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SSS Video Games: Survival, Strategy, and Simulation
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items A handpicked collection of games that challenge your planning, resource management, and survival skills, offering deep, engaging, and strategic gameplay experiences.
Sections
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Survival Games
Strategy Games
Simulation Games
Survival Games
Test your limits in survival games, where resource management, strategy, and resilience are the keys to staying alive against nature, enemies, and the unknown.
In Don’t Starve Together, survive a harsh, whimsical world by gathering resources, crafting tools, and managing hunger, sanity, and health. This challenging survival game is perfect for players who love strategic, cooperative gameplay.
Don't Starve Together
In Project Zomboid, survive a hardcore isometric zombie apocalypse by scavenging, crafting, and fortifying your shelter. Manage hunger, fatigue, and infection in this persistent, open-world survival simulator.
Project Zomboid
In State of Decay 2, manage a community of survivors in an open-world zombie apocalypse. Scavenge resources, build and upgrade your base, and make strategic decisions to keep your people alive.
State of Decay 2
In The Forest, survive a plane crash in a mutant-infested forest by scavenging, crafting, and defending yourself. This survival horror game blends tense exploration with strategic planning and intense, immersive gameplay.
The Forest
Strategy Games
From real-time battles to turn-based tactics, strategy games reward careful planning, resource management, and smart decision-making.
In Inscryption, experience a dark roguelike card game that blends deck-building, puzzles, and psychological horror. Face twisted opponents, explore eerie environments, and uncover a haunting, immersive story perfect for strategy and narrative fans.
Inscryption
In Against the Storm, guide a resilient settlement through ever-changing seasons, balancing resources, weather, and citizen needs to survive and thrive in this challenging city-building strategy game.
Against the Storm
In Battle Realms, you command clans, manage resources, and master unique units in this classic early-2000s RTS, blending deep tactics with immersive campaigns and intense battles.
Battle Realms: Zen Edition
In Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour, command the USA, China, or the Global Liberation Army in intense RTS battles. Featuring expanded units, special powers, and challenging missions, this classic strategy game tests your tactical skills in...
Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour
In Empires of the Undergrowth, build and manage an ant colony by foraging, defending your nest, and expanding your empire. This real-time strategy simulation challenges players who love management, strategy, and observing complex miniature ecosystems...
Empires of the Undergrowth
In Kingdom Rush, test your tactical skills in this tower defense and RTS classic. Build and upgrade towers, deploy powerful heroes, and defend your kingdom from hordes of unique enemies and epic bosses across varied levels and expansions.
Kingdom Rush Series
In No Creeps Were Harmed TD, defend against waves of evolving enemies using clever turret placement and traps. This challenging tower defense game rewards strategy, adaptability, and tactical skill.
No Creeps Were Harmed TD
In StarCraft II, command Terran, Zerg, or Protoss in this legendary real-time strategy game. Build bases, manage resources, and lead epic battles across a rich single-player campaign or competitive multiplayer.
StarCraft II
In Stellaris, guide your space empire through exploration, diplomacy, warfare, and survival. With deep customization, complex politics, and dynamic galaxy events, this grand strategy game offers limitless interstellar storytelling.
Stellaris
In Battle of Polytopia, enjoy a fast-paced, turn-based strategy game on mobile. Choose from 15 civilizations, expand your territory, unlock technologies, and outsmart AI or friends in short “Perfection” matches or epic “Domination” mode.
The Battle of Polytopia
In Thronefall, build and defend your kingdom across minimalist maps. Expand and prepare by day, then face waves of enemies by night in this accessible yet challenging strategy game that tests both planning and reflexes.
Thronefall
Simulation Games
From city-building to life management, simulation games immerse you in realistic scenarios where every choice shapes the outc
In Kingdoms Reborn, grow a medieval hamlet into a thriving empire in this city-building simulation. Manage citizens, explore a procedurally generated world, and enjoy cooperative or competitive multiplayer modes. Currently in Early Access on Steam.
Kingdoms Reborn
In Oxygen Not Included, manage colonists trapped in an asteroid, overseeing oxygen, food, plumbing, and power systems. This challenging colony-management and survival simulation is perfect for fans of complex, strategic gameplay.
Oxygen Not Included
In Dwarf Fortress, manage a dwarven settlement by overseeing construction, resources, and daily life, all while surviving environmental hazards and unexpected threats in this complex simulation and strategy game.
Dwarf Fortress
In Plague Inc., design and evolve a deadly pathogen to wipe out humanity. Use DNA points to mutate your disease, choose transmission methods, and outsmart global efforts in this strategic, darkly satisfying world-domination simulation.
Plague Inc.
In Rebel Inc., stabilize regions by balancing government, military, and public support. Plan initiatives, manage insurgencies, and make critical decisions in this deep strategy simulation from the creators of Plague Inc.
Rebel Inc.
In Songs of Syx, grow a small settlement into a sprawling kingdom in this grand-scale city-building and strategy game. Manage resources, diplomacy, and massive battles while guiding your empire in a living, breathing fantasy world.
Songs of Syx
In The Wandering Village, build and manage a settlement on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Balance caring for your villagers while protecting the beast as it travels through toxic, ever-changing environments in this survival-strategy simulat...
The Wandering Village
In TheoTown, design, manage, and expand your own city. Plan roads, zones, and public services while balancing budgets and citizen happiness in this detailed and strategic city-building simulation.
TheoTown
In Timberborn, manage a colony of beavers in this city-building survival game. Build intricate wooden cities, control water systems, and survive devastating droughts in a charming yet challenging take on the genre.
Timberborn
In WorldBox, create, destroy, and shape entire worlds in this sandbox god simulator. Spawn civilizations, unleash disasters, and watch your creations evolve or collapse—perfect for fans of creativity, experimentation, and chaotic fun.
WorldBox