Games Like Hurtworld

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 23%, Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It matches Hurtworld’s blend of fast progression, lethal PvP, base building, and constant raid pressure better than anything else on Steam.

An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 16.4%, FPS 12.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Deadside focuses on open-world survival shooting, loot runs, and player-versus-player tension in a way that feels very close to Hurtworld’s gunfight-first identity.

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 34.3% ★, Survival 16.7%, Open World 12.5%, FPS 12.1%, Crafting 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: SCUM delivers a similarly unforgiving PvP survival loop with base building, looting, and long-term character progression, though with more simulation depth.

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 42.5% ★, Survival 20.4%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Miscreated is a strong fit for Hurtworld players who want open-world scavenging, vehicles, base defense, and frequent firefights in a hostile multiplayer world.

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Why similar: Survival 28.7%, FPS 16.8%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%, PvP 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you liked Hurtworld’s punishing multiplayer survival and high-stakes encounters, DayZ offers an even harsher sandbox built around gear loss, roaming, and territorial danger.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Subsistence captures the tension of scraping together gear, building defensible bases, and surviving hostile players and wildlife in a harsh world.

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: Survival 20.9%, FPS 17.3%, Crafting 14.5%, Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its simpler visuals, Unturned nails the same server-based survival formula of looting, crafting, fortifying, and fighting other players for map control.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 10.2%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: The Front mixes survival crafting, firearms, vehicles, and base raiding in a persistent multiplayer sandbox that should appeal to Hurtworld’s competitive side.

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 31.3% ★, Survival 22.3%, Open World 11.6%, FPS 11%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more PvE-heavy by default, its open-world scavenging, crafting progression, fortification, and server-based survival create a familiar sandbox loop.

Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.2% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.2%, FPS 9%

Why You'll Like It: XERA: Survival emphasizes open-world looting, player threats, and base-building in a stripped-down survival shooter framework.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 12%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Once Human is a more modern spin on open-world survival shooting, with persistent bases, resource runs, and dangerous player conflict zones.

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 36.6%, Open World 22.1%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Crafting 11.7%, PvP 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival shooter leans heavily on scavenging, tense firefights, and faction-style hostility that Hurtworld fans often look for.

Hardcore open-world survival where preparation is everything. Scavenge, craft, fortify during the day. When night falls, the infected hunt in numbers. Play solo or with friends in a brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where survival is earned through smart decisions. How many Nights will you survive?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 19.7%, FPS 15.8%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on harsh survival, first-person scavenging, and defending what you build makes it a good pick if you liked Hurtworld’s punishment factor.

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 37.9% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Out of Reach offers the same appeal of building up from nothing, securing a base, and battling other players over resources in a persistent world.

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: Survival 31%, Open World 19.5%, Crafting 14.5%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: No One Survived focuses on first-person crafting, scavenging, and base setup in a grounded sandbox that shares Hurtworld’s survival fundamentals.

Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, FPS 15.3%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Will To Live Online blends survival systems, open-world exploration, and shooter combat in a dangerous multiplayer setting with constant risk.

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Survival 21.4%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Conan Exiles is less gun-focused, but its ruthless PvP servers, raiding, and base-building politics scratch a lot of the same sandbox survival itch.

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 39.2% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: ARK is broader and wilder, but its progression race, fortified bases, and PvP server drama overlap strongly with Hurtworld’s competitive survival loop.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Open World 18.7%, Crafting 13.9%, Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Last Oasis emphasizes clan warfare, mobile bases, and survival PvP, making it a good fit if your favorite Hurtworld moments were about competition and control.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9.9%, FPS 9.8%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: If you want Hurtworld’s survival-building loop scaled up with vehicles and large player-made structures, Empyrion is a solid next step.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 15.7%, Building 12.7%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Myth of Empires is a persistent survival sandbox where territory, crafting, and PvP conflict matter as much as moment-to-moment combat.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Survival 19.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 14%, PvP 7%

Why You'll Like It: Soulmask offers a modern survival-crafting sandbox with base building, progression, and PvP server play, even if its setting is more primal.

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: Survival 33.9%, Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Open World 23.6%, Co-op 3.1%, Shooter 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: SurrounDead leans more into scavenging and survival shooting, but the lonely open-world tension and gear-focused progression still line up well.

This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Citadel swaps guns for magic, but the open-world survival, construction, and multiplayer siege elements are structurally very similar.

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 50.2%, Open World 34.3%, Crafting 4.5%, First-Person 4.2%, Adventure 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: DESOLATE delivers first-person scavenging, survival pressure, and dangerous exploration in a hostile multiplayer-capable world.

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 29.9%, Open World 19.1%, Crafting 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Sons Of The Forest is more cooperative and horror-driven, but its first-person survival, building, and high-lethality feel may still appeal as a looser alternative.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.1%, FPS 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Sunkenland shares the loop of scavenging, crafting, building, and defending your shelter, though its PvP focus is lighter than Hurtworld’s.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 18.8%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: ICARUS is more session-based than persistent, but its crafting, environmental pressure, and base-building survival challenge can scratch a similar itch.

Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?

Why similar: Open World 21.9%, Survival 21.5%, Crafting 17.5%, Sandbox 11.7%, PvP 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Mortal Online 2 is much slower and more MMO-like, but its brutal full-loot PvP and unforgiving world echo Hurtworld’s hardcore mindset.

'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 31.9% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.7%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Night of the Dead emphasizes gathering, construction, and surviving escalating threats, which makes it a decent lower-ranked alternative.

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 40.8% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 9.7%, FPS 7%, Multiplayer 6.8%

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Building 8.5%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 8.7%

Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.8% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.8%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 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 39% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 9%, FPS 8.8%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11%, Building 9.3%

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Building 17.2%, Open World 15.5%, Crafting 15.5%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.9%, Building 9.4%

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 40.8% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%

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 40% ★, Survival 19.8%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 7.9%

Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 14.9%, FPS 12.3%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 9.1%

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 8%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Survival 19.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 11.3%, Building 9.4%

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 35.4% ★, Survival 27.1%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 5.3%

Free to play shooter about the confrontation of two irreconcilable sides, represented by the government military housings and the armed hirelings. Try your hand at virtual battles with off-scale dynamics and hurricane gameplay in the spirit of the classical shooters.

Why similar: FPS 45.1%, Multiplayer 23.3%, Survival 8.7%, Shooter 7.2%, First-Person 4.3%

Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.6%, FPS 10%, Open World 9.8%

ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.

Why similar: Survival 35.8%, Open World 16.7%, Multiplayer 13%, Crafting 10.2%, FPS 8.9%

A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?

Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Crafting 18.2%, FPS 16.3%, Open World 15%, Building 12%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.4%, Building 7.3%

Z1 Battle Royale is a Free to Play, fast-paced, action arcade, competitive Battle Royale. Staying true to its "King of the Kill" roots, the game has been revamped and restored to the classic feel, look, and gameplay everyone fell in love with. Play solo, duos, or fives and be the last ones standing.

Why similar: Survival 40.6%, Open World 16.3%, FPS 15.5%, Multiplayer 12.2%, PvP 7.1%

GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.2%

A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Sandbox 6.7%