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 40.2%, Resource Management 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like This War of Mine, it turns survival into a series of painful moral tradeoffs where every resource decision carries human consequences.

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 43.1%, Base Building 17%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Resource Management 6.6%, Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It similarly revolves around protecting a small group in a fragile shelter while rationing supplies and sending people out on risky scavenging runs.

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 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Crafting 9.7%, 2.5D 9.2%, Stealth 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling shelter survival, urban scavenging, and focus on ordinary people enduring collapse feel very close to This War of Mine.

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 22.4%, War 18%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its civilian-under-siege premise, day-and-night survival loop, scavenging, and shelter management make it one of the closest mechanical matches on Steam.

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 33.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Psychological 8.6%, Emotional 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same desperation of managing a struggling group through harsh scarcity, declining morale, and impossible leadership choices.

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 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is another bleak survivor-management game built around base upkeep, dangerous supply runs, and the psychological strain of keeping a group alive.

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 36.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes group survival, stress, crafting, and interpersonal tension in a way that strongly echoes This War of Mine's human-centered survival.

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 67.1%, Crafting 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7%, Simulation 3%

Why You'll Like It: It trades group management for solitary survival, but its quiet desperation, resource scarcity, and atmosphere are very much in the same spirit.

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 52.6%, Resource Management 11.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Management 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing injuries, morale, relationships, and scarce resources for a small survivor group makes it a strong thematic and systemic fit.

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 50.3%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Story Rich 10.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive atmosphere, constant shortage of essentials, and moral compromises in a dying city mirror the seed game's emotional intensity.

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 24.9%, War 16.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Keeping a vulnerable group alive through shortages, illness, and grim decisions recreates a similar blend of management and emotional pressure.

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 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more sandbox-driven, it nails the same feeling of fragile human survival through scavenging, shelter maintenance, and constant resource 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 31.1%, War 25.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Strategy 6.4%, Psychological 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its anti-war tone, attrition-focused survival, and hard choices under brutal conditions make it a compelling thematic match.

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 27.1%, Base Building 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends scavenging, survivor recruitment, base building, and relationship management into the same kind of tense day-to-day struggle for survival.

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 34.1%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its bunker-focused crafting, rationing, and constant preparedness pressure resemble This War of Mine's shelter-management side, if with a lighter tone.

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 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Base Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Though broader in scale, it continues Frostpunk's harsh ethic of survival through sacrifice, scarcity, and grim social decision-making.

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 37%, Base Building 18.2%, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival-management structure is built around harsh tradeoffs, limited resources, and the emotional burden of keeping a small base functional.

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%, Atmospheric 18.2%, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 13.6%, Story Rich 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed game's oppressive civilian perspective and morally compromising choices even though it leans more toward dystopian management than survival crafting.

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 35.9%, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Resource Management 14.5%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It expands on the first game's close-quarters survival management with more faction tension, scavenging, and resource triage.

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 50.8%, Post-apocalyptic 23.5%, Resource Management 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Story Rich 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling survival journey shares the seed game's bleak mood, limited supplies, and focus on civilians enduring catastrophe.

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 72.5%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Indie 3.7%, Atmospheric 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends side-scrolling survival, scarce resources, and the hardship of civilians caught in crisis into a familiar kind of struggle.

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 50.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Management 15.8%, Strategy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It distills the shelter-survival formula into fast scavenging choices, ration management, and desperate attempts to keep a household alive.

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 59.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Atmospheric 5%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: Its enclosed survival structure, scavenging for essentials, and grim tone make it a reasonable if more action-leaning alternative.

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 36.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like This War of Mine, it centers on protecting survivors, managing needs, and sending expeditions out into danger for supplies.

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 40.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This one keeps the survival-and-scarcity focus strong, but shifts the experience toward broader settlement management rather than intimate personal drama.

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 56.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Strategy 4.7%, Realistic 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutal scavenging, injuries, exhaustion, and constant risk-reward decisions capture the same unforgiving survival mindset.

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%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Story Rich 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed game's suffocating atmosphere and survival tension, though it is much more horror- and combat-oriented.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 59.2%, Base Building 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Simulation 3.4%, Atmospheric 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Community survival, supply runs, and home-base management make it a good fit for players who want a more action-heavy take on the formula.

A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement. Only your choices matters in the face of moral dilemmas. Manage your party, food & equipment in this non-linear narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.

Why similar: Survival 38.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Resource Management 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is another bleak survival game about guiding a small group through hardship where every decision affects endurance and morale.

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 17.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 9.4%

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 42.3%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Management 16.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Story Rich 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on civilian urban survival, cold, hunger, and dignity gives it a grounded, human scale similar to This War of Mine.

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 22.6%, Survival 22.4%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%

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 76.7%, Crafting 17.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%, Indie 2%, Simulation 2%

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 34.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 10.2%, War 8.6%

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 43.1%, Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 7.1%, Strategy 4.2%

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 25.5%, Resource Management 12.5%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%

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 41.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.8%

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 45.6%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Realistic 6.7%, Atmospheric 5.4%

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 28.5%, Base Building 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 8.3%

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 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Resource Management 7.1%

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 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Management 7.7%, Crafting 5.5%

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 33.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Choices Matter 10%

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

Why similar: Survival 69.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Atmospheric 4.9%, Indie 2.1%

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 55.1%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 10.9%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 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 39.3%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Simulation 7.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 40.6%, Base Building 32.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7%, Resource Management 6.2%

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 30.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, 2.5D 10.1%

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 50.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%

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 38.6%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 11%, Strategy 6.6%, Resource Management 6.5%

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 39.9%, Realistic 9%, Resource Management 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Emotional 7.7%

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 28.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%

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%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Realistic 8.6%

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 40.4%, Base Building 23.6%, Management 10.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 5.6%

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 32.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Management 9.7%

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 24.3%, Wargame 21.4%, Management 17.4%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Strategy 11.8%

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 36.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 8%

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Survival 46.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Strategy 6.4%

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 30.8%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Management 9.3%

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

Why similar: Survival 29.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Wargame 9.4%

Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Why similar: Survival 35.5%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Story Rich 10.2%, Atmospheric 9%