Games Like Subterrain

Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.

Why similar: Survival 34.5%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Top-Down 16.1%, Dark 10.1%, Exploration 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This direct follow-up retains the core survival and sci-fi horror mechanics that made the original game a cult classic.

Frozen State is a brutal, survival game set in a world embraced by the man-made ice age meant to protect mankind from pestilent hybrids. Bitter cold and numbing fear are the constant companions in the journey through the retro-futuristic Frozen State world.

Why similar: Survival 23.3%, Open World Survival Craft 18.6% ★, Zombies 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Top-Down 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes scavenging and combat against mutants in a bleak, post-apocalyptic setting.

DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.

Why similar: Survival 26.8%, Top-Down 17.4%, Survival Horror 17%, Sci-fi 12%, Procedural Generation 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the claustrophobic, isolated horror of Subterrain by forcing you to manage survivors in a hostile, freezing environment.

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: Survival 28%, Open World Survival Craft 25.4% ★, Zombies 19.7%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for top-down survival, offering deep mechanics for managing health, hunger, and base security against zombie hordes.

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: Survival 36%, Top-Down 19.4%, Survival Horror 14.3%, Open World 13.8%, Exploration 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down extraction shooter features tense survival mechanics and resource management in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world.

NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Why similar: Survival 42.8%, Crafting 18.7%, Roguelike 9.8%, Perma Death 9.3%, Procedural Generation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a brutal, turn-based survival experience that mirrors the desperate scavenging and crafting needs of Subterrain.

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: Open World Survival Craft 25.7% ★, Survival 20%, Zombies 16.5%, Crafting 11.2%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival game that emphasizes scavenging and route planning to escape a zombie-infested city.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Survival 44.8%, Survival Horror 25%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Horror 10.1%, 2D 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that requires intense management of a vessel's systems while dealing with terrifying alien threats in a hostile environment.

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Why similar: Survival 32.3%, Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Open World 4.9%, Perma Death 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival game that forces players to master crafting and environmental management to survive a hostile, surreal world.

CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.1% ★, Survival 25.3%, Crafting 23.2%, Open World 10.7%, 2D 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that features a top-down perspective and focuses on technology, crafting, and surviving on an alien planet.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Survival 21.4%, Crafting 13%, Open World 9.6%, Survival Horror 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in sci-fi survival that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and managing oxygen in a beautiful but deadly alien environment.

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: Survival 27.3%, Crafting 20.4%, Zombies 19%, Open World 14.1%, Top-Down 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying top-down exploration and survival loop where you must dismantle the environment to craft better gear and survive.

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Survival 41.8%, Zombies 27.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Sci-fi 5.2%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of a lonely, post-apocalyptic journey where resource management is key to survival.

“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: Survival 27.6%, Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Zombies 22%, Crafting 15.3%, Survival Horror 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action-survival game that tasks you with managing basic needs while fighting off waves of zombies.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Survival 61.8%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Zombies 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a family in an underground bunker, mirroring the base-maintenance aspects of Subterrain.

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 26.9%, Crafting 18.9%, Open World 8.4%, 2D 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival game where you must build defenses and manage resources to survive nightly waves of alien attacks.

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: Crafting 33.7%, Open World 21.8%, Sci-fi 20.6%, Indie 7.4%, Exploration 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric RPG that features a harsh, underground post-apocalyptic setting where survival and tactical combat are paramount.

Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Survival 26.8%, Zombies 14.2%, Crafting 8.6%, Open World 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting while dealing with environmental hazards and mutated creatures.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Survival 46.3%, Sci-fi 17.5%, Open World 14.9%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, 2D 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on colony management, it provides the same high-stakes survival and base-building tension found in Subterrain.

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 44.2%, Survival 42%, Open World 4.8%, Survival Horror 3.5%, Horror 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a survivor colony, requiring you to balance resources and morale while exploring a dangerous world.

World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Why similar: Survival 45.3%, Zombies 18.7%, Crafting 13.5%, Roguelike 10.6%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival roguelike that forces you to manage your health and resources while descending through a dangerous, monster-filled hotel.

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

Why similar: Survival 24.4%, Zombies 20.5%, Crafting 17.3%, Top-Down 13.5%, Open World 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes realism and exploration in a zombie-filled open world, requiring careful resource management.

You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 23.9%, Crafting 16.5%, Roguelike 7.5%, Open World 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based, top-down survival game that focuses on crafting and interacting with a procedurally generated environment.

Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Survival 21.3%, Crafting 17.4%, Sci-fi 6.8%, Open World 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that features sci-fi elements, crafting, and exploration in a dangerous alien environment.

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: Survival 28%, Zombies 20.2%, Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines RPG elements with survival mechanics, focusing on building a community and managing resources during a zombie apocalypse.

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Survival 25.6%, Crafting 16%, Top-Down 13%, Open World 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on base building and resource management in a variety of different biomes.

The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.

Why similar: Survival 28.3%, Zombies 24.4%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Roguelike 10.7%, Exploration 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The most comprehensive survival simulator available, offering unparalleled depth in crafting, scavenging, and character management.

Survive the zombie apocalypse with a “Final Fantasy” turn-based combat and permanent death! Manage survivors, craft materials, and make difficult decisions. Defend your camp against hordes of the undead to prevail in this non-linear rogue-lite (comparable to FTL). Innovative Indie Survival-RPG!

Why similar: Zombies 38.3%, Survival 33.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Roguelike 6.2%, Procedural Generation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival RPG that forces you to make difficult moral choices while managing a group of survivors.

Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Survival 20%, Crafting 18%, Open World 9.3%, Sci-fi 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed survival game that focuses on base building and crafting to survive in the harsh vacuum of space.

Explore a mesmerizing alien world, filled with deep bioluminescent wonders and horrors alike. Old alien artefacts await uncovering, in your search for the lost crew of Lazarus, in the search for your family in the depths of planet Eo-III.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Survival 23.2%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Open World 12.9%, Horror 6.1%

In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Survival 22.7%, Crafting 16.5%, Open World 13.4%, Sci-fi 8.5%

Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Survival 19.6%, Crafting 16.8%, Top-Down 12.1%, Open World 10%

Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 21.2%, Crafting 16.1%, Open World 11.4%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Explore dungeons, fight hordes of monsters and survive on a huge map. This is Ocean Keeper - an action roguelike with tower defense elements. Mine resources in caves, customize your Mech Spider, upgrade different weapons and face dangerous bosses that won't leave you a chance!

Why similar: Sci-fi 26.3%, Procedural Generation 25.2%, Roguelike 21.7%, Exploration 14.6%, 2D 7.6%

Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!

Why similar: Survival 22.7%, Open World Survival Craft 22.4% ★, Crafting 18.2%, Top-Down 11%, Open World 10.6%

Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.2% ★, Survival 24.8%, Crafting 13.3%, Open World 9.5%, Survival Horror 8.2%

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.1% ★, Survival 22.3%, Crafting 17%, Open World 11.5%, Exploration 4.9%

Subterranauts is a 1-6 player multiplayer horror game with proximity voice chat and terrifying creatures. Your job is to complete assignments by gathering scrap for the Association of Scrap Allocation. Work together with your team to complete assignments, earn company Bucks, and survive!

Why similar: Procedural Generation 33.3%, Horror 22.9%, Exploration 20.5%, Action-Adventure 13%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%

Become a survival scientist in a savage post-apocalyptic world where aliens have the control of the world and find a cure, manage your shelter and fight to survive

Why similar: Survival 26.9%, Zombies 18.4%, Crafting 15.5%, Open World 10.5%, Survival Horror 10.1%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Survival 26.1%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 9.7%, Sci-fi 4.5%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34% ★, Survival 30.3%, Crafting 22.2%, Open World 12.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Survival 20.1%, Crafting 17.6%, Open World 9.8%, Sci-fi 7%

In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Why similar: Roguelike 18.8%, Top-Down 12.9%, Crafting 12.5%, Perma Death 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.5%

Fight, build, explore, survive, while the dynamic player-caused hazardous fog is slowly changing the rules of the world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Survival 18.2%, Crafting 15.1%, Survival Horror 13.6%, Open World 9.1%

"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Survival 19.4%, Zombies 16.5%, Crafting 15.8%, Open World 9.3%

⚗️ Project Cobalt is a survival action game set on a hostile island 🌴. Scavenge containers, mine resources, craft tools, hunt animals, and endure storms as you fight hunger, disease, and exhaustion all while uncovering the dark truth behind a failed experiment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Survival 21.9%, Crafting 18.7%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Open World 11.6%

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: Survival 16.9%, Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Zombies 15.4%, Crafting 14.3%, Open World 11.5%

It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.

Why similar: Survival 48.6%, Crafting 26.6%, Indie 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, 2D 5.6%

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.5% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 15%, Open World 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%

You wake up in a bunker! The Earth became a battlefield. Dangerous creatures at every turn. We give you everything you need: medicine, weapons, shelter. Your task is to find your family. And please try to survive in this post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 21.8%, Survival 20.3%, Crafting 19.3%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Top-Down 7.8%

EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.

Why similar: Top-Down 29.8%, Roguelike 15%, Sci-fi 13%, Horror 11.7%, Survival Horror 9.5%

Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Survival 21.6%, Crafting 17.9%, Open World 11.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%

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: Survival 30.3%, Zombies 27.7%, Open World Survival Craft 19.9% ★, Open World 15.1%, Exploration 4.1%

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 26.1%, Crafting 18.2%, Open World 11.8%, Exploration 6%

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 40.7%, Zombies 20.9%, Open World 19.9%, Horror 9.9%, Crafting 4.1%

BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

Why similar: Open World 26.9%, Top-Down 20.7%, Perma Death 14.3%, Roguelike 11.7%, Exploration 9.4%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Survival 35.7%, Crafting 30%, Open World 16.4%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Exploration 7%