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 22.2% ★, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Hurtworld, it revolves around open-world survival, fast gun progression, base building, and ruthless PvP raiding on contested servers.

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 30.1% ★, Survival 18%, FPS 13.7%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest modern matches, blending FPS gunplay, looting, base building, and PvP-heavy map control in a streamlined survival 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 33.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 12.4%, FPS 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers hardcore survival systems, persistent multiplayer servers, and deadly PvP with an even bigger emphasis on realism and long-term character management.

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% ★, Survival 20.6%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Hurtworld's mix of open-world scavenging, vehicle travel, base building, and constant danger from armed rival players.

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 16.6%, Open World 14.1%, Multiplayer 9.8%, PvP 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly unforgiving multiplayer survival sandbox where every resource run and player encounter can turn into a lethal firefight.

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 29.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Open World 9.1%, FPS 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Another PvP survival sandbox centered on gearing up, base building, and defending yourself against other players across an open map.

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: Survival 28.3%, Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Open World 14.6%, Multiplayer 10.7%, FPS 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This leans into post-apocalyptic online survival with exploration, gunfights, and progression in a dangerous shared world.

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: Survival 20.9%, FPS 17%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 14%, Multiplayer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its simple visuals, it captures the same loop of looting, crafting, fortifying bases, and surviving ambush-heavy PvP servers.

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 32.6% ★, Survival 19.7%, FPS 15.7%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on tense first-person survival, scavenging, fortification, and high-risk multiplayer encounters in a persistent world.

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 31.7% ★, Survival 15.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.1%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival crafting, firearms, vehicles, and territory-focused base warfare in a way that strongly echoes Hurtworld's competitive sandbox feel.

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% ★, Survival 22.4%, Open World 11.5%, FPS 10.9%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is more zombie-focused, yet the first-person crafting, building, scavenging, and server-based survival loop are very adjacent.

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 37.4% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes open-world survival, building, and player-versus-player base conflict, just with a pirate-era twist instead of a modern wasteland.

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 38.3% ★, Survival 17.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It recreates the punishing early-game survival pressure and base progression, even if its combat is usually less PvP-centric than Hurtworld's.

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 40.3% ★, Survival 19.4%, Open World 9.7%, FPS 7%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Another harsh online survival game where scavenging, building, and surviving other players drive the experience.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strong pick if you liked the building, raiding, and territorial multiplayer side of Hurtworld and do not mind melee-heavy combat.

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 36.5%, Open World 21.8%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Crafting 11.9%, PvP 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival with looting, crafting, and gunfights in an open map full of threats.

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: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Survival 19.1%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 9.9%, PvP 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It adds supernatural PvE to the formula, but its open-world base building, looting, and online survival structure line up well with Hurtworld.

The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.

Why similar: Survival 34.2%, Open World 22%, Multiplayer 16%, FPS 15.1%, PvP 5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same harsh looting-and-fighting rhythm if what you want most is survival shooter tension and hostile player encounters.

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 38.7% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers large-scale survival crafting, clan warfare, and defensible bases, though with creatures and tech tiers instead of a grounded shooter setting.

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 36.4% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Best if the appeal was the brutal sandbox survival, player-built settlements, and large-scale PvP rather than the FPS gunplay specifically.

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 30.7%, Open World 19.1%, Crafting 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It fits players who want more crafting, scavenging, and first-person survival systems, though it is less competitive than Hurtworld.

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 32.4% ★, Survival 15.6%, Crafting 12%, Open World 10.9%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It hits the familiar notes of scavenging, crafting, building, and trying to hold your ground in a hostile open world.

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 40.7% ★, Survival 19.4%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: Similar for its persistent survival sandbox structure, base construction, and multiplayer competition, even if it is more sci-fi and less grounded.

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 40.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival craft game with base building, exploration, and hostile multiplayer pressure on a sci-fi planet.

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% ★, Survival 17.3%, Crafting 9.5%, FPS 8%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: It features resource runs, building, and multiplayer survival in a dangerous open world, though it leans more toward co-op and exploration than PvP.

Stay Out - is a MMORPG with shooter elements, based on spirit of “stalking” - an urban exploration, searching and exploring mysterious, abandoned and forgotten by humanity pieces of our planet.

Why similar: Survival 30.9%, Open World 23.4%, Multiplayer 16%, PvP 12.5%, Shooter 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It feels like a STALKER-flavored online survival shooter with scavenging, PvP danger, and a bleak persistent world.

Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11.6%, Building 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep survival crafting, base growth, and multiplayer sandbox conflict, but with a more tribal and third-person focus.

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 21.4%, Survival 21.4%, Crafting 17.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, PvP 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades shooter combat for a full-loot hardcore MMO sandbox, but matches Hurtworld's punishing PvP and territory-driven survival mentality.

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 31.7% ★, Survival 15%, FPS 12.2%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A lower-profile survival crafting option that still offers the same broad loop of gathering, building, and fighting to stay established.

Explore, adapt, and survive in Undawn, a free-to-play open-world survival RPG for mobile and PC developed by LightSpeed Studios and published by Level Infinite. Embark on an adventure with other survivors four years after a worldwide disaster where hordes of infected roam a shattered world.

Why similar: Survival 25.7%, Open World 20%, Crafting 15.3%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A lighter, more accessible open-world survival shooter that still mixes firearms, multiplayer exploration, and base development.

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 34.3% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 8.6%

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 38.6% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.2%, FPS 8.8%

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 46.2% ★, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.9%

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 18.3%, Crafting 14.1%, Building 11.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%

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: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 11.2%, Building 9.4%

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 28.7% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.8%, Building 9.5%

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 39.5% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 8.1%

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 37.2% ★, Survival 17.4%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 7.7%

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 17.1%, Crafting 15.7%, Open World 15.3%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 9%, Open World 8.9%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 9.4%, Building 7.3%

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 26.1% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 10.8%, FPS 9.9%, Open World 9.7%

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% ★, Survival 27.2%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Multiplayer 9.4%

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 39.2% ★, Survival 27.2%, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 3.7%

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 50.5%, Open World 33.8%, Crafting 4.6%, First-Person 4.3%, Adventure 2.6%

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 31.1% ★, Survival 20%, Crafting 14.4%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.3%

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 36.9% ★, Survival 16%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 11%, Open World 10.9%

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 45.9% ★, Survival 21.7%, Open World 14.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 5.5%

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 18.5%, FPS 16%, Open World 14.8%, Building 12%

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 37.6% ★, Survival 17.7%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Sandbox 6.9%

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 44.7%, Multiplayer 23.7%, Survival 8.7%, Shooter 7.1%, First-Person 4.4%

Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 13.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Open World 8.7%

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 36.3% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 12%, Open World 11.1%