Games Like The Forlorn

The Forlorn

Fight for your life through five nights (technically six) in this hand-drawn 2D game of resource-management and survival. Keep the fire lit, sharpen your sword, and fend off progressively angrier creatures in the Cursed Forest. Comes with a 4/20 mode, cryptic lore, how to draw, and many secrets!

★ ROD: REVOLT OF DEFENSE ★ GOING MEDIEVAL ★ DUSTLAND DELIVERY ★ PYRAMIDA ★ DAWN OF MAN ★ THIS WAR OF MINE ★ ZARDY'S MAZE ★ HELP WILL COME TOMORROW ★ SURVIVALIST ★ THEY ARE BILLIONS ★ RIMWORLD ★ MITOS.IS: THE GAME ★ WE ♥ IT 
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ROD: Revolt Of Defense

80% 👍 OF 543
About This Game

Explore a random generated space. Find artifacts and treasure maps. Build and develop your base on a flying platform. Attack or defend against enemies and save the universe!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Travel Between Stars
  • …Grow Oxygen Trees
  • …Build Flying Defenses
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Going Medieval

89% 👍 OF 21K
About This Game

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Raise Multi-Storey Castles
  • …Carve Underground Cellars
  • …Shape Terrain and Water
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Dustland Delivery

88% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Trade Wasteland Goods
  • …Deliver Across Wastelands
  • …Customize Your Truck
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pyramida

84% 👍 OF 762
About This Game

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build the Pyramid
  • …Farm, Hunt, and Mine
  • …Assign Villager Jobs
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Dawn of Man

87% 👍 OF 17K
About This Game

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Hunt Ice Age Giants
  • …Raise Crops and Herds
  • …Build Megalithic Monuments
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This War of Mine

94% 👍 OF 97K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …peek through keyholes, steal unseen, and hear the owners realize their medicine or food is missing.
  • …walk in on a soldier cornering a starving girl, intervene, kill him, take his gun, and limp home badly wounded.
  • …kill someone in panic, hear nearby civilians scream "You killed him!", and watch your own survivors spiral into depression or leave.
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Zardy's Maze

91% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Zardy's Maze is an extremely challenging horror game where you must enter a corn maze in the dead of night. Your goal? Cut down the giant plants that have started to grow there. Equipped with a flashlight and an axe, you must brave the unknown... And avoid what lurks in the darkness.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Chop Giant Weeds
  • …Explore New Mazes
  • …Outwit Eight Adversaries
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Help Will Come Tomorrow

80% 👍 OF 945
About This Game

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Unite Divided Survivors
  • …Stretch Scarce Supplies
  • …Build a Winter Camp
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Survivalist

80% 👍 OF 2.6K
About This Game

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Recruit Survivors
  • …Issue Survivor Orders
  • …Build Base Defenses
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They Are Billions

85% 👍 OF 51K
About This Game

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?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Fortified Colonies
  • …Manage Colony Resources
  • …Pause and Command
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RimWorld

98% 👍 OF 245K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …stockpile hundreds of mortar shells, have one cook off during a raid, and set off a chain reaction that blows half your mountain base apart.
  • …trap an insect infestation in a sealed room, steal the jelly, and keep repeating until the bugs are basically livestock.
  • …recruit a cannibal crime lord, feed him nutrient paste, surgically add retractable claws, and rename him C.A.N.N.I.B.A.L.
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Mitos.is: The Game

81% 👍 OF 12K
About This Game

Step into the microscopic world of Mitos.is! Eat or be eaten—become the ultimate cell in a highly addictive multiplayer game. Diverse modes, daily tournaments, guilds, and gear await! The BEST game of 2015 is back!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Grow by Eating
  • …Split to Escape
  • …Weaponize Viruses
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