- #1 Rust
97% 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: Survival 52.2%, Multiplayer 30.4%, Adventure 6%, Simulation 4.8%, Action 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive multiplayer survival game focused on player interaction, base building, and territorial control.
- #2 ARK: Survival Evolved
96% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Why similar: Survival 44.2%, Multiplayer 32.1%, Adventure 8.7%, RPG 7.4%, Action 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a massive open world with deep survival mechanics, creature taming, and tribe-based territorial combat.
- #3 Conan Exiles
96% 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: Survival 48.6%, Multiplayer 26.1%, RPG 13.6%, Adventure 6.3%, Action 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features robust building systems and a focus on region control and survival in a harsh, unforgiving environment.
- #4 SCUM
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Survival 57.4%, RPG 27.9%, Action 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed survival simulator that emphasizes realistic mechanics and complex player interactions.
- #5 DayZ
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.
Why similar: Survival 41%, Multiplayer 24.4%, Simulation 16.7%, Adventure 9.5%, Action 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides the ultimate hardcore multiplayer survival experience where player interaction is often unpredictable and high-stakes.
- #6 Unturned
94% 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: Survival 33.8%, Multiplayer 28.4%, Adventure 11.1%, Casual 9.7%, Action 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play multiplayer survival game that mirrors the core loop of scavenging and building found in Countrified.
- #7 7 Days to Die
92% 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: Survival 46.5%, Multiplayer 30%, Simulation 15.8%, Action 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, crafting, and base defense in a voxel-based world that rewards cooperative or competitive play.
- #8 Wild Terra Online
93% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Survival 34.8%, RPG 24.5%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that allows players to build, craft, and control territory in a persistent world.
- #9 Hurtworld
91% 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: Survival 49.4%, Multiplayer 31.4%, Adventure 6.4%, Simulation 6.3%, Action 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced multiplayer survival game that prioritizes player interaction and territorial competition.
- #10 Valheim
90% 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: Survival 43.5%, Multiplayer 35.7%, Adventure 8.7%, Action 6.9%, Indie 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration, building, and survival with a strong emphasis on multiplayer cooperation and progression.
- #11 Project Zomboid
91% 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: Survival 47.9%, Multiplayer 26.9%, Simulation 9.4%, RPG 9%, Indie 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep survival simulation with a focus on long-term base management and player survival.
- #12 Reign Of Kings
89% 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: Survival 39.1%, Multiplayer 30.6%, RPG 9.1%, Simulation 7%, Adventure 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval-themed survival game where players fight for control of regions and resources.
- #13 Miscreated
89% 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: Survival 53.2%, Multiplayer 33%, Simulation 6.7%, Action 5%, Indie 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival game that emphasizes exploration and player-versus-player combat.
- #14 Animalia Survival
88% matchMixed64% of 3,038 reviews2021
Dev: High Brazil Studio
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Live as your favourite african animal, choose between being a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore, predator or prey. In this multiplayer ecosystem, with a realistic open world, choose to become a lion, a elephant or even a swift gazelle! But remember, the savannahs law is to survive at any cost!
Why similar: Survival 40.8%, Multiplayer 27.2%, Simulation 21.9%, Action 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival of various species in a nature-driven, multiplayer simulation environment.
- #15 DeadPoly
87% 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: Survival 45.8%, Multiplayer 40.7%, Action 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly multiplayer survival game that captures the casual yet intense nature of open-world survival.
- #16 Nova-Life: Amboise
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,733 reviews2019
Dev: TeamNova
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Nova-Life: Amboise is a multiplayer role-play simulation video game. Create your character and start your second life!
Why similar: Multiplayer 35.4%, Simulation 32.8%, Action 12.8%, Indie 11.1%, RPG 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy multiplayer game that focuses on social interaction and roleplay within an open world.
- #17 Life is Feudal: Your Own
86% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Survival 39.1%, Multiplayer 24.8%, RPG 15.2%, Simulation 10.2%, Adventure 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on realistic survival, crafting, and the formation of player-run settlements and regions.
- #18 Outlaws of the Old West
85% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Survival 37.7%, Multiplayer 28.8%, RPG 10.8%, Adventure 7.2%, Action 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game set in the Wild West with a focus on building, crafting, and multiplayer interaction.
- #19 BEACHED
84% matchMixed65% of 3,675 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Survival 34.8%, Multiplayer 34.6%, Adventure 11.5%, Action 9.8%, Casual 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play multiplayer survival game that emphasizes open-world exploration and crafting.
- #20 Subsistence
83% 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: Survival 52.4%, Multiplayer 38%, Action 4.8%, Adventure 3.6%, Indie 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes base building and surviving against both the environment and AI threats.
- #21 Dead Event
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 180 reviews2023
Dev: MrSpartano
Windows
Dead Event is a indie RPG survival game in which the player grows up as a creature. The creature will grow bigger overtime and with interactions in-game also lose some growth on death. Form a colony or hunt alone, become part of a player-created ecosystem. Survive, eat or be eaten...
Why similar: Survival 50.6%, Simulation 28.9%, Indie 11.1%, Action 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival simulator that incorporates unique creature elements and immersive world-building.
- #22 Next Day: Survival
82% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 46.7%, Multiplayer 29.7%, RPG 8.6%, Action 5.1%, Simulation 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in a post-Soviet landscape that emphasizes scavenging and player interaction.
- #23 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: Survival 41.8%, Multiplayer 36.6%, Simulation 8.8%, Action 6.5%, Adventure 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a brutal survival experience that forces players to manage complex health and environmental factors.
- #24 Cultivation Tales
81% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Survival 36.2%, Multiplayer 22.6%, RPG 18.4%, Adventure 11.7%, Action 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that blends traditional survival mechanics with building and cooperative play.
- #25 Don't Starve Together
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 528,033 reviews2016
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Why similar: Survival 76.5%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Adventure 3.5%, Indie 1.1%, Action 0.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that emphasizes resource management and base building in a unique, stylized world.
- #26 Crushed
81% matchMixed55% of 307 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: Survival 50.9%, Multiplayer 20.7%, Simulation 19.6%, Action 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting in a vast open world.
- #27 The Forest
78% 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: Survival 68.6%, Adventure 11.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Action 6.9%, Indie 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base building while exploring a mysterious, dangerous island with other players.
- #28 Zero-based World-从零开始
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 181 reviews2020
Dev: zerogame
Windows
Zero Based World is a multiplayer sandbox survival game.
Why similar: Multiplayer 47.6%, Adventure 19.9%, Casual 18.8%, Indie 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes starting from nothing to build a base and survive.
- #29 Haven & Hearth
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 947 reviews2024
Dev: Seatribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
A free-to-play MMORPG with crafting, building, landscaping, foraging, hunting, fishing, a dash of poetry, and open PvP combat,
Why similar: Survival 48.6%, RPG 33.3%, Adventure 18.1%
- #30 In Next Life
76% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Survival 29.2%, Multiplayer 24.6%, Simulation 18%, RPG 17.7%, Adventure 10.6%
- #31 Life is Feudal: Arden
75% matchMixed42% of 817 reviews2025
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Life is Feudal: Arden is a new free-to-play open-world MMORPG set in the Middle Ages, built on the foundation of Life is Feudal: MMO. Engage in thrilling PvP combat, navigate political intrigue, master a variety of professions and craft unique items. Forge your own path to power and greatness!
Why similar: RPG 26.7%, Survival 25.2%, Simulation 21%, Action 14.2%, Multiplayer 12.9%
- #32 Project Explore
77% matchMixed67% of 242 reviews2017
Dev: Fern Nigro
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A 2D sandbox survival game designed for creators, players, and everyone else.
Why similar: Survival 39.4%, Simulation 19.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Casual 9.9%, Action 9.8%
- #33 Veritex
77% matchMostly Negative39% of 157 reviews2018
Dev: Veritex Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Veritex is a multiplayer survival game. The goal is to survive versus the wilderness around you, build bases, and fend off other players that can murder you and take your loot.
Why similar: Survival 38.8%, RPG 23.3%, Adventure 13.7%, Action 13%, Indie 11.2%
- #34 Survivalizm - The Animal Simulator
72% matchMixed47% of 87 reviews2025
Dev: Vishwakarma studiosPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You are a wild spirit who is capable of coming into existence as any animal in a realistically replicated forest, where rules of the wild prevail. Fight or Flight, Mate, Grow your Herd, Leave a Legacy. Here you must survive, using your wits, strength, bravery and cunningness.
Why similar: Simulation 43.5%, Adventure 22.6%, Action 19.1%, Indie 14.7%
- #35 Ostrofa
74% matchMixed64% of 84 reviews2020
Dev: Normunds Petrovs
Windows · Mac
Be prepared to survive in a custom-generated, low poly environment, fighting against other players from all over the world.
Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Action 34.9%, Indie 26.5%
- #36 Sunrise: survival
75% matchMixed48% of 526 reviews2017
Dev: Fedorov Ilya & Andrew Konovalov
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
"Sunrise" - an online shooter with elements of survival from the first person. Your task is to survive in the harsh conditions of the post-apocalyptic world. Explore new regions, team up with other players in groups, survive with them and create your own rules of survival!
Why similar: Survival 33.6%, Multiplayer 19.5%, RPG 14.6%, Adventure 10.9%, Action 10.3%
- #37 Piworld
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 134 reviews2025
Dev: Ahaha studio
Windows
Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.
Why similar: Survival 47.6%, Simulation 32.7%, Adventure 19.7%
- #38 Warlocks Quarry
71% matchVery Positive91% of 86 reviews2022
Dev: Sub Orbital Software
Windows
Use your skills in looting, fighting, exploring and base building to survive and progress in Warlocks world.
Why similar: Adventure 52.9%, Action 47.1%
- #39 Wild Wolf
73% matchMixed46% of 150 reviews2022
Dev: Altai Game Studio
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 11%
Wild Wolf is a survival-based game about a wolf's life struggle. You have to face the hunter by carrying the responsibility of the wolf.
Why similar: Simulation 31%, Adventure 16.7%, Action 14.5%, Survival 13.8%, Casual 13.1%
- #40 Longvinter
68% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Survival 43.4%, Multiplayer 41%, Adventure 9.3%, Action 6.3%
- #41 Exile to Death
73% matchMixed47% of 99 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksei MilchakovPub: Manifestors Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...
Why similar: Survival 35.5%, RPG 23.2%, Action 17.1%, Adventure 12.5%, Indie 11.7%
- #42 Evertown
74% matchMostly Negative39% of 117 reviews2016
Dev: cg-imagine
Windows
Evertown is a RTS (real-time strategy) game with some survival elements. The goal is to raise your town to make it safe (the longest you can).
Why similar: Simulation 24.9%, RPG 24%, Adventure 14.1%, Casual 13.1%, Action 12.3%
- #43 Polygeddon
69% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Survival 28.5%, Multiplayer 24.8%, RPG 17.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Adventure 8.8%
- #44 Dead District: Survival
70% matchMixed49% of 465 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 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 34.8%, Multiplayer 31.4%, Simulation 15%, Action 10.9%, Adventure 7.9%
- #45 One Last Day
72% matchMixed62% of 103 reviews2015
Dev: Bloodwolf Studio
Windows · Mac
[Alpha] Explore, hunt, be hunted, kill, destroy, build... Fight in a colorful, devastated world that everyone is trying to take for themselves. Do it yours, but remember your main goal at the start of the day; try to survive one last day.
Why similar: Survival 36.8%, Adventure 25.6%, Action 21%, Indie 16.7%
- #46 Survive The Island
71% matchMixed53% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: RPG 35.2%, Survival 28.5%, Action 20.2%, Multiplayer 16.1%
- #47 Dynast.io
69% matchMixed67% of 353 reviews2023
Dev: Whalebox Studio
Windows · Mac
Dynast.IO is a cool survival game with RPG elements. Build a base, get resources, craft weapons and survive with your friends.
Why similar: RPG 32.4%, Survival 29.6%, Adventure 21.6%, Action 16.3%
- #48 Palworld
65% 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: Survival 38.9%, Multiplayer 34.1%, RPG 8.6%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 5.9%
- #49 Realife Simulator
68% matchMixed67% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: Northenlight Studios
Windows
Realife Simulator is an online life simulation where players can work, socialize, and grow by assuming different roles in a realistic city. Whether alone or with friends, freely choose a career, earn money, upgrade your vehicle, and shape city life.
Why similar: Survival 31.7%, Simulation 31.4%, Multiplayer 20.5%, Action 16.4%
- #50 Death World
70% matchMixed46% of 56 reviews2020
Dev: Millenium Games
Windows
After a long night you wake up alone in the bunker as a bunker security guard. Hunt, kill, gather. Do anything to survive.
Why similar: RPG 40.9%, Action 21.9%, Adventure 20.4%, Indie 16.8%
- #51 The Isle
67% matchVery Positive80% of 107,823 reviews2015
Dev: Afterthought LLC
Windows
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 123.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.
Why similar: Survival 37%, Multiplayer 28%, Simulation 16.4%, Adventure 6.3%, RPG 5.5%
- #52 Re.poly
67% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Survival 33.7%, Multiplayer 21.7%, RPG 18.3%, Adventure 11%, Action 8.8%
- #53 XERA: Survival
66% matchMixed66% of 7,888 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Survival 46.3%, Multiplayer 43.7%, Action 10%
- #54 Xsyon - Prelude
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Survival 44.4%, RPG 19.5%, Simulation 17.9%, Action 9.5%, Adventure 8.7%
- #55 Survival Nation: Lost Horizon
65% matchMixed58% of 125 reviews2024
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.Pub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.
Why similar: Survival 34.7%, Multiplayer 30.1%, Adventure 18.5%, Action 16.7%