- #1 SCUM
97% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 39.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Zombies 11.2%, Open World 10.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Like Miscreated, it leans into hardcore multiplayer survival with a large open world, base building, high-risk looting, and constant tension from both infected and hostile players.
- #2 DayZ
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 22.6%, Zombies 15.5%, Open World 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest overall match to Miscreated, with a brutal open-world survival loop built around scavenging, zombies, environmental danger, and unpredictable PvP encounters.
- #3 Deadside
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 39% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Multiplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on grounded gunplay, open-world scavenging, safehouse building, and PvP-heavy survival makes it feel very close to Miscreated's moment-to-moment play.
- #4 Survive the Nights
95% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 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 34% ★, Zombies 14.7%, Survival 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly punishing zombie survival experience where looting, fortifying, and surviving hostile nights are the core appeal.
- #5 7 Days to Die
94% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 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 36.7% ★, Survival 17.8%, Zombies 13.9%, Open World 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same survival-crafting pressure in a zombie apocalypse, adding robust building and multiplayer survival that Miscreated fans usually appreciate.
- #6 No One Survived
94% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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: Survival 26.3%, Zombies 20.5%, Open World 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Multiplayer 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is another zombie survival sandbox centered on scavenging, crafting, base building, and co-op or multiplayer survival in a dangerous open world.
- #7 HumanitZ
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 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 28.3% ★, Zombies 15.3%, Survival 15%, Open World 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its top-down view changes the presentation, but the gameplay is still about open-world zombie survival, scavenging, base building, vehicles, and multiplayer tension.
- #8 Rust
91% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 24.2%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: While not zombie-themed, it matches Miscreated's ruthless player-driven survival, open-world crafting, raiding, and constant fear of losing everything.
- #9 Will To Live Online
92% matchMixed69% of 18,150 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 32.4% ★, Survival 23%, Open World 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This MMO survival shooter shares Miscreated's bleak wasteland atmosphere, PvP danger, scavenging loop, and mutant-infested world.
- #10 Once Human
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 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 39.9% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a strong modern alternative with a large online world, mutant threats, survival systems, base construction, and a distinctly post-apocalyptic vibe.
- #11 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
91% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 47.9% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 8.3%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%, Multiplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This one is a direct thematic match, offering multiplayer survival in a post-apocalyptic open world filled with scavenging, crafting, and player threats.
- #12 XERA: Survival
89% matchMixed66% of 7,888 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 41% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes open-world survival, PvP, looting, and base building in a hostile post-collapse setting that scratches a lot of the same itches.
- #13 Next Day: Survival
89% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 33.6%, Open World 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Multiplayer 12%, Crafting 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic setting, multiplayer survival focus, and emphasis on scavenging and fighting both PvE and PvP threats make it a natural fit.
- #14 Unturned
87% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 17.2%, Zombies 16.6%, Open World 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Massively Multiplayer 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Beneath its simple visuals is a very similar loop of scavenging, crafting, zombie survival, vehicles, and PvP servers in large open maps.
- #15 Infestation: The New Z
88% matchMixed54% of 33,896 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: Zombies 30.2%, Survival 23.8%, Open World 16.4%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its zombie-heavy open-world PvP survival structure makes it an obvious alternative for players chasing Miscreated's older-school online survival feel.
- #16 Hurtworld
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.
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 the fast-paced open-world survival PvP loop of looting, crafting, building, and fighting over resources, even with a different aesthetic.
- #17 Undawn
86% matchMixed54% of 6,521 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 39.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 20.1%, Open World 16.8%, Massively Multiplayer 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Zombies 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world zombie survival, base progression, online play, and post-disaster exploration in a way that overlaps well with Miscreated.
- #18 Subsistence
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 54.1% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 7.1%, Multiplayer 7%
Why You'll Like It: This is another tense open-world survival-crafting game with base building and hostile encounters, though it is more wilderness-focused than post-apocalyptic.
- #19 SurrounDead
83% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Zombies 22.9%, Survival 20.7%, Open World 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11%
Why You'll Like It: It strongly captures the lonely scavenging-and-surviving-against-zombies mood of Miscreated, even if it is less centered on large-scale online PvP.
- #20 DeadPoly
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 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 40% ★, Zombies 14.2%, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It is a lighter-looking but mechanically familiar zombie survival game with looting, crafting, building, and multiplayer survival in an open world.
- #21 Mist Survival
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 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 43.7% ★, Survival 20.4%, Zombies 15.3%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same lonely post-apocalyptic scavenging and base-building feel, though it is more PvE-focused and less multiplayer-driven.
- #22 STALCRAFT: X
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 96,351 reviews2022
Dev: EXBO
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 92.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
STALCRAFT: X is the largest open-world online game in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Explore the world full of mutants and anomalies alone or with friends — unforgettable emotions guaranteed.
Why similar: Multiplayer 30.1%, Massively Multiplayer 28.7%, PvP 14.1%, FPS 12.3%, Horror 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Although more MMO-shooter than sandbox survival, it nails the dangerous post-apocalyptic scavenging atmosphere and hostile-player tension Miscreated fans often want.
- #23 Project Zomboid
82% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 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 33.7% ★, Survival 18.9%, Zombies 16.1%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 6%
Why You'll Like It: It is less of a shooter, yet its uncompromising survival depth, zombie danger, looting, and multiplayer sandbox freedom echo Miscreated's hardcore spirit.
- #24 The Front
80% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 44.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world crafting, shooting, vehicles, base building, and hostile wasteland setting make it a strong adjacent pick for Miscreated players.
- #25 Fallout 76
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 137,482 reviews2020
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 113.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.
Why similar: Open World 26.9%, Survival 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Co-op 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is less hardcore, but its online post-apocalyptic exploration, crafting, base building, and mutant-infested world still line up with Miscreated's broader appeal.
- #26 Stay Out
81% matchMixed68% of 29,668 reviews2019
Dev: MOBITECH LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
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 27.4%, Open World 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Multiplayer 13.9%, PvP 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This online survival shooter offers a similarly grim wasteland, factional danger, scavenging, and mutant-infested exploration with MMO-style persistence.
- #27 The Infected
79% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 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 45.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 11.9%, Zombies 10.8%, Crafting 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It trades PvP for solo or co-op survival, but the mutant threats, base building, scavenging, and hostile open world are still very much in the same lane.
- #28 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
78% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Survival 28%, Zombies 25.1%, Open World 19.9%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes zombie survival, scavenging, home-base management, and co-op in a way that overlaps well with Miscreated's survival fantasy.
- #29 Dysterra
78% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.1% ★, Survival 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Crafting 8.5%, PvP 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: This one is more sci-fi than zombie apocalypse, but its survival shooting, crafting, building, and PvP sandbox structure still overlap with Miscreated.
- #30 DESOLATE
79% matchMixed67% of 8,009 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 38%, Open World 27.1%, Zombies 23.6%, Horror 4.2%, First-Person 2.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its ruined world, mutant enemies, survival mechanics, and bleak co-op scavenging make it a good fit for players who liked Miscreated's atmosphere.
- #31 Reign Of Kings
75% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 49.5% ★, Survival 16.2%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 7.2%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #32 Infestation: The New Beginning
76% matchMixed42% of 25,431 reviews
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 58.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 32.5%, Survival 23.2%, Massively Multiplayer 13.7%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 5.6%
- #33 VEIN
68% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 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: Survival 23.1%, Zombies 20.3%, Open World 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%
- #34 Life is Feudal: Your Own
73% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 50.5% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Multiplayer 5.3%
- #35 Savage Lands
72% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 53.6% ★, Survival 16.1%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 5.9%, Crafting 5.8%
- #36 GRAV
74% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 52.2% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 5.9%, Crafting 5.4%
- #37 Night of the Dead
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 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 40.8% ★, Zombies 14%, Survival 12.1%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #38 Rem Survival
71% 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 46.6% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 7.9%, Massively Multiplayer 7.1%
- #39 MISERY
66% matchVery Positive85% of 17,893 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Multiplayer 7.9%
- #40 Out of Reach
71% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 49.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 6%, Multiplayer 6%
- #41 Outlaws of the Old West
70% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 51.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 12.2%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.1%
- #42 Last Oasis
69% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 27%, Massively Multiplayer 19.7%, Open World 18.5%, Crafting 9%, Multiplayer 8.2%
- #43 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
71% matchMixed54% of 630 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 53% ★, Survival 14.8%, Massively Multiplayer 9.4%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 6%
- #44 The Fifth Day
72% matchMostly Negative37% of 940 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.2%
- #45 The Forest
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 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 57.2% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 5.4%, Zombies 2.8%
- #46 Plains of Pain
67% matchVery Positive85% of 692 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 40.1% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Crafting 6.7%
- #47 Nomad
70% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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 44.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Zombies 11.8%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%
- #48 How to Survive 2
69% matchMixed69% of 10,988 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 37.9% ★, Survival 19.9%, Zombies 18.5%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%
- #49 ARK: Survival Evolved
66% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 51.7% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 5.6%
- #50 Fragmented
70% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 56.5% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Crafting 4.7%
- #51 Green Hell
66% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 53.3% ★, Survival 17.9%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 5.6%
- #52 Crushed
68% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 42.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Open World 10.3%, Zombies 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.2%
- #53 Conan Exiles
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 40.6% ★, Survival 20.6%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.2%