Games Like Z Dawn

The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Turn-Based 24.5%, Zombies 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Turn-Based Combat 12.3%, Survival 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar blend of turn-based combat, party management, and survival mechanics in a zombie-infested 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: Turn-Based 24.3%, Zombies 20.7%, Survival 18.6%, RPG 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a deep focus on base management and turn-based tactical combat during a zombie apocalypse.

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: Turn-Based 17.3%, Zombies 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.3%, Survival 11.3%, RPG 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic turn-based survival experience with a strong emphasis on crafting and survivor management.

Old school TBS, post-apoc survival and RPG. Recruit deranged locals in your militia, ally local factions and fight those you hate. Haul loot back and rebuild your shelter, doctor your wounds, and fix your guns. People need feeding, booze needs brewing and there is an end of the world to enjoy.

Why similar: Turn-Based 20.9%, Turn-Based Combat 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines turn-based tactical combat with base building and faction politics in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%, Survival 15.1%, Turn-Based 14.9%, Zombies 13.1%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelike that captures the desperate feeling of scavenging for resources and managing hunger and health.

Zafehouse Diaries 2 is a game of survival, exploration and relationships. Every hour, designate tasks for your handful of characters - each with their own skills, motivations and prejudices - and try to outlast the zombie apocalypse.

Why similar: Turn-Based 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.9%, Survival 11.9%, Zombies 11.3%, Crafting 11%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the strategic management of survivors and base defense through a unique turn-based interface.

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.

Why similar: Turn-Based 25%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.8%, Zombies 13.7%, Survival 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based game that focuses on the difficulty of managing limited resources and positioning during zombie encounters.

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: Turn-Based 30.1%, Survival 20.6%, Turn-Based Combat 14.9%, RPG 13.9%, Strategy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a different era, its core loop of party management, survival, and turn-based combat is highly comparable to Z Dawn.

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: Turn-Based 23%, Survival 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Hex Grid 13.3% ★, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty, turn-based survival game that excels at capturing the feeling of scavenging and crafting in a dangerous wasteland.

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: Post-apocalyptic 25.3%, Strategy 20.9%, Survival 18.2%, Building 12%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused game that emphasizes base construction and resource management to survive a post-apocalyptic collapse.

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 28.5%, Post-apocalyptic 27.1%, Crafting 16.5%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building a base and managing survivors while defending against demonic threats in a post-apocalyptic world.

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: 4X 23.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 12.7%, Zombies 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a strategic, turn-based approach to reclaiming a city from zombies through base building and survivor recruitment.

Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.

Why similar: Hex Grid 29.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Loot 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 11%

Why You'll Like It: It combines deckbuilding and RPG elements with a heavy focus on survival and crafting in a zombie-plagued world.

"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: Zombies 31.6%, Survival 28%, Strategy 19.5%, RPG 11.1%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends strategy and survival, tasking you with leading a group of survivors through a zombie-filled world.

Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors from the doomed city of Riga towards a ferry sailing across the North Sea. Scavenge for supplies, battle the undead, decide the fate of your team. What are you willing to sacrifice in order to survive?

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Zombies 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Turn-Based Combat 16.5%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based party RPG that focuses on survival and perma-death mechanics within a zombie-ridden city.

DEAD IN BERMUDA is a survival management game with RPG and adventure elements. Lead a team of 8 survivors from a plane crash. Assign them to tasks, gain experience, develop your survival skills, research and craft new items, explore the island and solve its mysteries.

Why similar: Survival 36.5%, Strategy 16.1%, RPG 14.4%, Turn-Based 14.1%, Crafting 13%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same survival-management DNA as Z Dawn, requiring you to keep a group of survivors alive through careful resource allocation.

Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.

Why similar: Turn-Based 38%, Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, Survival 16.9%, Strategy 14%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based game that forces you to make difficult survival decisions while traveling through a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Thea: The Awakening is a turn-based strategic survival game inspired by the Slavic mythology and set in a procedural dark fantasy world infused with non-linear story and unique combat system.

Why similar: Turn-Based 26.5%, Hex Grid 14.5% ★, 4X 12.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends turn-based strategy with survival and RPG elements, requiring careful management of your tribe's resources.

Dead Grid is a turn-based strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, infused with an 80s retro vibe. Lead a squad of elite mercenaries, fight relentless hordes, discover survivors, and build up your camp with hundreds of scavenged upgrades.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 15.8%, Loot 14.8%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Zombies 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based RPG that focuses on loot, character progression, and combat against zombie hordes.

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 32.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26.4%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic disaster management game where you must keep your family alive in a bunker through scavenging and crafting.

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 17.3%, Zombies 15.3%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and base building in a realistic zombie apocalypse.

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 26.7%, Survival 22%, Strategy 18.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on controlling a squad of survivors in a top-down, strategy-oriented zombie survival experience.

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 21.3%, RPG 18.5%, Strategy 15.3%, Survival 14.9%, Roguelite 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a mix of strategy and simulation, tasking you with managing a group of survivors in a zombie apocalypse.

Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.

Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Roguelite 19.8%, Zombies 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, RPG 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror roguelite that emphasizes the difficulty of managing a party and resources while on the move.

Embark on an enchanting journey to Paths & Danger, a masterfully crafted procedural turn-based RPG that seamlessly blends simplicity with tactical brilliance. Get ready to be captivated as you assemble a formidable fellowship, where the art of teamwork takes center stage.

Why similar: Turn-Based 18.6%, Hex Grid 18.2% ★, 4X 13.9% ★, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 12%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a turn-based tactical experience with a focus on party management and combat in a dark, dangerous world.

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.5%, Zombies 25.3%, RPG 16.2%, 2D 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, turn-based survival simulation that offers unparalleled complexity in crafting, scavenging, and world interaction.

Age of Undead is a multi-genre game (turn-based, RTS, FPS) that allows you to face the frightful Zombie Apocalypse with 3 unique factions: the Army, the Infected, and the Survivors. Make strategic choices in the Campaign, then go into battle and fight to survive!

Why similar: Hex Grid 36.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Zombies 13.4%, Strategy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a strategic look at zombie survival with a focus on base management and tactical decision-making.

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: Survival 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Zombies 19.4%, Building 16.4%, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder and survival game that tasks you with rebuilding society after a post-apocalyptic event.

This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 33.7%, Survival 32.3%, Building 15.5%, RPG 11.7%, Atmospheric 6.7%

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: Survival 22.9%, Zombies 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Building 14.8%, RPG 12.5%

Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.

Why similar: Strategy 43.9%, RPG 42.5%, Indie 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that focuses on base building and managing a group of survivors in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment.

Dive deep into this Lovecraft-inspired RTS survival. Assemble your team using different classes, skills, and weaponry. It's up to your squad to survive the onslaught of nightmares that are surely coming your way. Will you find the source of the darkness?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.2%, Survival 24.3%, Zombies 22.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Atmospheric 10%

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: Turn-Based 23.7%, Strategy RPG 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.6%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, Roguelite 9%

Burned Land is a 4x game in which you will take control of a nascent human race and try to avoid its extinction. Build, explore, conquer until you are worthy of gods. Then confront their anger.

Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Hex Grid 19.8% ★, Turn-Based 17.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Survival 10.2%

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...

Why similar: Turn-Based 25.1%, Zombies 18.2%, Survival 17.4%, Strategy 14.5%, RPG 10.7%

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: Post-apocalyptic 33.7%, Zombies 26.2%, Survival 20.4%, Strategy 15.6%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Guide a group of survivors trying to strive in this alien yet familiar environment. Fight against mutated creatures and use their parts to craft and upgrade your weapons.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Turn-Based Combat 18%, Strategy 13.2%, RPG 12.9%

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...

Why similar: Strategy RPG 19.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.2%, Building 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Crafting 12.4%

In a near future, the world has been devastated by a virus turning humanity into zombies. You are Iron Corps, the last defense of civilization traveling the world to find resources, help people and find answers. Will you survive long enough?

Why similar: Zombies 42.5%, Strategy 39.9%, Indie 10.7%, Action 6.9%

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: Zombies 22.6%, Survival 21.9%, Building 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Strategy 15.1%

Get ready to experience the thrills and chills of The Dead Await: Prologue, a free and fully functional demo! Build your deck and try to survive in this deck-building survival RPG set during a zombie apocalypse.

Why similar: Crafting 15.3%, Loot 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Zombies 12.8%, Survival 12.7%

Explore a flooded world and save humanity from a terrible threat in this turn based, tactical RPG with roguelike elements

Why similar: Turn-Based 27%, Roguelite 13.1%, Turn-Based Combat 11.5%, Strategy RPG 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%

Using a deck of cards and turn based tactics, delve through a procedurally generated gauntlet of areas filled with dangerous beasts and hostile terrain. If you survive, scavenge what you can and make camp, where you can craft cards and upgrades to meet the growing dangers to come.

Why similar: Hex Grid 34.4% ★, Survival 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.5%, Crafting 13%, Roguelite 12.7%

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: Post-apocalyptic 23.4%, Zombies 22.2%, Survival 19%, Roguelite 16.5%, Strategy 11.6%

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.

Why similar: Roguelite 25.3%, Zombies 22.5%, Survival 14.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%

Guide a group of unprepared strangers through the apocalypse, in Dead Season, a turn-based tactics adventure, created by the one-man studio Snail Bite. Plan carefully to outlast swarming zombie hordes, but remember: noise attracts danger. Can you escape the outbreak's deadly grip?

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 26.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 24.7%, Zombies 21.1%, RPG 10.8%, Strategy 10.1%

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: Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Survival 20.7%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Hex Grid 10.9% ★

Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.

Why similar: Hex Grid 35.2% ★, Turn-Based 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Turn-Based Combat 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%

Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.

Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 26.1%, Survival 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.4%, RPG 15.5%, Atmospheric 6.8%

An Urban Survival RPG! Crafting, Exploring and Defending in a desolate metropolis haunted by the mysterious dreamers. Lead a team of 4 survivors through this urban desert of skyscrapers and high-rises, where the streets are crowded with the mutated victims of a strange disease.

Why similar: Crafting 18.7%, Survival 18.1%, Building 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Zombies 10.1%

The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 21.5%, Turn-Based Combat 20.5%, Survival 18%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Crafting 14.3%

Survive the Zombies War in this RPG game of Apocalypse and Survival

Why similar: 4X 40.8% ★, Strategy 15.6%, RPG 13.3%, Zombies 12.2%, Survival 11.8%

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: Zombies 33.4%, Strategy 27.1%, Roguelite 22.8%, Stylized 11.8%, Indie 4.9%

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: Survival 27.3%, Zombies 21.1%, Building 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Strategy 16%

A tactical, turn-based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic world of eternal winter. As the titular False Prophet, recruit and lead a group of survivors to a promised land. Loot, craft, and make the best of what you find.

Why similar: Turn-Based 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Strategy RPG 12.3%, Turn-Based Combat 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%

How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.

Why similar: Hex Grid 27.8% ★, Turn-Based Combat 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 12.2%

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: Post-apocalyptic 35.5%, Survival 28.2%, Strategy 21.3%, Building 12.9%, Atmospheric 2%

Welcome to Dreadlands! A perilous landscape brimming with potential in the form of Glow. Command one of 3 unique factions in this turn-based tactical RPG and play through their campaigns, be it solo or Co-Op, or battle it out in PvP. So far no one has tamed the Dreadlands. Will you be the first?

Why similar: Turn-Based 24.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Survival 10.6%

Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Build your team, traverse varied hostile environments, face countless dangers, and gain knowledge that will help you find and resurrect the Mother Tree Umama.

Why similar: Hex Grid 21.9% ★, Turn-Based 14.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14%, Survival 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%

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 43%, Crafting 30.2%, Strategy 19.4%, Building 7.4%