Games like Frostpunk
If Frostpunk is your kind of game, the closest matches are Frostpunk 2, Endzone - A World Apart and They Are Billions — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere of relentless desperation, atmospheric and bleak. 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 →Frostpunk, released in 2018 by 11 bit studios, is a strategy and survival simulation where players govern the last remaining city on a frozen, devastated world. The core experience centers on resource management, law enforcement, and policy decisions that directly affect population morale, with moral choices permanently reshaping society. Scenario-based progression delivers interconnected narrative arcs where survival constantly hinges on managing heat and food scarcity. Reviewers highlight the relentless desperation that permeates every decision, with players describing the atmosphere as bleak and tense. The game offers substantial replayability through its free mode and numerous scenario variations. It holds a 93 percent positive rating from over 38,000 Steam reviews, and is classified as playable on Steam Deck. The game is available for 29.99 USD.
About Frostpunk: Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Players who liked Frostpunk also play
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Frostpunk 2
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Frostpunk.
Top pick for Frostpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Second-strongest match for Frostpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
They Are Billions
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Frostpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Endzone 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Ranked #4 for Frostpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Oxygen
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Frostpunk.
Ranked #5 for Frostpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Ranked #6 for Frostpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a tense mood with Frostpunk.
Ranked #7 for Frostpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Frostpunk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Frostpunk
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Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Frostpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a stressful mood with Frostpunk.
Reviewers of Frostpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Frostpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a bleak mood with Frostpunk.
Reviewers of Frostpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Frostpunk.
Reviewers of Frostpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Hive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Reviewers of Frostpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Officially licensed version of the "Mensa Select" award-winning board game! Hive is a board game with a difference. There is no board! The pieces are added to the playing area thus creating the board.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Frostpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Solitaire
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Frostpunk cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The classic card game is back in a digital version that everyone can play! Enjoy a quick game or chase after points to climb up the world rankings. 4 different settings and 3 popular game modes. Quite simply, Solitaire.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Frostpunk at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Frostpunk on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Frostpunk on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Frostpunk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Frostpunk on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Frostpunk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Frostpunk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Frostpunk on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Frostpunk on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
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!
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
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More from 11 bit studios
Other recommendable Steam games by 11 bit studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
This War of Mine
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a bleak mood with Frostpunk.
Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Frostpunk. Shares Simulation with Frostpunk.
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Frostpunk 2
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Frostpunk.
Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Frostpunk. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Frostpunk.
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
The Alters
WHY THIS
Shares moral decision making and an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Frostpunk.
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Frostpunk. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
Anomaly 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Frostpunk. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.
Anomaly Defenders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Frostpunk. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Anomaly Defenders is the closing installment of the Anomaly series. The original incarnation of the Tower Offense sub-genre had players controlling humans fighting alien invaders. Now, the tables have turned. The human counterattack is underway and the alien homeworld is under threat.
Anomaly Korea
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Frostpunk.
Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Frostpunk. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign
WHY THIS
Another title from 11 bit studios, the studio behind Frostpunk. Shares Strategy with Frostpunk.
Anomaly Warzone Earth Mobile Campaign continues Steam's Anomaly Warzone Earth in an extra 15-level campaign. Originally released on mobile devices, the campaign is brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux exclusively in Anomaly Bundle. AWE Mobile Campaign turns tower defense on its head.
Frequently asked about Frostpunk
- Does Frostpunk run on Steam Deck?
- Frostpunk is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Frostpunk cost?
- Frostpunk is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Frostpunk?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Frostpunk are Frostpunk 2, Endzone - A World Apart, They Are Billions.
- Who developed Frostpunk?
- Frostpunk was developed by 11 bit studios.
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