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 40.9%, Resource Management 14%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines brutal resource scarcity with emotionally costly social laws and survival decisions in an oppressive, desperate setting.

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 22.8%, War 18.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its day-and-night loop of defending a besieged settlement while sending civilians to scavenge makes it the closest mechanical and thematic match.

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 43.7%, Base Building 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Resource Management 6.2%, Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a small group in a vulnerable shelter, rationing supplies, crafting necessities, and risking scavenging runs closely mirrors This War of Mine's core loop.

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 37.8%, Resource Management 14%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Management 9.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This survival management game centers on desperate civilians pooling scarce supplies, morale, labor, and difficult decisions during wartime.

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 73.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Indie 3.6%, Atmospheric 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A family fleeing civil war must scavenge, endure hunger and illness, and make difficult choices while searching for safety.

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 24.4%, Wargame 21.8%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Management 16.9%, Strategy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its World War we setting and triage-focused management force you to make grim resource and life-or-death choices under constant pressure.

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 31.2%, War 26.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Strategy 6.3%, Psychological 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its bleak World War we survival perspective focuses on keeping ordinary soldiers alive through scarcity, trauma, and morally unpleasant choices.

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 53.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 8.5%, Management 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This grim group-survival game emphasizes shelter upkeep, exhaustion, relationships, food shortages, and the consequences of keeping people alive.

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 27.4%, Atmospheric 17.1%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Story Rich 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though less survival-focused, its oppressive civilian viewpoint and consequential choices capture the same sense of living under an inhuman system.

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: Survival 23.2%, War 22.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This wartime survival strategy game asks you to preserve a desperate traveling group through supplies, injuries, harsh conditions, and dangerous missions.

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 19.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: Leading a resistance cell under Nazi rule involves scarce resources, fear, civilian stakes, and choices where survival can conflict with morality.

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 67.4%, Crafting 10%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%, Simulation 3%

Why You'll Like It: Its quiet, bleak atmosphere and relentless focus on hunger, warmth, injuries, and scavenging offer a more solitary version of desperate survival.

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 36.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Crafting 8.5%, Resource Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: You oversee a small survivor community whose food, safety, crafting, expeditions, and morale must be balanced against constant threats.

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 34.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its bunker-building and scavenging loop shares the shelter maintenance and preparation aspects, though in a more eccentric dystopian tone.

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.1%, Strategy 24.5%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Story Rich 14.5%, Singleplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its somber caravan management, dwindling supplies, deaths, and irreversible moral decisions create a similarly weighty struggle to protect ordinary people.

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 57.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Strategy 4.6%, Realistic 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving scavenging and survival systems make every item, injury, encounter, and decision feel consequential in a hostile ruined world.

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 50.7%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Story Rich 10.2%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This intensely oppressive survival drama makes food, medicine, time, and moral choices painfully scarce while a town collapses around you.

This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Why similar: Management 25.2%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Strategy 19.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Atmospheric 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a strained police department under political pressure delivers similarly uncomfortable trade-offs where every resource decision affects people's lives.

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 40.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic settlement builder emphasizes water, food, radiation, expeditions, and keeping a vulnerable population alive through scarcity.

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 50.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: This survival RPG puts a small camp's supplies, morale, crafting, and difficult choices at the center of a zombie-ravaged crisis.

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 43.9%, Base Building 25%, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 6.9%, Strategy 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed colony management captures the constant pressure of maintaining air, food, health, infrastructure, and labor for fragile survivors.

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 35.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Strategy 10%, War 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a post-collapse colony's resources, specialists, expeditions, and crises offers a larger-scale take on survivor stewardship.

DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.

Why similar: Survival 58.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A stranded group must divide labor, manage hunger, illness, morale, relationships, and dangerous expeditions with little room for error.

DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.

Why similar: Survival 68.2%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Strategy 12.8%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its small-team survival systems revolve around rationing, shelter maintenance, exhaustion, paranoia, and expeditions into a hostile environment.

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 42.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: You lead a small underground community through limited resources, base expansion, and recurring attacks in a desperate side-scrolling format.

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 26.4%, Base Building 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact post-apocalyptic base building centers on assigning survivors, gathering supplies, producing necessities, and enduring hostile conditions.

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 28.7%, Atmospheric 15.9%, Indie 13.3%, Story Rich 13.2%, Strategy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces shelter survival with border work, but its oppressive atmosphere and repeated moral compromises create a comparable emotional weight.

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 51.3%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Management 15%, Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Fast, desperate supply gathering gives way to difficult shelter rationing and event decisions for a family trapped after catastrophe.

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: Survival 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 11%, 2.5D 9.8%

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Survival 34.8%, Base Building 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: You rebuild a small community through scavenging, resource allocation, diplomacy, and risky missions where survivor welfare remains central.

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 38.7%, Base Building 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Management 7.4%, Crafting 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: While much lighter in tone, it still revolves around managing a vulnerable shelter population's rooms, supplies, health, and risky outside missions.

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 41.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Base Building 6.9%

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 77%, Crafting 17%, Singleplayer 2%, Indie 2%, Simulation 2%

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: Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Crafting 15.9%, 2.5D 14.8%, Stealth 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%

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 17.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 9.2%

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 59.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Atmospheric 4.9%, Simulation 4.8%

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 26%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%

Experience an award-winning, story-driven sci-fi survival game. Help Jan Dolski, the survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoil with his unconventional crew.

Why similar: Survival 38%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%

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 46.3%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Realistic 6.8%, Atmospheric 5.3%

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 36.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 13.7%, Strategy 7.4%

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 56.5%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Atmospheric 13.2%, Story Rich 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.8%

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 29.2%, Base Building 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 8%

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 25.1%, War 16.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%

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 67.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Realistic 4.3%, Simulation 3.5%

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 39.9%, Base Building 17%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 7.4%

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 56.2%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 4.9%

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 65.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Simulation 3.5%, Atmospheric 2.1%

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 29.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%

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 39.3%, Base Building 20.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Strategy 6.6%, Resource Management 6.2%

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 41%, Base Building 23.6%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 7%, Simulation 5.5%

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 25.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Resource Management 9.5%, Realistic 8.7%

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: Survival 34.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Resource Management 11.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%

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 40.8%, Realistic 9.1%, Resource Management 8.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Emotional 7.7%

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 34.5%, Resource Management 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Psychological 8.6%, Emotional 6.7%

Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.

Why similar: Survival 36.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Choices Matter 9%, Strategy 8.9%, Resource Management 7.5%

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 40.7%, War 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Crafting 9%, Atmospheric 8.5%

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: Post-apocalyptic 22.8%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Resource Management 16.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%

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 31.3%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11%, 2.5D 10.2%

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

Why similar: Survival 69.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Atmospheric 4.9%, Indie 2.1%

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 32.7%, Base Building 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Crafting 9.9%, Management 9.4%