Games Like CastleMiner Z

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 34.3% ★, Zombies 16.5%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 7.3%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive voxel-based zombie survival game that perfectly captures the base-building and horde-defense mechanics of the seed game.

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 18.9%, Survival 14.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This low-poly survival game offers a similar aesthetic and focuses heavily on multiplayer zombie survival and crafting.

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 47.2% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Sharing a very similar voxel aesthetic and gameplay structure, this title is the closest direct experience to the seed game.

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 37.8% ★, Dragons 10.8% ★, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends voxel-based building with RPG progression and exploration, mirroring the adventure elements of the seed game.

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A polished voxel sandbox that excels in building and exploration with a vibrant, accessible art style.

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 31.5% ★, Zombies 19%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 7.5%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: While isometric, it provides the most comprehensive and challenging zombie survival and base-building experience available.

'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 34.5% ★, Zombies 14.9%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on building intricate traps and defenses to survive nightly zombie hordes.

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.2% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes deep voxel building and complex tower defense mechanics against waves of enemies.

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 35.8% ★, Zombies 16%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A low-poly zombie survival game that captures the action-oriented, scavenging-focused gameplay loop.

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 49.9% ★, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Multiplayer 7%, Open World 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game captures the essential crafting and base-building loop in a procedurally generated world.

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% ★, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more realistic and grounded approach to voxel-based survival and construction.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Sandbox 12.1%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive 2D sandbox experience that offers deep crafting, combat, and exploration mechanics.

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 49.5% ★, Survival 14.7%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that places a heavy emphasis on crafting, base defense, and resource management.

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 42.6% ★, Survival 12.1%, Dragons 8.3% ★, Sandbox 6.5%, Open World 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on crafting and defending against mythical creatures in a dangerous world.

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% ★, Survival 14%, Zombies 12.7%, Open World 7%, Multiplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Post-apocalyptic survival that emphasizes exploration and defending against zombie-like threats.

You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 6.2%, Multiplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Expands the sandbox survival formula into a vast, procedurally generated universe with diverse crafting and combat.

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 52.7% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 7.7%, Crafting 6.2%, Sandbox 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and building with intense horror elements and a focus on defending your base.

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 37.5% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Fast-paced survival with a focus on vehicle crafting and exploration in a harsh open world.

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 44.3% ★, Survival 13.2%, Open World 7.9%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features excellent building and survival mechanics set in a challenging, atmospheric open world.

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 31.2% ★, Survival 20.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes multiplayer survival game with extensive base building and crafting systems.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Survival 17.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Co-op 7.7%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival experience that features creative base building and crafting in a hostile environment.

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 45.6% ★, Survival 14%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Medieval-themed survival that focuses on building, territory control, and multiplayer combat.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 26.1%, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base building with action-heavy combat and a unique gothic theme.

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 16.7%, Survival 12.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Isometric zombie survival that focuses on scavenging, base management, and exploration.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.4% ★, Survival 20.9%, Multiplayer 3.5%, Co-op 2.6%, Open World 2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers challenging survival with a distinct art style and deep crafting systems in a multiplayer setting.

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 48.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Sci-fi survival that focuses on exploration, base building, and defending against alien threats.

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 29.4%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Crafting 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Survival and base building set in a world filled with dangerous creatures and deep crafting.

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 48.5% ★, Survival 16.4%, Zombies 14.3%, Open World 5.2%, Crafting 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival adventure that focuses on crafting and exploration in a mysterious, post-apocalyptic world.

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 14.5%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 7.7%

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 29.9% ★, Zombies 16.3%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%

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 42.2% ★, Zombies 14.2%, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.5%

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 50.5% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 7.3%

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% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Zombies 6.1%

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 34.3%, Survival 20.3%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 11.5%, FPS 5%

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 43.1% ★, Zombies 17.9%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 7.4%

Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

Why similar: Survival 36.9%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Crafting 18.5%, Open World 14.5%, Adventure 3.7%

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 39.8% ★, Zombies 17.5%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 5%

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 44.4% ★, Survival 23.8%, Sandbox 8.8%, Crafting 8.7%, Multiplayer 4.5%

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 36.1% ★, Zombies 16.3%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%

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 29.1%, Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 12%, Co-op 4.1%

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 30.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.2%, FPS 10.6%, Co-op 9.4%

Genesis Online! First Person Multiplayer Adventure game in an editable procedural cubic world.

Why similar: Survival 27%, Sandbox 17.6%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Open World 12.7%, Zombies 6.2%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Zombies 15.6%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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 35.1% ★, Zombies 15.9%, Survival 11.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Co-op 6.2%

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 42.4% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 8.9%, Survival Horror 4.3%

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 22.6%, Survival 21.8%, Open World 11.9%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 9.3%

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 27.7% ★, Zombies 14.9%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%

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 12.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%

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 21.7%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Crafting 12.3%

Codename CURE is a first person, co-operative zombie game with support for up to five players, providing dynamic, fast-paced zombie fragging with both objective, and survival-based missions.

Why similar: Zombies 33.9%, Co-op 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%, FPS 9.1%, Shooter 8.3%

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 40.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 6.6%, FPS 6.4%

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 31.6%, Survival 29.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Adventure 7.5%

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 44.2% ★, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.4%

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 44.1%, Crafting 23.1%, Survival Horror 14.6%, First-Person 5.4%, Horror 5.2%

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 39.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, FPS 10.7%, Co-op 9.6%, Survival 7.5%

All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!

Why similar: Zombies 25.6%, Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 9.1%, Sandbox 6.7%