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2026PCSteam Deck playable73 % positive14.49 €

A strategy simulation where you engineer humanity's downfall by combining disasters, plagues and wars to overwhelm the survival efforts of people around the globe.

  • Post-apocalyptic setting
  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Economy and management
  • Deep systems to master

The closest matches for Extinction Day are Surviving the Aftermath, Endzone: A World Apart and Cliff Empire. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Extinction Day special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Surviving the Aftermath

90 %Match

2021PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable72 % positive29.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Extinction Day: a post-apocalyptic setting, economy and management as well as tactical depth.

A post-apocalyptic colony builder where you manage survivors and scarce resources while preparing for disasters like storms and disease. A gate lets you send expeditions into the ruined world.

Cliff Empire

Post-apocalyptic setting

A city-building and management sim in which you grow a settlement on a cliff above a radioactive fog after nuclear war, working to restore life on Earth.

Machinefall

Post-apocalyptic setting

A post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game on a global map where you guide humanity's last survivors through technological eras from the Stone Age to the Atomic Age while fending off massive machine swarms.

Shadow Empire

Post-apocalyptic setting

A very complex turn-based wargame set on a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic planet, where you lead a fledgling state and juggle logistics, politics, economy and warfare. Its blend of 4X, hex-based tactics and RPG elements for leaders and officers gives it enormous depth.

Timberborn

Sandbox with your own goals

You build a beaver colony in a world abandoned by humans, managing water physics, droughts and vertical architecture. It blends charming city-building with tricky logistics puzzles.

New Cycle

Post-apocalyptic setting

A survival city-builder in which you grow a small shelter into an industrial metropolis after a devastating solar flare, managing resources and keeping your people alive.

Endzone 2

Post-apocalyptic setting

A post-apocalyptic survival colony builder where you keep a settlement alive in a hostile, ravaged world. Managing resources, weather, hazards and your settlers demands careful long-term planning.

Raiders! Forsaken Earth

Sandbox with your own goals

You lead a ruthless band of marauders in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, managing your gang and extorting, kidnapping and raiding in turn-based fashion. A grim blend of management, strategy and sandbox play where you are deliberately the villain.

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