Games Like Miscreated

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 38.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 6.7%, Multiplayer 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Deadside combines a grounded post-apocalyptic open world with looting, base construction, AI threats, and high-stakes PvP firefights.

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 15.7%, Open World 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh zombie apocalypse, scavenging-driven survival, emergent player encounters, and persistent multiplayer servers make it the closest overall alternative.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.4% ★, Survival 13.2%, Zombies 11.3%, Open World 10.7%, Massively Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an even deeper hardcore survival simulation alongside open-world looting, base building, PvP, and dangerous AI-controlled areas.

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 37% ★, Survival 17.7%, Zombies 14.1%, Open World 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This blends open-world zombie survival, scavenging, crafting, fortifying a home, and multiplayer raids with especially strong base-defense gameplay.

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 34.4% ★, Zombies 14.8%, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Massively Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its zombie survival is built around scavenging, securing buildings, crafting defenses, and enduring dangerous nights with other players.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds Survival Game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared post-apocalyptic world mixes mutant combat, resource gathering, construction, vehicle use, and optional PvP in a more MMO-like structure.

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 26.6%, Zombies 20.8%, Open World 18%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on realistic post-apocalyptic needs, zombie-infested exploration, skill progression, building, and cooperative or competitive multiplayer survival.

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 44.9% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10.3%, Massively Multiplayer 7.6%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The Front is a multiplayer survival sandbox centered on looting, crafting elaborate bases, fighting hostile NPCs, and defending against rival players.

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

Why You'll Like It: Hurtworld emphasizes progression through a hostile multiplayer survival world where resource gathering, crafting, temperature management, vehicles, and PvP all matter.

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 35% ★, Survival 24.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although less zombie-focused, Rust delivers the same tense open-world loop of gathering, crafting, building a vulnerable base, and dealing with unpredictable PvP.

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 41.5% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play PvPvE survival shooter features a ruined world, resource runs, player-built bases, hostile machines, and raids.

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Survival 17.2%, Zombies 16.9%, Open World 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Massively Multiplayer 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Unturned provides a more accessible but content-rich combination of zombie survival, open maps, vehicles, building, guns, and community multiplayer servers.

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 54.8% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Subsistence centers on gathering, hunting, crafting, building a defended home, and surviving hostile AI hunters alone or in co-op.

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 28.6% ★, Zombies 15.7%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: HumanitZ is a multiplayer zombie survival sandbox with scavenging, vehicles, base building, roaming hordes, and a similarly desolate atmosphere.

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 34% ★, Survival 18.8%, Zombies 16.2%, Open World 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its isometric perspective changes the presentation, but its demanding zombie survival systems, scavenging, crafting, base defense, and multiplayer create a similarly bleak experience.

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 44.2% ★, Survival 20.2%, Zombies 15.4%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Mist Survival is a solo-focused alternative with an eerie infected apocalypse, scavenging, shelter building, survival needs, and environmental danger.

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 40.5% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Massively Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Will To Live Online offers a gritty online wasteland full of mutants, radiation, factions, firearms, loot progression, and persistent-world danger.

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 20.2%, Open World 17.1%, Massively Multiplayer 14%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Zombies 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play open-world zombie survival game offers faction-based multiplayer, crafting, shelter construction, exploration, and combat against infected threats.

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 27.6% ★, Zombies 22.4%, Survival 20.6%, Open World 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This solo zombie sandbox emphasizes freeform scavenging, firearms, vehicles, loot, and surviving a dangerous open post-apocalyptic map.

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 27.9%, Zombies 25.5%, Open World 20.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the scavenging, zombie pressure, community management, and home-base survival side of Miscreated, with cooperative play rather than open PvP.

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 49.8% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 5.8%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its island setting, it delivers open-world multiplayer survival through gathering, crafting, building fortified bases, and competing with other players.

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 37.6%, Open World 27.6%, Zombies 23.7%, Horror 4.2%, First-Person 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: DESOLATE offers co-op exploration of a mutant-ridden exclusion zone with survival elements, scavenging, crafting, and a bleak post-disaster mood.

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

Why similar: Open World 27.5%, Survival 24%, Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Multiplayer 16.3%, Co-op 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its online wasteland supports exploration, looting, crafting, CAMP building, mutant combat, and shared-world encounters in a less punishing format.

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 46.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 12%, Zombies 11%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features open-world survival against infected enemies with substantial crafting, farming, building, weather systems, and resource management.

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 43.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic setting, resource scavenging, environmental hazards, and customizable mobile base offer a more solitary but thematically compatible survival experience.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.4% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 8%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: ICARUS shares the demanding survival-crafting loop of gathering resources, constructing shelter, managing environmental threats, and playing cooperatively.

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 54.1% ★, Survival 16%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Crafting 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Savage Lands provides a challenging open-world multiplayer survival experience built around exploration, resource collection, crafting, building, and lethal creatures.

Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Why similar: Survival 22.8%, Open World 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces zombies with hostile machines but retains a lonely ruined open world, scavenging, crafting, base-defense elements, and cooperative firefights.

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 48.4% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%, Multiplayer 5.2%

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 33.7%, Open World 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Crafting 7.3%

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 50.2% ★, Survival 16%, Open World 12%, Crafting 7%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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 32.8%, Survival 23.1%, Massively Multiplayer 13.7%, Open World 11.8%, Multiplayer 5.5%

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 52.8% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Crafting 5.2%

'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 41.4% ★, Zombies 14.1%, Survival 12%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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 51.1% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 12.7%, Crafting 7.2%, Multiplayer 5.1%

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 44.8% ★, Survival 14.9%, Zombies 11.9%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.4%

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 47.2% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 7.6%, Massively Multiplayer 7.1%

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 23.5%, Zombies 21%, Open World 18%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Multiplayer 8.3%

MISERY is a 1–10 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 39.6% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%

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 30.5%, Survival 23.7%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%

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 19.9%, Open World 18.9%, Crafting 8.8%, Multiplayer 8%

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 41.4% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Multiplayer 6%

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 52.5% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 12.2%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.8%

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.8% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Crafting 6.5%

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 53.5% ★, Survival 14.7%, Massively Multiplayer 9.4%, Open World 7.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%

The Last Disease Z is a harsh multiplayer survival experience where everything is against you. Abandoned cities, zombies and bandits, a struggle for resources and a place to live. Build, unite, and survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Zombies 14.2%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.3% ★, Survival 19.7%, Zombies 18.7%, Open World 8.3%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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 40.7% ★, Zombies 14.4%, Survival 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.6%

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 57% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Crafting 4.6%

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 43.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 10.4%, Zombies 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%

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 45.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Zombies 12.8%, Open World 7.1%, Multiplayer 6%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Co-op 6.1%