Games like Dead Night Highway
Games like Dead Night Highway include They Are Billions, Stronghold HD (2012), Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition, Stronghold: Definitive Edition, and RimWorld. We matched them by the tags players give Dead Night Highway on Steam (Outbreak Sim, Tactical RPG, Exploration, Real Time Tactics, and Colony Sim): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

They Are Billions
Shared: Colony Sim · Base Building · Tower Defense

Stronghold HD (2012)
Shared: Real Time Tactics · Colony Sim · City Builder

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Shared: Real Time Tactics · City Builder · Colony Sim

Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Shared: Real Time Tactics · City Builder · Colony Sim

RimWorld
Shared: Colony Sim · Base Building · Sandbox

Infection Free Zone
Shared: City Builder · Base Building · Outbreak Sim

Kingdoms and Castles
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sandbox

Prison Architect
Shared: Colony Sim · Sandbox · Base Building

Manor Lords
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Base Building

Going Medieval
Shared: Colony Sim · Base Building · City Builder

Oxygen Not Included
Shared: Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival

Frostpunk
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival

Dwarf Fortress
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Base Building

Space Haven
Shared: Colony Sim · Base Building · Strategy

Settlement Survival
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Exploration

Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Shared: Real Time Tactics · City Builder · Colony Sim

The Riftbreaker
Shared: Tower Defense · Exploration · Base Building

Stonehearth
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sandbox

IXION
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Exploration

Rise to Ruins
Shared: Colony Sim · Tower Defense · City Builder

Timberborn
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Sandbox

Banished
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Strategy

Against the Storm
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim

Empires of the Undergrowth
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Strategy