- #1 7 Days to Die
97% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Survival 18.1%, Zombies 16.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Open World 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive zombie survival game featuring deep base-building, crafting, and intense horde-night defense mechanics.
- #2 Sons Of The Forest
96% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 16%, Base Building 14.7%, Open World 13.7%, Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers high-fidelity survival, complex building systems, and terrifying mutant encounters in a hostile open world.
- #3 Rust
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 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: Survival 26%, Crafting 18.2%, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for multiplayer survival, focusing on brutal PvP, resource gathering, and massive base construction.
- #4 No One Survived
95% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 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 16.5%, Zombies 15.2%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers robust crafting and base-building systems set in a world overrun by zombies and environmental hazards.
- #5 SCUM
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Survival 22.4%, Zombies 22.3%, Open World 22.2%, Crafting 19.7%, Realistic 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features incredibly deep survival mechanics and a realistic quarantine-zone setting that mirrors the tension of Dreadzone.
- #6 Night of the Dead
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 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: Zombies 15.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 13%, Open World 12%, Survival 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival with complex trap-building mechanics to defend against massive waves of zombies.
- #7 DayZ
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 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 19.7%, Zombies 16%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Open World 13%, Co-op 13%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, unforgiving survival experience where scavenging and player interaction define your longevity in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #8 SurrounDead
92% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.5%, Survival 18%, Open World 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Base Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on looting, inventory management, and tactical combat in a dangerous world.
- #9 VEIN
91% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Base Building 14.1%, Zombies 13.7%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A promising survival title that focuses on scavenging, vehicle maintenance, and fortifying buildings against the undead.
- #10 HumanitZ
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 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: Zombies 16.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 14%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty open-world survival game that emphasizes scavenging and community building in a zombie-infested world.
- #11 Deadside
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on a hardcore survival shooter experience with a large open world and intense tactical combat.
- #12 Subsistence
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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: Survival 20.3%, Crafting 17.2%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 13.8%, Multiplayer 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that emphasizes long-term base building and defense against both AI and environmental threats.
- #13 Mist Survival
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 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: Survival 25.2%, Zombies 22.4%, Open World 17.8%, Base Building 16.6%, Crafting 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game where you must build a shelter and manage resources while dealing with environmental threats.
- #14 Forever Skies
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Co-op 11.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival game featuring unique airship base-building and exploration of a ruined, toxic world.
- #15 The Infected
87% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Base Building 17.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that tasks you with building a base and defending it against waves of aggressive mutants.
- #16 Dead Matter
88% matchMostly Negative21% of 882 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Why similar: Zombies 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Co-op 11.8%, Survival 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world zombie survival game that emphasizes realism, scavenging, and deep customization.
- #17 Volcanoids
85% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.6%, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique survival loop where you build and upgrade a mobile drill-ship base to survive in a volcanic wasteland.
- #18 Drive 4 Survival
86% matchMixed65% of 303 reviews2020
Dev: M3M Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 12.4%, Zombies 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on the necessity of vehicle maintenance and exploration to survive in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment.
- #19 Survival Machine
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Co-op 12%, Zombies 12%, Survival 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game where you must build and defend a mobile base while traveling through dangerous biomes.
- #20 KeepUp Survival
84% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Base Building 14.5%, Survival 12.2%, Co-op 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that provides a sandbox experience focused on crafting, building, and exploration.
- #21 Miscreated
82% matchMixed66% of 31,585 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: Survival 22.4%, Zombies 18%, Open World 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game with a strong focus on exploration, PvP combat, and base fortification.
- #22 Project Zomboid
81% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 20.4%, Survival 20.3%, Open World 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: The most comprehensive zombie survival simulation, offering unparalleled depth in crafting, building, and survival mechanics.
- #23 PolyZ
82% matchMixed50% of 266 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
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: Base Building 16.9%, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes base building and action-oriented gameplay in a zombie-filled world.
- #24 Gone: Survival
83% matchMixed44% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Base Building 12.3%, Zombies 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival experience that focuses on the core loops of building, scavenging, and staying alive.
- #25 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
81% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Zombies 18.7%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 15.7%, Co-op 10%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community management and base building within a persistent zombie-infested world.
- #26 INCUR Survival
80% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Zombies 16%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 12.7%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival-crafting game that emphasizes exploration and building in a hostile environment.
- #27 Taora : Survival
79% matchMixed63% of 395 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
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 16.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 14.2%, Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that blends shooter mechanics with deep crafting and base management.
- #28 Outbreak Island
77% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 15.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Zombies 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%
- #29 Far Lands
79% matchMixed66% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 16.5%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 12.7%, First-Person 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival adventure game that blends crafting and base building with exploration and combat.
- #30 Conan Exiles
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Survival 24%, Open World 20%, Crafting 16.2%, Building 15.7%, Multiplayer 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: While fantasy-themed, it provides one of the best large-scale survival and base-building experiences available.
- #31 Zompiercer
78% matchVery Positive89% of 4,081 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Base Building 20.7%, Zombies 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: An FPS survival game that uses a train as a mobile base, offering a unique take on the zombie survival genre.
- #32 Blood Night
75% matchVery Positive96% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Team
Windows
(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.
Why similar: Zombies 15.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.4%, Base Building 11.2%
- #33 Sunkenland
76% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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: Co-op 16.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 9.9%
- #34 Junk Survivor
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
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 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 13.4%, Open World 12.1%, Base Building 10.4%
- #35 Vorax
74% matchMixed63% of 134 reviews2024
Dev: IndieGala
Windows
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
Why similar: Zombies 13.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Open World 12.2%, Survival 11.9%
- #36 MISERY
71% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 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: Base Building 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11%, Co-op 10.9%
- #37 Crafting Dead
76% matchMixed57% of 158 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Why similar: Zombies 15%, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%
- #38 Start Over
73% matchMixed62% of 375 reviews2024
Dev: EY-Studio
Windows
Embark on an unpredictable survival journey in Start Over. Solo, co-op, online, explore diverse landscapes, craft through 4 tech tiers, encounter wildlife, and trade or raid for resources. Choose your path, defend against waves, and shape your destiny in a dynamic world. Are you ready to Start Over?
Why similar: Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Building 10%, Open World 7.7%
- #39 Plains of Pain
72% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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: Base Building 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.6%, Co-op 12.4%
- #40 Into The Haze
74% matchMixed57% of 130 reviews2021
Dev: MSOFT
Windows
Into the Haze is a single-player survival game set at the beginning of the apocalypse. You wake up on the rooftop on the 40th floor of the abandoned tower. The whole city is cover with poisonous gas. Gather resources, craft, build, and fight zombies. Survive until help arrives.
Why similar: Zombies 16.4%, Base Building 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 13.7%
- #41 Rem Survival
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 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: Base Building 18.6%, Crafting 16%, Survival 15%, Open World 14%, Building 12.5%
- #42 Soviet Survival
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Zombies 16.6%, Base Building 16%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 13%, Crafting 12.8%
- #43 Crushed
73% matchMixed55% of 307 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: Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11%, Zombies 9.3%
- #44 Zombie Survival Game Online
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 298 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: Zombies 15.1%, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%
- #45 Survive the Nights
69% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 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: Zombies 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 14.7%, Co-op 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%
- #46 Lost World
72% matchMixed56% of 278 reviews2023
Dev: C.S. GamesPub: C.S. Games publishing
Windows
Lost World is a survival video game with single and co-op modes. Open world and first person view.
Why similar: Zombies 13.2%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Building 8.4%
- #47 Hauntsville
70% matchMixed65% of 221 reviews2025
Dev: Michael JanischPub: indie.io
Windows
You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip. Build a homestead, work the land, and survive against unspeakable monsters in this unique Western horror survival game - alone or with friends!
Why similar: Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 13.7%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Crafting 11.6%
- #48 IfSunSets
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 15.7%, Zombies 14.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Co-op 12.4%, Survival 12.1%
- #49 Polygeddon
70% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Zombies 16%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11.7%, Co-op 11.5%
- #50 Heat Death: Survival Train
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 16%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 14.2%, Building 12.9%
- #51 Unturned
67% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Zombies 14.7%, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Co-op 12.1%
- #52 Survival: Lost Way
70% matchMostly Negative37% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Survival 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Base Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 12.3%
- #53 Winter Survival
66% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Survival 16%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.6%
- #54 Urge
67% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 12.9%, Building 12.4%
- #55 DARKEST DAYS
67% matchMixed49% of 4,678 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 17.7%, Open World 15%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 12%
- #56 Dead Maze
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,790 reviews2018
Dev: Atelier 801
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Dead Maze is a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. Explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible, to survive the hostile environment and upgrade your gear and camp as you go.
Why similar: Zombies 25.5%, Survival 22.7%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 8.8%
- #57 Green Hell
65% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Survival 19.3%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Open World 11.7%
- #58 Stay Alive: Apocalypse
69% matchMixed50% of 163 reviews2018
Dev: Mehan Games
Windows
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%, Survival 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 12.9%
- #59 Deadburg
66% matchVery Positive88% of 123 reviews2022
Dev: Reanimated Games
Windows
Deadburg is a co-op survival game set in a procedurally generated city with thousands of buildings to explore and zombies to kill. Every building you see can be explored, exploited and destroyed one block at a time. Play alone or with friends and discover the secrets of the city.
Why similar: Base Building 24.8%, Zombies 20.4%, Survival 20%, Crafting 10.6%, Co-op 8.4%