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 24.1% ★, Survival 19.9%, Zombies 19.5%, Open World 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the same scavenging, fortifying, crafting, and survive-the-horde loop, just with deeper simulation and an isometric view.

'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 22.3% ★, Zombies 13%, Survival 9.8%, Tower Defense 9.6%, Base Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its core appeal is building trap-laden bases and surviving recurring zombie swarms, making it one of the closest matches to 7 Days to Die's horde-night structure.

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 21.2%, Survival 20.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: You scavenge an open world, recruit survivors, and develop defensible home bases while managing constant zombie pressure in co-op or solo.

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 22.8%, Zombies 20.4%, Open World 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another open-world zombie survival crafter built around looting towns, managing survival needs, and constructing shelters with friends.

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 21.1%, Survival 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its blocky look hides a very 7 Days to Die-like mix of zombie survival, crafting, base-building, vehicles, and multiplayer sandbox freedom.

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 17.3% ★, Zombies 15.9%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Even from a top-down view, it strongly overlaps through open-world scavenging, survival systems, vehicles, crafting, and base-building in a zombie apocalypse.

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 20.1%, Zombies 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the harsher scavenging and emergent multiplayer survival side of 7 Days to Die, DayZ delivers it in a larger and more unforgiving world.

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 25.1%, Survival 19.7%, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Open World 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the lonely post-apocalyptic looting, crafting, and shelter-building vibe of 7 Days to Die with a strong emphasis on exploration.

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 21.1%, Zombies 18.3%, Open World 10.7%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes scavenging, barricading a home base, and holding out against dangerous infected in a bleak open world.

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 22.2% ★, Zombies 18.9%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps voxel building for parkour and melee combat, but the day-night zombie tension and co-op open-world scavenging feel very familiar.

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Zombies 14.2%, Open World 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: SCUM leans heavier on realism and PvP, but its deep survival systems, base construction, and undead-filled sandbox make it a natural step sideways.

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 23.7% ★, Zombies 14.3%, Survival 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This low-poly survival shooter focuses on gathering resources, building bases, and fighting zombies in a multiplayer-friendly open world.

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% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 15.8%, Sandbox 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like a stripped-down earlier cousin of 7 Days to Die, it mixes voxel building, mining, crafting, and zombie defense in a straightforward co-op sandbox.

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 28.8% ★, Zombies 23.9%, Survival 22.2%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more compact take on co-op zombie crafting and fort-building, with a strong focus on assembling safe zones and gear.

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 26.1%, Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Rust drops the zombies but strongly matches the tense open-world scavenging, crafting, raiding, and base-building sandbox side of 7 Days to Die.

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 28.2%, Survival 22.6%, Base Building 14.2%, Open World 14%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original still offers the same satisfying rhythm of scavenging, home-base upgrading, and surviving a persistent zombie world.

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 27.9% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This combines zombie survival, crafting, base development, and survivor management in a sandbox that rewards planning and improvisation.

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 26.8% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12.2%, Zombies 10.8%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another first-person survival crafter centered on looting, building up a fortified homestead, and weathering hostile threats over time.

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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 27.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: While its monsters are weirder than classic zombies, the loop of scavenging, building a defensible base, and surviving in co-op makes it click for 7 Days to Die fans.

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 43.6% ★, Survival 21%, Open World 10.8%, Building 6.8%, Horror 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The appeal here is the same survival-crafting loop of gathering supplies, building a defensible base, and enduring terrifying nighttime attacks.

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 35.9% ★, Survival 17.7%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the demanding survival systems and methodical base-building of 7 Days to Die, just without the zombie apocalypse.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Survival 14.6%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op progression, gathering, construction, and periodic siege pressure make it a great fit if your favorite part of 7 Days to Die is building to survive.

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 26.6%, Base Building 17%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like 7 Days to Die, it thrives on scavenging, constructing elaborate defenses, and surviving escalating threats in a hostile open environment.

Explore, adapt, and survive in Undawn, a free-to-play open-world survival RPG for mobile and PC developed by LightSpeed Studios and published by Level Infinite. Embark on an adventure with other survivors four years after a worldwide disaster where hordes of infected roam a shattered world.

Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Open World 17.2%, Zombies 12.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world zombie combat, gathering, crafting, vehicles, and camp building in a more MMO-like but still familiar survival formula.

Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.

Why similar: Zombies 26.2%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is more action-heavy than 7 Days to Die, yet its co-op open world, crafting, rooftop safe zones, and zombie-filled nights hit similar notes.

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Zombies 22.8%, Open World 17.3%, Open World Survival Craft 17.2% ★, Survival 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is lighter on crafting and building, but its open-world scavenging and massive freaker hordes scratch a similar zombie-survival itch.

A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.

Why similar: Zombies 38.8%, Post-apocalyptic 24.8%, FPS 12.9%, Horror 10.8%, Character Customization 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you mainly love exploring dangerous zones, collecting materials, and smashing through zombie crowds, this is a polished action-forward alternative.

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%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Online Co-Op 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world zombie looting and crafting with co-op, though it leans far more toward action than base defense.

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 25.2%, Base Building 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Survival 14.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: From a strategy angle, it captures the fantasy of scavenging a ruined world and turning buildings into fortified strongholds against nightly infected assaults.

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 19.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the survival-crafting-and-defense formula into a train-based zombie sandbox, keeping the same scavenging and fortification mindset.

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 18.4%, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%

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 29.5% ★, Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Open World 10.2%, FPS 8.8%

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 36.7% ★, Survival 17.8%, Zombies 13.9%, Open World 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%

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%, Survival 22.2%, Open World 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Base Building 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 58.6% ★, Survival 29.3%, Multiplayer 4.1%, Open World 3%, Online Co-Op 2.4%

MISERY is a 1–5 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 21.2% ★, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%

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 18.5% ★, Zombies 13.8%, Survival 11.3%, Open World Survival Craft 9.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

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% ★, Survival 22.4%, Open World 11.5%, FPS 10.9%, Building 8.8%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Zombies 16.6%, Survival 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Open World 9%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 15.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%

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 22.9% ★, Zombies 16.8%, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%

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 18.9%, Survival 18.8%, Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

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 38.7% ★, Survival 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%

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 34.2%, Survival 18.8%, Multiplayer 11%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, 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 39.4% ★, Survival 11.8%, Open World 9%, Sandbox 8%, Base Building 8%

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 22.6% ★, Zombies 13.8%, Survival 11.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

“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 28.6% ★, Zombies 25.8%, Survival 23.2%, Online Co-Op 6%, Multiplayer 5.8%

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 24.6%, Open World 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 5.3%, Sandbox 4.7%

Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.

Why similar: Survival 26.6%, Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%

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 21.9%, Survival 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Open World 13.6%, Base Building 10.6%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Survival 15.3%, Zombies 13.4%, Building 9.7%, Sandbox 9%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%

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 20.9% ★, Zombies 17.8%, Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Base Building 11.2%

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 36.9% ★, Survival 18.6%, Zombies 16.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9.7%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 18.9%, Open World 10.5%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 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 16.6%, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.6%

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: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Survival 33.4%, Sandbox 9.5%, Open World 6.6%, Multiplayer 5.2%