- #1 Infestation: The New Z
97% 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 34.8%, Survival 15.1%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Massively Multiplayer 12.6%, Survival Horror 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its online open-world zombie survival, scavenging, player conflict, and persistent character progression closely echo Dead Frontier 2's core loop.
- #2 Dead Maze
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,814 reviews2018
Dev: Atelier 801
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Dead Maze is a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. Explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible, to survive the hostile environment and upgrade your gear and camp as you go.
Why similar: Zombies 27.8%, Massively Multiplayer 17.7%, Survival 16.1%, MMORPG 14.4% ★, Multiplayer 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play online zombie survival RPG similarly centers on cooperative scavenging, crafting, character growth, and encounters with other survivors.
- #3 Undawn
96% matchMixed54% of 6,611 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 41.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: MMORPG 24.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.4%, Survival 10.5%, Third-Person Shooter 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play open-world survival MMO with infected enemies, resource gathering, crafting, combat builds, and multiplayer social systems.
- #4 Once Human
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 189,842 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Online Co-Op 20.7%, Multiplayer 20.1%, Survival 18.2%, Sandbox 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its shared online post-apocalyptic world combines supernatural infected threats, looting, base building, crafting, and cooperative survival progression.
- #5 Will To Live Online
95% matchMixed69% of 18,412 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.1 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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: MMORPG 36.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.7%, Survival 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Multiplayer 10%
Why You'll Like It: This persistent post-apocalyptic MMO shooter captures the hazardous scavenging, trading, factional atmosphere, and gradual character development of Dead Frontier 2.
- #6 Survive the Nights
94% 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: Zombies 18%, Massively Multiplayer 12.5%, Inventory Management 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes methodical multiplayer zombie survival through scavenging, securing buildings, managing supplies, and enduring dangerous nights.
- #7 No One Survived
93% 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 23.7%, Survival 16.9%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer zombie survival sandbox focused on searching ruined towns for supplies, crafting defenses, leveling skills, and surviving with others.
- #8 7 Days to Die
92% 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: Zombies 26%, Survival 18.3%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its zombie-filled open world adds deep scavenging, crafting, skill progression, cooperative play, and escalating survival pressure.
- #9 DayZ
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 470,116 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 281.7 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: Zombies 15.8%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Survival 12.7%, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Online Co-Op 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: DayZ delivers a similarly bleak online survival experience built around looting settlements, managing needs, avoiding infected, and navigating unpredictable players.
- #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: Zombies 23.7%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Survival 13.1%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Online Co-Op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This cooperative open-world zombie survival game emphasizes scavenging, crafting, survival skills, vehicles, and building a foothold after the outbreak.
- #11 No More Room in Hell
91% 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 34.4%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Survival 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Horror 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A free cooperative survival-horror shooter that recreates Dead Frontier 2's desperate resource management and lethal zombie encounters on a session-based scale.
- #12 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
89% matchVery Positive83% of 70,161 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Zombies 31.3%, Survival 19.1%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world scavenging, zombie combat, survivor progression, base management, and cooperative play in a ruined society.
- #13 Stay Out
89% matchMixed69% of 31,337 reviews2019
Dev: MOBITECH LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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: MMORPG 33.1% ★, Multiplayer 13.5%, Survival 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Third-Person Shooter 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This online post-apocalyptic shooter similarly revolves around hazardous zones, loot hunting, RPG progression, trading, and survival against mutants.
- #14 SCUM
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 127,189 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 105.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 20.3%, Zombies 19.7%, Online Co-Op 13%, Survival 12.9%, Gore 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer survival world shares Dead Frontier 2's focus on risky looting runs, character stats, inventory management, and hostile encounters.
- #15 Dying Light
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 496,161 reviews2015
Dev: Techland
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 21.5 hrsMean: 61.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 21.4%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Horror 9.4%, Gore 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world infected apocalypse rewards dangerous supply runs, weapon upgrades, co-op play, and nighttime survival tension.
- #16 Project Zomboid
87% 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: Zombies 33.5%, Survival 21.7%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Survival Horror 11%, Sandbox 10%
Why You'll Like It: Though isometric, it offers one of the deepest zombie-survival sandboxes for multiplayer scavenging, skill development, supplies management, and long-term survival.
- #17 Night of the Dead
86% 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: Zombies 25.2%, Survival Horror 18.3%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Survival 12%
Why You'll Like It: A zombie survival crafting game where gathering resources, improving equipment, and defending against relentless infected are central to progression.
- #18 Unturned
85% 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 24.5%, Massively Multiplayer 19.6%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Survival 14%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play multiplayer survival game offers zombie-infested maps, looting, crafting, vehicles, bases, and a strong player-driven sandbox element.
- #19 Killing Floor 2
84% matchVery Positive88% of 129,477 reviews2016
Dev: Tripwire Interactive
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 86.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.
Why similar: Zombies 18.9%, Survival Horror 15.2%, Gore 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Multiplayer 10%
Why You'll Like It: It trades the persistent world for polished co-op action but retains the gruesome infected combat, loot-like weapon upgrades, and escalating survival horror intensity.
- #20 Deadside
82% 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: Survival 19.7%, Third-Person Shooter 18.1%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.7%, Online Co-Op 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer open-world survival loop of looting settlements, collecting gear, surviving armed threats, and extracting safely suits the scavenger side of Dead Frontier 2.
- #21 World War Z
83% matchVery Positive82% of 32,845 reviews2021
Dev: Saber Interactive Inc
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 35.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.
Why similar: Zombies 30.4%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Third-Person Shooter 13.1%, Survival Horror 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative zombie shooter with enormous swarms, class progression, weapon customization, and tense team-based survival missions.
- #22 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
82% matchVery Positive94% of 4,509 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?
Why similar: Zombies 35.1%, Survival 19.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Gore 10.6%, Horror 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This survival RPG focuses on making risky scavenging trips, managing hunger and wounds, improving skills, and enduring a densely zombie-infested city.
- #23 Miscreated
84% 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: Zombies 28.3%, Survival 22.9%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Massively Multiplayer 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A harsh multiplayer post-apocalyptic survival game featuring infected creatures, loot-driven exploration, crafting, and tense encounters with other players.
- #24 Survivalist: Invisible Strain
81% matchVery Positive87% of 4,565 reviews2025
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 36.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26%, Survival 25%, RPG 8.1%, Action 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes zombie survival scavenging with recruitable survivors, base building, supplies management, and cooperative multiplayer options.
- #25 Dead Island 2
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 29,851 reviews2024
Dev: Dambuster StudiosPub: Deep Silver
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.
Why similar: Zombies 35.3%, Gore 19.1%, Horror 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This loot-heavy zombie action RPG supports co-op, features brutal close-quarters combat, and sends players through dangerous areas in search of better equipment.
- #26 How to Survive 2
81% matchMixed69% of 11,020 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Zombies 44.2%, Survival 26%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Gore 7.3%, RPG 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op zombie survival gameplay centers on gathering resources, crafting better gear, completing missions, and improving a survivor camp.
- #27 Zombie Army 4: Dead War
79% matchVery Positive86% of 12,185 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!
Why similar: Zombies 32.5%, Third-Person Shooter 19%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Gore 12%, Horror 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op campaign offers gore-heavy undead combat, character and weapon progression, and a darker survival-horror presentation.
- #28 DARKEST DAYS
78% matchMixed49% of 5,176 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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 25.2%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Survival 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Horror 8.3%
- #29 Contagion
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 15,738 reviews2013
Dev: Monochrome, Inc
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 34.4%, Survival Horror 19.8%, Horror 11%, Survival 11%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This grounded multiplayer zombie horror game emphasizes limited ammunition, cautious exploration, infected ambushes, and cooperation under pressure.
- #30 No More Room in Hell 2
76% matchMixed57% of 28,679 reviews2026
Dev: Torn Banner Studios
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 25.1%, Survival Horror 18.8%, Online Co-Op 15.8%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Survival 10.2%
- #31 Fallout 76
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 140,856 reviews2020
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 116.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: MMORPG 25% ★, Multiplayer 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival 13.8%, Gore 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Although its enemies and setting are broader than zombies, its online wasteland scavenging, crafting, trading, co-op events, and RPG progression offer a comparable persistent-survival feel.
- #32 Zombie Panic! Source
77% matchVery Positive85% of 7,869 reviews2008
Dev: Zombie Panic! Team
Windows · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Dive into the zombie apocalypse with Zombie Panic! Source: a cooperative, survival-horror first-person-shooter. A fast-paced standalone modification.
Why similar: Zombies 35.7%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Horror 10.9%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.9%
- #33 Codename CURE
75% matchVery Positive85% of 16,538 reviews2017
Dev: Raptor Byte
Windows · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 27.6%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Gore 11.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%
- #34 BrainBread 2
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 5,209 reviews2022
Dev: Reperio Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Grab a weapon, demolish your enemies, level up, become more powerful, let the gore flow, let the limbs fly. BrainBread 2 introduces a zombie fps mixed with RPG / Arcade elements, the game is very action-packed and generally fast-paced.
Why similar: Zombies 37.9%, Multiplayer 21.4%, Survival 14.3%, Gore 13.3%, Horror 9%
- #35 Deceit 2
72% matchMixed57% of 6,886 reviews2023
Dev: World Makers
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Deceit 2 is an online social deduction horror game. Inspire fear as the Infected, investigate as the Innocent, or create mayhem as the Cursed. Trapped with friends and strangers: who can you trust to help you escape?
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.4%, Multiplayer 23.8%, Zombies 16.4%, Horror 12.8%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #36 Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜
74% matchMixed54% of 900 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.
Why similar: Zombies 22.4%, Massively Multiplayer 22.2%, Survival 10.9%, Gore 9.5%, Violent 8%
- #37 Infestation: The New Beginning
75% matchMixed42% of 25,431 reviews
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 57.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 40.4%, Massively Multiplayer 21.2%, Survival 15.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Third-Person Shooter 3.8%
- #38 Cry of Fear
71% matchVery Positive89% of 87,694 reviews2013
Dev: Team Psykskallar
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Why similar: Horror 27.5%, Survival Horror 25%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Zombies 11%, Online Co-Op 9.6%
- #39 Walking Zombie 2
71% 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: Zombies 34.1%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Survival 16.6%, Sandbox 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%
- #40 SAS: Zombie Assault 4
71% matchVery Positive86% of 9,703 reviews2017
Dev: Ninja Kiwi
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Purge the undead! Intense action-shooter with deep rpg elements, including upgradeable guns and armor, unique class skills, and class special abilities. Entire game can be played single player or as a 4-player online co-op game, including PvP events like Last Man Standing.
Why similar: Zombies 41.4%, Multiplayer 20.6%, Survival 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Gore 5.5%
- #41 Fallen Earth Classic
73% matchMixed60% of 7,571 reviews2012
Dev: Little Orbit
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Fallen Earth Classic is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Reloaded Productions and operated by Little Orbit. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland located around the American Grand Canyon.
Why similar: Zombies 20.2%, Survival 16.9%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Massively Multiplayer 14%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%
- #42 Last Year
69% matchMixed62% of 9,762 reviews2019
Dev: Undaunted Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Enter the nightmarish world of Last Year, where you and four other classmates try to survive, fight back and ultimately escape a horrifying Fiend in this unique horror asymmetric game.
Why similar: Survival Horror 22.3%, Multiplayer 20.7%, Horror 16.6%, Gore 14.3%, Violent 11.5%
- #43 Anomaly Zone
70% matchMixed47% of 1,012 reviews2019
Dev: NEW STORY GAMESPub: MALSER LLC
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 57.0 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Anomaly Zone is an open world MMORPG and a post-apocalyptic shooter. Be a scientist, a soldier, a hunter or an engineer. Explore anomalous territories, search for artifacts, fight mutants and other players. Participate in mass PvP and PvE battles. The Zone is waiting!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 27%, Zombies 19.2%, Survival 13.2%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Violent 9.6%
- #44 Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege
68% matchVery Positive81% of 12,573 reviews2020
Dev: Bitbeast Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
You only wanted to make a visit to your sick colleague, but what you encounter is beyond your imagination. Discover the secrets of your colleague and find a way to escape the trap.
Why similar: Multiplayer 61.9%, Horror 34.1%, Atmospheric 4%
- #45 Muck
66% matchVery Positive93% of 184,764 reviews2021
Dev: Dani
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.
Why similar: Survival 49.1%, Multiplayer 43.9%, RPG 4.1%, Action 3%
- #46 Daymare: 1998
68% matchMixed69% of 4,297 reviews2019
Dev: Invader Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.
Why similar: Zombies 25.6%, Survival Horror 22.2%, Third-Person Shooter 12.6%, Horror 11.1%, Gore 9.1%
- #47 Zombie Carnage 2
67% matchMixed64% of 965 reviews2022
Dev: LNJ
Windows
Zombie Carnage 2 is a 32 player first person shooter where you will play both as a human and zombie. By killing zombies and infecting humans you will permanently level up, unlock weapons, attachments, zombie classes and more.
Why similar: Zombies 24.3%, Survival Horror 19.1%, Multiplayer 13%, Third-Person Shooter 12.3%, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%
- #48 Ravenous Horde
65% matchMixed53% of 210 reviews2025
Dev: Vector Interactive
Windows
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 25.5%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Gore 13.1%, Survival 10.5%
- #49 Lost Light
67% matchMixed55% of 28,188 reviews2022
Dev: NetEase Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 21.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Join the "Firefly" task force and unveil the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone in the world of Lost Light. You could either scavenge for supplies or go out with guns blazing and plunder. Survive the brutal domain where danger lurks in every corner!
Why similar: Multiplayer 26.9%, Survival 23.9%, Massively Multiplayer 20.2%, Third-Person Shooter 15.7%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #50 Nomad
69% 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: Zombies 34.9%, Multiplayer 26.5%, Survival 24.4%, Massively Multiplayer 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 4.2%
- #51 Lifeless
70% matchMostly Negative38% of 559 reviews2016
Dev: Desync Donkeys
Windows
Immerse yourself in the post-apocalyptic co-op world of Lifeless, where base building and crafting are key. Collect weapons, gear, and food as you embark on thrilling missions to level up in a vast open world. But stay alert—relentless zombies lurk around every corner!
Why similar: Zombies 35.6%, Gore 15.7%, Survival 15.6%, Violent 12.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%
- #52 XERA: Survival
66% matchMixed66% of 7,942 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: Third-Person Shooter 18.3%, Multiplayer 18.2%, Massively Multiplayer 17.4%, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
- #53 Outbreak: The New Nightmare
68% matchMixed65% of 278 reviews2018
Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Return to the roots of co-op survival horror as you face monstrous hordes, scrounge for supplies and attempt to survive the nightmare. You have one life. Make it count!
Why similar: Zombies 17.6%, Survival Horror 16.7%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Gore 10.2%