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by Hamsters Gaming
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
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$29.99Surviving the Aftermath
Nov 16 · Iceflake Studios
Both: Post-apocalyptic · City Builder · Survival
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.
StrategySimulationPost-apocalypticCity BuilderSurvivalColony SimBase BuildingBuildingSingleplayerManagement👍 3,145
-75%$5.37Settlement Survival
Oct 24 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
City BuilderBuildingColony SimSurvivalManagementSimulationSandboxExplorationStrategyResource Management👍 7,708
$19.99Surviving the Abyss
Nov 5 · Rocket Flair Studios
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Management
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
City BuilderColony SimExplorationUnderwaterBuildingManagementBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultEconomy👍 1,045
$24.99Dawn of Man
Mar 1 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationHistoricalSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomy👍 17,093
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · Management
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
-90%$1.99Floodland
Nov 15 · Vile Monarch
Both: Post-apocalyptic · Colony Sim · Survival
A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?
StrategyPost-apocalypticColony SimSurvivalCity BuilderExplorationResource ManagementChoices MatterPolitical SimCrafting👍 922
-80%$2.79Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13 · Subtle Games
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
City BuilderColony SimBuildingSurvivalSandboxBase BuildingManagementEconomyNatureStrategy👍 257
$19.99Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
May 3 · Suncrash
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · Post-apocalyptic
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Colony SimSurvivalBase BuildingPost-apocalypticStrategySimulationSandboxCraftingResource ManagementOpen World👍 2,107
-75%$4.99The Last Haven
Feb 17 · Thunder Devs.
Both: Post-apocalyptic · Survival · City Builder
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.
StrategyBase BuildingIndiePost-apocalypticSimulationSurvivalCity BuilderResource ManagementBuildingRTS👍 1,445
$19.99Sheltered 2
Sep 21 · Unicube
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic · Colony Sim
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.
SurvivalResource ManagementPost-apocalypticStrategyColony SimBase BuildingManagementBuildingCharacter CustomizationSingleplayer👍 2,016
$24.99Endzone - A World Apart
Mar 18 · Gentlymad Studios
Both: City Builder · Survival · Post-apocalyptic
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
City BuilderSurvivalStrategyPost-apocalypticSimulationBase BuildingIndieColony SimBuildingSandbox👍 8,315
$14.99Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
May 29 · Northway Games, Sarah Northway
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · Post-apocalyptic
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.
Colony SimSurvival4XStrategyPost-apocalypticRPGCity BuilderZombiesChoices MatterTurn-Based Strategy👍 1,486
$29.99The Wandering Village
Jul 17 · Stray Fawn Studio
Both: City Builder · Management · Post-apocalyptic
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
City BuilderManagementSimulationPost-apocalypticColony SimResource ManagementExplorationCuteNatureSurvival👍 7,741
$24.99Oxygen Not Included
Jul 30 · Klei Entertainment
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · Management
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalResource ManagementBuildingSingleplayerManagement2DSandboxSimulation👍 135,357
$21.99Founders' Fortune
Dec 18 · Dionic Software
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Survival
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSimulationBuildingStrategySurvivalSandboxIndieManagement👍 1,862
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: City Builder · Management · Economy
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalEconomyColony Sim👍 3,897
$19.99Banished
Feb 18 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationSurvivalIndieSingleplayerSandboxMedievalResource Management👍 37,899
$24.95Colony Survival
Jun 16 · Pipliz
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · Sandbox
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Colony SimSurvivalBase BuildingBuildingMultiplayerSandboxStrategyOpen WorldCity BuilderEarly Access👍 8,263
Atomic Society
Aug 9 · Far Road Games
Both: City Builder · Post-apocalyptic · Colony Sim
Build a town in a post-apocalyptic world. Gather resources to expand and survive. Express your moral and ethical views by setting laws that affect how people live. What kind of society will you make?
StrategySimulationCity BuilderPost-apocalypticColony SimSurvivalBase BuildingEarly AccessIndieViolent👍 535
-90%$1.49Sheltered
Mar 15 · Unicube, Team 17 Digital Ltd
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic · Management
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.
SurvivalBase BuildingPost-apocalypticPixel GraphicsStrategyManagementResource ManagementRPGBuilding2D👍 5,366
$15.99Life in Bunker
Feb 25 · Flox Studios
Both: Survival · Sandbox · Post-apocalyptic
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.
StrategySimulationSurvivalBase BuildingSandboxIndiePost-apocalypticManagementResource ManagementSingleplayer👍 269
-30%$17.49Infection Free Zone
Apr 11 · Jutsu Games
Both: Post-apocalyptic · City Builder · Management
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!
Early AccessBase BuildingPost-apocalypticZombiesCity BuilderStrategyManagementSurvivalSimulationRTS👍 16,573
$24.99One Military Camp
Jul 20 · Abylight Barcelona
Both: Management · City Builder · Sandbox
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
SingleplayerManagementBase BuildingCity BuilderResource ManagementSimulationSandboxEconomyBuildingStrategy👍 684
$29.99Empires of the Undergrowth
Jun 7 · Slug Disco
Both: City Builder · Management · Colony Sim
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
StrategySimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementGrand StrategyColony SimSandboxBuildingHistorical👍 17,498
$29.99They Are Billions
Jun 18 · Numantian Games
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · City Builder
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Base BuildingColony SimStrategyZombiesSurvivalRTSTower DefenseCity BuilderSteampunkBuilding👍 46,229
-80%$4.99As Far As The Eye
Sep 10 · Unexpected
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sandbox
Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?
StrategyBuildingColony SimCity BuilderTurn-Based StrategyTabletopSandboxSingleplayerSurvivalHex Grid👍 1,642
$24.99Sapiens
Jul 26 · Majic Jungle
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Survival
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Early AccessColony SimCity BuilderGod GameBase BuildingBuildingSurvivalCraftingManagementLife Sim👍 2,054
Surviving Mars
Mar 15 · Haemimont Games, Abstraction
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Survival
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Colony SimCity BuilderStrategySpaceSurvivalBase BuildingMarsSimulationSci-fiResource Management👍 17,245
$14.99Oxygen
Apr 7 · Turquoise Revival Games
Both: City Builder · Survival · Colony Sim
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
StrategyCity BuilderBase BuildingSimulationSurvivalResource ManagementColony SimSandbox3DRealistic👍 830
$29.99New Cycle
Jan 18 · Core Engage
Both: City Builder · Survival · Colony Sim
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
City BuilderStrategySurvivalBuildingColony SimPost-apocalypticRealisticSimulationBase BuildingTop-Down👍 2,602
-66%$8.49Zombie Cure Lab
May 27 · Thera Bytes GmbH
Both: Colony Sim · Post-apocalyptic · City Builder
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.
Colony SimZombiesSciencePost-apocalypticResource ManagementBase BuildingOutbreak SimCity BuilderTower DefenseSandbox👍 393
-80%$5.99Frostpunk
Apr 24 · 11 bit studios
Both: City Builder · Survival · Post-apocalyptic
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
City BuilderSurvivalResource ManagementStrategyPost-apocalypticSteampunkColony SimBuildingBase BuildingSingleplayer👍 114,413
-30%$8.39From Glory To Goo
Apr 2 · Stratagem Blue
Both: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sandbox
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
Base BuildingRTSTower DefenseReal-Time with PauseAction RTSResource ManagementColony SimCity BuilderStrategySandbox👍 1,796
$29.99Kenshi
Dec 6 · Lo-Fi Games
Both: Sandbox · Survival · Post-apocalyptic
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.
Open WorldSandboxSurvivalRPGStrategy RPGImmersive SimSimulationPost-apocalypticCraftingSamurai👍 98,503
-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Colony Sim · Sandbox · City Builder
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
$8.9960 Seconds!
May 25 · Robot Gentleman
Both: Turn-Based Tactics
60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.
Turn-Based TacticsExplorationChoose Your Own AdventureOutbreak SimImmersive SimDifficultPoint & ClickStrategyWrestling2D👍 10,491
FreeUnturned
Jul 7 · Smartly Dressed Games
Both: Survival · Sandbox · Post-apocalyptic
Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Free to PlaySurvivalZombiesMultiplayerOpen WorldCo-opSandboxCraftingShooterPost-apocalyptic👍 7,492
$19.99Survive the Nights
Dec 5 · a2z Interactive
Both: Sandbox · Survival · Post-apocalyptic
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
ZombiesMultiplayerSandboxSurvivalPost-apocalypticAtmosphericRealisticInventory ManagementAdventureShooter👍 4,723
$9.99Quarantineer
Dec 27 · Papaonn
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic · City Builder
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
Dystopian SurvivalPost-apocalypticSimulationCity BuilderRTSMilitaryColony SimWargameTower Defense👍 307
$19.99Mr. Prepper
Mar 18 · Rejected Games
Both: Survival · Management
Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.
SurvivalSimulationBase BuildingCraftingManagementAdventureResource ManagementIndieRPGUnderground👍 4,797
$11.99ZED ZONE
Mar 29 · Leven Liu
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic · Sandbox
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.
Early AccessSurvivalZombiesOpen WorldPost-apocalypticSandboxPixel GraphicsBuildingCraftingTop-Down👍 3,509
$34.99IXION
Dec 7 · Bulwark Studios
Both: City Builder · Survival · Colony Sim
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
SpaceCity BuilderStrategySurvivalResource ManagementColony SimBase BuildingBuildingSimulationExploration👍 15,288
FreeOxygen: First Breath
Oct 7 · Turquoise Revival Games
Both: City Builder · Survival · Colony Sim
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderSimulationSurvivalResource ManagementColony SimBuildingEconomyManagement
$14.99Power to the People
Feb 8 · Rhombico Games
Both: Management · Economy · City Builder
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
ManagementEconomyBuildingResource ManagementCity BuilderSimulationIsometricReal-Time with PauseStrategyProcedural Generation👍 472
-65%$12.24Stranded: Alien Dawn
Apr 25 · Haemimont Games
Both: Survival · Colony Sim · Management
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.
Base BuildingSurvivalSimulationStrategyCraftingColony Sim3DCombatManagementHunting👍 9,720
$11.99Ocean Punk
Apr 26 · Infinite Studio
Both: Post-apocalyptic · Colony Sim · Survival
Explore a fantasy ocean-punk world, braving the deep with steam-powered marvels. Discover mysterious underwater treasures, but scarcity and ecological crises test survival. Rise, build, confront foes in this pixel-art ocean survival journey!
Post-apocalypticPiratesColony SimBase BuildingSurvivalSandboxResource ManagementPixel GraphicsAdventureExploration👍 118
-90%$4.99Gord
Aug 17 · Covenant.dev
Both: Colony Sim · Survival · City Builder
Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.
AdventureColony SimDark FantasyAtmosphericSurvivalStrategyRTSMythologyAction-AdventureCity Builder👍 809
-30%$17.49Stellar Tactics
Mar 30 · Don Wilkins
Both: Turn-Based Tactics · Dungeon Crawler · Sandbox
A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!
CRPGExplorationTactical RPGTurn-Based TacticsDungeon CrawlerSandboxParty-Based RPGCharacter CustomizationRPGIsometric👍 1,667
-75%$3.74Farworld Pioneers
May 30 · Igloosoft
Both: Colony Sim · Sandbox · Management
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Co-opColorfulOpen World Survival CraftColony SimSandboxPvPBase BuildingSimulationCraftingManagement👍 622
-90%$2.49Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
May 18 · Black Eye Games
Both: City Builder · Survival · Economy
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
SingleplayerCity BuilderImmersive SimResource ManagementSurvivalStrategyEconomyIsometricTime ManagementMedieval👍 1,368
$4.99Survivalist
Jan 30 · Bob
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic
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.
SurvivalZombiesRPGOpen WorldActionStrategyBase BuildingAdventurePost-apocalypticMultiplayer👍 2,156
State of Decay
Nov 5 · Undead Labs
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic · Sandbox
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.
ZombiesSurvivalOpen WorldActionPost-apocalypticRPGThird PersonBase BuildingSingleplayerSandbox👍 15,294
$5.99Caravaneer 2
Dec 30 · Dmitry Zheltobriukhov
Both: Economy · Post-apocalyptic
A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.
RPGTradingEconomySimulationPost-apocalypticResource ManagementMultiple EndingsOpen WorldDialogue HeavyStory Rich👍 535
$9.99SKYHILL
Oct 6 · Mandragora
Both: Survival · Post-apocalyptic
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...
SurvivalAction RoguelikeAdventureIndiePost-apocalypticRoguelikeZombiesSimulationRPG2D👍 4,737