Games like First Day

Remember how dark and funny First Day felt at its best? These games are a good place to start.

1. Nuclear Day

   

   Nuclear Day is a story-based role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore the secrets of this world. Fight monsters. Pass tests and solve puzzles. Become your own in this tragic world.

   Also in Survival crafting · Dark, Tense

   65%65% of 144 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1Free

2. The Last Haven

   

   A nuclear winter is coming and the temperature drops every day. Feed, heat and arm a small settlement, keep discipline from cracking, and hold out until spring. A grim, demanding colony sim where one bad call can cost lives.

   Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable

   60%60% of 1,456 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$9.99

3. Mutant Meltdown

   

   Mutant Meltdown 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 mutants, build and upgrade your camp, face hordes of mutants and much more!

   Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable

   81%81% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

4. 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 · Dark, Replayable

   71%71% of 3,212 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$29.99

5. 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 and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable

   80%80% of 2,159 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$4.99

6. MISERY

   

   A 1-10 player co-op survival game in a nuclear exclusion zone. Raid radioactive ruins for loot, build out your bunker, hunt artifacts and try not to lose your mind. Dark, tense and best shared with friends.

   Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable

   85%85% of 20,788 Steam reviews are positive258Players online now: 258$19.99

7. Endzone - A World Apart

   

   Lead the last survivors back to the surface, 150 years after an ecological disaster ended the world. Build them a settlement in a land of radiation, toxic rain, droughts and raiders, and keep it alive. A harsh, atmospheric colony sim that rewards careful planning and does not forgive much.

   Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable

   76%76% of 8,358 Steam reviews are positive72Players online now: 72$24.99

8. After Inc: Revival

   

   Decades after the Necroa Virus, survivors climb out of their bunkers into a green, broken Britain. Build settlements, scavenge ruins, train fighters and make the calls that shape a new society, from food policy to government. A survival colony sim with bite, from the creator of Plague Inc.

   Also in Colony sim · Dark, Replayable

   78%78% of 1,542 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

9. 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 and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense

   80%80% of 16,810 Steam reviews are positive480Players online now: 480$24.99

10. 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. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Replayable

    77%77% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

11. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    

    The gates of hell have opened, and your answer is a well, a log cabin and a very sharp stick. Judgment is a colony sim where you grow a survivor camp, scavenge a demon-infested world and research both science and dark magic to push the hellspawn back. A grim, tense, deeply replayable fight for one more day.

    Also in Colony sim and Survival crafting · Dark, Tense, Replayable

    80%80% of 2,114 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$19.99

12. Post-Apo Builder

    

    Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

    Also in Colony sim · Dark

    37%37% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$5.99

Hidden gems like First Day

LIFE EFFECT Survival

A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.

85%85% of 558 Steam reviews are positive30Players online now: 30$14.99

After Inc: Revival

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

78%78% of 1,542 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$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.

82%82% of 3,804 Steam reviews are positive747Players online now: 747$10.99

Nuclear Epoch

Craft weapons, raise a town from a shelter and raid for loot you keep only if you make it out alive, alone or with friends.

77%77% of 530 Steam reviews are positive32Players online now: 32$14.99

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

80%80% of 142 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$22.99

Oxygen: First Breath

Build a settlement around the Oxygen Center and keep your people breathing through the disasters of a broken world.

88%88% of 1,665 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse.

76%76% of 213 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$9.99

Machine Mind

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.

71%71% of 587 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$19.99

Plains of Pain

A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.

84%84% of 1,039 Steam reviews are positive37Players online now: 37$19.99

MISERY

Raid irradiated ruins, hunt artifacts and keep your bunker standing while your mind holds on.

85%85% of 20,788 Steam reviews are positive258Players online now: 258$19.99

New Cycle

Lead a band of survivors from a bare settlement to an industrial metropolis, keeping them fed, watered and alive along the way.

79%79% of 2,617 Steam reviews are positive22Players online now: 22$29.99

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.

77%77% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Newest games like First Day

D.E.C.A.Y.

Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with…

81%81% of 106 Steam reviews are positive2Players online now: 2$24.99

After Inc: Revival

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

78%78% of 1,542 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$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.

82%82% of 3,804 Steam reviews are positive747Players online now: 747$10.99

Apocalypse: The Last RV

Rewind to the week before the apocalypse, stockpile supplies, upgrade your RV and survive the frozen road in runs that play out differently every…

67%67% of 246 Steam reviews are positive14Players online now: 14$4.99

Urban Strife

A turn-based tactical survival RPG with real bullet physics, factions with their own agendas and a shelter to rebuild.

69%69% of 674 Steam reviews are positive28Players online now: 28$34.99

Nuclear Epoch

Craft weapons, raise a town from a shelter and raid for loot you keep only if you make it out alive, alone or with friends.

77%77% of 530 Steam reviews are positive32Players online now: 32$14.99

Ruinlander

Instead of saving the world, worry about what to eat and how not to get a dose of radiation or not to freeze in changing conditions.

70%70% of 47 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$11.99

LIFE EFFECT Survival

A harsh open world after an alien invasion, seen from first or third person.

85%85% of 558 Steam reviews are positive30Players online now: 30$14.99

Machine Mind

Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS.

71%71% of 587 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$19.99

HumanitZ

Scavenge ruined cities, build a shelter worth defending, and see how long you last in a grim open world.

74%74% of 11,623 Steam reviews are positive1.3KPlayers online now: 1,332$19.99

No One Survived

Scavenge, craft and build a real home in a grim zombie world, then hold it when the dead close in, alone or with friends.

64%64% of 7,023 Steam reviews are positive100Players online now: 100$16.99

Ecopunk

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

80%80% of 142 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$22.99