Games like Deeper Underground

Remember how funny and hand-drawn Deeper Underground felt at its best? These games are a good place to start.

Sheltered
A nuclear apocalypse, four family members, one concrete bunker. Sheltered is a survival management game about keeping the people you named and customized alive: rationing water, patching filters, scavenging the wasteland, and making moral choices that decide whether they see another day.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
82% of 5,400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 35$4.49
Under Shelter
Will you survive the struggle with cold, hunger, and nuclear radiation? Everything is up to you, the shelter manager.
Replayable, Dark
43% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Bunker Down
The world is over. Can you manage to rebuild? The nuclear apocalypse has finally happened leaving you in charge of a bunker. Accept or reject characters from your bunker to assemble the best group in order to rebuild when you finally resurface.
Funny, Replayable, Story-driven
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Underchoice
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
71% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Surviving the Aftermath
A post-apocalyptic colony sim where you rebuild after the world ends. Raise a settlement from a handful of survivors, send specialists into a hostile wasteland, and brace for disasters that can undo weeks of work. It is difficult, sometimes cruel, and the stories it leaves you with are the kind you retell.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
71% of 3,212 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 104$29.99
Shelter Manager
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Also in Colony sim · Replayable, Dark
62% of 251 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
The Undercity: Last Light
Build an underground city in this 2D colony sim. Dig, connect production chains and manage workers whose needs can’t wait. Face earthquakes, make difficult choices and explore forgotten regions as you lead a refuge toward a future beyond survival.
Replayable, Dark
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Survival Vacancy
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Replayable
60% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Mr. Prepper
The government says stay in your lane. You say otherwise. A tense, funny survival crafting game about getting out before they catch you.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Funny, Replayable, Story-driven
81% of 4,869 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 103$19.99
Fallout Shelter
Build an underground Vault, keep your Dwellers alive and oddly cheerful, and send the brave ones up into the Wasteland for loot. A relaxed little management game with a wicked sense of humor, perfect in short sessions, and you never have to spend a cent.
Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Funny, Replayable, Dark
87% of 83,594 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,812Free
Neo-Exodus: Last Bastion
Neo-Exodus: Last Bastion is a narrative strategy game where your people's fate hinges on binary decisions. Manage critical resources, face constant moral dilemmas, and survive the pressure of a collapsing world. Every choice reshapes your bastion's future in this intense challenge.
Replayable, Story-driven, Dark
0% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Survival Tycoon
It's the year 2041; the atmosphere is toxic from global warming and nuclear war. Can you survive in an unforgiving world?
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Dark
54% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Hidden gems like Deeper Underground

Survival Log

Scavenge a dying city, build up your shelter and hold out against the horde in a roguelite survival run where death carries your memories forward.

$10.99

Anoxia Station

Descend into darkness in Anoxia Station, a turn-based strategy game with puzzle elements.

$14.99

Underchoice

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door.

$7.99

Mercury Fallen

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival.

$24.99

After the Collapse

ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors.

$14.99

Stranded: Alien Dawn

A small group of survivors, one unforgiving alien planet, and you in charge.

$34.99

Raiders! Forsaken Earth

Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders.

$19.99

Mr. Prepper

Craft, build and manage an underground shelter while dodging the watchful eye of the government.

$19.99

The Rule of Land: Pioneers

This is a survival game. After the coronation, human beings had to move into the underground.

$10.99

The Tribe Must Survive

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

$14.99

Surviving the Aftermath

Lead a band of survivors through a bleak open world, growing a settlement that disasters keep testing.

$29.99

Endzone - A World Apart

Guide survivors through radiation, toxic rain and droughts as you grow a settlement that can outlast the end of the world.

$24.99

Newest games like Deeper Underground

Wall World Strategy

Build a colony on an endless vertical structure, manage its people and resources, and survive what lives in the dark.

$16.99

Deadlight: A Zombie Chronicle

Keep a handful of strangers alive in a boarded-up house at the end of the world.

$7.19

The Undercity: Last Light

Build an underground city in this 2D colony sim. Dig, connect production chains and manage workers whose needs can’t wait.

$9.99

A Dark Cave

Keep a fragile village alive and dig deeper into a cave that wants something from you.

$7.99

After Inc: Revival

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

$10.79

Survival Log

Scavenge a dying city, build up your shelter and hold out against the horde in a roguelite survival run where death carries your memories forward.

$10.99

Underchoice

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door.

$7.99

Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom

Build a shady operation in a broken little town, then watch your crooked workforce make a mess of it.

$10.99

TownsFolk

A survival strategy game where every choice shapes your frontier's destiny.

$11.99

Generation Exile

Rebuild settlements entirely within a colossal generation ship in this turn-based city builder.

$29.99

ALL WILL FALL

Lead flood survivors, scavenge a drying seabed and stack a shanty town toward the sky while physics, hunger and factions test every beam.

$22.49

Adaptory

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed.

$19.99