Games like White Sands

Remember how dark and tense White Sands felt at its best? These games are worth a look next.

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.
Dark, Tense
60% of 1,456 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Alien Marauder
“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme. In this game, you will be the leader to a treacherous alien planet, build and defend base to survive against the vexan waves. Make the right decision!
Dark, Tense
61% of 325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
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. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Dark
77% of 201 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Revival: Recolonization
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and highly replayable experience.
69% of 338 Steam reviews are positive$19.49
Machine Mind
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Dark, Tense
70% of 588 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Cepheus Protocol
Command CERC forces against the Pangu Virus in an open world RTS with survival horror nerves. Hunt Patient 0, hold quarantine camps, and jump into a gun yourself when the line buckles. Best with friends: up to 16 players can share command. Rough in places, but the zombie RTS you keep looking for.
Dark, Tense
76% of 3,038 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$19.99
Red Solstice 2: Survivors
Lead a secret taskforce against a mutant virus on a hostile planet. Red Solstice 2 mixes a strategic campaign with tense real-time combat missions, six classes, deep customization and co-op for up to eight players. Plan the war on the map, then fight it out on the ground, alone or with friends.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
70% of 2,586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$14.99
Warzone 2100
A post-apocalyptic RTS from 1999, kept alive by its community. Rebuild civilization after nuclear war, design your own war machines from parts, and push over 400 technologies through a huge research tree. Artillery duels, radar hunts and a campaign with full-motion video make it a classic worth another look.
Dark, Tense
89% of 1,639 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17Free
reconquest
Reconquest is a real-time strategy base building game. After World War III, mankind got close to extinction. You have to reconquer Earth by making better strategic decisions than your opponents.
Dark
54% of 239 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Invasion Machine
Modern-warfare RTS/sandbox game inspired by the real conflicts in the Middle East. Fight a counter-insurgency war, protect the civilian population, casevac your wounded and decide how the world sees your struggle. And remember - no one gets left behind.
Dark, Tense, Brutal
63% of 618 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Machinefall
Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map. Lead humanity’s last survivors as they build bases, gather resources, and wage massive battles against an overwhelming machine swarm. Progress through technological eras from Stone Age to Atomic Age.
Dark, Tense
83% of 126 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
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.
Dark, Tense
84% of 1,042 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$9.99

Cheaper than White Sands

The Last Haven

Lead survivors through a deepening nuclear winter, balancing food, warmth, weapons and morale as every decision carries real weight.

$19.99

Alien Marauder

“Alien Marauder” is a real-time strategy game with survival and confrontation theme.

$19.99

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

Revival: Recolonization

Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and…

$19.49

Machine Mind

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

$19.99

Cepheus Protocol

Run the fight against a zombie plague in an open world, and take direct control of a soldier when the situation demands it.

$19.99

Red Solstice 2: Survivors

Run a secret taskforce against a mutant outbreak, planning the campaign on the map and fighting brutal real-time missions solo or with up to seven…

$14.99

Machinefall

Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map.

$14.99

reconquest

Reconquest is a real-time strategy base building game. After World War III, mankind got close to extinction.

$11.99

Invasion Machine

Modern-warfare RTS/sandbox game inspired by the real conflicts in the Middle East.

$18.99

Plains of Pain

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

$9.99

Earth 2150 Trilogy

Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for…

$9.99

Hidden gems like White Sands

LIFE EFFECT Survival

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

$14.99

From Glory To Goo

Grow a settlement on a hostile world, wall it in, and answer the Goo with orbital fire before they reach your gates.

$11.99

Machinefall

Machinefall is a post-apocalyptic real time strategy game set on a fully playable global map.

$14.99

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…

$24.99

Xenonauts 2

Scramble jets at UFOs, command ground battles turn by turn, and hold a divided world together one hard decision at a time.

$39.99

Chromosome Evil 2

Command a strike team and a resource-starved convoy through a Lovecraftian apocalypse, in real time or with active pause.

$19.99

Welcome Back, Commander

Commander, your strike team is to dive deep into the contaminated city of Sun Stone and get some answers before the mysterious deadly plague spreads .

$14.99