Games Like DUCKSIDE

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 26.2% ★, Survival 19%, Crafting 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive inspiration for the base building, raiding, and persistent survival loop found in DUCKSIDE.

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: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Survival 9.4%, Third-Person Shooter 7.9%, Base Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a very similar tactical third-person shooter experience focused on survival and open-world combat.

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 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, PvP 10.8%, Shooter 9%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the foundational open-world survival experience with high-stakes PVP and environmental management.

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 35.8% ★, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on water-based survival and base building that mirrors the environmental challenges of DUCKSIDE.

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 34.5% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.6%, PvP 9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep, complex survival mechanics and a persistent world that rewards strategic base building and PVP.

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 41.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Open World 7.6%, Crafting 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A solid open-world survival game with a strong focus on scavenging, PVP, and base defense.

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 24.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A modern survival-crafting game that emphasizes base building and multiplayer PVP in a high-fidelity open world.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Strongly emphasizes base building and survival against both environmental threats and other players.

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 34.7% ★, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 13.3%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers fast-paced survival and PVP mechanics that feel very similar to the core gameplay of DUCKSIDE.

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 23% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that captures the accessible, action-oriented feel of DUCKSIDE.

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: Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Crafting 16.2%, Survival 14.8%, Shooter 10.6%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: Matches the quirky, stylized aesthetic while maintaining a surprisingly deep survival and PVP loop.

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 25.2% ★, Crafting 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Base Building 9.1%, Third-Person Shooter 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-stakes PVP and looting in a persistent open-world environment.

Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Crafting 14.7%, Survival 13.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%, PvP 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a unique, stylized art direction while maintaining core survival and crafting loops.

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 21.5% ★, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Open World 11%, Base Building 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a gritty survival experience with a heavy focus on looting and base management.

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 34.8% ★, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated survival-crafting experience that emphasizes open-world exploration and resource gathering.

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: Third-Person Shooter 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, PvP 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Shooter 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A third-person extraction-based survival game that focuses heavily on high-stakes PVP and base development.

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 26.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that incorporates base building and PVP elements in a futuristic setting.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Crafting 17.5%, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers extensive base building and survival mechanics within a persistent, dangerous multiplayer world.

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 24.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that emphasizes multiplayer action and base building.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on survival and building in a massive, dangerous open world.

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: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense shooter mechanics and survival elements set in a post-apocalyptic world.

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

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 16.1%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, PvP 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival experience with a focus on multiplayer combat and scavenging.

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 32.3% ★, Survival 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for base building and survival against waves of enemies in a destructible world.

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 22.8% ★, Third-Person Shooter 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival experience that prioritizes base building and PVP combat.

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 29.5% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 10%, PvP 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines extraction shooter mechanics with survival and crafting 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 42% ★, Survival 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Multiplayer 7%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic open-world survival experience that emphasizes multiplayer PVP and exploration.

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 29.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter focused survival game that emphasizes multiplayer interaction and combat.

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 33.7% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes crafting and resource management in a hostile environment.

Last Whisper Survival is a cooperative zombie survival game where exploration of the open world is key. As you venture further, you'll need to upgrade your gear and level up your character and skill tree to handle the increasing challenges as you move through the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Third-Person Shooter 15.8%, Survival 11.4%, PvP 10.3%, Online Co-Op 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game with a focus on exploration and combat in a dangerous world.

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 25.9% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10.1%, PvP 8.4%

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 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 11%, Crafting 10.9%

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 33.8% ★, Survival 12.1%, PvP 10.3%, Base Building 9.7%, Shooter 9.1%

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: Crafting 17.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Shooter 10.8%, Open World 9%

Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.4% ★, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.6%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.2%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8.2%

Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 35.1%, Survival 20.7%, Base Building 19.7%, Shooter 18.3%, Action 3.1%

GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, PvP 8.6%

A chaotic co-op armageddon game where you build ridiculous structures to survive world-ending disasters with sticky hands, physics chaos & friends who probably won’t save you. Don´t be a Sitting Duck!

Why similar: Survival 27.7%, Online Co-Op 20.7%, Multiplayer 19.8%, Co-op 15.6%, Third Person 10.5%

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 31.1% ★, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.1%, PvP 7.6%

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 29.7% ★, Crafting 8.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Loot 7.4%, Survival 7.3%

Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Third-Person Shooter 12.7%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 8.2%

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 45.3% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.1%

"Sunrise" - an online shooter with elements of survival from the first person. Your task is to survive in the harsh conditions of the post-apocalyptic world. Explore new regions, team up with other players in groups, survive with them and create your own rules of survival!

Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, Crafting 7.2%

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 27.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Shooter 8.3%

A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Third-Person Shooter 13.2%, Survival 10.6%, Shooter 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%

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 42.4% ★, Survival 14.9%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 7.6%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Crafting 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 15.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%, PvP 9.1%

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 24.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 8.1%

KeepUp Survival is an open-world base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and shape your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%

The Last Disease Z is a co-op 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 11.7%, PvP 10%

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: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Crafting 17%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Open World 8.2%

Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 11%, Third-Person Shooter 10.9%

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Crafting 12.3%, Base Building 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Survival 9.6%

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Third-Person Shooter 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 8.1%