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Games Like Wanna Survive

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Singleplayer, Post-apocalyptic, Turn-Based Strategy.

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HIGH SPEED ZOMBIE TACTICS - Fight mobs of undead attacking from all sides in this streamlined turn-based tactics that emphasizes unit placement and synergies. Help the survivors live through fights and manage their rations to avoid permanent death, and they just might be able to reach the Sanctuary.

Reviews: Very Positive — 93% — of 301 reviews
Released: 2019-08-13
Developer: PINIX
Publisher: Light of Creators
Genres: Indie, Strategy
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Median playtime: 3.2 hrs
Mean playtime: 26.3 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 81%

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    Why similar: Zombies 25.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.9%, Survival 13.6%, Turn-Based 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%

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    96% matchMostly Positive74% of 282 reviews2019
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    Why similar: Turn-Based 25%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Zombies 13.7%, Survival 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%

  4. #4 Warbanners
    95% matchMostly Positive71% of 603 reviews2017
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    Why similar: Turn-Based 20.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.6%, Tactical 16%, Difficult 10.7%

  5. #5 Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
    94% matchMostly Positive77% of 409 reviews2019
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    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    Why similar: Turn-Based 19.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.5%, Tactical 17.4%, Difficult 13.2%

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    93% matchVery Positive82% of 5,580 reviews2016
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    Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%

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    Why similar: Turn-Based 17.7%, Zombies 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Tactical 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.3%

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    91% matchVery Positive86% of 1,877 reviews2019
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    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

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    91% matchVery Positive96% of 220 reviews2021
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Why similar: Zombies 23.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 18.9%, Tactical 16.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%

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    90% matchMixed68% of 440 reviews2013
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    74% matchVery Positive88% of 3,135 reviews2013
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    72% matchMostly Positive72% of 104 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    75% matchMixed58% of 100 reviews2018
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    74% matchMostly Positive71% of 536 reviews2016
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    71% matchMostly Positive75% of 101 reviews2021
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    70% matchMixed64% of 4,581 reviews2021
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    Dev: Whatboy Games
    Windows
    Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!

    Why similar: Turn-Based 29.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 28.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.6%, Roguelike 6.7%, Strategy 6%

  55. #55 Envy the Dead
    69% matchMixed66% of 244 reviews2016
    Dev: Kazakov Oleg
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.

    Why similar: Zombies 44.7%, Tactical 19.6%, Survival 14.6%, Strategy 13.2%, RPG 4.5%

  56. #56 Yet Another Zombie Survivors
    63% matchVery Positive91% of 12,980 reviews2023
    Dev: Awesome Games Studio
    Windows
    Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.

    Why similar: Zombies 53.9%, Survival 23.8%, Roguelike 13.3%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 3.4%

  57. #57 Evertried
    67% matchMostly Positive79% of 73 reviews2021
    Dev: Lunic Games / Danilo DominguesPub: DANGEN Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Evertried is an isometric, tactical rogue-lite where strategic positioning and quick wit in grid-based combat are the key to success. Make clever use of attacks, movement, skills and hazards to clear floors of enemies and advance higher toward your destiny in the afterlife.

    Why similar: Turn-Based Tactics 26%, Turn-Based Strategy 22%, Tactical 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Puzzle 8.7%

  58. #58 Nearly Dead
    68% matchMixed46% of 298 reviews2021
    Dev: Mono Software, Inc.
    Windows

    Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

    Why similar: Zombies 39.1%, Strategy 21.4%, Survival 14.6%, Indie 7.5%, RPG 6.8%

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