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 57.2% ★, Survival 22.7%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 5.2%, Post-apocalyptic 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for surviving in a harsh, unforgiving frozen wilderness where the environment is your primary antagonist.

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 48.8% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 9.3%, Base Building 7.5%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title masterfully combines survival and base-building within a beautiful yet deadly frozen alien landscape.

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 65.5% ★, Survival 24.8%, Open World 2.3%, Crafting 1.9%, Co-op 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a distinct, dark, and Lovecraftian art style paired with challenging survival mechanics and base management.

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 26%, Open World 23.7%, RPG 16.1%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Co-op 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the struggle of survival and preparation in a dangerous, dark fantasy world where you are not a chosen hero.

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 40.8% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 9%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival RPG features a fantasy-inspired open world with a focus on exploration and base construction.

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 43.6% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8%, Crafting 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of building a home in a hostile, supernatural wilderness while managing survival needs.

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 30.7%, Open World 17.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a visceral survival experience with deep base-building mechanics and terrifying supernatural horror elements.

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 41.9% ★, Survival 17.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This session-based survival game forces you to contend with harsh, changing environments and dangerous wildlife.

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 38.2% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a high-stakes survival experience with a focus on exploration and building a mobile base.

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 40.2% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique Victorian-fantasy survival experience with supernatural realms to explore.

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 47.1% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 7%, Online Co-Op 6.8%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a hardcore survival experience that focuses on psychological stress and environmental hazards.

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 46.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the atmospheric and mechanical challenges of surviving a brutal, unending winter.

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 55.4% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7.1%, Horror 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential survival horror game where base-building is essential to defending against cannibalistic threats.

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 47.8% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 7.8%, Crafting 6.4%, Online Co-Op 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a frozen wilderness, it focuses on survival, mystery, and the struggle against the elements.

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 30.8%, Open World 19.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.1%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival and base-building with a dark, gothic atmosphere and challenging combat.

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 46.5% ★, Survival 24.2%, Open World 11.2%, Base Building 7.2%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines traditional survival mechanics with horror elements and base-building in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 36.8% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 8.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Online Co-Op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a strange, supernatural post-apocalyptic world with extensive base-building and survival 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: Survival 32.9%, Open World 19.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Co-op 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the follower management and base-building aspects of Fade to Silence within a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 13.4%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 7.5%, Base Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique survival twist where you build and upgrade a train to traverse a surreal, dangerous void.

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 40.9% ★, Survival 22.3%, Open World 10%, Base Building 8.5%, Online Co-Op 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a staple of the survival genre, focusing on base fortification and defending against waves of enemies.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 20.6%, Base Building 8.5%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While smaller in scale, it offers excellent base-building and survival mechanics against a hostile environment.

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 28.8% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the classic survival loop of scavenging, building, and defending against threats in an open 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 50.2%, Open World 29.5%, Horror 10.2%, Crafting 3.8%, Survival Horror 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a gritty, horror-infused survival experience in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 20.8%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 6.6%, Base Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the constant need to scavenge and expand your base while surviving in a dangerous, isolated world.

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 38.6%, Snow 25.4% ★, Crafting 24.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Action 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the tension of surviving in a frozen landscape while dealing with both environmental and social threats.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.2% ★, Survival 17.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Open World 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a survival experience in the vacuum of space with a focus on crafting and atmospheric exploration.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a pure survival experience that emphasizes the struggle against nature in an isolated, hostile setting.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 35.7%, Open World 20.9%, Crafting 15.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep survival and base-building mechanics set in a world filled with dangerous, prehistoric threats.

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 8.9%, Base Building 7.8%

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 51% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 9%, Crafting 7.6%, Online Co-Op 6.9%

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 35.4% ★, Survival 25.2%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.1%, RPG 6.6%

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 38.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 8.6%, Base Building 7.6%

'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 38.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.5%, Base Building 7.8%

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 36.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 51% ★, Survival 18%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 8.2%, Base Building 5.5%

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: Survival 32.1%, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Online Co-Op 6.6%, Survival Horror 6.5%

MISERY is a 1–10 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 15.7%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8%, Crafting 7.9%

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 54% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 6.2%, RPG 3.2%

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 54.9% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 5.6%, Post-apocalyptic 3.3%

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 18.9%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Base Building 6.5%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Base Building 9%

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 39.3% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 9.3%

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 8.6%, Online Co-Op 7.3%, Crafting 7%

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 24.7%, Open World 19.7%, RPG 13.9%, Souls-like 12.9%, Survival Horror 9.3%

Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.9% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Online Co-Op 5.1%

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 49.2% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10.2%, Snow 6.3% ★

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 43.8% ★, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 5.7%, Co-op 5.7%

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 58.3% ★, Survival 23.5%, Open World 7.4%, Crafting 5.5%, Multiplayer 1.5%

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 44.8% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%

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 16.7%, Souls-like 15.5%, Online Co-Op 13%, RPG 12.5%, Co-op 12.2%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.8% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 8.3%, Base Building 3.4%

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 31.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 13.8%, RPG 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%

Your avatar is a brave warrior who has fallen in battle. But instead of well-deserved peace in Asgard, his soul is trapped in the harsh world of Niffelheim. Survive in this hostile world, ransack the neighbor lands, explore dangerous dungeons and find your way to Valhalla

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 7.9%, Open World 7.8%

「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 44.7% ★, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.1%, RPG 6.2%, Survival Horror 6.1%

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 39.6% ★, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9.8%

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 48.9% ★, Survival 21%, Open World 9.5%, Base Building 8%, Crafting 6.9%

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 23.3%, Open World 15.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Co-op 8%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 58.4% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Open World 8.2%, Crafting 7.2%