- #1 DeadPoly
97% 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Base Building 11%, Zombies 9.9%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: This is the closest match to PolyZ, offering a similar low-poly aesthetic combined with deep survival and looting mechanics.
- #2 Deadside
96% 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 11.3%, Massively Multiplayer 10.4%, Base Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore extraction-style survival shooter that mirrors the tactical intensity and persistent world feel of PolyZ.
- #3 DayZ
96% 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: Massively Multiplayer 20.5%, Survival 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Zombies 12.1%, Open World 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive inspiration for the genre, providing the ultimate persistent-world survival experience with high-stakes PvP.
- #4 SCUM
95% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.8%, Zombies 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly detailed survival simulation with complex mechanics that appeal to players who enjoy the depth of PolyZ.
- #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: Massively Multiplayer 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Zombies 12.6%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential low-poly survival game that features extensive base-building, PvP, and zombie threats.
- #6 HumanitZ
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
HumanitZ is an isometric, open-world sandbox survival game set in a world ended by a zombie outbreak. Survive alone or with friends by scavenging, crafting, building, and fighting to last as long as ‘humanly’ possible. You can’t change the past, but you can fight for the future of humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Zombies 12.1%, Survival 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a top-down perspective on zombie survival that retains the core base-building and scavenging loops found in PolyZ.
- #7 Once Human
92% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 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: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A modern multiplayer survival game that blends supernatural zombie threats with extensive base-building and exploration.
- #8 7 Days to Die
91% 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: Open World Survival Craft 23.3% ★, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Zombies 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for zombie survival, featuring robust base-building and tower-defense elements that challenge your survival skills.
- #9 Miscreated
93% 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: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 14%, Massively Multiplayer 10.1%, Zombies 10.1%, Open World 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that captures the gritty, tense atmosphere of exploring a ruined world while avoiding other players.
- #10 The Front
91% matchMixed68% of 10,753 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-crafting game with a heavy emphasis on base-building and large-scale PvP combat in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #11 SurrounDead
90% 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 16.7%, Open World Survival Craft 15% ★, Survival 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Open World 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated zombie survival game that focuses on scavenging and managing resources in a large, open world.
- #12 Project Zomboid
89% 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: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Survival 19.1%, Zombies 17.2%, Open World 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the deepest survival mechanics in the genre, perfect for players who want a more tactical and punishing zombie experience.
- #13 Rust
88% 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Survival 20.8%, Crafting 14%, Open World 11.3%, Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the hardcore base-building and player-versus-player conflict that drives the persistent world experience.
- #14 Stay Out
89% matchMixed68% of 29,668 reviews2019
Dev: MOBITECH LLC
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
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 19.2%, Survival 14.9%, Character Customization 13.9%, Open World 13.7%, PvP 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A Stalker-inspired survival MMO that emphasizes exploration and dangerous anomalies in a persistent, hostile world.
- #15 Dysterra
87% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 21% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, PvE 10%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that incorporates base-building and intense combat in a harsh, changing environment.
- #16 Will To Live Online
86% matchMixed69% of 18,150 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Survival 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Open World 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic MMORPG that focuses on survival, scavenging, and faction-based PvP combat.
- #17 XERA: Survival
86% matchMixed66% of 7,888 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: Open World Survival Craft 20.9% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Survival 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: An extraction-based survival game that features a persistent world and intense PvPvE combat.
- #18 DUCKSIDE
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,985 reviews2024
Dev: tinyBuild RigaPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 10%, Base Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A unique survival game that brings base-building and PvP combat to a persistent world with a distinct thematic twist.
- #19 Crafting Dead
85% 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: Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Zombies 13.8%, Survival 12.7%, Crafting 11%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival experience that leans heavily into the zombie-apocalypse theme with multiplayer-focused gameplay.
- #20 Zombie Survival Game Online
82% 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: Open World Survival Craft 22.1% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Zombies 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival experience that focuses on scavenging and fighting off hordes of zombies with other players.
- #21 Re.poly
83% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.8%, Open World 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that focuses on the core pillars of crafting, building, and open-world exploration.
- #22 Nomad
84% 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: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 14.9%, Zombies 12.4%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes the struggle for resources and the dangers of a persistent, multiplayer world.
- #23 Lost Rift
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,413 reviews2025
Dev: People Can Fly
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 20.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines extraction-shooter mechanics with survival elements, perfect for those who enjoy the high-stakes looting of PolyZ.
- #24 KeepUp Survival
81% matchMixed65% of 734 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.7% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 11.6%, Open World 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A survival game that prioritizes base-building and exploration in a vast, post-apocalyptic open world.
- #25 Vigor
80% matchMixed46% of 7,596 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.5 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 30.5%, PvP 19.3%, Base Building 18.5%, Shooter 16.4%, Third Person 10%
Why You'll Like It: An extraction-based shooter that captures the tension of looting and surviving against other players in a post-war setting.
- #26 Soviet Survival
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 63 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: Base Building 16%, Zombies 14%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Survival 12.8%, Crafting 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game set in a post-Soviet landscape, focusing on scavenging and base defense.
- #27 Plains of Pain
79% matchVery Positive85% of 692 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: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on base-building and surviving the harsh conditions of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- #28 Night of the Dead
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'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 24.8% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Zombies 11%, Crafting 9.6%, Survival 9%
- #29 NightZ
82% matchMostly Negative35% of 129 reviews2017
Dev: Asset Flip StudioPub: Asset Flip Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Events occur several months after the global epidemic. Infected turned into aggressive creatures. All survivors are infected with the virus. In order to survive you need to use different medicines. Also you need to avoid predators.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.2% ★, Zombies 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, PvP 10.2%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused survival game that pits players against both zombies and each other in a hostile environment.
- #30 DREADZONE
77% 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: Base Building 16.9%, Survival 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 11.2%
- #31 DARKEST DAYS
76% matchMixed49% of 4,678 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 16.5%, Zombies 16.2%, Survival 14%, Open World 13.9%, Base Building 13.1%
- #32 LifeZ - Survival
78% 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: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Zombies 14.1%, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A survival title that emphasizes the basics of crafting and combat in a world overrun by the undead.
- #33 SmallZ
77% matchMixed47% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: skins.dog
Windows
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
Why similar: Base Building 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.6%
- #34 Taora : Beginning
73% matchVery Positive87% of 2,228 reviews2023
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Why similar: Base Building 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Zombies 11.9%, PvE 11.6%, Open World 10.8%
- #35 The Infected
74% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.2% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Survival 10.1%, Open World 9.4%
- #36 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
75% 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: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Open World 8.6%, Massively Multiplayer 7.9%
- #37 Dead District: Survival
74% matchMixed49% of 465 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 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 20.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #38 Sunkenland
72% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
- #39 VEIN
70% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 17.2%, Survival 15.1%, Zombies 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Open World 12.7%
- #40 INCUR Survival
73% 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: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Zombies 11.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%, Building 10%
- #41 Infestation: The New Z
73% matchMixed54% of 33,896 reviews2016
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 28.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.
Why similar: Zombies 26.4%, Massively Multiplayer 20.3%, Survival 19.7%, Open World 15.3%, PvP 6.5%
- #42 Mist Survival
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.7% ★, Survival 18%, Zombies 14.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 11.5%
- #43 Undawn
71% matchMixed54% of 6,521 reviews2023
Dev: Lightspeed StudiosPub: Level Infinite
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 39.7 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 9.2%
- #44 Taora : Survival
71% matchMixed63% of 395 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.9%
- #45 Dead Maze
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,790 reviews2018
Dev: Atelier 801
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Dead Maze is a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. Explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible, to survive the hostile environment and upgrade your gear and camp as you go.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 27.2%, Zombies 20.4%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 10%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%
- #46 Longvinter
69% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Survival 14.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Open World 10.9%, PvP 8.1%
- #47 No One Survived
67% 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: Survival 19.5%, Zombies 16%, Open World 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Crafting 12.4%
- #48 Far Lands
69% 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.3% ★, Base Building 17.7%, Crafting 13.6%, Survival 13.5%, Open World 9.8%
- #49 Survive the Nights
67% 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: Open World Survival Craft 21.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 18%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Zombies 12.2%, Survival 10.9%
- #50 Ice Station Z
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 204 reviews2021
Dev: Wobbly Tooth
Windows
Thirdperson Open World Zombie Survival.
Why similar: PvP 16.5%, Character Customization 16%, PvE 14.3%, Zombies 14.1%, Open World 13.1%
- #51 Survival Machine
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Survival 10.9%, Zombies 9.8%
- #52 Blood Night
66% 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 15.2%, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.8%
- #53 Junk Survivor
68% 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: Post-apocalyptic 16%, Zombies 13.6%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 10.6%, Open World 10.4%
- #54 Another Try
70% 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: Massively Multiplayer 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Crafting 11.1%, Zombies 11%, Survival 10.7%
- #55 Walking Zombie 2
67% matchVery Positive88% of 13,034 reviews2019
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Zombies 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 9.7%
- #56 Palworld
63% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
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 31.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.2%
- #57 CastleMiner Z
68% matchVery Positive81% of 11,088 reviews2014
Dev: DigitalDNA Games
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Survival 14.7%, Zombies 14.1%, Crafting 8.7%, Open World 8.3%