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2026PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck verified85 % positive−42 % ~~10.99 €~~ 6.37 €

You run a shop in a zombie apocalypse, trading scarce goods, crafting stock, and managing staff while fending off the undead. Every choice between heroism and profit shapes both your store and your fate.

Post-apocalyptic setting
Economy and management
Choices with consequences
Dread and tension

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The closest matches for The Walking Trade are Zafehouse Diaries 2, Zafehouse: Diaries and Frostpunk. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Walking Trade special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like The Walking Trade

Best alternative overall: Zafehouse Diaries 2 91% match – Post-apocalyptic setting
With more action: State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition 88% match – with combat

Best match

Zafehouse Diaries 2

91 %Match

2017PC72 % positive6.89 €

You lead a small band of survivors through a zombie apocalypse, assigning tasks hour by hour. Distinct personalities, relationships and scarce resources drive tense, often brutal decisions.

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Zafehouse: Diaries

Post-apocalyptic setting

A lean zombie survival game where you manage a group of survivors in a safehouse, scavenge supplies and make tough calls under pressure. It focuses on strategy and resource management rather than shooting, and each run produces its own story.

Frostpunk

Post-apocalyptic setting

Lead the last city on a frozen, steam-powered Earth, juggling heat, coal and food while signing laws that test your morals. A bleak, tense city-builder where survival constantly clashes with humanity.

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Post-apocalyptic setting

Papers, Please meets the zombie apocalypse: you screen survivors at the last checkpoint and decide whether to admit, quarantine, or eliminate them. Between inspections you expand your base and defend against hordes.

Frostpunk 2

Post-apocalyptic setting

A society-management strategy game in a frozen world where you lead a growing city through factional politics, moral dilemmas and scarce resources. Every decision about laws and expansion has tangible consequences for your people.

State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition

Dread and tension

An open-world zombie survival game where you lead a community of survivors, scavenge supplies and build up your base. When a character dies they are gone for good, and you carry on with the next one.

Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville

Post-apocalyptic setting

A turn-based zombie-apocalypse strategy game where you retake a city block by block, manage survivors and make hard calls. Dark humor and a light narrative accompany the resource management.

Sheltered

Dark, serious atmosphere

You guide a family through the apocalypse, managing food, water, gear and scavenging runs from inside your bunker. Every call on resources and risk can decide who lives or dies.

Endzone: A World Apart

Dark, serious atmosphere

A demanding post-nuclear city builder where you manage resources, research and settlers while fending off radiation, drought and sandstorms.

Survivalist: Invisible Strain

Dark, serious atmosphere

A survival RPG set in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest, ten years after an infection broke out. You manage resources and settlements while a new, sinister threat emerges.

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