Scary colony survival games

Death waits outside the walls while your people hunger, sicken and lose hope inside. You ration food, assign jobs and decide who to trust when one mistake lets the horror in.

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

You run the last checkpoint of a collapsing city: inspect survivors for bites, rashes and hidden contraband, then decide who enters, who waits in…

81% of 12,610 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 577$19.99
Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Ten years after the infection started, you build a new life in the ruins by gathering other survivors around you.

87% of 4,083 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 147$11.99
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Texas, 1980: Walton City has fallen to zombies, and you lead ordinary survivors toward escape.

89% of 9,430 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,469$24.99
Walkers

Walkers

Turn any corner of the wasteland into a survivor outpost, then keep your people fed, hopeful and alive while the hordes close in.

63% of 100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 112$7.99
Frozen Ship

Frozen Ship

Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels.

76% of 173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Survival Log

Survival Log

You get 10 hours before the zombies come, then 100 days after.

81% of 3,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 747$10.99
The Alters

The Alters

You crash on a burning planet with a mobile base you cannot run alone, so you grow a crew from your own alternate lives.

90% of 15,665 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 184$15.74
Infection Free Zone

Infection Free Zone

Pick your own street as the last safe place on Earth, then turn its empty shops and houses into a working settlement.

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

EverRail

EverRail is a frozen-world survival game where your colony is a moving train carrying the last of humanity.

69% of 398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
Zombie Graveyard Simulator

Zombie Graveyard Simulator

Run your own graveyard by day: bury and cremate the dead, sell flowers, keep visitors generous and hire staff.

89% of 840 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$7.19
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
Surviving the Abyss

Surviving the Abyss

Earth, 1976. You run a deep-sea facility built to perfect human cloning, keeping scientists and clones alive on oxygen, power and food while…

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

Enshrouded

Enshrouded is a survival action RPG with a settlement at its heart: you rescue survivors from the fog, bring them home, and watch a lonely hut turn…

86% of 99,710 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54,521$39.99
The Tribe Must Survive

The Tribe Must Survive

The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age.

63% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Vampires: Bloodlord Rising

Vampires: Bloodlord Rising

Awaken as a weakened vampire lord in Sangavia, rebuild your castle, and rule a growing household of turned villagers.

70% of 1,722 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 43$19.99
MISERY

MISERY

MISERY is a 1-10 player co-op survival game about a shared bunker in a nuclear Exclusion Zone.

85% of 20,733 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 399$19.99
The Ember Guardian

The Ember Guardian

Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

81% of 296 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based survival sim where every tool, plant, animal and ache is a card to combine.

76% of 1,154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 98$21.99
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
Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2

Frostpunk 2 puts you in charge as Steward of a growing city 30 years after the great freeze, balancing coal, oil, food and heat while factions argue…

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

VEIN

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic sandbox where you and friends scavenge abandoned buildings, fortify a safehouse, and try to keep it running as seasons…

87% of 12,280 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 838$19.99
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™

Summoned by Gimli to reclaim Moria, you mine, cook, brew ale and raise timber-and-stone bases in the dark while hunger, cold and orcs press in.

80% of 10,368 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 745$29.99
Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

A medieval keep under siege, and you are not the soldiers on the walls but the civilians keeping them standing.

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

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