- #1 Night of the Dead
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,782 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.9% ★, Hunting 20.5% ★, Zombies 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival Horror 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It features a very similar core loop of scavenging during the day and defending against massive waves of zombies at night.
- #2 7 Days to Die
96% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 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: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Zombies 17.4%, Base Building 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive survival experience that perfectly mirrors the day-to-day scavenging and night-time base defense loop found in IfSunSets.
- #3 Sunkenland
96% matchVery Positive81% of 23,216 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 30.3% ★, Underwater 22.1% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Co-op 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a similar survival-crafting loop with a focus on base fortification and scavenging in a dangerous world.
- #4 The Forest
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 670,097 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59.1% ★, Open World 14.5%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Sandbox 6%, Zombies 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: This survival horror game excels at combining base building with terrifying, intelligent monster threats in an open world.
- #5 Sons Of The Forest
94% matchVery Positive88% of 304,972 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Base Building 21.6%, Survival Horror 20.8%, Open World 19.1%, Co-op 18.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: The sequel offers refined base-building mechanics and a more intense combat experience against mutant threats.
- #6 Mist Survival
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,126 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: Open World Survival Craft 38.7% ★, Zombies 20.6%, Open World 13.3%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the atmospheric tension of surviving against zombies and environmental hazards in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #7 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
93% matchVery Positive83% of 68,064 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 39.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Zombies 25.2%, Base Building 21.8%, Open World 17%, Co-op 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on base management and survival against zombie hordes in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #8 SurrounDead
92% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 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 23.2%, Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world zombie survival game that emphasizes looting, crafting, and base defense.
- #9 Enshrouded
91% matchVery Positive86% of 101,648 reviews2024
Dev: Keen Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 18.7 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Why similar: Base Building 27.3%, Open World 23.8%, Action RPG 13.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, PvE 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines action-RPG combat with deep, voxel-based building mechanics in a sprawling open world.
- #10 Valheim
91% matchVery Positive94% of 534,015 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.8 hrsMean: 76.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Open World 12.1%, Co-op 9.1%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an exceptional balance of exploration, survival, and complex base building against increasingly difficult environmental threats.
- #11 HumanitZ
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,839 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.2% ★, Zombies 17.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a top-down perspective on zombie survival with a strong focus on scavenging and base fortification.
- #12 No One Survived
89% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 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 22.6%, Open World 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Co-op 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed crafting and base-building experience in a world overrun by zombies.
- #13 Subsistence
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 56.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 13%, Sandbox 7.8%, Co-op 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that forces players to build secure bases to protect themselves from AI hunters and wildlife.
- #14 Nightingale
88% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Open World 13%, Co-op 11.9%, PvE 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features unique exploration mechanics and building systems within a mysterious, monster-filled world.
- #15 Forever Skies
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,446 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Co-op 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Open World 12%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game where you build and maintain a mobile base while exploring a ruined, toxic world.
- #16 VEIN
86% matchVery Positive89% of 10,247 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 16.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 10%
Why You'll Like It: A survival RPG that emphasizes scavenging for supplies and fortifying your base against zombie threats.
- #17 Project Zomboid
86% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Zombies 21.7%, Open World 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: The most realistic zombie survival simulation available, emphasizing the need for careful planning and base fortification.
- #18 Outbreak Island
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 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 19%, Base Building 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Zombies 16.5%, Open World 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A mystery-driven survival game that emphasizes investigation and horror elements in an isolated environment.
- #19 Fade to Silence
85% matchMixed63% of 1,325 reviews2019
Dev: Black Forest GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.6% ★, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%, RPG 6.2%, Survival Horror 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival in a frozen wasteland, requiring players to build a base and manage resources against supernatural monsters.
- #20 KeepUp Survival
84% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Co-op 11.7%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that allows for creative base building and exploration in a dangerous environment.
- #21 Project Castaway
82% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Underwater 21.1% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Co-op 10.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the struggle for survival on a deserted island with a heavy emphasis on resource management.
- #22 Taora : Survival
83% 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Hunting 20.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Base Building 10.2%, Action RPG 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on post-apocalyptic survival with a heavy emphasis on crafting, shooting, and exploration.
- #23 The Infected
82% matchVery Positive84% of 6,935 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Zombies 11.1%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features a mix of survival, base building, and combat against vampires and wildlife in an open world.
- #24 Plains of Pain
81% matchVery Positive84% of 757 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: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 10%, Co-op 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration and base building in a hostile, post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #25 Junk Survivor
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 81 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 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Open World 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on scavenging and building a base from scraps.
- #26 Everwind
78% matchVery Positive82% of 3,221 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Action RPG 19.6%, Co-op 19%, Sandbox 18.2%, Open World 17.8%, PvE 10.7%
- #27 Solace Crafting
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Co-op 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a vast open world with a focus on crafting, progression, and survival against various creatures.
- #28 Far Lands
79% matchMixed65% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.1% ★, Base Building 18.9%, Open World 11.7%, Survival Horror 10.8%, PvE 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival adventure game that emphasizes base building and exploration in a dangerous, action-oriented world.
- #29 Force of Nature
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.5% ★, Sandbox 12.6%, Open World 11.8%, Base Building 7.4%, Co-op 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that combines crafting and exploration with base building in a procedurally generated world.
- #30 Survive the Nights
75% matchMixed66% of 6,549 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 28.4% ★, Zombies 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Sandbox 13%, Co-op 11%
- #31 LifeZ - Survival
78% 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: Open World Survival Craft 35% ★, Zombies 18.4%, Base Building 12%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%, Sandbox 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A zombie survival game that incorporates simulation elements and action-focused gameplay.
- #32 Whisper of the Swallows
74% matchVery Positive86% of 163 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 10.8%, Survival Horror 10.1%
- #33 INCUR Survival
76% 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Zombies 19.6%, Open World 11.3%, Action-Adventure 8.8%, Third Person 7.4%
- #34 Out of Reach
77% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 47.7% ★, Open World 12.8%, Hunting 12.7% ★, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 7%
- #35 Once Human
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 173,391 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Co-op 11.2%, Open World 10.3%
- #36 Welcome to ParadiZe
75% matchMixed67% of 1,274 reviews2024
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Zombies 16%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 11.1%
- #37 Voyagers of Nera
73% matchVery Positive85% of 2,367 reviews2025
Dev: Treehouse Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Why similar: Underwater 27.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 10.7%, PvE 8.6%
- #38 StarRupture
71% matchVery Positive81% of 12,313 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.2% ★, Base Building 18.2%, Co-op 13.1%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 11.9%
- #39 Novus Inceptio
77% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10%
- #40 Eden Island
73% matchMixed61% of 255 reviews2024
Dev: Moon Studio
Windows
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Hunting 25.1% ★, Underwater 12.6% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #41 Survival Machine
71% 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 26.3%, Base Building 25.1%, PvE 14.6%, Third Person 13.2%, Action-Adventure 12.3%
- #42 Adventure Craft
74% 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: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Open World 9.9%
- #43 The Last Plague: Blight
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,393 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Co-op 10.1%
- #44 DeadPoly
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
DeadPoly is a polygon arcade zombie survival looter shooter with base building, crafting, scavenging, leveling, questing, and more, but your only goal is survival, everything else is optional.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Zombies 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #45 Rem Survival
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 47.7% ★, Base Building 21%, Open World 15%, Co-op 8.4%, RPG 4.9%
- #46 Windrose
67% matchVery Positive88% of 44,950 reviews2026
Dev: Kraken Express
Windows
Median: 19.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, PvE 13.1%, Open World 9.9%, Exploration 7.7%
- #47 Dawn of Defiance
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,797 reviews2024
Dev: Traega EntertainmentPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Base Building 14.8%, PvE 10.7%, Open World 9.7%, Sandbox 9%
- #48 Sailing alone:Aftermath
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Co-op 12.9%, Third Person 5.6%
- #49 Re.poly
71% matchVery Positive91% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Action RPG 11.1%, Open World 10.2%
- #50 Urge
69% matchVery Positive90% of 498 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #51 ENDALOR
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 239 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Souls-like 17%, Base Building 11.5%, Open World 9.9%, Co-op 8.3%
- #52 Last Whisper
68% matchMixed66% of 192 reviews2024
Dev: 12Studio
Windows
Last Whisper Survival is a cooperative zombie survival game where exploration of the open world is key. As you venture further, you'll need to upgrade your gear and level up your character and skill tree to handle the increasing challenges as you move through the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.3% ★, Zombies 18.1%, Third Person 11%, Open World 10.8%, PvE 9.7%
- #53 iZolated
68% matchMixed70% of 119 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: Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Open World Survival Craft 15.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Zombies 14.1%, Sandbox 13.1%
- #54 Nested Lands
66% matchMostly Positive72% of 444 reviews2026
Dev: 1M Bits HordePub: META Publishing
Windows
Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival Horror 15.3%, Sandbox 12.9%, Open World 12.3%, Third Person 9.5%
- #55 Survival: Fountain of Youth
65% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Underwater 21.3% ★, Base Building 16%, Sandbox 9.6%, Open World 8.9%
- #56 Winter Survival
66% matchMixed63% of 762 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Hunting 24.9% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Open World 9.4%, Survival Horror 8.7%
- #57 DREADZONE
66% matchMixed52% of 1,188 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: Base Building 20.1%, Zombies 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Co-op 15.5%, Open World 14.9%
- #58 Len's Island
64% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,720 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Open World 12.4%, PvE 8.7%
- #59 Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜
69% matchMixed54% of 900 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.
Why similar: Zombies 37.7%, Open World 23.6%, Sandbox 16.6%, RPG 9.3%, Third Person 7.4%