Games Like How to Survive

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 26.8%, Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 7.4%, Co-op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel expands on the original's isometric survival mechanics with improved base building and deeper multiplayer integration.

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 26.8%, Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Survival 21.9%, Crafting 6.1%, Co-op 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most comprehensive isometric zombie survival experience, featuring incredibly deep crafting, health management, and base-building systems.

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 35%, Survival 29.1%, Crafting 19.3%, Open World 7.3%, RPG 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game captures the satisfying loop of scavenging and crafting while allowing you to destroy almost everything in the environment.

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 56.1% ★, Survival 31%, Co-op 3.7%, Crafting 2.9%, Multiplayer 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric survival game shares the focus on resource gathering, crafting, and cooperative play in a hostile, unforgiving 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 29.1% ★, Zombies 26.1%, Survival 23.1%, Multiplayer 5.6%, Online Co-Op 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for zombie survival crafting, offering extensive base building and environmental interaction that complements the survival loop.

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: Zombies 48.7%, Survival 24%, Crafting 8.1%, RPG 7.4%, Post-apocalyptic 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strong precursor to its sequel, this game focuses on party management and survival choices within a zombie-infested isometric landscape.

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 22.5%, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 9.2%, Co-op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric action-survival game that features zombie-taming mechanics and crafting, fitting the exact niche of the seed game.

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Why similar: Survival 47.7%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Open World 12.2%, RPG 10%, Action 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: While more horror-focused, its top-down perspective and intense survival-scavenging gameplay provide a similar sense of dread and resource management.

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 35.8%, Survival 27.6%, Co-op 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Open World 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at the community-management aspect of zombie survival, forcing players to balance base resources and character safety.

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: Zombies 29.4%, Survival 21.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Co-op 11.2%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A accessible zombie survival game that emphasizes crafting, base building, and multiplayer cooperation in an open world.

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 46.7% ★, Survival 24.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Zombies 5.4%, Open World 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the island-survival theme perfectly, requiring players to craft tools and shelters to survive against hostile inhabitants.

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 28.4%, Survival 22.4%, Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Crafting 7.8%, Co-op 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This isometric RPG-survival hybrid focuses on building a community and managing resources in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 39.9%, Crafting 23.3%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Open World 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10%

Why You'll Like It: Though thematic differences exist, its isometric combat and complex crafting/base-building systems feel very similar to the core loop of How to Survive.

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 41.7%, Survival 26.6%, Open World 6.1%, Crafting 4.4%, Post-apocalyptic 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The original game that defined the modern zombie survival management genre, focusing on base building and character survival.

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 38.9% ★, Survival 24.5%, Crafting 9%, Co-op 8.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric survival game that challenges players to craft, hunt, and explore a frozen wilderness while managing hunger and cold.

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 46% ★, Survival 23.9%, Crafting 12%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Co-op 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the island-survival experience, requiring players to scavenge shipwrecks and craft tools to survive.

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 40.4%, Survival 17.3%, Co-op 11.1%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Crafting 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the tropical island setting and heavy focus on melee-based zombie combat and weapon crafting.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 22.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Online Co-Op 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a hardcore survival experience that emphasizes realistic crafting and resource management in a dangerous, isolated environment.

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 37.9%, Open World Survival Craft 17.1% ★, Survival 10.5%, Co-op 7.3%, Crafting 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features an open world filled with zombies and a heavy emphasis on creative weapon crafting and action.

HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Zombies 25.3%, Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric open-world survival game that pits players against zombies and the elements in a classic survival format.

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 36.8%, Survival 14.2%, Co-op 11.7%, Open World Survival Craft 8.6% ★, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A direct follow-up that maintains the island-based zombie survival and co-op action gameplay of the original.

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 28.3%, Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 6.4%, Survival Horror 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: While first-person, it is a premier zombie survival game that emphasizes crafting weapons and navigating a dangerous open world.

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 38.9% ★, Survival 22.8%, Zombies 21.4%, Crafting 6.4%, Open World 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on exploration and crafting on a mysterious island, mirroring the isolation and survival themes of the seed game.

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 37.4% ★, Survival 20.1%, Zombies 19.7%, Crafting 6.7%, Multiplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that features a post-apocalyptic world filled with mutants and environmental hazards.

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 27.2%, Survival 24.4%, Crafting 11.5%, Co-op 6.7%, Multiplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes base building and managing needs while dealing with zombie threats.

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 42.5% ★, Survival 22.4%, Zombies 9.8%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that emphasizes resource gathering and base construction in a dangerous, zombie-filled world.

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 31.5%, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 12.6%, Co-op 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric zombie survival game that incorporates RPG elements and base defense, closely mirroring the seed game's structure.

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 53.2%, Survival 20.6%, Gore 6.6%, Open World 4.4%, Third Person 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A spin-off that focuses on the mystery of the island, incorporating survival and action elements in a zombie-infested setting.

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 46.7%, Survival 27.6%, Open World 6.2%, Post-apocalyptic 4.7%, Multiplayer 3.2%

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 39% ★, Survival 36.2%, Crafting 14.6%, Multiplayer 3.7%, Open World 2.7%

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 36.1%, Survival 23.3%, Open World Survival Craft 18.8% ★, Open World 5.6%, Post-apocalyptic 5.6%

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 25.9%, Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 4.2%

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 44.9% ★, Survival 23.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Multiplayer 6%, Open World 5%

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 25%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%

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 39.4%, Zombies 35.4%, Open World 9.4%, Gore 5.3%, Crafting 3.5%

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 43.9% ★, Survival 21.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Online Co-Op 6.5%, Multiplayer 5.2%

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 31.9% ★, Zombies 26.3%, Survival 24.2%, Crafting 7.6%, Open World 4.5%

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 26.5% ★, Zombies 22.4%, Survival 14.6%, Crafting 8.2%, Co-op 8%

Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Co-op 14.8%, Multiplayer 9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 16.8%, Multiplayer 4.5%, Open World 4.2%

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 35.7%, Zombies 19.5%, Crafting 17.2%, Co-op 7.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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 32%, Survival 18.5%, Open World Survival Craft 16.9% ★, Open World 7.1%, 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 87.5%, Survival 5.7%, Co-op 2.7%, Multiplayer 1.7%, Online Co-Op 0.9%

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Zombies 20.5%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 5.3%

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 34.4% ★, Zombies 21.6%, Survival 19.1%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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 28.3% ★, Crafting 16.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Open World 5.1%

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 36.5% ★, Survival 18.4%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 7.7%

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 45.8% ★, Survival 22.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 5.6%, 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 40.1%, Survival 28.3%, Crafting 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Action 3.9%

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 38.7%, Survival 28.2%, Crafting 6.9%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Co-op 6.2%

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 33% ★, Zombies 26.7%, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 7.6%, RPG 3%

Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

Why similar: Zombies 44.6%, Survival 17.9%, Co-op 11.8%, Local Co-Op 8.9%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%

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 28% ★, Zombies 23.7%, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 11.8%, Online Co-Op 5.9%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 23%, Crafting 11.5%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Co-op 6.2%

"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Zombies 24.6%, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 5.4%

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 33% ★, Zombies 22%, Survival 16.9%, Crafting 7.5%, Co-op 5.4%