Games Like How To Survive: Third Person Standalone

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

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: The original isometric predecessor that shares the exact same crafting and 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: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Zombies 24.6%, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 7.2%, Multiplayer 6%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel that expands on the original's crafting and base-building systems with improved multiplayer.

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 33.4%, Survival 27.1%, Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Co-op 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, third-person zombie survival experience with a heavy focus on base management and community building.

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 31.8% ★, Zombies 24.4%, Survival 22.7%, Open World 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines voxel-based building with intense zombie survival, perfect for those who enjoy the crafting and fortification aspects of the seed game.

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 25.9% ★, Zombies 24.9%, Survival 21.4%, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most complex and realistic survival simulation in a zombie-infested world, emphasizing long-term planning and resource gathering.

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 25.7%, Open World Survival Craft 16.3% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a narrative-driven third-person experience centered on motorcycle traversal and surviving massive zombie hordes.

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 37.6%, Survival 25.3%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 4.9%, Third Person 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational title for the series, offering a gritty, third-person perspective on managing a group of survivors in a zombie apocalypse.

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 27.7%, Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features high-octane parkour-based combat and exploration in a sprawling, zombie-infested open world.

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 33.3%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 9.7%, Open World Survival Craft 9.4% ★, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the melee-focused zombie action with expanded survival mechanics and co-op gameplay.

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 23.3%, Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that captures the scavenging and crafting loop of the seed game with a modern aesthetic.

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 37.2%, Survival 16.9%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Co-op 6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on visceral, melee-heavy combat against zombies in a tropical open-world setting.

'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 29.3% ★, Zombies 20.3%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world survival with tower-defense mechanics, requiring players to craft traps to survive nightly zombie assaults.

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 45.2% ★, Survival 21.7%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Zombies 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on mutants rather than zombies, it offers a premier open-world survival and crafting experience with a strong emphasis on base building.

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 32% ★, Zombies 22.7%, Survival 22%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A single-player focused survival game that emphasizes stealth and base fortification against both zombies and environmental threats.

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 32.6%, Survival 21.5%, Open World Survival Craft 18.8% ★, Open World 11.5%, Third Person 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore single-player survival experience that focuses on scavenging, looting, and managing resources in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

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 26.3%, Survival 22%, Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: An indie gem that blends RPG elements, base management, and zombie survival in a unique, stylized world.

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 39.1% ★, Survival 19%, Zombies 17.7%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes scavenging and player interaction in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 30.5% ★, Zombies 17.2%, Survival 15%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed survival simulation with complex metabolism and crafting systems in a large-scale open world.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 21.3%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an intense survival experience where managing health, nutrition, and crafting is paramount to surviving a hostile environment.

METAL GEAR SURVIVE builds upon MGSV’s stealth action gameplay with elements of exploration and survival creating a bold new experience. *An internet connection is required to play the game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Zombies 21.3%, Survival 18%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique blend of base building, resource management, and tactical combat against crystalline zombie-like creatures.

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 43.1%, Survival 17.7%, Third Person 8.8%, Open World 8.3%, Gore 7%

Why You'll Like It: A spin-off title that offers a more linear, narrative-driven take on the Dead Island zombie survival formula.

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 25.1%, Survival 23.5%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 11.1%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A modern survival game that focuses on realistic crafting and base building in a dangerous, zombie-filled 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 38.8% ★, Survival 20.6%, Zombies 18.1%, Open World 6%, Crafting 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival adventure that tasks players with crafting and exploring to uncover the secrets of a mysterious island.

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 32.9%, Zombies 28.1%, Open World 17.3%, Gore 5.6%, Horror 5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival horror game that emphasizes exploration and crafting in a mysterious, hostile environment.

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 28.3%, Survival 21.4%, Crafting 15%, Open World 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play survival game that features a distinct art style while providing deep crafting and multiplayer survival mechanics.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Survival 19.1%, Crafting 14.7%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on gathering resources and building a base in a procedurally generated world.

Merging the smash hit indie game The Escapists with the world wide phenomenon that is The Walking Dead, Team17 have taken the very best of both worlds and are now providing players with the opportunity to play Rick Grimes as he takes on hordes of zombies let loose upon the world.

Why similar: Zombies 45.9%, Survival 23.7%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A clever crossover that applies the familiar Escapists crafting and survival loop to a zombie-themed setting.

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 34% ★, Zombies 24%, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 7.2%, Open World 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival game that emphasizes gathering, crafting, and defending against zombie threats.

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 40.5%, Survival 25.1%, Open World 12.5%, Third Person 5.4%, Multiplayer 4%

Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...

Why similar: Zombies 40.3%, Survival 13.3%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Co-op 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the action-oriented side of zombie survival, allowing for creative weapon crafting and mass zombie destruction.

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 34.1%, Open World Survival Craft 18% ★, Survival 10%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 5.3%

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 29.1%, Survival 19.4%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 8.9%

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 44.3% ★, Survival 21.1%, Zombies 8.8%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.8%

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 39.6%, Open World 18.5%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Co-op 4.7%

A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Zombies 21.2%, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 7.6%

Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Zombies 23.3%, Survival 15%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%

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 34.8% ★, Zombies 19.9%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 7%, Multiplayer 6.6%

“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!

Why similar: Zombies 32%, Survival 29.2%, Crafting 13.6%, RPG 6.2%, Open World 5.4%

DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person survival horror game that recreates the mood of iconic titles from the '90s, with a fresh storyline. An incident that turns a small town into a deadly zone, three characters to play with and little time to find the truth, before its mutated citizens abruptly end your mission.

Why similar: Zombies 39.2%, Survival 14%, Third Person 9%, Third-Person Shooter 7.1%, Survival Horror 6.8%

Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world

Why similar: Zombies 26.7%, Survival 21.8%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Zombies 24.1%, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.9%

Last Whisper Survival is a cooperative zombie survival game where exploration of the open world is key. As you venture further, you'll need to upgrade your gear and level up your character and skill tree to handle the increasing challenges as you move through the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Zombies 19%, Survival 16.1%, Third Person 8.6%, Open World 7.1%

Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 21%, Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 8.2%, Open World 7.5%

In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.

Why similar: Zombies 27.8%, Survival 18%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 10.9%, Gore 5.3%

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 23%, Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Survival 14.9%, Crafting 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.7%

"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 29.9% ★, Zombies 21.8%, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 8%

London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.

Why similar: Zombies 45.4%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6%, Survival Horror 4.2%

You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 34.3%, Survival 24.9%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, RPG 7.7%

"Herd is Coming" is a survival RPG set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. It's the story of Mike who's survived for 10 years since the outbreak.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Zombies 23.9%, Survival 16%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 10%

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 27.6% ★, Zombies 20%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.7%

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 31.6% ★, Zombies 17.7%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 7.9%

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: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.2%, Third Person 4.1%

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 31.9% ★, Zombies 23.1%, Survival 16%, Crafting 12%, Open World 7.3%

Have you ever thought or imagined how our world would look like after an apocalyptic event? What would we do if some of us were to survive? What world would we live in and what challenges would we face? What would you do?

Why similar: Zombies 43.6%, Survival 23.6%, Open World 9.4%, RPG 7%, Adventure 4.9%

Dead Effect 2 is the newest addition to the acclaimed Dead Effect franchise. This action sci-fi shooter is looking to push the boundaries of first-person shooters to new levels with slick graphics, rich narrative and RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 38.2%, Survival 21%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Co-op 8.5%, Gore 5.6%

The Gold River Project™ invites you and your friends on an open world camping trip gone wrong. Alone or together, you must explore, craft, build, and survive the increasingly harsh environments of the Pacific Northwest wilderness as you uncover the experiment trapping you inside.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Third Person 8.5%