- #1 Atomfall
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,687 reviews2025
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Why similar: Open World 38.1%, Survival 27.5%, Action 17.6%, Adventure 16.8%
- #2 Ashes
96% matchMixed63% of 60 reviews2017
Dev: FurGoldGames
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Chaos and devastation devoured the last sparkles of life. Surviving is the main task.
Why similar: Survival 38.5%, Action 32.1%, Adventure 29.4%
- #3 Dead Matter
94% matchMostly Negative21% of 897 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
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: Survival 33.5%, Open World 29.6%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Action 12%, Adventure 10.3%
- #4 No Man's Home
93% matchVery Positive87% of 251 reviews2025
Dev: radrunner
Windows
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.
Why similar: Survival 51.5%, Open World 32.4%, Action 16.2%
- #5 Rem Survival
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Survival 33.9%, Open World 28.1%, RPG 13.3%, Action 8.8%, Adventure 8.6%
- #6 SurrounDead
92% matchVery Positive91% of 26,489 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Survival 43.2%, Open World 35.4%, RPG 12.3%, Action 4.6%, Adventure 4.5%
- #7 Last Oasis
90% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 33%, Open World 25.4%, RPG 16.4%, Action 9.2%, Adventure 8.7%
- #8 Death World
91% matchMixed47% of 57 reviews2020
Dev: Millenium Games
Windows
After a long night you wake up alone in the bunker as a bunker security guard. Hunt, kill, gather. Do anything to survive.
Why similar: RPG 48.9%, Action 28.9%, Adventure 22.2%
- #9 Wasted World
89% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Achrony
Windows
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Why similar: RPG 36.3%, Action 21.3%, Adventure 19.4%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 10.8%
- #10 TRAPPED
88% matchMostly Negative36% of 461 reviews2025
Dev: Cheap Fun GamesPub: Forthright Indie Games Division
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...
Why similar: Open World 30.3%, Survival 28.1%, Action 19.1%, Adventure 15.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #11 Rust
86% matchVery Positive87% of 1,393,461 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 429.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 50.6%, Open World 27%, Multiplayer 12%, Adventure 5.5%, Action 4.9%
- #12 The Region
89% matchMostly Negative30% of 61 reviews2019
Dev: Black Snake Games
Windows
The region is affected by an unknown virus that has destroyed almost all living things.
Why similar: Action 37.6%, Adventure 34.5%, Multiplayer 27.9%
- #13 Fargone
86% matchMixed69% of 600 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: Survival 37%, Open World 27.5%, RPG 23.3%, Action 12.3%
- #14 No One Survived
82% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 43.1%, Open World 31.9%, Multiplayer 11.6%, RPG 7.6%, Adventure 5.8%
- #15 Last Days Motel
85% matchMixed44% of 116 reviews2019
Dev: 陌上科技
Windows
In the doomsday Hotel, you can experience the hard life in the waste Land World. Stick to hope in motel-based doomsday shelters and fight survival challenges such as hunger, thirst and lack of energy. Risking their lives to collect supplies, develop and build hotel shelters. Do everything possible to survive the cataclysmic world.
Why similar: RPG 42.7%, Survival 34.5%, Adventure 22.8%
- #16 Another Try 2
82% matchMixed54% of 1,147 reviews2025
Dev: Hoki Wolf Studio
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
The virus has devastated cities and lands. Most of the population died, the rest turned into the walking dead. You're one of the last survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another day.
Why similar: Survival 60.9%, Adventure 20.5%, Action 18.6%
- #17 Survival Is Not Enough
84% matchMostly Negative35% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Fixer Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Survival Is Not Enough is an open world first person zombie survival game. You wake up in a mysterious island and find out that you're infected. To survive you need to: build a shelter; protect yourself from dangers of this island; kill animals for food; kill zombies for underblood to cure yourself from zombie virus; The better you're...
Why similar: RPG 44%, Action 32.5%, Adventure 23.5%
- #18 Sunrise: survival
84% matchMixed48% of 531 reviews2017
Dev: Fedorov Ilya & Andrew Konovalov
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
"Sunrise" - an online shooter with elements of survival from the first person. Your task is to survive in the harsh conditions of the post-apocalyptic world. Explore new regions, team up with other players in groups, survive with them and create your own rules of survival!
Why similar: Survival 37.1%, RPG 16.6%, Open World 13.3%, Action 13%, Adventure 11.2%
- #19 SurvivalZ
83% matchMixed60% of 318 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 38%
A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone or in groups you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by living dead!
Why similar: Survival 47.1%, Action 18.7%, Adventure 18.7%, Multiplayer 15.5%
- #20 Nuclear Day
81% matchMixed64% of 125 reviews2025
Dev: Garden of Dreams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nuclear Day is a story-based role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore the secrets of this world. Fight monsters. Pass tests and solve puzzles. Become your own in this tragic world.
Why similar: Survival 33.9%, Open World 30.1%, RPG 23.4%, Adventure 12.6%
- #21 The Last Disease Z
79% matchMixed56% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Bublig
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Last Disease Z is a co-op survival experience where everything is against you. Abandoned cities, zombies and bandits, a struggle for resources and a place to live. Build, unite, and survive.
Why similar: Survival 47.8%, Open World 41.6%, Action 10.6%
- #22 Plains of Pain
80% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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: Survival 31.3%, Open World 27.2%, RPG 19.1%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Action 10.9%
- #23 Grim
78% matchMixed57% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed Interactive
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 37.8%, Open World 28.4%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Action 11.3%, Adventure 10%
- #24 LIFE EFFECT Survival
77% matchVery Positive87% of 519 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: Survival 56.9%, Action 22.1%, Adventure 21%
- #25 Fragmented
81% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.
Why similar: Survival 42.5%, Open World 25.7%, RPG 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Action 8%
- #26 Savage Lands
78% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Survival 35.4%, Open World 25.3%, RPG 15%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Action 8.4%
- #27 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
76% matchMixed54% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Survival 38.7%, Open World 32.4%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 10.7%, Multiplayer 7%
- #28 GearStorm - Armored Survival
77% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: RPG 25%, Survival 24.2%, Open World 18.7%, Action 15.5%, Adventure 13%
- #29 Drive 4 Survival
76% matchMixed65% of 304 reviews2020
Dev: M3M Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!
Why similar: Open World 42%, Survival 41.5%, Action 16.5%
- #30 Soviet Survival
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Survival 38.2%, Open World 32%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Action 9.5%, Adventure 7%
- #31 Miscreated
73% matchMixed66% of 31,591 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Survival 49%, Open World 33.3%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Action 5.2%
- #32 Deadly Flare
73% matchMixed55% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: Green Grass Games
Windows
A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.
Why similar: Survival 39.9%, Open World 28.7%, RPG 16.3%, Action 8.1%, Adventure 6.9%
- #33 Exile to Death
74% matchMixed67% of 352 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksei MilchakovPub: Manifestors Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...
Why similar: Survival 39.2%, RPG 26.4%, Action 21.4%, Adventure 13%
- #34 Nuclear Nightmare
70% matchVery Positive81% of 18,981 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Why similar: Open World 48.2%, Multiplayer 21.6%, Adventure 15.1%, Action 15.1%
- #35 RUINS Survival
75% matchMixed48% of 65 reviews2019
Dev: ATD Game Studio
Windows
In the past of this world, civilization has reached a high level of social and technical development, but then the world experienced a global catastrophe, the fall of an asteroid and the subsequent extraterrestrial pandemic as a result of which civilization and most of the wealth it created were destroyed.
Why similar: Survival 47.7%, Action 27.2%, Adventure 25%
- #36 Project Asteroids
72% matchMixed56% of 130 reviews2024
Dev: PAEB Studio
Windows
In the vastness of space, you are a lone robot desperately trying to survive. Build, explore, and fight for your life as you face deadly threats in the asteroid belt. This hardcore game shows no mercy—dangers lurk at every step, ready to destroy you at any moment.
Why similar: Survival 38.3%, Open World 30.2%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Action 10.5%, Adventure 7.8%
- #37 Project Cobalt
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Survival 41.9%, Open World 36.1%, Action 11.2%, Adventure 10.8%
- #38 Last Remains
70% matchMixed52% of 990 reviews2025
Dev: Earn Alliance
Windows
"Last Remains" is a highly challenging multiplayer zombie survival game. Players must survive in a city overrun by the undead, scavenging for food, arming themselves, avoiding zombies, searching for loot, plundering other survivors, and finding any possible way to escape.
Why similar: Action 77%, Adventure 23%
- #39 DREADZONE
69% matchMixed51% of 1,210 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
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: Survival 37.6%, Open World 32%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Action 7.4%
- #40 Road to Eden
71% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Survival 38.2%, Open World 30%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Adventure 10.3%, Action 7.7%
- #41 Dust to the End
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,262 reviews2021
Dev: Haojoy GamePub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nuclear war ended human civilization, but it could never uproot the evil within our hearts. Fight, trade, negotiate, raid– do whatever it takes to survive in the wasteland. You will have to be as clever as ruthless to thrive in a broken world, torn by war, cruelty, hunger and slavery.
Why similar: Open World 32.5%, Survival 31.4%, RPG 23.4%, Adventure 12.7%
- #42 Frozen Flame
69% matchMixed63% of 2,989 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamside InteractivePub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.
Why similar: Survival 27.7%, Open World 24.6%, RPG 18.2%, Action 10.1%, Adventure 9.9%
- #43 DARKEST DAYS
67% matchMixed49% of 5,125 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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: Survival 29.6%, Open World 28.7%, RPG 17.1%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Action 7.1%
- #44 Endgame: Road To Salvation
68% matchVery Positive98% of 160 reviews2021
Dev: Indie/Anon Games
Windows
A high-octane road trip through a besieged world during a demon-infested zombie apocalypse. Rescue survivors, form a caravan, call in various support drops or air strikes, loot random structures for supplies or craft them yourself, modify common vehicles into post-apocalyptic machines of war.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #45 Aground Zero
65% matchVery Positive83% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Open World 35.2%, Survival 33.9%, RPG 30.9%
- #46 Road to Vostok
62% matchVery Positive84% of 8,717 reviews2026
Dev: Road to Vostok Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.
Why similar: Survival 86.3%, Action 13.7%
- #47 Frozen State
68% matchMixed64% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
Why similar: Survival 46.2%, RPG 20.3%, Open World 20%, Action 8.9%, Adventure 4.5%
- #48 Sailing alone:Aftermath
65% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Survival 34.7%, RPG 23.6%, Open World 17.4%, Adventure 13.3%, Multiplayer 11%
- #49 Bleak Faith: Forsaken
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,983 reviews2023
Dev: Archangel Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.
Why similar: Open World 26.4%, Survival 24.2%, RPG 23%, Action 13.8%, Adventure 12.6%
- #50 Pathogenesis: Overcome
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 225 reviews2023
Dev: 269th lab games softworks
Windows
Narrative-driven action RPG set in post-pandemic Russia, featuring hardcore gameplay, tactical combat, open-environment exploration, and survival elements. Personal story set in a collapsed world, where armed survivors and emerging factions pose a far greater threat than the infected.
Why similar: Survival 40.2%, RPG 27%, Open World 22.7%, Action 10.1%