Games Like Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存

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 29.5%, Survival 23.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Open World 12.4%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive zombie survival simulation, offering unparalleled depth in resource management, crafting, and base building.

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 25.1%, Survival 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Open World 10%, Gore 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic, turn-based survival game that focuses on scavenging and planning your path to safety.

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 32.7%, Survival 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, RPG 10.3%, Strategy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines turn-based RPG combat with survival mechanics and narrative choices similar to the seed game.

In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

Why similar: Survival 56.3%, Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 7.4%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same core DNA of making difficult moral choices while managing limited supplies in a desperate, civilian-focused survival setting.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 33.6%, Survival 21.2%, Open World 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Survival Horror 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the community management and base-building aspects of surviving a zombie apocalypse.

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 31.7%, Survival 26%, Open World 18.8%, RPG 8%, Adventure 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a satisfying loop of exploration, crafting, and progression in a post-apocalyptic world where almost everything can be destroyed.

SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.

Why similar: Zombies 33.6%, Survival 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Open World 15%, RPG 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A solid open-world survival experience that focuses heavily on scavenging and managing your inventory.

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: Zombies 30.2%, Survival 27.5%, Open World 14.8%, Survival Horror 6.3%, Violent 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core loop of building a shelter and surviving against both zombies and environmental threats.

All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!

Why similar: Zombies 26.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Survival 16.7%, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A great stylistic match that emphasizes base defense, crafting, and resource gathering against zombie hordes.

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 33.2%, Post-apocalyptic 32.7%, Building 8.2%, Strategy 6.7%, Open World 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the same shelter-management and resource-scavenging loop, requiring you to protect your family in a post-apocalyptic world.

This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 39.1%, Survival 22.4%, Open World 14.1%, Building 8.5%, RPG 6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox approach to surviving a zombie outbreak with a strong focus on exploration and tactical movement.

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 35.6%, Survival 18.8%, Strategy 9.2%, Gore 6%, RPG 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a layer of squad-based strategy and management to the traditional zombie survival formula.

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Survival 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, Zombies 18.8%, Roguelike 8.1%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the tension of survival in a confined space where every resource and movement decision matters.

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: Zombies 22.5%, Survival 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Open World 12.7%, Survival Horror 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the base building and survival mechanics needed to endure a zombie apocalypse with realistic needs.

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 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 10.9%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the scavenging and crafting aspects of post-apocalyptic survival in a harsh, unforgiving world.

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Zombies 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 11.6%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed survival simulation with a focus on crafting, scavenging, and realistic character needs.

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Survival 18.8%, Roguelike 9.6%, RPG 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the deepest simulation of survival mechanics, crafting, and character development in the genre.

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Why similar: Survival 26%, Zombies 23.6%, Open World 18%, Gore 11.8%, Horror 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a gritty, atmospheric survival experience in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic environment filled with anomalies.

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 26.4%, Survival 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Open World 12.3%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an RPG-heavy take on the zombie survival genre with action-oriented combat and base management.

Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.

Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Zombies 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Building 10.7%, Open World 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival mechanics with horror and exploration in a sandbox environment that rewards careful investigation.

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 26.6%, Survival 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Open World 14.9%, Survival Horror 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the base-building and survival aspects in an open-world setting with a focus on realism.

"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.

Why similar: Zombies 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Survival 14.2%, Gore 12%, Violent 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A concise survival simulation that mirrors the time-pressured nature and resource management of the seed game.

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 30.9%, Survival 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, RPG 7.2%, Open World 7%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward open-world survival game with a focus on crafting, scavenging, and basic survival needs.

As an ex-scientist on a mission, you find yourself in a toxic and infected island, where humans are no where to be seen. Build, explore and survive.

Why similar: Zombies 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Survival 22.8%, Open World 7.8%, Action 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game with a strong emphasis on action, exploration, and managing your resources.

You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 22.3%, Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Open World 8.3%, RPG 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival simulation that emphasizes RPG elements and resource management in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Currently in redevelopment [06/2026]: The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.

Why similar: Zombies 21.7%, Survival 15.9%, Gore 11.9%, Violent 10.3%, RPG 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a blend of RPG elements and survival mechanics in an open-world setting where you must avoid being hunted.

Have you ever thought or imagined how our world would look like after an apocalyptic event? What would we do if some of us were to survive? What world would we live in and what challenges would we face? What would you do?

Why similar: Zombies 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 6.9%, RPG 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an adventure-focused take on the zombie survival genre with simulation elements and a focus on narrative.

Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!

Why similar: Zombies 29.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Open World 13.1%, RPG 9%, Survival 8.9%

Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.8%, Zombies 20.4%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 15.2%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a unique vehicular survival twist to the post-apocalyptic genre, focusing on maintaining your transport to survive.

“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!

Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Survival 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, RPG 8.3%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Blends survival with adventure and exploration in a mysterious, hostile world that requires careful planning.

'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 28.8%, Survival 17.1%, Open World 13.4%, Building 13.2%, Survival Horror 13%

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 13.1%, Gore 6.1%

In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.

Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Survival 16%, Open World 12.6%, Gore 12.2%, Violent 10.6%

Survival Horror, with an erotic twist. A zombie outbreak ravages the world- you find yourself caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Stranded on the wrong side of the outbreak, will you be able to survive and fend off the shuffling hordes?

Why similar: Sexual Content 16.8%, Nudity 11.5%, RPG 10.9%, Zombies 10.6%, Violent 7.8%

Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive

Why similar: Zombies 21%, Survival 17.3%, Violent 12.9%, Open World 9.5%, Survival Horror 8.3%

Immerse yourself in the post-apocalyptic co-op world of Lifeless, where base building and crafting are key. Collect weapons, gear, and food as you embark on thrilling missions to level up in a vast open world. But stay alert—relentless zombies lurk around every corner!

Why similar: Zombies 34.5%, Survival 18.8%, Gore 16.8%, Violent 13.6%, Open World 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused action game set in a post-apocalyptic world where you must scavenge to stay alive.

Megacraft Hentai Survival is an open-world shooter where you decide where to go and what to do, your fate is in your hands. How long can you survive in a cubic post-Apocalypse?

Why similar: Zombies 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Survival 14.4%, RPG 7.7%, Sexual Content 7.5%

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 35.6%, Survival 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Open World 13.5%, RPG 4.1%

The Apocalypse has arrived and your goal is simple: Make it 10 miles to safety through a limitless procedurally-generated world overrun with The Infected and packed with the tools and weapons to fight them.

Why similar: Zombies 30.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Gore 14%, Violent 13%, Survival 11.2%

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 41.7%, Survival 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, RPG 8.6%, Strategy 5.1%

Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.2%, Survival 25.2%, Building 17.4%, Open World 12.5%, RPG 10.6%

In this story-focused adult visual novel you will try to survive and adapt to the new world, creating and protecting your faction of survivors in this new world. Fight the infected, experience romance, fight other factions, and protect your group.

Why similar: Zombies 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Survival 16%, Sexual Content 10.2%, Survival Horror 6.7%

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 28.2%, RPG 18.9%, Strategy 15.8%, Survival 13.3%, Action 8.7%

GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.

Why similar: Survival 16.7%, Violent 12.1%, RPG 11.6%, Open World 11.1%, Strategy 10.8%

Contagion VR: Outbreak will immerse you into the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Relive stories of the survivors in the Single Player campaign, take your time in Free Roam, or check out the Firing Range!

Why similar: Zombies 24.6%, Gore 12.5%, Survival Horror 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Violent 8.4%

In the past, the world was almost invaded by zombies.You will play the commander of the remaining survivor camp, searching for hope for the last surviving companions, forming and assigning your special police squad to explore this post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies!

Why similar: Zombies 26.9%, Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Survival 15.3%, Roguelike 8%, RPG 6.5%

Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 20.9%, Survival 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Building 8.8%, Open World 8.8%

The Day Of Survival Immerse yourself in a post-apocalyptic world where every decision is crucial. "The Day Of Survival" is a thrilling survival game that challenges players to explore a harsh, unforgiving landscape filled with zombies and enemy soldiers.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.9%, Zombies 22.3%, Survival 18.5%, Open World 8.5%, Adventure 7%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 29.1%, Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Survival 15.4%, Simulation 5.8%

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 40.3%, Survival 29.5%, Open World 11.8%, Gore 7.3%, RPG 5%

Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.2%, Survival 28.9%, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 7.7%

1.Survival plot puzzle video game 2.Linear game with complete and rich plot 3.Player can choose three different game ways: sneaking, attacking and outwitting

Why similar: Zombies 29.2%, Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Survival 17.3%, Survival Horror 15.5%, RPG 4.2%

This survival game is packed with features including crafting, exploring, building, excavation, farming, fishing, capturing creatures, torture, battle, and a story with many forks along the way. The objective is to escape the island, but is that really your only choice?

Why similar: Sexual Content 25.2%, Gore 23%, Survival 16.7%, Nudity 14.9%, Open World 13.1%

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: Post-apocalyptic 32.8%, Survival 24.2%, Open World 18%, RPG 9.9%, Simulation 7.8%

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 35.1%, Survival 20.5%, Open World 18.9%, RPG 11.7%, Simulation 7.9%

It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Why similar: Zombies 28.9%, Survival 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Open World 10.8%, RPG 6.6%

Stay alive fighting with the bandits and zombies. Hunt animals, build houses.

Why similar: Zombies 19%, Violent 16%, Survival 12.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Survival Horror 8.5%

The Last Disease Z is a harsh multiplayer survival experience where everything is against you. Abandoned cities, zombies and bandits, a struggle for resources and a place to live. Build, unite, and survive.

Why similar: Zombies 29.5%, Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Survival 18.7%, Open World 14%, Building 10.3%

Blending horror survival/ Building and tower defence elements Damned Nation gives the player more ways to experience the post apocalypse the ever before.

Why similar: Zombies 30.8%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 12.5%, Strategy 11%, Horror 8.3%