- #1 7 Days to Die
97% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 34.4% ★, Zombies 16.6%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 7.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines voxel-based building, crafting, and intense horde-night zombie survival just like CastleMiner Z.
- #2 Unturned
96% matchVery Positive91% of 564,742 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 73.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 19.1%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features blocky, stylized graphics combined with open-world multiplayer zombie survival and crafting.
- #3 Creativerse
96% 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 37.3% ★, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the block-based crafting and sandbox exploration mechanics of the seed game in a vibrant world.
- #4 Project Zomboid
95% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 31.7% ★, Zombies 19.1%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 7.6%, Sandbox 7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an uncompromising open-world zombie survival experience focused on crafting and long-term survival.
- #5 The Forest
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 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 52.8% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 6.1%, Sandbox 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a terrifying open-world survival crafting experience where players build bases to fend off aggressive enemies.
- #6 Total Miner
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 770 reviews2017
Dev: Brandon Moore
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.5 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 48.6% ★, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Shares deep voxel-based mining, crafting, and survival gameplay directly inspired by the classic Xbox indie era.
- #7 Night of the Dead
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 34.8% ★, Zombies 15%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 7.9%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on scavenging, crafting, and building elaborate defenses against massive waves of zombies.
- #8 Block Story™
93% matchVery Positive84% of 2,156 reviews2015
Dev: Big Cube Interactive, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 46%
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 38.2% ★, Dragons 10.8% ★, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends voxel building and role-playing progression within an expansive open-world adventure.
- #9 Savage Lands
91% matchMixed54% of 6,690 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.4 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 42.9% ★, Survival 12.1%, Dragons 8.3% ★, Open World 6.5%, Sandbox 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes harsh open-world survival, crafting, and base building against hostile creatures.
- #10 HumanitZ
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,430 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 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 24.5% ★, Zombies 17%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An isometric open-world survival game centered on scavenging and fighting off hordes of the undead.
- #11 Miscreated
91% matchMixed66% of 31,592 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: Open World Survival Craft 45.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Zombies 12.8%, Open World 7.1%, Multiplayer 6%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a multiplayer post-apocalyptic survival sandbox filled with mutants, zombies, and danger.
- #12 Don't Starve
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 113,517 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 44.6% ★, Survival 23.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges players with uncompromising wilderness survival and resource crafting mechanics.
- #13 Nomad
89% 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 42.5% ★, Zombies 14.3%, Survival 13.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist multiplayer open-world survival game where players must scavenge and defend against zombies.
- #14 Infestation: The New Z
88% matchMixed54% of 33,897 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.9 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 34.6%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%, FPS 5%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer open-world zombie survival shooter centered on scavenging weapons and gear.
- #15 Hurtworld
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.2 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 37.8% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer survival game with deep crafting and open-world exploration.
- #16 DeadPoly
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,250 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 36.2% ★, Zombies 16.3%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly zombie survival shooter heavily focused on scavenging, building, and multiplayer cooperation.
- #17 Cubic Castles
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 4,283 reviews2014
Dev: Raptisoft
Windows
Median: 48 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 50.8% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Utilizes a blocky sandbox world focused on building, crafting, and multiplayer interaction.
- #18 Survive the Nights
82% matchMixed66% of 6,793 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 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 30.1% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines realistic survival elements with frantic cooperative defense against zombies during the night cycle.
- #19 Reign Of Kings
84% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 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 45.9% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features brutal open-world survival, base building, and medieval combat elements.
- #20 MISERY
78% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 35.3% ★, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dark online co-op survival horror game set in a grim post-apocalyptic environment.
- #21 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
81% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 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 49.2% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Zombies 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world multiplayer survival sandbox set in a ruined, zombie-infested landscape.
- #22 Necesse
77% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 50.6% ★, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Open World 6.8%
- #23 GRAV
82% matchMixed47% of 6,922 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 48.4% ★, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game featuring open-world exploration, base building, and hostile alien foes.
- #24 Radiation Island
81% matchVery Positive81% of 642 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 48.6% ★, Survival 16.4%, Zombies 14.3%, Open World 5.3%, Crafting 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival adventure where players craft items and fight off mutated wildlife and zombies.
- #25 Genesis Online
79% matchMostly Negative32% of 1,886 reviews2015
Dev: Shumkov Dmitriy
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 21%
Genesis Online! First Person Multiplayer Adventure game in an editable procedural cubic world.
Why similar: Survival 27.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Open World 12.9%, Zombies 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: An early multiplayer sandbox survival game featuring open-world crafting and exploration.
- #26 Rising World
77% matchVery Positive86% of 6,019 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.4 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 47.8% ★, Survival 13%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #27 The Infected
76% matchVery Positive84% of 7,020 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 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 39.9% ★, Zombies 12%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.2%
- #28 NightZ
78% matchMostly Negative34% of 131 reviews2017
Dev: Asset Flip StudioPub: Asset Flip Studio
Windows
Median: 4.2 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 27.8% ★, Zombies 15%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer zombie survival game built around building safe zones and gathering loot.
- #29 INCUR Survival
75% matchVery Positive81% of 112 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 43.2% ★, Zombies 17.9%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.5%
- #30 Zombie Survival Game Online
74% matchMixed69% of 317 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 36.2% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%
- #31 No One Survived
72% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.7 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 22.9%, Survival 22%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%
- #32 Murder Miners
75% matchVery Positive86% of 6,392 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 31%, Sandbox 13.5%, Multiplayer 12%, FPS 10.8%, Co-op 9.3%
- #33 Deepworld
76% matchMixed61% of 738 reviews2015
Dev: Bytebin
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 31.3%, Survival 29.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Adventure 7.7%
- #34 Walking Zombie 2
73% matchVery Positive87% of 13,358 reviews2019
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Zombies 15.7%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 7.6%, Open World 6.8%
- #35 Far Lands
73% matchMixed64% of 173 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 42.6% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 8.9%, Survival Horror 4.3%
- #36 DREADZONE
73% matchMixed51% of 1,239 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 22%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%
- #37 Subsistence
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 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 49.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Open World 6.8%
- #38 Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha
71% matchVery Positive88% of 10,861 reviews2023
Dev: Adrian Kaminski
Windows
Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.3% ★, Zombies 16%, Survival 11.1%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Co-op 6.1%
- #39 Allumeria
69% matchVery Positive93% of 602 reviews2026
Dev: Infinimelon
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Survival 12%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.4%
- #40 Core Keeper
68% matchVery Positive93% of 66,787 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 34.9 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 34.5% ★, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%
- #41 Terraria
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,558,339 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.9 hrsMean: 152.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.2% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Crafting 6.7%
- #42 Urge
70% matchVery Positive90% of 524 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Survival 12.1%, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 8%, Open World 7.4%
- #43 Zombie Craft
72% matchMostly Negative33% of 57 reviews2021
Dev: Crafty GamesPub: Zombie Craft
Windows · Mac
Try your hand at exciting survival and prove that you are not afraid of any challenges! Defeat all the evil dead and free the virtual world from danger. You need to confront these monsters by any means. Be the bravest!
Why similar: Zombies 44.4%, Crafting 22.8%, Survival Horror 14.6%, First-Person 5.3%, Horror 5.2%
- #44 Deadside
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,566 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 36.4% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%
- #45 Zelter
71% matchMixed47% of 1,975 reviews2020
Dev: G1 PlaygroundPub: SuperGG.com
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: Zombies 25.9%, Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 9.2%, Sandbox 6.6%
- #46 Mist Survival
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,394 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 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 40% ★, Zombies 17.6%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 4.9%
- #47 Crushed
71% matchMixed53% of 321 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 39.4% ★, Survival 11.7%, Zombies 9.8%, Sandbox 7.7%, Open World 7.4%
- #48 No More Room in Hell
69% matchVery Positive90% of 76,727 reviews2013
Dev: No More Room in Hell TeamPub: Lever Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 22.4 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 35.7%, Survival 16.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 7.6%, FPS 5.1%
- #49 SurrounDead
67% matchVery Positive91% of 27,054 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.9 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 28.7%, Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 19.8%, Open World 12.1%, Co-op 3.9%
- #50 Call of Duty: World at War
67% matchVery Positive92% of 53,400 reviews2008
Dev: TreyarchPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 49.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you've never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4®: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced.
Why similar: Zombies 39.5%, Multiplayer 11.9%, FPS 10.8%, Co-op 9.4%, Survival 7.5%
- #51 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
68% matchMostly Negative37% of 378 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 12.7%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.8%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #52 Not Quite Dead: Open World Survival
64% matchMixed62% of 247 reviews2026
Dev: Voidecho Studio
Windows
Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Multiplayer 12.4%, Co-op 11.1%, Open World 9.1%, Online Co-Op 6.7%
- #53 Human Host
62% matchVery Positive83% of 973 reviews2026
Dev: Virtual Matrix Studio
Windows
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: Zombies 28.1%, Survival 22.3%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 10.6%
- #54 Dead District: Survival
66% matchMixed47% of 500 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 17.9%, Zombies 16.1%, Sandbox 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%
