Games like Zombie Cure Lab
by Thera Bytes GmbH
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
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-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · Resource Management
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
$4.99Operation: Outbreak Idle
Sep 4 · DeadLogics
Both: Tower Defense · Zombies
Command automated military defenses, upgrade your fortress, and survive massive zombie waves in this action-packed idle defense game. Build powerful defenses, unlock upgrades, and hold the line against endless undead hordes.
Tower DefenseZombiesStrategySingleplayerCasualSurvivalShoot 'Em UpIncrementalShooter3D
-10%$4.49Gridmax
3 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Base Building · Colony Sim · Sandbox
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Base BuildingSurvivalManagementColony SimBuildingCraftingSandboxAutomationSimulation2D
-15%$16.99Emberward
4 days ago · Refic Games
Both: Tower Defense · Base Building
Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!
Tower DefenseFalling BlocksStrategyRogueliteDeckbuildingBase Building3DIndieSingleplayerRoguelike👍 3,872
$24.99Anymaker
3 days ago · Geometa
Both: Sandbox
Embark on your creative journey of vehicle design, as you create and operate vehicles to survive this dangerous open world. Anymaker is a detailed and technical vehicle builder and survival game. Design your chassis, build your engine, connect components, and travel into the unknown.
Early AccessSandboxSimulationOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingFirst-PersonRealisticCo-opDriving👍 115
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Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Sandbox · Resource Management
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
-30%$10.49Craftomation 101: Programming & Craft
7 days ago · Luden.io
Both: Sandbox · Base Building
Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.
EducationProgrammingAutomationSandboxPuzzleCraftingRobotsBase BuildingStrategy2D👍 643
-40%$14.99CONVRGENCE
4 days ago · Monkey-With-a-Bomb
Both: Post-apocalyptic
CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.
VRAtmosphericPost-apocalypticShooterExtraction ShooterLooter ShooterLootSurvival HorrorSurvivalHorror👍 1,588
$29.99Active Matter
6 days ago · Matter Team
Join dangerous raids for loot or intense PvP battles in this new realistic military shooter set in a fractured multiverse. Fight in the quantum unstable zones over control of the active matter – the substance that bends time and space.
FPSHorrorExtraction ShooterPvEPvPAtmosphericCo-opOnline Co-OpMultiplayerAction👍 802
-25%$11.24There Is mORE
4 days ago · ByteBeyond
Both: Tower Defense · Base Building
Mine by day, defend by night. Master 25+ spells, sell rare ores for gear upgrades, and grow stronger each run in this procedurally generated roguelite tower defense. Enjoy full controller and Steam Deck support.
RogueliteTower DefenseAction RoguelikeMiningSurvivalProcedural GenerationExplorationMagicBase Building2D
-10%$13.49Nightwater
3 days ago · Studio Ashty
Both: Resource Management · Sandbox
Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.
Open WorldAutomationResource ManagementIncrementalIdlerCraftingSandboxRelaxingSimulationStrategy
$0.99Neighbor Fight
4 days ago · CHICKEN SODA GAMES
Both: Resource Management
Multiplayer first person strategy game with lots of destruction. Destroy the house of your neighbor(s) by throwing furniture and build a business by selling weed! Or team up with your neighbor(s) to survive the revolution of the no longer enslaved Oonky civilization.
First-PersonPvPDestructionResource ManagementStrategyPhysicsAction3DMultiplayerColorful
$5.00GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab
Aug 23 · GLITCHED MATRIX
Both: Colony Sim · Sandbox
Play a major role in an evolving simulation of simulations. Explore endless 2D and 3D dimensions spanning nearly every game genre, with 50+ experimental prototypes and stories whose worlds, systems, discoveries, and ideas can become part of the greater experience.
Action RoguelikeExplorationFPSCreature CollectorDungeon CrawlerColony SimSandboxUtilitiesEducationArcade
-20%$7.19Save Mom
3 days ago · Amigos Entertainment
Both: Post-apocalyptic · Base Building
A co-op action game about protecting your mom in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore ruined cities, gather resources, upgrade your motorhome, build defenses, and battle enemies. Your mission: Get Mom to safety. Her survival is in your hands!
ActionCo-opCartoonyTop-Down ShooterPvEFunnyShooter3DPost-apocalypticBase Building
-10%$8.09No Emergency: Pestilence
3 days ago · 20 July
Both: Outbreak Sim
No Emergency: Pestilence plunges players into the epicenter of a mysterious epidemic, where every arriving patient could be carrying a mutating pathogen, and a single mistake in a prescription turns the cure into poison.
SimulationRoguelikeMedical SimOutbreak SimTime Management3DFirst-PersonAtmosphericManagementCrafting
$8.99Powdertron
6 days ago · SalE
Both: Sandbox · Science
A physics sandbox built on real chemistry. Drop 674 materials into a falling-sand world and watch them react, burn, freeze and explode. Then wire circuits, test wings in a wind tunnel, or split light through lenses — alone or with friends online.
SandboxSimulationBuildingSciencePhysicsTutorial2DCasualRelaxingColorful
-10%$5.39UMAN
2 days ago · Knear Dev
Both: Post-apocalyptic
Welcome to UMAN - Become a cog in the machine - Work, sleep and don't ask questions - Collect your trash, hit your quota, consume, upgrade and meet your coworkers. But whatever you do... don't look into the eyes.
SimulationShooterIncremental3DFirst-PersonAtmosphericDarkDystopian Post-apocalypticSurreal
