- #1 Zelter
97% matchMixed48% of 1,973 reviews2020
Dev: G1 PlaygroundPub: SuperGG.com
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
Why similar: Voxel 24.7% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.1%
- #2 HumanitZ
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,745 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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%, Survival 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 12.4%
- #3 Junk Survivor
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 79 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Zombies 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Survival 13.1%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #4 7 Days to Die
95% matchVery Positive87% of 398,983 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Voxel 18.5% ★, Zombies 15.3%, Survival 12.3%, Tower Defense 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9%
- #5 Outbreak Island
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 959 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Sandbox 17.1%, Survival 16.4%, Zombies 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Building 12.8%
- #6 Crafting Dead
94% matchMixed57% of 158 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Why similar: Voxel 26% ★, Zombies 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Survival 12.1%, Survival Horror 9.9%
- #7 Gone: Survival
94% matchMixed44% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Zombies 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Building 14.9%, Survival 13.8%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #8 Night of the Dead
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,777 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'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: Tower Defense 17.3%, Zombies 17.2%, Building 11%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #9 VEIN
91% matchVery Positive89% of 10,178 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.
Why similar: Zombies 22.8%, Survival 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Open World 13.5%, Sandbox 10.1%
- #10 CleanFall
90% matchVery Positive93% of 477 reviews2025
Dev: Humanyoyo
Windows
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
Why similar: Tower Defense 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Procedural Generation 11.1%
- #11 No One Survived
89% matchMixed65% of 7,635 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 21.1%, Survival 17.2%, Open World 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Survival Horror 10.2%
- #12 Stay Alive: Apocalypse
91% matchMixed50% of 163 reviews2018
Dev: Mehan Games
Windows
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 27.2%, Survival 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Open World 10.7%, RPG 9.6%
- #13 Fallen Region
89% matchMixed41% of 194 reviews2020
Dev: WayUpGamesPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Zombies 20.2%, Survival 14.1%, Building 11.8%, Open World 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9%
- #14 DREADZONE
87% matchMixed52% of 1,186 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Zombies 22.5%, Survival 17.6%, Building 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Open World 14.9%
- #15 SurrounDead
85% matchVery Positive92% of 24,675 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 33.6%, Survival 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Open World 15.6%, Third Person 5%
- #16 LifeZ - Survival
86% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Zombies 30%, Survival 19.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Open World 7.2%
- #17 ZED ZONE
84% matchVery Positive80% of 3,556 reviews2023
Dev: Leven LiuPub: INDIECN
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Zombies 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 12.8%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 12.1%
- #18 Dead Matter
86% matchMostly Negative21% of 885 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Why similar: Zombies 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 11.2%
- #19 Project Zomboid
83% matchVery Positive94% of 449,478 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.5 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: Zombies 26.8%, Survival 19.9%, Open World 11.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
- #20 State of Decay
84% matchVery Positive85% of 17,512 reviews2013
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 33.5%, Survival 18%, Open World 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #21 Survival Machine
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 687 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Zombies 32.5%, Tower Defense 31.9%, Survival 18.6%, Third Person 12.9%, Adventure 4.1%
- #22 Taora : Survival
82% matchMixed61% of 405 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.5%, Building 21.9%, Survival 21%, Open World 12%, Third Person 9.5%
- #23 SmallZ
82% matchMixed47% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: skins.dog
Windows
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
Why similar: Building 23.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Survival 16.3%, Third Person 13.7%, Open World 12.6%
- #24 Vorax
81% matchMixed62% of 135 reviews2024
Dev: IndieGala
Windows
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
Why similar: Zombies 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Survival 11.8%, Building 11.7%
- #25 Zompiercer
78% matchVery Positive89% of 4,281 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Zombies 27%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Sandbox 18.1%, Survival 14%, Open World 12.6%
- #26 Adventure Craft
79% matchVery Positive82% of 225 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: Building 17.4%, Sandbox 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 14.1%, Procedural Generation 13.8%
- #27 Blood Night
76% matchVery Positive96% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: Team
Windows
(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.
Why similar: Zombies 28%, Building 19%, Survival 16.1%, Procedural Generation 10.9%, Open World 10.4%
- #28 INCUR Survival
78% matchVery Positive82% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
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: Zombies 28.1%, Building 21.1%, Survival 16.2%, Open World 13.1%, Third Person 8.4%
- #29 Terminus: Zombie Survivors
75% matchVery Positive94% of 4,414 reviews2024
Dev: Longplay Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Zombies 26.8%, Survival 17%, Sandbox 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Roguelike 11.6%
- #30 Urge
77% matchVery Positive90% of 495 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Building 16.6%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Sandbox 15.1%, Survival 13.7%
- #31 Crushed
79% matchMixed54% of 311 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: Survival 16.5%, Zombies 16.2%, Building 15%, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 13.9%
- #32 Plains of Pain
76% matchVery Positive84% of 749 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Procedural Generation 17.7%, Sandbox 17.4%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 13.6%
- #33 Dread Dawn
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,215 reviews2024
Dev: Kioop
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.
Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Survival 13.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 10.2%
- #34 Zombie Survival Game Online
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 307 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
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: Zombies 29.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Building 17.9%, Survival 17.8%, Open World 12.2%
- #35 Shadows of Kurgansk
77% matchMixed66% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Yadon StudioPub: Gaijin inCubator
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
“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 25.6%, Survival 20.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 8.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%
- #36 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
74% matchVery Positive81% of 1,009 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Why similar: Zombies 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Survival 13.8%, Building 11%, Survival Horror 9.8%
- #37 Remain
73% matchVery Negative18% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: XTop Game
Windows
Remain is an MMO game. Within this open world, you can tame "zombies", making them your labor force, or commanding them to fight your foes. Apart from zombies, you will still have to face the survival challenges of food and water. Remaining warriors, don't let your guard down, and keep surviving...
Why similar: Building 24.5%, Survival 21%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Open World 19.2%, RPG 6.5%
- #38 The Infected
72% matchVery Positive84% of 6,929 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Building 16.7%, Zombies 16.7%, Survival 14.1%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 12.8%
- #39 State of Decay: YOSE
73% matchVery Positive82% of 12,928 reviews2015
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 32.9%, Survival 19.2%, Open World 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Survival Horror 5.4%
- #40 Fargone
72% matchMixed69% of 584 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: Building 17.9%, Sandbox 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 10.9%
- #41 Survival: Lost Way
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 291 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Survival 22.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Survival Horror 18%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 8.5%
- #42 Lucid Blocks
67% matchVery Positive94% of 3,918 reviews2026
Dev: Lucy B. Locks
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Explore, build, and survive in a cryptic expanse oozing with dreamlike oddities and esoteric critters.
Why similar: Voxel 34.1% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Open World 11.6%, Building 11.4%, Procedural Generation 10.8%
- #43 iZolated
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 118 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Zombies 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Sandbox 15.9%, Procedural Generation 14%, Open World 11.6%
- #44 Soviet Survival
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Zombies 25.3%, Survival 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Sandbox 14%, Open World 12.9%
- #45 Dead Engine
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 131 reviews2026
Dev: Chocolate Dungeon GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.
Why similar: Zombies 30.9%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 14.1%, Roguelike 13.2%
- #46 Megacraft Hentai Survival
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 332 reviews2021
Dev: Boom Team
Windows
Megacraft Hentai Survival is an open-world shooter where you decide where to go and what to do, your fate is in your hands. How long can you survive in a cubic post-Apocalypse?
Why similar: Zombies 20.8%, Voxel 16.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #47 Herd is Coming
71% matchMixed68% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Proximity Games
Windows
"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: Zombies 23.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Survival 13.6%, Open World 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #48 Lost Existence
70% matchMixed70% of 66 reviews2021
Dev: Lurid Spectre Games
Windows
Explore vast, forgotten lands, cryptic abandoned ruins, and mysterious caverns, in this open-world voxel action-RPG. Create your own uniquely crafted class. Build multiplayer dungeon, PvP, or siege experiences. Run, vault, and leap effortlessly across endless wilderness, or delve deep underground.
Why similar: Voxel 28.3% ★, Destruction 20.2%, Building 12.3%, RPG 11.5%, Sandbox 10.9%
- #49 Survivalist
69% matchVery Positive80% of 2,566 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 28.6%, Survival 20.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Open World 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #50 Machine Mind
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 479 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Tower Defense 22.8%, Building 14.9%, Survival 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Sandbox 12.5%
- #51 Dead District: Survival
69% matchMixed48% of 472 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Zombies 21.2%, Survival 20.1%, Sandbox 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Open World 11.6%
- #52 Taora : Beginning
66% matchVery Positive87% of 2,235 reviews2023
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, Zombies 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 10.1%
- #53 Lifeless
71% matchMostly Negative38% of 554 reviews2016
Dev: Desync Donkeys
Windows
Immerse yourself in the post-apocalyptic co-op world of Lifeless, where base building and crafting are key. Collect weapons, gear, and food as you embark on thrilling missions to level up in a vast open world. But stay alert—relentless zombies lurk around every corner!
Why similar: Zombies 50.9%, Survival 25.6%, Open World 10.7%, Action 7.8%, First-Person 5%
- #54 Mist Survival
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,117 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Zombies 31.5%, Survival 26.5%, Open World 16.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Survival Horror 7.5%
- #55 Polygeddon
67% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
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 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 13.2%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 11.2%
- #56 30 days to survive
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: HeXPub: Laush Studio
Windows
"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: Zombies 25.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Procedural Generation 16.2%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 12%
- #57 Once Human
64% matchMostly Positive78% of 172,686 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.2%, Survival 23%, Open World 18.8%, Third Person 14%, RPG 9.1%