- #1 Soviet Survival
97% matchMostly Positive77% of 71 reviews2025
Dev: Hunt Studio
Windows
Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.
Why similar: Zombies 24%, Isometric 23.8%, Survival 17.7%, Sandbox 14.8%, Open World 11%
- #2 Decision: Red Daze
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 880 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Zombies 23.2%, Survival 17.2%, Isometric 17.1%, Action RPG 12.9%, Open World 10.2%
- #3 iZolated
96% matchMixed70% of 119 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Gun Customization 31.5%, Zombies 14.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 8.1%
- #4 Z.O.N.A: Origin
94% matchVery Positive84% of 528 reviews2025
Dev: AGaming+
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Z.O.N.A: Origin is an immersive adventure in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Dive into a captivating story, explore a stunning open world, avoid dangerous anomalies, and hunt for powerful artifacts. Every choice you make can be decisive in this unpredictable world.
Why similar: Gun Customization 33.4%, Realistic 12%, Open World 10.4%, Action RPG 10.4%, Survival 7.9%
- #5 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
95% matchVery Positive81% of 1,009 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Why similar: Zombies 25.9%, Survival 19.9%, Violent 14.8%, Open World 9.4%, Gore 9.2%
- #6 Undead World
94% matchVery Positive89% of 132 reviews2023
Dev: Undead World Team
Windows · Linux
Action rpg that containst fast-Paced combat and survival elements. Use your skills to defeat the Undead.
Why similar: Isometric 24.2%, Violent 17.7%, Action-Adventure 17.2%, Action RPG 13.4%, RPG 11.7%
- #7 Road to Vostok
92% matchVery Positive84% of 7,646 reviews2026
Dev: Road to Vostok Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.
Why similar: Gun Customization 40%, Survival 28.9%, Realistic 21.5%, Singleplayer 3.7%, Violent 3.4%
- #8 Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut
93% matchVery Positive88% of 1,819 reviews2021
Dev: Rotorist Workshop
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.
Why similar: Zombies 25.5%, Survival 21.8%, Action RPG 17.2%, Action-Adventure 12.6%, RPG 8.7%
- #9 SurrounDead
91% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 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 39%, Survival 26.6%, Open World 16.2%, RPG 6.9%, Exploration 6.4%
- #10 SCUM
89% 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: Zombies 16.1%, Survival 14.4%, Violent 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Realistic 11.1%
- #11 Frozen State
91% matchMixed64% of 549 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.
Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Zombies 21%, Isometric 15.4%, RPG 9.2%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #12 Exanima
90% matchVery Positive80% of 13,446 reviews2015
Dev: Bare Mettle Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Explore, fight, survive and unravel mysteries in this unique and unforgiving 3D isometric RPG set in an original dark, low fantasy world. Exanima's exceptional attention to detail and realistic simulation of all things aim to provide a deeply immersive and dynamic gameplay experience.
Why similar: Isometric 50.3%, RPG 28.8%, Nudity 10.9%, Action 5.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #13 Pathologic 2
88% matchVery Positive92% of 12,002 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: Survival 26%, Isometric 25.3%, Story Rich 15.9%, RPG 15.1%, Open World 13.4%
- #14 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 48.6%, Open World 25.7%, Sandbox 12%, RPG 8%, Action 3.1%
- #15 Death Trash
86% matchVery Positive92% of 3,680 reviews2021
Dev: Crafting Legends
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Death Trash features a post-apocalyptic world where cosmic horrors long for humanity but meet punks with shotguns. It combines old-school role-playing, modern action gameplay and player freedom. Create your own character and explore a handcrafted world.
Why similar: Isometric 34.3%, Action RPG 17.7%, Open World 12.4%, Exploration 11.9%, RPG 10.8%
- #16 Survival Nation: Lost Horizon
87% matchMixed58% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.Pub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.
Why similar: Gun Customization 27.6%, Zombies 17.7%, Survival 13.3%, Realistic 11.6%, Action RPG 10.9%
- #17 Mist Survival
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,126 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t
Why similar: Zombies 29.6%, Survival 29.6%, Open World 13.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Violent 5.9%
- #18 Dead State: Reanimated
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,553 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.
Why similar: Zombies 43.2%, Survival 25.4%, RPG 12.6%, Isometric 4.6%, Sandbox 4.5%
- #19 The Last Plague: Blight
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,393 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight
Why similar: Survival 29.5%, Realistic 27.4%, Sandbox 25.2%, Top-Down 11.2%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #20 Shadows of Kurgansk
84% 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 29.5%, Survival 27.6%, Sandbox 17.2%, RPG 13.2%, Open World 5.8%
- #21 Almost Alive
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 225 reviews2018
Dev: Emir CerimovicPub: Emir Games
Windows
Almost Alive is redefining the role playing tactical games with an awesome fast paced but complexe real time combat system in a mad hand drawn post apocalyptic world that features character mental sanity, destructible environment, a cover system, tons of loot, a none linear story, and a lot of humor.
Why similar: RPG 40.6%, Violent 26.4%, Gore 20.3%, Action 12.7%
- #22 Overgrown: Genesis
82% matchVery Positive82% of 230 reviews2020
Dev: Dystopian ProjectPub: TinyHat Studios
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Survival Horror, with an erotic twist. A zombie outbreak ravages the world- you find yourself caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Stranded on the wrong side of the outbreak, will you be able to survive and fend off the shuffling hordes?
Why similar: Nudity 30.4%, RPG 23.5%, Zombies 16.1%, Violent 14.6%, Action 7.6%
- #23 Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 876 reviews2024
Dev: DAWINSTONE
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The open-world survival role-playing game "Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse" tells the story of Delta Team and his comrades as they work to rebuild a world devastated by humans and their race turned into zombies.
Why similar: Gun Customization 30.7%, Zombies 19.2%, Survival 13.1%, Action RPG 12.5%, Open World 8.8%
- #24 ZERO Sievert
79% matchVery Positive85% of 14,857 reviews2024
Dev: CABO StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
Why similar: Survival 42.8%, Open World 19.8%, Exploration 13.5%, Top-Down 12.8%, Action 5.7%
- #25 Fargone
79% matchMixed69% of 585 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: Sandbox 23.4%, Survival 22.4%, Action RPG 17.8%, RPG 12.4%, Open World 12.3%
- #26 Z.O.N.A Project X VR
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 305 reviews2023
Dev: AGaming+
Windows
Z.O.N.A Project X - thrilling single-player VR shooter. Explore Chornobyl's exclusion zone, a hazardous apocalyptic world filled with anomalies. Survive using your weapons, scavenge for resources, and save humanity from doom.
Why similar: Gun Customization 30.2%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 11%, Realistic 10.9%, Action RPG 9.5%
- #27 Jaws Of Extinction™
80% matchMixed54% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Blood Eater GamesPub: Forthright Entertainment
Windows
The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Survival 21.2%, Violent 15.5%, RPG 12.4%, Gore 9.5%
- #28 Atomfall
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 5,109 reviews2025
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Why similar: Action RPG 17.4%, Open World 17.4%, Survival 16.2%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, Violent 10.2%
- #29 Junk Survivor
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 81 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 26.9%, Survival 20.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Open World 12%
- #30 Vorax
77% matchMixed62% of 135 reviews2024
Dev: IndieGala
Windows
In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
Why similar: Zombies 20.6%, Action-Adventure 16.2%, Survival 15.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Realistic 11.6%
- #31 Raise Your Tribe
77% matchMixed57% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Primeval Forest Studios
Windows
A hardcore tactical shooter with horror elements. Battle Machines and Mutants, and build your legacy on a deadly post-apocalyptic Cyberpunk Island. Explore dangerous zones, craft powerful gear, and shape your Cyberware build. Uncover secrets and fight to survive in a brutal, immersive world!
Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Action RPG 20.4%, Open World 18.9%, Realistic 17.1%, RPG 14.5%
- #32 Dread Dawn
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,217 reviews2024
Dev: Kioop
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.
Why similar: Zombies 25.2%, Survival 15.8%, Sandbox 13.6%, Isometric 13.3%, Open World 8.7%
- #33 V1RUZ
76% matchMixed61% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: Polyverse GamesPub: Polyverse Studio
Windows
In V1RUZ, you see yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic in the USA. Learn how to craft weapons, tools and fight against the living and the dead to survive in this cruel, rotting world.
Why similar: RPG 59%, Action 20.5%, Violent 20.5%
- #34 The Last Stand: Aftermath
74% matchVery Positive81% of 6,613 reviews2021
Dev: Con Artist GamesPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.
Why similar: Zombies 38.9%, Survival 25.7%, Violent 13.7%, Action RPG 9.5%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #35 Survive the Fall
73% matchMixed69% of 663 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Isometric 25.1%, Survival 17.6%, Tactical 16.3%, Open World 10.9%, RPG 9%
- #36 Dead Matter
75% matchMostly Negative21% of 885 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 32.3%, Survival 22.7%, Sandbox 22.1%, Open World 14.9%, Action 4.2%
- #37 Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone
72% matchMixed65% of 732 reviews2025
Dev: The Farm 51
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Explore the mysterious, beautiful, yet dark world of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in this post-apocalyptic action-RPG. Make your mark on this world, through your character development, choices and playstyle. But remember – everything has a price and consequences.
Why similar: Gun Customization 38.5%, Action RPG 14%, Open World 13.7%, RPG 11.6%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #38 Ice Station Z
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 206 reviews2021
Dev: Wobbly Tooth
Windows
Thirdperson Open World Zombie Survival.
Why similar: Sandbox 23%, Zombies 20.6%, Action-Adventure 15%, Realistic 14.8%, Exploration 12.2%
- #39 Outbreak Island
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Sandbox 21.6%, Zombies 18.1%, Exploration 10.9%, Open World 9.5%
- #40 V.O.D.K.A. Open World Survival Shooter
74% matchMostly Negative38% of 97 reviews2021
Dev: Guilty Pleasure Games
Windows
V. O. D. K. A. is a survival shooter in the open world, the game takes place in a fictional state in eastern Europe, most of the territory of which is infected with radiation. Your main task is survival.
Why similar: Survival 22.3%, Sandbox 19.8%, RPG 15.6%, Realistic 14%, Open World 13.8%
- #41 Project Silverfish
68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,953 reviews2025
Dev: Siris Pendrake
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 22.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.
Why similar: Sandbox 34.1%, Action-Adventure 20.7%, Exploration 18.1%, Open World 18.1%, Action 5%
- #42 Invasion 2037
73% matchMixed60% of 157 reviews2019
Dev: Little Beavers Games
Windows
Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive
Why similar: Zombies 25.9%, Survival 23.5%, Violent 19.8%, Open World 11.1%, Exploration 6.7%
- #43 CHEMISTS: Area of infection
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: RPAXPub: GAMEPORTAL.CO
Windows
A year after the global catastrophe, you woke up in a hospital and don't remember anything. You have to not only find out what happened, but also try to survive in this harsh dangerous world.
Why similar: Zombies 25.2%, Survival 19.3%, Realistic 17.3%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Open World 12.4%
- #44 P.A.M.E.L.A.®
72% matchMixed59% of 921 reviews2020
Dev: NVYVE® Studios
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Explore, fight, and survive as an awakened sleeper, in a fallen utopian city ravaged by a horrific disease. With an array of hi-tech weapons, highly immersive UI, full-body awareness, and much more, P.A.M.E.L.A. delivers an intense and unforgiving survival experience.
Why similar: Survival 39%, Open World 21.2%, Zombies 18.1%, Exploration 12.3%, Action 6.3%
- #45 Serum: Toxic Survival
70% matchMixed50% of 301 reviews2024
Dev: Game IslandPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Dive into a thrilling survival adventure where an unknown liquid takes control of your life. Extract Serum to stay alive, battle dangerous creatures, solve puzzles, and uncover clues about past events.
Why similar: Zombies 39%, Action-Adventure 18.2%, Open World 15.1%, RPG 14.3%, Exploration 13.3%
- #46 Atomic Heart
67% matchVery Positive81% of 48,140 reviews2023
Dev: MundfishPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.
Why similar: Action-Adventure 24.2%, Open World 21.6%, RPG 17.8%, Gore 12.9%, Exploration 11.2%
- #47 INSOMNIA: The Ark
71% matchMixed59% of 1,256 reviews2018
Dev: Mono StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
INSOMNIA is a dieselpunk sci-fi RPG about the slowly degrading remnants of human society attempting to survive on an abandoned space metropolis. Develop your character, explore lovingly handcrafted locations, interact with peculiar NPCs and factions and try to stay alive in this brutal world.
Why similar: Tactical 21%, Action RPG 18%, RPG 17.2%, Action-Adventure 14.9%, Exploration 9.8%
- #48 REMEDIUM
69% matchMixed65% of 91 reviews2023
Dev: Sobaka StudioPub: ESDigital Games
Windows · Linux
The fast-paced twin-stick shooter game in the grim post-apocalyptic Renaissance setting. It had been more than a hundred years since the terrible plague devoured the whole continent and turned almost everyone there in the maddened mutants.
Why similar: Gun Customization 35.1%, Isometric 24.4%, Action RPG 12.9%, Gore 8.3%, RPG 8%
- #49 Survivalist
70% matchVery Positive80% of 2,568 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
Why similar: Zombies 26.3%, Survival 22.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Open World 9.4%, Action RPG 8.8%
- #50 Sancticide
67% matchMixed63% of 131 reviews2026
Dev: Red Square GamesPub: Sylen Studio
Windows
Sancticide is an Indie melee-focused TPP action RPG game set in the world of the biblical Apocalypse. Become Ezechiel, sin collector in the service of Them at The Top, as he ventures through what is left of our world during the End Times.
Why similar: Action RPG 27%, Zombies 25.3%, Violent 22.3%, RPG 16.1%, Action 5.5%
- #51 DREADZONE
67% 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: Zombies 25.1%, Survival 23.4%, Open World 14.8%, Realistic 12%, Action-Adventure 9.9%
- #52 Atomic Exile
67% matchVery Positive81% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Inferno Muse Interactive
Windows
Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.
Why similar: Gun Customization 44.5%, Survival 23.2%, Open World 12.1%, Top-Down 7.3%, Exploration 6.6%
- #53 Lifeless
71% matchMostly Negative38% of 554 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 36.3%, Survival 21.7%, Violent 17.7%, Gore 11.6%, Open World 6.8%
- #54 LifeZ - Survival
69% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Why similar: Zombies 30.1%, Survival 23.1%, Sandbox 12.9%, RPG 9.9%, Open World 6.4%
- #55 DYSPLACED
64% matchVery Positive89% of 295 reviews2026
Dev: 10tons Ltd
Windows
Grenades are holy relics. Shotguns are spellcraft. In this top-down survival action-RPG, you've been summoned as the Guardian of a fantasy realm invaded by modern world. Scavenge artifacts, forge weapons, build outposts, brew potions, and hunt the corruption devouring the land. Play solo or co-op.
Why similar: Survival 24.4%, Open World 18.4%, Zombies 18.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Exploration 13.6%
- #56 30 days to survive
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 115 reviews2021
Dev: HeXPub: Laush Studio
Windows
"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.
Why similar: Zombies 22.4%, Survival 16.4%, Violent 13.7%, Tactical 13%, Realistic 11.5%
- #57 Project Zomboid
65% matchVery Positive94% of 450,585 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 83.6 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 28.5%, Survival 25.2%, Sandbox 13%, Open World 11.3%, Isometric 10.3%