Games Like Escape From Duckov

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: Extraction Shooter 46.5% ★, Looter Shooter 20.9% ★, Survival 8.1%, Base Building 6.8%, Shooter 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It’s the clearest match on Steam, combining top-down extraction shooting, scavenging, inventory management, and hideout upgrades in a harsh survival loop.

SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 50.3% ★, Gun Customization 22.8%, Shooter 8.7%, Roguelite 6.1%, Action Roguelike 5%

Why You'll Like It: Though more roguelite, it shares Duckov’s scrappy looter-shooter feel of scavenging, surviving ugly fights, and pushing your luck for better rewards.

Hell is Others is an extraction top-down shooter combining roguelike elements. Outside the safety of your apartment lies the noir hellscape that is Century City. A city of endless night that straddles the line between reality and insanity. Explore, hunt, and loot in a place where blood is currency.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 44.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.3%, Survival 10.2%, Shooter 9.6%, Top-Down 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its overhead perspective, bag-the-loot-and-extract structure, and constant danger make it one of the closest games to Duckov’s run-based tension.

Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 94.2% ★, RPG 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers brutal extraction-style runs with persistent loss, loot hauling, and between-mission progression, just in a darker sci-fi format.

Join the "Firefly" task force and unveil the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone in the world of Lost Light. You could either scavenge for supplies or go out with guns blazing and plunder. Survive the brutal domain where danger lurks in every corner!

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 45.2% ★, Looter Shooter 21.5% ★, Gun Customization 10.1%, Shooter 8.1%, Survival 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: If Duckov’s biggest appeal is gearing up, looting risky maps, and escaping with valuables, Lost Light hits that same stash-driven extraction loop.

IRR is a tactical PvE Co-Op extract shooter set in a de-stabilized and immersive modern-day Vietnam. As a PMC for a mysterious organization, deal with 3 factions that stand to gain from the chaos. Engage in ruthless combat, plan your deployment, and explore the world as your journey unfolds.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 50.5% ★, Looter Shooter 21.3% ★, Gun Customization 18.3%, Shooter 7%, Action 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its PvE-focused tactical extraction structure, weapon customization, and high-stakes looting make it a strong alternative for Duckov players who want a more grounded take.

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: Survival 31.5%, Base Building 19.4%, Third-Person Shooter 14.2%, Shooter 13.5%, Exploration 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more open-world survival, but the scavenging, inventory management, crafting, and base-building are all very Duckov-friendly.

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

Why similar: Survival 32.2%, Base Building 23.8%, Third-Person Shooter 21.4%, Adventure 6.6%, Exploration 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It’s lighter and more playful, but the mix of exploration, resource runs, combat, and base progression lines up well with Duckov’s addictive growth loop.

Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 60% ★, Gun Customization 19.5%, Shooter 9.4%, Survival 7.7%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a slower, more realistic spin on the same fantasy of entering dangerous territory, looting up, and making it back with your gear intact.

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: Looter Shooter 21.9% ★, Survival 21.9%, Third-Person Shooter 21.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Shooter 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Deadside blends survival, scavenging, firefights, and base-building in a way that overlaps nicely with Duckov’s broader loot-and-survive progression.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Base Building 28.1%, Survival 26.8%, Top-Down 13%, Exploration 11%, Adventure 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the 'start from nothing and slowly build yourself up through scavenging and crafting' itch, even if it’s less extraction-focused.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 83.4% ★, Shooter 12.3%, Action 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its high-stakes extraction matches capture the same pressure of risking your loadout for better loot and trying to get out alive.

Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 58.5% ★, Looter Shooter 32% ★, Shooter 7.3%, Action 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: The persistent gear economy, scavenging, and tense extraction focus feel very Tarkov-like, just transplanted into space raiding.

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: Top-Down Shooter 31.1%, Survival 19.8%, Shooter 12.8%, Top-Down 9.5%, Roguelite 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This one captures the same desperate top-down loop of scavenging dangerous areas, managing scarce resources, and trying to survive one more run.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 33.7%, Survival 26.5%, Top-Down 12%, Exploration 9.2%, Action-Adventure 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Building a home base, upgrading gear, and venturing into hostile zones for materials gives it a similar survive-loot-upgrade rhythm.

Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 35.1%, Survival 20.7%, Base Building 19.9%, Shooter 18.2%, Action 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It’s not as extraction-focused, but the duck-themed survival, combat, and crafting angle makes it an obvious thematic companion piece.

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: Survival 83.2%, RPG 8.5%, Adventure 5.4%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down perspective, brutal scavenging, safehouse building, and constant fear of losing progress make it a great fit for Duckov’s survival side.

Welcome to the coziest way to kill your friends. Super Animal Royale is a 64-player, top-down 2D battle royale where adorably murderous animals fight tooth, claw, and machine gun. Then, relax in Super Animal World with fishing, hamsterball races, and story quests before the next fight to the death.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 36%, Shooter 17.2%, Survival 16.9%, Funny 11.4%, Cute 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: For players who mainly love Duckov’s animal-themed gunplay and overhead action, this is the closest competitive version of that vibe.

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: Base Building 30.2%, Survival 29%, Exploration 12%, Adventure 9.9%, RPG 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival sandbox offers exploration, combat, looting, and base-building in a way that feels adjacent to Duckov’s more systems-driven side.

An action-adventure RPG with exploration, crafting, combat, and rhythm games. While everyone around you can summon and control their own mighty spirit animal, yours somehow ended up being… a duck?

Why similar: Funny 20.6%, Exploration 18.4%, Action-Adventure 17.1%, Cute 14.3%, RPG 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its goofy creature-combat presentation and light action-RPG structure echo Duckov’s playful tone more than its extraction mechanics.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Base Building 48.5%, Survival 42.4%, Action 4.6%, RPG 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its core loop of raiding dangerous areas for supplies and bringing them home to strengthen your base mirrors Duckov’s long-term survival progression.

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: Base Building 36%, Survival 28.1%, Exploration 15.9%, Adventure 8.8%, Action 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It’s less of a shooter, but its top-down exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and base expansion hit several of Duckov’s strongest progression hooks.

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 30.6%, Exploration 18.9%, Base Building 18.2%, Adventure 11.7%, Top-Down 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes top-down survival, crafting, building, and character progression into a scrappy sandbox that should click with Duckov players.

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: Survival 42.2%, Base Building 22.6%, Top-Down Shooter 12.7%, Action 5.9%, Adventure 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Top-down combat, scavenging, crafting, and fortifying a home base make this a very natural recommendation for Duckov fans.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 70.3%, Shooter 13.8%, Adventure 8.1%, Action 6.5%, Indie 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Duckov is the tension of gathering resources, defending yourself, and building a secure home, Rust delivers that at full intensity.

EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.

Why similar: Shooter 23.3%, Top-Down 19.6%, Action Roguelike 17.4%, Roguelite 15.2%, Action-Adventure 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This grim top-down shooter emphasizes vulnerable runs, scarce supplies, and survival under pressure in a way that overlaps with Duckov’s danger-heavy expeditions.

Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33.2%, Shooter 13.9%, Roguelite 10.1%, Top-Down 9.8%, Cute 9.7%

Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 41.2% ★, Extraction Shooter 38.1% ★, Survival 13%, Shooter 3.8%, Action-Adventure 1.2%

The Animal Evolution Roguelite. Hunt, Flee, Scavenge and Thrive in a living ecosystem. Choose from 125+ Evolutions and Specialisations for unique creature combinations in every run. Adapt to survive the natural curve in order to beat carcinisation... or get Darwin'd trying!

Why similar: Survival 27.2%, Action Roguelike 18.7%, Roguelite 16.3%, Exploration 14.5%, Cute 14.2%

Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 42.3% ★, Looter Shooter 23.2% ★, Gun Customization 17.2%, Survival 7.6%, Shooter 7.1%

Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 32.3% ★, Extraction Shooter 20.3% ★, Gun Customization 20.1%, Survival 16.3%, Shooter 8.4%

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: Base Building 30.8%, Survival 29.1%, Top-Down 13.1%, Exploration 11.1%, Adventure 10%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Duckov’s scavenging, crafting, and building-up-from-nothing appeal in a more relaxed survival adventure format.

No Escape from Madness is a thrilling shooting adventure game that blends Lovecraftian elements with extraction gameplay. You will guide the self-sacrificing infantry operators into the Sector where The Elder One is poised to descend.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 53.5% ★, Looter Shooter 13.4% ★, Top-Down Shooter 8.5%, Base Building 8%, Survival 5.2%

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: Base Building 24.9%, Survival 21.6%, Top-Down 15.7%, Cute 11%, Exploration 9.4%

Noobs Want to Live is a fast-paced roguelike featuring several characters and a large pool of skills to choose from (that synergize with one another, too!) Fight, kill, grow. Each run is a new chance to create a steamrolling build!

Why similar: Top-Down 20%, Action Roguelike 17.6%, Roguelite 16%, Funny 14.9%, Cute 12.7%

Team up, gear up, and make it out alive in this 2D co-op extraction shooter.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 35.6% ★, Looter Shooter 26.6% ★, Gun Customization 16.3%, Shooter 8.8%, Survival 6.8%

Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...

Why similar: Gun Customization 30.3%, Top-Down Shooter 23.6%, Extraction Shooter 19.5% ★, Shooter 9%, Top-Down 6.5%

Apocalypse Party is a 3D top-down action Roguelike game. In this game, you will embark on a new mission to traverse through the Middle Ages and gradually master abilities, and arm yourself to become the strongest survivor through numerous choices.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40.4%, Action Roguelike 15.9%, Top-Down 15.3%, Roguelite 12.7%, Funny 10.2%

Gum Squad is a co-op PvE shooter set in a quiet world gone sticky. Start with a peashooter, explore together, and gear up to survive the gum epidemic with up to 8 players!

Why similar: Looter Shooter 37.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 21.8%, Shooter 10.1%, Exploration 7.5%, Top-Down 7.5%

Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 40.3% ★, Looter Shooter 21% ★, Gun Customization 13.1%, Survival 7.6%, Shooter 6%

Try to survive today - This is a fast-paced hybrid three-dimensional first- and third-person action game with the ability to switch to an isometric camera. Control your MECH or attack enemies as Zlata!

Why similar: Looter Shooter 28.4% ★, Third-Person Shooter 18.8%, Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Shooter 11.2%, Top-Down 7%

Doloc Town is a cozy pixel art farm simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Build your dream farm from scratch and explore this mysterious wasteland. Harvest, craft, and battle against ferocious creatures while discover the untold stories of this forgotten land!

Why similar: Exploration 47.7%, Adventure 30%, RPG 22.3%

Meow! This is a cat-themed Survivor-like game where you control an adorable Supercat! Battle monsters to level up, collect items, upgrade weapons, and experiment with strategic builds to fight off invading creatures threatening Meow Star.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.1%, Third-Person Shooter 26.5%, Action Roguelike 12%, Funny 9.1%, Cute 8.5%

Waddle and fly as a duck in space! Explore every corner of the galaxy and find curious creatures and materials along the way. Craft gadgets, upgrade your spaceship, and get cozy in this relaxing adventure.

Why similar: Funny 27.2%, Exploration 26.4%, Cute 25%, Adventure 16.7%, Indie 4.8%

Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive the wasteland in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from tons of build-defining modules and wacky bots for a new experience every run. Prologue teaser build.

Why similar: Gun Customization 36.7%, Top-Down Shooter 31.2%, Action Roguelike 11.4%, Roguelite 9.1%, Action 6.4%

A genre-defying phenomenon that will take you on a journey to stop a rubber duck from taking over the developer's game!

Why similar: Adventure 26.6%, Funny 25.8%, Action 23.9%, RPG 23.8%

Play as a Rubber Ducky in this 3rd Person Arena Shooter! Utilize squirt guns and water abilities and sink your opponents to become top duck of the tub! Battle it out in the Bubble Bath Battlefield or the Stormy Sandbox. Customize your ducky to make sure the lobby knows who's the Smack Down King!

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 44.2%, Shooter 19%, Cute 15.5%, Funny 12.6%, Action 8.6%

Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive

Why similar: Gun Customization 43.1%, Base Building 25.7%, Survival 14.7%, Exploration 10.5%, Adventure 6%

BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.1%, Base Building 16.7%, Roguelite 16%, Action Roguelike 13.9%, Top-Down 12%

Face the challenge of catching ducks in a funny hand drawn forest. Outsmart hunters, cause a brawl between a wolf and a bear, use hideouts, move through underground tunnels, avoid traps but make enemies fall into them ! Be a sly fox !

Why similar: Cartoon 25.3%, Exploration 19.3%, Roguelite 18.8%, Funny 18.2%, Cute 16.6%

Pigeons Attack is a top-down shooter whose goal is to survive the pigeons hordes for as long as possible. Use upgrades and weapons placed around the level. Unlock new characters, maps and magic runes. Help fight this invasion, alone or with your friends!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.7%, Shooter 14.5%, Action Roguelike 12.9%, Top-Down 11.9%, Roguelite 11%

Welcome to Dinotica! Stomp into a mysterious and dangerous world filled with action, adventure, and companionship! Together, you'll fight, build, farm, and more as you work toward creating a unique home that is truly your own.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.3%, Base Building 25.6%, Action Roguelike 12.1%, RPG 8.8%, Top-Down 8.6%

Quacker Bros is a roguelike TD game about protecting your bounty from the intercepting chicken Mafia! Survive until the help comes and you can finally enjoy the blood and sweat of your heist!

Why similar: Top-Down 36.5%, Funny 28.8%, Cute 20%, Action 14.7%

Funguys Swarm is a cartoony survivor bullet hell where the forest is on fire. Become a Funguy, arm yourself with forest-crafted weapons, and unleash some bonkers powers on the Fireking’s army. And maybe... just maybe, save the day if you’re skilled (or lucky) enough.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 20%, Survival 17.7%, Top-Down 16.9%, Roguelite 16.4%, Cute 14.5%

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: Looter Shooter 33.5% ★, Third-Person Shooter 22.9%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 13.3%, Shooter 10%

Sephiria is a top-down action rogue-lite game with pixel graphics. Go down the tower, meet various animals, and collect various talismans and artifacts to become stronger.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.4%, Top-Down 23.4%, Roguelite 22.7%, Cute 12.3%, Action 7.5%

Kitty Survivors is a funny action rogue-lite game where you slay hordes of creatures, create overpowered builds, use elemental skills and craft stupid weapons. Join a growing guild of misfits with a thirst for milk, hired to protect the Kingdom of Catmere!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.3%, Gun Customization 22%, Action Roguelike 11.5%, Top-Down 8.9%, Roguelite 8.6%

Eggstraction is a multiplayer (4vs1) game where a group of chickens must steal their eggs back from a furious farmer. Dodge dangerous traps, blast down barricades and make use of whacky abilities to avoid ending up back in the cage.

Why similar: Action 48.4%, Funny 40.3%, Indie 11.2%

Squirrel, meet gun. As the neighborhood’s most obnoxious rodent, develop a knack (and a love?) for crime and mayhem in pursuit of golden acorns in this nutty sandbox shooter and puzzle platformer. Fight tooth, claw, and gun to escape a secret underground facility and defeat the Agents.

Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 37.7%, Shooter 18.6%, Exploration 10.2%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Cute 8.1%

Ducks like to race, even in their own cars! Earn money by delivering food to fellow ducks in the city, then use this money to upgrade your vehicle. The better the vehicle, the better chance you have to win the race at the end of the day!

Why similar: Exploration 42.9%, Funny 27.1%, Cute 26.2%, Indie 3.8%