- #1 Outbreak Island
97% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Survival 12.8%, FPS 11%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.5%
- #2 Urge
96% 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: Looter Shooter 15.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Open World 11.3%, Building 10.6%
- #3 DREADZONE
96% 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: Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Open World 16.8%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 13.7%, Building 11.7%
- #4 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
95% matchMixed48% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 20.7% ★, FPS 11.9%, Open World 10.6%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.2%
- #5 Taora : Survival
94% 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: Looter Shooter 22.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Action RPG 10.2%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9.5%
- #6 Fargone
94% matchMixed69% of 559 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 6.1 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: Looter Shooter 18.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, FPS 10%, Base Building 8.3%, Building 7.9%
- #7 Hold Your Own
93% 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: Open World 14.4%, Survival 13.7%, FPS 12.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Crafting 11.3%
- #8 Vorax
91% matchMixed63% of 134 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: Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, FPS 14.6%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 11%, Building 9.8%
- #9 Project L33T: Prologue
91% matchMixed54% of 586 reviews2024
Dev: Holmgard Games
Windows
Dive into Project L33T, a hardcore first-person tactical extraction shooter. Confront AI foes and rival players, engage in high-stakes battles for precious loot, and risk it all in this hostile environment. Die and lose all of your gear and loot.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 28.5% ★, FPS 15.9%, Loot 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, RPG 7.8%
- #10 Stay Alive: Apocalypse
90% matchMixed50% of 163 reviews2018
Dev: Mehan Games
Windows
You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 15%, Open World 13.7%, RPG 11%, Base Building 9.5%
- #11 XERA: Survival
89% 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: Looter Shooter 14.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 9.6%
- #12 Deadside
86% 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: Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, FPS 15.2%, Open World 14.4%, Survival 14%, Looter Shooter 10.7% ★
- #13 Serum: Toxic Survival
88% matchMixed52% of 294 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: FPS 20.8%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Open World 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Horror 11.7%
- #14 Junk Survivor
87% 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 23.9%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 14%, Building 11%, PvE 10%
- #15 SurrounDead
86% 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: Post-apocalyptic 23.5%, Open World 21%, Survival 18%, Loot 11.6%, Base Building 9.8%
- #16 PIONER
85% matchMixed65% of 3,315 reviews2025
Dev: GFAGAMES
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 20.6 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: Looter Shooter 22.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, FPS 13.1%, Open World 12.9%, Survival 9.6%
- #17 Project Cobalt
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.
Why similar: Open World 24.8%, Survival 19.9%, Building 19.2%, Crafting 16.6%, First-Person 10.8%
- #18 Will To Live Online
84% 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: Post-apocalyptic 27.9%, Survival 24.2%, Open World 21.5%, FPS 12.7%, Crafting 5.3%
- #19 Invasion 2037
84% 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: Survival 21.2%, Open World 19.5%, Loot 16.2%, Crafting 11.9%, FPS 10.5%
- #20 LIFE EFFECT Survival
81% 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: Looter Shooter 31.5% ★, FPS 17.3%, Robots 14.9%, Survival 13.1%, Crafting 11%
- #21 Dysterra
82% 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: Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, PvE 13.4%, FPS 13%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10%
- #22 Scrapvival
82% matchMixed55% of 164 reviews2021
Dev: Matus PavkejePub: Pogy Production
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight off robot hordes with help of your friends or alone as soon as possible build the helicopter and escape that damned and creepy junkyard!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, FPS 21%, Building 12%, Robots 11.7%, RPG 11.4%
- #23 StarRupture
78% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Open World 25.9%, Survival 21.2%, Crafting 16.4%, Simulation 5.3%
- #24 Miscreated
81% 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 26.3%, Open World 25.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Crafting 9.5%, FPS 6.5%
- #25 Silent North
80% matchMostly Negative35% of 108 reviews2025
Dev: Combat Waffle StudiosPub: Beyond Frames Entertainment
Windows
Silent North thrusts you into the Swiss Alps, battling the elements, Infected, and other players. Fight solo or team up, scavenging gear and essentials. Intense PVPVE action ensures constant danger. Adapt, be resilient, and survive in this unpredictable, ever-changing landscape
Why similar: FPS 22.9%, Looter Shooter 17.1% ★, Survival 16.1%, PvE 12.6%, RPG 12.1%
- #26 Polygeddon
79% 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: Post-apocalyptic 22.7%, Looter Shooter 21.9% ★, Open World 15.2%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 8.7%
- #27 CRABS MUST DIE!
77% matchVery Positive83% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Roman Kharlamov
Windows
You've crash-landed on a forgotten planet and must survive in a hostile open world filled with mutated crabs and other enemies. Armed with weapons, a beat-up bike, and a few skills, you'll explore, fight, scavenge, and level up. A compact open-world shooter with light RPG and survival elements.
Why similar: FPS 18.8%, Open World 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Action RPG 13.9%, Robots 9.5%
- #28 Hurtworld
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 31,099 reviews2019
Dev: Bankroll Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 63.2 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: FPS 24%, Survival 22.8%, Open World 20.8%, Building 14%, Crafting 12%
- #29 Project Silverfish
74% matchVery Positive94% of 2,854 reviews2025
Dev: Siris Pendrake
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 21.9 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: FPS 28.1%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Open World 21%, Horror 15.8%, First-Person 8.4%
- #30 Chernobylite Complete Edition
76% matchVery Positive82% of 15,165 reviews2021
Dev: The Farm 51
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Horror 11.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #31 Sunrise: survival
79% matchMixed48% of 526 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: Survival 26.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.8%, FPS 13.3%, Open World 13%, RPG 10.8%
- #32 Rem Survival
76% 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: Open World 17.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 14.3%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 11.9%
- #33 Grim
75% matchMixed59% of 145 reviews2025
Dev: Spoonfed InteractivePub: Beyond Frames
Windows
GRIM is an Exclusive VR Multiplayer Survival game where you must immerse yourself, stranded on a secluded part of Earth. Survival is not just a choice but a grueling battle against nature and other players. Gather resources, craft, and build your base, all to stay alive.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 19.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Open World 15.2%, Survival 14.1%, Base Building 12.6%
- #34 Crushed
77% 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: Open World 15.4%, FPS 14.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Survival 12.6%, Base Building 11%
- #35 Zombie Survival Game Online
74% 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: Looter Shooter 22.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, FPS 10.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Open World 9%
- #36 The Last Caretaker
71% 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: Open World 23.4%, Base Building 22.2%, Survival 18.7%, Crafting 15.5%, First-Person 10.1%
- #37 Plains of Pain
73% 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: Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, Open World 15.5%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%
- #38 Survival: Lost Way
75% matchMostly Negative37% of 287 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: Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, FPS 13.5%, Survival 13.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Base Building 8.9%
- #39 DARKEST DAYS
72% 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 22.6%, Open World 19.7%, Survival 14%, Base Building 11.2%, Horror 8.6%
- #40 Mesorift Survival
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 101 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: Looter Shooter 17.3% ★, Open World 16.9%, FPS 15.8%, Survival 12.9%, Base Building 12.9%
- #41 VEIN
68% 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: Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Open World 19%, Survival 15.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Crafting 8.2%
- #42 The Midnight Walkers
70% matchMixed56% of 1,432 reviews2026
Dev: Oneway Ticket Studio
Windows
Fight, scavenge, and extract in The Midnight Walkers, a hardcore FPS game with deadly zombies, dangerous players, and valuable loot. Craft weapons, armor, and consumables; trade items; and maintain your hideout. Escape Liberty Grand Center mega complex, and thrive...or die and lose everything.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.6%, FPS 18.4%, PvE 12.8%, Horror 12.6%, Loot 12.3%
- #43 INCUR Survival
72% 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 20.4%, Building 20.4%, Survival 17.2%, Crafting 14.3%, First-Person 9.2%
- #44 Heat Death: Survival Train
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 13.3%, Survival 12.7%, Open World 11.9%
- #45 Taora : Beginning
69% 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: Looter Shooter 28.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Action RPG 11.2%, Open World 11%, Base Building 10.2%
- #46 Outback
73% matchMixed63% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: Wafflesoft
Windows
Tasmania is a harsh environment and to make things worse, the world is ending. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.3%, PvE 9%
- #47 P.A.M.E.L.A.®
71% matchMixed59% of 919 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: Open World 31.7%, Survival 30%, Horror 19.5%, First-Person 12%, Action 5.6%
- #48 OPG: Clan Wars
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Anarchy GamesPub: Street's Game
Windows
OPG: Clan Wars — a multiplayer action game with survival elements. Arena shooter, open world, crafting, and resource battles — fight, evolve, and survive alone or with your team.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Open World 14.8%, FPS 14.7%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 9.6%
- #49 Generation Zero®
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 41,588 reviews2019
Dev: Systemic Reaction™Pub: Avalanche Studios
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Open World 13.4%, FPS 12.6%, Base Building 11.8%, Robots 11%
- #50 Machine Mind
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 374 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Base Building 14.8%, Open World 12.6%, Action RPG 12.3%, Building 12%
- #51 Crafting Dead
70% 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 21.9%, Looter Shooter 21% ★, Open World 14.5%, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%
- #52 Shadows of Kurgansk
69% 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: Survival 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Crafting 10.9%, RPG 10.8%, Horror 10.5%
- #53 Ascent of Ashes
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 294 reviews2025
Dev: Vivid Storm Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Building 20.4%, Survival 20%, Crafting 15.6%, PvE 14.2%
- #54 Gray Zone Warfare
64% matchMixed70% of 66,430 reviews2024
Dev: MADFINGER Games, a.s.
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 41.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 25.9%, Open World 23.2%, PvE 14.2%, Realistic 13.9%, Survival 13.6%
- #55 Lost Rift
64% 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: Base Building 20.9%, FPS 20.8%, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 14.8%, PvE 14.4%
- #56 Next Day: Survival
67% 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: Post-apocalyptic 27.2%, Open World 25.9%, Survival 25.3%, Crafting 8.9%, PvE 4.7%