Games like Survival Vacancy
If Survival Vacancy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Factorio, Hammerting and Satisfactory — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Survival Vacancy: In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Players who liked Survival Vacancy also play
Steam players who put hours into Survival Vacancy also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares automation chains and a contemplative mood with Survival Vacancy.
Top pick for Survival Vacancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Hammerting
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival Vacancy.
Second-strongest match for Survival Vacancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Survival Vacancy.
Third-strongest match for Survival Vacancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Per Aspera
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Survival Vacancy.
Ranked #4 for Survival Vacancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Sapiens
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Survival Vacancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
First Feudal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Survival Vacancy.
Ranked #6 for Survival Vacancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Survival Vacancy.
Ranked #7 for Survival Vacancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Vacancy.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Survival Vacancy.
Ranked #8 for Survival Vacancy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Survival Vacancy at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Survival Vacancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Vacancy.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survival Vacancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Survival Vacancy.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Survival Vacancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Vacancy.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Survival Vacancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Survival Vacancy on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Survival Vacancy.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Survival Vacancy on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Survival Vacancy.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Vacancy.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survival Vacancy.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Survival Vacancy.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cube Escape: Paradox
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Survival Vacancy.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares automation chains and a contemplative mood with Survival Vacancy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Survival Vacancy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Colony Survival
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Survival Vacancy.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Survival Vacancy.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Frequently asked about Survival Vacancy
- How much does Survival Vacancy cost?
- Survival Vacancy is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Survival Vacancy have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Survival Vacancy supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Survival Vacancy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Survival Vacancy are Factorio, Hammerting, Satisfactory.
- Who developed Survival Vacancy?
- Survival Vacancy was developed by Mind Leak.
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