- #1 Abiotic Factor
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,861 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.2% ★, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar blend of co-op survival, crafting, and scientific horror within a confined, hostile facility.
- #2 Sons Of The Forest
96% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 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: Survival 14.8%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 11.4%, Co-op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-fidelity co-op survival horror experience with deep base-building and intense enemy encounters.
- #3 7 Days to Die
96% 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 21.2% ★, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive co-op survival crafting game featuring extensive base-building and constant threats from the undead.
- #4 ICARUS
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 23.9% ★, Survival 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A session-based co-op survival game that emphasizes resource gathering and crafting in a hostile, alien environment.
- #5 Generation Zero®
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,588 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 9.6%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: Features open-world co-op survival against mechanical threats in a desolate, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #6 No More Room in Hell 2
94% matchMixed48% of 17,994 reviews2024
Dev: Torn Banner Studios
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
No More Room in Hell 2 is a terrifying 8 player co-op action horror experience. Find your friends in the dark and survive - in a dynamic, endlessly replayable zombie apocalypse.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.5%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Co-op 13.9%, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a tense, cooperative survival horror experience where teamwork is essential to survive against overwhelming odds.
- #7 Once Human
93% 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 21.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world filled with supernatural threats and crafting opportunities.
- #8 Pacific Drive
92% matchVery Positive83% of 24,897 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Why similar: Survival 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Crafting 13.4%, Base Building 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on surviving anomalies and environmental hazards in a mysterious, radioactive zone using a customizable vehicle.
- #9 Voidtrain
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 9%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines procedural exploration and co-op survival with unique base-building mechanics on a moving train.
- #10 VEIN
90% 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 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 12.3%, Co-op 10%
Why You'll Like It: An early-access survival game that focuses on scavenging and base-building in a zombie-infested world.
- #11 The Forest
91% 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 38.1% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Horror 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic co-op survival horror game that challenges players to build, craft, and survive against terrifying mutants.
- #12 SCUM
89% 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 39.2% ★, Survival 16.5%, Online Co-Op 16%, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 13.7%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that offers deep simulation mechanics in a post-apocalyptic environment.
- #13 Miscreated
89% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that features a post-apocalyptic setting with a focus on multiplayer interaction and scavenging.
- #14 No One Survived
88% 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 16.8%, Open World 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival Horror 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival crafting game that emphasizes scavenging and base defense in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #15 Urge
87% matchVery Positive90% of 476 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 22.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an atmospheric survival horror experience with base-building elements in a sandbox environment.
- #16 Project Zomboid
86% 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 25.9% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The ultimate hardcore survival experience that emphasizes long-term planning, scavenging, and base fortification.
- #17 Deadside
85% 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 25.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that emphasizes realistic scavenging and combat in a large, post-apocalyptic open world.
- #18 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
86% 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 19.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 16%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community management, base building, and co-op survival in a world overrun by zombies.
- #19 KLETKA
82% matchVery Positive91% of 6,472 reviews2026
Dev: Callback
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
KLETKA is a co-op (up to 6 players) horror game about going down in an elevator that is trying to eat you. Feed the elevator, explore deadly floors and descend deeper.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.1%, Co-op 19.7%, Horror 15%, PvE 14.2%, Action Roguelike 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op horror game with procedural elements that forces players to work together to survive a shifting, hostile environment.
- #20 Plains of Pain
84% 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 19% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival crafting game set in a desolate, post-apocalyptic sandbox.
- #21 Will To Live Online
84% 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 23.6% ★, Survival 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival MMO that features scavenging, crafting, and exploration in a dangerous wasteland.
- #22 Necesse
81% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8.3%, Online Co-Op 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A procedural open-world survival game that supports co-op play and base-building in a sandbox environment.
- #23 DREADZONE
83% matchMixed51% of 1,171 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 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11%, Co-op 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op survival game set in an open-world environment that focuses on scavenging and multiplayer progression.
- #24 Sunkenland
82% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 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 28.7% ★, Survival 11.1%, Co-op 10.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Crafting 8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game focused on scavenging, base building, and defending against raids in a flooded world.
- #25 Emissary Zero
81% matchVery Positive84% of 2,800 reviews2025
Dev: Rone Vine
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Co-op horror (1-4 players). You are sent to explore a mysterious building at night. Find the Moon and try to return alive.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.4%, Survival Horror 15.6%, Horror 15.4%, Multiplayer 14.3%, Co-op 14.2%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer co-op horror game that blends psychological elements with survival mechanics.
- #26 GTFO
80% matchVery Positive84% of 65,286 reviews2021
Dev: 10 Chambers
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.3%, Survival Horror 16.4%, Co-op 16.2%, Horror 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore co-op horror game that demands extreme teamwork, stealth, and resource management to survive.
- #27 PANICORE
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 12,465 reviews2024
Dev: ZTEK Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
PANICORE is a survival horror game that mixes permadeath, AI monsters and a co-op experience up to 5 players (4 players in demo). Try to escape and don't get caught, but beware: they don't only hear your steps, but also your voice.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.4%, Horror 21.4%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Co-op 8.5%, PvE 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: An intense co-op horror game that focuses on survival and escape mechanics in a first-person perspective.
- #28 MIMESIS
78% matchVery Positive85% of 8,769 reviews2025
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 26%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Procedural Generation 15.5%, PvE 13.3%, Horror 13.1%
- #29 Nuclear Nightmare
78% matchVery Positive81% of 17,749 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 23%, Survival Horror 18.5%, Co-op 12.8%, Horror 11.3%, Open World 8.3%
- #30 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Crafting 9%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival crafting game with unique base-building mechanics centered around mobile drilling ships.
- #31 SurrounDead
77% 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: Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Open World Survival Craft 18.5% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 14.9%, Base Building 9.4%
- #32 Survive the Nights
76% 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 22.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 9.3%
- #33 ANEURISM IV
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,833 reviews2025
Dev: Vellocet
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A dystopian simulator where your choices shape a decaying city. Join other players to protect the metropolis from ruin, hasten its downfall, or simply work in the factories. With no set goals or rules, every action has consequences in a world teetering on the brink.
Why similar: Crafting 21.5%, Online Co-Op 18.9%, Survival 16.6%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, Multiplayer 12%
- #34 HumanitZ
74% 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 16% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #35 Survival: Lost Way
77% matchMostly Negative37% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Survival 15%, Crafting 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Multiplayer 10.2%
- #36 The Wild Eight
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 7,155 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 16.3%, Co-op 8.8%, Open World 8.5%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #37 STALCRAFT: X
74% 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 26.6%, Horror 20.7%, Shooter 19.5%, PvE 17%, Atmospheric 9.9%
- #38 The Legacy
73% matchMixed55% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Cooperative survival and horror genre. You and your family have returned to your native land, on which a terrible curse and darkness has fallen. Will you be able to survive in a harsh and dangerous environment and stop the evil? It depends only on you, on your skills and ability to help each other.
Why similar: Survival Horror 13.4%, Survival 13.4%, Base Building 11.7%, Open World 11.5%, Co-op 9.9%
- #39 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
75% matchMostly Negative36% of 365 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts is a Multiplayer Survival Horror game for up to 4 players. Set in the Middle of the Unknown, you can craft, build, explore and discover secrets in the exciting first chapter from EFNSOFT.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 9.3%, Survival Horror 9.1%
- #40 Hauntsville
72% matchMixed65% of 221 reviews2025
Dev: Michael JanischPub: indie.io
Windows
You're a nameless traveler, stranded in a ghost town in the Cursed West. Use your wits, elbow grease, and the iron on your hip. Build a homestead, work the land, and survive against unspeakable monsters in this unique Western horror survival game - alone or with friends!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.3%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%
- #41 Backrooms Society
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 656 reviews2023
Dev: Mikael Bihl
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Backrooms Society is a 1-8 player co-op horror game. Make your way through unique levels of the backrooms while trying to survive and avoid mysterious entities. Scavenge each level for gear and resources, bring it back to The Hub where you can sell valuables and buy/craft new gear.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.9%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Crafting 15.3%, Horror 12.3%
- #42 PILGRIM
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,670 reviews2024
Dev: DESPERATE MEASURES
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Pilgrim is a medieval-based, co-op horror, adventure. Can you and your friends make it to the end of The Road?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.8%, Horror 15.7%, PvE 15.5%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Survival Horror 11.6%
- #43 Survival Machine
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.6%
- #44 CastleMiner Z
73% matchVery Positive81% of 11,088 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 35.2% ★, Survival 13.9%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.9%
- #45 Whisper of the Swallows
69% matchVery Positive87% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage and unforgiving procedurally-generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark are your greatest enemies. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to transform a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.4% ★, Online Co-Op 10%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%
- #46 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 30% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.3%
- #47 Soviet Survival
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.7%, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%
- #48 Green Hell
68% 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 29.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Crafting 7.6%
- #49 Crushed
71% 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 26.8% ★, Survival 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Open World 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #50 DESOLATE
70% 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 34.8%, Open World 28.1%, Horror 21.3%, Survival Horror 5.5%, Crafting 4.1%
- #51 Ruins To Fortress
68% matchMixed62% of 164 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 7.6%
- #52 Fade to Silence
70% matchMixed63% of 1,317 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 32.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Crafting 8.2%
- #53 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
69% 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 38.8% ★, Survival 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%
- #54 Chernobylite Complete Edition
67% matchVery Positive82% of 15,165 reviews2021
Dev: The Farm 51
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.9%, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Crafting 11%
- #55 KeepUp Survival
67% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 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 23.4% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.5%, Co-op 9.2%
- #56 Backrooms: Escape Together
65% matchVery Positive88% of 34,229 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A visually lifelike co-op horror for 1-6 people. Journey through 10 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 22%, Survival Horror 17%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Horror 14.1%, Co-op 13.2%
- #57 Dreadway
64% matchMostly Positive79% of 188 reviews2026
Dev: ZweiBier IndiePub: Reality Twist GmbH
Windows
A co-op extraction horror for 1-4 players where you survive nuclear wastelands on a train. Scavenge scrap for fuel and supplies, and use voice mechanics to stay alive.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 19%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Procedural Generation 11.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Horror 9.4%
- #58 Zombie Survival Game Online
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 9.1%
- #59 Cannibal Crossing
67% matchMixed62% of 257 reviews2022
Dev: Everplay InteractivePub: Rocketcat Games
Windows
Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Action Roguelike 9%