- #1 Infection Free Zone
97% matchVery Positive81% of 18,524 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.8% ★, City Builder 27.5%, Zombies 13.2%, Time Management 10.2%, Strategy 8%
- #2 After Inc: Revival
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,446 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 46.6% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Zombies 11.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 6.3%
- #3 Zombie Cure Lab
96% matchMixed68% of 468 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 39.8% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Time Management 14.8%, Zombies 10.2%, Strategy 6%
- #4 Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
94% matchVery Positive82% of 13,070 reviews2026
Dev: Brigada GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Zombies 53.6%, Simulation 33.5%, Resource Management 10.3%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #5 Rebirth evolution
95% matchMixed64% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: 异界游网络科技
Windows
2D pixel style simulation business strategy game Build and operate your own survivor base, recruit and cultivate various professional combatants. Clear zombie strongholds, reduce regional infections, survive in the apocalypse, and establish your own power.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 39% ★, City Builder 29.3%, Zombies 12.5%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 7.4%
- #6 Zombie Graveyard Simulator
94% matchVery Positive90% of 841 reviews2025
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!
Why similar: Zombies 46.2%, Simulation 30.7%, Action 15.2%, Resource Management 8%
- #7 Cartel Tycoon
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,802 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: City Builder 51.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Action 8.1%, Resource Management 8%
- #8 The Walking Trade
91% matchVery Positive87% of 2,775 reviews2026
Dev: Microwave GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.
Why similar: Simulation 57.3%, Zombies 25.5%, Stylized 16.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #9 Industries of Titan
92% matchMixed62% of 1,618 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: City Builder 45%, Strategy 13%, Tactical 12.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Sci-fi 10.3%
- #10 Bastide
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 355 reviews2020
Dev: MedievalNexus
Windows
Build. Survive. Thrive. Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you transform a vulnerable peasant village into a fortified town. Manage your workforce and protect your people from the constant threats of starvation, disease, winter, and bandits.
Why similar: City Builder 46.2%, Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 20.9%, Action 9.5%
- #11 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
90% matchVery Positive86% of 2,047 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Outbreak Sim 39.2% ★, City Builder 29.8%, Zombies 13.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 7.6%
- #12 Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
89% matchMixed68% of 438 reviews2023
Dev: Septarian Games
Windows
Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 61.3% ★, Time Management 22.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 4.1%, Resource Management 1.3%
- #13 Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 170 reviews2026
Dev: Jiao Games
Windows
Build and manage your underground scam empire in a city ruled by chaos. Expand your operation through illegal means, grow your workforce, automate your schemes, and uncover the dark mysteries hidden beneath the town.
Why similar: Crime 37.4%, Time Management 36.6%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 11.9%
- #14 Post-Apo Builder
88% matchMixed43% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Septarian GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 45% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Time Management 17.5%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 4.6%
- #15 Widget Inc.
86% matchVery Positive85% of 770 reviews2024
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 60.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A hybrid factory builder / incremental clicker game. Starting from humble beginnings, master the many crafting processes to build up resources and expand your factory. Then, using your newly automated production, unlock new technology and grow ever closer to your goal of spreading to the stars.
Why similar: Time Management 55%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #16 GhostControl Inc.
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 180 reviews2014
Dev: bumblebeePub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Manage a team of ghosthunters and free London from paranormal terror in turn-based battles. Develop your own strategy and build your business well.
Why similar: Strategy 34.5%, Tactical 33.9%, Simulation 30.1%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #17 Zombie Graveyard Simulator - Prologue
86% matchVery Positive88% of 202 reviews2025
Dev: threeWPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator - Prologue!
Why similar: Zombies 37.6%, Simulation 28.4%, Stylized 16.5%, Action 15.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #18 Sintopia
84% matchVery Positive81% of 1,065 reviews2026
Dev: Piraknights GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.
Why similar: City Builder 56.1%, Simulation 18.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Resource Management 7.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #19 Software Inc.
85% matchVery Positive94% of 7,806 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Time Management 53.2%, Simulation 26.8%, Strategy 20%
- #20 Zombie Diner Simulator 🥩 💀
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Octo Games studio
Windows
Zombie Diner — In a post-apocalyptic world, you run the only diner for the undead. Cook grotesque meals, serve hungry zombie patrons, and blast those who lose patience. Survival, management, and dark humor all on the menu!
Why similar: Zombies 31.7%, Action-Adventure 24.6%, Simulation 21.8%, Action 12.9%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #21 Exogate Initiative
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 727 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Aliens 20.7%, Tactical 11.3%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 10.2%
- #22 Drill Core
81% matchVery Positive85% of 2,444 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, Strategy 16.8%, Aliens 14.2%, Stylized 10.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #23 SimPocalypse
82% matchMixed68% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Gamex Studio
Windows · Linux
A civilization simulator where you manage billions of people and rebuild millions of structures. Improve your economy, research, advance, battle, and much more! Play at your own pace by controlling game speed and automate various tasks!
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Time Management 29.4%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Resource Management 5.1%
- #24 DEADCRAFT
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 153 reviews2022
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Farm the dead to stay alive in DEADCRAFT, a new twist on the zombie survival-action genre! As a half-zombie, grow an army of loyal undead followers and build an arsenal to equip them to take revenge on the rulers of humanity's last city.
Why similar: Zombies 40.4%, Simulation 23.4%, Action 16.6%, Resource Management 9.4%, Stylized 8.8%
- #25 Dustland Delivery
79% matchVery Positive88% of 1,276 reviews2024
Dev: Neutron Star StudioPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!
Why similar: Simulation 34.5%, Zombies 32.7%, Strategy 31.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #26 City of Gangsters
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,559 reviews2021
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
Why similar: Crime 61.7%, Strategy 19.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Resource Management 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #27 Dead Unending
81% matchMixed45% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Tyler HudsonPub: Tylario
Windows
A deadly virus plagues the city and the residents now roam the streets as flesh-eating zombies. Loot the apocalyptic open world and build a self-sustaining zombie-killing fortress. Will you survive the apocalypse or become one of the undead?
Why similar: Zombies 39.2%, Action-Adventure 28.1%, Stylized 17.5%, Action 15.2%
- #28 Republic of Pirates
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 536 reviews2024
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Why similar: City Builder 40.7%, Time Management 23.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Tactical 7%
- #29 NecroCity
79% matchMixed50% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Shift GamesPub: Gameparic
Windows
Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹
Why similar: City Builder 57.3%, Strategy 18.6%, Zombies 14.2%, Tactical 8.1%, Singleplayer 1%
- #30 ZOMBUTCHER: Monster Business Simulator
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 132 reviews2026
Dev: ODIUSPub: Loopr Partners
Windows
Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 43.6% ★, Crime 23.4%, Zombies 12.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Action 5.1%
- #31 Portobugia
77% matchVery Positive84% of 87 reviews2024
Dev: Bogland Studio
Windows
Portobugia is a management/survival/inspection game where you manage a port and must supply a city with goods and food. To do so you must unload boats, but, be careful, some of them could be infected! You will also face difficult events, to fight them, you can upgrade, construct and research!
Why similar: City Builder 44.6%, Time Management 26.1%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 5.8%, Stylized 5.2%
- #32 The Last Haven
78% matchMixed61% of 1,535 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: City Builder 39.8%, Strategy 31.1%, Simulation 15.3%, Zombies 9%, Resource Management 4.3%
- #33 Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
73% matchVery Positive92% of 380 reviews2026
Dev: Ash & Adam's Games
Windows · Mac
A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.
Why similar: City Builder 56.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Stylized 14.6%, Action 10.5%
- #34 Life Inc.
74% matchVery Positive89% of 149 reviews2026
Dev: Sergio Garcia
Windows
You’re 16 with €500. 💼 Choose from 23 career paths. 🏠 Buy and rent property. 📈 Trade stocks. ₿ Invest in crypto. Pay taxes, manage loans, build a company into a holding, and leave a legacy for generations to come.
Why similar: Time Management 50%, Simulation 21%, Strategy 19.7%, Resource Management 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #35 Evil Labs
77% matchMixed70% of 82 reviews2018
Dev: Mirabolis Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Evil Labs is a game about building and managing your own Evil Laboratory. Research and develop diseases, infect people, sell the cure and get rich!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.9% ★, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 10%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #36 Schedule I
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 313,881 reviews2025
Dev: TVGS
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Crime 58.1%, Simulation 25.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Action 6.9%
- #37 Rise of Industry 2
74% matchMixed64% of 219 reviews2025
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Why similar: City Builder 43.7%, Tactical 20.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 13.7%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #38 SteamWorld Build
73% matchVery Positive85% of 2,253 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 72.7%, Strategy 17.3%, Resource Management 8.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #39 Flesh Eaters
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,351 reviews2016
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead
Why similar: Zombies 47.3%, Simulation 21.1%, Action 21.1%, Tactical 10.5%
- #40 Incident Commander
75% matchMixed48% of 85 reviews2020
Dev: BreakAway Games
Windows · Mac
Sudden disaster has put the town at risk, and you are the Incident Commander! It is up to you to control the responder teams who can stop the growing threat and save the community. The mayor is watching. Can you keep the public safe and stay within budget?
Why similar: Tactical 34.5%, Strategy 32.6%, Simulation 30.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #41 City Defense Z
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 322 reviews2025
Dev: Good Mood Games
Windows · Linux
City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.
Why similar: Time Management 34.8%, Zombies 21.1%, Tactical 16.4%, Strategy 13.5%, Action 7.5%
- #42 Community Inc
76% matchMostly Negative40% of 199 reviews2017
Dev: T4 InteractivePub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As a new Manager, build a happy community and trade with other races... for profit. Yes, that's right, we need their happiness so we can power up our portals. The Lings, your workers, will obey you and help you with your village. But beware, they can cause a lot of problems too.
Why similar: City Builder 45.4%, Simulation 27.6%, Strategy 27%
- #43 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,559 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!
Why similar: Crime 54.2%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 17.1%, Resource Management 7.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #44 Rise of Industry
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,193 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 55.5%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 17.8%, Resource Management 6.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #45 Horror Tycoon
72% matchMixed62% of 119 reviews2022
Dev: Smidge Games LLC
Windows
Scare, terrify and thrill guests as you build the haunted house of your nightmares. Design and customize your creations with incredible detail to scare your guests, or risk losing it all in this tower defense/management/tycoon hybrid.
Why similar: Zombies 36.6%, Strategy 26.7%, Simulation 24.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Singleplayer 2%
- #46 Settlements Rising
69% matchVery Positive81% of 435 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 57.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 14.1%, Stylized 7%, Resource Management 5.8%
- #47 ZIC: Survival
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: Megame LLC
Windows
ZIC: Survival is a survival shooter where you feel The Zombie Apocalypse & become The Undead Hunter!
Why similar: City Builder 52.3%, Zombies 25.6%, Simulation 15.6%, Resource Management 6.5%
- #48 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
70% matchVery Positive81% of 2,264 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: City Builder 42.1%, Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 19.1%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Resource Management 6.4%
- #49 Desynced
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,026 reviews2026
Dev: Stage Games Inc.Pub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Why similar: City Builder 49.4%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Resource Management 5.4%
- #50 Decision: Red Daze
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 896 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Zombies 57.5%, Action 22%, Strategy 17.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%
- #51 Mech Engineer
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 953 reviews2024
Dev: KiberKrekerPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
A dark sci-fi mech assembling manager with semi-auto battles against mutating, alien bio-weapon.
Why similar: Strategy 25.4%, Simulation 25%, 2.5D 23.2%, Stylized 13.6%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #52 Mad Merchant
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Ravenholm InteractivePub: Stay2Busy
Windows
Mad Merchant is an incremental management game. Build, arm, and command a merchant train across a hostile wasteland. Choose your routes, trade for profit, upgrade your wagons, and survive deadly ambushes on the rails.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 26.9%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 19.2%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Action 9.8%
- #53 Urbek City Builder
67% matchVery Positive89% of 1,977 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 61.2%, Simulation 16%, Strategy 15.8%, Resource Management 6%, Singleplayer 1%
- #54 COVID: The Outbreak
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 97 reviews2020
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: Salient Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 61.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
COVID: The Outbreak is a real-time strategy game in which you play the role of a global organization that has to deal with a global pandemic. Issue decrees, manage resources, develop projects, and construct buildings. A race for the vaccine begins!
Why similar: Outbreak Sim 78.5% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 6.2%, Resource Management 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #55 AdvertCity
71% matchMixed53% of 92 reviews2015
Dev: VoxelStorm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A cyberpunk advertising tycoon game. Explore a massive procedural city, and plaster your adverts all over it. Float around cyberspace and post links online. Watch the economy of the city evolve with the effects of your decisions.
Why similar: City Builder 49.5%, Simulation 23.2%, Strategy 22.2%, Resource Management 5.1%
- #56 Valand
69% matchMixed66% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: LOMS Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Valand is a Viking Age city builder. With your own strength you have to rebuild the whole settlement and bring it to prosperity.
Why similar: City Builder 57.8%, Simulation 18.3%, Tactical 13.4%, Action 10.6%
- #57 Surviving the Aftermath
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 57.9%, Strategy 19.8%, Simulation 17.4%, Tactical 3.8%, Resource Management 0.6%
- #58 Jurassic World Evolution
66% matchVery Positive87% of 55,268 reviews2018
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Simulation 24.5%, Strategy 21%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Resource Management 3.7%
- #59 Dev Inc
68% matchMixed60% of 86 reviews2021
Dev: Huntah
Windows
An in depth game development simulation game
Why similar: Time Management 62.9%, Simulation 29.4%, Resource Management 7.7%
- #60 Corsair Cove
62% matchVery Positive86% of 3,074 reviews2026
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Why similar: City Builder 58.5%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 17%, Resource Management 5.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%