10 Games Like This War of Mine
With our list of games like This War of Mine you’ll discover other survival games with strategy and story in dark settings where survival is not guaranteed.
This War of Mine was released in 2014 and unlike other war survival games opted to focus on the struggles that civilians face during war time. While inspired by real wars in the mid to late 90s the game world is mostly fictional with players commanding a group of survivors as they try to scratch out a living and deal with the consequences of their actions. Each survivor has their own traits which bring positive and negative bonuses to your shelter.
In the game your group of civilian survivors have bunkered down in a makeshift shelter with the single goal of surviving the war with the available tools and materials that they have. With no military or survival training each survival will need constant attention and direction to stay alive until a cease fire is declared. Gameplay is split between the day and night cycle where players can perform different actions in each. This ranges from raiding and trading at night time to upgrading the shelter, cooking, crafting and healing survivors during the day. Combined with various randomisation no two attempts are ever the same.
The games like This War of Mine below have a similar focus on survival, consequences, randomisation and managing mental states. These titles will often require you to make tough decisions for the survival of individual characters or the party as a whole.
The Banner Saga
Enter the world of Vikings in The Banner Saga an experience filled with deep story and tactical role playing elements. With vital decisions falling to you players have the ability to guide the direction of their caravan as they cross a harsh and forgiving landscape. The story in this Viking fantasy follows the adventures of your caravan as you try to survive attacks from the Dredge, a race that seeks war and despises the human race. Players will face many difficult decisions as they try to find ...[Read Review]
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Valiant Hearts: The Great War offers a tear jerking story adventure with a few basic puzzles to deliver an intense emotional experience on a wide range of platforms. Following the story of several characters and a dog Walt through World War I it also aims to be a highly historically accurate game with references to events, settings and weapons throughout the story based on factual evidence and tied to the collectible item system. This focus on story and factual information was intended to help p...[Read Review]
Sheltered
Sheltered puts you in charge of your own family (two parents and two children) as you try to survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world from your underground shelter. Focused on careful resource management and ultimately survival can you lead a family through these difficult times? With a family to care for each step outside into the wasteland is a necessity albeit a dangerous gamble that might not see you return home. To help you build this connection with your family to really drive home the im...[Read Review]
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville is all about strategy, survival and zombies. Your objective is to return society to the glory days before the zombie apocalypse devastated the cities of the world and left them in ruin, scattering the few survivors. To being your Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville adventure players can customise their primary character with a number of visual options. The most important of these decisions though is your job which bestows special perks too boos your scavenging, happines...[Read Review]
Zafehouse: Diaries
Zafehouse: Diaries has you guiding a group of survivors through the zombie apocalypse across a number of campaigns with their own difficulty and objectives. The title is dialogue heavy with much of the story being told through diary like entries. As the game presents you with a rag tag group of survivors managing their relationships with each other is key and facilitated through the relationship screen which summaries how each character feels towards others from friendly to hostile. Each of thes...[Read Review]
State of Decay
State of Decay combines the open world genre with a zombie outbreak to create one of the largest and most impressive games in the genre to date. The game started out as a title on the Xbox Marketplace and eventually made its way to Windows. The game plays out in an open world environment with players taking control of their survivors in a third person perspective. State of Decay is packed full of unique elements with a crazy amount of depth for players to explore. While the game has zombies with...[Read Review]
NEO Scavenger
Awakening from cryogenic status and finding yourself alone in a post-apocalyptic world is a scary situation for anyone. NEO Scavenger attempts to capture this fear and disorientation in a turn based survival title with permanent death. To start your NEO Scavenger adventure players will get the opportunity to develop a unique character from various skills and flaws. By taking on such flaws players can accept more abilities in the hopes that they’ll balance each other out. While this selecti...[Read Review]
Dead State
Dead State combines the growing demand for zombie themed video games with classic turn based RPGs to deliver a lengthy zombie themed adventure. Set soon after the zombie apocalypse begins you’ll command your group of survivors in the fictional Texas town as you scavenge and explore while maintaining control over your home base, an abandoned school. Given the large range of mechanics that Dead State employs it’s very easy for players to have entirely different experiences. This is mostly due to t...[Read Review]
Darkest Dungeon
Battle stress and monsters in Darkest Dungeon, a roguelike dungeon crawler with a dark setting. Manage your roster of heroes as you explore the depths of a gothic mansion while paying close attention to the building stress level of your adventurers. In terms of plot the game begins with players inheriting an estate from a relative who had planned to excavate underneath for fame and fortune. Unfortunately instead this relative unearthed something much darker, releasing plenty of evil creatures ou...[Read Review]
Fallout Shelter
Fallout Shelter brings the Fallout franchise to mobile platforms with a vault management game that has players fighting off raids, scavenging the wasteland for resources and even growing their population through child birth. Released in mid 2015 to boost hype around the soon to launch Fallout 4, the game has been able to gross millions in revenue while jumping up the ranks in the respective stores. Your objective in Fallout Shelter is to manage your own vault, a shelter within the Fallout univer...[Read Review]
