Games Like Barren Roads

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%, Survival 27.4%, Action 17.8%, Adventure 16.8%

Chaos and devastation devoured the last sparkles of life. Surviving is the main task.

Why similar: Survival 39.1%, Action 31.8%, Adventure 29.2%

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: Survival 33.7%, Open World 29.4%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Action 11.8%, Adventure 10.1%

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 43.1%, Open World 34.5%, RPG 13.3%, Action 4.6%, Adventure 4.4%

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 34.1%, Open World 28%, RPG 13.4%, Action 8.7%, Adventure 8.5%

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 51.7%, Open World 32.2%, Action 16.1%

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 33.3%, Open World 25.1%, RPG 16.5%, Action 9.1%, Adventure 8.6%

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 49.4%, Action 28.6%, Adventure 22%

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: Survival 31.5%, Open World 26.9%, RPG 19.2%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Action 10.8%

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 30.2%, Survival 28.4%, Action 18.8%, Adventure 15.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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 50.8%, Open World 26.7%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Adventure 5.4%, Action 4.8%

The region is affected by an unknown virus that has destroyed almost all living things.

Why similar: Action 37.3%, Adventure 34.2%, Multiplayer 28.5%

"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 37.6%, RPG 16.7%, Action 12.8%, Open World 12.6%, Adventure 11.1%

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 36.6%, Action 21%, Adventure 19.2%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.8%

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 37.2%, Open World 27.1%, RPG 23.5%, Action 12.2%

Tasmania is a harsh environment and to make things worse, the world is ending. Do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Survival 48.6%, Open World 42.7%, Action 8.7%

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 42.9%, Open World 31.5%, Multiplayer 11.8%, RPG 7.9%, Adventure 5.9%

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 47.4%, Adventure 18.4%, Action 18.4%, Multiplayer 15.8%

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 61.3%, Adventure 20.3%, Action 18.5%

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 34.2%, Open World 29.9%, RPG 23.5%, Adventure 12.5%

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 42.8%, Survival 34.8%, Adventure 22.5%

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 38.1%, Open World 28.2%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Action 11.1%, Adventure 9.8%

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 44.5%, Action 32.2%, Adventure 23.4%

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 57.4%, Action 21.8%, Adventure 20.8%

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 42.7%, Open World 25.4%, RPG 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Action 7.9%

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 35.6%, Open World 25%, RPG 15%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Action 8.3%

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 41.1%, Open World 33.5%, Action 11.3%, Adventure 11%, Multiplayer 3.1%

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Why similar: Survival 47.1%, Open World 37%, Adventure 8.1%, Action 7.8%

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 25.1%, Survival 24.4%, Open World 18.6%, Action 15.3%, Adventure 12.9%

The realm is dying. As its Guardian, you have one desperate option — tear it apart to rebuild it stronger. Explore a vast open world, master its secrets, and forge salvation from the ruins. Sometimes, saving the world means destroying it first.

Why similar: Open World 44.2%, Survival 44.1%, Multiplayer 11.7%

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

Why similar: Survival 38.3%, Open World 31.8%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Action 9.4%, Adventure 6.9%

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: Survival 41.9%, Open World 41.8%, Action 16.3%

Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.

Why similar: Survival 45.5%, Open World 30.8%, Action 12.6%, Adventure 11%

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

Why similar: Survival 40.3%, Open World 28.5%, RPG 16.4%, Action 8%, Adventure 6.9%

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 49.2%, Open World 33%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Action 5.1%

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 48.3%, Action 26.9%, Adventure 24.8%

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight

Why similar: Survival 72.5%, Action 13.8%, Adventure 13.7%

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 39.6%, RPG 26.5%, Action 21.1%, Adventure 12.8%

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 38.5%, Open World 30%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Action 10.3%, Adventure 7.7%

"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%

⚗️ 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 42.3%, Open World 35.9%, Action 11%, Adventure 10.7%

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 49%, Multiplayer 20.8%, Adventure 15.4%, Action 14.8%

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 37.8%, Open World 31.8%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Adventure 9.3%, Action 7.3%

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 32.2%, Survival 31.7%, RPG 23.5%, Adventure 12.6%

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 38.5%, Open World 29.7%, Multiplayer 14%, Adventure 10.2%, Action 7.6%

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 27.9%, Open World 24.4%, RPG 18.2%, Action 9.9%, Adventure 9.8%

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%

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: Survival 42.6%, Open World 32.3%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Adventure 10.2%

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 34.7%, Survival 34.2%, RPG 31.1%

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 40.1%, RPG 27.5%, Open World 22.3%, Action 10.1%