- #1 Pawsecuted
97% matchPositive97% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: Poking Water Games
Windows
A brutal, slightly absurd tactical survival RPG. Play a rabbit escaping a koala-run convict camp in a procedurally generated, post-human apocalyptic world. Battle emus and hire kangaroo mercenaries. Scavenge supplies, gather and trade materials, recruit followers and rebuild society.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 21.1%, Open World Survival Craft 17.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 9%
- #2 Machine TakeOver
96% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Burak S.
Windows
A brutal single-player top-down survival game about looting, hiding, and outsmarting relentless Machines in a decaying city where humanity is already over.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.3% ★, Dystopian 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.6%
- #3 Shelter Manager
96% matchMixed62% of 279 reviews2021
Dev: Hamsters Gaming
Windows
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Strategy RPG 14.7%, Economy 12.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Management 10.6%
- #4 Force of Nature
95% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 14.8%, Crafting 12.3%, Open World 11.4%, Building 7.9%
- #5 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
94% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 5.7%
- #6 Hazardous
94% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Ovesis
Windows
Hazardous is a crafting-survival game where you explore cyberpunk and biopunk worlds.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Dystopian 11.4%
- #7 Polygon Survival
93% matchMixed41% of 27 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 31.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.5%
- #8 The Resonant
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: East West Infiniti Game Studio
Windows
In a world without sight, you are a warrior who perceives the world through vibrations. Plan and execute turn-based combat sequences, deduce enemy positions and intentions, manipulate the battlefield through deception, and strike with precision to defeat your rivals.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 25.5%, Strategy RPG 21%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Dystopian 10.5%
- #9 Desolated District
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Real Heroes Studio
Windows
Desolated District is an Open-World Survival Crafting game set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Scavenge for resources, craft essential tools, build your base and battle deadly threats as you explore a sprawling, decaying city inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Open World 13.4%, Building 10.5%, Survival 10.1%
- #10 SCP
91% matchMixed45% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Molance Games
Windows
Explore, craft, and survive in a post-apocalyptic world where SCP anomalies roam freely. Brace yourself for nightly assaults as SCP-049's twisted creations close in.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Dystopian 14.9%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 11%
- #11 Ashigaru Tactics
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mr Crops
Windows
Ashigaru Tactics is a turn-based hex tactical combat sandbox game, set in Sengoku-era Japan. Assemble a squad of mercenaries and fight, survive, and kill in a land ravaged by clan wars, bandit incursions, and whispers of Yokai emerging.
Why similar: Tactical RPG 23.8%, Strategy RPG 18.4%, War 16.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.7%, Management 13.9%
- #12 Novus Inceptio
90% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Crafting 9.7%
- #13 Dustland Delivery
87% matchVery Positive88% of 1,154 reviews2024
Dev: Neutron Star StudioPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Management 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival 12.8%, Economy 11.8%
- #14 The Long Dark
88% matchVery Positive90% of 117,376 reviews2017
Dev: Hinterland Studio Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 46.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.7% ★, Survival 20.7%, Open World 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Crafting 6%
- #15 The Fifth Day
89% matchMostly Negative37% of 940 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Survival 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 5.2%
- #16 REIGN OVER
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pentakodas
Windows
Build a fortress, raise an army, conquer your rivals! Hire heroes, equip them with rare artifacts and master their special abilities. Capture buildings and resources to train units and hire mercenaries. Lead them to victory in turn based combat!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Dystopian 20.3%, Tactical RPG 19%, Strategy RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.9%
- #17 Project Cobalt
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Open World 12.5%, Survival 12.3%, Economy 12.1%, Crafting 10.1%
- #18 Tenrei
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alan Lun
Windows · Mac
Forge your legacy in a sprawling fantasy world where every choice shapes your fate. Explore an open‑ended sandbox blending freedom with tactical turn‑based combat. Rise as ruler, raider, or trader—the path is yours to carve.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 18.3%, Tactical RPG 17%, War 16.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.8%, Open World 15.2%
- #19 FRIGID
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Celeritas Games
Windows
Hunt, build, craft and survive an apocalyptic arctic environment and unravel the mystery of a strange virus that is infecting the local wildlife. Inspired by The Thing!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 9.7%
- #20 Hostile Planet: Survival
84% matchMixed65% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Aliens Developers
Windows
Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 15%, Crafting 13%, Building 11.2%
- #21 Obenseuer
83% matchVery Positive94% of 1,522 reviews2018
Dev: Loiste Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Obenseuer is an urban survival RPG game, where you become a property manager of a rundown unfinished tenement building, in an isolated quarantine district of Obenseuer. Maintain and upgrade your tenement for rent, uncover the secrets of this infamous district and grow your wealth with your craft.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 22.5%, Dystopian 21.1%, Survival 15.1%, Management 14.5%, Open World 9.5%
- #22 Category 6
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crafty Game Lab
Windows
Brace yourself for the ultimate open-world survival craft experience. Welcome to a world shattered by the relentless fury of the most colossal hurricane in history. Explore and gather resources for survival and crafting. Fight off aggressive wildlife and scavengers. Play story mode or survival mode
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.5%
- #23 Raiders! Forsaken Earth
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 291 reviews2020
Dev: Creative Storm EntertainmentPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Raiders! Forsaken Earth is a strategy/management game where you play as the leader of a merciless band of post-apocalyptic marauders. Build up your organization while extorting, kidnapping, and destroying the last remnants of civilization. The wasteland doesn't need another hero...
Why similar: Tactical RPG 18.5%, Strategy RPG 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Management 10.7%, Open World 9.9%
- #24 New Spring: Survival
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Promination Studios
Windows
New Spring is a open world zombie survival RPG where you spend the daytime exploring and scavenging for tools and weapons, and defend your base when night falls. How long can you stave off the hordes?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Open World 15.3%, Survival 12.7%, Building 10.3%
- #25 Cataclysm Upon Us
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 7Dev Studios
Windows · Linux
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Open World 13.9%, Survival 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Building 10%
- #26 Dissident: Frostland Escape
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sigur StudioPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac · Linux
A survival game about prisoners escaping from forced labor camps. A progressive, atmospheric tale in a fictional setting.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Dystopian 17.9%, War 15.7%, Open World 11.4%, Survival 10.4%
- #27 Rust
79% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Survival 24.2%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 13%, Building 9.4%
- #28 The Overlap
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Back Pocket Games
Windows
The Overlap is a survival-cosmic-horror 2D sandbox. Explore procedurally generated wastelands, scavenge resources, craft, build, customize and upgrade your survivor, face eldritch horrors, survive the post-cataclysmic world alongside friends online and find out the truth behind it all.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 11%, Building 9.6%
- #29 Forsaken Universe
78% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Jacob Folkerts
Windows
Forsaken Universe is an exploration-survival game based on a unique universe. Become one of the Elite space explorers in the universe by completing missions, building a strong base, killing space pirates and or aliens, or many different other ways. Can you explore all the planets and survive?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Open World 15.6%, Survival 14%, Building 13.4%, Crafting 10.5%
- #30 Craftopia
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 19,974 reviews2020
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Open World 21.2%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 8.4%
- #31 Miscreated
77% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 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 44.4% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Crafting 6.5%
- #32 Runerock Arena
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Areena Games
Windows · Linux
Forge a lasting dynasty across a Gladiator League of Runerock in this turn-based strategy game with RPG aspects. Hire your team, outfit them with equipment and spells, then lead them into tactical combat. Guide careers from raw recruits to seasoned legends, training new successors for arena glory.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 27.1%, Tactical RPG 21.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 20.7%, Economy 10.6%, Management 8.8%
- #33 The Forest
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Survival 19%, Open World 14.4%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 7.6%
- #34 Far North Survival
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FrogVille Games
Windows
FAR NORTH SURVIVAL is an open-world survival game set in the unique setting of a vast ice-bound area beyond the Arctic Circle.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 15.2%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.6%
- #35 Crushed
74% 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: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Open World 13.9%, Survival 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Crafting 9.2%
- #36 Animallica
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 904 reviews2022
Dev: Animallica Games Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In Animallica you are racing against extinction after a deadly virus ravaged the world. As the lone survivor of the last conservation center on Earth, the fate of every single animal and plant species lies in your hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Crafting 12%, Open World 9.5%
- #37 Vortex: The Gateway
75% matchMixed57% of 398 reviews2016
Dev: StormCube Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Survival 18.9%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 6.3%
- #38 UNKNOWN REGION
73% matchMixed47% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: SYDNEY GAMES
Windows
You are one of the chosen survivors to set up your life in UNKNOWN REGION. Life has forever changed after an unknown virus has wiped out humanity. Navigate through the region to discover mutated humans and creatures. You will be challenged to test your survival skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 21.8%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.8%
- #39 Subsistence
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 8.4%
- #40 Blockscape
73% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52% ★, Open World 11.4%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.3%
- #41 Fragmented
72% 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: Open World Survival Craft 47.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 13%, Crafting 7.8%, Building 6.7%
- #42 My Island
70% matchMixed67% of 1,706 reviews2024
Dev: SnowBaby Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 48%
MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.4% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Building 6.7%
- #43 Planet Explorers
71% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Open World 17%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 7.8%
- #44 MALTIVA
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IQSP4DPub: Boskit
Windows
Complexity Island game is a survival game Overcome struggles such as hunger, thirst and cold. Build a fire. Build a shelter. Kill animals. Protect your city from meteor
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Building 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%
- #45 Xsyon - Prelude
71% 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 30.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.3%, Building 10.1%
- #46 Life is Feudal: Your Own
70% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.9% ★, Open World 15.9%, Survival 14.2%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9.9%
- #47 SpiritBorn
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.2%
- #48 Andarilho
69% matchMixed66% of 1,295 reviews2020
Dev: SC Jogos
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are a guy with a backpack, just try to stay alive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 10.7%
- #49 Beaten Path
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Peacebreak Studio
Windows
Beaten Path is a turn-based tactical RPG set in a world ruled by fallen gods and ancient machines. Take command of Panna and her companions as they unravel the secrets of time, confronting lost memories, mythic powers, and a looping fate.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 34.7%, Tactical RPG 31.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.7%, Strategy 10.9%, 3D 3.3%
- #50 Will To Live Online
69% matchMixed69% of 18,150 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, Survival 23.9%, Open World 17.4%, Crafting 5.1%
- #51 Stranded Deep
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Survival 18.8%, Open World 13.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 6.2%
- #52 Project Zomboid
68% 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 21.3%, Open World 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Crafting 6.3%
- #53 El Mucho
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Andreas DahmPub: Lobo Corp.
Windows
El Mucho is a round based tactical RPG in a fiction world called Liberika. It is inspired by old classics like Langrisser aka Warsong. El Mucho is all about protecting the world from the attacks of the nasty monsters.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 35.1%, Tactical RPG 28.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 21.7%, Strategy 10.8%, RPG 4%
- #54 Frostborn
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toadstool Studios
Windows
A low-poly Viking survival game where you build settlements, explore a handcrafted world, battle enemies, and uncover forgotten legends of the North.
Why similar: Strategy RPG 35%, Survival 15.2%, RPG 12%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.7%
- #55 Arcadia: The Crystal Wars
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Thoranar Gaming
Windows
Arcadia is an open-world, squad-based fusion of role playing and strategy, combining traditional RPG elements such as character skills, talents, quests, dungeons, and raids with strategic base-building, farming, and crafting.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Strategy RPG 22.4%, Management 11.9%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 11.4%
- #56 Bromeliad
67% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Open World 15.5%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Building 10.6%