- #1 Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut
97% matchVery Positive88% of 1,819 reviews2021
Dev: Rotorist Workshop
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.5%, Survival 24.9%, Survival Horror 14%, Top-Down 9.8%, Shooter 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival RPG captures the exact S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-inspired atmosphere and exploration loop found in the seed game.
- #2 Quasimorph
96% matchVery Positive83% of 6,125 reviews2023
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 85.8% ★, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Strategy 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal, turn-based extraction roguelike that shares the intense inventory management and procedural scavenging mechanics.
- #3 The Last Stand: Aftermath
96% matchVery Positive81% of 6,613 reviews2021
Dev: Con Artist GamesPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.6%, Survival 29%, Shooter 12.1%, Top-Down 11.6%, Atmospheric 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down roguelite features similar post-apocalyptic survival and scavenging loops with a focus on persistent progression.
- #4 NEO Scavenger
95% matchVery Positive90% of 5,372 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Post-apocalyptic 40.8%, Survival 40.2%, Open World 9.2%, Strategy 4.6%, Indie 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that emphasizes the struggle of scavenging in a desolate wasteland with deep, unforgiving mechanics.
- #5 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
94% matchMostly Positive80% of 132,906 reviews2024
Dev: GSC Game WorldPub: GSC Game World (worldwide)
Windows
Median: 29.4 hrsMean: 55.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Discover the vast Chornobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chornobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.9%, Survival 22.8%, Open World 20.6%, Shooter 10.4%, Atmospheric 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: The primary thematic inspiration for the seed game, offering the ultimate immersive post-apocalyptic survival experience.
- #6 Marauders
94% matchMixed68% of 21,396 reviews2022
Dev: Small Impact Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 54.2% ★, Looter Shooter 24.5% ★, Loot 8.4%, Open World 5.1%, Shooter 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty, tactical extraction shooter that mirrors the high-stakes looting and gear-focused gameplay of the seed game.
- #7 Into the Radius VR
93% matchVery Positive94% of 11,206 reviews2020
Dev: CM IMMERSIVE
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Survival 23.4%, Open World 14.4%, Shooter 10.4%, Survival Horror 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: While in VR, it perfectly captures the tense, atmospheric extraction survival experience that inspired the setting of the seed game.
- #8 Project Zomboid
92% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Survival 40.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Open World 20.1%, Survival Horror 9.1%, Simulation 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for top-down survival, offering a level of depth in scavenging and base management that appeals to fans of the genre.
- #9 UnderRail
91% matchVery Positive86% of 7,097 reviews2015
Dev: Stygian Software
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 60.7%, Open World 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%, Atmospheric 5.9%, Indie 4%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging top-down RPG that features deep survival elements and tactical combat in a claustrophobic, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #10 Death Trash
91% matchVery Positive92% of 3,680 reviews2021
Dev: Crafting Legends
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Death Trash features a post-apocalyptic world where cosmic horrors long for humanity but meet punks with shotguns. It combines old-school role-playing, modern action gameplay and player freedom. Create your own character and explore a handcrafted world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 43.9%, Open World 18.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Exploration 10.6%, Atmospheric 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, post-apocalyptic RPG that shares the gritty, pixel-art aesthetic and exploration-heavy gameplay.
- #11 Chernobylite Complete Edition
90% matchVery Positive82% of 15,313 reviews2021
Dev: The Farm 51
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.9%, Survival 21.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival Horror 13%, Exploration 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival RPG set in the Exclusion Zone that combines base building with tense, mission-based exploration.
- #12 SurrounDead
89% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Survival 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Open World 15.9%, Loot 13.1%, Base Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that captures the feeling of scavenging for gear in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic environment.
- #13 Hunt: Showdown 1896
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 271,844 reviews2019
Dev: Crytek
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 179.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 68.8% ★, Open World 9.9%, Survival Horror 8.6%, Shooter 6.9%, Atmospheric 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A high-tension extraction shooter that prioritizes sound design, atmosphere, and the constant threat of losing your gear.
- #14 ZED ZONE
88% matchVery Positive80% of 3,558 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 28.6%, Survival 24%, Open World 16.3%, Top-Down 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on realistic mechanics and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world.
- #15 Darkwood
87% matchVery Positive95% of 24,197 reviews2017
Dev: Acid Wizard StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Why similar: Survival 27.4%, Survival Horror 21.9%, Open World 19.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival horror game that excels at creating an oppressive, tense atmosphere through limited vision and resource management.
- #16 Atomic Exile
86% matchVery Positive81% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Inferno Muse Interactive
Windows
Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 36.3% ★, Looter Shooter 15.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Survival 7.7%, Loot 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused extraction shooter that leans heavily into the post-apocalyptic aesthetic and looter-shooter mechanics.
- #17 SULFUR
86% matchVery Positive87% of 8,658 reviews2024
Dev: Perfect Random
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 88.8% ★, Shooter 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized, difficult extraction-lite shooter that focuses on gun customization and high-stakes combat encounters.
- #18 DYSMANTLE
85% matchVery Positive91% of 11,423 reviews2021
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 25.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Open World 16.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Loot 15%, Top-Down 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on scavenging and crafting while exploring a vast, post-apocalyptic world.
- #19 Kenshi
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 112,221 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 71.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Open World 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Base Building 14%, Strategy 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal, open-world survival sandbox where you must scavenge and fight to survive in a harsh, unforgiving wasteland.
- #20 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
82% matchVery Positive94% of 4,417 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Survival 30.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Open World 17%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Exploration 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, roguelike survival game that emphasizes inventory management and strategic decision-making.
- #21 Vigor
84% matchMixed46% of 7,746 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 34.8% ★, Looter Shooter 28.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Loot 8%, Shooter 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: An extraction-focused survival shooter that emphasizes looting and escaping before the environment or other players kill you.
- #22 ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
83% matchVery Positive85% of 10,478 reviews2018
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.7%, Survival 26.6%, Open World 13.1%, Exploration 9.2%, Strategy 7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic, top-down tactical RPG that focuses on survival and exploration in a desolate, irradiated world.
- #23 Blood Running
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 195 reviews2025
Dev: Dead Unicorn
Windows
Blood Running is a stylish extraction shooter where you'll enter the cyber-wasteland, fight off creatures and bandits, loot valuable gear, and venture into the remnants of a world in ruins. Are you willing to bleed to survive, Blood Runner?
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 38.3% ★, Looter Shooter 16.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Survival 7.2%, Loot 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk-themed extraction shooter that emphasizes survival and high-stakes looting in a hostile world.
- #24 Night Raider
81% matchVery Positive86% of 1,940 reviews2024
Dev: TSUKUYOMIC
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 29.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Shooter 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Top-Down 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that focuses on inventory management and gun customization in a pixel-art style.
- #25 Subterrain
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,393 reviews2016
Dev: Pixellore Inc
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Uncompromising Sci-Fi survival on Mars! Manage the entire colony single-handed! Craft, Research, Explore and Fight against evolving mutants. Vast open world and randomly generated levels to explore! Can you survive long enough to escape the horror?
Why similar: Survival 36.2%, Top-Down 19.3%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Open World 13.8%, Exploration 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game set in a sci-fi facility that requires careful resource management and constant vigilance.
- #26 Road to Vostok
77% matchVery Positive84% of 7,646 reviews2026
Dev: Road to Vostok Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 25.9% ★, Extraction Shooter 18.7% ★, Survival 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Loot 11.4%
- #27 Streets of Rogue
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 22,818 reviews2019
Dev: Matt DabrowskiPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 55%, Action 18.9%, Indie 13.6%, Adventure 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down, mission-based game that offers chaotic, emergent gameplay and deep character customization.
- #28 Stoneshard
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 34,341 reviews2020
Dev: Ink Stains GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 37.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
Why similar: Survival 44%, Pixel Graphics 22.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Open World 12.5%, Singleplayer 4%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, turn-based RPG that features punishing survival mechanics and a gritty, pixel-art aesthetic.
- #29 Escape From Duckov
77% matchVery Positive84% of 102,278 reviews2025
Dev: Team SodaPub: bilibili
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 46.8% ★, Looter Shooter 20.8% ★, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 6.7%, Shooter 5.4%
- #30 Last Group Out
79% matchVery Positive83% of 531 reviews2022
Dev: Woodland Development
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Team up, gear up, and make it out alive in this 2D co-op extraction shooter.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 42.5% ★, Looter Shooter 26.5% ★, Survival 9.3%, Shooter 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art action shooter that emphasizes the extraction loop and gear progression.
- #31 Rain World
78% matchVery Positive94% of 51,792 reviews2017
Dev: VideocultPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Open World 11.2%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A brutal, atmospheric survival game where you must navigate a dangerous ecosystem while managing your hunger and safety.
- #32 Deadline Escape
76% matchVery Positive88% of 315 reviews2026
Dev: DeadlineEscape
Windows
Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 33.6% ★, Looter Shooter 30.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Survival 13.2%, Shooter 2.5%
- #33 No Escape from Madness
78% matchMixed67% of 273 reviews2025
Dev: qiqin
Windows
No Escape from Madness is a thrilling shooting adventure game that blends Lovecraftian elements with extraction gameplay. You will guide the self-sacrificing infantry operators into the Sector where The Elder One is poised to descend.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 53.5% ★, Looter Shooter 11.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%, Survival 5.8%, Base Building 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: An extraction-based survival game that utilizes pixel-art graphics and base-building elements.
- #34 Deadside
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Survival 23.1%, Looter Shooter 17% ★, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 10.5%
- #35 Project Silverfish
73% matchVery Positive94% of 2,953 reviews2025
Dev: Siris Pendrake
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Survival Horror 19%, Open World 17.1%, Shooter 16.7%, Exploration 10.2%
- #36 Gray Zone Warfare
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 75,457 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 47.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 67% ★, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9.4%, Shooter 7.6%, Simulation 4%
- #37 DeadPoly
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 27.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Loot 16.4%, Survival 14.9%, Base Building 11%
- #38 The Forever Winter
74% matchMixed69% of 23,435 reviews2024
Dev: Fun Dog Studios
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The Forever Winter is a tactical shooter where you and your squad must loot the dead to survive under the shadow of terrifying and gargantuan war machines locked in a never-ending conflict. Millions of deaths later the war continues with our latest update!
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 56.2% ★, Looter Shooter 24% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Shooter 4.7%, Action 1.2%
- #39 Lumencraft
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,273 reviews2023
Dev: 2Dynamic GamesPub: Star Drifters
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Survival 25.3%, Base Building 23.1%, Shooter 14.4%, Exploration 11.6%, Strategy 8.1%
- #40 Intravenous 2
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,458 reviews2024
Dev: Explosive Squat GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Intravenous 2 is the ultimate blend of tactical gameplay and immersive storytelling. Will you embrace the shadows or confront your foes head-on? The choice is yours. Experience a new era of tactical stealth action. Save lives. Uncover secrets. Take vengeance.
Why similar: Shooter 35.2%, Top-Down 25.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Action 9.3%, Simulation 8.6%
- #41 Incursion Red River
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 8,527 reviews2024
Dev: Games Of Tomorrow GmbH
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
IRR is a tactical PvE Co-Op extract shooter set in a de-stabilized and immersive modern-day Vietnam. As a PMC for a mysterious organization, deal with 3 factions that stand to gain from the chaos. Engage in ruthless combat, plan your deployment, and explore the world as your journey unfolds.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 66.6% ★, Looter Shooter 23.1% ★, Shooter 6.7%, Action 2.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #42 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
71% matchVery Positive87% of 4,265 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Post-apocalyptic 29.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 15.6%, Exploration 7.2%
- #43 MISERY
70% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Survival 19.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Open World 11.9%
- #44 Urge
73% matchVery Positive90% of 498 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 20.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival Horror 10.9%
- #45 No Man's Home
69% matchVery Positive87% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: radrunner
Windows
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.
Why similar: Survival 27.7%, Post-apocalyptic 27.4%, Shooter 15.7%, Open World 14.4%, Atmospheric 7.7%
- #46 We Who Are About To Die
70% matchVery Positive88% of 8,249 reviews2022
Dev: Jordy Lakiere
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!
Why similar: Strategy 33.4%, Simulation 32.7%, Action 22%, Singleplayer 11.9%
- #47 iZolated
71% matchMixed70% of 119 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
- #48 HOLE
67% matchVery Positive94% of 3,551 reviews2024
Dev: NEGAFISH
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Casual & Hard FPS. Be careful with jam.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 84.9% ★, Shooter 5.4%, Atmospheric 3.8%, Action 2.3%, Indie 2.1%
- #49 Necesse
66% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Open World 20.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Exploration 6.2%
- #50 Dustland Delivery
67% matchVery Positive88% of 1,224 reviews2024
Dev: Neutron Star StudioPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: Survival 28.1%, Post-apocalyptic 27.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 8.4%
- #51 Sheltered
70% matchVery Positive82% of 6,241 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 29.7%, Post-apocalyptic 28.6%, Base Building 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Open World 4.9%
- #52 Deadly Days: Roadtrip
66% matchVery Positive88% of 2,687 reviews2025
Dev: PixelsplitPub: Sidekick Publishing
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Loot, shoot, and mow down zombie hordes in this bullet heaven fever dream. Embark on a deadly roadtrip, fuel your bus, decide when to extract – and get that sweet inventory management kick when that new slot in your backpack fits just right.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 44.3% ★, Loot 24.8%, Top-Down 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Action 3.9%
- #53 Hell is Others
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,158 reviews2022
Dev: Strelka GamesPub: A List Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Hell is Others is an extraction top-down shooter combining roguelike elements. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt, and loot in a place where blood is currency.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 54.6% ★, Survival 14%, Top-Down 9.2%, Shooter 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
- #54 Witchfire
65% matchVery Positive92% of 14,597 reviews2024
Dev: The Astronauts
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Witchfire is a first-person dark fantasy RPG shooter in which you play as a wicked sinner turned witch hunter on his final mission to reach salvation.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 75.9% ★, Loot 9.9%, Shooter 8.4%, Exploration 3.7%, Action 1.3%
- #55 Ostranauts
69% matchVery Positive80% of 2,556 reviews2020
Dev: Blue Bottle GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
Why similar: Survival 31.9%, Open World 21.8%, Top-Down 19.4%, Exploration 18.1%, Simulation 8.7%
- #56 Escape from Tarkov
66% matchMixed48% of 51,794 reviews2025
Dev: Battlestate Games
Windows
Median: 38.0 hrsMean: 167.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
Why similar: Extraction Shooter 49.2% ★, Looter Shooter 22.4% ★, Survival 9.9%, Survival Horror 7.7%, Shooter 6%
- #57 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
68% matchMixed60% of 348 reviews2024
Dev: Bazura GamesPub: Dreland Enterprises
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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: Post-apocalyptic 21%, Looter Shooter 19.3% ★, Survival 13.7%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Shooter 8.5%