Fans of This War Of Mine enjoy it for a variety of reasons. Some like the survival and resource gathering, others like the dreary tone, and some like that their actions have more weight and impact on the in-game characters that seem incredibly real.

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Finding a game exactly like This War Of Mine is impossible as there are so many moving parts that make this dark and disturbing game a masterpiece. But if you are looking to fill the void through game mechanics, art style, or tone then there are some games that could fit the bill.

Updated May 18th, 2021 by Ben Baker: This War Of Mine proved that players wanted mature themes and hard choices in their games. The result of this has been a surge in titles that seek to replicate these mechanics and concepts in various ways. Darkness, depression, hopelessness, and fear are strong emotions that many games are starting to embrace. Here are some additional titles that tap into those raw experiences.

15 Displaced

Displaced’s premise has a lot in common with This War Of Mine. The player is tasked with keeping a group of survivors alive as they escape a country that’s been suffering through war. From the very beginning, players are saddled with tough choices as they can only choose five people to help escape the chaos.

From there on out, players must decide where to go, what to hunt, and whether to engage or ignore various scenarios that play out. Will they choose to rescue an unconscious person in a house fire or loot the building and let them burn? There are many hard decisions to make to ensure the team’s survival.

14 Fear Equation

Fear Equation is about an engineer trying to keep passengers on a special train alive while their nightmares literally try to kill everyone aboard. The player must understand the passenger’s deepest fears, prepare defenses, and try to fight the darkness.

To make things more complicated, the passengers will form factions and find their own ways to stay alive. Some are helpful, others are not. The result is a tricky strategy game as players fight nightmares, political power grabs, and dangerous beliefs.

13 State Of Decay

State Of Decay 2 sees a bunch of people struggling to survive the zombie apocalypse. Building a base, gathering supplies, and taking out hordes of zombies is just the beginning. There are also other survivor groups that can help or hinder a player's efforts to keep the colony alive.

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While the State of Decay games aren't as narratively rich as This War Of Mine, the open sandbox can be a welcome change of pace. The player can also incorporate new survivors into their group and slowly work towards taming the hostile undead world.

12 Rimworld

Rimworld approaches dark themes with more humor than This War Of Mine, but it isn’t without its horrors and darkness. A group of colonists crashland on an alien planet and must find a way to survive. The player is there to guide them, but the colonists won't always listen.

The result is an interesting combination of simulation and story-telling. Players can watch as the colonists thrive under their guidance or fall apart and suffer. Aliens, pirates, deranged rabbits, and other threats lurk in the shadows; however, the colonists are just as susceptible to becoming monsters through slavery, cannibalism, and laziness.

11 Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid is another zombie apocalypse title that can have the player struggling alone or with friends. People must scavenge for supplies, build a shelter, and fight the undead hordes roaming the environment.

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A dark twist with this game is that death is inevitable. There is no cure, no help, no rescue of any kind. The player is doomed to struggle to survive until starvation, an accident, or the ravenous undead finally bring them down.

10 Sheltered

In sheltered you are tasked with keeping a family of four alive during the post-apocalypse. To keep them alive you must keep the shelter and its components working properly. To do this you must send out members of the family to obtain items, bring back food, or gather information to help you survive.

Like This War Of Mine, Sheltered is a game of civilians doing what they can to stay alive. To keep the shelter intact and everyone alive the characters must venture out into the dangerous world to bring back what they can, knowing each trip might be their last.

9 Papers Please

Papers Please is a game set in a dark world, as an employee of the state you are tasked with monitoring the border to ensure terrorists don’t make their way in. This requires you to make judgment calls about each character using only the information in their documentation, which might be forged, and what might be on their person.

Making a bad call could let a terrorist in which results in loss of lives and punishments for you, but it could also mean turning away an innocent person desperate to reconnect with their family. Like This War Of Mine, Papers Please asks the player to make tough calls that put them in an uncomfortable gray area of morality.

8 Dead In Bermuda

Dead In Bermuda is a survival game without as much grit or emotional baggage as This War Of Mine. Your goal is to keep a group of plane crash survivors alive while exploring the mysteries behind this strange island.

Players enjoy the more challenging early game than the endgame, but the strange secrets and plot twists might be appealing to some. It’s a short title that might be a nice break for someone who’s a bit drained from the doom and gloom that comes with darker games.

7 Zafehouse Diaries

Zafehouse Diaries is another survival simulator that pits you against zombies and your own small group of survivors. In addition to fighting off the undead hordes and monitoring supplies, you must also maintain the relationships between yourself and the other five characters.

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It’s largely text-based, but it introduces a new dynamic where each action or interaction with other characters has an effect on the others. If you choose to put an infected player out of their misery their friend might turn against you, but if you refuse to then the others in the group might turn on you and kill her anyway. It’s a hard game that asks extremely hard questions and makes you question your own morals and ethics when they’re stacked up against the survival of the group.

6 This Is The Police

As a soon to retire police chief your goal in This Is The Police is to set aside a nice retirement nest egg of $500 thousand while keeping the city and your police department intact. Criminal organizations are creeping into everything and both the mayor’s office, your department, and you as the character are affected by this corruption.

It’s another ethical dilemma game as you must strike a balance between doing what’s right for everyone else and doing what’s right for yourself. That $500 thousand won’t come without some bribes, blackmail, and under-the-table deals, but making sure those around you and the city you care about doesn’t get hurt requires sacrifices and sometimes shady tactics.

5 Rebuild 3: Gangs Of Deadsville

Rebuild 3: Gangs Of Deadsville is a mobile game with a surprising amount of depth. Instead of a small group, you are tasked with keeping a city of survivors intact during a zombie apocalypse. In addition to hordes of zombies, you must fight back against hostile raiders, cults, and other horrors that threaten your community.

As a 4x game it’s a bit grander and more strategic than This War Of Mine, but the survival and dark tone are still there. It takes a strong leader to take back the city one block at a time, but it’s the only way to rebuild the world that was lost.

4 Distrust

Distrust tasks you with staying alive in the hostile Arctic Research station. Heavily influenced by the movie The Thing, the station has been overrun by nightmarish creatures that grow stronger and more numerous whenever the player sleeps. But putting off sleep for too long makes you less able to handle the horrors you encounter.

It’s a race against exhaustion as you scramble to solve the mystery, gather resources, and stay alive. It’s also a co-op game allowing you to play with a friend. This is perhaps the one game on the list that makes falling asleep a frightening event.

3 Orphan Age

Orphan Age is still in early access but the demo is proving to deliver an experience that is very appealing to fans of This War Of Mine. Similar to the events of the DLC The Little Ones, you are tasked with keeping a group of children alive, without any adults.

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These orphans are holed up in an orphanage in a cyberpunk world that’s at war. This game requires you to expand the base, gather resources, explore the city for other orphans, and maintain some semblance of a childhood amidst the horrors of war.

2 Beholder

Beholder takes an entirely different stance and puts you in the shoes of the villain, for the most part. As the landlord of an apartment building, you are charged by the state to spy on your tenants and report any illegal activity to them.

Failure to do so can lead to punishment and the loss of your life. This game treads a very gray line as you spy, steal, blackmail, and extort your tenants to appease your government overlords. They say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and this game proves this.

1 Frostpunk

The last game you should strongly consider if you enjoyed This War Of Mine is Frostpunk, made by the same developers at 11-bit studios. Described as a society survival game you are tasked with keeping the last city on earth alive during a brutal ice age.

In addition to managing resources and fighting off hostiles who want the heat produced by your city, you must make hard decisions to keep the city alive. Should you rule with an iron fist and risk rebellion or give freedom to your people and risk inefficiency which could cause the fire to go out?

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