Games Like Stay Out

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: MMORPG 32.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Open World 12%, Survival 10.6%, Shooter 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play post-apocalyptic MMOFPS focused on dangerous expeditions, mutants, resource gathering, trading, and survival in a harsh contaminated world.

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: MMORPG 26.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10%, PvP 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its Soviet-industrial island setting, faction-based online RPG structure, anomaly-like threats, looting, and first-person gunplay strongly evoke the same zone-exploration fantasy.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

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

Why You'll Like It: Although single-player, it is the definitive modern alternative for exploring anomalies, scavenging artifacts, surviving mutants, and making choices in the Chornobyl Zone.

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: Post-apocalyptic 28%, Shooter 23.8%, RPG 15.8%, Survival 14.1%, Atmospheric 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its free-roaming expeditions, artifact hunting, environmental hazards, faction encounters, and bleak Zone atmosphere directly underpin much of Stay Out's appeal.

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: Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Shooter 23%, RPG 15.3%, Survival 14.6%, Atmospheric 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This foundational Zone shooter offers the same lonely ruined landscapes, mutant dangers, scavenging loop, and mysterious anomaly-driven world.

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: Survival 16.7%, Open World 14.5%, PvP 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent open-world PvP survival gameplay emphasizes looting abandoned settlements, managing gear, fighting AI, and surviving unpredictable player encounters.

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 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Open World 12.3%, PvP 10.9%, Shooter 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The harsh open-world survival loop of scavenging ruined settlements, handling scarce supplies, avoiding infected, and distrusting other players fits Stay Out's survival side.

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: Post-apocalyptic 27.7%, Shooter 23.4%, RPG 16.1%, Survival 14%, Atmospheric 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Faction warfare, artifact hunting, radiation-soaked exploration, and unstable anomalies make this a particularly fitting STALKER-style companion.

Once Human is a Strange Worlds 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: Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Open World 15.4%, Survival 14.3%, PvP 12.3%, Shooter 11%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play online survival game revolves around an open world warped by Stardust contamination, anomalous creatures, gathering, building, and cooperative combat.

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: Post-apocalyptic 26%, Survival 21.7%, Open World 19.8%, Shooter 14.3%, Atmospheric 8%

Why You'll Like It: This VR survival shooter captures the unsettling routine of entering an anomaly-filled exclusion zone to scavenge, manage supplies, and escape alive.

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 38.9%, Open World 38%, Horror 12.1%, Action 5%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op exploration of an abandoned island full of paranormal phenomena, mutants, loot, crafting, and survival needs gives it a strong Zone-like feel.

Join the "Firefly" task force and unveil the sinister plot behind the exclusion zone in the world of Lost Light. You could either scavenge for supplies or go out with guns blazing and plunder. Survive the brutal domain where danger lurks in every corner!

Why similar: Survival 20.2%, Shooter 19.9%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Open World 11%, PvP 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its loot-focused extraction structure, weapon customization, risk-versus-reward raids, and hostile-player tension suit players who enjoy Stay Out's shooter progression.

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: Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.3%, Multiplayer 12.2%, PvP 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This free-to-play online survival shooter centers on scavenging, crafting, building shelters, fighting hostile machines, and defending against other survivors.

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 19.5%, MMORPG 19.2% ★, Open World 15.6%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A persistent online post-apocalyptic RPG with open-world exploration, radiation hazards, mutated enemies, quests, loot, factions, and cooperative events.

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 20%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Open World 17.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, MMORPG 7.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A grounded multiplayer survival game with open-world scavenging, hunger and injury management, crafting, PvP, and a bleak post-apocalyptic setting.

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: Open World 22.2%, Shooter 17.9%, PvP 16.7%, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical online extraction shooter with a sprawling hazardous region, faction operations, persistent gear risk, and deliberate exploration-driven firefights.

Outlive the apocalypse! Dive into intense Encounters and extract the most valuable spoils the Outlands have to offer! Loot, shoot, and build to become the absolute Outlander and explore the landscape of a post-war Norway in Vigor, a free-to-play looter shooter.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.8%, PvP 13.9%, Shooter 13.1%, Multiplayer 13%, Third-Person Shooter 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic looter-shooter built around risky scavenging runs, shelter upgrades, customizable guns, and tense multiplayer encounters.

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: Open World 19.8%, Survival 18.5%, Character Customization 14.7%, PvP 14.3%, Third Person 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer survival sandbox similarly rewards careful looting, weapon management, environmental awareness, crafting, and risky encounters across a large hostile map.

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 21.1%, Open World 17.1%, Survival 15.1%, Shooter 12.4%, Multiplayer 11%

Why You'll Like It: Its abandoned Scandinavian open world, tense scavenging, survival-focused combat, and cooperative roaming offer a different but similarly lonely post-disaster atmosphere.

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: MMORPG 25.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world online survival RPG combines gathering, crafting, combat, exploration, infected threats, and social progression in a ruined world.

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: Survival 21.8%, Open World 20.7%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Shooter 16%, Co-op 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival shooter where players gather supplies, craft defenses, raid rivals, and explore a dangerous open world after societal collapse.

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 34.3%, Open World 20.6%, Survival 14.7%, Shooter 12%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its grounded post-nuclear setting, improvised equipment, dangerous expeditions, crafting, and atmospheric exploration appeal to the more immersive side of Stay Out.

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 23.8%, Open World 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Third Person 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer crafting survival game emphasizes scavenging abandoned places, maintaining physical needs, building a refuge, and enduring a zombie-ravaged world.

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 31%, Survival 24%, Open World 18.2%, Shooter 15.2%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down format still closely channels STALKER through procedural exclusion-zone runs, radiation, mutants, scavenged gear, and extraction decisions.

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: Survival 25%, Open World 23.3%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Shooter 9.3%, PvP 9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a familiar free-to-play formula of zombie-infested open-world looting, base-oriented survival, PvP danger, and persistent character progression.

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 39.8%, Open World 28.2%, Survival 17.2%, Action 8.2%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A British quarantine-zone mystery with hazardous exploration, scarce supplies, strange phenomena, scavenging, and morally uncertain encounters.

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 36.7%, Survival 35.5%, Atmospheric 13.7%, Horror 7.4%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: While vehicle-centered and single-player, its repeated expeditions into an unstable anomaly zone to scavenge resources and survive environmental hazards feel distinctly familiar.

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: MMORPG 31.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Open World 12.7%, Survival 8.8%, PvP 8%

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: Post-apocalyptic 19%, Open World 17.2%, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Shooter 10.3%

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: MMORPG 33.1% ★, Multiplayer 13.5%, Survival 12%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Third-Person Shooter 9.6%

A-Zone Renovation is a continuation of the legendary Zone, combining the classic stalker atmosphere with revised mechanics. A large-scale rebalancing, from weapons to economy, a new role-playing system, an improved interface, PvE and PvP activities - the Zone is ready to grow with its community.

Why similar: MMORPG 31.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Open World 10.3%, Shooter 9.9%, PvP 9.9%

Anomaly Zone is an open world MMORPG and a post-apocalyptic shooter. Be a scientist, a soldier, a hunter or an engineer. Explore anomalous territories, search for artifacts, fight mutants and other players. Participate in mass PvP and PvE battles. The Zone is waiting!

Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Open World 14.7%, RPG 14.3%, Shooter 9.2%

Crossout - the postapocalyptic MMO action game where you can create a unique design for an armoured vehicle from dozens of parts and then drive it into multiplayer battles raging on land and in the skies alike.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.3%, Third Person 16.3%, Multiplayer 14.5%, PvP 14.1%, Shooter 12.4%

Free to play shooter about the confrontation of two irreconcilable sides, represented by the government military housings and the armed hirelings. Try your hand at virtual battles with off-scale dynamics and hurricane gameplay in the spirit of the classical shooters.

Why similar: Shooter 34.1%, Multiplayer 30.6%, Action 8.1%, Survival 7.8%, Co-op 6.6%

CRSED: Cuisine Royale – is a brutal MMO last-man-standing shooter with realistic weaponry, elements of lethal mystic forces and incredible superpowers!

Why similar: Open World 15.8%, Survival 14.5%, PvP 13.4%, Shooter 12.6%, Third Person 11.3%

"Sunrise" - an online shooter with elements of survival from the first person. Your task is to survive in the harsh conditions of the post-apocalyptic world. Explore new regions, team up with other players in groups, survive with them and create your own rules of survival!

Why similar: Survival 24.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Open World 10.5%, RPG 8.9%

Post-apocalyptic, Sandbox, Crafting-survival Indie game. Explore at your own pace or team up with your friends in multiplayer. Early access game!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Open World 14.6%, Alternate History 12%, Survival 11.2%, Multiplayer 8.6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, Survival 22.4%, Open World 22.3%, Shooter 9.1%, Third Person 7%

POLYGON is a tactical multiplayer team 1st person shooter. Using various weapons, you will battle with up to 32 players on large-scale maps. Properly managing your arsenal and skills, you will lead your team to victory!

Why similar: Shooter 26.9%, PvP 24.7%, Multiplayer 18.3%, Character Customization 16.6%, Action 7.1%

Open world zombie survival Coop game with base building, looting, crafting, vehicles, and exploration.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Third-Person Shooter 12.9%, Third Person 12%, Open World 11.3%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Fallen Earth Classic is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Reloaded Productions and operated by Little Orbit. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland located around the American Grand Canyon.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.7%, Survival 18.8%, Open World 17.8%, Multiplayer 12.6%, MMORPG 10.9% ★

Fadeout: Underground is a classic-style Third-Person online multiplayer shooter.

Why similar: Shooter 22.4%, Third-Person Shooter 22.1%, Multiplayer 20.5%, Third Person 18%, PvP 6.1%

Voice of Chernobyl is a Multiplayer First-Person Survival and Shooter set in the European world, with different variety of maps, weapons, items and more to create distinctive and bizarre adventures, until you either stand victorious or achieve what you desire.

Why similar: Survival 14.9%, Character Customization 14.6%, PvP 14.3%, Shooter 13.5%, Multiplayer 11.3%

Exit Ways is a PvEvP survival extraction shooter. Grow your community in a zombie apocalypse. Rescue survivors, craft gear and build a base.

Why similar: Multiplayer 14.8%, PvP 14.7%, Shooter 14.3%, Open World 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13%

Remain is an MMO game. Within this open world, you can tame "zombies", making them your labor force, or commanding them to fight your foes. Apart from zombies, you will still have to face the survival challenges of food and water. Remaining warriors, don't let your guard down, and keep surviving...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Open World 18.2%, Survival 16.1%, PvP 12.4%, Shooter 9.6%

Ruin is a free to play survival sci-fi sandbox MMORPG indie game where you try to survive on mankinds attempt to colonize a distant planet. Chances are stacked against you, but don't give up. You are most likely the last human alive. It is up to you and you alone to do what you must to stay alive.

Why similar: MMORPG 48% ★, Open World 16.5%, Character Customization 13.1%, PvP 13.1%, RPG 9.3%

Lost Lives is a multiplayer 2D shooter with RPG elements set in the post-Soviet wasteland. Fight players in PvP or stand against hostile factions in co-op and endless survival. Hunt for loot, sell it for profit, and build a loadout that fits your playstyle. The right gear means life or death.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, PvP 15.4%, Shooter 14.5%, Character Customization 12.7%, Multiplayer 12%

Past Fate is an open world MMORPG set in medieval fantasy world where the players freedom is the key element. Choose what you will become and explore the vast world and its continents for hidden secrets and mysteries. What is your fate?

Why similar: RPG 35.6%, MMORPG 28% ★, Action 18.8%, Survival 10%, Co-op 4.5%

BLOCKADE Classic! First Person Shooter in an editable procedural cubic world. A large arsenal of weapons, 4 teams at the same time and up to 32 players on one map. A large number of game modes!

Why similar: Shooter 38.9%, Multiplayer 27.1%, Action 14.2%, Co-op 7.5%, Survival 7.4%

Caliber is a team-based online shooter focused on special forces units from all over the world. More than 70 operators with unique abilities and weapons as well as various game modes and maps are waiting for you.

Why similar: Multiplayer 17%, PvP 15%, Shooter 14.8%, Third Person 14.1%, Third-Person Shooter 13.5%

Soviet Survival is an isometric, open-world survival game where you must find your place in the ruined Soviet Union.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 16.3%, PvP 14.3%, Shooter 11.5%

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 14.3%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Online Co-Op 9.4%

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: Survival 29.4%, Open World 23.1%, Multiplayer 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Shooter 8%