Games like Decision: Red Daze

Want something that feels dark and tense the way Decision: Red Daze does? These games are worth a look next.

Z Dawn
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
Dark, Tense, Replayable
72% of 259 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Survivalist
A year after civilization collapses, hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler leaves his bunker and finds a world of fast zombies, wary survivors and hard choices. Scavenge, farm, trade and build a community in a huge open-world RPG where people remember exactly what you did, and your choices carry real consequences.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Replayable
80% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Infection Free Zone
Pick any real place on Earth, from your own street to a city across the ocean, and turn it into a survivor settlement after a virus empties the world. Scavenge familiar buildings by day, then hold your walls against fast, aggressive infected hordes every night. A colony sim with a map you already know.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Scary
80% of 16,825 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 480$24.99
Dead State: Reanimated
Dead State is a survival RPG set in central Texas as civilization collapses. You lead a shelter full of survivors with their own agendas, scavenge a dying state for food and fuel, and fight turn-based battles where every gunshot can pull a horde. A grim, tense story about keeping people alive when everything is falling apart.
Dark, Tense, Retro
73% of 2,108 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$19.99
DREADZONE
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Scary
51% of 1,189 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to the undead, and you lead ordinary survivors trying to get out alive. Scavenge ruined streets, craft weapons and shelter upgrades, and keep moving from refuge to refuge as the hordes close in.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Replayable
89% of 9,478 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 858$24.99
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
A turn-based survival roguelike in a zombie apocalypse. Spend your action points wisely, scavenge a procedurally generated city, and reach the Terminus, escape by boat, or build a vaccine. Every run is a new city, and every step could be your last.
Dark, Tense, Replayable
94% of 4,361 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99
Survive the Fall
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense
65% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$24.99
Night of the Dead
An open-world zombie survival game where the day is for gathering, crafting and building, and the night is for holding the line. Explore the island, gear up, raise a fortress and survive the horde that comes after every sunset, alone or with friends.
Dark, Tense, Replayable
77% of 10,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 152$29.99
Infectonator: Survivors
Lead a small band of survivors through a randomly generated city overrun by zombies. Scavenge for food and ammo, build defenses, level up your people and try to reach rescue before it all falls apart. Death is permanent, the pixel art is charming, and every run plays out differently.
Dark, Tense, Replayable
66% of 1,006 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Dread Dawn
You missed the evacuation convoy. The city is quarantined, the streets belong to the dead, and your school is now home. Dread Dawn is an open-world zombie survival game about holding a camp with other survivors: scavenge the metropolis, grow food, build defenses, and wait out the hordes until rescue comes.
Also in Colony sim · Dark, Tense, Scary
72% of 2,128 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$19.99
Town Of The Dead Life 死寂之城
《Town Of The Dead Life》 is an independent game with the background of eschatology. Players will play the role of one of the few surviving humans in the end of the world, surviving in difficult conditions and trying to change the fate of the world.
Dark, Tense, Replayable
66% of 159 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Cheaper than Decision: Red Daze

Welcome to ParadiZe

Turn the undead into farmhands and bodyguards, then carve a home out of a ruined world, alone or with friends.

$2.99

Survivor Squad

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking…

$2.99

Zafehouse: Diaries

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety…

$1.99

Grim Nights

Dig, build and train by day, then hold your village against the undead every night.

$2.99

Don't Bite Me Bro! +

Don't Bite Me Bro! is a 1-4 Player Couch Co-op open-world zombie apocalypse game.

$0.99

Herd is Coming

"Herd is Coming" is a survival RPG set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies.

$0.99

Scrapnaut

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

$1.39

Envy the Dead

Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands…

$2.99

Risen Kingdom

Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.

$2.99

pyramida

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night.

$2.99

Afterinfection

Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand.

$2.24

Another Try

The virus has devastated cities and lands, you are one of the last survivors!

$2.99

Hidden gems like Decision: Red Daze

Ash & Adam's Existential Treads

A mini action city-builder in a post-post-apocalyptic world. Grow your settlement. Fend off waves of enemies. Restore nature.

$6.99

Keep Her Safe

Scavenge guns, bolt them onto your base and hold off zombie hordes until the rocket flies.

$9.99

Scavland

Scavenge the wasteland for parts, build your own guns and push a little further each time, knowing ammo runs out faster than mutants do.

$19.99

After Inc: Revival

Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain.

$10.79

The Ember Guardian

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

$19.99

Terminus: Zombie Survivors

Scavenge a new city each run, spend your action points carefully, and fight toward an escape or a cure.

$19.99

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Recruit strangers, build a camp and hold it together while an infected survivor hides in plain sight.

$11.99

ZED ZONE

Scavenge a hostile open world, craft and mod your gear, raise a fortified base and push toward escape, alone or with friends.

$7.19

Welcome Back, Commander

Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads .

$14.99