- #1 SCUM
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 126,169 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 104.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Survival 11.1%, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: SCUM offers the same blend of open-world survival, looting, base-building, and lethal PvP gunfights, just with deeper simulation systems.
- #2 DayZ
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 467,232 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 279.6 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: Survival 17.3%, FPS 10.1%, Massively Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, PvP 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is still the closest overall match for Deadside's harsh open-world PvPvE survival, emergent player encounters, and gear-focused tension.
- #3 Miscreated
96% matchMixed66% of 31,591 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic open world, player-built bases, vehicle roaming, and constant threat from both players and AI make it feel very Deadside-adjacent.
- #4 Next Day: Survival
95% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 25%, Open World 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is a close thematic fit thanks to its Eastern European-style post-apocalyptic setting, survival systems, faction tension, and online gunplay.
- #5 XERA: Survival
94% matchMixed66% of 7,936 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 6%
Why You'll Like It: XERA emphasizes looting, base-building, and tense PvPvE firefights in a shared survival world, which makes it a natural Deadside alternative.
- #6 Will To Live Online
94% matchMixed69% of 18,353 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 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: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Crafting 11.5%, FPS 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its radioactive wasteland atmosphere, MMO-style open world, survival mechanics, and firefights against both mutants and players line up well with Deadside's PvPvE feel.
- #7 Rust
92% matchVery Positive87% of 1,389,659 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.7 hrsMean: 427.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: While less grounded in tone, Rust delivers the same addictive cycle of gathering, building, raiding, and surviving unpredictable PvP in a persistent world.
- #8 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
93% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: If you want another multiplayer post-apocalyptic sandbox built around scavenging, crafting, bases, and dangerous player encounters, this is a strong parallel.
- #9 Once Human
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 180,623 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Once Human scratches a very similar itch with persistent-world scavenging, shooting, crafting, and base-building in a hostile post-collapse setting.
- #10 7 Days to Die
91% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 110.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 9.4%, FPS 8%
Why You'll Like It: It leans more into crafting and zombies, but its open-world survival, gunplay, fortification, and multiplayer sandbox appeal overlap heavily with Deadside.
- #11 Unturned
90% matchVery Positive91% of 564,370 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.7 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: Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Looter Shooter 11.1% ★, FPS 9.9%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Despite its simpler visuals, Unturned nails the same formula of open-world looting, base-building, survival pressure, and volatile PvP.
- #12 The Front
89% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: The Front combines open-world survival crafting, firearms, base-building, and online conflict in a way that feels mechanically close even if the setting differs.
- #13 STALZONE
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 105,521 reviews2022
Dev: EXBO
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 98.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
STALZONE is the PvPvE extraction shooter where you don't have to start over — and the only one with persistent world worth belonging to. You are invited to explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone twisted by anomalies and divided between rival factions whose territories shape the danger around you
Why similar: Open World 14.5%, FPS 13.1%, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, PvP 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: STALCRAFT: X captures the same post-Soviet survival-shooter vibe with open-world exploration, dangerous PvPvE zones, and high-stakes loot runs.
- #14 Vigor
88% matchMixed46% of 7,946 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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: Looter Shooter 17.4% ★, FPS 12.9%, Third-Person Shooter 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, PvP 11%
Why You'll Like It: Vigor is more session-based than Deadside, but its risk-reward looting, shelter progression, and tense third-person firefights hit a similar adrenaline loop.
- #15 SurrounDead
86% matchVery Positive92% of 26,283 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Base Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: SurrounDead delivers a similar lonely scavenger-shooter atmosphere with open-world looting, survival pressure, and a rough post-apocalyptic vibe.
- #16 Hurtworld
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 64.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, FPS 12.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Hurtworld shares Deadside's emphasis on survival, guns, base-building, and dangerous player interaction, even if its style is more stylized.
- #17 DeadPoly
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,120 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Looter Shooter 8% ★
Why You'll Like It: DeadPoly captures the scavenging-and-building side of Deadside with multiplayer survival systems, zombie pressure, and a persistent open world.
- #18 Gray Zone Warfare
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 78,220 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 16.0 hrsMean: 48.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: FPS 17.6%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 12.6%, PvP 11.8%, Massively Multiplayer 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is less survival-craft and more tactical extraction shooter, but its grounded gunplay, open map structure, and high-tension looting make it appealing to Deadside players.
- #19 No One Survived
84% matchMixed64% of 7,761 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 22.9 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 24.4%, Open World 17.1%, Crafting 15.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This one leans harder into survival management, but its open-world scavenging, crafting, shooting, and multiplayer structure are very compatible with Deadside's appeal.
- #20 Stay Out
85% matchMixed69% of 30,918 reviews2019
Dev: MOBITECH LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 19.2 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: Survival 16.6%, Open World 14.2%, PvP 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its bleak exclusion-zone setting, survival systems, PvPvE combat, and MMO-style scavenging make it a good fit for Deadside fans who want a grittier tone.
- #21 Sunkenland
83% matchVery Positive80% of 23,735 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%, Co-op 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Sunkenland is more PvE-focused, but its survival crafting, base construction, and dangerous world exploration make it a good lower-ranked fit.
- #22 DUCKSIDE
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,073 reviews2024
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.4%, Third-Person Shooter 7.9%, PvP 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Under the joke premise is a familiar extraction-tinged survival shooter loop with looting, crafting, and online PvP that overlaps more than you might expect.
- #23 Night of the Dead
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,847 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Night of the Dead is more defense-oriented, but its open-world survival, resource gathering, and strong fortification focus echo Deadside's base-building appeal.
- #24 Dysterra
82% matchMixed56% of 771 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.4%, FPS 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Dysterra focuses on FPS survival, crafting, and base-building in a shared world, making it a solid choice if your favorite part of Deadside is the PvP sandbox loop.
- #25 HumanitZ
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,844 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: HumanitZ mixes co-op survival, looting, vehicles, and base-building in a zombie-ravaged open world that overlaps well with Deadside's sandbox structure.
- #26 DARKEST DAYS
81% matchMixed49% of 5,093 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: Survival 16%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world zombie survival, online progression, and shooter gameplay in a way that should appeal if you like Deadside's scavenging loop.
- #27 Fallout 76
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 140,106 reviews2020
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 115.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.
Why similar: Open World 18.2%, Base Building 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Survival 15.4%, Multiplayer 13%
Why You'll Like It: Fallout 76 offers a friendlier take on the formula with open-world scavenging, CAMP building, and online exploration in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- #28 Survive the Nights
77% matchMixed66% of 6,707 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Survival 10.3%, Looter Shooter 9.5% ★, FPS 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%
- #29 Undawn
78% matchMixed54% of 6,600 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 41.1 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: Survival 14.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.1%, Open World 13%, Crafting 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Undawn is more MMO-like and polished, but it still offers open-world survival shooting, base management, and multiplayer progression in a ruined world.
- #30 PIONER
77% matchMixed61% of 3,593 reviews2025
Dev: GFAGAMES
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 11.6% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.1%, FPS 10.7%, Open World 9.7%
- #31 Subsistence
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,762 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Open World 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Subsistence is more survival-sim than shooter, yet its solitary tension, building, crafting, and hostile-world pressure make it a reasonable stretch pick.
- #32 Zombie Survival Game Online
78% matchMixed69% of 315 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Looter Shooter 10.8% ★, Base Building 10%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is a rougher but relevant match for players who mainly want multiplayer looting, zombie survival, and open-world shooting.
- #33 Lost Rift
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,666 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, FPS 8.5%
- #34 PolyZ
76% matchMixed49% of 282 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 10.8%, Massively Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 9.5%
- #35 Dead District: Survival
76% matchMixed47% of 482 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 11.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, FPS 9.5%
- #36 Lost Light
74% matchMixed55% of 28,072 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: Survival 16.9%, Looter Shooter 15.8% ★, Multiplayer 10.7%, FPS 10.6%, Shooter 8.2%
- #37 VEIN
71% matchVery Positive88% of 11,823 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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%, Base Building 18%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%
- #38 Plains of Pain
73% matchVery Positive83% of 918 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%
- #39 Rem Survival
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 9.2%
- #40 Project L33T: Founders Edition
71% matchMixed50% of 681 reviews2026
Dev: Targetpoint Interactive
Windows
Join the persistent open world of OZERSK! Choose your way to play on PvE or PvP servers, fight for precious loot and gear, and risk it all in a hostile environment. Die, lose all your gear and loot, then return to the same server in hopes of retrieving what you lost. This is your story!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 20.8% ★, FPS 18.5%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 11.9%, Shooter 8.6%
- #41 Mesorift Survival
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, FPS 9.4%, Open World 9.3%
- #42 Nomad
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 15.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 8.6%
- #43 Last Oasis
72% matchMixed62% of 24,230 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.8 hrsMean: 120.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.
Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Massively Multiplayer 18.9%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 13.4%, PvP 9.2%
- #44 Strayed
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 418 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Crafting 9.1%, Base Building 9%, Survival 8.7%, PvP 7.1%
- #45 Anarchy: Wolf's law
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 823 reviews2023
Dev: Anarchy Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Action. Chaos. Power. Anarchy: Wolf Laws is a dynamic first-person shooter with elements of RPG, survival, and strategic management. Capture territories, upgrade your production, and run your business in a world of total lawlessness.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Looter Shooter 8.4% ★, FPS 7.9%
- #46 Outlaws of the Old West
71% matchMixed59% of 6,293 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 12.1%, Massively Multiplayer 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #47 Arena Breakout: Infinite
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 73,142 reviews2025
Dev: Morefun Studios
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Arena Breakout: Infinite is a high-stakes tactical extraction shooter where every decision matters. Fight, loot, and extract—or lose it all. With stunningly realistic visuals, lifelike sound, and unforgiving PvPvE combat, every raid is a gamble between glory and ruin.
Why similar: FPS 29.1%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Survival 17.9%, Realistic 13%, Shooter 11.4%
- #48 Generation Zero®
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,120 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 14.7%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12%, FPS 11.5%, Open World 11.2%
- #49 CRSED: Cuisine Royale
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 38,620 reviews2018
Dev: Darkflow SoftwarePub: Gaijin Network Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
CRSED: Cuisine Royale – is a brutal MMO last-man-standing shooter with realistic weaponry, elements of lethal mystic forces and incredible superpowers!
Why similar: Survival 13.4%, FPS 12%, Third-Person Shooter 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 11.4%, Open World 11.4%
- #50 Ruins To Fortress
68% matchMixed65% of 179 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.3%
- #51 OPG: Clan Wars
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: Anarchy GamesPub: Street's Game
Windows
OPG: Clan Wars — a multiplayer action game with survival elements. Arena shooter, open world, crafting, and resource battles — fight, evolve, and survive alone or with your team.
Why similar: Crafting 12.1%, Survival 11.5%, FPS 10.7%, PvP 10.3%, Open World 9.9%
- #52 Renown
66% matchMixed58% of 1,574 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Open World 8.5%
- #53 Mist Survival
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,308 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 12.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Crafting 8.7%
- #54 Marauders
66% matchMixed67% of 21,423 reviews2022
Dev: Small Impact Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 32.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 25.9% ★, FPS 19.2%, PvP 18.5%, Open World 13.5%, Shooter 8.2%
- #55 Grim
66% matchMixed57% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed Interactive
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Open World 8.3%
- #56 Outerstellar
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 173 reviews2023
Dev: Strange Horizons Ltd
Windows
Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.6%, PvP 8%
- #57 Crushed
68% matchMixed54% of 317 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: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, FPS 9%
