Games Like Deadside

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 27.6% ★, Survival 11.1%, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival sandbox combines realistic firearms, harsh PvP, looting, base construction, vehicles, and PvE threats in a similarly uncompromising multiplayer setting.

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

Why You'll Like It: DayZ offers the closest tense scavenging-and-survival loop, with unpredictable player encounters, infected zones, firearms, persistent servers, and improvised bases.

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 38.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic multiplayer shooter emphasizes scavenging, hostile survivors, mutants, vehicles, and shelter building across a dangerous ruined open world.

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 25.1%, Open World 17%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It closely mirrors Deadside's mix of post-apocalyptic FPS combat, loot runs, PvP risk, survival systems, safe areas, and open-world exploration.

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 21.4% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 6%

Why You'll Like It: XERA delivers a free-to-play PvPvE survival shooter built around looting, fighting AI and players, gathering materials, and constructing defended bases.

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 23% ★, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Rust is a strong match for Deadside's full-loot PvP tension, resource gathering, raiding, gunfights, and player-built fortified bases.

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 27.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, FPS 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: Hurtworld is a fast-paced FPS survival game centered on gathering, crafting, base raids, vehicles, environmental hazards, and competitive multiplayer combat.

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 22.7% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.5%, Third-Person Shooter 8%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent open-world PvP survival design focuses on scavenging, gathering, building bases, defending loot, and shooting rival players, albeit with a lighter presentation.

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 26% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The Front combines a hostile open world, first-person shooting, crafting, base defense, vehicle combat, and online raiding in a way Rust and Deadside players will recognize.

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 21.6% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared-world post-apocalyptic shooter gameplay blends factional PvP zones, PvE events, resource scavenging, customizable territory bases, and supernatural threats.

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 21.1% ★, Survival 10.4%, Looter Shooter 9.5% ★, FPS 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its methodical survival systems, barricaded safehouses, loot runs, guns, vehicles, and multiplayer zombie apocalypse make it a grounded alternative to Deadside.

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 12%, Crafting 11.2%, Looter Shooter 11.1% ★, FPS 10%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its simple visuals, Unturned delivers deep multiplayer survival with firearms, zombies, vehicles, fortifications, loot-heavy maps, and PvP servers.

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 37.7% ★, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 8.5%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Subsistence offers first-person wilderness survival with crafting, base building, raids from hostile NPCs, hunting, and optional multiplayer cooperation.

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 27.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 9.5%, FPS 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This survival shooter provides extensive crafting and base building alongside open-world scavenging, firearms, multiplayer cooperation or PvP, and dangerous zombie sieges.

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 11.4%, FPS 10.4%, Survival 10.3%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It brings a STALKER-like post-apocalyptic online world full of scavenging, mutant-filled PvE areas, faction activity, survival mechanics, and FPS combat.

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 38.5% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer post-apocalyptic sandbox features first-person combat, hunger and survival management, crafting, base building, vehicles, and hostile-player encounters.

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 24.6%, Open World 17.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world zombie survival game emphasizes detailed crafting, firearms, resource management, vehicles, fortifying a home base, and multiplayer exploration.

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 22.8% ★, Survival 9.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.8%, Looter Shooter 8% ★

Why You'll Like It: DeadPoly offers a low-poly but mechanically familiar blend of first-person shooting, zombie-infested exploration, loot collection, crafting, base building, and multiplayer survival.

'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 26.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its zombie survival gameplay adds elaborate base construction and trap defenses to scavenging, shooting, crafting, and cooperative open-world progression.

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 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, FPS 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is another online post-apocalyptic survival shooter focused on gathering supplies, fighting for territory, developing a character, and enduring a hostile multiplayer world.

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 19.4% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: HumanitZ is a multiplayer zombie survival sandbox with an open world, scavenging, vehicles, firearms, crafting, and defendable player bases.

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 22.6% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Base Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This solo-focused post-apocalyptic survival shooter captures Deadside's satisfying scavenging, firearms, vehicles, NPC dangers, and freeform exploration without the multiplayer element.

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 30.1% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 12%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Rem Survival focuses on the same foundational loop of open-world scavenging, crafting equipment, building a secure base, and surviving threats with other players.

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 25.3% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, FPS 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Lost Rift mixes PvE survival crafting and base building with high-risk extraction-style shooting expeditions, making it a strong fit for players who enjoy Deadside's loot stakes.

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 31.5% ★, Survival 11.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Co-op 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Sunkenland trades Deadside's wasteland for a flooded world but retains first-person scavenging, firearms, island bases, raiding, and cooperative survival.

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% ★, FPS 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Shooter 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Lost Light is a loot-driven multiplayer extraction shooter where tense firefights, gear loss, hideout management, and survival-minded decision-making take center stage.

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 17.5% ★, FPS 12.9%, Third-Person Shooter 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, PvP 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Vigor narrows the focus to tense post-apocalyptic looting and extraction gunfights, with a persistent shelter to improve between dangerous multiplayer runs.

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.1% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The Infected provides a detailed first-person survival and construction loop with scavenging, crafting, seasonal hazards, hostile infected, and substantial base customization.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: ICARUS offers demanding first-person survival, gathering, crafting, construction, weather hazards, wildlife combat, and cooperative expeditions, though it is more PvE-oriented.

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 16.2%, Open World 15%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.5%

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 11.2%, Survival 11.1%, FPS 10.8%, Open World 9.8%

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 24.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 10.3%, PvP 8.9%

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 22.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 7.3%

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 38.7% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 8.5%

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 29.3%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Survival 17.9%, Realistic 12.9%, Shooter 11.5%

Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Third-Person Shooter 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Open World 9.3%

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 17.8%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 12.6%, PvP 11.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%

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 20.3%, Massively Multiplayer 19%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 13.2%, PvP 9.1%

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 23.7% ★, Looter Shooter 10.8% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 9.7%

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 12.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 19.4%, Base Building 17.8%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%

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 26.1% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.4%, FPS 9.5%, Open World 9.4%

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 20.9% ★, FPS 18.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 11.8%, Shooter 8.7%

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 22.6% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Looter Shooter 8.4% ★, FPS 7.9%

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 37% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 12.4%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.7%

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 30.7% ★, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8.8%, Open World 7.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%

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 28.6% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 7.4%

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 23.4% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.4%, FPS 8.8%

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%, Survival 11.6%, FPS 10.8%, PvP 10.2%, Open World 10.1%

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 14.7%, FPS 13.2%, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, PvP 9.9%

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 28.4% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.2%, FPS 9.1%, Crafting 9%

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 14.6%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.9%, FPS 11.6%, Open World 11.4%

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 24% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.5%, PvP 7.8%

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 24.8% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Open World 8.6%