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 23.1%, Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh resource grind, player-built bases, raiding, emergent alliances, and high-stakes first-person gunfights make it the closest overall alternative.

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 27.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, FPS 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world survival shooter emphasizes grounded gunplay, looting, bases, missions, and dangerous PvP encounters in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 34.4% ★, Survival 16.7%, Open World 12.6%, FPS 12.2%, Crafting 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: SCUM offers a punishing multiplayer survival sandbox with deep character management, loot-driven PvP, base building, and tactical firearms.

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 32.4% ★, Survival 15.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.3%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The Front mixes open-world crafting, fortification building, raids, vehicles, and PvP shooting in a format very familiar to Hurtworld players.

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 42.6% ★, Survival 20.4%, Open World 11.9%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Crafting 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its bleak post-apocalyptic map, survival needs, scavenging, vehicles, base building, and tense player encounters closely match Hurtworld's atmosphere.

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 28.8%, FPS 16.9%, Open World 14.5%, Multiplayer 9.6%, PvP 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: DayZ delivers an even more unforgiving social survival experience where scarce supplies, player encounters, and gunfights determine every expedition.

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 31.4% ★, Survival 22.3%, Open World 11.6%, FPS 11%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival-crafting sandbox pairs scavenging and customizable base defense with multiplayer combat and a constant pressure to prepare for dangerous attacks.

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 21%, FPS 17.4%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 14.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its simpler visuals, Unturned has extensive multiplayer survival servers, building, vehicles, loot runs, raiding, and accessible FPS combat.

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 27.1% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 10%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Once Human provides shared-world crafting, base construction, shooting, exploration, and optional competitive zones with a more structured sci-fi progression loop.

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 38.1% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.7%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Out of Reach is a multiplayer survival sandbox centered on gathering, crafting, building defended settlements, sailing, and fighting for resources.

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 29.3% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 11%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Renown shifts the setting to medieval warfare but retains hardcore survival, crafting, fort building, territory conflict, and player-driven raiding.

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines persistent online survival, base construction, resource competition, vehicle travel, and PvP-focused contested regions in a hostile open world.

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 18.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Building 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its nomadic survival world emphasizes clan warfare, mobile bases, crafting, resource control, and PvP battles over valuable territory.

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 38.8% ★, Survival 17.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Subsistence offers first-person resource gathering, base construction, hunting, and survival management with multiplayer support, albeit with less PvP emphasis.

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 33.1% ★, FPS 15.4%, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Will To Live Online offers a persistent first-person survival MMO built around scavenging, crafting, hostile zones, mutants, and player conflict.

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 30.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.2%, FPS 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: XERA: Survival is a free-to-play multiplayer survival shooter with open-world looting, base construction, AI threats, and PvP encounters.

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 31.7% ★, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 14.1%, PvP 7%

Why You'll Like It: Soulmask features open-world survival, clan management, crafting, fortification building, and competitive multiplayer systems with a deeper settlement focus.

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 15.9%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Survive the Nights emphasizes realistic multiplayer survival, scavenging, fortifying buildings, crafting supplies, and enduring zombie-filled nights.

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 39.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: ARK shares Hurtworld's open-world gathering, construction, tribe politics, raiding, and PvP stakes, with creature taming adding another strategic layer.

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 40.9% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Fragmented is a sci-fi open-world survival game with crafting, player-made structures, hostile environments, and multiplayer combat.

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 37.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Building 12.7%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This large-scale multiplayer sandbox revolves around gathering, building fortresses, forming guilds, waging sieges, and controlling territory.

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 35% ★, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: ICARUS provides demanding first-person survival, gathering, construction, harsh environmental threats, and co-op expeditions, though it is more PvE-oriented.

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 30.1%, Open World 19.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world first-person survival, crafting, defensive building, scavenging, and co-op exploration make it a strong fit for players who enjoy Hurtworld's survival loop.

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 40.1% ★, Survival 19.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Green Hell captures the punishing first-person survival side of Hurtworld through demanding crafting, injuries, hunger, shelter building, and co-op play.

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 27.1%, Open World 20.2%, Crafting 15.5%, Building 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: While viewed from above, V Rising has a similarly compelling loop of resource gathering, base building, progression, raids, and PvP server competition.

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 31.2% ★, Survival 25.5%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Project Zomboid is a more simulation-heavy multiplayer survival sandbox where careful scavenging, construction, vehicles, and player cooperation or conflict matter greatly.

Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.

Why similar: Open World 29.6%, Survival 27.6%, Multiplayer 19.3%, FPS 13.6%, Co-op 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Fallout 76 combines online exploration, scavenging, shooting, CAMP construction, public events, and optional PvP in a persistent post-apocalyptic world.

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 40.9% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 9.8%, FPS 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%

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 35% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 8.5%

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 20.9%, Building 17.1%, Open World 15.7%, Crafting 15.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%

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 46.9% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.7%

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 37% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Building 8.7%

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 36.7%, Open World 22.2%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Crafting 11.6%, PvP 4.2%

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 41.3% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 6.8%

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 33.6% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 39.1% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 10.4%, FPS 8.9%, Crafting 8.9%

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 11.6%, Open World 11%, Building 9.2%

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 40.1% ★, Survival 19.8%, Open World 10.9%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 7.8%

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 32.1% ★, Survival 14.9%, FPS 12.4%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9%

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 12.5%, Open World 11.4%, Building 9.3%

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 41.1% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.5%

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 37.8% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Crafting 7.5%

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 45.4%, Multiplayer 23%, Survival 8.7%, Shooter 7.3%, First-Person 4.3%

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 46.6% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 15%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Crafting 5.3%

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 26.6% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.5%, FPS 10.1%, Open World 9.9%

In the anarchic world of Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare, only the mightiest warlord rules. Start with a pistol and a few militias, you will set yourself on a wild and ambitious journey towards world domination. Enjoy the immersive combination of intense FPS and sandbox strategy.

Why similar: FPS 39.3%, Open World 25.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Shooter 8.5%, First-Person 4.8%

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 31.7% ★, Survival 19.9%, Crafting 14%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%

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 38.2% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Sandbox 6.7%

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 24.2%, Crafting 18%, FPS 16.4%, Open World 15.1%, Building 11.9%

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 35.6% ★, Survival 27.2%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Multiplayer 9.1%

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 36.9% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 12%, Building 11.8%, Open World 11.3%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Survival 15.9%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10.9%

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 30.6% ★, Open World 23.6%, Co-op 3.1%, Shooter 2.6%