Games like Wastelander
Looking for games like Wastelander? Here are top survival turn-based strategy recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Terraformers, Against the Storm or New Cycle.
1 View Game90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, replayabilitygrinding, stability90% User Score 1,384 reviews"Terraformers" is a single-player Science Fiction Turn Based Strategy game with fantastic mechanics, stellar visuals, and a phenomenal soundtrack. You terraform a procedurally generated planet, discovering resources, building cities, and engineering the environment through unique life forms and geological manipulations. With randomly proposed project cards and different growth strategies, each playthrough offers a very replayable and unique atmosphere, although it can be quite grinding.
View Game2 View Game91%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, monetization95% User Score 28,576 reviewsCritic Score 91%6 reviews"Against the Storm" is a single-player strategy game with an intriguing story, where players build and upgrade settlements in one of the game's three biomes, Royal Woodlands, with a limited selection of building blueprints and perks. The goal is to test different strategies and progress up to the fourth level in the Smouldering City. The full game promises a variety of challenges, tough decisions, and unique mechanics, but the demo focuses on introducing players to the game's basics.
View Game3 View Game85%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding85% User Score 1,687 reviews"New Cycle" is a city-building survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. After solar flares devastate human society, players must establish and develop a settlement, starting from humble beginnings and advancing to an industrial metropolis. Challenges include natural disasters, resource shortages, and societal issues such as refugee crises and disease outbreaks. Free-form or grid-based design allows for creativity in building and expanding the settlement.
View Game4 View Game85%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, stability85% User Score 1,556 reviews"Cliff Empire" is a city-building game set in a post-apocalyptic world covered by radioactive fog. Your mission is to restore life on Earth by managing the development of independent cities on cliffs, trading with an orbital station, and choosing between ecological and harmful power supply. The game features dynamic climate changes, 48 university researches, over 120 structures, and 15 quests to explore.
View Game5 View Game71%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, grinding74% User Score 2,198 reviewsCritic Score 68%24 reviews"Aven Colony" is a planetary colonial management simulation game where you build and maintain humanity's first extrasolar settlement on Aven Prime. Overcome various challenges in managing resources, citizens' needs, and infrastructure, while dealing with the harsh conditions of an alien world. Features include rich simulation elements, diverse environments, and various stages of colony development.
View Game6 View Game88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability88% User Score 5,433 reviews"Rise to Ruins" is a godlike village simulator that combines elements of real-time strategy, tower defense, and survival games. The objective is to build and manage a village, facing brutal survival conditions and learning from each failure to improve in subsequent attempts. The game offers three modes: Survival, Sandbox, and Peaceful, with Survival being the intended experience.
View Game7 View Game72%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability76% User Score 3,996 reviewsCritic Score 63%3 reviews"Endzone: A World Apart" is a post-apocalyptic survival city-builder game set 150 years after a global ecological disaster. As a leader, you must build a settlement on the hostile surface, manage resources and infrastructure, and ensure the survival of your elevated population in a harsh, radioactive environment with dynamic weather and radiation simulated environments.
View Game8 View Game85%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, optimization85% User Score 1,120 reviews"Microcivilization is a single-player strategy game with sensational pixel-art graphics, offering a unique blend of exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination. Build a powerful nation using various methods, such as button smashing or harnessing the productivity of your people. Overcome numerous challenges, including disasters, wars, diseases, and social unrest, with the help of government combinations, unique heroes, and technology upgrades."
View Game9 View Game97%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicmonetization, grinding97% User Score 2,470 reviews"News Tower" is a simulation game set in 1930s New York, where you play as an influential publisher. Your goal is to define your editorial line, search the globe for newsworthy stories, and manage your team of reporters to beat deadlines. Be cautious of the mafia, mayor, and other factions trying to use your influence to print their version of the truth. The game allows you to follow key moments of the 1930s and decide whether to cover and influence them.
View Game10 View Game94%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, optimization94% User Score 478 reviews"Farlanders is a single-player turn-based strategy game set on Mars, featuring a good plot, spectacular gameplay, great graphics, and a memorable soundtrack. As a colony leader, build and manage residential areas, resource-producing factories, and terraform the planet for survival. Expand your colony underground to uncover new resources and rare minerals."
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