- #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 31.3%, Zombies 31.1%, Sandbox 17.5%, Adventure 10.5%, Action 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: As the pioneer of the hardcore open-world zombie survival genre, it provides an unparalleled experience of tension and player interaction.
- #2 7 Days to Die
96% 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: Zombies 39.4%, Survival 34.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Action 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive zombie survival game that masterfully combines voxel-based base building with intense horde-defense mechanics.
- #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: Survival 58.7%, Sandbox 20.2%, Adventure 9.8%, Action 7.6%, Indie 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the brutal, sandbox-driven multiplayer survival loop where players must build, scavenge, and defend against others in a hostile world.
- #4 Project Zomboid
95% 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: Zombies 42.5%, Survival 34.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Indie 4.1%, Adventure 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers the most realistic and punishing zombie survival simulation, focusing on long-term survival and complex character management.
- #5 Unturned
94% 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 31.5%, Survival 22.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Adventure 10.7%, Action 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an accessible, blocky aesthetic while maintaining deep survival, crafting, and multiplayer zombie-fighting mechanics.
- #6 DeadPoly
93% 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: Zombies 40.4%, Survival 26.9%, Sandbox 20.8%, Action 12%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly, multiplayer zombie survival game that captures the core loop of scavenging and base building in a sandbox world.
- #7 SurvivalZ
94% matchMixed60% of 316 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone or in groups you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by living dead!
Why similar: Survival 28.9%, Zombies 25.3%, Adventure 17.7%, Action 15.3%, Indie 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward indie survival game that leans into the classic zombie apocalypse scavenging and combat loop.
- #8 SCUM
91% 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: Zombies 37%, Survival 30.4%, Sandbox 20.8%, Action 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game features incredibly detailed survival mechanics, including metabolism and complex combat, set in a massive open-world environment.
- #9 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
92% 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 48.2%, Survival 36.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Action 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes community management and base building within a persistent, dangerous zombie-infested open world.
- #10 No One Survived
89% 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: Zombies 42.7%, Survival 37.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Adventure 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a detailed survival experience with extensive crafting, building, and combat mechanics set in a dangerous zombie-filled world.
- #11 Miscreated
90% 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: Survival 41.4%, Zombies 40.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Action 5.9%, Indie 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game delivers a high-fidelity post-apocalyptic survival experience with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and player-versus-player combat.
- #12 Shadows of Kurgansk
91% matchMixed66% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Yadon StudioPub: Gaijin inCubator
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
“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: Zombies 29.3%, Survival 25.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Adventure 11.9%, Action 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends traditional survival mechanics with supernatural elements, creating a unique and eerie exploration experience.
- #13 The Forest
89% 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: Survival 51.6%, Adventure 12.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Zombies 11.3%, Action 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a terrifying survival experience that forces players to build, hunt, and explore while being hunted by hostile creatures.
- #14 Deadside
88% 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: Survival 67.1%, Adventure 16.9%, Action 16%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that focuses on realistic combat and exploration in a vast, post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #15 Crafting Dead
87% matchMixed57% of 158 reviews2017
Dev: Ferullo Gaming
Windows
Crafting Dead is a post-apocalyptic multiplayer-based zombie survival game with a voxel theme. Aim high and punch low, survive at all costs!
Why similar: Zombies 39.7%, Survival 26.8%, Adventure 13.1%, Action 11.6%, Indie 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer-focused survival game emphasizes the necessity of crafting and cooperation to survive against waves of zombies.
- #16 Dead Matter
86% matchMostly Negative21% of 882 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Why similar: Zombies 35.6%, Survival 22.9%, Sandbox 19.6%, Action 11%, Adventure 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world zombie survival game that focuses on realistic mechanics and a persistent, evolving multiplayer environment.
- #17 Subsistence
85% 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: Survival 61.7%, Sandbox 21.4%, Action 8.6%, Adventure 6.2%, Indie 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game that focuses on solo or co-op base building and resource management against AI and environmental threats.
- #18 Nomad
86% matchMixed60% of 4,634 reviews2015
Dev: Diminished Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Zombies 42.2%, Survival 37%, Adventure 9.4%, Action 7.7%, Indie 3.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an open-world survival experience where players must navigate a hostile environment while managing limited resources.
- #19 Hold Your Own
84% matchMixed68% of 574 reviews2017
Dev: DistrictWare inc.
Windows
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
Why similar: Survival 34.4%, Sandbox 22.8%, Adventure 15.6%, Action 15.5%, Indie 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that focuses on building defenses and managing resources to survive against waves of enemies.
- #20 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
83% 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: Survival 49.2%, Zombies 21.7%, Action 9%, Adventure 8.4%, Sandbox 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic open-world survival experience with a focus on crafting and multiplayer interactions.
- #21 Last Whisper
82% matchMixed66% of 191 reviews2024
Dev: 12Studio
Windows
Last Whisper Survival is a cooperative zombie survival game where exploration of the open world is key. As you venture further, you'll need to upgrade your gear and level up your character and skill tree to handle the increasing challenges as you move through the world.
Why similar: Zombies 35.5%, Survival 28.4%, Action 14%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This action-adventure survival game focuses on exploration and combat in a desolate, zombie-infested landscape.
- #22 Veritex
84% matchMostly Negative39% of 157 reviews2018
Dev: Veritex Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Veritex is a multiplayer survival game. The goal is to survive versus the wilderness around you, build bases, and fend off other players that can murder you and take your loot.
Why similar: Survival 40.5%, Adventure 20.6%, Action 20.6%, Indie 18.3%
Why You'll Like It: An indie action-survival game that tasks players with navigating a dangerous world filled with threats.
- #23 Rem Survival
82% 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: Survival 48.9%, Adventure 19.2%, Action 17%, Indie 15%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox survival experience with a heavy focus on base building and resource gathering in an open world.
- #24 Urge
81% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.
Why similar: Survival 37.7%, Sandbox 34.5%, Action 16.9%, Indie 11%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror sandbox that emphasizes atmospheric exploration and base construction to withstand the night.
- #25 Death World
81% matchMixed46% of 56 reviews2020
Dev: Millenium Games
Windows
After a long night you wake up alone in the bunker as a bunker security guard. Hunt, kill, gather. Do anything to survive.
Why similar: Action 37.3%, Adventure 33%, Indie 29.6%
Why You'll Like It: This indie title focuses on action-oriented survival and exploration in a hostile, post-apocalyptic setting.
- #26 Last Farewell
80% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2022
Dev: Flat Tail Studios ABPub: Flat Tail Studios AB
Windows
Last Farewell is a Survival Co-op game where you are tasked to work together with others (or solo) in order to ensure your own survival for as long as possible. Gather supplies and craft during the day in order to protect yourself and the sanctuary, the Town Hall, during the night.
Why similar: Zombies 35.1%, Survival 32.8%, Action 19%, Indie 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that forces players to make difficult choices to stay alive in a hostile environment.
- #27 AsHes
78% matchMixed62% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Yanmo Games
Windows
This horror game inspired by Chinese folklore offers an enthralling journey through the depths of the Underworld. As you delve deeper, you'll unravel hidden secrets veiled in the darkness.
Why similar: Survival 47.2%, Adventure 20.6%, Action 19.7%, Indie 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty indie survival game that captures the desperate feeling of trying to stay alive in a ruined world.
- #28 Zombie Survival Game Online
78% 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: Zombies 52.5%, Survival 34.2%, Action 13.3%
Why You'll Like It: This looter-shooter survival game focuses on fast-paced combat and scavenging in an open world.
- #29 Ostrofa
79% matchMixed64% of 84 reviews2020
Dev: Normunds Petrovs
Windows · Mac
Be prepared to survive in a custom-generated, low poly environment, fighting against other players from all over the world.
Why similar: Adventure 37.1%, Action 35.3%, Indie 27.6%
Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer survival game that challenges players to survive and thrive in a harsh, open environment.
- #30 Another Try 2
77% matchMixed54% of 1,065 reviews2025
Dev: Hoki Wolf Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
The virus has devastated cities and lands. Most of the population died, the rest turned into the walking dead. You're one of the last survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another day.
Why similar: Zombies 43.1%, Survival 29.4%, Adventure 15.3%, Action 12.1%
- #31 Junk Survivor
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!
Why similar: Zombies 35.8%, Survival 24.5%, Sandbox 16.6%, Action 12%, Adventure 11.1%
- #32 Polygeddon
76% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
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: Zombies 38.4%, Survival 23.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Adventure 10.6%, Action 9%
- #33 The Fifth Day
79% matchMostly Negative37% of 940 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 44.6%, Zombies 17.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Action 9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game that emphasizes the struggle for resources in a post-apocalyptic sandbox.
- #34 LIFE EFFECT Survival
73% matchVery Positive89% of 243 reviews2026
Dev: LIFE EFFECTPub: EFFECT STUDIO
Windows
Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.
Why similar: Zombies 33.4%, Survival 22.1%, Sandbox 20.4%, Adventure 12.6%, Action 11.5%
- #35 Last Remains
74% matchMixed53% of 973 reviews2025
Dev: Earn Alliance
Windows
"Last Remains" is a highly challenging multiplayer zombie survival game. Players must survive in a city overrun by the undead, scavenging for food, arming themselves, avoiding zombies, searching for loot, plundering other survivors, and finding any possible way to escape.
Why similar: Zombies 57.4%, Action 26.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 6.4%
- #36 Next Day: Survival
75% 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 64.3%, Sandbox 14%, Action 10.6%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 3.6%
- #37 The Last One
77% matchMostly Negative35% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: Phoenix Interactive Studio
Windows
Once a prosperous city Istanbul is fallen. Prepare your gear, defeat zombie hordes and reclaim your hometown. Uncover hidden story behind the disaster and learn what controls the zombies. Select your side between military and rebels and fight for the control of the city.
Why similar: Zombies 40%, Survival 31.4%, Action 11%, Adventure 10.3%, Indie 7.3%
- #38 Far Lands
73% 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: Survival 53.1%, Adventure 24.8%, Action 22.1%
- #39 DREADZONE
72% matchMixed51% of 1,171 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Zombies 41.4%, Survival 35.5%, Adventure 13.8%, Action 9.3%
- #40 Ashes
75% matchMixed63% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: FurGoldGames
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Chaos and devastation devoured the last sparkles of life. Surviving is the main task.
Why similar: Adventure 28.2%, Action 26.7%, Survival 24%, Indie 21.2%
- #41 Another Try
73% matchMixed51% of 328 reviews2020
Dev: Hoki Wolf Studio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
The virus has devastated cities and lands, you are one of the last survivors! You will have to survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world populated by the living dead.
Why similar: Zombies 36.5%, Survival 26.1%, Adventure 14.3%, Action 13%, Indie 10.1%
- #42 Deadline Escape
68% matchVery Positive89% of 194 reviews2026
Dev: DeadlineEscape
Windows
Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.
Why similar: Survival 66.7%, Zombies 19.1%, Adventure 5.4%, Action 5%, Indie 3.8%
- #43 GRAV
74% 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: Survival 45.7%, Sandbox 28.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Action 9.2%, Indie 4.5%
- #44 Blood Night
67% matchVery Positive96% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: Team
Windows
(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.
Why similar: Zombies 47.1%, Survival 29.6%, Action 14.5%, Adventure 8.8%
- #45 Last Oasis
70% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 40.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Adventure 16.3%, Action 15.1%, Indie 9.5%
- #46 Crushed
71% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Survival 34.8%, Zombies 31.3%, Sandbox 24.8%, Action 9.1%
- #47 Apocalypse Island
69% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Bettini Games
Windows
As an ex-scientist on a mission, you find yourself in a toxic and infected island, where humans are no where to be seen. Build, explore and survive.
Why similar: Zombies 37.9%, Survival 26.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Action 11.7%, Adventure 10.6%
- #48 Wasted World
71% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Achrony
Windows
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Why similar: Adventure 28.2%, Action 26.8%, Indie 21.3%, Sandbox 12%, Survival 11.6%
- #49 SurrounDead
67% 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 52.9%, Survival 32.9%, Adventure 5.3%, Action 4.9%, Indie 4%
- #50 Exile to Death
71% matchMixed47% of 99 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksei MilchakovPub: Manifestors Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...
Why similar: Survival 36.3%, Action 26.5%, Indie 18.7%, Adventure 18.5%
- #51 Survive the Nights
65% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Zombies 35.3%, Survival 23%, Sandbox 20.4%, Adventure 11.7%, Action 9.6%
- #52 Countrified
69% matchMixed57% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: Avelar Studios
Windows
Countrified is an online Survival simulator focused on player interaction. Hunt, build, control regions, survive, kill, die and more in our world!
Why similar: Survival 36.8%, Adventure 25.6%, Action 21%, Indie 16.7%
- #53 Gone: Survival
70% matchMixed44% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Zombies 34.7%, Survival 26.7%, Sandbox 19.5%, Action 8.1%, Adventure 6.6%
- #54 The Last Caretaker
63% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Survival 36.8%, Sandbox 30.9%, Adventure 17%, Action 15.4%
- #55 INCUR Survival
66% 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: Zombies 46.2%, Survival 29%, Adventure 13%, Action 11.8%
- #56 Lifeless
69% matchMostly Negative38% of 552 reviews2016
Dev: Desync Donkeys
Windows
Immerse yourself in the post-apocalyptic co-op world of Lifeless, where base building and crafting are key. Collect weapons, gear, and food as you embark on thrilling missions to level up in a vast open world. But stay alert—relentless zombies lurk around every corner!
Why similar: Zombies 46.5%, Survival 25.5%, Action 17.4%, Indie 10.6%