- #1 7 Days to Die
97% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 15.8%, Sandbox 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive voxel-based zombie survival game, featuring deep base-building mechanics and intense horde nights.
- #2 Unturned
96% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 18.7%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the blocky, low-poly aesthetic of CastleMiner Z while offering a robust multiplayer zombie survival experience.
- #3 Total Miner
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 760 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Total Miner is an open world voxel sandbox game. It is primarily designed for creative RPG game builders, but also has two action/adventure style game modes where you can just jump in and play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.9% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 10.3%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title is the closest in visual style and gameplay loop to the original CastleMiner Z experience.
- #4 Block Story™
95% matchVery Positive83% of 1,973 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 45%
There isn’t much better than a wide open game world in which you have essentially no limits and can alter the very landscape in which you play – that is, unless you add dragons, of course…
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Dragons 9.8% ★, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines voxel-based sandbox building with RPG elements and exploration in a vast, dangerous world.
- #5 Project Zomboid
94% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 31.3% ★, Zombies 18.9%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 7.4%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: While isometric, it provides the most comprehensive and challenging zombie survival simulation available.
- #6 SurrounDead
93% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 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: Zombies 29.3%, Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Survival 19.9%, Open World 11.9%, Co-op 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: A focused zombie survival game that excels at looting, crafting, and base defense in an open world.
- #7 Rising World
94% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that emphasizes building and exploration with a more realistic, immersive feel.
- #8 HumanitZ
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 24.1% ★, Zombies 16.5%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down zombie survival game that captures the tension of scavenging and building in a post-apocalyptic environment.
- #9 DeadPoly
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 35.5% ★, Zombies 15.9%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly zombie survival game that emphasizes cooperative multiplayer and crafting mechanics.
- #10 Necesse
89% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 49.5% ★, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Open World 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down voxel-style survival game that features extensive crafting, boss fights, and settlement management.
- #11 Survival Machine
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Zombies 12.1%, Survival 10.7%, Sandbox 7.8%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on mobile base building and co-op survival against waves of zombies.
- #12 Creativerse
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A vibrant voxel sandbox that focuses heavily on creative building and exploration in a persistent world.
- #13 Don't Starve
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 44% ★, Survival 23.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, challenging survival experience with deep crafting and a distinct artistic style.
- #14 The Forest
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 52.4% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 6.3%, Sandbox 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers an intense survival experience where building a base is essential to defending against terrifying mutants.
- #15 Valheim
87% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 43.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Crafting 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: While not strictly voxel, its building and survival mechanics provide a similar sense of progression and exploration.
- #16 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, Co-op 8.6%, Open World 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that allows for building and exploring across multiple planets.
- #17 Subsistence
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 49.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Open World 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that prioritizes base building and resource management against hostile AI.
- #18 Miscreated
85% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 14.1%, Zombies 12.7%, Open World 7%, Multiplayer 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer zombie survival game that focuses on exploration and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #19 Hurtworld
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 37.2% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes building, combat, and vehicle mechanics.
- #20 Scrap Mechanic
82% matchVery Positive92% of 117,049 reviews2016
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 57.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Sandbox 17.8%, Crafting 14.1%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Open World 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: It features voxel-like building with a focus on mechanical engineering and survival against robots.
- #21 Rust
82% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 20.7%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Open World 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer survival game where base building and resource gathering are central to survival.
- #22 ASTRONEER
81% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Survival 14%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based exploration and crafting game that emphasizes discovery and base expansion.
- #23 GRAV
84% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that features base building and exploration in a sci-fi setting.
- #24 Reign Of Kings
83% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 14.1%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed survival game that focuses on building, combat, and multiplayer territory control.
- #25 Sons Of The Forest
79% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 25%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Co-op 12.2%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: A sequel that refines the survival and building mechanics of the original while adding more complex AI threats.
- #26 Conan Exiles
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game with extensive building mechanics and a focus on conquering a harsh environment.
- #27 Green Hell
80% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 46% ★, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 6.1%, Open World 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that demands deep knowledge of crafting and resource management to survive the jungle.
- #28 ARK: Survival Ascended
79% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 29.2%, Open World 17%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival, crafting, and base building with the unique element of taming prehistoric creatures.
- #29 FOUNDRY
78% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Sandbox 20.2%, Crafting 17.6%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Co-op 14.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based game that focuses on large-scale building and automation in a massive, explorable world.
- #30 Stationeers
78% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Survival 27.6%, Sandbox 22.2%, Crafting 18.9%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Co-op 15%
Why You'll Like It: A complex voxel-based survival game that focuses on engineering, atmospheric management, and base building.
- #31 Savage Lands
77% matchMixed55% of 6,679 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: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Survival 12.1%, Dragons 8.3% ★, Sandbox 6.5%, Open World 6.4%
- #32 Survive the Nights
74% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 29.7% ★, Zombies 16.2%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #33 MISERY
71% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 35.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.9%
- #34 Nomad
76% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 41.9% ★, Zombies 14.2%, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.5%
- #35 Cubic Castles
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,272 reviews2014
Dev: Cosmic Cow LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Your blocks, your castle, your world! Build anything you can dream up and explore with other players! Cubic Castles is a mini-MMO that combines the best of block-building and 3D platform action! Create fantastic parkour challenges, explore worlds made by other players, or even make friend!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.1% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 7.4%
- #36 Infestation: The New Z
75% matchMixed54% of 33,896 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.
Why similar: Zombies 34.2%, Survival 20.3%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 11.5%, FPS 4.9%
- #37 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
75% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 48.7% ★, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 6.6%, Open World 6.6%, Zombies 6.1%
- #38 Night of the Dead
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'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 34.1% ★, Zombies 14.8%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.1%, Crafting 7%
- #39 Volcanoids
71% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 7.4%
- #40 Palworld
67% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 6.7%
- #41 Genesis Online
73% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,886 reviews2015
Dev: Shumkov Dmitriy
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Genesis Online! First Person Multiplayer Adventure game in an editable procedural cubic world.
Why similar: Survival 27%, Sandbox 17.7%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Open World 12.6%, Zombies 6.2%
- #42 Mist Survival
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 39.5% ★, Survival 17.6%, Zombies 17.5%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 5%
- #43 INCUR Survival
70% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Zombies 17.8%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.4%
- #44 The Infected
69% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 39.5% ★, Survival 11.9%, Zombies 11.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #45 NightZ
73% matchMostly Negative35% of 129 reviews2017
Dev: Asset Flip StudioPub: Asset Flip Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Events occur several months after the global epidemic. Infected turned into aggressive creatures. All survivors are infected with the virus. In order to survive you need to use different medicines. Also you need to avoid predators.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Zombies 14.9%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #46 Deepworld
72% matchMixed61% of 738 reviews2015
Dev: Bytebin
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Deepworld is a massively-multiplayer 2D crafting adventure game. Mine and craft your way through a persistent online universe where there's always something new to discover. Battle frightening monsters, mysterious automatons, and other players in PvP!
Why similar: Sandbox 31.7%, Survival 29.1%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Adventure 7.4%
- #47 Radiation Island
71% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.2% ★, Survival 16.6%, Zombies 14.1%, Open World 5.4%, Crafting 4.3%
- #48 Walking Zombie 2
68% matchVery Positive88% of 13,034 reviews2019
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Zombies 15.5%, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 7.8%, Multiplayer 7%
- #49 Zombie Survival Game Online
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
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 35.8% ★, Zombies 16.3%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #50 Murder Miners
69% matchVery Positive86% of 6,386 reviews2014
Dev: JForce Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The #1 rated Xbox Live Indie Game. Halo-inspired. Destructible/constructible environments. Vehicles. Zombie survival. Hookshots. Infection mode: Be the zombie & eat the dead to level up your zombie abilities. Community playdates are still hosted every week, join us!
Why similar: Zombies 30.4%, Sandbox 13.7%, Multiplayer 12.3%, FPS 10.6%, Co-op 9.5%
- #51 PixARK
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,998 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 14.5%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Crafting 9%
- #52 No One Survived
65% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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: Zombies 22.3%, Survival 21.6%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%
- #53 Core Keeper
64% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 8.3%
- #54 DREADZONE
67% matchMixed51% of 1,171 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: Zombies 21.6%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Crafting 12.4%
- #55 Far Lands
67% matchMixed66% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 8.9%, Survival Horror 4.3%
- #56 No More Room in Hell
68% matchVery Positive90% of 75,677 reviews2013
Dev: No More Room in Hell TeamPub: Lever Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 35.2%, Survival 16.8%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Co-op 7.8%, Online Co-Op 5.1%
