Games Like This War of Mine

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 43.2%, Base Building 17%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Resource Management 6.5%, Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on keeping a vulnerable group alive through rationing, crafting, and bunker management where every expedition carries meaningful risk.

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 18.1%, Base Building 10.7%, Resource Management 9.1%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors This War of Mine's day-night structure almost exactly, with civilians crafting in a besieged stronghold and risking dangerous scavenging runs for survival supplies.

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 40.3%, Resource Management 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Base Building 8.4%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the same brutal scarcity-and-morality tension into a larger-scale survival management game built around impossible decisions and human cost.

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 16.6%, Crafting 15.9%, 2.5D 14.8%, Stealth 14%, Choices Matter 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is another side-on shelter survival game about ordinary people managing a safehouse, scavenging dangerous urban areas, and making grim choices under constant pressure.

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 72.6%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Indie 3.7%, Atmospheric 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It puts you in the role of a displaced civilian surviving war and migration through scavenging, crafting, and hard 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 52.9%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Management 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It has you manage a small band of survivors through shelter upgrades, scarce resources, character moods, and painful narrative decisions.

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 37.1%, Resource Management 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A bleak group survival sim about civilians stranded in wartime chaos, emphasizing hunger, illness, morale, and ethical trade-offs.

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: It combines moving-base management, desperate scavenging, and keeping a fragile group alive in a grim crisis setting.

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 18.2%, Strategy 17.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Story Rich 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures This War of Mine's oppressive atmosphere and moral compromise, constantly forcing you to choose between survival and decency.

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 67.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%, Simulation 3%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the methodical survival feel and constant resource pressure, even if it trades group drama for isolation.

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%, War 26%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Strategy 6.4%, Psychological 5%

Why You'll Like It: Though military-focused, it shares the same anti-war tone, attrition, and crushing choices about how to keep people alive in impossible conditions.

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 50.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Management 15.6%, Strategy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It compresses the shelter-management, rationing, and risky scavenging formula into fast, darkly humorous survival runs.

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 22.7%, Survival 22.4%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It follows a desperate group trying to survive a war-torn journey through supply management, injuries, morale, and strategic decision-making.

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%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the first game's group shelter survival with faction pressure, harsher management, and more systemic scavenging.

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 34.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A lighter-toned but mechanically similar shelter survival game about stockpiling, crafting, and maintaining a hidden base under pressure.

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 14.4%, Story Rich 10.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same sense of desperation, scarcity, illness, and morally compromised survival in a relentlessly oppressive world.

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 41.2%, Resource Management 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Base Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the original's emphasis on survival under impossible conditions and morally costly leadership, albeit on a broader city scale.

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 19.3%, Crafting 12.3%, Strategy 4.7%, Realistic 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a ruthless survival game where scavenging, inventory management, injury, and hard trade-offs matter as much as combat.

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 37.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base management, survival pressure, and emotionally loaded choices about how to endure an extreme crisis.

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%

Why You'll Like It: Less grounded narratively, but its punishing resource management, crafting, and relentless survival pressure will appeal to the same mindset.

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 40.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Another survival management game driven by scarcity, settlement upkeep, and long-term consequences in a ruined world.

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 71.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Base Building 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes shelter management, scavenging expeditions, interpersonal tension, and survival ethics in a grim apocalyptic setting.

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 12.6%, Crafting 10.2%, Realistic 4.2%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the tense scavenging, base upkeep, and ordinary-people-barely-surviving feel, just in a more open-ended sandbox.

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 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes recruiting and managing a fragile survivor group where social relationships and scarce supplies both matter.

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 34.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survivor management, difficult civic choices, scavenging, and community-building in a ruined world.

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 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on shelter building, scavenging missions, and keeping a stressed community alive against overwhelming odds.

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 56.1%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Atmospheric 13.3%, Story Rich 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: More horror-leaning, but it shares the dread, scarcity, and day-night survival rhythm that make This War of Mine so tense.

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 9.5%, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers turn-based scavenging and shelter management with survivor morale, limited supplies, and constant existential pressure.

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 50.9%, Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Resource Management 8.7%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Story Rich 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs bleak side-view survival storytelling with scavenging, rationing, and protecting vulnerable passengers in a collapsing world.

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 43.2%, Base Building 24.7%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 7.1%, Strategy 4.2%

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 67.8%, Atmospheric 14.7%, Strategy 13%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on keeping a small group alive through exhaustion, cold, and resource scarcity in a hostile, claustrophobic environment.

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 17.4%, Base Building 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 9.3%

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 17.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 10.1%, War 8.7%

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 59.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Atmospheric 5%, Simulation 4.9%

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 41.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 8.8%

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 55.3%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 10.9%, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 5%

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 26.1%, Base Building 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Resource Management 7.1%

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 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Management 9.7%, Strategy 8.3%

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 45.7%, Base Building 18.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Realistic 6.7%, Atmospheric 5.4%

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 25.6%, Resource Management 12.4%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%

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 40.5%, Base Building 23.6%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 5.6%

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 39.4%, Base Building 17%, Strategy 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Simulation 7.5%

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 38.4%, Base Building 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Management 7.6%, Crafting 5.5%

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 9.1%, Atmospheric 4.9%, Indie 2.1%

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 38.7%, Base Building 20%, Crafting 11%, Strategy 6.6%, Resource Management 6.5%

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 28.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%

60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Survival 41%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Management 13%, Strategy 9.4%

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 22.3%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Resource Management 17.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.4%

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 25.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Resource Management 10%, Realistic 8.6%

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 33.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Choices Matter 10%

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 40.7%, Base Building 32.1%, Strategy 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%, Resource Management 6.1%

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 16.5%, Choices Matter 9%, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 7.9%

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 32.2%, Base Building 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Management 9.7%

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 14.5%, Story Rich 14.1%, Strategy 12.2%

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 33.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Psychological 8.6%, Emotional 6.6%

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 21.5%, Management 17.3%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Strategy 11.8%

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 29.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Resource Management 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Wargame 9.4%

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 31%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Management 9.2%

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 35.6%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Resource Management 13%, Story Rich 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%

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 13.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Atmospheric 8.7%