Games Like Darwin Project

Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Survival 30.2%, Multiplayer 22.7%, PvP 20.1%, Crafting 11.3%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar focus on survival, crafting, and social deduction where players must navigate harsh environments while identifying traitors.

Eternal Return is a free-to-play, 2.5D perspective Battle Royale game. Search, Craft, Hunt, and Fight using a variety of characters. Plan your strategy and become the last survivor on this eternal experiment.

Why similar: Survival 30.6%, Multiplayer 24%, PvP 20.9%, Crafting 11.4%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines battle royale mechanics with deep crafting and survival elements that reward tactical planning and resource management.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.

Why similar: Battle Royale 53.8% ★, Multiplayer 11.9%, PvP 10.1%, Open World 7.9%, Co-op 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an intense, high-stakes atmosphere where tracking, sound-based gameplay, and survival are just as important as combat.

Welcome to the coziest way to kill your friends. Super Animal Royale is a 64-player, top-down 2D battle royale where adorably murderous animals fight tooth, claw, and machine gun. Then, relax in Super Animal World with fishing, hamsterball races, and story quests before the next fight to the death.

Why similar: Battle Royale 60.2% ★, Survival 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%, PvP 7.4%, Massively Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, top-down battle royale that captures the high-intensity action and fun aesthetic of the genre.

Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.

Why similar: Multiplayer 32%, PvP 22.5%, Third-Person Shooter 12%, Shooter 10.7%, FPS 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-based extraction shooter that emphasizes scavenging and crafting to survive in a hostile, post-apocalyptic landscape.

Dive into the legends of the Far East in NARAKA: BLADEPOINT; team up with friends in fast-paced melee fights for a Battle Royale experience unlike any other. Find your playstyle with a varied cast of heroes with unique skills. More than 40 million players have already joined the fray, play free now!

Why similar: Battle Royale 60.2% ★, Multiplayer 10%, Survival 9.8%, PvP 7.2%, Massively Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-mobility, melee-centric combat that elevates the standard battle royale experience with fluid movement.

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.

Why similar: Battle Royale 55.3% ★, Survival 16.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%, PvP 5.6%, Shooter 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential battle royale experience that focuses on tactical positioning and survival against the elements.

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

Why similar: Survival 69.2%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Co-op 6%, Open World 5.4%, Crafting 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a challenging survival and crafting experience that requires constant resource management and cooperation.

Explore the fantastical Talon Island in a thrilling fusion between a MOBA and Battle Royale game. Choose your Champion and master their unique abilities, loot for treasures alone or with a friend, and rise above the competition in a top-down action-fest. Only the best survive to the end!

Why similar: Battle Royale 80% ★, Multiplayer 8.2%, PvP 5.9%, Massively Multiplayer 4.5%, Action 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on skill-shot combat and arena-style action that emphasizes individual player ability over looting.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Survival 27.6%, Massively Multiplayer 19.3%, Open World 14.7%, PvP 14.5%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that features deep crafting and complex character management in a brutal open world.

CRSED: Cuisine Royale – is a brutal MMO last-man-standing shooter with realistic weaponry, elements of lethal mystic forces and incredible superpowers!

Why similar: Battle Royale 49.4% ★, Survival 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Massively Multiplayer 6.8%, PvP 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A battle royale that incorporates unique supernatural abilities and a humorous tone similar to the Darwin Project.

Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.

Why similar: Battle Royale 49.2% ★, Multiplayer 13.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, Survival 6%, PvP 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Uses physics-based chaos to provide a lighthearted but competitive take on the battle royale formula.

10 years of horror. 10 years of jump scares and close calls. 10 years of brutal sacrifices and thrilling escapes. Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits.

Why similar: Multiplayer 36%, Survival 32.8%, Co-op 14%, Action 6.8%, Third Person 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: An asymmetrical experience that leans into the 'show' feel with high-tension cat-and-mouse gameplay.

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 37.5%, Multiplayer 18.6%, Open World 12.1%, PvP 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty survival game where crafting, base building, and player-versus-player combat are central to staying alive.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival 40.1%, Multiplayer 32.8%, Co-op 19.7%, Action 4.2%, Strategy 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that requires intense teamwork and social coordination to survive in a dangerous, claustrophobic setting.

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 31.7%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Open World 15.3%, PvP 9.8%, Massively Multiplayer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep survival and crafting game where players must master the environment to survive against both nature and other players.

Element Battle Royal takes BR to the next level with realistic mechanics, small games of only 24, and a large map to explore with others. Your main goal is to survive and thrive until you're the last man standing.

Why similar: Battle Royale 55.5% ★, Survival 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.5%, PvP 7.4%, Massively Multiplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A simplified battle royale experience that focuses on quick matches and accessible survival mechanics.

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 35.9%, Multiplayer 19.5%, Open World 15.4%, PvP 6.9%, Crafting 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on scavenging and player interaction in a post-apocalyptic open world.

42 Players Start. Only 1 will survive.Down to One is a competitive survival shooter in a large, interactive, open-world environment. Start out with nothing, and use anything you can find in the environment to survive, and eliminate other competitors over the course of a brutal round.

Why similar: Battle Royale 55.7% ★, Survival 15.4%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Open World 7.3%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward battle royale that emphasizes basic survival and gunplay in a realistic setting.

Z1 Battle Royale is a Free to Play, fast-paced, action arcade, competitive Battle Royale. Staying true to its "King of the Kill" roots, the game has been revamped and restored to the classic feel, look, and gameplay everyone fell in love with. Play solo, duos, or fives and be the last ones standing.

Why similar: Battle Royale 45% ★, Survival 18.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Massively Multiplayer 7.6%, PvP 5.4%

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: Survival 24.8%, PvP 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Open World 10.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.2%

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Why similar: Multiplayer 44.8%, PvP 44.8%, Action 8.5%, Strategy 1.5%, Atmospheric 0.3%

ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.

Why similar: Survival 34.1%, Multiplayer 18.5%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 11.3%, PvP 9.4%

Battle Royale: Survivors is a last-man-standing top down shooter pvp survival game. Players are taken as prisoners and thrown to an abandoned island. Players must fight with whatever they can find on the island. Whoever survivals to be the last lone survivor wins the game.

Why similar: Battle Royale 65.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.5%, Multiplayer 5.6%, Action 2.3%

Z1 Battle Royale is a Free to Play, fast-paced, action arcade, competitive Battle Royale. Staying true to its "King of the Kill" roots, the game has been revamped and restored to the classic feel, look, and gameplay everyone fell in love with. Play solo, duos, or fives and be the last ones standing.

Why similar: Battle Royale 27.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 23.1%, Survival 19.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Open World 5.4%

Brace yourself for an action-packed shooter experience in Mini Royale! Battle as green army toy soldiers in a massive kids' bedroom, fighting for survival in modes like Battle Royale, Deathmatch, and more—where only the strongest players or teams claim victory.

Why similar: Battle Royale 63.7% ★, Multiplayer 9.4%, Survival 7.4%, PvP 6.8%, Shooter 3.5%

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Survival 27.9%, Multiplayer 20.7%, Open World 16.5%, PvP 12%, Co-op 7.3%

Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.

Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Multiplayer 18.7%, PvP 13.6%, Massively Multiplayer 11.6%, Crafting 7.5%

Die pig die Battle Royale is a multiplayer's online game where 16 players will have to carry out certain missions before jump to the battlefield of Battle Royale. A frenetic and tense round that will end up with only one player standing up the ground.

Why similar: Battle Royale 72.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Action 3.2%, Indie 1.2%

Survival Games is a Multiplayer survival voxel shooter in an ever-changing world full of secrets, traps, wildlife and treasure. Play in 64 player games ONLINE in three different game modes. Zombies, Battle Royale and Arena now Available.Never play the same game twice with a unique world that changes every time you play!

Why similar: Battle Royale 66.5% ★, Survival 15.4%, Massively Multiplayer 5.4%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Action 3.3%

Total Lockdown is a battle royale on the top floors of a giant skyscraper. In this action shooter, the goal is to survive using any available weapons, gadgets, and tricks. Fight for fortune and fame in a battle to the death!

Why similar: Battle Royale 52.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 24.7%, Action 8%, Survival 6%, Indie 3.4%

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 22.3%, Multiplayer 19%, Massively Multiplayer 14.5%, Open World 11.9%, Co-op 8.7%

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Why similar: Survival 31.7%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Open World 14.9%, Co-op 14.2%, Crafting 8.9%

Kill, build, drive, do parkour, fly, make friends, eat... Compete to be the last man alive on huge islands filled with deadly weapons and vehicles. Play the way you want, this is Battle Royale.

Why similar: Battle Royale 83.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Action 3.2%, Multiplayer 2.1%, FPS 0.8%

The Prison Experiment is a genre defining Battle Royale game with a twist. With several game modes to chose from you will never be left wanting more. From Classic Battle Royale & King of the cell block, we offer more than any other games in the genre.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 62.3%, Action 20.4%, Strategy 9.9%, Indie 7.4%

OPG: Clan Wars — a multiplayer action game with survival elements. Arena shooter, open world, crafting, and resource battles — fight, evolve, and survive alone or with your team.

Why similar: Survival 19.1%, Multiplayer 13.5%, PvP 13.4%, Massively Multiplayer 11.8%, Open World 10.4%