Games Like Fade to Silence

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.1% ★, Survival 22.7%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 5.2%, Post-apocalyptic 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive frozen survival experience, focusing on the same brutal cold-weather mechanics and atmospheric isolation found in Fade to Silence.

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 7.6%, Crafting 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully combines intense survival mechanics with a frozen, alien environment that demands constant exploration and resource management.

Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Why similar: Survival 31.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.9%, RPG 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the base-management and post-apocalyptic horror elements of the seed game while adding a compelling narrative-driven RPG layer.

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 55.2% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 7.2%, Horror 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at blending survival and base-building with terrifying, supernatural horror elements that feel similar to the Eldritch threats in Fade to Silence.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 9%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more fantasy-oriented, it captures the struggle of building a base in a harsh, unforgiving environment that requires constant preparation and resource gathering.

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 30.4%, Open World 16.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a refined successor to The Forest, it offers superior base-building and survival mechanics within a hostile, mysterious, and atmospheric open world.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.4% ★, Survival 24.9%, Open World 2.3%, Crafting 1.9%, Co-op 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark, Lovecraftian aesthetic and punishing survival systems align perfectly with the tone and difficulty of the seed game.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Survival 17.2%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a session-based survival experience in a hostile, alien landscape that forces players to master crafting and environmental adaptation.

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Survival 25.8%, Open World 23.5%, RPG 16.2%, Online Co-Op 11.4%, Co-op 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the harsh realities of survival and exploration in a dangerous world, requiring careful preparation and management of resources.

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: Open World Survival Craft 46.2% ★, Survival 24.2%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 7.3%, Crafting 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a post-apocalyptic setting with a focus on survival, base-building, and defending against supernatural threats.

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the open-world survival and base-building mechanics, set in a world that feels both magical and dangerous.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Survival 23.1%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Online Co-Op 4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep base-building and survival mechanics set in a brutal, unforgiving world that challenges players to survive against both nature and monsters.

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: Survival 29%, Open World 18.3%, Base Building 15.8%, Crafting 14.8%, Online Co-Op 11%

Why You'll Like It: The dark fantasy setting and focus on building a fortified base while surviving in a hostile world resonate well with the themes of Fade to Silence.

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 54.7% ★, Survival 20.3%, Open World 10%, Crafting 5.7%, Post-apocalyptic 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and defending against both human and mutated threats.

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 47% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 6.9%, Online Co-Op 6.9%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a hardcore survival experience that focuses on the physical and psychological toll of surviving in an extremely hostile environment.

Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game is specifically designed around the theme of surviving a harsh, frozen winter, mirroring the core environmental challenge of the seed game.

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 40.7% ★, Survival 22.3%, Open World 9.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines deep base-building and crafting with constant threats, providing a similar loop of fortifying against waves of enemies.

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: Survival 32.8%, Open World 18.9%, Base Building 16.2%, Online Co-Op 8%, Co-op 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on base management and recruiting followers, mirroring the community-building aspects of the seed game.

'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 38.5% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on base-building and tower-defense mechanics to survive against hordes of enemies in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world 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 36.5% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%, Online Co-Op 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends post-apocalyptic survival with strange, supernatural horror elements in a large-scale open world.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.9% ★, Survival 18%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.2%, Base Building 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a pure survival experience that focuses on the long-term struggle of building a base and managing resources in a hostile wilderness.

Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Why similar: Survival 23.1%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Co-op 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an atmospheric open-world survival experience with base-building elements set in a mysterious, post-apocalyptic landscape.

Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Survival 38.5%, Snow 25.3% ★, Crafting 25.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Action 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the tension of surviving in a frozen, treacherous landscape where the environment is as dangerous as the other players.

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: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on the gritty reality of surviving in a world overrun by the undead.

「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: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 9%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and crafting with a day-night cycle that significantly changes the threat level of the environment.

Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an expansive open-world survival experience with a heavy emphasis on crafting and building a home in a dangerous land.

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58% ★, Survival 23.5%, Open World 7.5%, Crafting 5.7%, Multiplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a classic survival and crafting experience in a mysterious, post-apocalyptic environment.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Survival 31.3%, Open World 26.5%, RPG 12.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly brutal, open-world sandbox experience where base-building and survival are essential to overcoming a harsh, unforgiving world.

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: Survival 50.3%, Open World 29.2%, Horror 10.4%, Crafting 3.8%, Survival Horror 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It features a dark, post-apocalyptic world filled with anomalies and horror elements that align with the tone of the seed game.

Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Base Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the tactical aspects of survival and base-building in a post-apocalyptic world.

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: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 9.3%

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.8%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 7.4%, Base Building 7.2%

MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 8.2%

Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%

Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Survival 25.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 8%, RPG 6.7%

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 31.7%, Open World 17.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 6.9%, Survival Horror 6.6%

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.6% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 6.5%, Online Co-Op 4.5%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 6.3%, RPG 3.2%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.7% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 7.7%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 19.4%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 8.6%, Base Building 6.7%

An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 7.4%, Crafting 7.1%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 8.3%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 8.1%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 10%, Base Building 9.2%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8.4%, Base Building 8.3%

Explore the last remnants of civilization in this vast, unforgiving, and interconnected world. Learn what is left of its history. Discover pockets of natural life in the perpetually expanding Omnistructure. Lose yourself in a journey unlike any other. Find your purpose in the world.

Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Open World 19.5%, RPG 14%, Souls-like 12.9%, Survival Horror 9.3%

Northern Lights is an open world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the arctic tundra. Clinging to life, you must use real-life survival techniques to gather resources, craft, and hunt while tending to your health and sanity. Can you survive your way out of the mysterious island?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Snow 6.4% ★

You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 5.8%, Co-op 5.6%

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 20.6%, Base Building 8.6%, Crafting 7.7%, Open World 6.5%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%

The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.

Why similar: Survival 16.5%, Souls-like 15.5%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, RPG 12.5%, Lovecraftian 12%

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 26.9%, Open World 19.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Crafting 13.4%, Online Co-Op 12.3%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 3.4%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 21%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 8.1%, Crafting 7%

Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 9.7%

Ashen is an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home.

Why similar: Survival 21.1%, Open World 18.4%, Online Co-Op 16.2%, Souls-like 15.3%, RPG 12%

Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.7% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 6.8%, RPG 4.8%

CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%