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Survival, Strategy, and Simulation Video Games
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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.
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Strategy Games
Simulation Games
Survival Games
Strategy Games
From real-time battles to turn-based tactics, strategy games reward careful planning, resource management, and smart decision-making.
In Against the Storm, build and manage a resilient settlement in a world of relentless storms. Balance resources, morale, and strategy as you lead your people to survive ever-changing seasons and harsh conditions.
Against the Storm
In Battle Realms, command powerful clans, manage resources, and unleash unique warriors in this classic RTS. Combine strategy and skill in immersive campaigns filled with tactical depth and intense battles.
Battle Realms: Zen Edition
In Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour, lead the USA, China, or GLA in explosive RTS warfare. With new units, powers, and missions, this classic expansion pushes your tactical and strategic skills to the limit.
Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour
In Empires of the Undergrowth, build and command an ant colony — gather food, expand tunnels, and defend your nest. This real-time strategy sim offers deep management and tactical gameplay within a living miniature ecosystem.
Empires of the Undergrowth
In Inscryption, experience a dark roguelike card game that fuses deck-building, puzzles, and psychological horror. Face sinister opponents, uncover eerie secrets, and immerse yourself in a haunting, story-driven challenge.
Inscryption
In Kingdom Rush, defend your realm in this beloved tower defense classic. Build and upgrade towers, command heroes, and battle waves of enemies and epic bosses across richly designed levels.
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, lead the Terran, Zerg, or Protoss in this iconic real-time strategy game. Build, expand, and command your forces through epic campaigns or intense competitive battles.
StarCraft II
In Stellaris, build and lead your own galactic empire through exploration, diplomacy, and conquest. With deep customization and dynamic galaxy events, every playthrough offers a unique interstellar story.
Stellaris
In The Battle of Polytopia, command one of 15 civilizations in this fast-paced, turn-based strategy game. Expand your empire, research technologies, and outsmart AI or friends in quick Perfection matches or epic Domination mode.
The Battle of Polytopia
In Thronefall, build your kingdom by day and defend it by night. This minimalist strategy game blends city-building and combat, offering a perfect balance of planning, resource management, and fast-paced defense.
Thronefall
Simulation Games
From city-building to life management, simulation games immerse you in realistic scenarios where every choice shapes the outc
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 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 a colony deep inside an asteroid by balancing oxygen, food, and power. This intricate survival simulator rewards strategy, planning, and problem-solving under pressure.
Oxygen Not Included
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 a village on the back of a giant roaming creature and keep both your people and their host alive through toxic, shifting landscapes in this unique survival-strategy game.
The Wandering Village
In TheoTown, build and manage your own city—plan roads, zones, and services while balancing budgets and keeping citizens happy in this deep city-building sim.
TheoTown
In Timberborn, lead a beaver colony to build wooden cities, manage water systems, and survive harsh droughts in this creative city-building survival game.
Timberborn
In WorldBox, create and destroy entire worlds. Spawn civilizations, unleash disasters, and watch your creations thrive—or collapse—in this chaotic god simulator.
WorldBox
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, brave a whimsical yet unforgiving world by gathering resources, crafting tools, and managing hunger, sanity, and health. A challenging survival adventure perfect for fans of strategy and cooperation.
Don't Starve Together
In Project Zomboid, survive a brutal zombie apocalypse by scavenging, crafting, and fortifying your base. Manage hunger, exhaustion, and infection in this unforgiving 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 your base, and make tough decisions to keep your people alive.
State of Decay 2
In The Forest, survive a plane crash in a mutant-infested wilderness by scavenging, crafting, and building defenses. This survival horror game blends tense exploration with strategic gameplay.
The Forest