Games Like Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

BECOME THE BEAST. SURVIVE THE NIGHT. A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.

Why similar: Parkour 18.2%, Zombies 17.3%, Open World 11.1%, Gore 8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It directly expands Dying Light’s first-person parkour, melee-heavy infected combat, open exploration, and tense night-time survival formula.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Zombies 20%, Parkour 19%, Open World 10.9%, Gore 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: The original remains the closest alternative, with the same agile rooftop traversal, weapon crafting, co-op play, and terrifying nocturnal infected.

A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.

Why similar: Zombies 21.1%, Co-op 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Gore 12.4%, Action RPG 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers similarly gory first-person zombie slaying with co-op, scavenged weapons, character progression, and dense explorable locations.

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

Why similar: Zombies 29.7%, Open World 14.2%, Co-op 14.1%, Survival 9.1%, Gore 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its open resort setting, first-person melee focus, loot-driven progression, and four-player zombie co-op strongly parallel Dying Light’s core loop.

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

Why similar: Zombies 27.2%, Co-op 14.9%, Open World 13.3%, Gore 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op sequel adds more open zombie-infested environments, improvised weapon combat, and survival-focused scavenging.

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: Zombies 26.9%, Open World 19%, Survival 14.9%, Co-op 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It trades parkour for community management but excels at open-world zombie survival, co-op scavenging, base building, and dangerous hordes.

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Zombies 25.2%, Open World 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its hostile open world, resource pressure, infected hordes, crafting, and day-to-night danger create a similarly desperate post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

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: Zombies 26.6%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep open-world zombie survival sandbox built around looting, crafting, fortifying shelters, and enduring increasingly brutal undead attacks with friends.

Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.

Why similar: Zombies 38%, Open World 16.5%, Co-op 12.7%, Gore 11.5%, Survival 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an open urban zombie outbreak, absurd numbers of enemies, improvised weapons, vehicle combat, and drop-in co-op.

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: Zombies 19.8%, Survival 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Open World 13.7%, Co-op 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving multiplayer sandbox centers on navigating a huge infected post-apocalyptic world while scavenging, fighting, and surviving other players.

Dead Rising returns with modern graphics in this Deluxe Remaster!

Why similar: Zombies 38.2%, Survival 15.4%, Horror 12%, Action-Adventure 11.1%, Gore 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more arcade-like, it provides open-ended zombie survival, inventive melee weapons, rescue objectives, and constant pressure from overwhelming crowds.

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 30.8%, Survival 18.1%, Open World 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Co-op 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a far more simulation-heavy but excellent open-world zombie survival game with co-op, looting, crafting, base building, and lasting consequences.

'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 36%, Open World 22.9%, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 14.6%, First-Person 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world co-op survival game emphasizes scavenging a zombie-ravaged city, crafting gear, building defenses, and surviving nightly assaults.

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: Open World 21.9%, Co-op 20.1%, Survival 18.1%, Multiplayer 13%, Horror 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces zombies with cannibals and mutants, but its first-person co-op exploration, crafting, tense nights, and brutal survival feel are highly compatible.

World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.

Why similar: Zombies 40.2%, Co-op 14.9%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Gore 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is a mission-based rather than open-world choice, but its four-player co-op and enormous swarming zombie hordes capture the same frantic survival energy.

The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.

Why similar: Zombies 39%, Open World 14.3%, Co-op 14.2%, Gore 9.2%, Survival 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines an open mall playground, huge zombie crowds, weapon experimentation, time-sensitive survival objectives, and co-op play.

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: Zombies 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Open World 14.7%, Co-op 14.5%, Survival 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its stylized visuals, it is a substantial open-world multiplayer zombie survival game with vehicles, looting, crafting, and base building.

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 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Co-op 17.1%, Survival 13.4%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared open world mixes cooperative survival, crafting, base construction, mutated-monster combat, and post-apocalyptic exploration.

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: Zombies 26.6%, Open World 22.4%, Gore 16.7%, Survival 15.7%, Violent 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer survival sandbox offers a large hostile world, infected enemies, deep scavenging systems, crafting, and a strong emphasis on staying alive.

Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

Why similar: Zombies 46.4%, Co-op 16.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Gore 6.6%, Survival 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its classic four-player campaigns deliver exceptional co-op zombie action, special infected threats, and desperate team-based escapes.

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 27.1%, Open World 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 13.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op open-world zombie survival sandbox focused on scavenging, crafting, vehicles, shelter building, and surviving an infected wasteland.

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 32.2%, Open World 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Survival 14.9%, Co-op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers solo open-world zombie survival built around looting abandoned areas, managing supplies, upgrading vehicles, and fighting the infected.

Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.

Why similar: Zombies 33.3%, Gore 14.8%, Co-op 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Horror 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its squad-based co-op, special infected, card-driven builds, and fast first-person action provide a modern Left 4 Dead-style alternative.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Open World 30.7%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Survival 17.2%, Exploration 6.6%, First-Person 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its dangerous open-world post-apocalypse, first-person survival systems, scavenging, anomalies, and oppressive atmosphere suit players who value Dying Light’s darker exploration.

London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.

Why similar: Zombies 37.9%, Open World 11.7%, Survival 11.6%, Gore 8.3%, Horror 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival-horror game emphasizes vulnerable exploration, scavenging, permanent danger, and tense encounters with the undead.

Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources.

Why similar: Open World 27.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Co-op 18.9%, Multiplayer 11.8%, First-Person 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Dying Light 2’s first-person open-world combat, co-op missions, makeshift post-apocalyptic weapons, and exploration-driven progression.

Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.6%, Open World 21.1%, Survival 11.3%, Horror 9.5%, First-Person 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This story-driven first-person survival adventure features post-apocalyptic exploration, scarce resources, dangerous monsters, weapon customization, and a similarly bleak tone.

In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.

Why similar: Zombies 22.4%, Gore 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Co-op 13.3%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A great fit for players who enjoy Dying Light’s gore and melee violence, with highly replayable cooperative waves of mutated undead-like enemies.

Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!

Why similar: Zombies 32%, Co-op 17.4%, Gore 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Violent 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op shooter features supernatural zombie hordes, gruesome combat, upgradeable weapons, and tense survival encounters across ruined Europe.

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 34.7%, Open World 19.8%, Survival 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Saints & Sinners is a game unlike any other in The Walking Dead universe. Every challenge you face and decision you make is driven by YOU. Fight the undead, scavenge through the flooded ruins of New Orleans, and face gut-wrenching choices for you and the other survivors. Live The Walking Dead.

Why similar: Zombies 27.2%, Gore 16.4%, Violent 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Horror 9.6%

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 36.8%, Open World 19.1%, Survival 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Multiplayer 4.6%

Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.

Why similar: Zombies 39.2%, Gore 15.8%, Open World 12.6%, Survival 10.9%, Horror 6%

Hunted by the seemingly unstoppable Axeman and facing off against the Tower’s latest push for total dominance, discover what connects these new threats together before it’s too late. New faces, places, weapons and gear all await you on your journey to a final showdown for the city's fate.

Why similar: Zombies 33.2%, Action RPG 12%, Horror 11.9%, Action-Adventure 6.5%, Survival 5.5%

It’s 2091 and megacorp Horzine has produced the ultimate army: an obedient horde of bioengineered monsters called zeds. Now, join the rebel group Nightfall in this co-op action/horror FPS that puts you and your teammates in a battle for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Zombies 30%, Co-op 20.6%, Gore 15.7%, Horror 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Become the ultimate shape-shifting weapon!

Why similar: Open World 24.4%, Parkour 18.5%, Gore 17.1%, Zombies 15.9%, Violent 10.9%

Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...

Why similar: Zombies 30.9%, Open World 16.3%, Co-op 12.8%, Gore 9.6%, Multiplayer 8%

You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!

Why similar: Zombies 43%, Open World 16.1%, Gore 13.2%, Survival 9.7%, Horror 6.3%

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 24.2%, Open World 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 11.2%, Multiplayer 10.4%

REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.

Why similar: Co-op 30%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Horror 9.4%, Action-Adventure 8.9%

A zombie outbreak eradicated all hope of returning life back to normal, now only survival lives on. Run, hide and fight your way through the undead as Randall searches for his family in this gorgeous, gritty, destroyed world.

Why similar: Zombies 43.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Parkour 17.7%, Action 6.9%, Survival 6.5%

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 34.2%, Survival 18.1%, Open World 13.6%, Co-op 13.3%, Multiplayer 10.3%

The Left Behind is a solo and co-op post-apocalyptic survival game. Explore a typical Dutch open-world landscape at daytime and beware of hordes of enemies coming in at night. Loot and hunt to survive. Each night, the game becomes increasingly challenging. How long will you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Open World 12.9%, Co-op 8%, Horror 7.6%

No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.

Why similar: Zombies 34.4%, Co-op 19%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Survival 12.6%, Horror 9.3%

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Zombies 37.1%, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Horror 8.6%

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Why similar: Zombies 36.9%, Post-apocalyptic 26%, Horror 14.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Experience survival horror like never before in the 8th major installment in the Resident Evil franchise - Resident Evil Village. With detailed graphics, intense first-person action and masterful storytelling, the terror has never felt more realistic.

Why similar: Zombies 24.9%, Gore 15.4%, Horror 13.4%, Violent 9.9%, First-Person 9.1%

Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.

Why similar: Zombies 24.5%, Gore 11.7%, Survival 10%, Multiplayer 9%, Horror 8.4%

After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?

Why similar: Zombies 36%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Gore 11.2%, Survival 8.3%, Choices Matter 8%

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: Zombies 17.4%, Open World 14.7%, Co-op 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 10.7%

Lead the revolution in this first-person open world guerrilla shooter. Fight with improvised weapons, travel however you can, and build your rebel network to take down Castillo's regime.

Why similar: Open World 27.8%, Co-op 18%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Action-Adventure 9.7%, Combat 8.2%

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?

Why similar: Co-op 29.1%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Horror 18.6%, Gore 8.2%, Survival 8.2%

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 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Open World 14.8%, Co-op 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%

A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.

Why similar: Zombies 42.4%, Gore 15.2%, Horror 13.4%, Violent 8.8%, Survival 7.3%

You are Frank West – photojournalist and original hero of the Dead Rising Willamette incident – taking center stage experiencing the re-imagined Fortune City outbreak.

Why similar: Zombies 41.4%, Open World 19.1%, Co-op 15.3%, Gore 8.3%, Action 5.4%

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 22.6%, Open World 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 12.8%, Co-op 12.3%

Outriders’ brutal and bloody combat combines frenetic gunplay, violent powers and deep RPG systems to create a true genre hybrid.

Why similar: Co-op 33.9%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Gore 12.5%, Open World 11%, Violent 9%

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 34.8%, Gore 16.6%, Survival 13.7%, Violent 12.2%, Open World 9.4%