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2026PC, Steam Deck playable73 % positive14.49 €

A strategy simulation where you engineer humanity's downfall by combining disasters, plagues and wars to overwhelm the survival efforts of people around the globe.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Economy and management
  • Deep systems to master

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In short: Games like Extinction Day

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Extinction Day special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Cliff Empire

87 %Match

2019PC, Steam Deck playable87 % positive15.49 €

Brings what grabs you about Extinction Day: a post-apocalyptic setting, economy and management as well as complex systems to tinker with.

A city-building and management sim in which you grow a settlement on a cliff above a radioactive fog after nuclear war, working to restore life on Earth.

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Machinefall

Post-apocalyptic setting

A post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game on a global map where you guide humanity's last survivors through technological eras from the Stone Age to the Atomic Age while fending off massive machine swarms.

New Cycle

Post-apocalyptic setting

A survival city-builder in which you grow a small shelter into an industrial metropolis after a devastating solar flare, managing resources and keeping your people alive.

Timberborn

Sandbox with your own goals

You build a beaver colony in a world abandoned by humans, managing water physics, droughts and vertical architecture. It blends charming city-building with tricky logistics puzzles.

Oil Rush

Tactical depth

A real-time naval strategy game set on a flooded Earth after the ice caps melted, where you capture oil platforms and command fleets. Instead of micromanaging single units, you direct whole groups and focus on economy and strategic decisions.

Shadow Empire

Post-apocalyptic setting

A very complex turn-based wargame set on a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic planet, where you lead a fledgling state and juggle logistics, politics, economy and warfare. Its blend of 4X, hex-based tactics and RPG elements for leaders and officers gives it enormous depth.

Raiders! Forsaken Earth

Sandbox with your own goals

You lead a ruthless band of marauders in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, managing your gang and extorting, kidnapping and raiding in turn-based fashion. A grim blend of management, strategy and sandbox play where you are deliberately the villain.

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