- #1 Deadside
97% 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 30% ★, Survival 12.3%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, Open World 10.2%, FPS 9%
Why You'll Like It: Deadside delivers a similarly grounded open-world survival shooter experience built around looting, PvPvE tension, and persistent progression.
- #2 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 19.5%, Survival 16.2%, Zombies 13.8%, Open World 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest overall match to SCUM, with a hostile open world, zombie threats, realistic survival pressure, and unpredictable player-driven encounters.
- #3 Survive the Nights
95% 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 24.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.5%, Zombies 13.4%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: This is another hardcore zombie survival sandbox where scavenging, barricading, and making it through dangerous nights create the same constant pressure SCUM fans enjoy.
- #4 Miscreated
96% 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 39.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Zombies 11.2%, Open World 10.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Miscreated offers a bleak open-world survival experience with looting, crafting, vehicles, and dangerous PvP that scratches a very similar itch.
- #5 7 Days to Die
94% 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 29.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Zombies 14.2%, Open World 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its mix of zombie survival, scavenging, crafting, base-building, and cooperative or competitive multiplayer strongly overlaps with SCUM's core loop.
- #6 No One Survived
94% 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 18.8%, Open World 16.9%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes detailed survival needs, crafting, base-building, and zombie-filled open-world exploration in a way that feels very SCUM-adjacent.
- #7 Night of the Dead
93% 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 22.7% ★, Hunting 15.9% ★, Zombies 9.8%, Open World 7.3%, Online Co-Op 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world zombie survival gameplay blends scavenging, crafting, and fortification in a way that mirrors SCUM's survival-first tension.
- #8 HumanitZ
91% 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 22.3% ★, Zombies 15.1%, Survival 12%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 10%
Why You'll Like It: HumanitZ is another zombie-focused open-world survival game centered on scavenging, crafting, and surviving both the world and its inhabitants.
- #9 Project Zomboid
92% 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 31.1% ★, Zombies 18.5%, Survival 17.7%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Although viewed from above, it matches SCUM's punishing survival depth, open-ended sandbox structure, and relentless zombie survival atmosphere.
- #10 Once Human
91% 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 30.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 18.8%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines persistent online open-world survival, base-building, resource gathering, and dangerous PvE zones in a way that should appeal to SCUM players.
- #11 Will To Live Online
90% 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 28.3% ★, Survival 20.4%, Massively Multiplayer 14.8%, Open World 14.6%, FPS 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its online post-apocalyptic world, survival systems, and dangerous roaming encounters make it a good fit for players who like SCUM's MMO-like survival feel.
- #12 DeadPoly
89% 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 32.5% ★, Zombies 14.4%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on open-world looting, crafting, shooting, and zombie survival makes it a strong lighter-weight alternative to SCUM.
- #13 Conan Exiles
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.4%, Nudity 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It shares SCUM's open-world survival structure, crafting, nudity, and character progression, but trades modern firearms and zombies for a brutal fantasy setting.
- #14 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 27.6% ★, Survival 19.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Rust captures the same brutal multiplayer survival loop of looting, crafting, base-building, and always fearing other players, even without the zombie focus.
- #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: Zombies 26.3%, Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 18.1%, Third Person 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: This nails the lonely scavenging-and-survival side of SCUM with open-world exploration, inventory management, and a strong post-apocalyptic mood.
- #16 Mist Survival
87% 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 33.9% ★, Survival 16%, Zombies 14.9%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on realistic-feeling scavenging, crafting, shelter building, and surviving infected threats in a hostile open world.
- #17 Green Hell
86% matchVery Positive85% of 94,379 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 10.7%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Green Hell leans harder into realistic survival systems and environmental danger, making it a strong pick for players who love SCUM's harsher simulation elements.
- #18 The Front
84% 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 31.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is a large-scale survival crafting shooter with base-building, raids, and open-world PvE/PvP that overlaps well with SCUM's sandbox appeal.
- #19 Subsistence
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 47.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 12%, Open World 11%, Sandbox 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is another slow-burn survival game built around resource gathering, crafting, base defense, and surviving a dangerous world with limited safety.
- #20 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
84% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.
Why similar: Zombies 24.9%, Survival 22.5%, Open World 20.7%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Sandbox 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It shares SCUM's zombie survival fantasy through open-world scavenging, base management, and high-stakes resource runs, even if it is less PvP-focused.
- #21 Unturned
82% 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 22.2%, Zombies 15.7%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 12%
Why You'll Like It: Behind its simple visuals is a strong open-world zombie survival sandbox with looting, crafting, vehicles, and multiplayer chaos.
- #22 XERA: Survival
83% 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 31.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival loop of gathering, shooting, base-building, and dealing with constant threats makes it a decent SCUM-like option.
- #23 Soulmask
81% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Hunting 21.7% ★, Open World 9.3%, Survival 9%, Crafting 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Soulmask offers deep survival systems, base-building, progression, and a large sandbox world that appeals to the more systems-heavy side of SCUM.
- #24 Next Day: Survival
82% matchMixed62% of 10,257 reviews2018
Dev: SOFF GamesPub: Last Level
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Next Day is a multi-player SURVIVAL game with elements of RPG, in an imaginary country in Eastern Europe. Carry out an array of tasks, learn skills, and develop your character. Have shootouts with opponents and earn a reputation.
Why similar: Survival 34.1%, Open World 28.2%, Crafting 14.4%, PvP 7.9%, Sandbox 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its rough-edged but compelling mix of online survival, scavenging, PvP, and post-apocalyptic exploration makes it a natural SCUM alternative.
- #25 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
81% 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 44.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 10.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game aims for the same kind of persistent online survival world full of scavenging, PvP risk, and harsh post-apocalyptic pressure.
- #26 ICARUS
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 38.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: While more mission-structured and PvE-focused, it delivers demanding survival systems, crafting, and progression that can appeal to SCUM players who enjoy the survival simulation side most.
- #27 Stay Out
80% 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: Open World 19%, Survival 18.1%, Character Customization 15.3%, PvP 14.7%, Third Person 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Stay Out offers a grim online survival experience with scavenging, danger, and a persistent post-apocalyptic world that should resonate with SCUM players.
- #28 ARK: Survival Evolved
79% matchVery Positive83% of 763,144 reviews2017
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 200.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 45.8% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 11.7%, Massively Multiplayer 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: ARK shares the large-scale multiplayer survival-crafting formula, progression, and base-building obsession, though its prehistoric setting is much less grounded.
- #29 The Infected
78% 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 34.7% ★, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Zombies 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a familiar loop of scavenging, crafting, fortifying, and surviving hostile creatures in an open-world survival sandbox.
- #30 Undawn
78% 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 26%, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 10.6%, Zombies 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Undawn blends open-world zombie survival, online multiplayer, crafting, and base development in a more accessible but still SCUM-relevant package.
- #31 Rem Survival
77% 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 Survival Craft 34.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.6%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Open World 11.1%
- #32 Hurtworld
77% 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: Open World Survival Craft 33.9% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 12.4%, FPS 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%
- #33 Last Oasis
76% matchMixed62% of 24,198 reviews2020
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 17.9 hrsMean: 121.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Massively Multiplayer 30.8%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 9.9%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #34 Survisland / 实境求生
74% matchMixed63% of 1,544 reviews2024
Dev: Super Trampers StudioPub: Easy Joy Ltd.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 32.2% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 9.1%, Online Co-Op 8.5%
- #35 Dysterra
73% 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 27.2% ★, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, FPS 8.1%
- #36 Outlaws of the Old West
75% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.5%, Survival 14.1%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 4.6%
- #37 Lost Rift
70% 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 29.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.3%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.8%
- #38 Plains of Pain
71% 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 32.5% ★, Open World 10.7%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%
- #39 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
69% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.2%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Crafting 10%
- #40 Sunkenland
69% 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 46.5% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Open World 9.3%, Sandbox 6.7%
- #41 Life is Feudal: Your Own
72% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Open World 13.5%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #42 Life is Feudal: MMO
73% matchMixed40% of 7,330 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.7%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #43 Nomad
73% 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 41.6% ★, Survival 14.4%, Zombies 13.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7.5%
- #44 Project Castaway
67% matchMixed67% of 1,632 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #45 Out of Reach
72% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 38.4% ★, Survival 12.6%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 10.3%, Crafting 9.1%
- #46 Fear the Night - 恐惧之夜
71% matchMixed54% of 899 reviews2019
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.
Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 24.7%, Zombies 14.2%, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%
- #47 VEIN
65% 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: Zombies 21.9%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 19.5%, Crafting 12.5%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #48 Infestation: The New Z
71% 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 28.1%, Massively Multiplayer 18%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 15.9%, FPS 7.7%
- #49 Stranded Deep
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,062 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 50.9% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.7%, Realistic 4.7%
- #50 Reign Of Kings
70% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 38% ★, Survival 12.6%, Open World 11.9%, Crafting 10.6%, PvP 6.1%
- #51 Cultivation Tales
68% matchMostly Negative38% of 13,640 reviews2024
Dev: Ac Games
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Cultivation Tales is an open world survival craft online game. You will experience collecting, crafting, hunting, fighting, building, researching, in a wild mythical world. Fight for your clan and yourself, from mortal to divinity!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.3%, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 10.1%
- #52 Afterinfection
67% matchMixed58% of 519 reviews2025
Dev: RePatrick21
Windows
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Hunting 15.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.7%, Zombies 10.3%, Survival 7.8%
- #53 PolyZ
68% matchMixed50% of 266 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.8%, Zombies 8.7%
- #54 Dune: Awakening
64% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.3%, Open World 8.2%, Survival 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%
- #55 Fragmented
70% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 46.5% ★, Survival 14.4%, Open World 10.1%, Crafting 7.5%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #56 How to Survive 2
68% matchMixed69% of 10,988 reviews2016
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Zombies 20.1%, Survival 17.4%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 8.5%
