Games like Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning
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Join Hank and Larry, two small defenseless animals, as they manipulate their way through the zombie apocalypse. Meet various characters and get them to scavenge for you while guiding them to "safety." Make life-or-death decisions, bargain, manage inventory, trade, and gamble.
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$1.99Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
Oct 17 · Randumb Studios
Both: Choices Matter · Visual Novel · Post-apocalyptic
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...
SimulationChoices MatterMultiple EndingsVisual NovelRPGHorrorPost-apocalypticChoose Your Own AdventureSurvival HorrorZombies👍 120
Scarlet Hollow — Episode 1
Sep 25 · Black Tabby Games
Both: Choices Matter · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction
The free-to-play first episode of a horror-mystery game with dark humor and hand-drawn art by Black Tabby Games. Note — we are retiring this store page. While the build here is still up-to-date, please download the DEMO from the main Scarlet Hollow store page. Thank you and have fun!
HorrorStory RichChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelFemale ProtagonistInteractive FictionPsychological HorrorDark ComedyPoint & Click
$14.99The Walking Dead
Apr 24 · Telltale Games
Both: Zombies · Point & Click · Choices Matter
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
ZombiesStory RichAdventurePoint & ClickEpisodicChoices MatterSingleplayerHorrorEmotionalChoose Your Own Adventure👍 53,653
$14.99The Wolf Among Us
Oct 11 · Telltale
Both: Choices Matter · Visual Novel · Point & Click
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
AdventureStory RichDetectiveMultiple EndingsChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelEpisodicActionPoint & Click👍 32,507
$24.99I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Aug 25 · Northway Games
Both: Choices Matter · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Choices MatterLife SimDating SimDeckbuildingVisual NovelRPGStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureLGBTQ+Interactive Fiction👍 4,446
$12.99Death and Taxes
Feb 20 · Placeholder Gameworks
Both: Choices Matter · Point & Click
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Choices MatterStory RichSimulationPoint & ClickMultiple EndingsStrategyPuzzleChoose Your Own AdventureReplay ValueCasual👍 7,857
$1.99When It Falls
Dec 10 · Team Stargazer
Both: Choices Matter · Visual Novel
An apocalyptic Ice Age approaches the automatic doors of your convenience store. Scrape together what you need to survive through bartering or outright scamming in this short narrative game. In the end, only you can judge yourself.
SimulationTradingChoices MatterMultiple EndingsStory RichDialogue HeavyVisual NovelAtmosphericFunnyLogic
$14.99The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Dec 20 · Telltale Games
Both: Zombies · Choices Matter · Post-apocalyptic
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
ZombiesStory RichChoices MatterAdventurePost-apocalypticAtmosphericEpisodicSingleplayerSurvivalGore👍 15,489
$19.99The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Aug 13 · Telltale Games
Both: Choices Matter · Zombies · Post-apocalyptic
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
Story RichChoices MatterZombiesAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerFemale ProtagonistPost-apocalypticSurvivalAtmospheric👍 17,448
$5.99Night Raider
Jan 26 · TSUKUYOMIC
Both: Inventory Management · Zombies
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...
AdventureGun CustomizationTop-Down ShooterInventory ManagementPixel GraphicsZombiesPerma DeathDarkExplorationShooter👍 1,910
-90%$1.59Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
May 20 · DigiTales Interactive
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Pixel GraphicsDetectiveNoirInteractive FictionMultiple EndingsCyberpunkCrimeDialogue HeavyChoices MatterSci-fi👍 2,160
-50%$12.49Unusual Findings
Oct 12 · Epic Llama Games
Both: Choices Matter · Point & Click
Three friends uncover mysteries in the 1980s. Follow their amazing adventures in a game where your decisions really matter. Be prepared to spin like a record on your incredible journey back to the era of synthesizers, VHS Rental stores, 8 bits games and evil alien conspiracies.
Multiple EndingsChoices MatterOld SchoolPoint & ClickAdventurePuzzleThird Person2DDialogue HeavyStory Rich👍 426
$4.99Dark Scavenger
May 16 · Psydra Games LLC
Both: Point & Click · Comedy · Interactive Fiction
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
RPGIndieAdventureCasualChoose Your Own AdventurePoint & ClickSci-fiComedyInteractive FictionMouse Only👍 153
$2.99The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain
May 31 · Randumb Studios
Both: Choices Matter · Visual Novel
The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!
Choose Your Own AdventureRPGChoices MatterVillain ProtagonistVisual NovelMultiple EndingsDark HumorStory RichMysteryInvestigation👍 597
$14.99Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
Mar 11 · scriptwelder
Both: Point & Click · Post-apocalyptic · Choices Matter
Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Pixel GraphicsAdventurePoint & ClickPost-apocalypticIndieSingleplayerChoices MatterStory RichSurvival2D👍 2,186
$39.99New Tales from the Borderlands
Oct 20 · Gearbox Software
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction
Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
Choices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureQuick-Time EventsMultiple EndingsSingleplayerInteractive FictionActionAction-AdventureGoreCinematic👍 1,736
$19.99Survive the Nights
Dec 5 · a2z Interactive
Both: Zombies · Post-apocalyptic · Inventory Management
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
-75%$1.99A guard walks into a tavern
Nov 30 · SuQing
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction
You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family. But remember, when various factions come to you, you will have to make choices!
Choices MatterMedievalSimulationDark HumorStory RichFantasyInteractive FictionLife SimMultiple EndingsAdventure👍 415
$24.99Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Apr 9 · PikPok
Both: Zombies · Post-apocalyptic · Choices Matter
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.
ZombiesSurvival HorrorPost-apocalypticHorrorActionPsychological Horror2.5DChoices MatterNonlinearMultiple Endings👍 9,058
$4.99Survivalist
Jan 30 · Bob
Both: Zombies · 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
$18.99Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
Oct 18 · Poetic
Both: Choices Matter
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Early AccessChoices MatterStory RichAdventureDialogue HeavyAtmosphericTabletopCinematicDetectiveRPG👍 475
$2.99Press X to Not Die
Oct 6 · All Seeing Eye Games
Both: Comedy · Choices Matter
A ridiculous live-action B-movie adventure you will never forget! You wake up to find your town in chaos. Everyone has gone crazy and is just attacking each other! A cryptic message is the secret to survival-- Press X to not die!
ComedyFMVQuick-Time EventsActionNudityIndieFirst-PersonChoices MatterViolentFunny👍 3,669
$19.99Zelter
Oct 22 · G1 Playground
Both: Zombies · Post-apocalyptic
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
ZombiesSurvivalVoxelPost-apocalypticBuildingOpen WorldExplorationSimulationOnline Co-OpSingleplayer👍 1,734
$24.99Stygian: Outer Gods
Apr 14 · Misterial Games
Both: Choices Matter
Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?
Early AccessChoices MatterLovecraftianSurvival HorrorStory RichHorrorPsychological HorrorAction RPGDarkFPS👍 516
-80%$6.99Pathologic 2
May 23 · Ice-Pick Lodge
Both: Choices Matter
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Story RichAtmosphericChoices MatterDifficultRPGSurvivalImmersive SimDetectivePsychological HorrorSingleplayer👍 9,559
$8.9960 Seconds!
May 25 · Robot Gentleman
Both: Point & Click
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
Just Survive
Jan 15 · Daybreak Game Company
Both: Zombies · Post-apocalyptic
Just Survive is a post-apocalyptic survival game that immerses you in a world where humanity is fighting to take back control from the zombie hordes.
ZombiesSurvivalOpen WorldMultiplayerMassively MultiplayerCraftingPost-apocalypticActionSurvival HorrorCo-op👍 62,779
-90%$1.09Trolley Problem, Inc.
Apr 21 · ReadGraves
Both: Choices Matter
Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.
Choices MatterDark HumorIndieCasualLife SimSimulationMinimalistText-BasedImmersive SimArtificial Intelligence👍 1,267
$19.99This War of Mine
Nov 14 · 11 bit studios
Both: Choices Matter
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.
SurvivalWarAtmosphericSingleplayerStrategyChoices MatterSimulationBase BuildingCraftingResource Management👍 89,256
$8.9935MM
May 27 · Носков Сергей
Both: Visual Novel · Choices Matter
Post-apocalyptic story about two travelers who set out on a long journey in the wasteland, left by people after the global epidemic.
FPSWalking SimulatorSurvival HorrorHidden ObjectShooterFirst-PersonVisual NovelHorrorPsychological HorrorChoices Matter👍 3,509
$5.99Caravaneer 2
Dec 30 · Dmitry Zheltobriukhov
Both: 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
$19.99UNDYING - "KINGDOM"
Dec 7 · Vanimals
Both: Zombies · Post-apocalyptic
As Anling’s zombie infection sets in, her days are numbered. The struggle to survive is made ever more paramount as she must ensure her son Cody stays alive. She must teach him how to survive in this new world at any cost…
Story RichMultiple EndingsAction RPGSurvivalAdventureZombiesFemale ProtagonistPost-apocalypticCraftingTop-Down👍 1,688
$14.99This Is the Police
Aug 2 · Weappy Studio
Both: Choices Matter
This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?
StrategyManagementStory RichCrimeChoices MatterSingleplayerIndieDetectiveSimulationNoir👍 9,155


