Games Like Until We Die

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.6%, Base Building 19.3%, Survival 15.2%, Side Scroller 13.5%, Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D base-building strategy game that focuses heavily on survival and defending your colony against nightly monster attacks.

Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Tower Defense 16.4%, Base Building 15.3%, Survival 12.1%, Side Scroller 12%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same minimalist, side-scrolling strategy and base-defense mechanics that make Until We Die so compelling.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.2%, Colony Sim 19% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 11.7%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the definitive side-scrolling base-building experience, sharing the exact same core loop of managing subjects and defending your kingdom from nightly waves of enemies.

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: Base Building 26.2%, Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Tower Defense 14.8%, Survival 13.6%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: While top-down, it perfectly captures the high-stakes pressure of building a base and defending it against massive, overwhelming hordes of enemies.

Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?

Why similar: Tower Defense 33.7%, Side Scroller 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Management 14%, Strategy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite combines side-scrolling exploration and mining with intense tower-defense combat, mirroring the frantic pace of defending a mobile base.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Tower Defense 16.2%, Base Building 16%, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical base-building game that focuses on constructing defensive structures brick-by-brick to survive waves of monsters.

Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

Why similar: Tower Defense 34%, Base Building 29.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Dark 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the tower-defense and base-building aspects of strategy, requiring careful resource placement to survive against encroaching threats.

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 24.7%, Base Building 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Management 8%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival management game where you must assign tasks and manage resources to keep your bunker inhabitants alive.

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: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Tower Defense 19.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Side Scroller 14.9%, Strategy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite strategy game that tasks you with defending a drill core while managing resources and building defenses under pressure.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Base Building 20.2%, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Management 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This colony-sim focuses on surviving the apocalypse by building a base and managing survivors, mirroring the management depth of the seed game.

Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

Why similar: Tower Defense 27.1%, Base Building 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on tactical, turn-based defense of a city, capturing the same feeling of protecting a last bastion against endless waves of enemies.

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: Base Building 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Survival 12.2%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building strategy game that uses real-world maps to challenge you with defending your settlement against zombie outbreaks.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

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

Why You'll Like It: It shares the side-scrolling perspective and the desperate, management-heavy survival gameplay required to keep a group alive in a post-apocalyptic city.

Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5% ★, Tower Defense 17.7%, Base Building 16.8%, Side Scroller 14.4%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven entry in the Kingdom series that maintains the side-scrolling base-building and defense mechanics of the original.

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: Post-apocalyptic 28%, Survival 26.4%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, Side Scroller 9.5%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling post-apocalyptic game captures the same atmospheric tension and resource management found in the subway setting of Until We Die.

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: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the management and survival mechanics of the first game, focusing on faction building and resource scarcity.

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: Colony Sim 27.8% ★, Base Building 21%, Survival 16%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that emphasizes base construction and resource management to survive in a harsh, ruined world.

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Tower Defense 14.9%, Survival 12.6%, Side Scroller 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art survival strategy game that tasks you with managing a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 18.5%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person colony-sim that focuses on building a base and managing colonists to defend against nightly zombie sieges.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Tower Defense 24.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 13.4%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends tower defense and city-building, requiring you to manage a colony while defending against frequent enemy raids.

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: Colony Sim 20.6% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that tasks you with managing a base and curing zombies, blending building mechanics with survival strategy.

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: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Base Building 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Survival 14.8%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends survival, base-building, and management with a focus on recruiting survivors and defending your community.

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: Colony Sim 22.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Survival 16.7%, Base Building 15%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that requires you to manage resources and defend your colony from various environmental and external threats.

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 15%, Tower Defense 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused survival game where you must build and defend an outpost against waves of enemies.

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 45.8%, Strategy 22.5%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 7.6%, Adventure 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival management game that requires careful resource allocation and task assignment to keep your group alive in a hostile environment.

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: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 12.6%, Tower Defense 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that combines real-time tactics and base management to survive a zombie-infested world.

Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies

Why similar: Tower Defense 30.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward tower-defense game that focuses on the core mechanics of building defenses to stop incoming waves.

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 11.8%, Building 11.8%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building a base from scratch and managing resources to survive and thrive in a medieval setting.

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 21.9%, Side Scroller 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Management 14.6%, Strategy 9.8%

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: Tower Defense 22.1%, Survival 21.4%, Base Building 21%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-survival game that tasks you with exploring a dangerous world and building a base to protect your survivors.

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6% ★, Base Building 20.8%, Side Scroller 11.8%, Management 9.6%, Building 9.1%

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: Base Building 28.1%, Survival 26.6%, Strategy 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game where you manage a bunker and its inhabitants, focusing on maintenance and survival under extreme conditions.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.2%, Base Building 23.8%, Survival 16.6%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 9.3%

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: Base Building 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Survival 14.9%, Strategy 14.8%, Colony Sim 8.3% ★

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.2% ★, Base Building 28.3%, Tower Defense 15.6%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 5.9%

In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5% ★, Base Building 19%, Survival 15.1%, Management 11.1%, Building 11%

You and allies, avian inhabitants of Sanctree City, build structures and production lines on the tree, crafting weapons to fend off subterranean insects. Defense is just the start—dig deeper, destroy nests, fortify new defenses against escalating threats for an impregnable stronghold.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Base Building 19.2%, Tower Defense 18.2%, Survival 12.1%, Management 8.8%

Survive waves of enemies in Ash Warden, an incremental tower defense where you slowly become overpowered. Unlock new abilities, fight against powerful bosses, and evolve into an unstoppable force against the endless Redgaze hordes.

Why similar: Tower Defense 26.9%, Survival 18%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 8.8%

A defense RTS where you can move turrets at will. Extract resources, upgrade technology, and defend against enemy swarms in a gripping space campaign. Hold the line, set up your turrets, and brace for screen-filling hordes!

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.8%, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 17.8%, Building 16.6%, Strategy 9%

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: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 11.5%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 9.2%

Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.3%, Tower Defense 30.4%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Action 6.6%

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Tower Defense 28%, Strategy 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.4%, Simulation 4%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4% ★, Survival 21.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Strategy 6.8%

A 2D side-scrolling strategy game of resource management, base defense and conquest.

Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, Tower Defense 24.2%, Side Scroller 20.2%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 10.4%

Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.8%, Base Building 22.2%, Strategy 15.2%, Management 12.6%, Building 7.3%

Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

Why similar: Tower Defense 28.1%, Base Building 26.3%, Survival 19.7%, Strategy 10.3%, Atmospheric 6.5%

Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!

Why similar: Tower Defense 40%, Base Building 31.7%, Building 13.7%, Strategy 13%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Last Outpost is a minimalist Base Building & Strategy game where you build and defend your outpost in zombie apocalypse. Choose your vehicle and loadout before embarking on your adventure. Use your abilities and control your units to eliminate all threats. Will you manage to defend your outpost?

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.2%, Base Building 32.7%, Strategy 14%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements. Operate a subterranean mining station, where you'll gather resources, confront horrors, and make life-or-death choices for the survival of your crew.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Management 9.6%, Building 8.9%

Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.

Why similar: Base Building 16.5%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Tower Defense 11.7%, Survival 11.6%, Strategy 9.8%

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: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 14.7%, Management 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Base Building 31.3%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Survival 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Strategy 9.8%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Base Building 31.3%, Tower Defense 30.2%, Strategy 10%, Building 9.5%, Survival 7%

Mechs V Kaijus is an addictive hardcore tower defense gameplay. In Mechs V Kaijus you take on the role of Commander of a powerful Mechs squadron. Improve your Mech, strategically place towers and factories on the battlefield. Deploy support units on the battlefield, and save our civilization.

Why similar: Tower Defense 67.9%, Strategy 11%, Base Building 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Action 3.2%

Acid Planet is a caustic blend of horde-survival, tower-defense and strategy. Build, fight and evolve to survive against rampaging swarms of monsters and fearsome Kaiju.

Why similar: Tower Defense 24.4%, Base Building 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Survival 12.3%, Building 9.4%

Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?

Why similar: Tower Defense 21.9%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Underground 8.8% ★

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: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 20.9%, Survival 15.8%, Building 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Management 10.2%

Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25% ★, Base Building 20.3%, Management 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Survival 12.2%

Gather resources and strategically build up your Viking settlement by day, fortifying it to withstand the relentless onslaught of skeletons by night

Why similar: Tower Defense 25.3%, Base Building 19.1%, Survival 17.3%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 11.4%