Games Like Stay Out

STALCRAFT: X is the largest open-world online game in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Explore the world full of mutants and anomalies alone or with friends — unforgettable emotions guaranteed.

Why similar: MMORPG 41.6% ★, Shooter 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.2%, PvP 10.7%, Alternate History 7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest overall match, turning STALKER-style Zone exploration, artifact hunting, PvP, and MMO progression into a persistent online shooter.

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: Survival 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, MMORPG 18.1% ★, Open World 15.9%, Multiplayer 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world online survival shooter shares Stay Out's radioactive wasteland vibe, scavenging loop, and grindy MMO-style progression.

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 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, Open World 14.8%, RPG 14.7%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into anomalous-zone survival, looting, and online RPG systems in a way that closely mirrors Stay Out's premise.

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%, Multiplayer 10.4%, MMORPG 7.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh Eastern European post-apocalyptic setting, open-world scavenging, and constant threat from other players make it feel very close in tone and structure.

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: Post-apocalyptic 19.6%, Survival 16%, Open World 13.7%, PvP 13.6%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Deadside captures the same high-risk open-world looting and PvP tension, just with a more grounded survival-shooter focus.

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 21.8%, Survival 19%, Open World 17.6%, Multiplayer 12.6%, MMORPG 10.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the better MMO-shooter alternatives, combining persistent online progression, faction conflict, and post-apocalyptic exploration.

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 10.5%, PvP 9.8%, MMORPG 9.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival, supernatural contamination, base progression, and online co-op/PvP in a way that scratches a similar survival-shooter itch.

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 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Open World 12%, PvP 11.3%, Shooter 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its slow-burn open-world survival, scavenging, and paranoia-heavy player encounters match the tension that makes Stay Out compelling.

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 25.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Undawn offers a broader MMO-survival experience with open-world progression, gunplay, and persistent online systems that overlap with Stay Out.

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 19.6%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Open World 10.8%, PvP 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more extraction-focused, it shares the same loop of gearing up, looting dangerous areas, and trying to survive hostile encounters.

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 23%, PvP 14.3%, Shooter 12.7%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Third-Person Shooter 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This third-person looter-shooter mirrors Stay Out's scavenging-and-survival tension, especially if you enjoy risky runs for gear.

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 39.5%, Survival 26.7%, RPG 12.8%, Atmospheric 12%, Horror 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: If you like Stay Out for its eerie exclusion-zone exploration and scavenging feel, this delivers a strong atmospheric single-player take on that formula.

Discover the vast Chornobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chornobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.8%, Open World 24%, Survival 18.3%, Shooter 12.3%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes the same bleak Zone exploration, artifact-chasing, and survival-shooter atmosphere that Stay Out is clearly built around.

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 13.2%, Survival 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Third-Person Shooter 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Stay Out's online survival loop of venturing into dangerous areas for resources while balancing PvE threats and long-term progression.

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 21.2%, Open World 16.8%, Survival 15.2%, Shooter 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world scavenging, tense firefights, and lonely ruined-environment exploration make it a good fit despite the robot-focused setting.

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%, Multiplayer 12.1%, PvP 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lower-tier but relevant option for players who mainly want another online survival shooter with open-world looting and PvP risk.

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 17.9%, Third-Person Shooter 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Shooter 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its third-person online looting, RPG progression, and dangerous open-world encounters line up well with the MMO-shooter side of Stay Out.

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Open World 19%, Survival 18.1%, Character Customization 15.3%, PvP 14.7%, Third Person 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: SCUM is more systems-heavy, but its persistent survival sandbox, looting, and PvP-heavy open world appeal to the same kind of player.

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 25.2%, Open World 23%, Multiplayer 16.7%, PvP 9.4%, Shooter 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a rougher but similar mix of open-world survival, looting, and constant threat from other players in a ruined setting.

Now with over 500,000 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 31.1%, Survival 24%, Open World 17.9%, Shooter 15.1%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the top-down perspective, it strongly captures the STALKER-like loop of risky expeditions, scavenging, and bringing loot back alive.

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Why similar: Survival 27.4%, Open World 22.2%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Multiplayer 13.9%, PvP 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world post-apocalyptic survival shooter offers the same mix of scavenging, roaming danger, and unpredictable player conflict.

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 21.9%, Open World 20.3%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Shooter 15.7%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world survival shooting and dangerous post-collapse environment make it a decent fit for players who like Stay Out's sandbox side.

A tactical open world third-person shooter set in New York after a deadly pandemic. Team up or go solo to restore order against deadly factions, secure loot, and conquer high-risk endgame challenges.

Why similar: Open World 15.8%, MMORPG 13.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Third-Person Shooter 9.2%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is another strong match if you want persistent online character growth, loot-driven combat, and a hostile collapsed-world setting.

Want to survive? - Arm yourself and survive. Crafting, shooting, transport and much more awaits you in the Survival game. What happened to the world around and why he died - you may find out. But is this the main question now?

Why similar: Survival 27.2%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Open World 19.2%, Multiplayer 13.7%, PvP 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This one overlaps on open-world survival, PvP pressure, and post-apocalyptic wandering, even if it leans more into crafting.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Survival 23.6%, Open World 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Co-op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is less MMO-like, but the scavenging, base management, and hostile world exploration still hit similar survival rhythms.

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 27% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 10%, PvP 9.5%

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 19.4%, Open World 16.6%, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Shooter 10.4%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Survival 30.9%, Open World 23.4%, Multiplayer 16%, PvP 12.5%, Shooter 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Hurtworld offers a more stylized take on open-world PvP survival, but it still matches the roaming, looting, and staying-alive appeal.

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 22.2%, Third Person 17.1%, PvP 15.3%, Shooter 12.7%, Multiplayer 11.1%

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 33.6%, Multiplayer 30.5%, Action 8%, Survival 7.9%, Co-op 6.8%

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 15.5%, Survival 14.5%, PvP 13.9%, Shooter 12.3%, Third Person 11.3%

MISERY is a 1–5 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 21.8%, Survival 15.7%, Open World 14.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

"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 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Open World 9.9%, RPG 9.1%

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 21.1%, Open World 14.3%, Alternate History 12.1%, Survival 11.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%

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 18.3%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 16.1%, PvP 12.9%, Shooter 9.4%

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

Why similar: Shooter 22%, Third-Person Shooter 22%, Multiplayer 20.4%, Third Person 18%, PvP 6.4%

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 38.6%, Multiplayer 27.1%, Action 14.2%, Survival 7.7%, Co-op 7.6%

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: Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Survival 15.5%, PvP 14.8%, Third-Person Shooter 11.5%, Multiplayer 11.2%

Voice of Chernobyl is a Multiplayer First-Person Shooter set in the Eastern 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: Character Customization 15.2%, Survival 14.7%, PvP 14.7%, Shooter 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.1%

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 16.3%, Survival 16.2%, PvP 14.8%, Multiplayer 11.3%

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 35.7%, MMORPG 28.1% ★, Action 18.4%, Survival 10%, Co-op 4.6%

Tombstone MMO is a western-futuristic, low-res 2D indie MMORPG set in a post-climate-apocalyptic world.

Why similar: MMORPG 34.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Character Customization 13.3%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 10.1%

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 25.9%, PvP 25.5%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Character Customization 17.3%, Action 7%

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 24.3%, Survival 22%, Open World 21.3%, Shooter 9%, Third Person 7.4%

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

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.6%, Open World 18.5%, Survival 17.6%, Shooter 15.5%, Multiplayer 13.7%

Dead Maze is a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. Explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible, to survive the hostile environment and upgrade your gear and camp as you go.

Why similar: Survival 23.7%, MMORPG 21.7% ★, Open World 13.7%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%

OPG: Clan Wars — a multiplayer action game with survival elements. Arena shooter, open world, crafting, and resource battles — fight, evolve, and survive alone or with your team.

Why similar: MMORPG 24% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, PvP 12.1%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 11.3%

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 29.6%, Open World 22.8%, Multiplayer 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Shooter 7.9%