Games Like State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition

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 22.9%, Survival 17%, Base Building 16.7%, Open World 14.2%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong open-world zombie survival game built around scavenging, vehicles, crafting, safehouse building, and co-op play.

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 28.6%, Survival 19.6%, Open World 15.9%, Base Building 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the direct predecessor to State of Decay 2, with the same core loop of scavenging, survivor management, outposts, and base defense in a zombie-ravaged open world.

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 21.7%, Survival 20.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Open World 13.3%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same addictive loop of looting towns, fortifying a home, and surviving escalating zombie threats in a large open world with multiplayer.

It's ten years since the infection started. Long-established settlements are collapsing, one by one, for unknown reasons. Survivors are running to the hills to escape, hoping for safety in remote places. As another refugee, you're here to carve out a new life for yourself - by any means necessary.

Why similar: Base Building 26.3%, Open World 19.5%, Survival 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Online Co-Op 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of recruiting survivors, managing relationships, building a base, and surviving a zombie sandbox makes it one of the closest overall matches on Steam.

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: Zombies 31%, Survival 24.7%, Open World 12.1%, Base Building 11%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the co-op zombie survival and base-building loop well, even if it presents it from a more streamlined top-down perspective.

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: Zombies 29.4%, Survival 25.9%, Open World 16.5%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the deep survival, base-building, and long-term community side of State of Decay 2 pushed much further, this is one of the best options.

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: Zombies 23.8%, Survival 23%, Open World 18%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on open-world scavenging, crafting, survival needs, and building up a defensible shelter makes it a very natural alternative.

'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 23.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.4%, Online Co-Op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This blends scavenging, crafting, and building elaborate defenses against zombie hordes in a way that scratches the same survival-base itch.

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 31.1%, Survival 21.4%, Open World 18.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world zombie survival game leans heavily into looting, inventory management, exploration, and long-term survival in a collapsed world.

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 22.4%, Zombies 20.6%, Open World 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Co-op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a harsher, more player-driven version of open-world infected survival where looting, travel, and improvised bases create constant tension.

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: Zombies 30.1%, Open World 25.6%, Survival 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same third-person post-apocalyptic feel of roaming, scavenging, and surviving a dangerous zombie-infested open world.

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: Zombies 28.7%, Survival 28.4%, Open World 18.8%, Base Building 16.3%, Sandbox 3%

Why You'll Like It: Its solo-focused scavenging, shelter building, and rescue-survivor systems echo the lonely, resource-starved side of State of Decay 2.

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: Zombies 31.9%, Open World 17%, Survival 16.1%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-focused, it nails open-world zombie scavenging, desperate nighttime survival, and online co-op better than almost any other game.

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 25.3%, Survival 21.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Open World 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The emphasis on recruiting NPCs, managing a camp, and surviving among zombies makes it a lower-budget but very relevant match.

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

Why similar: Zombies 35.2%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 16.2%, Co-op 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op melee combat, open-zone exploration, looting, and constant zombie pressure make it a strong action-leaning alternative.

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 25.9%, Survival 18.6%, Base Building 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Online Co-Op 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes co-op, open-world zombie survival, vehicles, base-building, and crafting in a way that feels mechanically close to State of Decay 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: Zombies 26.9%, Open World 18.9%, Survival 14.8%, Co-op 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers co-op open-world zombie action with scavenging and settlement development, though it is less focused on community management than State of Decay 2.

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Zombies 31.9%, Base Building 30.6%, Survival 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Sandbox 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great pick if your favorite part of State of Decay 2 is securing buildings, organizing survivors, and turning a fragile refuge into a functioning base.

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 32.9%, Survival 20.6%, Base Building 18.1%, Open World 16%, Sandbox 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes zombie survival, fortification, scavenging, and protecting a group of survivors in ways that overlap well with the seed game's structure.

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

Why similar: Zombies 25.4%, Survival 22.5%, Open World 21%, Online Co-Op 9.6%, Sandbox 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although more hardcore and simulation-heavy, it offers open-world survival, base-building, vehicles, and infected threats in a similarly persistent sandbox.

Explore the zombie-infested city of Los Perdidos, and find a way to escape before a military strike wipes the entire city, and everyone in it, off the map.

Why similar: Zombies 41%, Open World 17.4%, Survival 12.2%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more chaotic and arcadey take on open-world zombie survival, but the scavenging and co-op sandbox still make it a solid fit.

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – more beautiful than ever. Caught in an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

Why similar: Zombies 34.5%, Open World 16.5%, Survival 14.3%, Co-op 12%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the co-op zombie looting and survival-travel formula going, even if its base systems are much lighter than State of Decay 2's.

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: Survival 23.1%, Open World 22.8%, Zombies 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world zombie survival, co-op, crafting, and shelter building with a community-survival vibe that overlaps nicely with State of Decay 2.

Terminus: Zombie Survivors is a 2D turn-based survival roguelike set during a zombie apocalypse. Each journey is unique, and every decision can mean the difference between life and death. Can you brave hunger, cold, and the undead in order to reach the Terminus and find salvation?

Why similar: Zombies 33.9%, Survival 25.4%, Open World 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great choice if you want the methodical supply management, wounds, and hard survival decisions of State of Decay 2 in a more hardcore sim format.

The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.

Why similar: Zombies 41.5%, Open World 15%, Survival 9.7%, Co-op 9.6%, Online Co-Op 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op zombie sandbox, escort-style objectives, and constant scavenging for weapons and supplies make it a worthwhile lighter alternative.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

Why similar: Zombies 44.5%, Survival 29.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Perma Death 4.9%, Violent 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its scavenging runs, scarcity, infection pressure, and bleak survival decisions capture the desperation and risk-management side of State of Decay 2.

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Zombies 29.8%, Survival 22.6%, Base Building 22.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strategic spin on the same fantasy of reclaiming territory, managing survivors, and expanding a safe community during a zombie apocalypse.

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

Why similar: Zombies 25.3%, Survival 19.5%, Open World 16.5%, Co-op 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the blocky visuals, it is a genuinely strong open-world zombie survival game with bases, vehicles, looting, and multiplayer persistence.

Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Why similar: Zombies 48.9%, Survival 28.5%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%, Open World 5.7%, RPG 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the community-management, morale, and resource-triage side of State of Decay 2 especially well, even though it plays as a tactical RPG.

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 21.2%, Survival 17.8%, Base Building 16.7%, Open World 15.9%, Co-op 7.5%

A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.

Why similar: Zombies 43.3%, Co-op 22.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Gore 6.4%

World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.

Why similar: Zombies 48.3%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Online Co-Op 12.8%, Co-op 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 5.8%

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 32.9%, Survival 20.8%, Open World 16.7%, Base Building 9.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.3%

DARKEST DAYS is a zombie shooting RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world devastated by a sudden zombie outbreak. Explore a dark yet captivating open world, build a sanctuary with fellow survivors, grow stronger, and fight for survival.

Why similar: Zombies 24.1%, Open World 17%, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 12.4%, Multiplayer 9.3%

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 26%, Survival 23.2%, Open World 20.6%, Base Building 20%, Sandbox 4%

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: Survival 28.7%, Open World 16.2%, Base Building 15.8%, Multiplayer 14.5%, Online Co-Op 11.2%

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

Why similar: Zombies 55.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23%, Perma Death 11.1%, Horror 5%, Action 3.3%

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 35.7%, Survival 27.5%, Co-op 8.9%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Open World 6.4%

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: Base Building 21.4%, Survival 18.9%, Open World 18.6%, Co-op 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%

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: Zombies 38.4%, Open World 23.8%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Gore 4.5%

Join The Division in this open world tactical shooter. Engage in intense cover-based combat, team up with friends, and build your ultimate agent to save Washington, D.C.

Why similar: Open World 32.4%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Online Co-Op 16.4%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 9.6%

Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.

Why similar: Zombies 41.4%, Online Co-Op 13.6%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Survival 12%, Co-op 10.6%

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 26.5%, Base Building 21.1%, Open World 21.1%, Co-op 12.4%, Multiplayer 11.5%

London is falling. Are you prepared? The Last Blight is upon us. It was foretold. For the second time in history, a great plague has shrouded London in a fog of death. Big Ben tolls as thousands of unprepared die, or worse, are infected by a sickness more gruesome than death.

Why similar: Zombies 45.8%, Survival 20.9%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 7%, Gore 2.5%

Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.

Why similar: Zombies 33.6%, Survival 27.1%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Co-op 4.8%

Dead Rising 4 marks the return of photojournalist Frank West in an all-new chapter of one of the most popular zombie game franchises of all time. With an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, ambitious new features including new zombie classes and EXO Suits, Dead Rising 4 delivers a heart-pounding experience as players...

Why similar: Zombies 36.7%, Open World 19%, Survival 12.3%, Co-op 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.7%

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 22.2%, Base Building 19.5%, Survival 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Multiplayer 12%

Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

Why similar: Zombies 53.7%, Co-op 12.3%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Online Co-Op 6.8%

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 28.2%, Survival 20.7%, Base Building 18.9%, Open World 17.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9%

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: Survival 33.4%, Open World 28.3%, Zombies 27.9%, Horror 3.7%, Gore 3.5%

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Survival 28%, Base Building 22.3%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Co-op 11.9%

Paradise isn't exactly what you hoped for: it's infested with zombies! Thankfully, you can control them. Capture them and teach them to farm or fight. They will help you defend our camp while you explore the world looking for… a new paradise.

Why similar: Zombies 22.1%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 14%, Open World 10.1%, Co-op 9.3%

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 39.4%, Survival 23.2%, Open World 18.8%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Co-op 4.5%

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: Zombies 28.6%, Survival 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Co-op 10.2%

Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

Why similar: Zombies 31.2%, Survival 19%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Zombies 40.4%, Survival 19%, Multiplayer 11%, Co-op 8.7%, Online Co-Op 7.1%

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: Survival 23.5%, Zombies 19.6%, Base Building 18.5%, Open World 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%

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

Why similar: Base Building 24.4%, Open World 24.1%, Survival 23.3%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Multiplayer 10.3%

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

Why similar: Zombies 30.3%, Survival 19.9%, Open World 18.6%, Multiplayer 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%