- #1 Deadside
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,248 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.5 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: Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Survival 11.6%, FPS 10.9%, PvP 10.3%, Open World 10%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore extraction-style survival shooter that focuses on realistic gunplay and large-scale open-world exploration.
- #2 SCUM
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 124,053 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 103.1 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: Massively Multiplayer 22.7%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, FPS 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep and realistic survival simulation with complex character management and intense PvP combat.
- #3 DayZ
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 461,119 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.8 hrsMean: 275.7 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: Massively Multiplayer 14.1%, Survival 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Co-op 9.6%, FPS 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive hardcore survival experience where every encounter is a high-stakes test of resource management and tactical awareness.
- #4 Rust
95% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 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 20%, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 12.8%, Building 9.2%, PvP 9%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential open-world survival game that perfectly balances crafting, base building, and brutal player-versus-player conflict.
- #5 PIONER
94% matchMixed63% of 3,493 reviews2025
Dev: GFAGAMES
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.
Why similar: MMORPG 16.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Crafting 8.8%, FPS 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: An ambitious open-world survival game that blends post-apocalyptic exploration with tactical combat and looter-shooter mechanics.
- #6 Gray Zone Warfare
93% matchMostly Positive72% of 75,457 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 47.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.
Why similar: FPS 15%, Massively Multiplayer 14.3%, Open World 12.7%, Realistic 12.5%, PvP 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly realistic tactical experience in a massive open world that demands careful planning and precision combat.
- #7 Will To Live Online
94% matchMixed69% of 18,236 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: Survival 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Open World 13%, MMORPG 12.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic MMORPG that emphasizes survival, crafting, and dangerous encounters in a desolate, realistic world.
- #8 Miscreated
92% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.4 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 19.6%, Open World 16%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Crafting 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic open-world survival game that excels at creating tense, player-driven encounters in a detailed environment.
- #9 Hunt: Showdown 1896
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 271,844 reviews2019
Dev: Crytek
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 179.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.
Why similar: FPS 18.8%, PvP 18%, Open World 17.3%, Co-op 15.4%, Multiplayer 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features high-tension extraction gameplay where sound design and tactical positioning are just as important as your aim.
- #10 Last Oasis
91% matchMixed62% of 24,224 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.2 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: Massively Multiplayer 23.2%, Survival 13.2%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A unique massively multiplayer survival game where you must build and defend mobile bases in a harsh, ever-changing world.
- #11 Marauders
90% matchMixed68% of 21,396 reviews2022
Dev: Small Impact Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Marauders is a tactical first-person multiplayer looter shooter set in a sci-fi universe. As a space pirate, work solo, or in a squad with up to 3 other players to navigate a hostile battleground, hunt for loot, craft new weapons and gear, and salvage what you’ll need to survive.
Why similar: PvP 20.9%, FPS 20.8%, Open World 15.3%, Realistic 13.2%, Shooter 12%
Why You'll Like It: A tactical first-person extraction shooter that combines gritty, realistic combat with intense survival elements in a diesel-punk setting.
- #12 7 Days to Die
88% matchVery Positive87% of 399,251 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 108.3 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: Survival 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Open World 17.1%, FPS 13.9%, Building 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: Combines deep crafting and base-building mechanics with survival challenges that force you to constantly adapt to your environment.
- #13 Next Day: Survival
89% 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 18.7%, Open World 16%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in a fictional Eastern European region that emphasizes exploration and player interaction in a hostile world.
- #14 XERA: Survival
89% matchMixed66% of 7,908 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: Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Survival 10.7%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival shooter that focuses heavily on looting, base building, and intense PvP combat in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #15 Anarchy: Wolf's law
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 818 reviews2023
Dev: Anarchy Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Action. Chaos. Power. Anarchy: Wolf Laws is a dynamic first-person shooter with elements of RPG, survival, and strategic management. Capture territories, upgrade your production, and run your business in a world of total lawlessness.
Why similar: Heist 20.8% ★, Crafting 10.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Survival 8.6%, Realistic 8%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that focuses on the struggle for resources and territory in a dangerous, multiplayer-driven world.
- #16 Survival: Lost Way
87% matchMostly Negative36% of 291 reviews2023
Dev: SimplePlanPub: SimplePlan Studio
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.
Why similar: Crafting 18%, Survival 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, FPS 13.2%, Multiplayer 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes crafting and resource management in a challenging open-world environment.
- #17 DeadPoly
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,910 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.3 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: Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Crafting 15.2%, Survival 13.6%, PvP 13.5%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival shooter that captures the core loop of scavenging, crafting, and PvP combat in an accessible package.
- #18 Vigor
85% matchMixed46% of 7,746 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.6 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: Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Arena Shooter 17.1%, FPS 15.1%, PvP 13.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the high-stakes tension of looting and surviving in a post-war environment where every encounter could be your last.
- #19 Unturned
84% matchVery Positive91% of 562,983 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 72.1 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: Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10%, FPS 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A surprisingly deep survival game that offers extensive crafting and multiplayer PvP in a variety of open-world maps.
- #20 Far Lands
83% matchMixed65% of 167 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: Crafting 21%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 15.1%, Realistic 10.3%, PvE 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and base building to ensure your long-term survival.
- #21 Conan Exiles Enhanced
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 115,037 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 17.1 hrsMean: 111.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!
Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Open World 17.3%, Crafting 14.8%, Building 13.5%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features robust survival and crafting systems set in a brutal open world that encourages clan-based PvP and territory control.
- #22 Gone: Survival
84% matchMixed44% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 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: Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Survival 12.5%, Building 11.3%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival experience that focuses on building and crafting to withstand the dangers of a post-apocalyptic landscape.
- #23 Plains of Pain
81% matchVery Positive84% of 757 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: Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Co-op 13.2%, Open World 12.6%, PvP 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that emphasizes base building and post-apocalyptic exploration in a dangerous environment.
- #24 Crushed
82% matchMixed54% of 311 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: Open World 13.6%, FPS 13.4%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes exploration and resource gathering in a vast, open-world environment.
- #25 Dead District: Survival
81% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 18.7%, Crafting 12.1%, FPS 11.3%, Survival 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival shooter that tasks players with scavenging and fighting to survive in a massively multiplayer world.
- #26 Stars End
80% matchMixed61% of 1,419 reviews2023
Dev: Reverie World StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19.7%, Co-op 14.1%, PvP 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that combines space exploration with ground-based combat and resource management.
- #27 ARK: Survival Ascended
78% matchMixed60% of 105,775 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 27.6 hrsMean: 196.8 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 17.1%, Open World 16.4%, Crafting 14%, Massively Multiplayer 12.6%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive open-world survival experience with deep crafting, base building, and competitive multiplayer elements.
- #28 Rem Survival
79% 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: Crafting 15.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 13.1%, Building 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core pillars of survival, including crafting and base building, to help players endure a hostile open world.
- #29 Outlaws of the Old West
79% matchMixed59% of 6,290 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Massively Multiplayer 27.8%, Survival 22.7%, Open World 22.3%, Multiplayer 13%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A western-themed survival game that offers extensive crafting and building mechanics in a massive open world.
- #30 Survival Classic
77% matchMixed65% of 348 reviews2021
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Try to survive the harsh realities of the cold Siberian countryside. Live long and always remember, man is man's enemy. You can trust no one but it is almost impossible to survive on your own. Choose your path and go to finish. Firefights, transport, crafting and survival.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, FPS 11.1%, Open World 10.2%, Survival 10.1%
- #31 Once Human
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 173,391 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 17%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 11.1%, Open World 11%
- #32 Sunrise: survival
78% matchMixed48% of 529 reviews2017
Dev: Fedorov Ilya & Andrew Konovalov
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
"Sunrise" - an online shooter with elements of survival from the first person. Your task is to survive in the harsh conditions of the post-apocalyptic world. Explore new regions, team up with other players in groups, survive with them and create your own rules of survival!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 19.3%, Survival 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, FPS 8.2%, Multiplayer 8.1%
- #33 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
76% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 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 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 8.7%, Massively Multiplayer 8.7%
- #34 Polygeddon
75% matchMixed41% of 66 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: Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.3%, Co-op 12.9%, Open World 12.6%, Crafting 12.6%
- #35 Survive the Nights
72% matchMixed66% of 6,549 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.0 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: Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Survival 10%, Co-op 9.9%, FPS 9.8%
- #36 Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times
74% matchMixed64% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Frontline: Games Series
Windows
Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Crafting-survival Indie game. Explore at your own pace or team up with your friends in multiplayer. Early access game!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.8%, Open World 17.7%, Crafting 16.4%, Survival 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%
- #37 Iverian Wars: Craxion vs Defugel
73% matchMostly Negative32% of 545 reviews2026
Dev: Zemi Interactive
Windows
A free-to-play action MMORPG featuring solo adventure, co-op battles, and intense online PvP in a vast multiplayer world. Strengthen your character through RPG progression, collect powerful gear, and carve out your own path through war and exploration.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 29.7%, MMORPG 24% ★, PvP 10.9%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 8.7%
- #38 Renown
71% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 12.5%, PvP 12.2%
- #39 Poly Squad
74% matchMixed51% of 376 reviews2021
Dev: OXO Games
Windows
Poly Squad; multiplayer, team-based, it is the kind of game where you can fight as a team on, large maps using various weapons up to 16 - 32 players.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 15.3%, FPS 14.5%, PvP 13.1%, Open World 11.3%, Co-op 9.8%
- #40 Cultivation Tales
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.6%, Building 17.2%, Survival 16.1%, Open World 14.8%, PvP 12.5%
- #41 Lost Rift
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,554 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Massively Multiplayer 17%, Crafting 14.5%, PvP 12%, FPS 12%, Survival 11.6%
- #42 Omega Crafter
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 566 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Open World 16.3%, Survival 15.1%, Co-op 14.7%, Building 10.9%
- #43 Wild Omission
70% matchVery Positive89% of 63 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: Crafting 16.3%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 13.3%, PvP 12.4%, Building 12%
- #44 Mesorift Survival
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 119 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 14.8%, FPS 14.4%, Survival 13.6%, PvP 12.8%, Shooter 9.2%
- #45 The Front
68% matchMixed67% of 10,771 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Massively Multiplayer 14.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 11.6%, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.7%
- #46 INCUR Survival
70% matchVery Positive82% of 107 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: Crafting 17.4%, Building 15.6%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 14.1%, Realistic 8.8%
- #47 Deuterium Wars
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 602 reviews2019
Dev: Disquire
Windows
Deuterium Wars is a rapid 2D shooter. Create your own aircraft and plunge into heated battle with other players. What awaits you: an extensive role-playing system, craft, trading, and much more on a single server for all platforms.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 28%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Crafting 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, PvP 8.1%
- #48 Eldegarde
66% matchMixed62% of 5,824 reviews2026
Dev: Notorious Studios
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Eldegarde is a mini-MMO Action RPG with PvE, PvPvE and Arena modes. Explore vast outdoor zones, craft powerful gear, and fight to survive in a living fantasy world.
Why similar: MMORPG 37.7% ★, Co-op 17.6%, PvP 15.8%, PvE 11.3%, Multiplayer 11.1%
- #49 Dysterra
67% matchMixed56% of 763 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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: Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Crafting 13.1%, PvE 11.9%, FPS 11.7%, PvP 11.1%
- #50 Hurtworld
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 63.5 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: Survival 17.7%, FPS 16.1%, Crafting 13.7%, Open World 13.5%, Building 10%
- #51 DREADZONE
66% matchMixed52% of 1,188 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: Co-op 13.2%, Crafting 13.1%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%
- #52 PIRATECRAFT
68% matchMixed58% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Game for games
Windows
PIRATECRAFT is a game battle-royale (survival, action, first person shooter) for single or multiplayer game
Why similar: Crafting 19.7%, Massively Multiplayer 16.6%, PvP 16.6%, Open World 12.9%, Co-op 10.9%
- #53 Nomad
69% 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: Survival 19.7%, Open World 15.3%, Multiplayer 13.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Massively Multiplayer 7.3%
- #54 MISERY
63% matchVery Positive83% of 23,009 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 12.4%, Co-op 12%, Open World 11.3%
- #55 Zombie Survival Game Online
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 308 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: Crafting 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, FPS 12.7%, Survival 12.3%, Building 10.4%