- #1 Fort Zombie
97% matchMixed67% of 153 reviews2018
Dev: Kerberos Productions Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In Fort Zombie, players are trapped in the small town of Piety, Indiana. Organize and build a defense shelter from an impending wave of undead. Choose a building to be your Fort and forage for Food, Weapons, Supplies and People.
Why similar: RPG 42.1%, Action 24.5%, Indie 17.5%, Zombies 15.9%
- #2 Zombie Watch
96% matchMixed42% of 84 reviews2021
Dev: Wildlak
Windows
Top-down open world single player / survival / RPG game with zombies and wildlife.
Why similar: RPG 32.2%, Zombies 30.8%, Survival 23%, Indie 14%
- #3 Ice Station Z
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 204 reviews2021
Dev: Wobbly Tooth
Windows
Thirdperson Open World Zombie Survival.
Why similar: Zombies 48.8%, Open World 28.5%, Action 22.7%
- #4 Zombie Shooter 2
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 881 reviews2009
Dev: Sigma Team Inc.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.
Why similar: Zombies 40.3%, RPG 23.3%, Action 17%, Top-Down Shooter 9.8%, Indie 9.6%
- #5 SmallZ
94% matchMixed47% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: skins.dog
Windows
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
Why similar: Action 27.4%, RPG 25.9%, Survival 25.5%, Open World 21.3%
- #6 iZolated
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
iZolated - This is a post-apocalyptic 2D action game with elements of survival and RPG, which throws you into a harsh open world where the slightest mistake costs you your life. Find equipment, engage in fights, and prove that you are the top of the food chain in this chaos!
Why similar: Zombies 28.7%, RPG 26.8%, Open World 17.5%, Survival 14.7%, Action 12.4%
- #7 Still Not Dead
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 217 reviews2018
Dev: Glove Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Still Not Dead is a challenging roguelite FPS that merges the fast satisfying gunplay of Doom with open stages, insane weaponry, tactical choice and being pursued by death itself. The unique blessing and curse system, plus unlockable skill skulls set the game apart from everything else.
Why similar: Zombies 29.7%, Action 27.3%, Indie 18.7%, Survival 13%, Open World 11.3%
- #8 Trench Face
91% matchVery Positive95% of 531 reviews2025
Dev: Pulse Blue
Windows
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.
Why similar: RPG 66.8%, Action 23.6%, Indie 9.6%
- #9 Decision: Red Daze
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 872 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Zombies 30.5%, RPG 21.6%, Survival 17%, Open World 14.5%, Action 12.8%
- #10 7 Days to Die
89% 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: Zombies 40.5%, Survival 29.2%, Open World 19.1%, Action 11.3%
- #11 Zompiercer
90% matchVery Positive89% of 4,081 reviews2020
Dev: DDDimanN
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Why similar: Zombies 45.5%, Survival 20.9%, Open World 20.4%, Action 13.2%
- #12 Zed Survival
91% matchVery Positive95% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: JibbyJib
Windows
Create your character and survive wave after wave of zombies! Gain exp, level up and unlock new skills. Acquire over 20 Weapons with different rarities.
Why similar: RPG 38.1%, Zombies 26.7%, Action 20.6%, Indie 14.6%
- #13 Survival Nation: Lost Horizon
89% matchMixed58% of 125 reviews2024
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.Pub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.
Why similar: Zombies 29.4%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Action 19%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 15.1%
- #14 Fargone
88% matchMixed69% of 559 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: RPG 31.2%, Survival 23.3%, Open World 18.4%, Action 16.2%, Zombies 10.9%
- #15 Flesh Eaters
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,351 reviews2016
Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead
Why similar: Zombies 30.2%, RPG 24.5%, Indie 24.1%, Action 14.7%, Survival 6.6%
- #16 Undeadz!
87% matchMixed42% of 69 reviews2015
Dev: Miguel Lleras
Windows
Undeadz! is an open world Zombie Survival game with a retro art style!
Why similar: Zombies 39.6%, Action 25.9%, Indie 19.4%, Open World 15.1%
- #17 MEAT RPG
85% matchMostly Positive79% of 210 reviews2021
Dev: Trippin Bears
Windows · Mac · Linux
M.E.A.T. is a pixel art RPG game in a horror sci-fi setting, with renowned fight, movement and character development systems. Unravel the mystery of a sinister substance and become the hero of a small Canadian city during the Gold Rush era.
Why similar: RPG 53%, Open World 28%, Action 19%
- #18 Shadows of Kurgansk
86% matchMixed66% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Yadon StudioPub: Gaijin inCubator
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!
Why similar: Zombies 28.1%, RPG 22.8%, Survival 19.8%, Action 13.4%, Indie 10%
- #19 Outbreak Island
82% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Survive on a remote Island, where a mysterious Outbreak awakens bloodthirsty monsters at night. Craft, build and defend your base in the brutal world of Outbreak Island, an open-world sandbox survival horror game.
Why similar: Zombies 26.5%, Survival 23.9%, RPG 22.6%, Open World 14.9%, Action 12.1%
- #20 Nearly Dead
84% matchMixed46% of 298 reviews2021
Dev: Mono Software, Inc.
Windows
Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.
Why similar: RPG 36.7%, Zombies 21.2%, Action 18.3%, Indie 15.4%, Survival 8.3%
- #21 SurrounDead
80% 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 40.2%, Survival 20.5%, Open World 17.8%, RPG 13.4%, Action 4.7%
- #22 Adventure Craft
83% matchVery Positive82% of 224 reviews2017
Dev: Edible Entertainment
Windows
Adventure Craft is a challenging procedurally generated sandbox RPG with roguelike elements. Hunt monsters, horde loot, and craft weapons and armor, to survive in a vast ever-changing RPG world full of action, extreme danger and wonderful surprises.
Why similar: RPG 32%, Open World 25.6%, Survival 24.6%, Action 17.8%
- #23 Rubber and Lead
84% matchMixed48% of 105 reviews2015
Dev: Omega Point Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Rubber & Lead is a 2D Top Down Vehicle Combat RPG- Shoot your way through post-apocalyptic Arizona. Go on missions, upgrade your cars, equip your weapons, and blast away your enemies!
Why similar: RPG 45.1%, Action 33.6%, Indie 21.3%
- #24 Taora : Survival
81% matchMixed63% of 395 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: RPG 44.8%, Survival 34.1%, Open World 21.1%
- #25 Force of Nature
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Survival 35.6%, Open World 24.9%, RPG 21.8%, Action 10.7%, Indie 7%
- #26 I Shall Remain
82% matchMixed67% of 162 reviews2015
Dev: Scorpius Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
An Action RPG at its core, I Shall Remain combines role-playing elements with survival and strategic aspects, and creates a blend never before seen. Through complex, real-time character progression and RPG system, over a hundred abilities to learn and upgrade, dozens of weapons and enhancers, thousands of Infected, over twenty mutations,...
Why similar: RPG 31%, Zombies 25.6%, Action 15.7%, Survival 14.3%, Indie 13.4%
- #27 DeadPoly
79% 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: Zombies 52%, Survival 28.3%, Action 19.6%
- #28 HumanitZ
77% 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: Zombies 35.4%, Survival 19.5%, RPG 18.5%, Open World 17%, Action 9.6%
- #29 Walking Zombie 2
79% matchVery Positive88% of 13,034 reviews2019
Dev: Alda Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.
Why similar: Zombies 35.8%, RPG 19.8%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 16.8%, Action 9.7%
- #30 Dread Dawn
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,198 reviews2024
Dev: Kioop
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.
Why similar: Zombies 44.6%, Survival 21%, RPG 17.8%, Open World 16.6%
- #31 State of Decay
78% matchVery Positive85% of 17,512 reviews2013
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The end is here. Life as you knew it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world.
Why similar: Zombies 42%, Survival 20.1%, Open World 16.3%, RPG 12.3%, Action 8.3%
- #32 Machine Mind
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 374 reviews2026
Dev: Chudo-Yudo GamesPub: Targem Games
Windows · Mac
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!
Why similar: RPG 44.2%, Survival 31%, Open World 24.8%
- #33 Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 868 reviews2024
Dev: DAWINSTONE
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The open-world survival role-playing game "Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse" tells the story of Delta Team and his comrades as they work to rebuild a world devastated by humans and their race turned into zombies.
Why similar: Zombies 32.6%, RPG 24.6%, Survival 16.7%, Open World 16.1%, Indie 10%
- #34 LifeZ - Survival
77% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.
Why similar: Zombies 33.4%, RPG 20%, Survival 19.2%, Action 11.8%, Indie 7.9%
- #35 Zelter
75% matchMixed48% of 1,968 reviews2020
Dev: G1 PlaygroundPub: SuperGG.com
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
All the horrors of zombie apocalypse in adorable pixelated form! Craft, explore and rescue people in a city overrun by the zombie horde. Good luck, survivors!
Why similar: Zombies 41.4%, Survival 22%, Open World 16%, RPG 11.4%, Action 9.2%
- #36 Night of the Dead
71% 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: Zombies 38.6%, RPG 24.2%, Survival 18.8%, Open World 18.4%
- #37 State of Decay: YOSE
73% matchVery Positive82% of 12,799 reviews2015
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.
Why similar: Zombies 42.4%, Survival 22%, Open World 18.1%, RPG 10.3%, Action 7.1%
- #38 Heaven Dust 2
72% matchVery Positive91% of 830 reviews2022
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Deep inside a research base, waking up from a cryogenic pod, you find yourself trapped in a living hell, surrounded by zombies. Heaven Dust 2 is a love letter to classic survival horror games featuring exploration, action, puzzles, and resource management.
Why similar: Zombies 57.5%, RPG 26.8%, Action 15.7%
- #39 Goliath
75% matchMixed67% of 277 reviews2016
Dev: Whalebox StudioPub: Octopus Tree
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Welcome to a mysterious world filled with strange creatures, giant monsters and warring factions. You won't last long here on your own. Fortunately, you know how to build giant robots! Find the plans, gather the resources, climb inside your giant robotic creation and start punching monsters in the face!
Why similar: RPG 39.5%, Action 25.5%, Indie 16%, Survival 11.2%, Open World 7.7%
- #40 Fallen Region
73% 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: Zombies 30.5%, Action 21.5%, Survival 19.1%, Indie 15.2%, Open World 13.6%
- #41 Heaven Dust
70% matchVery Positive91% of 681 reviews2020
Dev: One Gruel StudioPub: indienova
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When you awake, you find yourself in a mansion, where was the secret research center, is now a maze full of horrible zombies and deadly traps. You'll have to escape by overcoming your fears, collecting items, solving innovative puzzles and revealing the cruel truth.
Why similar: RPG 41.3%, Action 25.3%, Indie 19.6%, Zombies 13.8%
- #42 IfSunSets
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: Zombies 36%, RPG 26.1%, Survival 19.5%, Open World 18.5%
- #43 Polygeddon
70% matchMixed42% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!
Why similar: Zombies 34.1%, RPG 22.7%, Survival 17.2%, Open World 15.8%, Action 10.2%
- #44 Taora : Beginning
67% matchVery Positive87% of 2,228 reviews2023
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Why similar: Zombies 29.5%, RPG 28.3%, Open World 16.9%, Survival 13%, Action 12.2%
- #45 Dead Engine
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 121 reviews2026
Dev: Chocolate Dungeon GamesPub: Red Axe Games
Windows
Fight to survive against zombies in a pixel-art post-apocalyptic city. Loot and merge items, expand your backpack. In your camp, recruit survivors but burn the bitten. Trading uncovers haunting survivor stories.
Why similar: Zombies 40.5%, Open World 17.8%, Survival 17%, Action 15.4%, Indie 9.2%
- #46 Gone: Survival
71% 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: Zombies 38.8%, Survival 24.5%, Open World 19.3%, Action 11.5%, Indie 5.8%
- #47 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
65% 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: Survival 32%, RPG 29%, Open World 25.3%, Action 13.7%
- #48 5089: The Action RPG
70% matchVery Positive83% of 326 reviews2016
Dev: Phr00t's Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
5089 is a deep & complex action RPG featuring strong sandbox roots. VR is supported, but not required. Watch the tutorial & VR videos next to the trailer! Everything is procedurally generated, like terrain, enemies, weapons, items & quests. Planet Xax's war rages on... how is that possible?
Why similar: RPG 45.5%, Action 21.3%, Open World 17.7%, Indie 15.5%
- #49 Axion
72% matchMostly Negative32% of 116 reviews2015
Dev: Droog71
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Axion is an open world first/third person shooter with rpg and survival elements. The game is single player or multiplayer with LAN and online capability. Features include a large open world, character development and storyline in both single and multiplayer.
Why similar: RPG 38.8%, Action 21.7%, Indie 15.7%, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.5%
- #50 Survival Is Not Enough
71% matchMostly Negative35% of 52 reviews2017
Dev: Fixer Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Survival Is Not Enough is an open world first person zombie survival game. You wake up in a mysterious island and find out that you're infected. To survive you need to: build a shelter; protect yourself from dangers of this island; kill animals for food; kill zombies for underblood to cure yourself from zombie virus; The better you're...
Why similar: RPG 57.9%, Action 42.1%
- #51 Fracturefront
64% matchVery Positive96% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: 梦行志远
Windows
Fracturefront is a fantasy-themed third-person 3D action Roguelike. Centered on random equipment, it delivers highly variable, deeply strategic, and thrilling combat through unique character skill synergies. From barren deserts to tech planets, every rift traversal is a life-or-death gamble.
Why similar: RPG 37.8%, Zombies 31.3%, Action 17%, Indie 13.9%
- #52 Survivalist
68% matchVery Positive80% of 2,560 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.
Why similar: Zombies 34.5%, Survival 22.3%, RPG 20.5%, Open World 13.3%, Action 9.4%
- #53 Shards of Azuria
69% matchMixed60% of 101 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Potion Games
Windows
Shards of Azuria is an isometric, craft and build RPG. Create a character and a new world, then start your adventure by waking up in town. You are greeted by the locals of Azuria and begin to find your way around.
Why similar: RPG 41.5%, Survival 22%, Action 20.4%, Indie 16.2%
- #54 Nayati River
68% matchMixed65% of 85 reviews2021
Dev: Worlds To Play
Windows
A single-player game of adventure and survival, set in a vast region infested with the dead. Build an autonomous camp, manage a community of survivors, look for the many who are missing, fight ferocious hordes, and unravel the mysteries of the legend of Nayati River!
Why similar: Zombies 68.4%, Survival 20.5%, Indie 11.1%
- #55 First Day
69% matchMixed49% of 134 reviews2019
Dev: BadWolf Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's the first day of the rest of your life
Why similar: Zombies 33.7%, RPG 21.5%, Survival 19.3%, Open World 14.7%, Indie 10.9%
- #56 Border Town
64% matchVery Positive81% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: GoHoGamesPub: 2P Games
Windows
Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.
Why similar: RPG 40.8%, Open World 30.9%, Survival 28.3%
- #57 Story Of the Survivor
69% matchMixed61% of 64 reviews2016
Dev: Kamil SzczepanikPub: Akamari Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Story of the Survivor is an action RPG that takes place during a zombie apocalypse. Surviving isn't going to be easy, and zombies aren't the only things to worry about. You must also eat and drink to survive as well as avoid other survivors.
Why similar: RPG 30.3%, Zombies 25.8%, Action 17.4%, Survival 14.5%, Indie 12%