Games Like SCUM

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 16.3%, Zombies 13.9%, Open World 11.2%, Online Co-Op 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: The closest match if you want a harsh PvPvE survival sandbox built around looting, sickness, stamina, and constant tension with both zombies and other players.

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 30.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Open World 10.2%, FPS 9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers SCUM's mix of open-world looting, gunfights, base building, and high-stakes PvP in a more streamlined military-survival setting.

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 28% ★, Survival 19.6%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 12.2%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While less simulation-heavy, it scratches the same persistent-world itch with brutal survival pressure, crafting, raiding, and unpredictable player encounters.

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 30.2% ★, Survival 14.7%, Zombies 14.3%, Open World 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs scavenging, crafting, and character progression with a dangerous zombie-filled world that rewards smart fortification and long-term survival.

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 40.3% ★, Survival 13.3%, Zombies 11.2%, Open World 10.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its realistic post-apocalyptic sandbox blends scavenging, vehicles, base construction, and PvP against roaming infected in a very SCUM-like way.

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 19.8%, Zombies 19.2%, Open World 17.2%, Crafting 12%, Online Co-Op 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This one leans into survival micromanagement, exploration, and zombie threat management much like SCUM's more hardcore PvE side.

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 31.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.9%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a large-scale survival shooter loop of gathering, building, driving, and defending your base against both AI threats and other players.

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 34.2% ★, Survival 15.9%, Zombies 14.9%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: As a single-player option, it captures SCUM's isolated scavenging, crafting, base defense, and survival-against-infected atmosphere.

'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 23.2% ★, Hunting 15.9% ★, Zombies 9.8%, Open World 7.3%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world scavenging and survival crafting with serious zombie pressure and extensive defensive base construction.

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 25.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.4%, Zombies 13.5%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on realistic scavenging, barricading, day-night threat swings, and zombie survival gives it a similar grounded tension.

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 31.2% ★, Massively Multiplayer 18.7%, Survival 10.9%, Open World 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: If you want a more MMO-flavored alternative, it mixes open-world survival, shelter building, loot runs, and persistent online progression.

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 22.9% ★, Zombies 15.3%, Survival 12.2%, Open World 11.3%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its top-down view, it nails the persistent zombie-survival formula with scavenging, vehicles, crafting, and base management.

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 48.7% ★, Survival 15.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 11.1%, Sandbox 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its slower, more methodical survival loop emphasizes hunger, temperature, crafting, and building in a believable wilderness sandbox.

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 33.1% ★, Zombies 14.6%, Survival 11.3%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This low-poly survival shooter still delivers the familiar mix of looting, crafting, zombie killing, and cooperative open-world progression.

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 45.4% ★, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Open World 9.6%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: It matches SCUM's survival-sim appeal with punishing wounds, nutrition management, crafting, hunting, and a hostile open environment.

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 31.4% ★, Zombies 18.6%, Survival 17.6%, Open World 12.4%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love SCUM's systems depth, this is one of the deepest survival sandboxes on Steam, with brutal injury, hunger, and zombie management.

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 22.1%, Zombies 15.8%, Survival 13.1%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: Beneath the simple art style is a surprisingly deep zombie survival game with base building, vehicles, looting, and PvP servers.

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 32% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.6%, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a grim MMO survival-shooter atmosphere with scavenging, mutant threats, and open-world faction conflict.

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 25.3%, Survival 22.5%, Open World 20.8%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Sandbox 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses more on community management, but the scavenging, base building, permadeath pressure, and zombie world feel very relevant.

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 29.3% ★, Hunting 22% ★, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like SCUM, it leans into detailed survival systems, base growth, and player freedom, just in a primitive tribal setting.

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 35.1% ★, Open World 11.9%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 11.1%, Zombies 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends first-person survival crafting, open-world scavenging, and base building with a steady undead-like threat.

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 39.4% ★, Survival 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11%, Crafting 10.5%, Open World 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its crafting and environmental survival systems will appeal to SCUM players who enjoy careful preparation and high-risk resource runs.

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 34.2%, Open World 28.4%, Crafting 14.2%, PvP 7.9%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This rough-around-the-edges online survival shooter shares SCUM's post-Soviet looting vibe, PvP danger, and persistent-world tension.

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 35.3%, Open World 31.1%, Crafting 19.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Action 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: This modern survival sequel offers a slicker version of crafting, base building, exploration, and constant threat management.

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 49% ★, Survival 16%, Open World 12%, Crafting 8.6%, Sandbox 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on solo or co-op survival, crafting, fortifying, and staying alive in a hostile open map lines up well with SCUM's PvE appeal.

Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Explore a vast wasteland in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story.

Why similar: Open World 31.6%, Survival 21.7%, RPG 11.1%, Gore 10.6%, FPS 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter, more RPG-driven take on online survival, but it still offers open-world looting, CAMP building, and PvE/PvP tension.

STALZONE is the extraction shooter where you don't have to start over — and the only one with a world worth belonging to. You are invited to explore the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone twisted by anomalies and divided between rival factions whose territories shape the danger around you

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 41.5%, FPS 27.7%, PvP 17.5%, RPG 7.7%, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Though more MMOFPS than full survival sim, it captures the dangerous scavenging, anomaly-filled exploration, and PvPvE tension many SCUM players enjoy.

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 12.9%, Open World 12.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Even with a mythic theme, it shares the satisfying loop of gathering, building, gearing up, and surviving in a persistent multiplayer world.

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 20.1%, Open World 18.7%, Massively Multiplayer 16.4%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is less realistic, but the open-world survival, taming, crafting, and base-raiding sandbox hits a similar long-term multiplayer obsession.

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.3%, Nudity 8.5%

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 35.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 14.6%, Survival 11.4%, Crafting 11.1%, Open World 11.1%

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 34.3% ★, Survival 16.7%, Open World 12.4%, FPS 12.1%, Crafting 10.4%

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 26.2%, Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 18.5%, Third Person 4.8%

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 32.4% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.8%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.3%

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 32.6% ★, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 9.1%, Nudity 8.4%

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 44.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.3%, Survival 14%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 4.5%

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 30.9%, Survival 15.6%, Open World 14%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 7.2%

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 51.4% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Realistic 4.6%

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 27.7% ★, Crafting 9.3%, Survival 9.2%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, FPS 8.1%

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 45% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.1%, Massively Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 5.6%

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 47.1% ★, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 6.6%

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 46.2% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 11.7%, Massively Multiplayer 9.7%, Crafting 9.4%

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 38.8% ★, Survival 12.5%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 8.9%

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 49.6% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Character Customization 5%

Survive in a post-apocalyptic open-world sandbox alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by heat and chaos. Build a base, develop skills, craft tools and weapons, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, earn faction reputation, or take part in faction wars.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Open World 10.8%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

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 24.8%, Zombies 14.4%, Open World 11%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.8%

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 28.3%, Massively Multiplayer 17.9%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 16%, FPS 7.7%

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 37% ★, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Survival 11.4%, Open World 10.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

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 42% ★, Survival 14.2%, Zombies 13.9%, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 7.3%

Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 18.3%, Open World 16.8%, Crafting 7.4%, Gore 5.9%

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Why similar: Hunting 27.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Massively Multiplayer 17.5%, Open World 16.3%, Realistic 7.5%

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 22.6%, Survival 20.3%, Open World 20.2%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 10%

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 33.4% ★, Survival 11.9%, Open World 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%

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 24.5% ★, Massively Multiplayer 19.2%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 8.8%, Zombies 8.8%

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 30.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.7%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Sandbox 8.2%

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 26.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.3%, Survival 10.1%, Online Co-Op 10%, Sandbox 10%

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 22.9% ★, Hunting 15.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.7%, Zombies 10.3%, Survival 7.8%