- #1 7 Days to Die
97% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Survival 15.9%, Base Building 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers the most robust base-building and survival mechanics in the genre, perfectly complementing the looter-shooter loop.
- #2 SCUM
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Crafting 15.6%, Survival 15.6%, FPS 14.7%, Sandbox 14.2%, Open World 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides an incredibly deep survival simulation with complex looting and character progression systems.
- #3 SurrounDead
95% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Open World 17.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Zombies 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a solid survival experience with a heavy focus on looting and post-apocalyptic exploration.
- #4 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
94% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25.5%, Survival 22.8%, Open World 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Zombies 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes community management and faction interaction, mirroring the living world feel of Fargone.
- #5 Kenshi
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 110,425 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 70.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Sandbox 18%, Open World 15.6%, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: An unparalleled sandbox RPG that allows for total freedom in how you survive, build, and interact with the world.
- #6 Fallout 4
93% matchVery Positive81% of 422,529 reviews2015
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 37.3 hrsMean: 117.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.4%, Open World 20%, FPS 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Action RPG 8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep RPG progression with extensive base-building and a vast, loot-filled post-apocalyptic world.
- #7 VEIN
91% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Base Building 15.2%, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An emerging survival title that focuses on deep base-building and open-world exploration.
- #8 DayZ
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Survival 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, FPS 15.9%, Sandbox 15.6%, Open World 12%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential hardcore survival experience that focuses on high-stakes looting and environmental threats.
- #9 Rust
91% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 24.4%, Crafting 19.5%, Building 13.6%, Open World 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes sandbox survival game that excels in base-building and player-driven interaction.
- #10 Deadside
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Survival 15.5%, FPS 15.4%, Looter Shooter 14.8% ★, Base Building 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore looter-shooter that emphasizes tactical combat and survival in a large, open world.
- #11 DeadPoly
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 23% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that focuses on looting, crafting, and base-building in a hostile world.
- #12 Conan Exiles
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Survival 23.8%, Building 20.1%, Crafting 18.3%, Open World 17.3%, Sandbox 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features a strong survival RPG foundation with complex base-building and faction-based progression.
- #13 Unturned
87% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 26.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Crafting 11.4%, FPS 10.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: An accessible survival sandbox that features strong crafting and base-building elements.
- #14 Generation Zero®
88% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,588 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, FPS 13.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Sandbox 12%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world looter-shooter that focuses on survival and tactical combat against mechanical threats.
- #15 Mist Survival
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Survival 25.7%, Base Building 17.5%, Open World 15.8%, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a strong emphasis on base-building and NPC interaction within a dangerous, atmospheric world.
- #16 The Forest
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Survival 28%, Crafting 18.8%, Open World 17.5%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers excellent survival and base-building mechanics in a hostile, immersive environment.
- #17 Gray Zone Warfare
84% matchMixed70% of 66,430 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: FPS 31.9%, Open World 21%, PvE 18.7%, Survival 18.3%, Action 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical looter-shooter that prioritizes realistic survival mechanics and PvE mission structures.
- #18 Taora : Survival
84% matchMixed63% of 395 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Looter Shooter 27.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game with a strong focus on exploration and crafting mechanics.
- #19 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 130,480 reviews2024
Dev: GSC Game WorldPub: GSC Game World (worldwide)
Windows
Median: 28.7 hrsMean: 53.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Discover the vast Chornobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chornobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, FPS 21.5%, Open World 18.6%, Survival 17.4%, RPG 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: A modern evolution of the atmospheric survival shooter genre with a focus on exploration and danger.
- #20 Fallen Region
86% matchMixed41% of 185 reviews2020
Dev: WayUpGamesPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Survival 16.1%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #21 Outbreak Island
81% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Sandbox 14.2%, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on mystery, sandbox exploration, and uncovering the secrets of a hostile island.
- #22 Next Day: Survival
83% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Survival 26.8%, Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, Open World 18.6%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game with RPG elements and faction interactions that mirror the world of Fargone.
- #23 PIONER
81% matchMixed65% of 3,315 reviews2025
Dev: GFAGAMES
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 20.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Looter Shooter 30.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, FPS 12.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: An upcoming open-world survival shooter that promises strong RPG elements and a focus on exploration.
- #24 Project Zomboid
80% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 24.3%, Sandbox 14.6%, Open World 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: The deepest survival simulation available, offering complex RPG elements and persistent world-building.
- #25 Shadows of Kurgansk
82% matchMixed66% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Yadon StudioPub: Gaijin inCubator
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!
Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Crafting 15.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, RPG 9.1%, FPS 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game with a focus on crafting, exploration, and mysterious environmental hazards.
- #26 Remnant: From the Ashes
78% matchVery Positive84% of 56,041 reviews2019
Dev: Gunfire GamesPub: Arc Games
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 28.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Post-apocalyptic 37.1%, RPG 25.3%, Survival 24.5%, Action 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: An action-heavy looter-shooter that provides satisfying RPG progression and challenging PvE encounters.
- #27 Taora : Beginning
76% matchVery Positive87% of 2,228 reviews2023
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 30% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Action RPG 8.4%
- #28 Xsyon - Prelude
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Crafting 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on community building and long-term world development.
- #29 Urge
77% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 18.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Crafting 10.8%
- #30 Fragmented
79% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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: Survival 25.1%, Crafting 16%, Open World 14.8%, Sandbox 14.4%, Building 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes building and multiplayer combat in a harsh environment.
- #31 Crafting Dead
78% matchMixed57% of 158 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 24.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival experience that focuses on looting, crafting, and surviving against waves of threats.
- #32 Enshrouded
73% matchVery Positive86% of 98,202 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.3 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Base Building 16.8%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 13%, Crafting 12.8%, Building 9.6%
- #33 DREADZONE
75% matchMixed51% of 1,171 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Survival 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Building 13.7%
- #34 Junk Survivor
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Survival 12.2%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
- #35 Gone: Survival
77% matchMixed44% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 12.9%, Survival 11.8%
- #36 Zombie Survival Game Online
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 26.2% ★, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, FPS 9.3%
- #37 Survive the Nights
73% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?
Why similar: Looter Shooter 28.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, FPS 11.7%, Survival 11.2%
- #38 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
74% matchMixed48% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 24.7% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%, FPS 10.4%, Building 8.8%
- #39 Polygeddon
73% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 23.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.6%
- #40 SmallZ
74% matchMixed47% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: skins.dog
Windows
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 29.5% ★, Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%
- #41 Raise Your Tribe
72% matchMixed58% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Primeval Forest Studios
Windows
A hardcore tactical shooter with horror elements. Battle Machines and Mutants, and build your legacy on a deadly post-apocalyptic Cyberpunk Island. Explore dangerous zones, craft powerful gear, and shape your Cyberware build. Uncover secrets and fight to survive in a brutal, immersive world!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 18.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, FPS 10%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 7.9%
- #42 Dysterra
71% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Base Building 12.6%, PvE 12%, Crafting 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, FPS 10.9%
- #43 Plains of Pain
71% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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: Base Building 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 13.8%, Survival 11.5%
- #44 No One Survived
68% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 20.9%, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Building 12.5%
- #45 Survival: Lost Way
72% matchMostly Negative37% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 19%, Survival 15.9%, FPS 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Base Building 12.1%
- #46 iZolated
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Character Customization 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%
- #47 Far Lands
70% matchMixed66% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
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: Base Building 23.8%, Crafting 22.2%, Survival 18.7%, Open World 13%, PvE 10.9%
- #48 Zompiercer
69% matchVery Positive89% of 4,081 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Base Building 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Sandbox 14.2%, FPS 13.8%, Action RPG 10.7%
- #49 ZED ZONE
68% matchVery Positive80% of 3,539 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 14.1%, Crafting 14%, Survival 14%
- #50 HumanitZ
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Base Building 17.6%, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Sandbox 13.4%
- #51 Survival Nation: Lost Horizon
69% matchMixed58% of 125 reviews2024
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.Pub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Crafting 16%, Survival 15%, Action RPG 14.1%, Open World 12.5%
- #52 Dead Matter
70% matchMostly Negative21% of 882 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, FPS 13.8%, Survival 12.8%
- #53 Atomfall
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,854 reviews2025
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 21.1%, FPS 17.2%, Open World 16.7%, Action RPG 14.8%, Survival 12.2%
- #54 Deadline Escape
64% matchVery Positive89% of 194 reviews2026
Dev: DeadlineEscape
Windows
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 50.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Survival 16.5%, FPS 6.8%, PvE 1.4%
- #55 Crushed
69% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: FPS 12.7%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%
- #56 Survive The Island
68% matchMixed53% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: Sandbox 15.1%, Action RPG 12.9%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 10.3%, RPG 10.1%
- #57 XERA: Survival
66% matchMixed66% of 7,888 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…
Why similar: Looter Shooter 18% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #58 Hold Your Own
67% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Crafting 16.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 13.9%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 12.3%