Games Like Next Day: Survival

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

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival sandbox filled with mutants, PvP threats, and crafting systems.

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 28.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Open World 16.1%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Co-op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same harsh, realistic multiplayer survival experience in a vast, unforgiving post-soviet landscape.

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: Survival 25.1%, Open World 17%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on hardcore tactical gunplay and open-world survival within a desolate, abandoned region.

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: Survival 34.3%, Open World 28.9%, Crafting 14%, PvP 7.7%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep survival mechanics, meticulous character stats, and tactical shooter combat in a gritty open world.

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: Survival 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Open World 18.2%, Crafting 11%, MMORPG 8.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Provides a harsh post-apocalyptic MMORPG experience with survival elements and dangerous mutants.

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 31.2%, Open World 22%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Multiplayer 11.4%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players with cooperative open-world survival, crafting, and base defense against aggressive hordes.

Action-focused, open world survival shooter, PvPvE against fellow mercenaries and lethal XOIDS. Raid for resources alone or with team-mates, build and defend your base, stash your gear and survive against the odds. You are the hunters. You are the hunted. And the robots never sleep…

Why similar: Survival 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Open World 16%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world multiplayer survival with looter-shooter mechanics and persistent progression.

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Survival 50.6%, Open World 30.2%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends single-player open-world survival with base building and tense encounters against infected threats.

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

Why similar: Survival 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features multiplayer sandbox survival with crafting, base-building, and zombie threats in open environments.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Survival 36.7%, Open World 21.7%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Crafting 14.4%, Co-op 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes sandbox survival, base building, and wildlife threats in an isolated open world.

Stay Out - is a MMORPG with shooter elements, based on spirit of “stalking” - an urban exploration, searching and exploring mysterious, abandoned and forgotten by humanity pieces of our planet.

Why similar: Survival 20%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, MMORPG 7.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: Delivers an atmospheric online shooter set in a mysterious post-apocalyptic exclusion zone.

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Survival 36.7%, Open World 22.2%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Crafting 11.6%, PvP 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a hardcore multiplayer survival game with progression systems and harsh environmental mechanics.

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: Survival 26.8%, Post-apocalyptic 24.3%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Co-op 8.8%, Shooter 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival, robust base building, and cooperative defense against the infected.

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: Survival 24%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Third-Person Shooter 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers low-poly zombie survival with deep crafting, base building, and multiplayer action.

The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.

Why similar: Survival 33.1%, Open World 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Crafting 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features open-world multiplayer survival with crafting and resource management in a desolate setting.

Try and survive in the world of Nomad. Build a base and protect it from raiding players. Scavenge food, weapons and medical supplies across the island. Team up with others and make a base. Make your mark on the world of Nomad.

Why similar: Survival 34.6%, Open World 21.4%, Multiplayer 17.6%, Crafting 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides open-world multiplayer survival with crafting, base building, and post-apocalyptic threats.

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: Survival 33.8%, Open World 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers open-world survival mechanics and multiplayer combat in a ruined wasteland.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 29.8%, Open World 21.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers large-scale nomadic survival and clan warfare across vast open environments.

"Sunrise" - an online shooter with elements of survival from the first person. Your task is to survive in the harsh conditions of the post-apocalyptic world. Explore new regions, team up with other players in groups, survive with them and create your own rules of survival!

Why similar: Survival 36.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 12%, Crafting 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers indie open-world survival with crafting, exploration, and roleplaying elements.

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: Survival 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Open World 15.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines post-apocalyptic open-world survival with base building and sandbox exploration.

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Survival 31.1%, Open World 24.3%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Crafting 13.2%, PvP 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers medieval open-world survival with brutal combat and territorial domination.

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Survival 39.2%, Open World 30.6%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Crafting 6.4%, RPG 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features massive multiplayer survival set in a harsh, untamed frontier era.

PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.

Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Open World 17.5%, Crafting 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%

VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Why similar: Survival 27.5%, Open World 22%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 7.9%

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 33.3%, Open World 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Shooter 4.8%, Co-op 4.3%

The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.

Why similar: Survival 36.4%, Open World 26.6%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Shooter 4.8%, Co-op 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on fast-paced multiplayer shooter combat and zombie survival in open maps.

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Open World 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Crafting 6.7%

'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: Survival 26.8%, Open World 23.3%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 7.3%

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

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.1%, Open World 17.7%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Co-op 11%, Third-Person Shooter 10.6%

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

Why similar: Survival 23%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Open World 12.8%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%

OPG: Clan Wars — a multiplayer action game with survival elements. Arena shooter, open world, crafting, and resource battles — fight, evolve, and survive alone or with your team.

Why similar: Survival 18.8%, Open World 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Crafting 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%

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

Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Open World 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Crafting 10.1%

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Survival 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20%, Open World 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Crafting 9.1%

Try to survive the harsh realities of the cold Siberian countryside. Live long and always remember, man is man's enemy. You can trust no one but it is almost impossible to survive on your own. Choose your path and go to finish. Firefights, transport, crafting and survival.

Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Open World 17.8%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 36.4%, Open World 18.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 5.4%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Survival 36.8%, Open World 21.2%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 4.9%

Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.

Why similar: Survival 23.2%, Open World 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Crafting 7.4%

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 51%, Open World 39.1%, Crafting 3%, Action 2.3%, Adventure 1.6%

V. O. D. K. A. is a survival shooter in the open world, the game takes place in a fictional state in eastern Europe, most of the territory of which is infected with radiation. Your main task is survival.

Why similar: Survival 30.6%, Open World 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Sandbox 7.4%, Crafting 6.4%

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Survival 33.8%, Open World 24.8%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Sandbox 6.6%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Survival 33.9%, Open World 21.1%, Crafting 17.1%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Sandbox 6.8%

Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Open World 15.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.6%

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

Why similar: Survival 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Crafting 16%, Shooter 3.7%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Survival 32.6%, Crafting 16.7%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Co-op 11.8%, Sandbox 9.1%

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

Why similar: Survival 20.1%, Open World 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Multiplayer 10%, Crafting 9.1%

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: Survival 35.5%, Open World 26.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 3.8%

Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.

Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Open World 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%

You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!

Why similar: Survival 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Open World 17.1%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Crafting 8.8%

“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!

Why similar: Survival 40.6%, Crafting 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 6.8%

Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.

Why similar: Survival 33.8%, Open World 29.9%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Crafting 6.3%, MMORPG 5.1% ★

Explore, adapt, and survive in Undawn, a free-to-play open-world survival RPG for mobile and PC developed by LightSpeed Studios and published by Level Infinite. Embark on an adventure with other survivors four years after a worldwide disaster where hordes of infected roam a shattered world.

Why similar: Survival 20%, Open World 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 7.7%