- #1 Once Human
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 182,222 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 52.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 17.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival-crafting loop, bizarre supernatural threats, and post-apocalyptic world full of dangerous points of interest feel very close to MISERY's weird radioactive zone.
- #2 DESOLATE
97% matchMixed66% of 8,063 reviews2019
Dev: NeargaPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.4 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 35.8%, Open World 27.7%, Horror 21.5%, Survival Horror 5.3%, Crafting 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is one of the closest matches on Steam, combining co-op open-world survival, crafting, monsters, anomalies, and a ruined exclusion-zone feel.
- #3 Abiotic Factor
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 58,426 reviews2025
Dev: Deep Field GamesPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 20.8 hrsMean: 46.1 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 24.9% ★, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Though more science-facility than wasteland, it nails the co-op survival-crafting, base-building, and bizarre anomaly-driven danger that makes MISERY special.
- #4 Will To Live Online
96% matchMixed69% of 18,383 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.1 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 27.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a clear S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-inspired mix of radiation, hostile factions, mutant threats, and online survival in a bleak wasteland.
- #5 Generation Zero®
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 42,150 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 12.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 10.2%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op open-world scavenging, tense rural apocalypse atmosphere, and constant PvE danger make it a great pick for MISERY players who like roaming hostile territory with friends.
- #6 No One Survived
94% matchMixed64% of 7,777 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 23.0 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 18.1%, Open World 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Crafting 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is a grounded open-world survival game where scavenging, crafting, shelter-building, and staying ahead of threats are the entire experience.
- #7 Fallout 76
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 140,376 reviews2020
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 115.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival 13%, Multiplayer 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: If you want nuclear-scarred exploration, PvE co-op, looting, crafting, and building your own shelter in a dangerous open world, this is a strong fit.
- #8 SurrounDead
91% matchVery Positive91% of 26,489 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.7 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: Survival 19%, Open World Survival Craft 18.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Open World 15.1%, Base Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its lonely post-apocalyptic scavenging, firearms, and survival systems capture a lot of the grim ruin-looting vibe MISERY fans are likely after.
- #9 Miscreated
92% matchMixed66% of 31,591 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 38.2 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 39.7% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares MISERY's harsh open-world survival feel, with scavenging, crafting, shelter-building, and a dangerous post-collapse setting.
- #10 HumanitZ
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 13,984 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers multiplayer post-apocalyptic survival with looting, base building, and dangerous exploration in a world that keeps pressure on your resources.
- #11 7 Days to Die
90% matchVery Positive87% of 405,507 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.3 hrsMean: 110.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: The constant loop of scavenging ruined locations, crafting gear, fortifying a base, and surviving escalating threats makes it an excellent gameplay match.
- #12 VEIN
89% matchVery Positive88% of 12,003 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Open World 12.9%, Co-op 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on open-world survival, grim exploration, and player-built security makes it a good fit for MISERY's bunker-and-scavenge appeal.
- #13 Deadside
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,499 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.6 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 24.4% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 11.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is a strong choice if the appeal is roaming a hostile open world, looting military and civilian areas, and fighting human threats while managing survival needs.
- #14 Sons Of The Forest
88% matchVery Positive88% of 317,804 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 32.3 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 15.9%, Survival Horror 11.9%, Base Building 11.6%, Open World 11.5%, Co-op 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival-horror structure, crafting-heavy progression, base building, and terrifying creature encounters line up well with MISERY's tension and teamwork.
- #15 Survive the Nights
87% matchMixed66% of 6,719 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 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 22.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Survival 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Co-op 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is a slower, more methodical multiplayer survival game centered on looting, securing shelter, and surviving long nights in a hostile world.
- #16 DayZ
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 468,041 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.7 hrsMean: 280.1 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 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival Horror 11.1%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: For players who mainly want unforgiving post-apocalyptic scavenging, emergent danger, firearms, and survival tension, DayZ scratches a similar itch.
- #17 SCUM
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 126,382 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 104.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 17.4%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: It brings deep survival mechanics, open-world looting, crafting, and tense encounters in a harsh multiplayer sandbox.
- #18 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
86% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 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 38.7% ★, Survival 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This leans hard into online post-apocalyptic survival with crafting, scavenging, hostile factions, and a rough wasteland atmosphere.
- #19 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
84% matchVery Positive83% of 69,686 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 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 21%, Base Building 18.3%, Open World 16%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its focus on scavenging dangerous zones, managing supplies, and building up defensible bases gives it a lot of the same survival rhythm, even with a different perspective.
- #20 The Front
83% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.8 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 25.3% ★, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Open World 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers open-world survival-crafting with base construction, hostile NPCs, and lots of scavenging in a ruined future setting.
- #21 Project Zomboid
84% matchVery Positive94% of 475,049 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.6 hrsMean: 87.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 25.8% ★, Survival 19.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Despite the top-down view, its brutal co-op survival, scavenging, crafting, and safehouse-building make it one of the best pure survival alternatives.
- #22 Voidtrain
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,810 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.9 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 29.5% ★, Survival 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Base Building 9.3%, Co-op 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: While less grounded, it still offers co-op survival-crafting, a weird procedural world, and the same appealing blend of exploration, building, and danger.
- #23 Chernobylite Complete Edition
82% matchVery Positive82% of 15,545 reviews2021
Dev: The Farm 51
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.9 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 22.4%, Survival 16.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Horror 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It lacks the full co-op sandbox angle, but its radiation-zone setting, anomaly-filled exploration, crafting, and base upgrades are extremely on-theme.
- #24 Forever Skies
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 8,950 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 21.3% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Survival 10%, Co-op 9%
Why You'll Like It: It trades bunkers for an airship, but keeps the loop of crafting, base management, scavenging ruined environments, and surviving in a toxic post-disaster world.
- #25 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 137,683 reviews2024
Dev: GSC Game WorldPub: GSC Game World (worldwide)
Windows
Median: 30.2 hrsMean: 59.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 22.5%, Survival 21.3%, Shooter 8.8%, Immersive Sim 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of MISERY is the dangerous radioactive zone full of anomalies, monsters, and bandits, this is one of the strongest atmosphere matches.
- #26 The Wild Eight
82% matchMixed68% of 8,109 reviews2019
Dev: Eight PointsPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.7 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 33.7% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 8.6%, Co-op 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the struggle-for-resources, co-op survival, crafting, and mysterious hostile-world feel, just in a colder wilderness setting.
- #27 ZERO Sievert
79% matchVery Positive85% of 15,372 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.7%, Survival 20.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival Horror 12.2%, Open World 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its top-down format is different, but the radiation-soaked scavenging, survival pressure, and hostile anomaly-zone mood are very closely aligned.
- #28 GRAIN ROT
77% matchVery Positive89% of 1,778 reviews2026
Dev: Beck & Branch GamesPub: Neem Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 14.7%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Crafting 9.5%
- #29 Pacific Drive
78% matchVery Positive83% of 26,666 reviews2024
Dev: Ironwood StudiosPub: Kepler Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.7 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 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Survival Horror 14.5%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a great thematic match for players who especially love the anomaly-filled exclusion-zone side of MISERY, even though it is single-player and vehicle-focused.
- #30 Nuclear Nightmare
78% matchVery Positive81% of 18,981 reviews2024
Dev: BG Productions
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 5.2 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 22.7%, Survival Horror 18.7%, Co-op 12.6%, Horror 12%, Open World 8.3%
- #31 Volcanoids
79% matchVery Positive83% of 9,332 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 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: Base Building 13.1%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 11.6%, Co-op 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival-crafting, mobile base management, and hazardous world exploration make it a solid pick for players who enjoy building and surviving under constant environmental threat.
- #32 MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!
76% matchVery Positive83% of 635 reviews2026
Dev: Absam Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 19.9%, Co-op 14.2%, Crafting 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Horror 10.8%
- #33 Necesse
74% matchVery Positive93% of 28,807 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.3 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 34.4% ★, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 8%, Base Building 7.4%
- #34 Plains of Pain
77% matchVery Positive83% of 933 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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 11.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #35 Project: Mist
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 254 reviews2026
Dev: Chicken Launcher
Windows
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 20.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 8%
- #36 Urge
76% matchVery Positive90% of 520 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 22.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival Horror 9.9%, Survival 8.7%
- #37 MIMESIS
73% matchVery Positive84% of 10,269 reviews2025
Dev: ReLU Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 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 26.3%, Survival Horror 19.9%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Horror 14.2%, PvE 12.6%
- #38 ANEURISM IV
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 6,227 reviews2025
Dev: Vellocet
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 31.1 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 20.8%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Survival 17.9%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Multiplayer 12.5%
- #39 Funnel Runners
72% matchVery Positive84% of 3,155 reviews2026
Dev: Supernova Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Online Co-Op 23%, Survival Horror 22.1%, Procedural Generation 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Survival 12.3%
- #40 KLETKA
71% matchVery Positive90% of 7,811 reviews2026
Dev: Callback
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.0 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 19.6%, Horror 16.3%, PvE 13.6%, Action Roguelike 12.8%
- #41 Emissary Zero
72% matchVery Positive84% of 3,139 reviews2025
Dev: Rone Vine
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 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 21.5%, Horror 16.1%, Survival Horror 15.4%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Co-op 13.8%
- #42 DREADZONE
73% matchMixed51% of 1,210 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: Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Survival 13.2%, Base Building 13%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%
- #43 Survival: Lost Way
75% matchMostly Negative36% of 295 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Survival 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Survival Horror 12.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%
- #44 Backrooms: Escape Together
71% matchVery Positive89% of 48,556 reviews2022
Dev: Triiodide Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 21.8%, Survival Horror 17%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Horror 15.2%, Co-op 12.9%
- #45 ICARUS
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 67,515 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 46.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 24.4% ★, Survival 11.9%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 8%
- #46 Nowhere: Mysterious Artifacts
73% matchMostly Negative37% of 375 reviews2023
Dev: EFNSOFT
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.6 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 26% ★, Survival 11.1%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 9.1%, Survival Horror 9%
- #47 The Legacy
70% matchMixed52% of 66 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 14.2%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Open World 11.7%, Base Building 11.5%, Co-op 9.6%
- #48 Whisper of the Swallows
68% matchVery Positive86% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
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 23.9% ★, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Base Building 8.8%
- #49 Backrooms Society
70% matchVery Positive80% of 706 reviews2023
Dev: Mikael Bihl
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 20.4%, Survival Horror 18.1%, Crafting 15%, Procedural Generation 14%, Multiplayer 12.7%
- #50 Hauntsville
69% matchMixed63% of 225 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 13.8%, Survival Horror 11.3%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%
- #51 Next Day: Survival
70% 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 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%
- #52 Soviet Survival
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 76 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 14.5%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Open World 10.9%
- #53 Rem Survival
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 803 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 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 30.4% ★, Survival 13%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10.4%
- #54 Ruins To Fortress
67% matchMixed65% of 181 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 26.9% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Open World 7.7%
- #55 Species: Unknown
64% matchVery Positive95% of 10,790 reviews2025
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.7%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Horror 16%, Multiplayer 10.9%, PvE 10.2%
- #56 The Last Disease Z
66% matchMixed56% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Bublig
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Last Disease Z is a co-op 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 26.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.2%
- #57 Green Hell
66% matchVery Positive85% of 101,308 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 18.4 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 29.7% ★, Survival 13.3%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 7.2%
- #58 Drive Beyond Horizons
63% matchMostly Positive78% of 20,061 reviews2025
Dev: Drive Beyond HorizonsPub: Tacty Studio
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 17.8%, Online Co-Op 15.2%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 11.9%, Co-op 11.5%
- #59 Zombie Survival Game Online
66% matchMixed69% of 316 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 21.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 9.7%, Base Building 9%
- #60 Everwind
63% matchVery Positive81% of 3,756 reviews2026
Dev: Enjoy Studio S.A.Pub: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everwind is a novel take on RPG and Sandbox Survival genre in First-Person-Perspective. Embark on the adventure with your friends - Build a base on a flying island-ship, gather resources, craft, loot, and fight while you rise above the clouds to uncover the mysteries of this world!
Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.8%, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.2%, Co-op 11%