Games Like How to Survive

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: Zombies 26.6%, Open World Survival Craft 23.5% ★, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 6.2%, Co-op 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most depth in isometric zombie survival, featuring complex crafting and realistic survival mechanics.

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: Zombies 26.5%, Open World Survival Craft 22.9% ★, Survival 20%, Crafting 7.7%, Co-op 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct sequel, it expands on the original's crafting and survival systems with improved multiplayer and base-building mechanics.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 34.7%, Survival 29.1%, Crafting 19.8%, Open World 7.1%, RPG 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the top-down exploration and crafting loop perfectly, allowing you to dismantle almost everything in the environment to survive.

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: Zombies 35.2%, Survival 27.6%, Co-op 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the zombie-survival experience by focusing on community management, base building, and scavenging in a hostile open world.

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 28.6% ★, Zombies 25.8%, Survival 23.2%, Online Co-Op 6%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive zombie survival game for players who enjoy deep crafting, base fortification, and intense combat.

Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.

Why similar: Zombies 22.1%, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Co-op 9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the isometric perspective and zombie-slaying focus, adding a unique mechanic where you can hack and control zombies to help you survive.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.4% ★, Survival 31.3%, Co-op 3.8%, Crafting 3%, Multiplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a challenging isometric survival experience with a heavy emphasis on crafting and co-op play.

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 24.7%, Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 11.2%, Multiplayer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A modern isometric survival game that emphasizes scavenging, base building, and avoiding zombie hordes.

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

Why similar: Zombies 39.8%, Survival 17.4%, Co-op 11.4%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Crafting 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the tropical island zombie-slaying vibe with a strong focus on melee combat and weapon crafting.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 33.4%, Crafting 20.5%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: While themed around vampires, its isometric combat, base building, and survival-crafting loop feel very similar to the core gameplay of the seed game.

'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 27.7% ★, Zombies 22.6%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Online Co-Op 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines intense zombie survival with complex base-building and trap-crafting mechanics to defend against nightly waves.

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 41.4%, Survival 26.9%, Open World 6%, Crafting 4.5%, Post-apocalyptic 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: The original open-world zombie survival game that established the genre's focus on base management and scavenging.

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: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 24.5%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 8.5%, Multiplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: It features an isometric perspective and a harsh survival environment that requires constant crafting and resource management to stay alive.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Survival 36.4%, Crafting 15.1%, Multiplayer 3.7%, Open World 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: The single-player foundation of the series, offering a punishing and rewarding isometric survival experience.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Online Co-Op 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel offers a deep, isometric survival experience with strong RPG elements and community management.

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 45.2% ★, Survival 24.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Co-op 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A pure island survival experience that focuses heavily on crafting, resource management, and overcoming the elements.

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: Zombies 25.8%, Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 9.6%, Multiplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A spin-off that shifts the perspective of the original game, offering a different way to experience the same survival mechanics.

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 46.1% ★, Survival 25.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Zombies 5.4%, Open World 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a visceral survival experience on an isolated island, focusing on crafting and defending against hostile threats.

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 37.5%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Survival 10.6%, Co-op 7.5%, Crafting 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the action-heavy side of zombie survival, featuring an extensive weapon-crafting system.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 14.9%, Co-op 11%, Online Co-Op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: While set underground, its isometric survival-crafting loop and co-op focus provide a very similar gameplay feel to the seed game.

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Why similar: Zombies 28.8%, Survival 21%, Crafting 15.2%, Co-op 11.5%, Multiplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A zombie survival game that blends simple graphics with surprisingly deep crafting, base building, and multiplayer mechanics.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 11.8%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Co-op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly rewarding survival and crafting loop that emphasizes exploration and co-op progression.

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 38.5% ★, Survival 23.2%, Zombies 21.1%, Crafting 6.8%, Open World 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the island-based survival and crafting theme, challenging players to scavenge and survive in a mysterious, hostile environment.

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 56%, Survival 30.9%, RPG 5.7%, Post-apocalyptic 3.8%, Open World 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical, isometric zombie survival RPG that focuses on managing a group of survivors and making difficult moral choices.

A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.

Why similar: Zombies 39.1%, Co-op 18.9%, Crafting 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.7%, Gore 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the visceral, melee-focused zombie combat and crafting theme in a highly polished, action-oriented package.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Zombies 27.9%, Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Survival 13.4%, Online Co-Op 6.8%, Survival Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: While first-person, it provides the ultimate zombie survival experience with parkour, crafting, and intense combat.

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 28%, Survival 22.6%, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Crafting 8%, Co-op 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The original isometric survival RPG that focuses on scavenging, crafting, and managing a small group of survivors.

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

Why similar: Zombies 36.3%, Survival 14.3%, Co-op 12%, Open World Survival Craft 8.7% ★, Multiplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A direct continuation of the first Dead Island, offering more of the same co-op zombie-slaying and crafting action.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 32.4%, Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Crafting 16.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Open World 5%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting, base building, and defending against other players.

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 39.8%, Zombies 35.1%, Open World 9.2%, Gore 5.3%, Crafting 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric survival game that pits players against zombies and anomalies in a harsh, post-Soviet open world.

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 46.4%, Survival 27.8%, Open World 6.1%, Post-apocalyptic 4.8%, Multiplayer 3.3%

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: Zombies 26.6%, Survival 24%, Crafting 11.6%, Co-op 7%, Multiplayer 6.1%

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 36.9% ★, Survival 20.3%, Zombies 19.6%, Crafting 6.9%, Multiplayer 4.9%

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 41.9% ★, Survival 22.6%, Zombies 9.8%, Crafting 7%, Multiplayer 5.4%

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: Zombies 36.5%, Survival 23.2%, Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 5.8%, Open World 5.4%

Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.

Why similar: Zombies 52.8%, Survival 21%, Gore 6.4%, Open World 4.3%, Multiplayer 3.3%

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 35.8%, Co-op 17.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Survival Horror 9.1%

You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!

Why similar: Zombies 31%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Co-op 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.1% ★, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Online Co-Op 6.9%, Multiplayer 5.4%

Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Zombies 22.2%, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 8.5%, Co-op 8%

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 31.4% ★, Zombies 26.2%, Survival 24.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 4.5%

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Zombies 20.2%, Survival 17%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 5.6%

Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.

Why similar: Survival 35.6%, Zombies 19.1%, Crafting 17.5%, Co-op 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%

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 32.4% ★, Zombies 21.8%, Survival 17%, Crafting 7.7%, Co-op 5.6%

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Zombies 18.4%, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 11.7%, Co-op 9%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Survival 23.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Co-op 5%

Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.6% ★, Survival 18.3%, Co-op 11.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 8.2%

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Zombies 31.3%, Survival 18.6%, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Open World 6.9%, Post-apocalyptic 5.9%

Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.

Why similar: Zombies 87.2%, Survival 5.7%, Co-op 2.8%, Multiplayer 1.8%, Online Co-Op 0.9%

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 33.8% ★, Zombies 21.4%, Survival 19.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Survival 21.8%, Crafting 17.3%, Multiplayer 4.6%, Open World 4.1%

As an ex-scientist on a mission, you find yourself in a toxic and infected island, where humans are no where to be seen. Build, explore and survive.

Why similar: Zombies 39.8%, Survival 28.3%, Crafting 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%, Action 3.8%

「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.6% ★, Zombies 20.1%, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 11%, Co-op 8.1%

Dead Maze is a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. Explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible, to survive the hostile environment and upgrade your gear and camp as you go.

Why similar: Zombies 38.1%, Survival 28.2%, Crafting 7%, Multiplayer 7%, Co-op 6.4%

Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Zombies 23.4%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Online Co-Op 6.3%

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 32.1% ★, Zombies 26.7%, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 7.9%, RPG 3%