Games like Running on Empty

Still thinking about Running on Empty and its retro and replayable tone? Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Dustbowl
A post-apocalyptic adventure game set in a world where the player must search for food, water and essential supplies to survive. Discover a world filled with colourful NPCs, quests and secrets.
Retro, Dark
76% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
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. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...
Retro, Replayable, Dark
80% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Waste Walkers
Waste Walkers is a gritty post-apocalyptic role playing game that allows players to discover the horrors of the apocalypse through a harsh struggle for survival.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
80% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Dustland Delivery
A post-apocalyptic survival business sim where you drive a truck across the Dustlands, trade goods between settlements, and build a trading empire. Recruit a crew, turn your rig into a mobile base, weather the storms, and decide whether you end up a hero, a merchant or a bandit.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
87% of 1,277 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$7.99
Shardpunk
The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run! Shardpunk mixes turn-based tactical strategy with RPG, survival, and resource management as you gather your team, scavenge for resources, fight enemy hordes, and seek shelter to live another day.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
92% of 746 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$13.99
Overland
Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.
Replayable, Minimalist, Dark
75% of 499 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
NEO Scavenger
Wake up naked in a cryo facility with no memory, in a ruined Michigan where everything is out to kill you. Every turn you decide where to go, what to scavenge and who to fight or flee. Hunger, cold and wounds are tracked to the detail, death is permanent, and every run tells a different desperate story.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
89% of 4,454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$14.99
Caravaneer 2
A post-apocalyptic trade sim where you haul goods across a deadly desert, keep your crew and animals alive, and pick a side in a branching story. Buy low, sell high, fight bandits in turn-based battles, and build an economy with your own hands.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
94% of 538 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$5.99
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.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
82% of 5,399 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$4.49
Plains of Pain
A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you. Fight heat, thirst and hordes of madmen, build a settlement from nothing, craft hover vehicles to cross the desert, and pick a side in a faction war over the last outposts. Solo or with friends, every procedurally generated wasteland plays out differently.
Replayable, Dark, Tense
84% of 1,037 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99
FoE Remains
A 2D platformer, shooter and roguelike rolled into one, set in a grim pony wasteland. Loot dungeons, level up, throw crates at raiders with telekinesis and try not to die permanently. Deep, strange and packed with content.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
96% of 752 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21Free
Scavland
A hardcore top-down survival RPG in a post-apocalyptic Soviet wasteland. Scavenge bunkers and irradiated swamps, build guns from found parts, earn a reputation among Zalesye's survivors, and dig into the mystery of the Mist. Ammo is scarce, mutants are fast, and every expedition is a decision about how much you are willing to risk.
Retro, Replayable, Dark
83% of 1,089 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 113$19.99

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dead run

Travel around a fully-explorable, post-apocalyptic version of Earth and find the source of a mysterious radio signal.

$2.99

Despotism 3k

Manage a tiny human workforce to power your evil empire, and laugh while everything goes horribly wrong.

$7.99

Dust to the End

Run a caravan through a hand-drawn wasteland, haggle from town to town and fight or negotiate your way down a road of revenge.

$11.99

ICY: Frostbite Edition

ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age.

$1.29

SYMMETRY

A research spaceship reaches an abandoned planet. Nothing is what it seems here and the situation quickly slips out of control.

$11.99

Dust Courier

Dust Courier is a text game with pixel graphics and resource management. Navigate the wasteland using the map and face unpredictable situations.

$2.99

Scrapnaut

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

$1.39

They Don't Sleep

Eat, sleep, and shoot zombies in this survival simulator with roguelite elements. Battle to survive until you die and do it all over again.

$2.99

Infectonator: Survivors

Run a group of survivors through a zombie apocalypse: scavenge, build, fight, and hope someone makes it out.

$0.99

ROD: Revolt Of Defense

Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform.

$0.99

Desolation Tycoon

Travel and trade in a demon-haunted post-apocalypse. Each playthrough features a new character and a partially randomized world.

$2.99

Tribal Pass

A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.

$2.09

Hidden gems like Running on Empty

FoE Remains

Fight through a grim wasteland one run at a time, looting dungeons and building a new character every time the old one falls.

Free

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

Deadline Escape

Raid zombie-filled maps against a countdown, haul your loot home and turn it into better gear.

$4.99

Dustland Delivery

Haul goods across a broken wasteland, grow a crew and a rig, and decide what kind of legend your trading empire leaves behind.

$7.99

Terminus: Zombie Survivors

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

$19.99

Shardpunk

The war is lost, the Capitol lies in ruins, and you’re on the run!

$13.99

Atomic Exile

Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America.

$11.24

Space Wreck

The biggest little RPG in the world. Post-apocalyptic retro space adventure with an extreme focus on role-playing and replayability.

$16.99

Snow Ash

Snow Ash is a post-apocalyptic, wasteland-themed card-based trading and survival game.

$14.99

Plains of Pain

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

$19.99

Caravaneer 2

Haul cargo through a harsh desert world where every deal, battle and dialogue choice shapes how the story ends.

$5.99

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…

$4.99

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