Games Like Zafehouse: Diaries

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: Zombies 40.9%, Survival 17.8%, Turn-Based 16%, RPG 9%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest experience to Zafehouse, focusing heavily on managing a group of survivors with conflicting personalities in a turn-based, zombie-filled world.

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: Zombies 32.2%, Turn-Based 23%, Survival 16.5%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel refines the original's mechanics, offering more depth in its procedural generation and survivor interaction systems.

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: Zombies 33.3%, Turn-Based 13.8%, Survival 13.2%, RPG 11.1%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines turn-based combat with party management and difficult survival choices, mirroring the core loop of the seed game.

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: Survival 29.9%, Turn-Based 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, RPG 9.9%, Strategy 8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a brutal, turn-based survival experience where every decision and resource matters in a hostile post-apocalyptic landscape.

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: Zombies 31.8%, Survival 18%, Strategy 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the strategic management of a survivor colony, requiring players to balance resources and territory control.

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 53.2%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Indie 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the desperate, management-heavy atmosphere of survival where the psychological well-being of your group is just as important as physical resources.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 43.6%, Survival 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, Simulation 5.9%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: While real-time, it offers the most comprehensive simulation of zombie survival, requiring meticulous planning and management of survivor needs.

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 33.5%, Survival 22.6%, Strategy 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that focuses on small-group survival and difficult choices while traveling through a post-apocalyptic world.

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Zombies 52.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 9.2%, Indie 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled survival game that emphasizes resource management and the constant threat of death while traveling across a zombie-ridden country.

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: Zombies 34.7%, Survival 19.4%, Turn-Based 13%, Strategy 9.1%, RPG 8%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelike that focuses on scavenging and survival in a city, requiring careful planning to avoid the undead.

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 41.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Strategy 14.8%, RPG 8.5%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A base-management survival game that forces you to make tough moral choices while keeping your family alive in a bunker.

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 23.1%, Survival 23.1%, Strategy 16.4%, RPG 15.2%, Simulation 14.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep party management and survival mechanics where maintaining relationships and morale is essential to your group's success.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 61.2%, Survival 21.6%, RPG 8.6%, Indie 5.1%, Difficult 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at procedural storytelling and managing a quirky, ever-changing party of survivors during a zombie apocalypse.

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: Zombies 29.4%, Turn-Based 22.9%, Survival 15.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival RPG that focuses on faction management and tactical combat in a post-apocalyptic urban setting.

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: Zombies 33.8%, Turn-Based 20.5%, Survival 14.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, turn-based game that focuses on the difficulty of keeping a group of survivors alive through challenging combat scenarios.

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: Zombies 40.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 14.9%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to manage a survivor settlement in real-world locations, focusing on base building and defense against zombie hordes.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 51.2%, Survival 26.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, RPG 5.1%, Simulation 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes community management and the constant pressure of maintaining a safe base in a world overrun by zombies.

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: Zombies 36.3%, Turn-Based 18.4%, Survival 12.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It expands on the original's party-based combat and survival mechanics with more complex faction interactions.

Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Why similar: Turn-Based 40.3%, RPG 25.1%, Strategy 16.8%, Difficult 10.8%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though set in a fantasy world, its focus on stress management and the psychological toll of adventuring on a party is a perfect thematic match.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Survival 38.4%, Strategy 22.1%, Simulation 20.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for procedural storytelling and colony management, where survivor personality traits often lead to dramatic, emergent events.

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

Why similar: Zombies 40.4%, Survival 21.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, RPG 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused roguelite that emphasizes the difficult journey and resource management of a group of survivors.

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 34.8%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 15.1%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines base building with tactical survival, requiring you to manage a group of survivors against supernatural threats.

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: Zombies 40.8%, Survival 22.2%, Strategy 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, RPG 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A party-based RPG that uses turn-based combat and perma-death to heighten the stakes of your survival journey.

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: Zombies 23.5%, Survival 18.7%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 13.3%, RPG 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy survival game that focuses on trading and navigating a dangerous post-apocalyptic world.

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: Zombies 57.1%, Strategy 16.3%, RPG 13.6%, Difficult 8%, Indie 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that focuses on the brutal, unforgiving nature of surviving a zombie outbreak with a small group.

In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

Why similar: Survival 34.8%, RPG 21.3%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 16.1%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling survival game that focuses on the long, arduous journey of a refugee trying to survive in a war-torn land.

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: Zombies 41.8%, Survival 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, RPG 12.7%, Sandbox 7.9%

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

You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.

Why similar: Zombies 33.5%, Survival 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A story-driven survival game that requires careful planning and resource management to escape a zombie-infested city.

Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?

Why similar: Zombies 52.7%, RPG 34.2%, Indie 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based RPG that focuses heavily on character development, group dynamics, and the consequences of your choices in a zombie outbreak.

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 51.1%, Survival 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%, RPG 6.2%, Simulation 5.2%

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: Zombies 72.6%, Post-apocalyptic 27.4%

"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 43.2%, Survival 18.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 9.7%, RPG 7.2%

A frozen apocalypse. Three unique survivors join you. Lead them through the icy wasteland! Zombie whispers, blizzards blur morality... Hope or doom? The fateful die burns in your grip.

Why similar: Zombies 52%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Strategy 15%, RPG 12.3%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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: Zombies 47.2%, Strategy 17.9%, Survival 14.6%, Indie 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8%

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

Why similar: Strategy 35.9%, RPG 27.2%, Simulation 26.4%, Indie 10.5%

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

Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!

Why similar: Turn-Based 25.6%, Zombies 18.4%, Survival 17.4%, Strategy 13.9%, RPG 10.7%

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 37%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 15.4%, RPG 15.3%, Survival 12.5%

Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!

Why similar: Zombies 42%, Simulation 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, RPG 13.9%, Survival 10.4%

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 47.7%, Strategy 19.7%, Survival 19.2%, Indie 7%, Post-apocalyptic 5.5%

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 56.9%, Simulation 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Why similar: Zombies 36.9%, Survival 23.4%, Strategy 9.1%, RPG 9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%

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: Zombies 41.5%, Survival 22.8%, RPG 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Strategy 7.5%

The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is a zombie-apocalypse hoarding survival sim. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.

Why similar: Zombies 34%, Survival 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 12.3%

Can you survive a zombie apocalypse? Day Zero is a text-based survival game where choices determine fate and ethical and moral decisions matter. Every choice shapes the story. Are you ready to test your limits in a zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Zombies 44%, Survival 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Simulation 13%

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: Zombies 37.9%, Survival 23.7%, Strategy 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Simulation 6.5%

You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 33.6%, Survival 18.6%, Simulation 15.4%, RPG 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Survival 30.7%, Zombies 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Simulation 9.7%, RPG 7.9%

From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...

Why similar: Zombies 43.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, RPG 14%, Survival 7.8%

A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.

Why similar: Zombies 36.7%, Survival 19.8%, Simulation 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, RPG 13%

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: Strategy 27.3%, Survival 19%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Zombies 13.6%, Simulation 13.3%

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: Zombies 36.2%, Survival 19.4%, Strategy 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, RPG 12.7%

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: Survival 29.7%, Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Sandbox 8%

Reborn seven days before the apocalypse. Make a fortune, hoard supplies, build the ultimate RV, and live comfortably while the world falls apart. A story-rich survival management game with cards, farming, crafting and roguelite progression.

Why similar: Zombies 34.2%, Survival 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, RPG 12.3%, Simulation 10.8%

Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.

Why similar: Survival 33.3%, Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 21.6%, RPG 17.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Survival 39.1%, Strategy 24.7%, Simulation 24.7%, Difficult 8.2%, Singleplayer 3.3%

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: Zombies 38.5%, Survival 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Simulation 10.9%, RPG 8.9%

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: Survival 26.8%, Strategy 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Simulation 22.1%, Difficult 1.7%

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.7%, Simulation 28.4%, Strategy 21.1%, Indie 11.3%, Difficult 7.8%

Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.

Why similar: Turn-Based 33%, Strategy 24.4%, RPG 20.1%, Indie 9.8%, Difficult 7.2%