Games Like Infestation: The New Z

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: Zombies 23.9%, Survival 18.4%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: DayZ delivers the same tense loop of searching towns for supplies, managing survival needs, fighting infected, and deciding whether other armed survivors are friends or threats.

Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.

Why similar: Zombies 43.3%, Survival 16.3%, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match in structure and tone, centering on open-world zombie scavenging, persistent characters, loot stashes, and hostile player encounters.

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: Zombies 28.3%, Survival 15.5%, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play zombie survival sandbox offers large multiplayer maps, base building, vehicles, scavenging, servers with PvP rulesets, and a similarly accessible survival feel.

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: Zombies 28.4%, Massively Multiplayer 17.8%, Survival 17.8%, Open World 16.1%, FPS 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: SCUM is a persistent multiplayer survival game built around looting, crafting, armed PvP, and avoiding zombie-like puppets across a huge hostile island.

Infestation: Battle Royale is a free-to-play, zombie-infested Battle Royale game. Fight in groups of 3 or solo until only one team remains standing. Discover a wide selection of maps, guns and customizations. Join in and let the good memories come back in this massively revamped all-time classic!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 37.5%, Zombies 37.3%, Survival 18.3%, Action 4.2%, RPG 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: This shares Infestation's gunplay and survival-shooter lineage while focusing more directly on its battle-royale-style 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: Zombies 37%, Survival 25%, Open World 15.7%, Multiplayer 11.5%, FPS 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its zombie-filled open world, scavenging, crafting, fortification, loot progression, and multiplayer servers strongly suit players who enjoy surviving and stockpiling in The New Z.

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 26.1%, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Zombies 13.9%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although more match-based than persistent, it preserves the fast scavenging, firearms, survival tension, and large-scale PvP associated with the H1Z1-style experience.

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: Survival 26.2%, Open World 23.9%, Multiplayer 17.2%, PvP 8.2%, Co-op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Once Human combines free-to-play open-world multiplayer survival, base building, resource runs, mutated enemies, and faction-oriented PvP in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

Why similar: Zombies 34.8%, Survival 15.1%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Massively Multiplayer 12.6%, Survival Horror 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a free-to-play online zombie looter with persistent characters, ammunition and inventory pressure, dark exploration, trading, and co-op survival.

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: Survival 24.3%, Open World 17.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Massively Multiplayer 11.5%, FPS 11%

Why You'll Like It: Deadside emphasizes the same unforgiving open-world cycle of finding weapons and supplies, raiding points of interest, banking loot, and risking it all against other 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: Zombies 30.5%, Survival 23.7%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Miscreated offers a bleak multiplayer survival world full of scavenging, crafting, vehicles, player-built bases, mutants, and high-stakes PvP.

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 18.4%, Massively Multiplayer 18.1%, Open World 17.6%, Zombies 16.4%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: Undawn is a free-to-play open-world survival RPG with infected enemies, resource gathering, shelter systems, vehicles, co-op content, and competitive multiplayer areas.

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: Survival 22.6%, Open World 17.4%, Massively Multiplayer 15.6%, Multiplayer 15.3%, FPS 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play online survival shooter mixes open-world looting, crafting, base defense, AI threats, and PvP raids in a way that closely mirrors The New Z's core loop.

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 35.5%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 17.4%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Shooter 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: DARKEST DAYS provides free-to-play open-world zombie survival with scavenging, crafting, customizable shelters, vehicles, and online multiplayer elements.

HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.

Why similar: Zombies 36.1%, Survival 19.1%, Open World 15.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%, PvP 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: HumanitZ features an open zombie apocalypse with scavenging, crafting, vehicles, base building, and online co-op survival against both infected and environmental dangers.

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: Massively Multiplayer 21.9%, Survival 21.3%, Open World 20.5%, FPS 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Will To Live Online is a free-to-play post-apocalyptic online FPS with dangerous expeditions, mutant encounters, gear progression, trading, and contested open-world areas.

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 35.1%, Survival 24.1%, Open World 18.3%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Survival Horror 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: NO ONE SURVIVED centers on multiplayer open-world survival through scavenging, crafting, farming, building defenses, and fighting zombies in a ruined world.

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Zombies 47.2%, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 11.3%, FPS 5.2%, Open World 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play cooperative zombie FPS stresses scarce ammunition, teamwork, dangerous infected encounters, and desperate escape-oriented survival.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 40.8%, Survival 25.4%, Open World 15.8%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Co-op 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Project Zomboid offers an exceptionally deep zombie survival sandbox with scavenging, storage, crafting, fortifying, and multiplayer communities, albeit from an isometric perspective.

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: Zombies 33.8%, Survival 16.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%, FPS 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Survive the Nights is a slower, grounded zombie survival game with scavenging, food and shelter management, barricading, persistent multiplayer servers, and dangerous nighttime raids.

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 40.5%, Open World 22.3%, Multiplayer 16.9%, PvP 6.1%, FPS 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Rust replaces zombies with a harsher player-driven world but delivers the same addictive loot, stash, base, alliance, raid, and open-world PvP tension.

Grab a weapon, demolish your enemies, level up, become more powerful, let the gore flow, let the limbs fly. BrainBread 2 introduces a zombie fps mixed with RPG / Arcade elements, the game is very action-packed and generally fast-paced.

Why similar: Zombies 44.9%, Survival 16.3%, Multiplayer 14.5%, FPS 9.2%, Co-op 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: BrainBread 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer zombie shooter with cooperative survival modes, varied weapons, and PvP-adjacent action for players wanting quicker sessions.

'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: Zombies 39.1%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 16.8%, Multiplayer 12.7%, PvP 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op zombie survival game rewards extensive looting, crafting elaborate defenses, building a secure base, and enduring escalating undead attacks.

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: Survival 25.9%, Open World 20.8%, Massively Multiplayer 19.5%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Shooter 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The Front is an open-world multiplayer survival game focused on gathering, construction, vehicles, territory defense, and raids, matching the base-and-loot side of The New Z.

Codename CURE is a first person, co-operative zombie game with support for up to five players, providing dynamic, fast-paced zombie fragging with both objective, and survival-based missions.

Why similar: Zombies 48.1%, Multiplayer 10.7%, FPS 9.9%, Shooter 8.5%, Survival Horror 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Codename CURE is a free-to-play co-op zombie shooter focused on squad survival, objectives, weapon scavenging, and replayable tense firefights.

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 39.5%, Survival 23.2%, Open World 18.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Co-op 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world zombie scavenging, survivor management, community bases, supply runs, and four-player co-op capture the cooperative survival side of The New Z.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Zombies 38.3%, Open World 14.1%, Survival 13.7%, Multiplayer 8.7%, FPS 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Dying Light offers first-person zombie combat, open-world supply hunting, crafting, parkour traversal, and drop-in co-op, though it is less focused on persistent PvP.

Dive into the zombie apocalypse with Zombie Panic! Source: a cooperative, survival-horror first-person-shooter. A fast-paced standalone modification.

Why similar: Zombies 50.1%, Survival 13.9%, Multiplayer 12.7%, FPS 6.7%, Co-op 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play multiplayer zombie game delivers tense human-versus-zombie rounds, scavenged weapons, teamwork, and sudden player-driven chaos.

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: Multiplayer 22.8%, FPS 20.9%, Zombies 17.6%, Shooter 11.6%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%

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: Massively Multiplayer 31.3%, Zombies 19.3%, Survival 18.4%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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 46%, Survival 22.6%, Open World 19%, Shooter 3.6%, Co-op 2.7%

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: Zombies 33%, Survival 22.2%, Open World 14.8%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Massively Multiplayer 4.9%

Anomaly Zone is an open world MMORPG and a post-apocalyptic shooter. Be a scientist, a soldier, a hunter or an engineer. Explore anomalous territories, search for artifacts, fight mutants and other players. Participate in mass PvP and PvE battles. The Zone is waiting!

Why similar: Zombies 27.4%, Massively Multiplayer 23.5%, Survival 18.1%, Open World 11%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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: Zombies 34.6%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%, FPS 5%

Dead Maze is a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. Explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible, to survive the hostile environment and upgrade your gear and camp as you go.

Why similar: Zombies 38.6%, Survival 21.4%, Massively Multiplayer 15%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Counter-Strike Nexon is a Free to Play MMOFPS offering competitive PvP and PvE action including content from the original Counter-Strike and all new game modes, map creation function, weapons, and hordes of Zombies!

Why similar: Zombies 48.7%, FPS 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, PvP 5.7%, Shooter 5.6%

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 36.4%, Open World 26.6%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Shooter 4.8%, Co-op 4.5%

Zombie Carnage 2 is a 32 player first person shooter where you will play both as a human and zombie. By killing zombies and infecting humans you will permanently level up, unlock weapons, attachments, zombie classes and more.

Why similar: Zombies 35.8%, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 11%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%, FPS 8.5%

Free-to-play multiplayer action game in the entourage of the Second World War with total destructibility of the environment. Enjoy full freedom, build a defense, create your army, crush the enemy.

Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Massively Multiplayer 15.8%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Zombies 13.5%, FPS 12.8%

Fast paced FPS with high customizational freedom. From game mode customization to an in depth weapon tuning and attachment system up to detailed character customizations, while it was developed so you can choose to either go for high performance or graphical fidelity without an high end PC.

Why similar: Zombies 22.1%, FPS 20.8%, Multiplayer 20.4%, Open World 10.7%, Shooter 10.1%

Team up with 64 players to fight off the horde of zombies in this post-apocalyptic FPS or join the horde against the living! Turn on your teammates and tear them apart. Level up and unlock new weapons, perks, clothing options and more! Equip your favourite loadout and join the fight!

Why similar: Zombies 38.4%, Survival 15.1%, Multiplayer 11.4%, FPS 9.9%, Co-op 6.2%

Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.

Why similar: Multiplayer 24.6%, Open World 24%, Third-Person Shooter 15%, Co-op 12.5%, RPG 6.5%

BlackShot is a free-to-play, first-person shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world.Join other mercenaries in brutal team combat, multiple game modes, and experience in-depth customization to create your perfect warrior!

Why similar: FPS 23.5%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Zombies 20.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.7%, Shooter 11.6%

CRSED: Cuisine Royale – is a brutal MMO last-man-standing shooter with realistic weaponry, elements of lethal mystic forces and incredible superpowers!

Why similar: Zombies 25.4%, Survival 13.6%, Massively Multiplayer 13%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%

They Are Hundreds is an evolving Third-person wave based zombie game, co-op with up to 4 friends with endless ammo and guns!

Why similar: Zombies 35.2%, Survival 20.1%, Open World 16.1%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Co-op 5.8%

BLOCKADE 3D! First Person Shooter in an editable procedural cubic world. A large arsenal of weapons, 4 teams at the same time and up to 32 players on one map. A large number of game modes!

Why similar: Zombies 33.6%, Multiplayer 15.5%, FPS 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Shooter 9.1%

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: Zombies 40.8%, Survival 20.8%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Third-Person Shooter 7%, PvP 6.9%

Black Squad is a free-to-play military first-person-shooter. Players can master their skills and show off their strategies with a wide range of game maps, modes, and weapons to choose from. Join thousands of FPS players worldwide in one of the most played games on Steam!

Why similar: Multiplayer 25.5%, FPS 24.3%, Shooter 13.8%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Open World 7.2%