- #1 DeadPoly
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 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: Zombies 20.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 8.3%
- #2 Blood Night
96% matchVery Positive96% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: Team
Windows
(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.
Why similar: Zombies 26.4%, Survival 18.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 11%, Action 6%
- #3 Zombie Builder Defense
96% matchMixed67% of 509 reviews2018
Dev: Noham Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Top down, action packed, multiplayer, zombie shooter. Build your base with friends and see how long you can survive the endless horde of zombies. Level up with friends, or alone, how you die is up to you.
Why similar: Zombies 27.5%, Base Building 26%, Survival 17.9%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Co-op 6.8%
- #4 Gone: Survival
95% matchMixed44% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Base Building 20%, Zombies 19.6%, Survival 17.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%
- #5 Survival Machine
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 25.2%, Zombies 24%, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #6 Dead District: Survival
94% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 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: Base Building 18.6%, Survival 18.2%, Zombies 15.5%, Sandbox 12.2%, FPS 11%
- #7 DREADZONE
93% matchMixed52% of 1,188 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 24.7%, Zombies 20.6%, Survival 20%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 8.4%
- #8 No One Survived
92% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 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: Survival 28.5%, Zombies 28.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 8%, Co-op 6%
- #9 Night of the Dead
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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 23.2%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 13%, Crafting 9.7%
- #10 SurrounDead
90% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 40.6%, Survival 28.9%, Base Building 17.4%, Co-op 4.4%, PvE 4.1%
- #11 Volcanoids
91% matchVery Positive83% of 9,267 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 22.2%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, FPS 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%
- #12 VEIN
88% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Zombies 23.7%, Base Building 22.9%, Survival 21.1%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 7.7%
- #13 Zombie Survival Game Online
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 308 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Why similar: Zombies 21.4%, Base Building 18.6%, Survival 15.9%, FPS 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%
- #14 Junk Survivor
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 81 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Zombies 25%, Survival 19.5%, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 12.3%, Crafting 8.1%
- #15 Unturned
87% matchVery Positive91% of 562,983 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.1 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: Zombies 23.7%, Survival 19.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, FPS 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%
- #16 Skopje '83
86% matchMixed69% of 171 reviews2025
Dev: Dark-1Pub: PM Studios, Inc.
Windows
Explore a city thrust into disarray by an unknown event and survive the hordes of mutated abominations that lurk at every corner. You’ll have to fight through enemies & bosses, scavenge loot and survive the hostile city.
Why similar: Zombies 24%, Survival 18.3%, Sandbox 13.6%, FPS 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%
- #17 Crafting Dead
86% matchMixed57% of 158 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Why similar: Zombies 28.8%, Base Building 23.8%, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 11%, Action 6.3%
- #18 Polygeddon
84% matchMixed41% of 66 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: Zombies 28.7%, Survival 20.1%, Sandbox 14.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Co-op 8.2%
- #19 BiteVille
85% matchMixed54% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Veelhoek Studios
Windows
The world has fallen victim to a deadly virus, zombies now roam the lands. While running for your life you stumble upon a small city. Claim this city as your own, protect it with your life and maybe other survivors will find you.
Why similar: Zombies 23.8%, Base Building 23.5%, Survival 16%, FPS 10.6%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
- #20 State of Decay
84% matchVery Positive85% of 17,512 reviews2013
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 40.8%, Survival 27.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 7.8%, Action 4.7%
- #21 HumanitZ
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,839 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.8 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 24%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 18.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Crafting 9.1%
- #22 CastleMiner Z
82% matchVery Positive81% of 11,113 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Zombies 26.5%, Survival 23%, Sandbox 14%, Crafting 7.8%, FPS 7%
- #23 Generation Zero®
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,788 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Base Building 23.4%, Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 13.2%, FPS 11.7%, Crafting 9.7%
- #24 Survival: Lost Way
82% matchMostly Negative36% of 291 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Survival 26%, Base Building 19.3%, Crafting 15.1%, FPS 13.7%, Action 8%
- #25 Ultimate Zombie Defense
80% matchVery Positive85% of 4,703 reviews2020
Dev: Terror Dog Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Team up or face it alone in this top down zombie slaying defense adventure! Featuring up to 4 player online co-op, cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses to build the Ultimate Zombie Defense. Can YOU stop them?
Why similar: Zombies 37.3%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 13%, Action 11%, Online Co-Op 9.1%
- #26 Dead Unending
79% matchMixed46% of 117 reviews2023
Dev: Tyler HudsonPub: Tylario
Windows
A deadly virus plagues the city and the residents now roam the streets as flesh-eating zombies. Loot the apocalyptic open world and build a self-sustaining zombie-killing fortress. Will you survive the apocalypse or become one of the undead?
Why similar: Zombies 32.4%, Base Building 31.8%, Survival 20.6%, Action 8%, 3D 5.1%
- #27 Darksburg
79% matchMixed62% of 2,516 reviews2020
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
DARKSBURG is a co-op roguelite in which you must escape a procedurally generated medieval city overwhelmed by undead forces. Fight alongside up to 3 friends, overcome the revenants and get out while you can...
Why similar: Zombies 48.2%, Co-op 17%, PvE 13.9%, Action 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.4%
- #28 Blood And Zombies
78% matchMixed53% of 453 reviews2022
Dev: Wild MonkeyPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Blood, guts, meat. Humanity's waging total war against a horrific zombie apocalypse. Lead one of four of humanity's deadliest survivors against the horde in this first person, wave defense shooter. Load up your guns, set up turrets, sharpen your skills, and maybe you'll make it through the night.
Why similar: Zombies 21.8%, Base Building 21.6%, Survival 15.4%, FPS 11.9%, Online Co-Op 8.2%
- #29 Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,246 reviews2014
Dev: Capcom Game Studio VancouverPub: Capcom
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.
Why similar: Zombies 47.8%, Survival 15%, Co-op 7.9%, Action 7.2%, Sandbox 7%
- #30 Survive the Nights
75% matchMixed66% of 6,549 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 24.5%, Survival 18.1%, Sandbox 15%, FPS 10.6%, Co-op 6.9%
- #31 They Are Hundreds
77% matchMixed53% of 186 reviews2020
Dev: WoahStudiosusPub: Woahstudiosus
Windows
They Are Hundreds is an evolving Third-person wave based zombie game, co-op with up to 4 friends with endless ammo and guns!
Why similar: Zombies 33%, Survival 27.9%, Action 12%, Co-op 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9%
- #32 Building Destruction
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 107 reviews2023
Dev: 180°
Windows
Multiplayer sandbox with destructible environment. Destroy different maps, build your own, and play with your friends and other people online
Why similar: Sandbox 34.2%, Building 11.7%, Action 11.3%, FPS 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #33 Soviet Survival
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Zombies 23.5%, Base Building 21.1%, Survival 18%, Sandbox 12.4%, Crafting 9.3%
- #34 Far Lands
75% matchMixed65% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Base Building 33.1%, Survival 26.6%, Crafting 15.4%, PvE 7.5%, Action 7.2%
- #35 Crushed
76% matchMixed54% of 311 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 18.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Zombies 14.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, FPS 11%
- #36 Lifeless
77% matchMostly Negative38% of 554 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 50.8%, Survival 31.6%, Action 14.1%, Multiplayer 3.5%
- #37 MISERY
70% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Base Building 25.1%, Survival 24.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Co-op 8.8%
- #38 Zompiercer
73% matchVery Positive89% of 4,324 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Zombies 24.7%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 15.8%, FPS 12.1%
- #39 Plains of Pain
73% matchVery Positive84% of 757 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Survival 17.7%, Sandbox 15.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Co-op 7.5%
- #40 Dead Matter
74% matchMostly Negative21% of 885 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
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 21.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 15.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, FPS 9.4%
- #41 SmallZ
73% matchMixed47% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: skins.dog
Windows
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
Why similar: Base Building 28.5%, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Action 9.9%, Building 8.1%
- #42 Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha
70% matchVery Positive88% of 9,878 reviews2023
Dev: Adrian Kaminski
Windows
Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.
Why similar: Zombies 25.8%, Survival 18.8%, FPS 11.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 7.8%
- #43 Dead Maze
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,795 reviews2018
Dev: Atelier 801
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 15.2 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 39.6%, Survival 32.6%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Crafting 6.1%, Co-op 5.5%
- #44 Shamania
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Crafting 13.4%, Co-op 7.5%
- #45 Lost World
71% matchMixed56% of 281 reviews2023
Dev: C.S. GamesPub: C.S. Games publishing
Windows
Lost World is a survival video game with single and co-op modes. Open world and first person view.
Why similar: Zombies 25.4%, Survival 22.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Action 9.5%
- #46 Romestead
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 201 reviews2026
Dev: BeartwigsPub: Three Friends
Windows
Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.
Why similar: Base Building 27%, Survival 24.6%, Crafting 16.1%, Sandbox 15.7%, Online Co-Op 8%
- #47 Dead Pixels
71% matchVery Positive87% of 2,424 reviews2012
Dev: CSR-Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.
Why similar: Zombies 63.8%, Survival 16.6%, Action 11.8%, Co-op 6%, Multiplayer 1.4%
- #48 Zombie Builder Defense 2
69% matchVery Positive85% of 233 reviews2023
Dev: Noham Games
Windows
Defend against hordes of zombies in this fun filled top-down shooter. Build and upgrade your base, unlock powerful guns, and take on challenging bosses with up to 4 players in online co-op. Play minigames to earn bonuses and survive the zombie apocalypse one night at a time!
Why similar: Zombies 33.2%, Base Building 29.1%, Action 11.2%, Building 7.9%, PvE 6.9%
- #49 Shadows of Kurgansk
72% matchMixed66% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Yadon StudioPub: Gaijin inCubator
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!
Why similar: Zombies 28.8%, Survival 28.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Action 8%
- #50 DARKEST DAYS
69% matchMixed49% of 4,909 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 31.5%, Survival 22.8%, Base Building 19.9%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.8%
- #51 Dread Dawn
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,217 reviews2024
Dev: Kioop
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.
Why similar: Zombies 33.4%, Base Building 22%, Survival 21.8%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 3.2%
- #52 Zelter
71% matchMixed48% of 1,973 reviews2020
Dev: G1 PlaygroundPub: SuperGG.com
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
Why similar: Zombies 35.7%, Survival 26.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, FPS 9.3%, Online Co-Op 7.2%
- #53 7 Days to Die
65% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 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 22.4%, Zombies 22.4%, Base Building 19.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, FPS 8.1%
- #54 Outbreak Island
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Base Building 18.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Zombies 16.3%, FPS 9.1%
- #55 Dead Engine
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 136 reviews2026
Dev: Chocolate Dungeon GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.
Why similar: Base Building 35.6%, Zombies 33.9%, Survival 19.8%, Action 7.5%, Adventure 2.4%
- #56 How to Survive 2
69% matchMixed69% of 11,001 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 33.2%, Survival 27.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Co-op 6.5%
- #57 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
66% matchVery Positive83% of 68,064 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 27.3%, Base Building 26%, Survival 23.7%, Co-op 5.8%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #58 Hauntsville
66% matchMixed65% of 223 reviews2025
Dev: Michael JanischPub: indie.io
Windows
You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip. Build a homestead, work the land, and survive against unspeakable monsters in this unique Western horror survival game - alone or with friends!
Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Base Building 22.3%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 10.4%, PvE 9.8%
- #59 Cannibal Crossing
67% matchMixed62% of 258 reviews2022
Dev: Everplay InteractivePub: Rocketcat Games
Windows
Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!
Why similar: Base Building 36.7%, Survival 21.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Action 8.3%