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 29.9%, Co-op 23.2%, Shooter 17.8%, Multiplayer 15.8%, FPS 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op, stealth-heavy tactical gunplay, scavenging, and frequent battles against drones make it the closest overall match to Generation Zero's modern resistance feel.

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 19.6%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 14.2%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of atmospheric exploration, stealth, survival systems, gunfights, scavenging, and base management overlaps strongly with Generation Zero's mood and structure.

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 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: The shared appeal here is co-op open-world survival with strong exploration, firearms combat, crafting, and base-building in a hostile, uncanny world.

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 21.1%, Open World 20.8%, Co-op 13.6%, Shooter 12%, Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: Like Generation Zero, it centers on guerrilla warfare in an occupied open world where ambushes, sabotage, and hit-and-run tactics matter.

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 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, FPS 17.3%, Co-op 14.9%, Multiplayer 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is another open-world post-apocalyptic FPS built around co-op roaming, outpost assaults, crafting, and improvised resistance combat.

Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Open World 16.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a big post-apocalyptic world to explore with friends, plus scavenging, shooting, crafting, and CAMP base-building that echo Generation Zero's long-form co-op loop.

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 21.4%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 18.6%, Co-op 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op open-world survival, supply runs, and base development make it a strong alternative if you liked Generation Zero's exploration-and-preparation rhythm.

The Forever Winter is a tactical shooter where you and your squad must loot the dead to survive beneath gargantuan war machines in a dystopian future of AI automata, cybernetically enhanced soldiers, and endless conflict. Millions of deaths later, the war continues with our latest update!

Why similar: Mechs 25.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 22.6%, PvE 13.6%, Horror 9.7%, Co-op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its scrappy co-op survival-shooter design about scavenging between giant war machines captures a very similar resistance-against-overwhelming-enemies vibe.

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 14.7%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12%, FPS 11.5%, Open World 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the appeal of tense open-world firearms combat, scavenging, and survival-focused multiplayer exploration in a rural setting.

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 19.1%, FPS 17.2%, Open World 12.5%, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: Few games match the underdog-versus-machines theme this well, with scavenging, stealth, and firefights in a ruined future.

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 14.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 10.5%, FPS 10.3%, Open World 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person co-op survival against mechanical enemies, with crafting and mobile base management, hits a similar robots-plus-building niche.

Experience Aloy’s legendary quest to unravel the mysteries of a future Earth ruled by Machines. Use devastating tactical attacks against your prey and explore a majestic open world in this award-winning action RPG!

Why similar: Open World 31.9%, Robots 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.7%, Sci-fi 10%, Exploration 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Even as a solo third-person game, its open-world machine hunting, weak-point combat, and careful tactical engagements feel strikingly close in spirit.

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 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Open World 12.9%, FPS 10%

Why You'll Like It: If the survival, scavenging, co-op, and base-fortifying side of Generation Zero hooked you, this expands those systems dramatically.

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: Robots 22.9%, FPS 16.8%, Open World 16%, Shooter 11%, Sci-fi 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person shooter delivers deadly robot enemies and an eerie retrofuturist disaster zone that scratches a similar techno-apocalypse itch.

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 27.7%, Co-op 17%, Shooter 15.9%, Multiplayer 11.5%, FPS 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The open-world squad tactics, methodical recon, and coordinated ambushes line up well with Generation Zero's slower, more deliberate co-op combat.

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 26.6%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Shooter 13%, Co-op 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its hostile world, cooperative looting, tactical firefights, and constant territory-clearing progression make it a good systems-heavy substitute.

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 17.6%, Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Open World 13.3%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its blend of open-world survival, gunplay, crafting, and substantial base-building fits players who want more sandbox systems alongside combat.

Fight a fanatical cult in this open world FPS. Engage in intense combat, free hostile territory, recruit loyal followers and animal allies, and liberate Hope County solo or in full 2-player co-op.

Why similar: Open World 20.2%, Co-op 15.6%, FPS 15.5%, Survival 12.6%, Shooter 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers open-world co-op FPS action with stealth attacks, emergent encounters, and a strong resistance-against-occupiers structure.

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 14.3%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op open-world survival, looting, vehicles, and building systems make it a solid fit for players who value the survival sandbox side.

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 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Open World 10.1%, FPS 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is slower and harsher, but the lonely open-world traversal, scavenging, and ever-present danger create a comparable survival atmosphere.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Base Building 13.4%, Co-op 13.3%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Cooperative scavenging, crafting, and base-building in a dangerous open world capture a lot of the same long-session survival appeal.

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%, Co-op 17.5%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Horror 12.1%, Shooter 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part was the tension, teamwork, and desperate first-person survival gunfights, GTFO delivers that at an even harsher intensity.

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 19.1%, Base Building 18%, Co-op 14.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Multiplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its lighter theme, the co-op exploration, crafting, and base-building loop maps surprisingly well to Generation Zero's group survival structure.

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 21%, Open World 20.2%, FPS 16.9%, Survival 14.8%, Shooter 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its atmospheric open-world FPS scavenging and sudden high-lethality fights mirror Generation Zero's tension, even without co-op.

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 19.7%, Co-op 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Survival 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This gives you co-op open-world survival action, faction-controlled territory, and risky supply runs in a world that stays dangerous after dark.

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 24.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Shooter 15%, Multiplayer 11.5%, PvE 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: While less open-ended, its co-op shooting, tough enemy encounters, and exploration-driven progression make it a strong combat-focused alternative.

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 16.3%, Crafting 13%, Open World 12.4%, Co-op 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, crafting, and base-building emphasize preparation and environmental danger in a way that will appeal to Generation Zero's more methodical players.

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 22.7%, FPS 15.8%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 10.3%, Horror 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This delivers immersive post-apocalyptic exploration, resource pressure, and lethal first-person combat in a similarly moody ruined world.

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 12.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Open World 9.1%

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%, Open World 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Survival Horror 11.5%

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%, Open World 21.6%, Shooter 10%, Action 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world post-apocalyptic FPS freedom and constant roaming combat, though with less stealth and survival emphasis.

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 17.3%, Survival 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, FPS 12%, Co-op 11.4%

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Why similar: Survival 31.3%, Open World 31.3%, Horror 19.1%, Survival Horror 5.2%, Crafting 4%

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 14.6%, Robots 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.7%

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 18.8%, Base Building 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Multiplayer 6.1%

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 15.4%, Co-op 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.7%

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 29.4%, Shooter 17.4%, Multiplayer 16.2%, PvE 10.5%, Open World 8.5%

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 14.7%, Open World 13.8%, Survival 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Co-op 10%

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: Open World 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Survival 20.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Shooter 7.3%

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 23.9%, Open World 15.4%, Co-op 14.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.1%

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

Why similar: Crafting 14.2%, Survival 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Survival Horror 11.9%, FPS 11.5%

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Co-op 15.2%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 12.5%

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 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%

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 19.1%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Open World 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 12.3%

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 12.3%, Co-op 11.9%, Base Building 11%, Robots 10.4%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 14.1%, Survival Horror 12%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

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 15.3%, FPS 13.9%, Crafting 13.4%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 12.6%

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 27.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Survival 12.2%, Shooter 11.6%

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 21.5%, Base Building 18.9%, Open World 16.5%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Crafting 12%

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 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11.2%, Co-op 10.5%

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 16.3%, Open World 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Co-op 12.8%, Survival 12.8%

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 11%, Open World 11%, Crafting 11%, FPS 10.9%

Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

Why similar: Survival Horror 22.7%, Co-op 17.1%, Horror 13.2%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.1%

The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.

Why similar: Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Open World 14.2%, Robots 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Open World 16.3%, Crafting 15.9%, Sandbox 15.4%, Survival 15%, Base Building 14.1%

Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.

Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Open World 16%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Co-op 8%

No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

Why similar: Open World 36.1%, Survival 23.3%, Co-op 22.5%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Exploration 6%

TerraTech is an open-world, sandbox adventure game, where you design and build your own creations through a mix of crafting, combat and discovery. Design vehicles from a huge library of blocks. Scavenge, craft and buy new parts to survive and become the ultimate planetary prospector.

Why similar: Robots 24.4%, Open World 17.4%, Sandbox 17.1%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 10.2%

Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.

Why similar: Base Building 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Open World 12.3%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 11.1%