Games Like Rust

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: Survival 30.4%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Sandbox 8.2%, PvP 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: DayZ delivers similarly tense emergent multiplayer survival, where scarce supplies, hostile players, disease, and long-distance travel make every encounter dangerous.

Welcome to SCUM, a ruthless open-world survival game where deep character customization defines the prisoner you become. Loot, craft, hunt, build, and fight to outlast a hostile island where every choice can change your fate. Stay alive. Stay dangerous. Become harder to kill.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh open-world survival simulation, loot-driven PvP, player-built shelters, and high-stakes encounters make it one of the closest alternatives to Rust.

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% ★, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival shooter combines Rust-like base building and loot gathering with PvP, AI-controlled points of interest, and accessible gunplay.

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: ARK offers persistent multiplayer servers, extensive building and raiding, tribal warfare, and a huge crafting progression built around taming dinosaurs.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Survival 26.2%, Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines scavenging, crafting, destructible base building, multiplayer combat, and the constant pressure of defending against increasingly dangerous hordes.

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 35% ★, Survival 24.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 8%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Miscreated is a gritty first-person post-apocalyptic survival game centered on scavenging, crafting, shelter building, vehicles, and unpredictable player encounters.

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Survival 19%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 11%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Valheim has an exceptionally satisfying progression from basic shelter to fortified settlements, with exploration, crafting, sailing, and optional dedicated-server PvP.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds 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 20% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Once Human pairs a shared post-apocalyptic world with gathering, modular territory building, PvP zones, and cooperative survival against both monsters and players.

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 25.5% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The Front directly targets Rust-style play with a persistent PvP world, base construction, raiding, resource gathering, vehicles, and automated defenses.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Survival 24.6%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Open World 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Raft retains the satisfying resource-gathering, crafting, expansion, and multiplayer cooperation of Rust while placing the entire survival experience on the ocean.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Survival 25.8%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The Forest's first-person crafting, shelter construction, exploration, and dangerous player-like AI enemies make it a strong survival alternative with a horror angle.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25% ★, Survival 21.7%, Crafting 16.8%, Open World 13.4%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Soulmask provides a deep survival-crafting sandbox with large buildable bases, PvP servers, raiding, and a distinctive system for recruiting and managing tribespeople.

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: Survival 28.6%, Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%, Crafting 8%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its isometric perspective, its unforgiving persistent survival, scavenging, fortification, multiplayer servers, and player-driven stories strongly echo Rust's stakes.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 27.4%, Open World 17.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: V Rising translates the gather-build-raid loop into a polished vampire action RPG, with castle construction, PvP servers, territory conflict, and boss-driven progression.

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 26.1% ★, Survival 21.1%, Open World 14.8%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its survival crafting, freely built bases, multiplayer worlds, resource automation, and creature-based combat offer a more approachable take on the Rust-style sandbox loop.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 30.1%, Open World 17.1%, Crafting 15.4%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This modern remake preserves ARK's strong fit for Rust players through persistent tribal survival, elaborate bases, raids, taming, and open-world PvP.

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 13.4%, Multiplayer 10%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Unturned is an accessible multiplayer survival sandbox with player-run servers, base building, scavenging, vehicles, raids, and a large modding community.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Survival 21.3%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Subsistence focuses on the intimate survival loop of harvesting, crafting, building a defended home, and fending off hostile NPC hunters alone or in co-op.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 32.2%, Open World 17.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game features gathering, freeform defensive building, hostile threats, co-op play, and an isolated world that rewards careful preparation.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.6% ★, Survival 21.4%, Crafting 12%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Icarus emphasizes demanding environmental survival, gathering, crafting, and elaborate base construction, with missions adding structure to its open-world survival play.

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 26.4% ★, Survival 19.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: DUCKSIDE is explicitly built around multiplayer survival, crafting, player bases, raiding, and first-person PvP, with a deliberately lighter visual style.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Open World 20.1%, Crafting 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Enshrouded offers excellent building and exploration in a survival-crafting world, though it shifts Rust's competitive tension toward cooperative PvE progression.

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 25.3% ★, Survival 17.4%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: XERA: Survival mixes open-world scavenging and base building with PvP, AI enemies, and extraction-like risk in a free-to-play survival setting.

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: Survival 21.9%, Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: HumanitZ combines open-world zombie survival, scavenging, crafting, fortifying safehouses, vehicles, and multiplayer cooperation in a more PvE-oriented format.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 11.3%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Nightingale offers a detailed first-person crafting and building loop across dangerous procedurally generated realms, primarily emphasizing cooperative PvE exploration.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 12.3%, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Myth of Empires has persistent multiplayer survival, large-scale building, resource control, clan warfare, mounts, and siege mechanics on a grander historical scale.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 30.1%, Open World 16.6%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 9.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Last Oasis centers on clan-based survival PvP, mobile player-built bases, resource wars, and raiding in a distinctive desert nomad setting.

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Survival 21%, Crafting 11.8%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world multiplayer survival features gathering, construction, sailing, territorial conflict, and medieval-style sieges that appeal to players who enjoy Rust raids.

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 29.3% ★, Survival 19.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 12.7%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The Infected provides a methodical open-world survival experience focused on gathering, crafting, detailed base construction, environmental threats, and hostile infected.

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Survival 23.1%, Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 9.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%

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 34.4% ★, Survival 23.2%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 7.1%

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 Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Survival 19.2%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 11.5%, Building 9.2%

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 32.8% ★, Survival 31.9%, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 4.6%

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 34% ★, Survival 24.1%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Crafting 9.8%

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Survival 19%, Crafting 12.5%, Open World 11.2%, Building 7.9%

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 17.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 35.3%, Open World Survival Craft 29.8% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Sandbox 6.8%, Open World 6.3%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.6% ★, Survival 35.1%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Crafting 3.3%, Open World 3.2%

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 36.4%, Open World 18.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Crafting 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 5.4%

Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 12.7%, Open World 9.8%, Building 8%

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 Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Survival 18%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 11%, Building 7.4%

Muck is a survival-roguelike. Collect resources, find items & build a base to survive for as long as you can.

Why similar: Survival 35.4%, Crafting 19.9%, Open World 13.6%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Building 12.1%

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 29.4%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 8.1%, Sandbox 3.8%

Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.

Why similar: Survival 36.8%, Crafting 17.9%, Open World 16.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Sandbox 7.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Survival 18.4%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.5%, Multiplayer 6.8%

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Survival 16.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Survival 23%, Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Open World 12.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 8.7%

MyIsland is a relaxed and beautiful survival game,You will drift and survive on the tropical islands, hunt and travel, build houses and development farming, and create your own warm homeland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Strayed is a fast paced open world VR survival game where every session feels like a new adventure. Start with nothing on a fresh island, gather materials, craft weapons, build bases, and battle other players for the best loot.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Survival 14%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 8.6%, Building 7.3%

Survisland is a super hardcore sandbox survival game that pays great attention to restoring the real survival experience. The character has rich and realistic actions and reactions to , and the process logic of making props is no different from reality.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Survival 17.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Building 9.4%, Open World 9.3%

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.

Why similar: Survival 46.8%, Multiplayer 16.1%, PvP 10.2%, FPS 8%, Shooter 7.3%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Survival 22.1%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Survival 22.8%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 8.4%