Games Like DYSMANTLE

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 28.7%, Survival 27.3%, Open World 18.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, methodical isometric zombie survival experience focusing on crafting, scavenging, and long-term base building.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Crafting 18.8%, Open World 18.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world exploration, beautiful building mechanics, and dungeon crawling from a familiar perspective.

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 21.6%, Survival 17.5%, Open World 15.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a gritty open-world zombie survival experience with robust crafting and base management.

Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!

Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 20.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar top-down perspective with rich survival, crafting, and exploration mechanics in a hostile sci-fi world.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World 18.5%, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 17.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down exploration, base building, and resource gathering with addictive progression similar to Dysmantle's loop.

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%, Survival 23.2%, Open World 20.7%, Base Building 19.8%, Sandbox 4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on scavenging, community survival, and building up safe havens against relentless zombie hordes.

I Am Future is a relaxing single-player survival game about building a cozy rooftop camp amid a flooded post-apocalyptic city. Set up a farm, go fishing, tinker with gadgets, craft new tools, manage a team of cute robots to automate and expand your base, explore the mysterious world, and chill out!

Why similar: Agriculture 19.8% ★, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 13.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Survival 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a lighter, more relaxing post-apocalyptic survival crafting experience centered around a rooftop base.

'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: Hunting 19.3% ★, Zombies 17.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines fast-paced open-world survival crafting with intense tower defense elements against hordes of the dead.

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: Survival 20.7%, Base Building 19.5%, Crafting 17.7%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Explores a massive open world from a unique perspective with robust survival and base-building mechanics.

Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.

Why similar: Open World 29.2%, Crafting 26.9%, Survival 23.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, RPG 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers an expansive open-world survival crafting adventure with action-packed combat and total world interaction.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Hunting 17.2% ★, Survival 17.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features pixel-art island survival with crafting, building, and amusing monkey management mechanics.

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 21.1%, Crafting 20.1%, Survival 20.1%, Open World 19.5%, Exploration 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Tasks you with scavenging ruins and building a high-tech airship in a devastated, dust-covered Earth.

Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.

Why similar: Open World 19.6%, Crafting 17.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 15%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tile-based open-world survival game where you piece together the landscape while trying to stay alive.

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 28.5%, Survival 21.3%, Open World 19.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Loot 10%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world zombie survival game packed with looting, crafting, and base-building.

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 18.3%, Zombies 14.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Open World 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: An early-access survival sandbox focusing on investigation, crafting, and mutant threats on an isolated island.

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 25.3%, Zombies 23.7%, Open World 17.9%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses you in a sandbox open-world survival game dealing with wildlife, bandits, and fog-spawned threats.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 39.6%, Survival 27.9%, Crafting 13.7%, Top-Down 8.7%, Atmospheric 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a gripping top-down post-apocalyptic journey filled with scavenging and high-tension survival.

Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.

Why similar: Zombies 24.4%, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Base Building 15%, Open World 13%

Why You'll Like It: Lets you explore a zombie-infested world where you can capture and control the undead for automated labor.

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

Why similar: Zombies 22.7%, Survival 18%, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features post-apocalyptic survival with base building, vehicle crafting, and isometric zombie combat.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Agriculture 32.8% ★, Fishing 21.4% ★, Crafting 17.1%, Sandbox 9.2%, RPG 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing Australian-inspired open-world farming and crafting experience.

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 14.6%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down base-building survival game where you manage oxygen and electricity in a steampunk world.

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: Zombies 22.7%, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 16.4%, Base Building 15.7%, Loot 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer open-world survival shooter with heavy emphasis on scavenging and base construction.

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 30%, Survival 25.8%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Base Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented zombie survival game focused on gathering materials and building sprawling camps.

Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

Why similar: Agriculture 19.5% ★, Fishing 18.8% ★, Crafting 18.2%, Base Building 17.7%, Open World 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cute post-apocalyptic game where you clean up trash, farm, and rebuild a ruined world.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World 19%, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 17.5%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers top-down open-world survival crafting with settlement management and dungeon exploration.

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Open World 22.9%, Crafting 22.8%, Agriculture 19% ★, RPG 8.9%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building, crafting, and restoring a charming post-apocalyptic town.

Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.

Why similar: Zombies 23.5%, Survival 18.7%, Open World 16.9%, Base Building 15.2%, Dystopian 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends isometric action RPG elements with tower defense and post-apocalyptic survival management.

Grenades are holy relics. Shotguns are spellcraft. In this top-down survival action-RPG, discover a fantasy realm invaded by modern world and destroy nearly everything. Scavenge artifacts, forge weapons, build outposts, brew potions, and hunt the corruption devouring the land. Play solo or co-op.

Why similar: Hunting 15.2% ★, Destruction 14.5%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Base Building 11.2%

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

Why similar: Survival 38.3%, Zombies 23.7%, Crafting 13.6%, RPG 6.6%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike survival game where you scavenge room by room downward through a ruined hotel tower.

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

Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Base Building 27.5%, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 13.7%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical colony sim where you manage survivors, research tech, and fend off the apocalypse.

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

Why similar: Zombies 21.8%, Survival 20%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic indie survival game blending base building, squad management, and open-world exploration.

In the prologue of Above Snakes, you awake in a destroyed settlement and help the survivors rebuild it. After that, expand the world with world pieces, craft, farm, hunt, build a base, and fight to find out more about what happened.

Why similar: Crafting 17.6%, Zombies 15.8%, Base Building 15.1%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.5%

Rome has fallen! Rebuild civilization in this action-adventure survival game for 1-8 players. Fight hordes of the walking dead, build settlements, restore the Roman gods... or kick back and farm with friends.

Why similar: Crafting 19.9%, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 29%, Survival 21.5%, Open World 18.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 4.7%

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Crafting 23.6%, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 8.9%, Agriculture 8.9% ★

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 22.1%, Survival 17.7%, Open World 16%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 10.8%

“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 35%, Survival 29.1%, Crafting 19.3%, Open World 7.3%, RPG 4.3%

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 18.2%, Survival 18.1%, Open World 17.4%, Base Building 17.4%, Crafting 16.4%

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 23.4%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 14.5%, Sandbox 8.9%

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Survival 21.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Crafting 19.2%, Open World 15.4%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 25%, Zombies 24%, Open World 20.9%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 5%

As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?

Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Open World 23.6%, Survival 23.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Exploration 9.2%

Post apocalyptic survival farming, green the world to survive !

Why similar: Survival 55.2%, Simulation 20.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Indie 10.7%

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 20.2%, Survival 18.5%, Open World 17.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 10.9%

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: Zombies 23.4%, Base Building 18%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 15.6%, Agriculture 14.2% ★

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 29.5%, Crafting 23.7%, Open World 20.6%, Base Building 15.7%, Sandbox 7%

Build and defend villages of vegetable folk from deadly feral beasts in the blighted world of The Hollow. Explore, gather, and fight! You can even invite your friends. Can you craft the perfect village?

Why similar: Open World 24%, Survival 23.6%, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 14.1%, Exploration 8.6%

Gather, craft, build and explore alone or with up to 3 friends. Unlock new land, collect resources, build and decorate your home, farm, fish, automate production, upgrade your character, and defend against optional enemy raids.

Why similar: Agriculture 17.1% ★, Destruction 14.1%, Crafting 14%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 12.3%

Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.

Why similar: Hunting 21.4% ★, Agriculture 16.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12.8%

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 32.7%, Survival 22.4%, Open World 19.1%, Base Building 9%, Sandbox 4.7%

Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature. Scavenge materials and craft tools to turn your small cabin into a warm, well-supplied home. Survive by fishing, cooking and growing your own food. Be careful though, the forest is as dangerous as it is wonderful.

Why similar: Survival 20.7%, Open World 18.9%, Crafting 16.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 9.1%

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Zombies 22.8%, Survival 18.7%, Base Building 13%, Crafting 10%, Open World 7.9%

「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: Hunting 25.5% ★, Zombies 19.7%, Base Building 16.2%, Open World 15.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...

Why similar: Survival 24.2%, Open World 17%, Base Building 14.9%, Loot 14.4%, Top-Down 9.5%

The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.

Why similar: RPG 14.7%, Agriculture 11.3% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Simulation 8.7%

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

Why similar: Zombies 26.8%, Survival 18%, Open World 15%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 9.4%

Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper offers incredible adventures full of mystery, danger, exploration and magic. This game combines the genres of Survival, Sandbox, Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Resource Management

Why similar: Open World 19.1%, Crafting 18.5%, Survival 18.2%, Base Building 17.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Crafting 24.1%, Survival 23.3%, Open World 17.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Base Building 8%

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 18.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 15.8%, Sandbox 10.5%