Games Like Zelter

This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 37.9%, Survival 20.1%, Open World 13.4%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a very similar top-down perspective and pixel-art aesthetic focused on scavenging and survival in a zombie-infested city.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 26%, Survival 19.4%, Open World Survival Craft 14.2% ★, Open World 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive isometric zombie survival game that provides the deep crafting and base-building mechanics found in Zelter.

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 26.6%, Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Survival 17%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival game that captures the tension of managing resources and rescuing survivors in a post-apocalyptic setting.

HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Zombies 23.8%, Survival 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Open World Survival Craft 11.4% ★, Open World 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric open-world survival game that focuses on scavenging and base-building against zombie hordes.

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Why similar: Zombies 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 18%, Open World 13%, FPS 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a voxel-based zombie survival experience that shares the accessible, stylized charm of Zelter.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 32.7%, Survival 24.7%, Open World 18.7%, Sandbox 6.9%, Exploration 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and destroying the environment to gather resources.

DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.

Why similar: Zombies 22.5%, Open World Survival Craft 16.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Survival 13.8%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that emphasizes scavenging and building defenses against waves of zombies.

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Zombies 20.9%, Open World Survival Craft 15.9% ★, Survival 11.5%, Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with complex base-building and tower-defense mechanics to fend off zombie hordes.

Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!

Why similar: Voxel 29.1% ★, Zombies 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes crafting and scavenging in a zombie-filled world.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Voxel 18.4% ★, Zombies 14%, Survival 11.3%, Open World Survival Craft 9.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most robust base-building and crafting systems in the zombie survival genre.

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 34.4%, Survival 22.6%, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 6.2%, Online Co-Op 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action-survival game that features extensive crafting and resource management against zombie threats.

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Zombies 25%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Survival 15.6%, Building 12.2%, Open World 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that features detailed scavenging and character management mechanics.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on base building and managing a community of survivors in a top-down, open-world environment.

Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.

Why similar: Zombies 26.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 15.1%, Open World Survival Craft 12.7% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented zombie survival game that allows you to control zombies to help with base tasks.

This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.

Why similar: Zombies 23.3%, Survival 19%, Open World 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Survival Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on realistic crafting and base construction in an open-world zombie apocalypse.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 37.1%, Survival 21.7%, Open World 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Survival Horror 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on the core loop of rescuing survivors, managing a community, and building a secure base.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Online Co-Op 15.3%, Open World 11.3%, Procedural Generation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that features crafting, base building, and managing helpers in a hostile environment.

Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.9%, Survival 25.6%, Open World 14.4%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art extraction shooter that requires careful resource management and survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 37%, Post-apocalyptic 33.7%, Building 11%, Open World 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A resource management survival game that tasks you with keeping a family alive in a post-apocalyptic shelter.

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Zombies 25.6%, Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that pits players against zombie hordes in a destructible environment.

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Zombies 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 14.7%, Open World 10.7%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on scavenging and crafting items from scrap in a post-apocalyptic world.

ZIC: Survival is a survival shooter where you feel The Zombie Apocalypse & become The Undead Hunter!

Why similar: Zombies 18.1%, Open World Survival Craft 13.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down zombie survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting within a sandbox environment.

(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.

Why similar: Zombies 28.3%, Survival 16.4%, Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-heavy survival game that focuses on building defenses to survive nightly zombie attacks.

Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive

Why similar: Zombies 28.3%, Survival 21.6%, Open World 12.4%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused adventure game that emphasizes exploration and resource gathering.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 40.5%, Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 9%, Exploration 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique, stylized aesthetic and deep survival mechanics that challenge players to craft and build to survive.

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Zombies 27.5%, Open World Survival Craft 20.8% ★, Survival 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Open World 6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on scavenging and crafting to endure a zombie apocalypse.

The world has fallen victim to a deadly virus, zombies now roam the lands. While running for your life you stumble upon a small city. Claim this city as your own, protect it with your life and maybe other survivors will find you.

Why similar: Zombies 24.6%, Building 13.5%, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented zombie survival game that features co-op elements and strategic base defense.

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.

Why similar: Survival 30.8%, Building 17.2%, Open World 14.6%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Sandbox 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more of a colony sim, it excels at the base-building and survivor-management aspects found in Zelter.

Human Host is an open-world zombie survival crafting game. In this endless procedurally generated world, terrain, buildings, trees, rocks—everything is destructible! Build massive mobile bases, dig deep underground, construct trap-filled fortresses, scavenge supplies, and survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Voxel 24.6% ★, Zombies 16.6%, Survival 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Building 9.2%

You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!

Why similar: Zombies 26.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11.5%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that features open-world exploration and RPG elements.

Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.

Why similar: Zombies 21%, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival 12.7%, Building 10.1%

iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!

Why similar: Zombies 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Open World 9.9%, Survival 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.2%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 24.6%, Survival 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Open World 14.9%, Building 14.4%

Quest, craft, loot, build, destroy, and shoot your way through gorgeous voxel islands! Encounter mutated wildlife, discover secrets, and find out what went wrong in both pre-designed adventure and procedural survival worlds. Play in Early Access today--alone or with friends!

Why similar: Voxel 34.7% ★, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.7%, Open World 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.2%

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, Survival 19%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Open World 14%, Open World Survival Craft 10% ★

Explore a city thrust into disarray by an unknown event and survive the hordes of mutated abominations that lurk at every corner. You’ll have to fight through enemies & bosses, scavenge loot and survive the hostile city.

Why similar: Zombies 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Survival 14.3%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Open World 11.3%

Control a team of 4 characters, switching between them to use their unique abilities. ZIC: Zombies In City is a first person zombie survival shooter.

Why similar: Voxel 30.6% ★, Zombies 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, FPS 8.8%

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Survival 18.4%, Zombies 18%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Building 11.3%, Open World 9.7%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Survival 14.3%, Exploration 6.9%

Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.

Why similar: Zombies 26%, Survival 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Open World 12.2%, Survival Horror 10.4%

Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.

Why similar: Zombies 23.1%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Open World 8.2%

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 37.8%, Survival 20.4%, Open World 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Sandbox 3.6%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Zombies 24.5%, Survival 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Open World 13.3%, Survival Horror 7.9%

A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.

Why similar: Zombies 18.2%, Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Building 13.1%, Open World 9.9%

Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!

Why similar: Zombies 34.3%, Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 9.4%, Simulation 7.5%

Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.

Why similar: Zombies 29.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 12.7%, FPS 10.4%

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Why similar: Zombies 42.8%, Post-apocalyptic 31.3%, Survival Horror 22%, Action 3.9%

Try your hand at exciting survival and prove that you are not afraid of any challenges! Defeat all the evil dead and free the virtual world from danger. You need to confront these monsters by any means. Be the bravest!

Why similar: Voxel 40.2% ★, Zombies 29.3%, Survival Horror 16%, Exploration 7.7%, Building 2.4%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Survival 16.6%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Open World 12.6%, Building 12.2%

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 41.9%, Survival 18.3%, RPG 12.2%, Survival Horror 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.

Why similar: Zombies 17%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Open World Survival Craft 15.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Building 10.7%

Deadburg is a co-op survival game set in a procedurally generated city with thousands of buildings to explore and zombies to kill. Every building you see can be explored, exploited and destroyed one block at a time. Play alone or with friends and discover the secrets of the city.

Why similar: Zombies 35.8%, Survival 26.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, FPS 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

The Walking Zombie is a stationary FPS with an online co-op mode in a world full of zombies to kill. Buy and upgrade your weapons, kill all enemies in 200 levels and destroy mighty boss monsters before they eat you alive!

Why similar: Zombies 26%, Voxel 24.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, FPS 8.5%

In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?

Why similar: Zombies 21%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 13.6%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Open World 11.2%

After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%

You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 30.9%, Survival 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Open World 11.1%, Simulation 8%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Survival 13.4%, Building 12.9%, Survival Horror 12.6%