- #1 The Region
97% matchMostly Negative30% of 60 reviews2019
Dev: Black Snake Games
Windows
The region is affected by an unknown virus that has destroyed almost all living things.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 57.8%, Simulation 17%, Action 9.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 7.2%
- #2 CHEMISTS: Area of infection
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 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: Survival 39.8%, Simulation 28.1%, Action 16.5%, Adventure 15.6%
- #3 Ashes
96% matchMixed63% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: FurGoldGames
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Chaos and devastation devoured the last sparkles of life. Surviving is the main task.
Why similar: Survival 27%, Action 26.5%, Adventure 25.6%, Indie 20.9%
- #4 Dead Matter
95% matchMostly Negative21% of 882 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.
Why similar: Survival 38.4%, Simulation 28%, Action 16.2%, Adventure 14.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #5 LIFE EFFECT Survival
93% 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: Survival 52.2%, Adventure 24%, Action 23.9%
- #6 Nether: The Untold Chapter
94% matchMixed53% of 291 reviews2019
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: Nether Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Spawn in to and explore a post-apocalyptic Chicago whose once mighty silhouette has been plundered and turned into ruins. The streets that used to be filled with life are now full of abandoned cars and buildings and are surrounded by creepy creatures called “Nethers”.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 49.7%, Violent 12.7%, Gore 12.4%, Survival 10.3%, Action 7.6%
- #7 When They Arrived
94% matchMostly Negative35% of 130 reviews2019
Dev: Second Reality
Windows
Alan went hunting in his grandfather's country house. There was an invasion of the aliens. Cities are destroyed. You need to use survival skills and ingenuity to survive and save the planet. Build, explode, explore the world, develop your skills, try all ways to stop the aliens invasion."What would I do after the alien invasion?
Why similar: Violent 31.1%, Simulation 25.8%, Action 16.1%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 12.8%
- #8 Invasion 2037
92% 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: Violent 21.4%, Survival 20.2%, Simulation 16.2%, Gore 10.8%, Adventure 9.9%
- #9 GearStorm - Armored Survival
91% matchMixed56% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Iron City Games
Windows · Mac
GearStorm - Armored Survival is a story-driven, open-world sci-fi survival adventure. Discover what led to the Phage, a deadly virus apocalypse and our escape to a alien world. Explore a vast alien planet, build your base, create your colony, acquire vehicles, weapons, and supplies to defend it.
Why similar: Simulation 23.7%, Violent 19.5%, Survival 19.1%, Action 14.4%, Adventure 12.7%
- #10 Pangea Survival
91% matchMixed56% of 105 reviews2020
Dev: Pangea Survival Development Team
Windows
Adapt. Survive. Thrive. In a world of ancient, prehistoric wonders you will have to learn to rely on your instincts as dinosaurs and poachers compete to SURVIVE PANGEA!
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 46.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Gore 13.5%, Violent 13.4%, Action 6.6%
- #11 Road to Eden
90% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Survival 47.4%, Adventure 15.9%, Third Person 12.6%, Action 11.3%, Indie 10.5%
- #12 SurvivalZ
89% matchMixed60% of 316 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone or in groups you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by living dead!
Why similar: Survival 42.5%, Adventure 21%, Action 19.9%, Indie 16.6%
- #13 Barren Roads
89% matchMostly Negative39% of 76 reviews2015
Dev: Forcequitapplicatons
Windows · Mac
Nuclear weapons have the left the world barren and scorched the earth. Survival has never been harder for mankind. Resources are scarce as life has left this world. You are forced to constantly move and scavenge the next area for resources. Rivers are dry. Many of wanderers never survived the icy nights as the moon crosses the sky.
Why similar: Survival 48.3%, Action 26.9%, Adventure 24.8%
- #14 Mist Survival
86% 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: Survival 51.3%, Violent 12.8%, Gore 10.9%, Simulation 8%, Adventure 6.4%
- #15 10 Years After
88% matchVery Negative11% of 129 reviews2015
Dev: Rock Paper Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 22%
“10 Years After” Is a survival based horror (Open World) Single Player Adventure ..........After the government rolled out a injection to the general public to stem the violence and quell the human emotion's things were going well ….....
Why similar: Survival 36.6%, Adventure 22.6%, Action 21.8%, Indie 16.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #16 Soviet Survival
84% 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: Survival 48.1%, Gore 23.7%, Action 14.3%, Adventure 11%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #17 Exile to Death
86% matchMixed47% of 99 reviews2018
Dev: Aleksei MilchakovPub: Manifestors Games Studio
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Explore the world , collect resources , craft items , build a fortified house and kill other players to survive. BUT don't forget about cyborgs...
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 55.8%, Survival 17.7%, Action 11.4%, Indie 8%, Adventure 7.2%
- #18 SurrounDead
82% 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: Survival 62.6%, Third Person 11%, Action 8.1%, Adventure 8.1%, Indie 6.6%
- #19 Atomfall
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,854 reviews2025
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.4 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: Survival 23.9%, Action 18.6%, Adventure 18.6%, Violent 18.3%, Gore 17.8%
- #20 Another Try 2
81% matchMixed54% of 1,065 reviews2025
Dev: Hoki Wolf Studio
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
The virus has devastated cities and lands. Most of the population died, the rest turned into the walking dead. You're one of the last survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another day.
Why similar: Survival 49.2%, Adventure 20.7%, Action 17.9%, Third Person 12.3%
- #21 The Fifth Day
84% matchMostly Negative37% of 940 reviews2014
Dev: Touz
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.
Why similar: Survival 56.2%, Massively Multiplayer 18%, Action 10%, Adventure 9.9%, Indie 5.1%
- #22 Liveza: Death of the Earth
83% matchMixed55% of 171 reviews2016
Dev: Nikita NefedovPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A global catastrophe has literally torn our planet apart, breaking Earth into many pieces. You are the survivor that explores the remains of our planet and investigates the anomalies that have settled upon it. You start out with only a single item: a broken weapon that also functions as a flashlight.
Why similar: Adventure 75.9%, Indie 24.1%
- #23 Infestation: The New Beginning
82% matchMixed42% of 25,431 reviews
Dev: Fredaikis ABPub: OP Productions LLC
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 58.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 58.9%, Survival 24.9%, Action 6.6%, Simulation 5.5%, Indie 2.6%
- #24 Hurricane
81% matchMixed57% of 167 reviews2017
Dev: Because I Can
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hurricane is a 3rd person multiplayer survival game in open fantasy world.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 64.1%, Adventure 11.7%, Action 10.1%, Indie 7.5%, Survival 6.5%
- #25 Survival: Lost Way
79% 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: Survival 38.4%, Simulation 28.2%, Action 15.8%, Adventure 15%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #26 Survival Camp
79% matchMixed45% of 216 reviews2019
Dev: Skeleton Star Game
Windows
The story takes place on Halloween night, when people are wearing masks to revel, the mysterious virus spreads quietly, and the virus engulfed the world instantly. The world is no longer safe. You need to build a camp and survive. Good luck. . .
Why similar: Simulation 35%, Action 19.7%, Adventure 19.5%, Indie 15.6%, Survival 10.1%
- #27 V1RUZ
78% 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: Simulation 34.7%, Action 19.7%, Adventure 19.3%, Indie 15.3%, Violent 10.9%
- #28 Gone: Survival
78% matchMixed44% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Survival 46.5%, Simulation 22%, Action 12.4%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 6.8%
- #29 Dustland
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 110 reviews2024
Dev: RedPad Games
Windows
Dustland is a reimagined take on the survival genre. A world where expeditions, looting, and battles are just the tip of the iceberg, hiding secrets and mysteries of a fallen region in its depths.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 59.2%, Survival 22.2%, Violent 18.6%
- #30 Another Try
77% 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 54.2%, Survival 18.3%, Adventure 8.1%, Action 8%, Indie 6.2%
- #31 Under A New Sun
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 368 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!
Why similar: Survival 52.7%, Simulation 19.8%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 10.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #32 Fallen Region
76% matchMixed41% of 185 reviews2020
Dev: WayUpGamesPub: HandMade Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Simulation 24.4%, Survival 21.7%, Action 13.8%, Adventure 13.8%, Gore 11.6%
- #33 Ruins To Fortress
73% matchMixed62% of 164 reviews2024
Dev: NimbleBeasts
Windows · Linux
Explore a post-apocalyptic island, craft, build, tear down enemy bases, defend and nuke your rivals! Life's about surviving in this multiplayer game, no matter what it takes!
Why similar: Survival 73.3%, Action 21.6%, Singleplayer 5.1%
- #34 BattleRush: Ardennes Assault
75% matchMixed53% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Multiplayer action game in the entourage of the Second World War with total destruction of the environment. Complete freedom of action. Do anything and anywhere. Build defense, demolish enemy towns, control any vehicle which you will see on your way or create.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 41.9%, Gore 18.8%, Violent 17.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Action 6.9%
- #35 Jaws Of Extinction™
75% matchMixed54% of 386 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: Survival 21%, Gore 19.9%, Violent 19.2%, Simulation 14.9%, Adventure 9.4%
- #36 Just Alone
76% matchMostly Negative38% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: Evergreen
Windows
"Just Alone" is a survival game set in a hostile world inhabited by the mutated creatures. Game begins when Bill Yesterday's ship crashes into the earth. As the only survivor he has to try survive in destroyed by atomic bomb, nasty world.
Why similar: Adventure 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #37 VEIN
67% 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: Survival 59.7%, Simulation 26.9%, Action 13.3%
- #38 Dinosaur World
71% matchMixed64% of 165 reviews2025
Dev: Dinosaur StudioPub: CoolRabbit Games
Windows
Dinosaur World is a survival game about dinosaurs.
Why similar: Survival 75.9%, Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Action 2.7%, Adventure 2.7%, Indie 1.9%
- #39 Rem Survival
72% 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: Massively Multiplayer 36.4%, Survival 19.3%, Violent 14.7%, Simulation 12.3%, Adventure 6.1%
- #40 Crushed
72% matchMixed55% of 307 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Survival 58.1%, Simulation 26.7%, Action 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #41 Sunrise: survival
73% 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: Massively Multiplayer 43.7%, Survival 25.4%, Action 10.4%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 6.5%
- #42 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
69% matchMixed55% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Survival 41.4%, Simulation 21.7%, Adventure 14.1%, Action 13.7%, Indie 6.6%
- #43 Noch
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: Fair Games StudioPub: Sad Horse studio
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Go alone (or with a friend) to find the girl who destroyed the world. An ominous surreal first-person adventure full of dangerous monsters and secrets of the deceased world
Why similar: Survival 51.9%, Adventure 24.1%, Action 24%
- #44 Wasted World
70% matchMixed65% of 78 reviews2020
Dev: Achrony
Windows
The apocalypse has come, brought by pollution, wars and disease! Your mission is to save your land... or what’s left of it. Alone or with your friends gather, recycle, craft, build, plant, explore, fight & help survivors.
Why similar: Simulation 34.7%, Action 19.9%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 15.7%, Survival 9.8%
- #45 30 days to survive
70% 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: Gore 21.6%, Violent 21%, Survival 20%, Simulation 15.6%, Action 7.9%
- #46 Deadly Flare
69% matchMixed55% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: Green Grass Games
Windows
A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.
Why similar: Survival 52.4%, Simulation 21.6%, Action 12.6%, Adventure 11.3%, Singleplayer 2%
- #47 Primordian
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 112 reviews2018
Dev: Stonepunk Studios
Windows
These are the last days of the first planet, experience a vast ancient world and civilization as you travel through the twisting story mode. Strange and unique weapons, creatures and characters from the dawn of time and beyond.
Why similar: Gore 38.2%, Violent 36.7%, Adventure 12.7%, Action 12.3%
- #48 Reptiles: In Hunt
69% matchMixed61% of 102 reviews2021
Dev: Corpix Games
Windows
Reptiles: In Hunt gives you the opportunity to face dangerous dinosaurs in world that has fallen. It is a mix of survival and action. Hunt, explore, acquire resources, build new weapons and fight with huge reptiles and dangerous Reptilians that destroyed human civilization.
Why similar: Survival 33.7%, Simulation 23.1%, Third Person 13.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Action 13%
- #49 Wrath of Anna
71% matchMostly Negative35% of 249 reviews2018
Dev: Lorenzo Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You've been stranded on Empress Anna's remote planet of Drumgore during the Cross-Planetary War of 2021. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Violent 31%, Gore 29.4%, Action 12.3%, Indie 10.5%, Survival 9.6%
- #50 Plains of Pain
66% 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: Survival 45.6%, Simulation 32.2%, Action 18.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #51 TRAPPED
67% matchMostly Negative36% of 459 reviews2025
Dev: Cheap Fun GamesPub: Forthright Indie Games Division
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Something has gone terribly wrong in TRAPPED Alaska. Except for you, and a handful of survivors, the whole town has been emptied. Everywhere, what should be water has been replaced by a black semi-sentient sludge that seems to change everything it touches. And it’s rising...
Why similar: Violent 28.5%, Survival 23.4%, Action 18.7%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 13%
- #52 No One Survived
63% 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 48.6%, Gore 17.2%, Violent 14%, Third Person 9.9%, Adventure 8.5%