Games Like Nearly Dead

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 36.1%, RPG 21.5%, Survival 16.8%, Strategy 16.4%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based roguelike that perfectly captures the strategic survival and resource management aspects of the genre.

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: Zombies 47.6%, Survival 26%, RPG 13.6%, Indie 5.6%, Survival Horror 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-world survival game that shares the deep, unforgiving simulation mechanics found in Nearly Dead.

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: Zombies 50.5%, Survival 21.6%, RPG 16.7%, Action 5.2%, Indie 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes scavenging and combat against both zombies and other threats.

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 32.5%, Strategy 20.7%, RPG 13.9%, Survival 11.6%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused survival game that tasks you with managing a group of survivors through a zombie-infested world.

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: RPG 30.8%, Survival 29.9%, Strategy 16.5%, Perma Death 12.1%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore 2D survival RPG that focuses on scavenging, crafting, and making difficult choices in a hostile wasteland.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 49%, Survival 19.9%, Roguelite 10.8%, Action 9.6%, Perma Death 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite survival game where every run is a desperate attempt to gather resources and survive the zombie plague.

This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 52.2%, RPG 22%, Survival 20.3%, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox zombie survival game that allows for significant exploration and base-building in an open-world setting.

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 42.3%, RPG 23.8%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based RPG that focuses heavily on base management and the social dynamics of survivors in a zombie apocalypse.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 42.9%, RPG 15.6%, Survival 12.5%, Action 9.5%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D zombie roguelite that emphasizes chaotic action, survival, and difficult decision-making during a road trip.

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Zombies 37.1%, RPG 21.9%, Survival 16.9%, Action 10.7%, Roguelite 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that features realistic mechanics and a focus on scavenging in a post-apocalyptic environment.

You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.

Why similar: Zombies 28%, RPG 18.9%, Strategy 16%, Survival 13.3%, Action 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven survival game that requires careful planning and resource management to survive the outbreak.

2D top-down multi co-op action game. Survive the zombies together with a stranger.

Why similar: Zombies 33.5%, RPG 23.8%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Action 10.4%, Roguelite 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A direct spin-off that expands on the core mechanics of the original Nearly Dead with multiplayer capabilities.

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 31.6%, RPG 24.7%, Moddable 21.7% ★, Survival 14%, 2D 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly deep and complex survival simulation that offers unparalleled freedom and depth for hardcore fans.

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 36.5%, Strategy 25.6%, Action 12.2%, Survival 12.2%, Indie 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical strategy game where you manage a group of survivors in a top-down, zombie-filled world.

A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 50%, Action 14%, Indie 10.8%, RPG 10.5%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action game that captures the retro aesthetic while providing intense zombie-shooting survival gameplay.

See how long you can survive in a world full of brainless zombies and heartless humans! Find your place among hundreds of other characters spread across several warring factions, and battle to reclaim every corner of a sprawling city in real-time.

Why similar: Zombies 70.8%, Survival Horror 21.8%, 2D 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique, physics-based zombie survival game that offers a chaotic and highly customizable experience.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 36.3%, RPG 25.2%, Survival 20.1%, Action 10.5%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that encourages exploration and dismantling the environment to craft better gear.

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 29.3%, RPG 25.2%, Indie 24.3%, Action 12.7%, Survival 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: An indie action-RPG that focuses on the gritty reality of surviving a zombie outbreak.

All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!

Why similar: Zombies 42.1%, Survival 18.2%, RPG 12.2%, Survival Horror 8.4%, Action 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based survival game that focuses on crafting, building, and defending against zombie attacks.

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: Zombies 46.3%, Survival 22.1%, Action 16.1%, Indie 13.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: A popular survival game that combines crafting and base building with a distinct visual style.

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: Zombies 39.9%, Survival 23.6%, Strategy 17.4%, Action 9.7%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deep survival game that features extensive base building and tower defense elements against waves of zombies.

Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.

Why similar: Zombies 42.7%, Action 24.4%, Survival 19.8%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure survival game that tasks players with completing quests and managing resources in a hostile world.

After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 48.3%, Survival 20.9%, Action 16.9%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that aims for high realism in its mechanics and environment.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 35.4%, Strategy 26.1%, RPG 22.6%, Indie 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused survival game that tasks you with keeping a family alive within a fallout shelter.

The world has fallen victim to a deadly virus, zombies now roam the lands. While running for your life you stumble upon a small city. Claim this city as your own, protect it with your life and maybe other survivors will find you.

Why similar: Zombies 32.9%, Strategy 22.7%, Action 13.1%, Survival 13%, Online Co-Op 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A casual strategy game that offers a lighter take on the zombie survival genre while maintaining core management elements.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 37.1%, Moddable 22% ★, Strategy 21.8%, Action 10.7%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique strategy game that focuses on large-scale evacuation and defense against zombie hordes.

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 44.1%, Survival 21.1%, RPG 14.3%, Action 9.4%, Online Co-Op 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes crafting and combat against diverse zombie threats.

Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.

Why similar: Zombies 32.7%, Strategy 19.4%, Survival 12.4%, Action 11.6%, Roguelite 10.2%

Project Winter 2.0: Cabin Fever is an 8-player survival and social deception game where teamwork is vital, but betrayal is inevitable. Face the wilderness, uncover traitors, and survive paranoia in this streamlined yet chaotic multiplayer experience.

Why similar: Strategy 44.4%, Survival 32.3%, Action 23.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that adds a layer of social deduction and betrayal to the standard resource-gathering loop.

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Why similar: Zombies 50.2%, Survival 21.4%, RPG 12.9%, Action 7.4%, Survival Horror 4%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive zombie survival game that balances base management with open-world exploration and combat.

(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.

Why similar: Zombies 49.6%, Survival 21%, Action 17.3%, Online Co-Op 6.6%, 2D 4.3%

The open-world survival role-playing game "Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse" tells the story of Delta Team and his comrades as they work to rebuild a world devastated by humans and their race turned into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 37.2%, RPG 29.9%, Survival 15.7%, Indie 11.8%, 2D 4%

Survivors Of The Zombie World is a 3D pixel-style zombie survival game. Survivors fight in a world full of zombies. Your goal is to survive, find food, ammunition, medicine and other supplies on the map and try to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 43.9%, Survival 20.1%, Action 15.3%, Roguelite 9.9%, Survival Horror 6.9%

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...

Why similar: Zombies 30.4%, Strategy 25%, RPG 21.7%, Survival 11.7%, Indie 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic survival game that uses a diary-based interface to manage survivors and fortify locations.

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: Zombies 53.7%, Survival 30.9%, Action 13.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Dead Maze is a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. Explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible, to survive the hostile environment and upgrade your gear and camp as you go.

Why similar: Zombies 55.3%, Survival 26.9%, Action 9%, Online Co-Op 5.5%, 2D 3.4%

A deadly virus plagues the city and the residents now roam the streets as flesh-eating zombies. Loot the apocalyptic open world and build a self-sustaining zombie-killing fortress. Will you survive the apocalypse or become one of the undead?

Why similar: Zombies 57.1%, Survival 21.5%, Action 21.4%

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: Zombies 59.9%, Survival 25.6%, Action 12.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

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: Zombies 47.8%, Survival 21.3%, Action 15.6%, Online Co-Op 13.5%, Singleplayer 1.8%

iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!

Why similar: Zombies 34%, RPG 33.5%, Survival 14.2%, Action 13%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%

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: Zombies 43.5%, Survival 26.1%, RPG 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Online Co-Op 6.6%

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: Zombies 37.6%, RPG 19.9%, Survival 17.4%, Action 8.7%, Survival Horror 7.6%

Top-down open world single player / survival / RPG game with zombies and wildlife.

Why similar: RPG 34.8%, Zombies 31.3%, Survival 19.1%, Indie 14.7%

Blending horror survival/ Building and tower defence elements Damned Nation gives the player more ways to experience the post apocalypse the ever before.

Why similar: Zombies 31.1%, Strategy 27.5%, Action 16.6%, Survival 13%, Indie 11.9%

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Why similar: Zombies 49.5%, Action 17.5%, Perma Death 17.4%, Survival Horror 15.6%

Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.

Why similar: RPG 30.8%, Zombies 29.1%, Strategy 21.6%, Survival 8.2%, Roguelite 4.9%

A zombie virus, brought to BOXHEAD World by a meteorite that fell unexpectedly, continues to turn people into the zombies. To survive in this purgatorial world, you must unleash every bullet into the hordes of the zombies and use any explosive objects to drench every inch of the land in blood.

Why similar: RPG 28.3%, Zombies 26.4%, Roguelite 12.3%, Survival 10.9%, Action 10.3%

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

Why similar: Zombies 45.3%, Survival 20.5%, Action 11.5%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!

Why similar: Zombies 41.6%, Survival 18.9%, Action 13.8%, Indie 11.2%, Survival Horror 10.3%

Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!

Why similar: RPG 24.5%, Strategy 21.2%, Zombies 16.5%, Survival 12.9%, Indie 9.4%

Undeadz! is an open world Zombie Survival game with a retro art style!

Why similar: Zombies 47.9%, Action 27.7%, Indie 24.4%

The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.

Why similar: Zombies 50.9%, Survival 20%, RPG 15.9%, Action 8.9%, Survival Horror 2.4%

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Zombies 47.3%, Survival 14.8%, Survival Horror 14.2%, Action 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.8%

"Last Remains" is a highly challenging multiplayer zombie survival game. Players must survive in a city overrun by the undead, scavenging for food, arming themselves, avoiding zombies, searching for loot, plundering other survivors, and finding any possible way to escape.

Why similar: Zombies 49.4%, Action 26.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival Horror 6.9%, Indie 6.7%

Cards of the Dead is a survival card game. Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Zombies 28.7%, RPG 18.6%, Strategy 15.8%, Survival 11.3%, Action 10.7%

A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.

Why similar: Zombies 38.5%, RPG 26.1%, Survival 23.5%, Action 10.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%

'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: Zombies 37.7%, RPG 25.2%, Survival 15.2%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival Horror 9.6%

Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.

Why similar: Zombies 44.5%, Survival 30.8%, Action 24.7%

Forsaken Fortress Strategy is a squad based, survival strategy game focused on base building and scavenging.

Why similar: RPG 45.3%, Strategy 39.6%, Indie 15.1%