Games Like Once Human

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 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Open World 11.5%, Survival 11.3%, MMORPG 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is another free-to-play open-world survival game built around scavenging, crafting, driving, and surviving a ruined world with other players.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like Once Human, it leans into large-scale online survival, base construction, resource competition, and a harsh open world designed for both cooperation and conflict.

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 26.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.1%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of open-world survival crafting, base defense, technology progression, and fighting strange enemies makes it one of the closest mechanical matches.

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 23.3% ★, Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Open World 11.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play online survival shooter shares Once Human's post-apocalyptic atmosphere, dangerous world design, and persistent multiplayer progression.

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 18.5%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Survival 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a shared online post-apocalyptic world with CAMP base-building, co-op events, and mutant-heavy exploration that feels very close to Once Human's MMO-lite survival 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 23.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Survival 10.1%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the tense open-world survival feel of Once Human with scavenging, base-building, PvPvE danger, and a grounded post-collapse setting.

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 26.6% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the free-to-play survival formula of exploring a dangerous map, gathering gear, and building up your position in a hostile world.

STALCRAFT: X is the largest open-world online game in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Explore the world full of mutants and anomalies alone or with friends — unforgettable emotions guaranteed.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.5%, MMORPG 16.9% ★, Multiplayer 14.4%, Shooter 12.6%, PvP 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its shared-world mutant-hunting, anomaly-filled wasteland, and MMO shooter structure echo Once Human's mix of weird horror and online progression.

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 30.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 18.8%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer world, heavy survival systems, and player-built bases make it a good fit for someone who wants a more hardcore version of Once Human.

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 18.7% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its zombie-ravaged open world, crafting progression, and multiplayer survival focus make it a strong pick for players who like Once Human's apocalypse sandbox.

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 27.7% ★, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This combines zombie survival, crafting, fortification, and cooperative base defense in a way that strongly overlaps with Once Human's build-and-survive rhythm.

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: Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Co-op 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a harsher, more simulation-heavy take on open-world survival in a ruined landscape where every trip out for supplies feels meaningful.

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 28.4% ★, Survival 21%, Open World 12.3%, Multiplayer 10%, PvP 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Once Human is building a territory, gathering resources, and surviving a hostile online world with other players, Rust is a natural next step.

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 21.1%, Open World 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Co-op 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on cooperative open-world zombie survival with shelter building, resource runs, and a constant struggle to keep your group alive.

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: Base Building 22.6%, Open World 19.6%, Survival 18.4%, Online Co-Op 17.7%, Multiplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its exploration-heavy survival crafting and impressive building systems make it a great alternative if your favorite part of Once Human was co-op progression and home-building.

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: Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.5%, PvP 9.8%, MMORPG 9.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: This online survival shooter channels a similar creepy, anomaly-touched wasteland vibe while emphasizing exploration, PvE threats, and persistent progression.

'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 29% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is especially good if you liked building up a defensible home base in Once Human and then holding it against escalating nightly attacks.

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 18.2%, Survival 14.8%, Open World 14.1%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Massively Multiplayer 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This blends base-building, resource farming, and online territory control with a stylish supernatural setting that scratches a similar progression itch.

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: Massively Multiplayer 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 13.6%, Co-op 13.2%, Open World 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its blockier style, it nails the same loop of scavenging, crafting, base-building, and surviving zombie-infested multiplayer servers.

Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.3%, Open World 10%, PvP 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes open-world survival, construction, and expanding your power through a persistent world, making it a solid fit for Once Human fans who enjoy the crafting side most.

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 29.7% ★, Open World 12.7%, Survival 12%, Online Co-Op 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is less grim, but its open-world survival, base automation, multiplayer progression, and creature-driven combat overlap surprisingly well with Once Human's sandbox appeal.

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 31.1% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 13.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Although fantasy-themed, it closely matches Once Human's satisfying blend of open-world survival, crafting, base-building, and multiplayer clan play.

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 32% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 12.5%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more PvE than PvP, but its co-op survival missions, crafting progression, and structure-building offer a similar survival-crafting payoff.

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Survival 13.9%, Open World 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%, Massively Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another post-apocalyptic multiplayer survival game centered on scavenging, building, and enduring both environmental and player-driven threats.

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 28.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This one delivers a lighter but still familiar mix of multiplayer zombie survival, scavenging, crafting, and improvised base-building.

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 19.9%, Base Building 18.6%, Open World 17.3%, Massively Multiplayer 15.5%, Multiplayer 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a large-scale survival sandbox with gathering, structure building, creature threats, and cooperative or competitive play in a persistent world.

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 28.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Co-op 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good pick for players who mainly want the atmospheric sci-fi survival, crafting, and base-building side of Once Human in a more co-op-focused format.

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 19.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Co-op 16.5%, Open World 16.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: If you liked Once Human's unsettling creature encounters and cooperative building, this offers a more focused but very polished version of that experience.

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: Base Building 19.5%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 15.2%, Co-op 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades MMO scale for stronger community management, but the mix of zombie survival, base development, and cooperative scavenging is still very close in spirit.

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: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world looting, zombie-infested towns, and emphasis on building up from scraps make it a good lower-budget alternative to Once Human.

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 28.3% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Co-op 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.4%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in this free prologue introducing one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters – an upcoming open-world game that challenges you, alone or with friends, to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 9.4%

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: Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Open World 13.7%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.3%

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 19.3%, Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Open World 15.9%, Co-op 13.6%

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 32.9% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Massively Multiplayer 13.1%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 10.2%

Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 10%, Open World 8.5%

Throne and Liberty captures the essence of classic MMORPGs while introducing new gameplay elements, depth and excitement at every turn. Gather your guild, prepare for battle, and set forth for throne... and liberty!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.8%, MMORPG 16.3% ★, Open World 14.7%, PvP 10.1%, RPG 6.6%

The First Descendant is a third-person looter shooter powered by Unreal Engine 5. Become a Descendant. Fight for the survival of humanity. Descendants have unique abilities to tackle both solo and co-op missions. Up to 4 players use varied mechanics to defeat giant bosses. BE THE FIRST DESCENDANT!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.3%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Co-op 13.8%, Shooter 13.6%, Third Person 13.2%

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 29.8%, Survival 16.4%, Open World 13.7%, PvP 8.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7.5%

Lost Rift is a first person survival adventure shooter that blends cooperative base building with multiplayer PvE or PvP extraction expeditions. Journey solo or in teams of up to 5 players across a vast archipelago, craft gear, build bases, defeat raiders, and become legendary.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.8%, Base Building 13.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 9.8%

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 27.2% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Survival 9.6%

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 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.2%

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 11%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.4%, MMORPG 8.1% ★

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 23.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Co-op 8.3%

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 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Co-op 13.5%, Open World 13.1%, Survival 12.9%

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 38.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.5%, Survival 13%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.1%

「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.4% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Co-op 10.1%, Survival 9.6%

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 27.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.7%, Survival 9.1%, Co-op 8.9%, Open World 8.8%

MISERY is a 1–5 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 21.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Survival 9.4%

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 23.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Survival 10.2%

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38% ★, Survival 13.4%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Multiplayer 9.6%, Base Building 8.8%

Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19.3%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Survival 13.4%, MMORPG 11.7% ★

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 28.9% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 11%, Multiplayer 9%

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 19.6%, Massively Multiplayer 18.4%, Shooter 16.1%, Multiplayer 15%, Open World 9.6%

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 27.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Survival 10.3%, Co-op 8.6%