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24 alternatives to Frostpunk 2
Revisit the Frostland 30 years after the Great Storm
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Frostpunk 2 launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Mixture of city builder, survival & society simulation
2017 · 11bitstudios.com · its alternatives →
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I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
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2013 · playadrift.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been building termcraft, a terminal-first 2D sandbox survival game in Rust. The idea is to take the classic early survival progression and adapt it to a side-on terminal format instead of a tile or pixel-art engine. Current build includes: - procedural Overworld, Nether, and End generation - mining, placement, crafting, furnaces, brewing, and boats - hostile and passive mobs - villages, dungeons, strongholds, Nether fortresses, and dragon progression This is still early alpha, but it’s already playable. Project: https://github.com/pagel-s/termcraft Docs:…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Once Human▲199Post-apocalyptic multiplayer open-world survival game
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I built a desktop Mars colony survival game called Underhill, in homage to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Land on Mars, build solar panels and greenhouses, and try not to pass out during dust storms. Eventually your colonists split into factions: Greens who want to terraform and Reds who want to preserve Mars. There’s Chill Mode for players that just want to build & hang, and Conflict Mode that introduces the Red v. Green factions. Reds sabotage, the terrain slowly turns green as the world gets more terraformed. Feedback welcome, especially on performance and gameplay!
Feb 2026 · underhillgame.com · its alternatives →
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Like games such as Player Unknown
2018 · surviv.io · its alternatives →
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Experience survival horror like never before
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Fallout Shelter▲180Build your own vault to survive the apocalypse!
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hearthlands▲70A city-building game set in a medieval/fantasy world.
2015 · hearthlands.com · its alternatives →
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Hurtworld▲70A hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on survival
2016 · hurtworld.com · its alternatives →
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Craft your own unique Pandemic experience over 12 months
2015 · zmangames.com · its alternatives →
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Wasteland 2▲58The post-apocalyptic CRPG, that inspired the Fallout series
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Just One Earth▲135We only have one earth. Let's save it. 🌏🔥
2020 · justone.earth · its alternatives →
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An RPG inspired by Dystopian Fiction and Visual Novels.
2016 · longgonedays.com · its alternatives →
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2D platform-puzzler with beautiful hand-painted environments
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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A five part series set after the events of Borderlands 2
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Be brave, ruler, and fight to the bitter end
2017 · kingdomthegame.com · its alternatives →
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I'm working on the Survival Crafting RPG that you would have played on your Apple II back in the '80s. You can think of it as Valheim's gameplay crammed into the tile-based UI of the old Ultima games. It has a procedurally-generated open world with towns and NPCs to talk to, all the resource gathering, mining, crafting stuff you'd expect in a modern survival game, and some good old fashioned dungeon crawling to boot. I've been working on it off and on for the last several months. It's complete up through the Bronze Age (in Valheim terms). Let me know what you think!…
May 2026 · stravaeger.com · its alternatives →
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Fortnite for iOS▲104Play 1000s of free creator-made islands with your friends
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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