Games Like DEADCRAFT

Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.

Why similar: Zombies 23.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Hack and Slash 15.1%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title features a similar blend of zombie survival, crafting, and the ability to equip zombies with gear to serve as your personal companions.

Become a necromancer and raise the dead - Undead Horde is a necromantic action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Maraud through the lands of the living, raze their villages and steal their treasures. Ultimately you'll take over the whole kingdom of the living!

Why similar: Zombies 37.4%, Hack and Slash 28.5%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Funny 8.6%, Action 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the necromancer-style gameplay of raising and commanding an army of undead minions to fight for you.

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

Why similar: Zombies 59%, Combat 16.2%, Simulation 14.3%, Tower Defense 7.5%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of building and upgrading zombie units to defend against waves of enemies in a chaotic, top-down environment.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 32.4%, Survival 26.8%, Crafting 26.8%, Simulation 5.5%, Action 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes breaking down the environment for resources and crafting, much like the scavenging loop in DEADCRAFT.

'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 35%, Crafting 25.1%, Survival 21.1%, Simulation 8.3%, Tower Defense 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the base-building and tower-defense aspects of surviving against massive zombie hordes in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 34.4%, Crafting 30.9%, Hack and Slash 23.9%, Base Building 5.6%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: While vampire-themed, it offers the same satisfying mix of action-RPG combat, base building, and minion management found in the seed game.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 58.1%, Dark Humor 21.9%, Simulation 14.9%, Singleplayer 2.6%, Dark 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the dark, morbid humor and farming mechanics centered around the dead, providing a more management-focused experience.

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 35.2%, Survival 28.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Crafting 11.9%, Isometric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, uncompromising survival simulation that forces players to manage every aspect of their character's life in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 32.5%, Survival 28.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive zombie survival experience that combines deep crafting, base construction, and intense combat against the undead.

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: Zombies 39.5%, Survival 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that focuses on the survival and resource-management struggles of a group of survivors in a zombie apocalypse.

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 40.6%, Survival 31.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Base Building 4.6%, Simulation 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the management of a survivor community and base-building while navigating a dangerous, zombie-infested open world.

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.4%, Survival 35.9%, Simulation 24.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the post-apocalyptic survival and farming aspects, offering a more relaxed take on rebuilding the world.

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 41.9%, Survival 31.2%, Crafting 17.5%, Action 3.5%, Dark Humor 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action-survival game that emphasizes crafting and base-building while fending off waves of zombies.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 58.7%, Crafting 35.5%, Simulation 3.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar quirky, dark art style and a demanding survival loop that requires constant crafting and resource management.

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: Post-apocalyptic 34.1%, Crafting 23.2%, Survival 20.5%, Simulation 9.5%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival and base-building with a focus on managing NPCs, which feels similar to the minion-management aspects of the seed game.

Your main task in NecroCity is to push back the hordes of monsters and build your fortress! Defend your undead outposts from the persistent forces of the so-called “good”! Take on the role of the young Prince of Undead, trying to prove himself in the world of the Undead Kingdom. 👹

Why similar: Zombies 31%, Survival 25.6%, Isometric 17%, 3D 7.3%, Base Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused city builder that allows you to manage an undead colony, sharing the dark aesthetic and management themes.

As a powerful necromancer you have the ability to raise the dead and command them in battle. With each victory, your army will grow stronger and your city will become more powerful. Undead Horde 2 is an action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Rise from the crypt and rebuild!

Why similar: Zombies 33%, Hack and Slash 28.6%, Dark Humor 23.7%, Action 7.4%, 3D 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel to Undead Horde, offering refined mechanics for raising and controlling an army of the dead.

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 30.5%, Survival 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Isometric 7.3%, Combat 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action-RPG elements with base-building and survival in a world plagued by a mysterious infection.

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 53.1%, Survival 28.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Isometric 1.9%, Simulation 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical RPG that emphasizes the social and survival challenges of managing a shelter during a zombie outbreak.

Praise Dead is a roguelike auto-battler where you create zombies from the parts of dead villagers and monsters. Use your zombies to defeat waves of demons, and to harvest resources to improve and upgrade your village.

Why similar: Zombies 51.8%, Dark Humor 31.1%, Simulation 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique strategy game that focuses on the necromancy and management of undead forces in a turn-based format.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Survival 62.2%, Simulation 20.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: While a colony sim, it provides the same dark humor and resource-management challenges when dealing with zombie-like threats and base defense.

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 35.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Survival 19.9%, Action 6.8%, 3D 5%

Why You'll Like It: A zombie survival game that focuses on base building and exploration in a persistent, open-world environment.

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Crafting 46.1%, Survival 36.4%, Hack and Slash 12.4%, Action 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an expansive crafting and survival experience that allows for creative base building and combat against various threats.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Survival 38%, Post-apocalyptic 26.7%, Crafting 22.9%, Simulation 6.1%, Base Building 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox that emphasizes survival, base-building, and the ability to recruit a squad to help you survive.

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Zombies 32.7%, Survival 23.2%, Crafting 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival game that focuses on the basics of crafting, building, and staying alive against the undead.

"The Last Farmer" is not just a tale of survival; it's a journey of restoration. Amidst the sprawling deserts of a forgotten Texas, your farm becomes a symbol of hope and persistence.

Why similar: Zombies 28.9%, Post-apocalyptic 25.1%, Survival 20.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Action 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the farming and survival aspects of a post-apocalyptic world, mirroring the agricultural loop of the seed game.

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, run a shop and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator!

Why similar: Zombies 23.7%, Farming 20.5% ★, Crafting 17.3%, Survival 15%, Resource Management 10.2%

The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Zombies 33.8%, Survival 21.5%, Dark Humor 20.1%, Funny 9.8%, Tower Defense 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tower-defense game that captures the feeling of holding off massive waves of zombies with limited resources.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 31.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a family in a post-apocalyptic bunker, emphasizing resource scarcity and survival decisions.

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Survival 56.8%, Crafting 31.5%, Simulation 5.7%, Action 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that forces players to scavenge and craft in a harsh environment, emphasizing the same resource-management loop.

Zombie Diner — In a post-apocalyptic world, you run the only diner for the undead. Cook grotesque meals, serve hungry zombie patrons, and blast those who lose patience. Survival, management, and dark humor all on the menu!

Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, Cooking 21.1%, Resource Management 19%, Simulation 10%, Action 6.7%

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 75.2%, Action 11.3%, Tower Defense 10.1%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic take on the zombie apocalypse that focuses on managing evacuations and tactical combat against massive hordes.

Manage your Graveyard by day as you bury and cremate bodies, maintain graves, fulfill visitor requests, grow crops, and unlock upgrades. When night falls, face relentless zombie hordes as you build defenses to protect your work and fight to survive in Zombie Graveyard Simulator - Prologue!

Why similar: Zombies 55.1%, Simulation 18.3%, Action 11.6%, 3D 5.8%, Stylized 5%

Run a shop in the zombie apocalypse! Trade batteries, craft stock, manage your staff, and fend off undead hordes. Will you be a hero, or profit at any cost? Your choices shape your store - and your fate.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.6%, Crafting 21.5%, Survival 15.6%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Simulation 9.9%

A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!

Why similar: Zombies 23.2%, Survival 18.3%, Hack and Slash 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Simulation 11.3%

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 26.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Survival 18.3%, Crafting 14.7%, Simulation 5.4%

Your community was taken down by a heavy storm which caused an apocalypse and unleashed the living dead. Together with the other survivors, it is your task to rebuild and to allow that sustainable life can still be assured. Cultivate your farm and manage your restaurant to provide food and deal with all the zombies.

Why similar: Farming 34.9% ★, Crafting 20%, Zombies 15.7%, Cooking 13.6%, Survival 8.6%

Raise an undead army in Decks of the Damned! Command your vampire minions, scavenge gear from fallen foes and craft powerful items to strenghten your forces. Defend by day, expand your domain by night, and shroud the land in darkness!

Why similar: Crafting 47%, Survival 42.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Singleplayer 2.6%

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: Zombies 38.5%, Post-apocalyptic 28.1%, Survival 19.9%, Action 6.7%, Base Building 4.8%

(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 32.8%, Crafting 23.4%, Survival 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Action 5.9%

Face massive zombie swarms in this funny post-apocalyptic tactical sandbox! Do you know what it's like to be surrounded by 100,000 zombies? Well, you're about to find out!

Why similar: Zombies 36%, Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Simulation 17.9%, Action 11.4%, Funny 8.4%

Raise the dead as a fearsome Necromancer in the dark world of The Unliving! Lead your undead armies into the endless fight in this rogue-lite action RPG game. Burn cities to ash with devastating magic spells, slay epic bosses and turn your enemies into morbid servants.

Why similar: Zombies 40.7%, Hack and Slash 32.8%, Isometric 13.7%, Action 9.9%, Singleplayer 2.8%

How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.

Why similar: Zombies 38.9%, Crafting 22%, Survival 19.6%, Simulation 8.7%, Action 6.3%

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 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 19.1%, Action 5%

See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.

Why similar: Zombies 25.4%, Hack and Slash 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Crafting 16%

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 33%, Post-apocalyptic 26%, Survival 18.7%, Funny 9.7%, 3D 4.4%

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: Zombies 24.6%, Crafting 21.5%, Survival 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Combat 4.6%

In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.

Why similar: Zombies 24%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Survival 18.3%, Simulation 7.3%

Be My Horde is a roguelite survivor where your minions fight for you. Become a formidable necromancer and turn your enemies into a resource! Raise fallen foes, build massive undead hordes, enhance your skills with devoured souls, and conquer the world – you’re the villain in this story.

Why similar: Zombies 64.3%, Simulation 20.8%, Action 14.9%

Command the checkpoint in a collapsing city. Screen survivors, manage scarce resources, and hold back the undead. Every choice matters and one mistake could unleash the plague beyond your walls.

Why similar: Zombies 30.9%, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Resource Management 15%, Dark Humor 14.7%, Simulation 8.4%

Try your hand at exciting survival and prove that you are not afraid of any challenges! Defeat all the evil dead and free the virtual world from danger. You need to confront these monsters by any means. Be the bravest!

Why similar: Zombies 46%, Crafting 37.3%, Action 6.2%, 3D 6%, Combat 3.9%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 59.2%, Survival 15.9%, Action 13.2%, Simulation 11.7%

Barricadez is a mix of tower defense and survival game. Take on your care robot and explore the underground, find new blueprints, gather resources and build your defenses and traps to survive through the night against a myriad of zombie-like creatures. Your goal: to defend the defenseless cradle.

Why similar: Zombies 26.2%, Crafting 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Resource Management 16.6%, Survival 12.8%

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

Why similar: Crafting 21.6%, Survival 21.3%, Zombies 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Simulation 6%

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 26.6%, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Isometric 8%

A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.

Why similar: Zombies 42.5%, Dark Humor 14.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Survival 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%

Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive

Why similar: Zombies 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Crafting 19.3%, Dark Humor 17.2%, Survival 13.1%

Death Drive is the apocalyptic sequel to Out of Ammo, a hybrid VR Tower Defense / FPS strategy game. Embark on a wild road trip developed exclusively for VR. Build defenses, scavenge scrap and and kill undead zombie hordes using an arsenal of firearms, melee weapons and mounted defenses.

Why similar: Zombies 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Dark Humor 14.9%, Hack and Slash 13.4%, Funny 7%

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 28.2%, Survival 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Crafting 15.9%, Simulation 5.5%