Evertown
Evertown is a RTS (real-time strategy) game with some survival elements. The goal is to raise your town to make it safe (the longest you can).
43% of 60 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Games like Emberwake
Miss the retro and tense pull of Emberwake? Give these games a try when the craving hits.
The Ember Guardian
Defend the embers of hope in this roguelike strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Recruit and command workers to gather resources, build your camp and set up your defenses during the day. When night falls, fend off waves of deadly creatures with powerful, upgradable weapons.
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Tense, Dark
81% of 296 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Grim Nights
A side-scrolling survival strategy where your village has one job: last 13 days against the undead. Dig for gold by day, train soldiers, and hold the line each night. It is hard, it is tense, and losing a village only makes the next run sharper.
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Tense, Dark
87% of 1,508 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$2.99pyramida
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Replayable
84% of 709 Steam reviews are positive$2.99The Bonfire: Forsaken Lands
Build, discover, craft and survive.Build your settlement in a snowy encampment, survive monster attacks and manage resources to uncover the secrets of the ancients.
Retro
75% of 197 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Night is Coming
Survival strategy game set in a world inspired by Slavic mythology and the nature of Eastern Europe. Build your settlement, protect its dwellers, and help them prepare for the coming Darkness.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Tense, Dark, Replayable
59% of 385 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$24.99Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Retro, Replayable
94% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74Grim Realms
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Tense, Dark
79% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Black Forest
Danger, death, and despair define Black Forest. As the chief of an unlucky village, your goal is to survive. Gather resources, shore up the village, then survive the terrifying night. Maybe you'll hold out long enough for relief to arrive. Maybe not. Are you up to the challenge?
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Tense, Dark, Replayable
35% of 23 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99Pixel Survivors
Pixel Survivors is a god management game. Create some land and build structures to keep your small society settled. See how long you can keep your village alive!
Retro, Replayable
57% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$3.99MIGLORN
Gather resources and strategically build up your Viking settlement by day, fortifying it to withstand the relentless onslaught of skeletons by night
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Retro, Tense, Replayable
70% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Phoenix Hope
Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.
Also in Colony sim · Retro, Tense, Dark
59% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Nested Lands
A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline. Recruit plague-ravaged survivors, assign them work, craft, build and fight bandits, alone or in online co-op. Every choice shapes whether your settlement thrives or your name becomes something people whisper.
Also in Colony sim and City builder · Tense, Dark, Replayable
73% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Cheaper than Emberwake
Save Home
You have inherited a farm! What is waiting for you on arrival at the place ?! Huge field with a bunch of the crop? The big and vast land?
59% of 97 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$0.49
Night Vigil
Match tiles by day to gather resources and grow your village. When night falls, the tiles you clear turn into monsters.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Infectonator: Survivors
Run a group of survivors through a zombie apocalypse: scavenge, build, fight, and hope someone makes it out.
66% of 1,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$0.99
Apocalypse Night
Apocalypse Night is an addictive 2D action platforming survival game in which you scavenge resources, build a base, rescue survivors and defend…
69% of 36 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Little Lighthouse of Horror
A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery.
84% of 63 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
Despotism 3k
Manage a tiny human workforce to power your evil empire, and laugh while everything goes horribly wrong.
79% of 1,034 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$0.87
Scribbleman Army
Explore a dark cave. Craft tons of units to help you collect resources. Create new buildings and unlock new recipes.
59% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
First Day: Home Defender
Build and protect your home after a nuclear apocalypse!
72% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Feudal Fantasy Incremental
Feudal Fantasy is a short active incremental game in which you rebuild a town once lost to tragedy as its lord, by managing upgrades, new buildings…
79% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$1.04
Zafehouse: Diaries
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety…
67% of 315 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Ashes
Chaos and devastation devoured the last sparkles of life. Surviving is the main task.
60% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like Emberwake
Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game.
94% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$9.74
Land of Glarefall
A royal investigator, a cursed fuel called Black Gold, and a clock that hates you.
84% of 300 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99
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
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$34.99
dotAGE
You are the Elder, and you have seen the end of the world. Lead your Pips to an empty valley, assign them their daily work and build a village that…
95% of 2,579 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$17.59
ShoreTiles
Build your island around a fragile lighthouse in this Gloomy tile-placement strategy game.
75% of 104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$5.59
The King is Watching
Watch your kingdom into working order, one glance at a time, and rebuild it better after every fall.
88% of 9,299 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 269$14.99
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game.
79% of 423 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$18.99
Signal Zone
Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy.
76% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Becastled
Raise a bright medieval kingdom, then keep its walls standing when the Moon Beasts arrive at sunset.
81% of 5,383 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 115$12.99
Nested Lands
A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline.
73% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Into the Emberlands
Venture out into the Emberlands and uncover an ever-changing world filled with surprising encounters and mystical creatures!
79% of 256 Steam reviews are positive$6.59
Newest games like Emberwake
Land of Glarefall
A royal investigator, a cursed fuel called Black Gold, and a clock that hates you.
84% of 300 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99
Dungeon Settlers
Raise a settlement in barren land, form a party of four, and take them into a shifting dungeon where death is forever.
78% of 1,458 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 78$24.99
ShoreTiles
Build your island around a fragile lighthouse in this Gloomy tile-placement strategy game.
75% of 104 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$5.59
Rekindling
Rekindling is a settlement building and management game. You are tasked with rebuilding society after the ZTD virus has taken over and turned the…
80% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Stoneguard
To protect the magical Lifestone, you must strategise, manage and build a fortified settlement.
74% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$4.96
BEACONFALL
A fast-paced tower defense strategy with settlement management.
80% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$3.24
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
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$34.99
Signal Zone
Defend your base against increasingly dangerous enemy waves each night in this minimalist survival strategy.
76% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Peregrino
Peregrino is a dark isometric survival adventure where you explore a cursed forest by day and manage your caravan by night.
65% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$12.74
Nested Lands
A dark medieval survival RPG where your village is your lifeline.
73% of 519 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$14.99
Embers of the Night
In the game, day and night alternate. Zombies will not be active during the day, so you can build your home with confidence.
73% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$8.99