Games Like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl, the first chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy, which started it all.

Why similar: FPS 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Shooter 8.9%, Survival 7.8%, Lore-Rich 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The modernized version of the original delivers the closest possible match: faction-filled Zone exploration, artifacts, mutants, scarce supplies, and bleak first-person survival.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat follows the story of special service agent Major Degtyarev as he investigates the fate of a lost expedition.

Why similar: FPS 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Shooter 9.2%, Survival 7.6%, Lore-Rich 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its open hub areas, artifact hunting, emergent encounters, and more refined survival-shooter systems make it one of the nearest alternatives to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the prequel chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy. With the ability to directly influence the balance of power through Faction Wars, step into the boots of Scar — a seasoned mercenary, able to somehow survive deadly Emissions.

Why similar: FPS 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15%, Shooter 9%, Survival 7.5%, Lore-Rich 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This prequel offers the same irradiated Zone atmosphere with faction warfare, anomalies, scavenging, and a more dynamic territorial conflict system.

Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 30.4%, Survival 20.4%, Nonlinear 9.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This Chernobyl-set survival RPG similarly mixes scavenging, anomalies, hostile armed groups, crafting, and story decisions in a familiar exclusion-zone landscape.

Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.1%, Open World 18.2%, FPS 17.5%, Survival 10.6%, Shooter 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Metro Exodus combines a grim post-nuclear Eastern European setting with immersive first-person gunplay, resource management, exploration, and memorable environmental storytelling.

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Open World 22.1%, FPS 15.5%, Survival 11%, First-Person 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its British quarantine zone rewards curiosity and improvisation with scarce resources, strange phenomena, branching investigations, and open-ended first-person exploration.

Explore the mysterious, beautiful, yet dark world of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in this post-apocalyptic action-RPG. Make your mark on this world, through your character development, choices and playstyle. But remember – everything has a price and consequences.

Why similar: Open World 22%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, FPS 15.5%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Sci-fi 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It returns to a supernatural Chornobyl exclusion zone with exploration, factions, survival systems, combat, and player-driven character choices.

PIONER drops players into a vast, grim world, where survival hinges on exploration, crafting, and smart resource management. As an MMO FPS, it offers both PvE missions and intense PvP zones, with unique crafting mechanics, hundreds of weapons and a deep story to explore.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.3%, Open World 17.9%, FPS 16.1%, Survival 13.1%, Shooter 8%

Why You'll Like It: This online post-apocalyptic FPS is heavily inspired by the Zone formula, featuring anomaly-like dangers, scavenging, factions, PvE threats, and hazardous open areas.

Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

Why similar: FPS 19.9%, Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Open World 18%, Survival 16.1%, Shooter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: For VR players, its eerie anomaly fields, artifact retrieval, realistic weapon handling, and lonely survival expeditions feel remarkably close to living inside the Zone.

Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.8%, Survival 22.8%, Open World 21.1%, Shooter 10.4%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its top-down presentation, its extraction loop of venturing into a radioactive Zone for loot, fighting bandits and mutants, and escaping alive is distinctly S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-like.

Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.

Why similar: FPS 21%, Open World 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Shooter 10.2%, Immersive Sim 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its immersive-sim structure centers on exploring a strange hazardous landscape, uncovering secrets, conserving equipment, and choosing how to handle threats.

It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.6%, FPS 21.7%, Survival 10.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Shooter 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This focused but highly atmospheric Metro entry shares S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's tense gunfights, ruined society, mutants, and claustrophobic post-apocalyptic mood.

In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 35.2%, FPS 23%, Survival 8.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Shooter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its resource-conscious firefights, supernatural threats, oppressive Russian post-apocalypse, and strong sense of dread make it essential for Zone fans.

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Why similar: Open World 46.1%, Survival 38.6%, First-Person 7.7%, Atmospheric 3.7%, Action 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers abandoned facilities, strange scientific horrors, scavenging, crafting, radiation hazards, and a bleak Soviet-flavored survival setting.

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.2%, Survival 27%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Exploration 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It transforms the exclusion-zone fantasy into a driving survival game, with hazardous anomalies, scavenging runs, vehicle maintenance, and mysterious scientific phenomena.

Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Open World 20.3%, FPS 16.9%, Survival 14.7%, Shooter 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring a hostile Scandinavian open world for supplies while fighting deadly machines creates a strong blend of lonely survival, tactical shooting, and environmental mystery.

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.6%, Open World 27.5%, FPS 9%, RPG 6.8%, Survival 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its faction-driven wasteland, flexible role-playing, exploration, environmental storytelling, and morally ambiguous quests appeal to players who enjoy S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's RPG side.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Open World 25.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.3%, FPS 19.9%, Survival 17.1%, First-Person 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: The first-person open-world survival loop of scavenging, crafting, dangerous nighttime excursions, and improvised combat provides a similarly tense expedition-based rhythm.

Enter a high-stakes PvE-first open-world tactical shooter set on a quarantined Southeast Asian island torn apart by faction warfare. Deploy as an elite operator, fight solo or with your squad to carry out missions, earn reputation, and explore the truth behind the Event igniting the conflict.

Why similar: FPS 28.8%, Open World 28.6%, Survival 16.1%, Shooter 13.6%, Realistic 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its large persistent map, tactical first-person firefights, high stakes for equipment, and methodical looting will suit players who enjoy S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's grounded gunplay.

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.3%, Open World 26.1%, FPS 8.9%, Shooter 6.3%, Survival 6%

Why You'll Like It: Its open wasteland, exploration-heavy questing, scavenging, mutants, and modular equipment offer a more accessible but still compelling post-nuclear RPG alternative.

The Forever Winter is a tactical shooter where you and your squad must loot the dead to survive beneath gargantuan war machines in a dystopian future of AI automata, cybernetically enhanced soldiers, and endless conflict. Millions of deaths later, the war continues with our latest update!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 59.5%, Shooter 18.5%, Sci-fi 10%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Action 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This extraction-focused survival shooter emphasizes scavenging in a brutal war-torn world where staying unnoticed and getting out with supplies matter as much as fighting.

IRR is a tactical PvE Co-Op extract shooter set in a de-stabilized and immersive modern-day Vietnam. As a PMC for a mysterious organization, deal with 3 factions that stand to gain from the chaos. Engage in ruthless combat, plan your deployment, and explore the world as your journey unfolds.

Why similar: FPS 44.4%, Shooter 21%, Realistic 15.9%, First-Person 8.7%, Action 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its tactical solo-or-co-op deployment structure, lethal firefights, persistent gear, and loot extraction scratch the careful scavenger-shooter side of the experience.

RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.

Why similar: Open World 26.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26.4%, FPS 25.4%, Shooter 8.5%, First-Person 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its mutant-infested wasteland, first-person combat, vehicle travel, and open-world outposts offer a more explosive and colorful take on post-apocalyptic roaming.

Ride and fight into a deadly, post pandemic America. Play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who rides the broken road, fighting to survive while searching for a reason to live in this open-world action-adventure game.

Why similar: Open World 38.6%, Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Survival 20%, Story Rich 4.5%, Cinematic 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world supply runs, dangerous wilderness, ruined infrastructure, and constant pressure from infected hordes create a strong survival-road-trip atmosphere.

Z.O.N.A: Origin is an immersive adventure in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Dive into a captivating story, explore a stunning open world, avoid dangerous anomalies, and hunt for powerful artifacts. Every choice you make can be decisive in this unpredictable world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.2%, Open World 22.3%, Shooter 11%, Survival 8.6%, Exploration 6.3%

Into the Radius 2 is an immersive VR survival shooter, set in a realm of surreal landscapes and deadly entities known as Pechorsk Anomaly. Arm yourself with realistic weapons and venture deeper into the mysteries within. Featuring co‑op for up to four players.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, FPS 18.8%, Survival 15.7%, Shooter 9.2%, Realistic 6.2%

UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 48.5%, Open World 18.4%, RPG 16.2%, Atmospheric 5.9%, Sci-fi 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This unforgiving post-apocalyptic RPG shares the seed game's emphasis on bleak survival, limited resources, dangerous factions, and discovering secrets in a hostile world.

Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.

Why similar: Open World 33.1%, Post-apocalyptic 32.8%, Survival 13.1%, Exploration 3.9%, Atmospheric 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its desolate open-world scavenging, hostile camps, vehicle-based survival progression, and harsh wasteland tone make it a worthwhile non-FPS alternative.

Road to Vostok is a hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Survival 23.5%, FPS 23.4%, Shooter 8.3%, Realistic 7.5%

In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.

Why similar: Open World 25.9%, FPS 24.3%, Shooter 12.2%, Sci-fi 7.7%, First-Person 6.8%

A thrilling story-driven action RPG, with a rich open world, set in 15th century Medieval Europe. Experience the ultimate medieval adventure - through the eyes of young Henry - as you embark on a journey of epic proportions.

Why similar: Open World 41.2%, RPG 11.6%, Realistic 10.2%, First-Person 8.8%, Story Rich 8.7%

Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.

Why similar: Open World 28.8%, FPS 13.6%, Nonlinear 10.5%, RPG 7.6%, First-Person 6.8%

Z.O.N.A Project X - thrilling single-player VR shooter. Explore Chornobyl's exclusion zone, a hazardous apocalyptic world filled with anomalies. Survive using your weapons, scavenge for resources, and save humanity from doom.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22%, Open World 21.6%, Shooter 10.8%, Survival 10.5%, Immersive Sim 7.9%

Scavland is a hardcore Top-Down Pixel Art survival RPG set in a Post-Apocalyptic Soviet world. Scavenge the wastes and forgotten bunkers, take dangerous jobs, build your reputation, and customize your arsenal as you fight to survive mutants, hostile survivors, radiation, and the deadly Mist.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.3%, Open World 21.8%, Survival 21.8%, Shooter 9.3%, Exploration 5.4%

BECOME THE BEAST. SURVIVE THE NIGHT. A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.

Why similar: Open World 35.1%, Post-apocalyptic 27%, First-Person 8.8%, Exploration 6.9%, Story Rich 5.7%

STALZONE is the PvPvE extraction shooter where you don't have to start over — and the only one with persistent 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: Post-apocalyptic 27%, Open World 26%, FPS 19.2%, Survival 14.8%, Shooter 7.3%

Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27%, FPS 23.9%, Shooter 13.4%, Cinematic 9.9%, Exploration 8.1%

The Outer Worlds 2 is the sequel to the award-winning first-person sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment.

Why similar: Open World 35.5%, RPG 15.4%, Exploration 10.5%, First-Person 9.5%, Sci-fi 7.8%

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 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, Open World 19%, FPS 16.3%, Shooter 8.9%

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: Open World 30%, Survival 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26.2%, Shooter 6.7%, Atmospheric 3.2%

You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, FPS 16.8%, Survival 15.9%, Open World 14.9%, Shooter 9.5%

Sam – with companions by his side – sets out on a new journey to save humanity from extinction. Join them as they traverse a world beset by otherworldly enemies, obstacles and a haunting question: should we have connected?

Why similar: Open World 34.9%, Post-apocalyptic 27.7%, Exploration 9.8%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Atmospheric 8.6%

System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.

Why similar: FPS 30.6%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Shooter 12.3%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers emerge into post-nuclear America. Join millions of players as you explore, build, quest, and triumph in a massive open-world multiplayer adventure.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Open World 27.5%, Survival 14.8%, FPS 9.3%, Shooter 6.7%

Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40.8%, Survival 26.7%, Atmospheric 9.2%, Shooter 8.5%, RPG 6.5%

Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.

Why similar: Open World 38%, Sci-fi 10.3%, RPG 9.4%, Exploration 8.6%, First-Person 6.6%

Chornobyl Liquidators is not a fantastic tale of exploring the Zone. It's a story about real people facing a real threat — the CNPP disaster. Invisible radiation, KGB, difficult moral choices... Do you have enough courage and strength to take on this challenge?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Survival 18%, Immersive Sim 8.2%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

Dive into a hostile world that challenges your very existence, in this survival horror game with RPG elements. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task?

Why similar: FPS 25.5%, Survival 20.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.2%

Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.

Why similar: Open World 30.7%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Survival 17.2%, Exploration 6.6%, First-Person 6.2%

Survive 365 days to earn absolute freedom. Become the operator of a remote D.E.C.A.Y. bunker, explore the scorched sectors of the United States with your robot companion, gather resources, and maintain the Atlas network in hardcore VR, where order is a matter of choice.

Why similar: Open World 24%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Survival 13.4%, Shooter 12.1%, Realistic 6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Open World 18.2%, FPS 16.8%, Survival 13.1%, Shooter 8.8%

ATOM RPG: Trudograd is a turn-based post-apocalyptic roleplaying game, which continues the story of ATOM RPG as a stand-alone sequel/expansion, and follows the traditions set by classic cRPGs such as the early Fallout and Wasteland titles.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.7%, Open World 23.6%, Survival 18%, Immersive Sim 7.2%, RPG 5.8%

Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, FPS 20.4%, Open World 19.8%, Survival 15.1%, Shooter 9.8%

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: Post-apocalyptic 27.6%, Open World 24.6%, Survival 18.3%, Shooter 12.3%, Atmospheric 8%