Dark city builders that frighten

These cities grow while danger closes in around you, from freezing cold to fog and unseen threats. You lay out streets and keep people fed while dread keeps rising.

DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch

DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog.

77% of 759 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$26.24
Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2

Thirty years after the great freeze, you are the Steward of a hungry, freezing city that keeps growing anyway.

74% of 21,151 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 733$20.24
Worshippers of Cthulhu

Worshippers of Cthulhu

Lead the Cult of Cthulhu and build island cities to wake your god.

80% of 1,316 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Surviving the Abyss

Surviving the Abyss

Earth, 1976. You run a deep-sea cloning facility on the ocean floor, laying tunnels and powerlines, keeping oxygen, food and light on while…

64% of 1,052 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Infection Free Zone

Infection Free Zone

Pick your own town on the real-world map and turn its streets into a walled settlement.

80% of 16,793 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 595$24.99
Frostpunk

Frostpunk

Frostpunk is a dark city builder about keeping the last city on Earth alive through an endless winter.

92% of 115,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,526$2.99
ShoreTiles

ShoreTiles

Build your island around a fragile lighthouse in this Gloomy tile-placement strategy game.

75% of 103 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$5.59
Night is Coming

Night is Coming

Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe.

59% of 385 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
Gord

Gord

Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates.

53% of 811 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$6.99
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

A medieval keep under siege, and you are not the army but the civilians keeping it alive.

79% of 1,379 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$24.99
The Banished Vault

The Banished Vault

A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery.

78% of 190 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Undead Inc.

Undead Inc.

Undead Inc. is a high-risk, high-reward resource management simulator where you establish and manage a local subsidiary of the Endswell Medical…

27% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
State of Survival: Last Warrior

State of Survival: Last Warrior

Build a shelter to fend off the zombies and survive in the apocalypse

44% of 41 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free
Derelict Void

Derelict Void

Derelict Void is a space survival game involving scavenging for resources and base management.

57% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Mermaid Colony

Mermaid Colony

Mermaid Colony is an atmospheric survival strategy game. You're granted godlike powers to guide the mermaids in a battle between light and darkness.

57% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The HELL

The HELL

Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster.

70% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
EndZ Village

EndZ Village

EndZ Village is a 2D post-apocalyptic zombie survival game developed by DEVCLIED.

45% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Emberwake

Emberwake

A dark fantasy survival strategy game where you manage villagers, gather resources, and defend a burning campfire against waves of undead in a…

64% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
The HELL Prologue

The HELL Prologue

Take up the role of the Hell Governor and embrace the challenge of welcoming souls who perished in major, historically real human disaster.

72% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Black Forest

Black Forest

Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive.

35% of 23 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Drill Rift

Drill Rift

Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs.

70% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Whispers in the Forest

Whispers in the Forest

Whispers in the Forest is a single-player base defense strategy game where you must build, upgrade, and defend your base against demonic creatures…

65% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Stella Pastoris

Stella Pastoris

Shepherd the last remnants of the Malthusian monks marooned on Proxima Centauri B.

100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Hell Builder

Hell Builder

A puzzle hell builder where you place structures from cards to complete the Dark Lord's construction list.

89% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

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