Games like Frostpunk 2

Loved how dark and replayable Frostpunk 2 can get? These games make natural next picks for you.

1. New Cycle

   

   After solar flares end the old world, you lead survivors from a bare settlement to an industrial metropolis. Balance food, water and work through storms, disease and hard choices, then rebuild the machines of the past. A dark, demanding city builder about dragging civilization back from the edge.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Dark, Replayable

   79%79% of 2,617 Steam reviews are positive19Players online now: 19$29.99

2. Against the Storm

   

   A dark fantasy city builder about founding short-lived settlements in endless rain. As the Queen's Viceroy, you lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes and harpies, raise each outpost to reputation, then start over somewhere new with upgrades in hand.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Dark, Replayable, Atmospheric

   94%94% of 33,692 Steam reviews are positive1.1KPlayers online now: 1,102$29.99

3. ALL WILL FALL

   

   Manage water, food and factions, scavenge the receding ocean floor, and grow a shanty town into a megastructure that (hopefully) stays standing.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Dark, Replayable

   77%77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

4. DarkSwitch

   

   Build a city up the trunk and boughs of a 200-meter tree, manage eleven resources under shrinking light, and hold the fog at bay with flame and zip lines. A dark fantasy survival builder with a 20-hour branching story and a soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka. The Tree Prevails, if you can pull it off.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Dark, Replayable, Atmospheric

   78%78% of 769 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$34.99

5. Settlement Survival

   

   Lead a band of survivors to a new home and raise a town from nothing: shape the land itself, plant crops, survive winters and disasters, and grow a settlement worth moving to. A colorful, low-pressure survival city builder where every map is new and every town plays out differently.

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Replayable

   85%85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positive190Players online now: 190$19.99

6. Floodland

   

   A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

   Also in City builder and Colony sim · Dark, Replayable, Atmospheric

   54%54% of 942 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$19.99

7. MEGACITY

   

   Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy simulation. Play in real time or one turn at a time. Idle/strategy/sandbox/dystopian/city builder.

   Also in City builder · Dark, Replayable

   88%88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

8. Cities: Skylines II

   

   Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis. Push your creativity and problem-solving with deep simulation and a living economy: there’s a map waiting for you in Cities: Skylines II. If you can dream it, you can build it.

   Also in City builder · Replayable

   56%56% of 66,533 Steam reviews are positive15.2KPlayers online now: 15,207$34.99

9. Frozen Ship

   

   Frozen Ship is an open-world survival game where you manage an entire city on wheels. Building, crafting, research, medicine, resource gathering, and hunting — you decide what your people will do and how your city will develop.

   Also in Colony sim · Dark, Replayable, Atmospheric

   77%77% of 174 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$19.99

10. Oxygen: First Breath

    

    Keep the power on through deadly winds, frosts and droughts, scavenge the ruins, and lead your survivors through the first 50 days.

    Also in City builder and Colony sim · Dark, Replayable

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

11. 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 City builder and Colony sim · Dark, Replayable

    76%76% of 8,358 Steam reviews are positive67Players online now: 67$24.99

12. Kapital: Sparks of Revolution

    

    Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?

    Also in City builder · Dark, Replayable

    62%62% of 194 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than Frostpunk 2

Floodland

A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans.

54%54% of 942 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$19.99

MEGACITY

Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy…

88%88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Frozen Ship

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

77%77% of 174 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$19.99

Settlement Survival

Guide your settlers as they clear land, plant crops and turn an empty map into a thriving medieval home.

85%85% of 7,783 Steam reviews are positive190Players online now: 190$19.99

Kapital: Sparks of Revolution

Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital.

62%62% of 194 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Sheltered 2

A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

45%45% of 2,022 Steam reviews are positive23Players online now: 23$19.99

Patron

Patron is a survival city builder where the people are the hard part.

72%72% of 2,897 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5$19.99

City 20

Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Scavenge, craft, and build to stay alive, while earning trust or sparking conflict with the NPCs and…

73%73% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Oxygen

Humanity is down to its last breaths, and the machine that breathes for it is yours.

70%70% of 837 Steam reviews are positive12Players online now: 12$14.99

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

97%97% of 422 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$9.99

After Inc: Revival

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

78%78% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

Technotopia

Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city.

86%86% of 644 Steam reviews are positive2Players online now: 2$4.99

Hidden gems like Frostpunk 2

After Inc: Revival

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

78%78% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

Pompeii: The Legacy

Lead Pompeii's rebirth across centuries, laying out streets, trading across the Empire and shaping the city's story at your own pace.

80%80% of 282 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$19.99

DarkSwitch

Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.

78%78% of 769 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$34.99

Technotopia

Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city.

86%86% of 644 Steam reviews are positive2Players online now: 2$4.99

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.

77%77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

Frozen Ship

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

77%77% of 174 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$19.99

Synergy

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources.

79%79% of 712 Steam reviews are positive8Players online now: 8$24.99

The Final Earth 2

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony.

97%97% of 422 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$9.99

MEMORIAPOLIS

Found a settlement in Antiquity and steer it, district by district, all the way to the Industrial Revolution while a dynasty and its factions shape…

75%75% of 1,767 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$32

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

Urbek City Builder

Grow a city from farm village to nightlife district, balancing food, coal, education and dozens of other resources as it expands.

89%89% of 1,862 Steam reviews are positive49Players online now: 49$2.84

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 positive19Players online now: 19$29.99

Newest games like Frostpunk 2

Wall World Strategy

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

70%70% of 136 Steam reviews are positive667Players online now: 667$16.99

Wild West Pioneers

Raise a frontier settlement from a handful of timber shacks to a gold-booming town, at whatever pace suits you.

75%75% of 612 Steam reviews are positive128Players online now: 128$19.99

After Inc: Revival

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

78%78% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positive158Players online now: 158$10.79

Frozen Ship

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

77%77% of 174 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$19.99

Frostrain 2

You are the last Conductor left, in charge of a train full of freezing passengers who all expect you to know what you are doing.

89%89% of 403 Steam reviews are positive8Players online now: 8$10.99

MEGACITY

Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy…

88%88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

DarkSwitch

Grow a vertical settlement on a giant tree and keep the fog from eating it.

78%78% of 769 Steam reviews are positive10Players online now: 10$34.99

Pompeii: The Legacy

Lead Pompeii's rebirth across centuries, laying out streets, trading across the Empire and shaping the city's story at your own pace.

80%80% of 282 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$19.99

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.

77%77% of 1,317 Steam reviews are positive92Players online now: 92$22.49

Epoch Cycle

Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world.

69%69% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$8.99

Pioneers of Pagonia

Settle the foggy isles of Pagonia, befriend its tribes and piece together what broke the world, alone or with friends.

81%81% of 4,861 Steam reviews are positive98Players online now: 98$20.99

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