Games Like When They Arrived

Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive

Why similar: Violent 34.3%, Simulation 23.7%, Action 15.3%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 11.8%

Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.

Why similar: Action 52.3%, Adventure 47.7%

Aliens Invaded Our Planet is a Multiplayer / CO-OP (Up to 6P) FPS & Arcade Style Action game, the game is about alien invasion in 1900s Richalley Town. Shoot and run for your life against the aliens!

Why similar: Action 38.4%, Adventure 33.3%, Indie 28.3%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Violent 33.8%, Action 24.4%, Adventure 23.1%, Simulation 18.7%

When you buy a country farm you should be ready for anything, even an alien invasion. A house far from civilization is all our hero has ever dreamed of, and it just so happens that a juicy offer has presented itself.

Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%

Arriving on a hunt in a small village, you become a witness to attack of alien forces on the ground, armed with a shotgun, you decide to repulse the alien intruders.

Why similar: Action 91.1%, Adventure 8.9%

Survive. Build shelter. Build a fire. Scavenge and kill for materials. Craft. Eat and drink. Do what you need to do to survive.

Why similar: Indie 37.7%, Action 32.7%, Adventure 29.6%

Chaos and devastation devoured the last sparkles of life. Surviving is the main task.

Why similar: Action 37.8%, Adventure 33.1%, Indie 29.1%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Action 60.3%, Indie 39.7%

You are a space trooper. Your crew finished the cleaning mission and left you alone by accident. Now you are surrounded by aliens. Persist them as long as you can.

Why similar: Simulation 30%, Action 29.3%, Adventure 20.4%, Indie 20.2%

Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?

Why similar: Action 32.6%, Simulation 29.7%, Adventure 25.3%, Indie 12.5%

Jump into the action and battle your way through hordes of aliens from deserts to tropical islands with fully destructible environments !

Why similar: Action 49.9%, Indie 25.6%, Adventure 24.6%

GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.

Why similar: Simulation 27.5%, Violent 24.8%, Action 18.9%, Adventure 15.2%, Indie 13.6%

Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Simulation 41.9%, Adventure 34.1%, Indie 24%

In the past of this world, civilization has reached a high level of social and technical development, but then the world experienced a global catastrophe, the fall of an asteroid and the subsequent extraterrestrial pandemic as a result of which civilization and most of the wealth it created were destroyed.

Why similar: Violent 31.1%, Simulation 25.8%, Action 16.1%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 12.8%

You have crash-landed on Notrium. Your food supplies are running low, and a pack of predatory aliens have your scent. You're out of bullets for your pistol, your only weapon a handful of rocks. A freezing night is setting in, and you are desperately looking for firewood. Can you survive?

Why similar: Action 40.9%, Adventure 32.6%, Indie 26.5%

You have 9 days to find a safe place on the planet. Your ship is low on fuel and you have to land. Setup sentry guns around you to defend yourself while you collect more fuel for the ship. AI controlled Drones and Tanks attack you trying to find weaknesses in your defenses.

Why similar: Action 38.7%, Adventure 33.1%, Indie 28.1%

In the distant outer space, there's an exp base. Aliens turn humans into animals with a catalyst for their needs. Different catalysts cause different forms. You're a human who escaped. While exploring and fleeing, you reveal the truth in the lab.

Why similar: Adventure 63.4%, Action 20.7%, Indie 15.9%

You have inherited a farm! What is waiting for you on arrival at the place ?! Huge field with a bunch of the crop? The big and vast land? Not a bit of it! Your new farm it is - an old junk! Next to that, nestled ancient cemetery! Restore and improve and protect his farm from attack undead!

Why similar: Simulation 33%, Action 31%, Adventure 18.7%, Indie 17.3%

This story-driven Survival-Horror game is about a classic Alien-Invasion which takes place during the early 90s. As Ryan Baker, equipped with a baseball bat and a few bullets in his revolver, the story takes you across the atmospheric neighborhood of Greyhill which is invaded by UFOs & Grey Aliens.

Why similar: Adventure 66.9%, Indie 33.1%

Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!

Why similar: Action 37%, Adventure 35.6%, Indie 27.3%

You are a guy with a backpack, just try to stay alive!

Why similar: Simulation 31.6%, Action 25.2%, Adventure 22.1%, Indie 21.1%

A retro-style arkanoid about fighting aliens to save the mankind.

Why similar: Simulation 44.4%, Action 32%, Indie 23.6%

THE HIGHRISE is a first-person survival game set in a high-rise building that has been sealed off by an alien monster invasion. Gather resources to make fighting weapons and survival tools. You must find and send a rescue signal at the end of your desperate survival.

Why similar: Action 57.1%, Adventure 42.9%

Dude Simulator Six is an open world sandbox game. A mortal danger looms over humanity. The planet was invaded by representatives of a distant planetary system.

Why similar: Simulation 44.5%, Action 27.3%, Adventure 25.9%, Indie 2.3%

Alien X - is a hardcore game where you will have to survive playing like a monster Bomber who is on an unknown planet.

Why similar: Simulation 77.7%, Adventure 19.5%, Indie 2.8%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Simulation 46.2%, Action 27.8%, Adventure 26%

The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.

Why similar: Simulation 36.8%, Action 23.9%, Adventure 20.9%, Indie 18.4%

"Just Alone" is a survival game set in a hostile world inhabited by the mutated creatures. Game begins when Bill Yesterday's ship crashes into the earth. As the only survivor he has to try survive in destroyed by atomic bomb, nasty world.

Why similar: Adventure 52.9%, Indie 47.1%

Expedition Zero — survival horror set in the anomaly zone of the northern forest. Face the dreadful forest monster and find a way to defeat it. Reveal the secrets of the lost expedition and your mysterious enemy. It’s either hunt or be hunted.

Why similar: Action 38.3%, Adventure 33.1%, Indie 28.6%

Why are alien insectoids invading Earth in 2023? This narrative driven 2D shooter pits you against a seemingly hopeless battle against the invading Insectoids. How will you (and Earth) manage to survive? What hidden technological, historical, and spiritual secrets will you discover as a result?

Why similar: Action 70.1%, Indie 29.9%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Simulation 44%, Action 29.9%, Adventure 26.1%

After losing contact with his explorer friend Virgi, our fearless alien hero Spidy heads to Earth in his spacecraft to find her. While entering the Earth’s atmosphere, his spacecraft suddenly fails and starts to break up, causing Spidy to crash-land on the strange planet, with his craft scattered across forests, throughout ponds and in...

Why similar: Action 37.8%, Adventure 31.8%, Indie 30.5%

You were attacked on the way back to the mission. When you wake up, you will find that the escape cabin has fallen onto a planet. You need to survive on the planet and find the truth of the matter.

Why similar: Adventure 54.9%, Indie 45.1%

You've been stranded on Empress Anna's remote planet of Drumgore during the Cross-Planetary War of 2021. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Violent 50.8%, Action 20.8%, Indie 17.2%, Adventure 11.1%

Are you prepared to defend the world against an alien invasion? Test your skills and reflexes in this highly immersive and intense game - Drone Hunter VR. You will be put through a series of tests to prove you are worthy to defend our planet using the top secret DH125, a hybrid alien/US weapon. Will you be the chosen one?

Why similar: Simulation 37.1%, Action 24%, Adventure 21%, Indie 17.9%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Simulation 37.1%, Action 23.8%, Adventure 22.6%, Indie 16.6%

The story takes place on Halloween night, when people are wearing masks to revel, the mysterious virus spreads quietly, and the virus engulfed the world instantly. The world is no longer safe. You need to build a camp and survive. Good luck. . .

Why similar: Simulation 37%, Action 23.6%, Adventure 21.2%, Indie 18.2%

In V1RUZ, you see yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic in the USA. Learn how to craft weapons, tools and fight against the living and the dead to survive in this cruel, rotting world.

Why similar: Simulation 32.8%, Action 21.1%, Adventure 18.8%, Indie 16%, Violent 11.4%

You have crash-landed into a mini-verse of tiny planets. Welcome to Minicology! Embark on an interstellar survival sandbox journey. Use your crafting, combat, and automation skills to survive the many challenges this mini-verse throws at you.

Why similar: Simulation 73.9%, Adventure 26.1%

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Simulation 37.7%, Adventure 27%, Action 22.9%, Indie 12.4%

Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Why similar: Adventure 40.1%, Action 31.4%, Indie 28.5%

Travel through space. Attend the planets. Gather resources. Find artifacts.

Why similar: Action 37.1%, Simulation 29.6%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 15.9%

Howdy, stranger! Hide from a vigilant UFO, find weapon components, and protect the farm from malevolent extraterrestrial threats.

Why similar: Action 48.7%, Adventure 43.2%, Indie 8.1%

Stay alive fighting with the bandits and zombies. Hunt animals, build houses.

Why similar: Violent 27.3%, Simulation 27.2%, Action 17%, Adventure 15.4%, Indie 13.1%

Fight giant War of the Worlds -style aliens invading Finland during a Winter in the 90's. Build an army of local townspeople in this chaotic semi-autobattler roguelike. Navigate through different biomes to obliterate the aliens from cosmic dimensions.

Why similar: Action 100%

The Last Journey is an ultimate post-nuclear exploration game in which you travel the universe to find a new planet suitable for mankind to live on after the Earth was destroyed in a nuclear war.

Why similar: Simulation 48%, Adventure 28.1%, Indie 23.9%

JCB Pioneer: Mars drops you onto the surface of The Red Planet. Your mission: To survive and prepare Mars for future human colonization.

Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Action 23.4%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 17.6%

Our world is in danger! Grab your gun and stop these uninvited guests!

Why similar: Action 38.6%, Adventure 30.9%, Indie 30.5%

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Adventure 37.2%, Simulation 34%, Indie 18.4%, Action 10.4%

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: Action 50%, Adventure 50%

Survival Is Not Enough is an open world first person zombie survival game. You wake up in a mysterious island and find out that you're infected. To survive you need to: build a shelter; protect yourself from dangers of this island; kill animals for food; kill zombies for underblood to cure yourself from zombie virus; The better you're...

Why similar: Action 59%, Adventure 41%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Simulation 41.8%, Adventure 29.6%, Action 28.6%

Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...

Why similar: Action 44.2%, Indie 30.2%, Adventure 25.6%

Protagonist of the game is investigating the disappearance of people. The investigation leads him into an old house, and then it becomes a party to the strange and dangerous events.

Why similar: Action 38.1%, Adventure 33.3%, Indie 28.6%