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Games like Endzone - A World Apart

If Endzone - A World Apart is your kind of game, the closest matches are Endzone 2, Frostpunk and Per Aspera — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its every system matters equally, atmospheric and challenging. 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.

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Endzone - A World Apart is a post-apocalyptic survival city-builder developed by Gentlymad Studios, released in 2021. Players guide a small group of survivors establishing a new civilization after ecological collapse, balancing resource management, morale, and population growth while defending against raids and responding to environmental disasters. Reviewers highlight how settlements develop naturally as buildings are constructed and every system demands equal attention. Core mechanics include disaster-handling, scavenging expeditions, morale management, population control, and raid defense. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and tense, noting extensive customization for difficulty and playstyle. Success feels hard-won and failure feels personal. Available for $24.99, the game runs in a playable state on Steam Deck and holds a 76% positive rating from over 3,300 Steam reviews.

About Endzone - A World Apart: 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.

2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 72Windowsby Gentlymad Studios
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Steam players who put hours into Endzone - A World Apart 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.

  1. Endzone 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Top pick for Endzone - A World Apart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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.

    2025StrategySimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Frostpunk

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Second-strongest match for Endzone - A World Apart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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?

    2018StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Per Aspera

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Third-strongest match for Endzone - A World Apart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Ranked #4 for Endzone - A World Apart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Against the Storm

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Ranked #5 for Endzone - A World Apart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Surviving Mars

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Endzone - A World Apart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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.

    2018StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  7. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Ranked #7 for Endzone - A World Apart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Ranked #8 for Endzone - A World Apart fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Endzone - A World Apart

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Reviewers of Endzone - A World Apart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. RimWorld

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Reviewers of Endzone - A World Apart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Frostpunk

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Reviewers of Endzone - A World Apart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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?

    2018StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Prey

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Reviewers of Endzone - A World Apart cross-mention this title as a similar play.

    In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

    2017ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Caesar™ 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Reviewers of Endzone - A World Apart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!

    2016StrategySimulation5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Surviving the Aftermath

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Reviewers of Endzone - A World Apart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

    2021StrategySimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Timberborn

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Endzone - A World Apart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. ANIME TETRIS

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Endzone - A World Apart cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    The legendary game "Tetris" in a unique performance and atmosphere

    2021StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Endzone - A World Apart at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Endzone - A World Apart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Endzone - A World Apart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Endzone - A World Apart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Bloons TD 6

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Endzone - A World Apart on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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.

    2018Strategy13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Endzone - A World Apart on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Endzone - A World Apart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Endzone - A World Apart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~68% under Endzone - A World Apart on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Endzone - A World Apart.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Endzone - A World Apart

Does Endzone - A World Apart run on Steam Deck?
Endzone - A World Apart 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 Endzone - A World Apart cost?
Endzone - A World Apart is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Endzone - A World Apart?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Endzone - A World Apart are Endzone 2, Frostpunk, Per Aspera.
Who developed Endzone - A World Apart?
Endzone - A World Apart was developed by Gentlymad Studios and published by Assemble Entertainment, WhisperGames.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Endzone - A World Apart.

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