Games Like Dying Light

Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.

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

Why You'll Like It: Its expanded open city, first-person parkour, crafted melee weapons, dangerous infected, and drop-in co-op make it the closest direct follow-up.

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: Zombies 23.7%, Parkour 20.3%, Open World 11.4%, Gore 9.6%, Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It brings Dying Light's first-person zombie combat, traversal, open exploration, and co-op survival tension into a new, more rural setting.

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 32.7%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 9.2%, Gore 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its sunlit open zones, improvised melee arsenal, questing, loot, and cooperative zombie killing closely match Dying Light's core loop.

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 25.7%, Gore 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Horror 9.2%, FPS 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a similarly brutal first-person zombie action game centered on scavenging, modding weapons, dismemberment, and four-player co-op.

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 22.5% ★, Zombies 19.2%, Survival 11.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world zombie apocalypse adds deep scavenging, crafting, base-building, and terrifying horde nights for players who enjoy Dying Light's survival side.

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 29.3%, Gore 12%, Open World 10.8%, Survival 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers more first-person co-op zombie survival with weapon crafting, exploration, and increasingly overwhelming infected encounters.

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 24.6%, Open World 16.2%, Open World Survival Craft 13.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its lonely open-world post-apocalypse, crafting, melee combat, resource pressure, and massive swarming enemies capture a similar survival-horror mood.

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 35.5%, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Open World 11.7%, Gore 9.5%, Survival 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open city full of zombies, improvised weapon combinations, vehicles, and co-op gives it a more arcade-like but highly compatible undead sandbox feel.

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 31.9%, Open World 17.1%, Survival 16.1%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades parkour for community management but delivers open-world scavenging, brutal zombie threats, co-op, vehicles, and meaningful survival decisions.

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 26.8%, Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although viewed from above, it is one of Steam's deepest zombie survival sandboxes, with tense scavenging, crafting, vehicles, and multiplayer survival stories.

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Zombies 19%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world crafting survival game has extensive scavenging, zombie-filled exploration, co-op, and escalating waves that reward clever defenses.

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 32.6%, Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Open World 15.1%, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person open-world zombie survival emphasizes looting abandoned locations, managing supplies, upgrading gear, and surviving hostile undead encounters.

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 20%, Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Survival Horror 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers cooperative open-world survival against zombies, with looting, crafting, vehicles, and a focus on enduring an unforgiving apocalypse.

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 16.4%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Survival 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: For a harsher and more player-driven take on the premise, it offers open-world scavenging, infected towns, survival systems, and unpredictable multiplayer encounters.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.1% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 11.7%, Survival Horror 10.6%, Horror 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its tense first-person island survival, resource gathering, crafting, cave exploration, and co-op horror appeal to the survival-focused Dying Light player.

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 17.1%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Gore 10.9%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its wave-based co-op structure is more focused than Dying Light, yet its gory first-person combat, weapon progression, and special infected are an excellent fit.

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 36.7%, Online Co-Op 15.7%, Survival Horror 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces free-running with mission-based co-op, but its enormous, fast-moving zombie swarms deliver the same desperate teamwork and horde panic.

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: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Stealth 12.3%, Open World 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its emergent zombie sandbox focuses on scavenging, crafting, recruiting survivors, and making difficult choices to keep a community 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 44.9%, FPS 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Gore 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op zombie classic emphasizes frantic teamwork, special infected, melee weapons, and replayable campaigns rather than open-world survival.

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 Horror 26.1%, Open World 20.7%, Survival 20.6%, Horror 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: The cannibals and mutants replace zombies, but its first-person co-op exploration, crafting, building, and night-time horror make it a strong survival alternative.

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 28.8%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Gore 11.3%, FPS 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its modern co-op campaigns, special infected, card-based builds, and high-pressure zombie hordes suit players seeking Dying Light's cooperative action.

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 25.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Open World 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play co-op survival shooter combines a large post-apocalyptic world, gathering, crafting, building, and mutant-infested exploration.

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 27.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Open World 13.7%, FPS 12.8%, Survival 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Behind its simple visuals is a substantial multiplayer zombie-survival sandbox with open maps, scavenging, crafting, bases, vehicles, and community servers.

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 27% ★, Zombies 17%, Open World 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Gore 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its enormous survival sandbox features looting, crafting, vehicles, dangerous puppet enemies, and multiplayer tension in a detailed post-apocalyptic world.

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 34.8%, Survival 10%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Horror 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This free co-op survival horror game emphasizes scarce supplies, vulnerable survivors, objective-based escapes, and grounded zombie encounters.

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: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Zombies 25.8%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based format is very different, but its uncompromising focus on urban scavenging, crafting, infection risk, and surviving a zombie outbreak is excellent.

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 45.9%, Gore 16.1%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Horror 8.5%, PvE 7%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op shooter trades parkour for sniper action but provides atmospheric ruined environments, undead swarms, traps, and grotesque elite zombies.

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: Zombies 23.4%, Open World 18.4%, Survival 17%, Horror 14.8%, Gore 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines first-person co-op exploration, scavenging, crafting, survival systems, and disturbing infected threats across an eerie open-world island.

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 35.8%, Survival Horror 14%, Survival 10%, Open World 8.4%, Horror 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person survival-horror approach prioritizes scavenging, limited resources, and oppressive undead-filled exploration over power fantasy combat.

Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

Why similar: Zombies 28.6%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, FPS 9.3%, Horror 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a slower, more survival-horror-oriented co-op zombie game where scarce ammunition and unpredictable infected make every escape tense.

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 41.8%, Open World 16.4%, Survival 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Survival Horror 4.8%

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 43.5%, FPS 11.8%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Horror 8%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 38.5%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival Horror 7.5%

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 19.8% ★, Zombies 15.9%, Parkour 12.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

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 41.1%, Gore 14.6%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 10%, Horror 7%

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 28.3%, Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 6.4%, Survival Horror 6.1%

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 31.9%, Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.2%

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 35.5% ★, Zombies 17.8%, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%

Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Zombies 19.3%, FPS 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Open World 9.2%

Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

Why similar: Zombies 21.4%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Horror 9.4%, Gore 9.1%

Take on a city overrun by zombies with 1 to 4 players online — co-op or PvP! Hold the line against running, leaping, spitting hordes. Fight by day, hunt in the dark of night. Tear off limbs and unlock cosmetics with every kill. Stand together... or hunt each other down.

Why similar: Zombies 26.9%, Online Co-Op 15%, FPS 10.8%, Survival Horror 9.7%, Survival 8.5%

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 26.3%, Open World 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.5%

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 24.4%, Survival 14.4%, Open World 14.3%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%

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 36.1%, Survival Horror 24.2%, Horror 12.7%, Gore 11.4%, Survival 5.7%

6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!

Why similar: Zombies 30%, FPS 15.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 9.7%, Gore 9%

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 45.4%, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Open World 12.6%, Gore 9.4%, Survival 6.5%

Dive into the zombie apocalypse with Zombie Panic! Source: a cooperative, survival-horror first-person-shooter. A fast-paced standalone modification.

Why similar: Zombies 34.2%, Horror 9.5%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Survival 8.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Zombies 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Open World 10.5%, Survival 9%

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 18.2%, FPS 13.4%, Open World 13.3%, Stealth 9.7%, Survival Horror 9.3%

Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Zombies 27.7%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.1%

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 21.8%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Gore 9.2%, Horror 8.4%

Codename CURE is a first person, co-operative zombie game with support for up to five players, providing dynamic, fast-paced zombie fragging with both objective, and survival-based missions.

Why similar: Zombies 24%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Gore 9.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Survival 13.8%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%

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: Survival Horror 22%, Zombies 20.1%, Horror 12.1%, Gore 11%, FPS 8.1%

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 39.3%, Open World 15.6%, Gore 10.7%, Survival 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Team up with 64 players to fight off the horde of zombies in this post-apocalyptic FPS or join the horde against the living! Turn on your teammates and tear them apart. Level up and unlock new weapons, perks, clothing options and more! Equip your favourite loadout and join the fight!

Why similar: Zombies 22.8%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Gore 11.2%, FPS 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%