Games Like Once Human

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 21.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Survival 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of open-world survival, firearms, crafting, base defense, vehicles, and multiplayer territory-building makes it one of the closest mechanical matches.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Base Building 9.8%, Crafting 7.9%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Once Human, it is built around a large shared survival world where exploration, resource competition, base-building, and multiplayer progression are the core loop.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Open World 16.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 13.9%, Online Co-Op 12.4%, Crafting 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a strong blend of co-op exploration, survival systems, deep building, and dangerous fog-covered regions that echoes Once Human's explore-build-fight rhythm.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Creature Collector 15.2%, Open World 10.7%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Beneath the creature-collecting hook, it shares Once Human's open-world survival crafting structure, multiplayer co-op, automation, and extensive base-building.

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: Massively Multiplayer 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Open World 13%, Survival 11.8%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another online post-apocalyptic survival game centered on open-world scavenging, shooting, co-op play, and maintaining a home base.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 11%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes survival progression, building, crafting, and a persistent multiplayer sandbox, while adding a strong sense of discovery and long-term settlement growth.

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 19.3%, Open World 17.5%, Base Building 15%, Multiplayer 12%, Survival 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers online post-apocalyptic exploration, camp building, co-op events, mutated monsters, and persistent progression in a way that feels very close to Once Human's survival-shooter sandbox.

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 17.3% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its zombie-filled open world, multiplayer survival systems, scavenging, vehicles, and base-building make it a strong post-apocalyptic alternative.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival crafting, portal-based exploration, base-building, and supernatural world design make it a great fit if you like Once Human's stranger side.

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 25.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It leans hard into co-op survival, resource runs, crafting trees, and shelter construction while preserving a strong explore-and-extract gameplay loop.

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 22.5% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.4%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a grounded open-world survival-shooter experience with looting, crafting, PvPvE tension, and player-made bases in a harsh online setting.

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 23% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 10%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great match for players who want more survival pressure, scavenging, crafting, and fortifying a base against relentless monstrous threats.

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 22.2% ★, Survival 17.1%, Crafting 12.1%, Open World 10.8%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Once Human is gathering resources, building a defensible base, and surviving in a dangerous online world, Rust is a natural step.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This one mirrors Once Human's explore-build-survive loop especially well, just in a giant-overgrown world full of environmental hazards and creature threats.

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 16%, Open World 15%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, open-world exploration, base-building, and constant pressure from powerful creatures line up closely with Once Human's PvE sandbox appeal.

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 22.4% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Crafting 9.3%, Co-op 9.1%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its post-apocalyptic atmosphere, co-op survival, crafting, and mobile base-building create a similarly rewarding loop of exploration and reconstruction.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Base Building 14.6%, Open World 13%, Survival 12.6%, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends survival progression, dangerous open-world exploration, crafting, and a highly customizable base with a strong multiplayer focus.

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 11%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival gathering with base fortification and regular monster assaults, which fits the defend-your-territory side of Once Human well.

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 17.1%, Open World 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a straightforward open-world zombie survival game with scavenging, crafting, shelter-building, and multiplayer systems that align well with Once Human's fundamentals.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.6% ★, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although more mythic in theme, its co-op exploration, survival crafting, progression through dangerous biomes, and excellent base-building scratch many of the same itches.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: The flooded post-apocalyptic setting, scavenging-heavy progression, co-op survival, and modular base-building make it feel very Once Human-adjacent.

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 30.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 18.3%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more hardcore take on open-world survival with deep crafting, looting, vehicles, and player-built strongholds in a persistent multiplayer world.

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 23.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Base Building 9.8%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer survival loop of looting, crafting, zombie fighting, and base-building makes it a solid lower-end match for Once Human fans.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Co-op 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the different setting, it strongly matches the co-op survival-crafting, exploration, and creative base-building parts of Once Human.

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 27.2% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 11%, Survival 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival-crafting game nails the weird-science atmosphere, creature threats, scavenging, and improvised base setup that appeal to Once Human players.

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 15.6%, Open World 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Co-op 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, mutant-infested wilderness, crafting, and defensive base-building make it a strong pick for fans of Once Human's horror-tinged survival feel.

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: Base Building 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world co-op structure, hostile post-apocalyptic setting, and focus on scavenging and fighting unusual enemies make it a good lighter alternative.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Open World 16.6%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you like the exploration and building side of Once Human more than the hardcore survival, this offers massive worlds, co-op, crafting, and base creation with a strange sci-fi tone.

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 8.4%, Open World 8.4%, Online Co-Op 8.4%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Open World 8.6%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 8.5%

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: Open World 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Multiplayer 11%

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 23.2% ★, Base Building 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%

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: Base Building 15.5%, Survival 15.1%, Open World 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Co-op 10.6%

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 27.5% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 9.8%

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 25.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10%

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: Massively Multiplayer 26.4%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 13.9%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.8%

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 25.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.7%, Open World 9.4%, Survival 9%, Sandbox 8.3%

On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Online Co-Op 10%

Remain is an MMO game. Within this open world, you can tame "zombies", making them your labor force, or commanding them to fight your foes. Apart from zombies, you will still have to face the survival challenges of food and water. Remaining warriors, don't let your guard down, and keep surviving...

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 17.4%, Open World 11%, Building 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.7%, Building 8.7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 37% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.5%, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 8%

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 24.9% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Building 8.7%, Crafting 8.4%

Join the "Firefly" task force and unveil the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone in the world of Lost Light. You could either scavenge for supplies or go out with guns blazing and plunder. Survive the brutal domain where danger lurks in every corner!

Why similar: Survival 21.6%, Massively Multiplayer 19.1%, Shooter 17.6%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Open World 11.4%

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 37.4% ★, Survival 13.5%, Open World 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Massively Multiplayer 8.3%

Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.2% ★, Creature Collector 11.2%, Base Building 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%, Survival 8.3%

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: Open World Survival Craft 17.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, Survival 8.6%, Base Building 8.2%

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 21.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 21.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.3%, Crafting 8.2%

Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Survival 12.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Open World 8.9%, Co-op 8.9%

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 34.4% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.7%, Base Building 7.7%

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 37.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 18.7%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%

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 33.2% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 8%