Games Like Deadside

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Survival 12.3%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, Open World 10.2%, FPS 9%

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.

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 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, FPS 10.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10%, Open World 9.8%

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.

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 39% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Multiplayer 5.4%

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.

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 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 6.6%

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.

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 22.9% ★, Survival 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Open World 11.6%, FPS 7.5%

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.

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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 23.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Survival 10.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 8%

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.

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 23.3% ★, Survival 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Base Building 7.8%, Open World 6.6%

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.

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 25% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%, PvP 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.

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 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Open World 8.6%, FPS 5.6%

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.

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 29.5% ★, Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Open World 10.2%, FPS 8.8%

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.

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: Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Survival 13%, FPS 10.9%, Massively Multiplayer 10.3%, Looter Shooter 10.1% ★

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.

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: Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Looter Shooter 14.9% ★, FPS 13.2%, Third-Person Shooter 12.9%, PvP 11.1%

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.

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 21% ★, Survival 20%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Open World 15.3%, Base Building 7%

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.

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 29.8% ★, Survival 12%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%

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.

STALCRAFT: X is the largest open-world online game in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Explore the world full of mutants and anomalies alone or with friends — unforgettable emotions guaranteed.

Why similar: FPS 22.2%, Looter Shooter 16.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, PvP 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.2%

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.

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: Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 16%, Open World 13.7%, PvP 13.6%, Multiplayer 8%

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.

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 24.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Survival 10.4%, Third-Person Shooter 9.1%, PvP 8.2%

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.

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 17.7%, Open World 14.5%, Survival 13%, PvP 12%, Massively Multiplayer 11.1%

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.

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 26%, Open World 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.6%

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.

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 30.1% ★, Survival 18%, FPS 13.7%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7%

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.

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 23.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Survival 9.8%, Third-Person Shooter 8.4%, PvP 8%

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.

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 25.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Survival 10.3%, FPS 9.6%, PvP 8.6%

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.

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: Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 15%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Base Building 8.3%

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.

'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 31.2% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 8.8%, PvP 8.8%

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.

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 21.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%

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.

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: Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 15.5%, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Open World 13.6%, Third-Person Shooter 7.6%

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.

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: Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Open World 18.3%, Survival 15.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.6%

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.

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 33.9% ★, Survival 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%, Co-op 7.2%

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.

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 21.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 10.7%, FPS 8.8%, Looter Shooter 8.3% ★

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 25% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 10.4%, Looter Shooter 9.7% ★, FPS 9%

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.

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 42.4% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.6%

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.

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: Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 11.4%, FPS 11.2%, Looter Shooter 10.1% ★, Open World 10%

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

Why similar: Survival 12.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Third-Person Shooter 10.8%, FPS 10.7%

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 17.8%, Looter Shooter 14% ★, FPS 11.2%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%

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 39.2% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 5.2%

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 27.2% ★, Survival 11.1%, FPS 9.5%, PvP 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.6%

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 42.5% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 12.9%, Massively Multiplayer 10.8%, Multiplayer 7%

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 22.2%, Massively Multiplayer 20.7%, Open World 16%, PvP 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

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 23.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 11.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.4%, Base Building 8.5%

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 32.6% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 10.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%

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 23% ★, Survival 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, FPS 8.3%, Open World 7.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Survival 9.8%, Third-Person Shooter 8.1%, Open World 8%

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 27.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, FPS 10.1%, Open World 9.8%, PvP 8.5%

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: Survival 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, FPS 11.2%, PvP 10.7%, Open World 10.3%

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 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Open World 17%, Base Building 13.4%, Co-op 8.8%

The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.

Why similar: Survival 24.7%, Open World 17.9%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%, FPS 11.2%

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 22.7% ★, FPS 20.2%, PvP 19.3%, Open World 14.1%, Shooter 8.4%

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 29.6%, Survival 18.5%, Multiplayer 16.1%, Realistic 13.2%, Shooter 11.5%

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 33% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Survival 9.6%, PvP 7.7%, Open World 7.7%

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: Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 14.7%, FPS 13.4%, Open World 12.9%, Base Building 11.1%

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 30.5% ★, Survival 10.7%, Open World 8%, PvP 7.8%, Base Building 7.4%

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 41.1% ★, Survival 23.4%, Open World 14%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 5.9%

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 13.6%, FPS 12.4%, Third-Person Shooter 11.9%, Massively Multiplayer 11.6%, Open World 11.6%

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 26% ★, Survival 12%, PvP 8.8%, Third-Person Shooter 8.6%, FPS 8.4%