Games Like Generation Zero®

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a tactical third-person shooter set in a vast open world. You must survive, adapt, and fight a rogue spec ops faction, using stealth, strategy, and high-tech gear in solo or co-op.

Why similar: Open World 30.2%, Co-op 22.8%, Shooter 18%, Multiplayer 15.7%, FPS 9%

Why You'll Like It: A large hostile island to infiltrate with friends, tactical gunplay, enemy patrols, stealth, and survival-lite systems make it a strong open-world co-op substitute.

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 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, FPS 17.4%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful post-apocalyptic open world, co-op outpost liberation, scavenging, crafting, and resistance story closely echo Generation Zero's guerilla-war feel.

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 21.3%, Survival 19%, Open World 18.7%, Co-op 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines co-op scavenging in an open zombie-infested world with base building, resource pressure, and emergent fights against overwhelming threats.

Homefront®: The Revolution is an open-world first person shooter where you must lead the Resistance movement in guerrilla warfare against a superior military force.

Why similar: FPS 21.3%, Open World 20.9%, Co-op 13.4%, Shooter 12%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: You play an insurgent fighting an occupying force across an open urban environment, with improvised weapons, stealth, and a similar rebellion theme.

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: Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared open world supports co-op exploration, survival crafting, base building, and fighting strange PvE threats across a ruined landscape.

Lead your elite team of Ghosts in this tactical third-person shooter. Explore a massive open world, infiltrate and destroy the deadly Santa Blanca cartel, and save Bolivia and its people.

Why similar: Open World 27.9%, Co-op 16.8%, Shooter 16%, Multiplayer 11.4%, FPS 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its four-player open-world operations, stealthy reconnaissance, synchronized attacks, and freedom to approach enemy territory fit the resistance fantasy well.

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 26.8%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Shooter 13%, Co-op 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is a co-op-focused post-collapse shooter about reclaiming an open world from hostile factions through tactical firefights and loot-driven progression.

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 19.7%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 14.2%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its atmospheric first-person expeditions, stealth, scavenging, crafting, and hazardous post-disaster setting appeal to Generation Zero players who enjoy deliberate exploration.

Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.

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: A vast post-apocalyptic map, optional co-op, camps, environmental storytelling, and PvE encounters provide a more RPG-heavy but similarly freeform experience.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 10.4%, FPS 10.4%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes co-op exploration, crafting, mobile-base management, and combat against hostile machines in a distinctive steampunk survival sandbox.

Terminator: Resistance, is a first-person shooter set during the 'Future War' scenario that was only glimpsed at in the iconic films, 'THE TERMINATOR' and 'T2: JUDGMENT DAY'. The machines are destined to lose, but at what cost?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21%, Robots 19%, FPS 17.3%, Open World 12.8%, Sci-fi 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although primarily single-player and more linear, its tense FPS combat against deadly machines and human resistance setting strongly match Generation Zero's core premise.

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 20.9%, Open World 20.3%, FPS 16.9%, Survival 14.7%, Shooter 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its dangerous open zone, scarce resources, eerie atmosphere, and methodical firefights capture the lonely exploratory tension of Generation Zero, albeit solo.

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: Co-op 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Survival 12.2%, Shooter 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers challenging co-op shooting against otherworldly invaders, tense exploration, and a ruined-world atmosphere in more compact, replayable areas.

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: Open World 31.4%, Survival 31.3%, Horror 19.1%, Survival Horror 5.2%, Crafting 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strange abandoned island, co-op survival, first-person combat, exploration, and crafting make it a darker horror-leaning counterpart.

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 23.9%, FPS 23.2%, Open World 21.7%, Shooter 10%, Action 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world first-person shooter offers fast combat, enemy camps, scavenging, and a violent post-apocalyptic wilderness to roam at your own pace.

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 17.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Open World 13%, FPS 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It leans harder into survival crafting and base defense, but its open-world co-op scavenging and escalating undead assaults share key survival-loop qualities.

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: Base Building 14.4%, Robots 13%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival shooter combines base building and scavenging with dangerous robotic PvE enemies, though it is more PvP-oriented than Generation Zero.

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 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Co-op 18.3%, Survival 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op parkour exploration, crafting, scavenging, safe zones, and desperate combat in a ruined open city make it an excellent survival-action alternative.

Outriders’ brutal and bloody combat combines frenetic gunplay, violent powers and deep RPG systems to create a true genre hybrid.

Why similar: Co-op 35%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Shooter 11.8%, Open World 11.7%, Sci-fi 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op third-person shooter centers on squads battling hostile creatures, collecting gear, and pushing through a harsh science-fiction world.

The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.

Why similar: Co-op 20.6%, PvE 19.9%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Shooter 16.9%, Sci-fi 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its four-player PvE missions against mechanical enemies deliver the satisfying cooperative pressure and anti-machine warfare that Generation Zero fans may want.

GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

Why similar: FPS 18.2%, Co-op 17.3%, Survival Horror 16.5%, Horror 12.2%, Shooter 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a far more punishing and mission-based co-op FPS, but its stealth, resource management, communication, and oppressive atmosphere suit tactical groups.

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 24%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Co-op 15.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Shooter 11%

Why You'll Like It: A snowbound, collapsed-city setting and tactical cooperative firefights make this a particularly good choice for players who value atmosphere and teamwork.

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: Base Building 18.3%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.5%, Co-op 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival expeditions emphasize exploration, gathering, crafting, building shelters, and enduring a hostile wilderness rather than continuous gunfights.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 20.9%, FPS 16.9%, PvE 13%, Shooter 10.5%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its four-player PvE expeditions emphasize teamwork, resource gathering, hostile swarms, and improvised survival in a way that complements Generation Zero's co-op appeal.

The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.

Why similar: Mechs 47.6% ★, FPS 16.1%, Co-op 14.8%, Shooter 10.9%, PvE 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op missions and punishing battles against mechanized opponents provide a slower, heavier take on machine warfare and tactical squad coordination.

Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.

Why similar: FPS 28.7%, Co-op 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Shooter 14.5%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This fast co-op FPS replaces open-world exploration with roguelite runs but retains nonstop shooting against armies of robots and strong build variety.

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: FPS 23.8%, Open World 22.3%, Co-op 21.4%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Shooter 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: While much more comedic and loot-driven, it offers excellent co-op FPS combat, expansive hostile zones, and constant progression through enemy-filled environments.

Stand and fight for humanity. This arcade shooter takes place in the year 2022, as the Earth Defense Force fends off an all-out attack by unknown life forms. Become an EDF soldier, battle against endless hordes of immense enemies, and restore peace to the earth.

Why similar: Mechs 43% ★, Co-op 18.1%, Shooter 11.8%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Action 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Massive battles against invading aliens and machines make it a less tactical but highly satisfying co-op power fantasy for players seeking large-scale PvE action.

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: Base Building 14.6%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.9%, FPS 11.6%, Open World 11.4%

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 18.1%, Open World 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival Horror 11.5%

Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.4%, Open World 27.9%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 5.9%, Action 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This single-player open-world wasteland adventure captures the isolated post-apocalyptic exploration and scavenging mood, with vehicular combat replacing co-op shooting.

The town of Redfall is under siege by a legion of vampires who have cut the island off from the outside world. Trapped with a handful of survivors, slay alone or squad up in open-world FPS action.

Why similar: Open World 23.9%, FPS 23.4%, Co-op 22.6%, Shooter 14.2%, Multiplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op FPS structure, safehouse progression, exploration, and special enemy encounters make it a reasonable supernatural alternative despite its different tone.

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: Base Building 15.3%, Co-op 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%

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 13.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Open World 9.2%

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: Survival 19.7%, Open World 18.9%, Base Building 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival Horror 6%

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: Survival 19.2%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Open World 12.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 12.2%

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: Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, FPS 12.1%, Co-op 11.3%

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 14.6%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Co-op 9.7%

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 20.1%, Open World 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 9.1%

Zero Hour is a tactical FPS with online team-based game play that takes place in a variety of fictional locations interpreted in Bangladesh with Real-life scale & resource management. It brings a grounded, close quarter combat experience to the game.

Why similar: FPS 27.8%, Shooter 22.1%, Co-op 20.2%, Multiplayer 17%, PvE 8%

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 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Open World 10.2%, FPS 9.7%

World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.

Why similar: Co-op 18.4%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Shooter 12.1%, Survival Horror 11.4%

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 14.2%, Survival 12.4%, Open World 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Crafting 10.5%

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: Co-op 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Shooter 15%, Multiplayer 11.5%, PvE 9.5%

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: Survival 20.1%, Crafting 17%, Open World 15.5%, Base Building 14%, Multiplayer 11.3%

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: Survival 24.1%, Open World 15.5%, Co-op 14.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.9%

Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.

Why similar: FPS 14.7%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%

An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival Horror 11.9%, FPS 11.6%

Cargo Hunters is an extraction shooter where you control a humanoid robot scavenging the remains of humanity on an abandoned, dystopian Earth. Play solo or in 4 players co-op.

Why similar: Robots 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 10.5%

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Survival 12.4%, Co-op 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Robots 10.5%, Sandbox 9.8%

'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: Base Building 18.6%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 15%, Survival Horror 13.9%, Survival 13.5%

Embark on an exotic journey into danger in this rip-roaring 1930s third person adventure for 1-4 players! Encounter pulse-pounding action, treacherous traps and tales of derring-do!

Why similar: Co-op 29.2%, Shooter 17.5%, Multiplayer 16.1%, PvE 10.4%, Open World 8.6%

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 16.2%, Open World 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 12.9%, Co-op 12.7%

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 11.4%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Base Building 14%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.6%

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: Survival 21.6%, Base Building 18.8%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Crafting 11.9%

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: Base Building 15.2%, FPS 14%, Crafting 13.3%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.7%

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: Survival 19.2%, Base Building 17.9%, Co-op 14.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.5%

SCP: 5K is a co-op or singleplayer tactical horror FPS project that puts players in the midst of a conspiracy where the SCP Foundation has turned on humanity. Enjoy Early Access as we continue to work towards a completed full release of the project!

Why similar: Co-op 28.7%, FPS 22.3%, Shooter 15.9%, Horror 14.6%, Multiplayer 14.3%