Games Like DayZ

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 17.4%, FPS 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9.8%, PvP 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Deadside combines open-world looting, survival mechanics, AI threats, player-run bases, and grounded PvP gunfights in a similarly bleak setting.

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: Massively Multiplayer 19.6%, Survival 16.3%, Zombies 14.1%, Open World 11.4%, Online Co-Op 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer map, detailed survival systems, scavenging, PvP ambushes, and high-stakes player encounters make it one of the closest modern DayZ alternatives.

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 22.6%, Zombies 15.7%, Open World 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer post-apocalyptic sandbox emphasizes scavenging, hostile mutants, environmental hazards, base building, and unpredictable encounters with other survivors.

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 30.4%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, PvP 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although it lacks zombies, Rust delivers DayZ-style paranoia through open-world resource gathering, persistent servers, improvised bases, and ruthless player-driven PvP.

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 20.3%, Zombies 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Open World 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a large zombie-filled sandbox with scavenging, crafting, fortification, co-op or PvP servers, and constant pressure to survive escalating hordes.

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: Massively Multiplayer 12.9%, Survival 12.1%, Zombies 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, FPS 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its accessible presentation hides a surprisingly deep multiplayer zombie-survival sandbox built around looting towns, vehicles, bases, and player conflict.

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 24.6%, Zombies 21.4%, Open World 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Project Zomboid is a far more simulation-heavy zombie survival experience where scarcity, injuries, scavenging, and multiplayer cooperation can make every run tense.

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: Zombies 15.6%, Survival 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Open World 9.5%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: HumanitZ provides an open zombie apocalypse sandbox with multiplayer survival, scavenging, vehicles, crafting, and a strong emphasis on surviving alongside or against others.

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 23.9%, Survival 18.4%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play open-world zombie survival game is directly built around DayZ-like scavenging, firearms, player-versus-player danger, and contested supplies.

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: Zombies 12.6%, Massively Multiplayer 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer zombie sandbox stresses realistic scavenging, secure shelter construction, darkness, and dangerous infected rather than arcade-style combat.

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: Survival 21.3%, Zombies 16.8%, Open World 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Survival Horror 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its online zombie-survival world focuses on gathering resources, managing needs, building defensible shelters, crafting gear, and facing threats with friends.

After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 12.1%, Survival 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Open World 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Dead Matter aims for a grounded, systemic zombie-survival experience centered on open-world scavenging, firearms, vehicles, survival needs, and multiplayer encounters.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Open World 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Co-op 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Once Human brings persistent shared-world survival, base construction, resource runs, mutant-infested exploration, and cooperative or competitive encounters to a supernatural apocalypse.

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Zombies 17.4%, Open World 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Co-op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: VEIN is a zombie-survival sandbox focused on exploring abandoned places, looting supplies, managing survival needs, and enduring an unforgiving undead world.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Zombies 16.4%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person open-world zombie setting, nighttime danger, scavenging, crafting, and online co-op make it an excellent choice for DayZ players wanting more mobility and action.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Massively Multiplayer 16.4%, Open World 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Co-op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: The Front replaces zombies with hostile factions but retains the open-world survival loop of looting, crafting, building bases, using vehicles, and defending against other players.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 22.5%, Zombies 20.7%, Open World 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Co-op 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: State of Decay 2 emphasizes looting dangerous towns, managing scarce supplies, recruiting survivors, establishing bases, and surviving a persistent zombie apocalypse with co-op support.

Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Survival 15.4%, FPS 12%, Open World 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic online FPS offers harsh resource management, radiation zones, mutants, faction danger, and deliberate survival-focused exploration.

'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: Zombies 17.1%, Survival 14.5%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op zombie survival game centers on scavenging an infected open world, crafting equipment, building elaborate defenses, and surviving escalating attacks.

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 23.3%, Survival 14.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This free co-op zombie shooter favors vulnerable survivors, limited ammunition, teamwork, and infected pressure rather than power-fantasy action.

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 26.7%, Survival 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Open World 15.7%, Shooter 6%

Why You'll Like It: SurrounDead captures the lonely scavenging, vehicle hunting, inventory management, and zombie-infested exploration side of DayZ in a primarily solo format.

Explore, adapt, and survive in Undawn, a free-to-play open-world survival RPG for mobile and PC developed by LightSpeed Studios and published by Level Infinite. Embark on an adventure with other survivors four years after a worldwide disaster where hordes of infected roam a shattered world.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 18.9%, Survival 16%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Open World 11.8%, Zombies 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Undawn is a free-to-play open-world survival shooter featuring infected enemies, resource gathering, shelter building, multiplayer activities, and a ruined modern world.

Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.

Why similar: Zombies 19.8%, Survival 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Open World 13.7%, Co-op 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel expands the open-world infected survival fantasy with co-op exploration, rooftop scavenging, crafting, faction choices, and especially threatening nights.

Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 17.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 10%

Why You'll Like It: Fallout 76 offers a large online post-apocalyptic world where players explore ruins, gather supplies, fight mutated threats, build camps, and cooperate with strangers.

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 24.1%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Open World 14.3%, Co-op 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival sandbox expands on scavenging, crafting, building defenses, and exploring a hostile island full of cannibalistic and mutant threats.

Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 15%, FPS 14.4%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.5%, Online Co-Op 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: While it has no zombies, its open-world tactical multiplayer, methodical looting, realistic gunplay, dangerous AI, and extraction-focused risk strongly suit DayZ's PvP audience.

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 33.2%, Open World 16.8%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Horror 11.9%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: The Forest offers tense first-person survival, resource scavenging, shelter building, hostile wilderness exploration, and co-op play in a dangerous open environment.

Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

Why similar: Zombies 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Survival Horror 9.6%, FPS 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Contagion delivers tense multiplayer zombie scenarios with scarce supplies, realistic weapons, player infection, and a more grounded survival-horror tone.

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: Post-apocalyptic 26.3%, FPS 19.6%, PvP 16%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Shooter 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: Vigor condenses DayZ-style tense loot runs and player ambushes into extraction matches where every weapon and resource brought home has value.

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 27.9%, Survival 23.2%, Open World 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Sandbox 5.7%

Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.

Why similar: Zombies 26.5%, Massively Multiplayer 18.7%, Survival 18.4%, Open World 8.2%, PvP 6.2%

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 28.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Open World 16.1%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Co-op 6.9%

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: Survival 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Open World 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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: Survival 25.5%, Massively Multiplayer 18%, Open World 9.5%, FPS 7.6%, Zombies 7.3%

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 19%, Survival 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Try to survive the harsh realities of the cold Siberian countryside. Live long and always remember, man is man's enemy. You can trust no one but it is almost impossible to survive on your own. Choose your path and go to finish. Firefights, transport, crafting and survival.

Why similar: Survival 13.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, FPS 9.6%, Open World 9.1%

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 26.7%, Survival 24%, Open World 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Survival Horror 5.3%

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 28.5%, Co-op 11.9%, FPS 10.7%, Survival 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.

Why similar: Shooter 13.5%, Open World 13.2%, FPS 13.1%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Co-op 11%

"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 24.7%, Massively Multiplayer 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Open World 6.9%

Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.

Why similar: Zombies 15.1%, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Open World 9.6%, Survival Horror 9.2%

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: Massively Multiplayer 37.4%, Survival 18.4%, Zombies 10.4%, Open World 6.7%, Shooter 6.4%

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: Zombies 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 14.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%, Open World 10%

Take on a city overrun by zombies with 1 to 4 players online — co-op or PvP! Hold the line against running, leaping, spitting hordes. Fight by day, hunt in the dark of night. Tear off limbs and unlock cosmetics with every kill. Stand together... or hunt each other down.

Why similar: Zombies 18.2%, Survival 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12%, FPS 10.2%, Co-op 9%

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Zombies 23.3%, Open World 19.5%, Survival 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 16.6%, Survival 13.9%, Zombies 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, FPS 9.1%

Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, Co-op 11.3%, FPS 10.6%, Survival 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

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: Survival 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival Horror 11%, Open World 9.7%

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Zombies 16.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Once a prosperous city Istanbul is fallen. Prepare your gear, defeat zombie hordes and reclaim your hometown. Uncover hidden story behind the disaster and learn what controls the zombies. Select your side between military and rebels and fight for the control of the city.

Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Zombies 20.4%, FPS 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Co-op 8.1%

Team up with 64 players to fight off the horde of zombies in this post-apocalyptic FPS or join the horde against the living! Turn on your teammates and tear them apart. Level up and unlock new weapons, perks, clothing options and more! Equip your favourite loadout and join the fight!

Why similar: Zombies 16.2%, Survival 11.8%, FPS 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival Horror 9.4%

No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.

Why similar: Zombies 17.6%, Survival 12.7%, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Co-op 9.2%

Stay Out - is a MMORPG with shooter elements, based on spirit of “stalking” - an urban exploration, searching and exploring mysterious, abandoned and forgotten by humanity pieces of our planet.

Why similar: Survival 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Open World 12.3%, PvP 10.9%, Shooter 9.8%