Games Like The Next World (2026)

Shared: Colony Building

Seven alien races, procedurally generated galaxies, and a sandbox that respects your attention span, Starbound is the space explorer's Terraria, for better and occasionally worse.

Shared: Resource Management

Forget commanding armies. Here you manage three starving civilians in a bombed-out shelter, and every decision about who eats tonight will follow you long after you close the game.

Shared: Resource Management

A brutally honest survival sim where the Canadian wilderness is the only villain. No zombies, no jump scares, just cold math and bad decisions.

Shared: Visual Novel

Free, short, and deeply unsettling: DDLC wears the costume of a pastel dating sim and uses it as a weapon against you. Go in knowing nothing.

Shared: Pixel Art

Roughly 40 hours of harpoon fishing, sushi restaurant hustle, rhythm minigames, merfolk casinos, and a surprisingly earnest story about a hefty diver who somehow becomes the most wholesome protagonist of 2023.