resource Management 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%

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: Survival 28.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: Survival 50.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%

This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground. Fifty years later, some people thought the disaster was over and organized a survival competition on the surface. Some brave people took part in the competition . You are one of them.

Why similar: Survival 30.6%, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, 2.5D 10.1%

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: Survival 24.9%, Base Building 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%, Realistic 8.5%

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: Survival 57.6%, Crafting 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Survival 36.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 8.1%

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: Survival 32%, Base Building 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Management 9.8%

You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.

Why similar: Survival 40.3%, War 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Crafting 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.8%

A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Why similar: Survival 69.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Atmospheric 5%, Indie 2.2%

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: Survival 30.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Management 9.4%

Take charge of a WW1 field hospital on the Western Front, and make all the decisions necessary to help the soldiers recover and to support the war effort. In this narrative management game, you are the last bastion of humanity.

Why similar: Base Building 30.7%, Management 22.3%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Strategy 15%, Story Rich 9.8%

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: Survival 40.2%, Base Building 23.5%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 5.6%

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Survival 65%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 3.7%, Atmospheric 2.2%

Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.

Why similar: Survival 33.9%, Base Building 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Crafting 13%, Strategy 7.6%