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Games like Night is Coming

A Slavic-mythology survival strategy about settling, defending, and prepping for a coming Darkness, though Early Access bugs and fast-paced days draw mixed reviews.

Exodus Borealis
A straightforward, addictive city-builder and tower-defense hybrid about guiding shipwrecked colonists from survival to a demon-repelling kingdom.
2021-11-18
- Strategy
- Fantasy

Third person

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The Ember Guardian

A single-player post-apocalyptic roguelike strategy game about gathering resources, building defenses by day, and surviving creature waves at night.

2026-04-17

Shooter
Action
Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Side view

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Settlements Rising

A medieval city builder with simulated villagers, production chains, and raids, offering a no-frills but lively colony sim that reviewers played for a median of about 8 hours.

2025-01-20

Strategy
Simulator

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Age of Darkness: Final Stand

A dark-fantasy survival RTS that combines base building and wave defense against Nightmare hordes, playable solo or in co-op across a lengthy campaign.

2025-01-15

Survival
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

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Creeping Dusk

A dark single-player tower defense game set around an abandoned gold mine, mixing town building with escalating night monster waves — reviewers note it's fun for a few hours but repetitive.

2024-08-15

Strategy
Indie

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Black Forest

A tense free-to-play survival strategy game about fortifying a village against terrifying nights, with a dark, desperate tone and a short play session.

2023-09-25

Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)

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Becastled

A single-player castle-building tower defense strategy game that blends cozy daytime construction with tense nighttime defense, with a fairly short campaign.

2025-10-22

Strategy
Tactical
Indie
Simulator
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

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Monsters are Coming!

A single-player tower-survivor rogue-lite about defending an ever-moving city from monster hordes, with an addictive run-based loop and long sessions (reviewers logged ~11 hours median).

2025-11-20

Action
Survival
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Land of the Vikings

A Viking settlement colony sim that reviewers find unpolished, buggy, and uneven in pacing despite its appealing core loop, with a median review playtime around 8.5 hours.

2023-10-09

Survival
Strategy
Simulator

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Dark Moon

A survival strategy game about avoiding sunlight, upgrading a mobile base, and making moral decisions, though technical issues currently plague the experience.

2025-10-29

Science fiction
Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Viking Frontiers

A single-player open-world Viking settlement survival game about gathering, building, crafting, hunting, and raiding to protect your clan, with mixed player reviews reporting bugs, tedious chores, and roughly 14-hour reviewer playtimes.

2025-04-23

Action
First person
Adventure
Survival
Strategy
Fantasy
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Open world

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The Tribe Must Survive

A brutal Lovecraftian Stone Age colony sim where you build a camp, manage tribal fears, and survive disasters, with punishing difficulty and lengthy survival campaigns.

2024-05-23

Horror
Survival
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator