- #1 DayZ
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 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 24.2%, Zombies 19.2%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Massively Multiplayer 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-world survival experience that mirrors the scavenging and PvP tension found in Nomad.
- #2 Unturned
96% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
Why similar: Zombies 18.3%, Survival 16.4%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Open World 11.2%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An accessible, free-to-play zombie survival game that shares the core scavenging and multiplayer loop of Nomad.
- #3 Rust
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Survival 24.2%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Open World 11%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for multiplayer survival, focusing heavily on base building and high-stakes raiding.
- #4 Deadside
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical, hardcore PvP survival in a large, post-apocalyptic open world.
- #5 7 Days to Die
94% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 18.6%, Zombies 16.8%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep base building and fortification mechanics with intense zombie survival gameplay.
- #6 SCUM
93% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Survival 14.4%, Zombies 13.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers incredibly deep survival mechanics and realistic base building in a dangerous multiplayer environment.
- #7 Miscreated
94% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.3% ★, Survival 15.1%, Zombies 11.8%, Open World 8.8%, Multiplayer 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game with a strong focus on scavenging, exploration, and PvP combat.
- #8 Subsistence
92% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Open World Survival Craft 50.9% ★, Survival 16.6%, Multiplayer 9.8%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features excellent base building and PvE survival mechanics that reward careful resource management.
- #9 Project Zomboid
91% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 19.1%, Zombies 18.7%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: The most comprehensive zombie survival simulation available, emphasizing long-term survival and base fortification.
- #10 DeadPoly
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 40.4% ★, Zombies 17.1%, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that mirrors the scavenging and building loop of classic survival titles.
- #11 Next Day: Survival
90% 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 34.5%, Open World 21%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game with a focus on post-apocalyptic exploration and player-versus-player combat.
- #12 Out of Reach
89% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 9%, Crafting 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and base building in a harsh, player-driven environment with a focus on island exploration.
- #13 Will To Live Online
89% matchMixed69% of 18,150 reviews2018
Dev: AlphaSoft LLC
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Will To Live is a MMORPG-shooter whose action takes place in a severe post-apocalyptic world. Explore the world, engage in fights with mutants and other survivors, join the clans in the struggle for existence and prove your right to Live.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 23.4%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Open World 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic MMORPG with strong survival, crafting, and exploration elements.
- #14 XERA: Survival
88% matchMixed66% of 7,888 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 11%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A loot-focused survival game with a strong emphasis on PvP and resource management.
- #15 Conan Exiles
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Survival 21.1%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features intense base building and raiding mechanics in a harsh, player-driven open world.
- #16 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
86% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 8%, Zombies 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival experience with a focus on open-world exploration and resource gathering.
- #17 Infestation: The New Z
86% matchMixed54% of 33,896 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: Zombies 32.7%, Survival 22.3%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Open World 14.6%, Massively Multiplayer 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A direct descendant of the early zombie survival genre that focuses on fast-paced PvP combat.
- #18 ARK: Survival Ascended
84% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Survival 32.8%, Open World 22.1%, Multiplayer 19.5%, Crafting 14.1%, Massively Multiplayer 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on extensive crafting, base building, and survival against both environmental and player threats.
- #19 Dead Maze
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,790 reviews2018
Dev: Atelier 801
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
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 28.4%, Survival 25.9%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Open World 10.7%, Massively Multiplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play isometric zombie survival game that emphasizes cooperative multiplayer gameplay.
- #20 The Forest
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 56.7% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 6.7%, Zombies 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a tense survival experience with a heavy emphasis on building defenses against hostile threats.
- #21 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
82% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Zombies 28.7%, Survival 27.7%, Open World 18.8%, Multiplayer 14.7%, Co-op 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep focus on base management and zombie survival in a persistent world.
- #22 GRAV
83% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: Open World Survival Craft 50.4% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 11%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with a focus on building, exploration, and defending against alien threats.
- #23 Vigor
80% matchMixed46% of 7,596 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.
Why similar: Multiplayer 44.8%, FPS 19%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Shooter 13.1%, Action 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-stakes scavenging and extraction loop common in modern survival games.
- #24 CastleMiner Z
81% matchVery Positive81% of 11,088 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Zombies 14.2%, Survival 13.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Open World 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based zombie survival game with a focus on crafting and defending against waves of enemies.
- #25 INCUR Survival
79% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Zombies 16.5%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game focused on building and exploration in a hostile, post-apocalyptic world.
- #26 Far Lands
78% matchMixed66% of 166 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes base building and exploration in a procedurally generated world.
- #27 Reign Of Kings
79% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Crafting 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: Features brutal base building and raiding mechanics in a medieval-themed survival setting.
- #28 SurrounDead
75% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
SurrounDead is an open world survival game. Taking place in a world ravaged by an apocalyptic catastrophe. The dead reign free and will stop at nothing to kill you.
Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Survival 20.6%, Open World 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 4.9%
- #29 Ruins To Fortress
76% matchMixed62% of 164 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.6% ★, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 8.3%
- #30 Rem Survival
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 802 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.2% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 10.5%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.3%
- #31 Survival Machine
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 13.3%, Zombies 13.1%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.4%
- #32 Wild Omission
74% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Open World 11%, Crafting 9.9%
- #33 BEACHED
75% matchMixed65% of 3,675 reviews2021
Dev: Gradient Studios
Windows
A free-to-play, low-poly, open-world survival shooter where you’ll battle other players, explore massive monuments, and fight to stay alive. Build and fortify your base to defend against enemy raids, gather resources, and conquer a harsh, competitive world. Survival means doing whatever it takes.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Open World 10.8%, Massively Multiplayer 5.6%
- #34 Zombie Survival Game Online
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36% ★, Zombies 15.4%, Survival 12.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Crafting 8%
- #35 Strayed
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 332 reviews2024
Dev: Crustacean Interactive
Windows
Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Multiplayer 9%, Open World 8.8%, Crafting 7.8%
- #36 Raft
69% matchVery Positive93% of 368,916 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46.3% ★, Survival 19.4%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 7%
- #37 Radiation Island
73% matchVery Positive80% of 623 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Survival 18.1%, Zombies 13.4%, Open World 6.8%, Crafting 4.3%
- #38 Mist Survival
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Survival 20.3%, Zombies 17.6%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 5.3%
- #39 Shamania
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.7% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%
- #40 Fragmented
73% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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: Open World Survival Craft 53.4% ★, Survival 16.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Open World 8.7%, Crafting 5.6%
- #41 HumanitZ
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Zombies 18.2%, Survival 15.4%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%
- #42 No One Survived
67% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.
Why similar: Survival 25.4%, Zombies 22.8%, Open World 16.1%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Crafting 10%
- #43 Necesse
65% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.6% ★, Survival 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 7.1%
- #44 KeepUp Survival
68% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.9% ★, Survival 15.5%, Open World 11.3%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Crafting 9.1%
- #45 Plains of Pain
67% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Crafting 9.1%
- #46 Hurtworld
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 10.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Crafting 8.1%
- #47 Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha
66% matchVery Positive88% of 9,550 reviews2023
Dev: Adrian Kaminski
Windows
Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Zombies 15.3%, Survival 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Open World 7%
- #48 Longvinter
65% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.5% ★, Survival 17.8%, Multiplayer 13.8%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.3%
- #49 Hide & Hold Out - H2o
70% matchMixed54% of 630 reviews2016
Dev: Red Abyss Software
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 52.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Open World 7.1%, Crafting 5.8%
- #50 Mesorift Survival
64% matchMostly Positive77% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: Meik.W Interactive
Windows
Mesorift Survival is a classic survival game with PvP and PvE elements, set in a tropical open world with three islands. Gather resources, build a base, craft weapons, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.9% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.9%, FPS 5.5%
