Games Like MISERY

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 22.5%, Survival Horror 18.9%, Co-op 12.4%, Horror 12.1%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op first-person survival-horror game built around navigating a lethal frozen nuclear region, gathering supplies, and surviving hostile creatures together.

A horror co-op extraction builder set in a scorched wasteland where everything burns. Descend with your friends into shifting ruins, rip out furniture, and scavenge for loot before the Corrupted close in. Make it back alive, then rebuild the Outpost to better your chances for the next run.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.6%, Survival Horror 12%, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op first-person horror, building, scavenging, and repeatable survival runs make it a strong fit for players who enjoy MISERY's tense group expeditions.

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 25% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: A superb co-op survival-crafting game about raiding a bizarre hazard-filled complex, hauling loot home, researching gear, and fortifying a shared base.

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 17.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Survival 8.9%, Online Co-Op 8.5%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer post-apocalyptic survival game combines base building and crafting with a strange anomaly-infested world full of mutated PvE threats.

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 21.4% ★, Survival 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Online Co-Op 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an excellent co-op loop of looting ruined settlements, crafting weapons, constructing fortified shelters, and enduring increasingly dangerous undead attacks.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer post-apocalyptic sandbox focused on gathering resources, crafting, building shelter, and surviving a dangerous open world.

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 39.6% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world multiplayer survival game features contaminated landscapes, scavenged firearms, player-built shelters, and threats from both monsters and other survivors.

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 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 13.1%, Co-op 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world zombie apocalypse supports scavenging, crafting, vehicles, and base building, with a grounded and bleak survival tone.

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 19.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic open-world survival structure emphasizes exploration, resource collection, crafting, and establishing a defensible base in a harsh wasteland.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.1%, Open World 22.6%, Survival 21.5%, Shooter 8.7%, Immersive Sim 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although single-player, its unforgiving radioactive Zone, anomalies, mutant encounters, scavenging, and faction conflict are exceptionally close to MISERY's 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 25.7% ★, Survival 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep multiplayer survival systems reward careful scavenging, crafting, safehouse fortification, and desperate planning in a hostile post-collapse world.

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 18.5%, Open World 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op-friendly survival sandbox where scavenging ruined towns, developing skills, crafting supplies, and building a secure settlement drive every session.

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 16.2% ★, Survival 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Open World 9%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes multiplayer zombie survival, open-world looting, vehicles, crafting, and base building in a grim post-apocalyptic setting.

Explore a strange island in this open-world survival horror. Use the Gravity Gun to manipulate objects and enemies, build a moving train base, fight giant creatures, catch critters, upgrade your gear, and uncover the dark secrets hidden within its abandoned facilities. Play alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Survival 8.3%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic open-world survival-horror game that leans into unsettling exploration and dangerous conditions beyond the safety of a base.

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 22.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Survival 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12%, Co-op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed multiplayer zombie survival focuses on securing buildings, managing supplies, crafting defenses, and making risky scavenging trips after dark.

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 24.3% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A grounded open-world multiplayer survival shooter with looting, crafting, base construction, hostile AI bandits, and tense expeditions for better equipment.

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 26.1% ★, Survival 11.4%, Open World 9.4%, Survival Horror 9%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The combination of open-world survival, horror, and mysterious artifacts makes it a particularly fitting choice for MISERY players who want more anomaly-driven exploration.

Into the Radius 2 is an immersive VR survival shooter, set in a realm of surreal landscapes and deadly entities known as Pechorsk Anomaly. Arm yourself with realistic weapons and venture deeper into the mysteries within. Featuring co‑op for up to four players.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.5%, Survival 19.3%, Online Co-Op 18.6%, Co-op 15.7%, Shooter 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: For VR players, its co-op expeditions into an eerie anomaly-filled exclusion zone strongly echo MISERY's hazardous scavenging and supernatural dread.

'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 25.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival game revolves around scavenging a ruined world, crafting increasingly elaborate defenses, and surviving relentless zombie assaults.

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 16.3%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Open World 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Co-op 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers tense co-op survival-horror through scavenging, weapon crafting, base defense, and frightening encounters with mutants in an unforgiving wilderness.

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 25.4% ★, Survival 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides multiplayer open-world crafting, territory building, vehicle use, PvE combat, and raid-oriented survival progression in a devastated world.

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 39.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Open World 14.9%, Crafting 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding multiplayer survival simulation makes food, injuries, scavenged gear, firearms, and improvised shelter matter in a dangerous open-world environment.

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 27.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play post-apocalyptic MMO with contaminated regions, survival meters, scavenging, mutants, and a distinctly S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-influenced atmosphere.

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 13.1%, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op exploration of a hostile open world, scavenged equipment, shelter upgrades, and dangerous machine encounters make it a solid PvE alternative.

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 21.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.3%, Co-op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This post-disaster survival game has players scavenge toxic ruins, research strange phenomena, and expand a mobile base, with co-op support for shared expeditions.

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 24.5% ★, Survival 12.3%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its session-based co-op survival emphasizes gathering, crafting, building weatherproof outposts, and preparing for dangerous PvE environments.

A 4-player online co-op survival horror game. Avoid the contaminated rain, gather scrap and get back to the tram. Monsters that copy your friends' voices and behavior, and many other threats, stand in your way. Gear up and stick together to survive.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.9%, Online Co-Op 19.9%, Survival Horror 17.1%, Procedural Generation 12.3%, PvE 11.4%

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 34.6% ★, Survival 9.4%, Open World 8.5%, Crafting 7.9%, Base Building 7.3%

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: Post-apocalyptic 22.4%, Open World 15.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 13.2%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its irradiated multiplayer wasteland offers cooperative PvE exploration, CAMP building, crafting, mutated enemies, and a constant search for better supplies.

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 21.4%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs co-op zombie scavenging with meaningful community management, base upgrading, resource runs, and permanent consequences for risky expeditions.

In this survival horror, you're surrounded by sea and a towering gate ahead. Walk into the maze, hunt, gather, and run to survive, alone or with friends. Remember: You're not the only one starving...

Why similar: Survival 20.6%, Co-op 14%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Horror 10.9%

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 22.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 10%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Survival 8.9%

Trapped in a doomed city, you and up to 7 friends must scavenge parts, fix your van, and escape the brutal tornado that approaches. A first-person co-op survival game with escalating disasters and total environmental destruction.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.6%, Survival 18.3%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Procedural Generation 14.1%, Co-op 12.1%

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 20.6%, Survival 18.3%, Online Co-Op 18.3%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Multiplayer 12.5%

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: Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%

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 24.9%, Co-op 19.6%, Horror 16.4%, PvE 13.5%, Action Roguelike 12.7%

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: Survival 19.4%, Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Open World 15%, Base Building 9.2%

An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Survival 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Survival Horror 12.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%

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 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Survival Horror 11%, Open World 9.7%

Explore, survive, and push the boundaries of the horizon in a vast, procedurally generated world. Customize your vehicle, face unpredictable events, gather resources, and embark on a unique adventure, alone or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Survival 14.5%, Open World 11.9%, Co-op 11.3%

A visually lifelike co-op horror game for 1-6 people. Journey through 11 procedurally generated levels, using what's available to survive and progress deeper into the Backrooms.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.7%, Survival Horror 17%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Horror 15.3%, Co-op 12.8%

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 33.7% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 8.6%, Co-op 8.3%, Multiplayer 8%

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 29.5% ★, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Co-op 8.7%

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 22.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Online Co-Op 11%, Survival 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%

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 14.5%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Open World 11.9%, Base Building 11.4%, Co-op 9.5%

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 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Crafting 9.1%

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 20.3%, Survival Horror 18.2%, Crafting 14.9%, Procedural Generation 13.9%, Multiplayer 12.8%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Survival 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Base Building 8.7%

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 13.7%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Open World 11%

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 21.4%, Horror 16.1%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Co-op 13.7%

A survival horror set in a massive maze. Play solo or 6-player co-op. Scavenge resources to craft gear and survive against terrifying enemies. Unlock unique abilities and find the exit.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.3%, Survival Horror 15%, Survival 14.9%, Co-op 12%, Crafting 10.9%

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 30.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.5%

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 35.3% ★, Survival 15%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 7.9%, Crafting 7.6%

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 26.9% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 7.8%

C.A.S.T is a third-person PvE extraction shooter playable solo or in co-op. Select your character and loadout to battle enemy hordes, evade anomalies, and complete objectives across handcrafted maps with dynamic procedural elements.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.9%, Co-op 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Procedural Generation 11.2%, PvE 11.1%

Backrooms Lost Runners is a co-op survival horror with team play, voice-reactive AI, and immersive puzzles. This isn’t a “walking simulator”: explore liminal spaces, outsmart entities, and remember—even a whisper can give you away.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 13.6%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.9%, Co-op 9.8%

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 27.1% ★, Survival 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 8.5%, Base Building 8.3%