- #1 Mist Survival
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,394 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Zombies 23%, Survival 17.5%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival Horror 5.8%
- #2 LifeZ - Survival
96% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Zombies 23.9%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #3 Eclipse Horde
96% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Ezorisudo
Windows
"Craft or die" It's up to you to decide. The solar eclipse will come 30 days later. Can you survive the raid of the day? The sandbox and survival crafting game where you can do everything you want.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Survival 14.8%, Zombies 14.6%, Survival Horror 14.1%, Life Sim 12.5%
- #4 Fallen Region
95% matchMixed42% of 198 reviews2020
Dev: WayUpGamesPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Zombies 22.8%, Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 9.1%, Simulation 8.6%
- #5 Survivalist
94% matchVery Positive80% of 2,569 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
Why similar: Zombies 27.8%, Open World Survival Craft 20.2% ★, Survival 18.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #6 How to Survive 2
94% matchMixed69% of 11,020 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Zombies 32.4%, Survival 19.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Gore 2.6%
- #7 Undead Development
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 349 reviews2021
Dev: Masterstrike
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
How long would you survive in this unrealistic representation of the zombie apocalypse? Scavenge for supplies, find a base, and construct your defenses. Break down furniture and board up your home. Set bear traps, nail your axe to a gun, or find your own ways to fight off the undead. VR required.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Zombies 26.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 11.1%, Simulation 5%
- #8 In the Van
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Tofu
Windows · Mac
A cozy post-apocalyptic survival game where your van is your home and your key to survival. Scavenge, craft, and uncover the stories the dead left behind to find a way out.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Zombies 20.7%, Base Building 14%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #9 The Infected
91% matchVery Positive84% of 7,020 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Zombies 14.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Survival 11.3%
- #10 Project Zomboid
90% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Zombies 30%, Survival 20.2%, Sandbox 7.6%, Survival Horror 7.4%
- #11 Polygon Survival
89% matchMostly Negative39% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
Polygon Survival is a low-poly zombie survival shooter with simple building and crafting. You find yourself in a mini world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Zombies 24.2%, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #12 CastleMiner Z
89% matchVery Positive81% of 11,161 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Zombies 24.1%, Survival 15.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival Horror 6.3%
- #13 Radiation Island
88% matchVery Positive81% of 642 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 50.8% ★, Zombies 23.6%, Survival 20.8%, Action 3.6%, Indie 1.2%
- #14 Jaws Of Extinction™
87% matchMixed54% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Blood Eater GamesPub: Forthright Entertainment
Windows
Currently in redevelopment [06/2026]: The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
Why similar: Zombies 30.6%, Survival 18.8%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Strategy 8%, Gore 7.4%
- #15 How to Survive
86% matchVery Positive83% of 17,106 reviews2014
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
Why similar: Zombies 34.6%, Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 20.5%, Survival Horror 6.7%, Action 2.6%
- #16 Dead Earth Zombies
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kilted Games
Windows
Dead Earth is an open world survival game, choose what you want to do in this world, build a small base, hunt for food, survive and explore the open world, play the game your way, ohh... and try to stay off the menu.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival Horror 23.4%, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Zombies 1.1%
- #17 How To Survive: Third Person Standalone
86% matchMixed57% of 1,263 reviews2015
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Zombies 31.7%, Survival 19.6%, Survival Horror 4.8%, Action 3.1%
- #18 Endure or Perish
84% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Ascent Gaming Studios
Windows
Endure or Perish is an open world survival game played in the FP view. In order to survive you will need to gather resources from the land, manage your inventory, and build a base that you can retreat to when the going gets hard. Can you adapt and overcome? The choice is yours: endure or perish.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Zombies 23.1%, Survival Horror 14.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #19 God Save Birmingham
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ocean Drive Studio, Inc.
Windows
Judgment Day has come to medieval Birmingham, and a plague of flesh-hungry ghouls has claimed every living soul… except one. Fight to survive in a highly tactile, physics-based survival sim where every object can be manipulated. Make ends meet, or meet your end.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Zombies 27.1%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 10%, Simulation 4.6%
- #20 Ashfield Hollow
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BitQuest Studio
Windows
Build a life in the ruins. Ashfield Hollow combines deep survival, real-time combat, farming, crafting, and fishing in a post-apocalyptic world that nearly didn't make it. Ten years after the outbreak, Camp Ashfield is one of the last places left. Whether it stays that way is up to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Zombies 19.5%, Survival 11.5%, Life Sim 11.2%, Base Building 8.4%
- #21 The Rotting Chronicles
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Rhino Studios
Windows
The Rotting Chronicles is a survival action game set in a zombie-ravaged city where you must fight, scavenge, craft, and rebuild to survive. Run solo or with up to 3 friends as you grow your survival skills and find the best strategy to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Zombies 25.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival 13%, Survival Horror 7.8%
- #22 HumanitZ
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,430 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 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: Zombies 25.8%, Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 14.5%, Survival Horror 11.2%
- #23 Zeverland
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Quirks
Windows
Welcome to Zeverland, survive & craft together with your friends in a deceptively cute apocalypse, with no limits! Everything is interactive like the real world—dismantle toilets, strap zombie heads to bats, or weld a bed to your RV. Then, try to repair bridges, make vaccines, and relight the world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.1% ★, Zombies 22%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 13.5%, Sandbox 8.3%
- #24 Snow Survival
81% matchMostly Negative26% of 34 reviews2021
Dev: 3m0 studio
Windows
As a result of a heavy snowfall, the passenger plane crashes on a deserted and cold island. You are the only survivor of the plane and get ready to explore this cold forest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 13.9%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Zombies 13.1%
- #25 Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 20,662 reviews2014
Dev: Capcom Game Studio VancouverPub: Capcom
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.
Why similar: Zombies 45.7%, Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Survival 10.5%, Gore 6.2%, Survival Horror 5.2%
- #26 Miscreated
79% matchMixed66% of 31,592 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 51.3% ★, Zombies 22.8%, Survival 19.2%, Sandbox 3.5%, Simulation 1.6%
- #27 The Forest
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 683,269 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.4 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: Open World Survival Craft 53.8% ★, Survival 20%, Survival Horror 11%, Zombies 5.3%, Sandbox 4.1%
- #28 Odd Woods
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Matt
Windows
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 15.2%, Survival Horror 15%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #29 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
77% matchMixed54% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
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 40% ★, Survival 16.7%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 8%
- #30 State of Decay: YOSE
78% matchVery Positive82% of 13,199 reviews2015
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Zombies 41.9%, Survival 22.1%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival Horror 7.2%, Sandbox 4.1%
- #31 Exile Era
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HelixHope
Windows
In the wasteland ruled by AI, a weekly exile game unfolds.Will you choose to survive alone, lingering in the shadow of zombies and mutated creatures? Or rally your companions and build a haven of hope for old humanity on this desolate island with your own hands?
Why similar: Zombies 34.1%, Base Building 20.3%, Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Violent 6.8%
- #32 Blackroot: Medieval Survival
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Owl GamesPub: Corpix Games
Windows
Survive in a dark medieval world plagued by the undead. Gather resources, build shelter, and face the horrors of Blackroot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Zombies 23.4%, Survival 13.2%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #33 7 Days to Die
73% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.4 hrsMean: 111.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 30.5% ★, Zombies 23.2%, Survival 16.9%, Base Building 12.6%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #34 Frozen State
76% matchMixed64% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
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 30.1% ★, Zombies 25.1%, Survival 21.9%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #35 A Life Ashore
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: daggg3rPub: daggg3r studio
Windows
After a rough landing on a remote tropical island, turn survival into a life of your own. Observe the land, gather and salvage what it offers, build a dependable home, and settle into practical routines through rain, heat, and changing days.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.4% ★, Survival 19%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Life Sim 9.5%
- #36 Stranded
75% matchMixed52% of 29 reviews2021
Dev: Mikayden Gutierrez
Windows
Test your imagination. build stuff, kill things, explore endless amounts of sea, cave and island. go into it blind and you just might find your way out This is a fun survival island based game where the player finds themselves in a terrible situation out on sea and wakes up on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Zombies 32.2%, Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Survival 18%, Strategy 8.5%, Base Building 6.5%
- #37 Scrapcrawl
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BugSmith
Windows
You are at the epicenter of a nuclear explosion. Survive and leave the exclusion zone before the radiation becomes deadly. Explore the ruined post-apocalyptic world in search of resources and food. Fight zombies. Develop the bunker. Craft items.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Zombies 26.1%, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #38 Western Rye
72% matchMixed53% of 109 reviews2026
Dev: Nixalon Studios
Windows
Western Rye is an open world survival crafting adventure game set in the old west American Frontier. Create your dream outlaw! Survive the the wild west, farm, build your ranch, endure the weather, fight and forge your legend with friends or alone. In Western Rye, the wild west just got wilder!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Zombies 16.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Survival Horror 12%, Survival 12%
- #39 God Vs Zombies
74% matchMostly Negative31% of 68 reviews2018
Pub: Displacement Studios
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Survive like a God in this inspiring survival simulation game.
Why similar: Zombies 28.5%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Survival 15.6%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 13.4%
- #40 Outpost Zero
74% matchMixed48% of 853 reviews2019
Dev: Symmetric GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 45.4% ★, Survival 19.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Sandbox 5.1%
- #41 VIFA
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NavySparkStudio
Windows
Vifa is a survival-building game where each hero character brings unique talents that change how you play. Team up with friends, craft and build your base, deploy worker bots to gather resources, and assemble powerful mechs to defend your home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Base Building 17.9%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.5%, Life Sim 8.6%
- #42 Xsyon - Prelude
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Zombies 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #43 Urge
70% matchVery Positive90% of 524 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival Horror 16.3%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 11.8%, Sandbox 9%
- #44 Crushed
71% matchMixed53% of 321 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: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Zombies 16.3%, Survival 15%, Base Building 12.7%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #45 Voldark
69% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: OzbalHan
Windows
Voldark is an open-world survival crafting game set in a dangerous forest filled with mutant creatures. Gather resources, craft tools and weapons, level up your character, build and defend your base while surviving relentless nighttime attacks.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival Horror 17%, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Simulation 6%
- #46 The Walker
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Silver Hawk
Windows
The Walker is a single player survival horror game. Peaceful days have passed, you no longer work to eat, but try to survive. Find out what's behind all this, hope you make it out alive.
Why similar: Zombies 37.3%, Survival Horror 23.7%, Survival 14.5%, Gore 7.2%, Violent 6.4%
- #47 Night of the Dead
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'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 31.6% ★, Zombies 21.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Survival 10.6%
- #48 Nomad
71% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51% ★, Zombies 27%, Survival 19.7%, Action 1.9%, Indie 0.4%
- #49 Deadly Flare
69% matchMixed55% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: Green Grass Games
Windows
A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Zombies 20.9%, Survival 15.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Action RPG 6.6%
- #50 Stone Rage
70% matchMixed49% of 167 reviews2020
Dev: Mountainwheel Games
Windows
Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a harsh landscape of dangerous animals, scarce resources, and unforgiving climates. Make friends and enemies. Build. Fight. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.2% ★, Survival 16.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 7.3%, Simulation 6.1%
- #51 Ice Age
67% matchMixed55% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Sabertooth Studio
Windows
As primitive human, in the wild Ice Age prehistoric world, Hunt and tame wild beasts such as mammoths and sabretooth, build homes, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.1% ★, Base Building 20%, Survival 15.5%, Survival Horror 9.1%, Simulation 6.6%
- #52 VECTOR ZONE
68% matchMostly Negative31% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: Survival Sphere Studios
Windows
VECTOR ZONE is a gripping survival game where the weight of leadership rests on your shoulders. Set in a post-apocalyptic world teeming with dangers, your task is to manage a camp of diverse NPC survivors and lead them to safety while constructing vital structures for their survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Zombies 19.8%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 14.7%, Action RPG 5%
- #53 Unhinged
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unifiq Games
Windows
Survive a brutal corporate death game on an alien planet. Craft and assemble components into machines and automated production systems. Harness power, cultivate exotic plants, brew herbal tonics and synthesize chaotic drugs, all while managing your sanity in a detailed mental simulation.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Survival Horror 17.4%, Survival 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 6.3%
- #54 RECOG The First Wave
69% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: LozMarblz Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
RECOG The Game is truly challenging and strategically entertaining. Build and defend your industry from an enemy who knows you more than you know yourself. Plan each step wisely, for all decisions you make directly impact what’s to come. Be prepared, for you are now entering THE RECOG!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 57.1% ★, Strategy 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Simulation 8.3%, Survival 7.5%
- #55 Green Hell
67% matchVery Positive85% of 102,938 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 50.7% ★, Survival 19.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival Horror 8.2%, Sandbox 4.6%
- #56 Herd is Coming
67% matchMixed68% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Proximity Games
Windows
"Herd is Coming" is a survival RPG set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. It's the story of Mike who's survived for 10 years since the outbreak.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Zombies 27.2%, Survival 14.2%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #57 Walking Zombie 2
66% matchVery Positive87% of 13,358 reviews2019
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.5% ★, Zombies 25.1%, Survival 12.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Dark Humor 7.3%