Games Like 7 Days to Die

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Survival 19.9%, Zombies 19.7%, Open World 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutally detailed zombie survival sandbox emphasizes scavenging, fortifying safehouses, crafting, vehicles, and surviving an overwhelmingly dangerous undead world alone or with friends.

'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: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Zombies 13.3%, Survival 9.9%, Tower Defense 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches for gathering resources, constructing elaborate trap-filled bases, and defending them from regular zombie swarms in co-op.

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 19.3%, Survival 18.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: VEIN is an open-world zombie survival sandbox with loot runs, vehicles, skill progression, modular base construction, and multiplayer ambitions similar to 7 Days to Die.

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: Open World Survival Craft 17.6% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: HumanitZ offers a top-down but mechanically familiar mix of zombie scavenging, survival needs, customizable bases, vehicles, and online co-op.

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: Survival 23.3%, Zombies 21%, Open World 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on co-op zombie survival with extensive building, farming, crafting, power systems, scavenging, and hostile infected in a persistent open world.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Zombies 21.8%, Survival 20.7%, Base Building 15.2%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades block building for community management, but its open-world scavenging, outpost building, co-op play, and constant zombie pressure make it an excellent post-apocalyptic alternative.

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.2% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 12%, Zombies 11%, Open World 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although its enemies are mutated infected rather than traditional zombies, it strongly captures the loop of looting, base building, crafting, farming, and preparing defenses.

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 24.8%, Survival 19.8%, Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Open World 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: SurrounDead delivers a solitary but satisfying zombie-looting loop with firearms, vehicles, survival supplies, base placement, and dangerous exploration.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 11%, Tower Defense 9.6%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival shooter combines large-scale building, crafting, vehicles, traps, PvE infected, and multiplayer raiding in a way that should appeal to 7 Days to Die builders.

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Zombies 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Open World 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: DayZ offers tense open-world zombie survival focused on scavenging, firearms, illness, player encounters, improvised shelters, and the ever-present risk of losing everything.

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 28.6% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its systemic zombie apocalypse lets players scavenge, construct bases, recruit and manage survivors, and navigate shifting relationships in an open-ended sandbox.

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 17.7%, Zombies 14.1%, Open World 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Miscreated is a harsh multiplayer post-apocalyptic survival game with infected enemies, open-world exploration, scavenging, crafting, vehicles, and player housing.

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Zombies 21.4%, Survival 19%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its accessible blocky presentation hides a substantial multiplayer zombie survival sandbox full of scavenging, crafting, vehicle use, map exploration, and player-built bases.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Once Human is a free-to-play shared-world survival shooter featuring resource gathering, territory building, crafting stations, mutated monsters, and cooperative PvE progression.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Zombies 19.2%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Dying Light excels at first-person zombie combat, nighttime terror, open-world scavenging, progression, and drop-in co-op, even though building is limited.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Zombies 14.5%, Open World 10.6%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: SCUM provides a much more simulation-heavy multiplayer survival experience with open-world looting, crafting, metabolism systems, base building, and deadly puppet enemies.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Survival 14.7%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Open World 9.7%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim is a rewarding co-op survival sandbox with deep building, crafting, exploration, boss progression, and periodic threats to defend your settlement against.

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: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Zombies 16.6%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 7.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel terrain, first-person crafting, shelter construction, firearms, and escalating zombie attacks make it a simpler but very direct 7 Days to Die-style option.

An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 9.5%, FPS 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Deadside offers an open-world multiplayer survival shooter with loot, crafting, shelters, hostile AI, and tense PvP, though its undead element is less central.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Rust shares the high-stakes open-world gathering, crafting, building, raiding, and multiplayer survival loop, but shifts the primary danger from zombies to other players.

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: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Zombies 19.5%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This turn-based zombie survival RPG replaces first-person action with deep scavenging, crafting, shelter upgrades, and difficult decisions about every excursion.

All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!

Why similar: Voxel 18.1% ★, Zombies 14.3%, Survival 11.5%, Open World Survival Craft 9.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Zelter combines colorful zombie survival with crafting, recruitable survivors, base development, farming, and defenses against incoming hordes.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 27.3%, Open World 16.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its polished co-op survival gameplay emphasizes gathering, freeform base building, environmental exploration, traps, and fighting increasingly dangerous cannibalistic enemies.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.1% ★, Survival 20.9%, Open World 11%, Building 6.7%, Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: The Forest combines open-world survival, shelter construction, crafting, traps, exploration, and frightening hostile enemies in a more focused horror setting.

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Zombies 26.9%, Base Building 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Survival 15.1%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It approaches the same horde-defense fantasy from a management perspective, having you scavenge a real-world city, establish a settlement, and defend it from infected masses.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 20.9%, Open World 16.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Enshrouded has exceptionally flexible voxel building, co-op exploration, crafting, survival-adjacent progression, and dangerous corrupted zones in a more fantasy-focused setting.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 7.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Sunkenland offers co-op post-apocalyptic scavenging, modular base construction, crafting, defense preparation, and raids in a flooded-world setting rather than a zombie apocalypse.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: ICARUS is a mission-based co-op survival game with demanding resource collection, extensive crafting trees, weather hazards, and detailed construction systems.

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 28.6%, Survival 22.5%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%

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 30.5%, Survival 22.2%, Open World 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Base Building 7.7%

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 18%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 7.9%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.1% ★, Survival 29.1%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Open World 3.1%, Online Co-Op 2.3%

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Zombies 24.2%, Survival 22.1%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 7.6%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Survival 22.3%, Open World 11.6%, FPS 11%, Building 8.6%

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%

Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Zombies 16.8%, Survival 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Open World 9.2%

Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 9%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Zombies 6.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Zombies 14.7%, Survival 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Base Building 9.3%

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Survival 24.3%, Open World 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 5.3%, Sandbox 4.5%

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.1% ★, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 19% ★, Zombies 16.2%, Survival 14.7%, Tower Defense 10.9%, Building 9.6%

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.

Why similar: Zombies 19.3%, Survival 18.8%, Open World Survival Craft 16.4% ★, Base Building 9%, Open World 8.6%

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: Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Zombies 14%, Survival 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Base Building 8.9%

Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Zombies 17.1%, Survival 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Zombies 34.8%, Survival 18.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 8%, Sandbox 7.7%

“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: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Zombies 26.1%, Survival 23.1%, Multiplayer 5.6%, Online Co-Op 5.5%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.5%

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 22.4%, Survival 17.8%, Open World 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Base Building 10%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Zombies 13.5%, Building 9.5%, Open World 9%

Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Survival 18.4%, Zombies 16.9%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Open World 8.1%

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 17.1%, Survival 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 9.9%

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

Why similar: Zombies 35.5%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Online Co-Op 7.3%

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Open World 8.5%

Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Survival 11.9%, Zombies 8.6%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 7.7%

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 20.5% ★, Zombies 18.2%, Survival 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Base Building 11%