Games Like Fallout 76

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.5%, Open World 29.8%, RPG 8.6%, Survival 6%, Shooter 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person wasteland exploration, scavenging, faction quests, V.A.T.S. combat, and extensive settlement building form the direct single-player foundation for much of Fallout 76.

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.7%, Open World 31%, RPG 13.5%, Survival 5.8%, FPS 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the strongest choice for players who want Fallout’s dark humor, faction politics, open-ended quests, and richly reactive post-apocalyptic role-playing.

Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38%, Open World 32.9%, RPG 13.9%, FPS 5.5%, Shooter 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the Capital Wasteland exploration, vaults, mutant-filled ruins, and first-person Fallout questing that Fallout 76 expands into an online world.

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: Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Open World 18.3%, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 15.9%, Multiplayer 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer wasteland scavenging, crafting, fortification building, character progression, and recurring zombie sieges make it an especially close survival-focused alternative.

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: Open World 22.4%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op open-world zombie survival game centered on scavenging, managing a home base, recruiting survivors, and making dangerous expeditions into a ruined America.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Open World 18.6%, Base Building 15.5%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Survival 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play shared-world shooter blends mutated post-apocalyptic exploration, survival crafting, base construction, questing, and cooperative PvE activities.

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: Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Open World 16.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Explore a hostile open world with friends, scavenge increasingly powerful gear, and fight machines in a cooperative survival shooter with a similarly lonely-yet-social feel.

Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.

Why similar: Open World 30.9%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Co-op 8.7%, Shooter 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared open-world missions, co-op endgame, loot progression, public activities, and ruined-world exploration closely suit the live-service side of Fallout 76.

Dive into a transformed vibrant post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe. Lead the fight against the Highwaymen, as they seek to take over the last remaining resources.

Why similar: Open World 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Co-op 11.6%, FPS 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful post-nuclear shooter emphasizes outpost liberation, scavenging, improvised weapons, co-op play, and rebuilding a settlement after the apocalypse.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Open World 27.5%, Survival 14.8%, FPS 9.3%, Shooter 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its dangerous irradiated open world, emergent firefights, artifact hunting, survival systems, and bleak exploration are ideal for the harsher side of Fallout 76’s wasteland fantasy.

Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.

Why similar: Base Building 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 32.6%, Survival 20.8%, Multiplayer 6%, RPG 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It condenses Fallout’s Vault-Tec theme into accessible vault construction, resident management, resource balancing, and wasteland expeditions.

The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and a mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four new Vault Hunters.

Why similar: Open World 24.1%, Multiplayer 17.8%, Co-op 14.5%, RPG 13.5%, FPS 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more linear and exaggerated, its co-op looter-shooter structure, bizarre humor, build variety, quests, and constant gear chase match Fallout 76’s action loop.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World 45.6%, Survival 19.9%, Multiplayer 19.1%, Exploration 8%, FPS 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared universe supports relaxed cooperative exploration, resource gathering, base construction, questing, trading, and continual long-term progression.

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

Why similar: Open World 22%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Co-op 12.7%, Survival 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A large co-op post-apocalyptic city filled with scavenging, crafting, quests, faction choices, and safe-zone progression gives it a strong survival-exploration overlap.

Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.7%, Open World 23.1%, RPG 13.6%, Violent 9.8%, Co-op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op-capable tactical RPG offers another direct descendant of classic Fallout, with reactive quests, grim comedy, factions, and difficult post-apocalyptic decisions.

You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 48.9%, Open World 24.6%, RPG 21.6%, Exploration 2%, Atmospheric 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: The original establishes the series’ retro-futurist wasteland tone, branching role-playing, resource pressure, and darkly humorous vision of post-war America.

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 17.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 10%

Why You'll Like It: For players who enjoy Fallout 76’s scavenging and world traversal but want much higher tension, it offers uncompromising multiplayer survival across a devastated landscape.

Fallout® 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed game that took RPG'ing out of the dungeons and into a dynamic, apocalyptic retro-future. It's been 80 long years since your ancestors trod across the wastelands.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 47.9%, Open World 23.4%, RPG 20.3%, Great Soundtrack 3.5%, Exploration 2%

Why You'll Like It: Though mechanically old-school, it remains one of the best sources for Fallout’s black comedy, wasteland factions, moral choices, and bizarre post-nuclear lore.

REMNANT II® pits survivors of humanity against new deadly creatures and god-like bosses across terrifying worlds. Play solo or co-op with two other friends to explore the depths of the unknown to stop an evil from destroying reality itself.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.7%, Co-op 21.4%, Multiplayer 16.5%, RPG 13.6%, Shooter 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative action RPG set across ruined worlds, it supplies tough shooter combat, build crafting, repeatable expeditions, loot, and post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Open World 31.9%, Survival 21.5%, RPG 11%, Gore 10.6%, FPS 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its large multiplayer survival world features detailed character progression, looting, crafting, base building, and dangerous player-driven encounters.

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: Open World 25.2%, Survival 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Co-op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This deep multiplayer zombie sandbox focuses on scavenging, crafting, safehouse building, skills, and emergent survival stories in a collapsed society.

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: Open World 18.5%, Base Building 18%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Survival 15.5%, Multiplayer 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a grounded open-world multiplayer survival shooter built around loot runs, missions, safehouse construction, and tense encounters with AI and other players.

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 27.5%, Survival 24%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Co-op 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer post-apocalyptic survival game combines abandoned-world exploration, scavenging, crafting, vehicles, shelters, and mutant threats.

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 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op open-world zombie survival sandbox with base building, vehicles, resource runs, and environmental threats that rewards long-term preparation.

'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 26.7%, Base Building 24.6%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Survival 17.3%, RPG 11%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative zombie-survival loop centers on exploring a ruined open world, gathering supplies, building elaborate defenses, and surviving escalating hordes.

RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.5%, Open World 26.5%, FPS 11.5%, Gore 9.4%, Shooter 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful mutant-filled wasteland, improvised post-collapse culture, vehicle travel, and frantic first-person combat echo Fallout’s action-oriented exploration.

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: Post-apocalyptic 27.9%, Open World 22.1%, Base Building 20.8%, Survival 14.9%, RPG 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh sandbox world lets you scavenge, recruit, build outposts, trade, and survive against hostile factions in a uniquely unforgiving post-apocalyptic setting.

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Why similar: Open World 52%, RPG 22.4%, Exploration 7.7%, Character Customization 6.7%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%

Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.

Why similar: MMORPG 33.9% ★, Open World 25.6%, Multiplayer 16.6%, RPG 13.5%, Exploration 4.7%

Fallout 4, the legendary post-apocalyptic adventure from Bethesda Game Studios and winner of more than 200 ‘Best Of’ awards, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year, comes in its entirety to VR.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.8%, Open World 24%, RPG 8.9%, Survival 8.4%, Base Building 7%

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.6%, Open World 28.1%, Survival 12.4%, FPS 8.9%, Gore 4.4%

Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.8%, Open World 32.7%, RPG 12.2%, FPS 4.8%, Shooter 4.1%

Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, MMORPG 20.1% ★, Open World 15.7%, Survival 10%, Multiplayer 7.5%

STALZONE is the PvPvE extraction shooter where you don't have to start over — and the only one with persistent world worth belonging to. You are invited to explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone twisted by anomalies and divided between rival factions whose territories shape the danger around you

Why similar: MMORPG 23.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, Open World 20.1%, Survival 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.5%

The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.

Why similar: Open World 31.8%, RPG 24.1%, Capitalism 18.1%, Exploration 6.2%, Violent 5.3%

Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.3%, Open World 18.2%, FPS 13.2%, Shooter 6.8%, Multiplayer 5.6%

Fallen Earth Classic is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Reloaded Productions and operated by Little Orbit. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland located around the American Grand Canyon.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Open World 21.5%, Survival 16.4%, Multiplayer 14.5%, MMORPG 6.3% ★

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: Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Open World 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout® Universe! You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling,...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 61.5%, RPG 17.4%, Open World 13.7%, Multiplayer 4.8%, Atmospheric 1.4%

Stay Out - is a MMORPG with shooter elements, based on spirit of “stalking” - an urban exploration, searching and exploring mysterious, abandoned and forgotten by humanity pieces of our planet.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, MMORPG 19.2% ★, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Survival 10.3%

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: Open World 24.6%, Survival 19%, Base Building 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.

Why similar: Open World 23.4%, Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Survival 19.5%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Co-op 6.2%

Step into the vibrant, ever-evolving world of Red Dead Online and experience life in frontier America. Chase down bounties, battle outlaw gangs and other players, hunt, fish and trade, search for exotic treasures, run Moonshine, and much more to discover in a world of astounding depth and detail.

Why similar: Open World 38%, Multiplayer 24.1%, MMORPG 10.4% ★, Shooter 9.2%, Co-op 7.1%

PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.4%, MMORPG 19.2% ★, Open World 16.9%, Survival 10.9%, Multiplayer 9.8%

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: Open World 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.

Why similar: Open World 43.8%, RPG 16.1%, FPS 13%, Violent 6.7%, Great Soundtrack 6.4%

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: Open World 26.6%, Survival 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Multiplayer 7%

A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.

Why similar: Open World 25.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, MMORPG 10.1% ★, Co-op 9.9%

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: Post-apocalyptic 34.5%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 18.3%, RPG 10.9%, Horror 7.5%

Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.

Why similar: Open World 44.8%, RPG 24.7%, Character Customization 6.8%, Exploration 6.6%, Great Soundtrack 5.7%

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Open World 20%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 10.9%

In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.

Why similar: Open World 32.4%, RPG 13.8%, FPS 13.7%, Shooter 12.5%, Horror 9.5%

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded in this definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Why similar: Open World 35.6%, Post-apocalyptic 32.9%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Horror 5%

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World 24.1%, Base Building 23%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Survival 16.4%, RPG 10.8%

Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.7%, Open World 21.4%, Survival 11%, FPS 9.2%, Shooter 6.1%