Games Like SurrounDead

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: Zombies 31.2%, Survival 21.3%, Open World 18.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the best community-management and base-building experience within a persistent, zombie-infested open world.

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 30.3%, Survival 21.9%, Open World Survival Craft 16.8% ★, Open World 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for deep, systemic zombie survival with complex mechanics that mirror the scavenging and survival loop of the seed game.

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 25.2%, Survival 19.8%, Open World Survival Craft 17.5% ★, Open World 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust voxel-based world where base-building and defense against zombie hordes are the primary gameplay pillars.

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 28.4%, Survival 23.2%, Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Open World 15.8%, Base Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated singleplayer survival experience that emphasizes scavenging, shelter building, and dealing with environmental threats.

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 22.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.9%, Survival 13.3%, Loot 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A low-poly survival game that focuses heavily on looting, shooting, and building in a hostile open world.

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 26.3%, Survival 16%, Open World 13.8%, Open World Survival Craft 12.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that captures the same scavenging, looting, and survival-crafting loop in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 26.7%, Survival 18.7%, Open World 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Base Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An emerging survival title that emphasizes realistic mechanics, base construction, and exploration in a zombie-ravaged world.

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: Zombies 34.5%, Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, Survival 20.9%, Open World 18.7%, RPG 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features hardcore survival mechanics and deep character customization similar to the RPG elements found in the seed game.

'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 27.7%, Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Survival 14.7%, Open World 14.5%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines traditional survival and base-building with tower-defense mechanics to manage massive zombie waves.

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 29.5%, Open World 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Survival 15.3%, Open World Survival Craft 9.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven open-world game that captures the tension of exploring a world overrun by massive zombie hordes.

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: Zombies 26.3%, Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 18.3%, Third Person 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers incredibly deep survival and looting mechanics with a focus on realistic character management and environmental hazards.

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: Survival 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22.3%, Open World 15.9%, Loot 13.1%, Base Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An extraction-based survival game that focuses on tactical looting and combat in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic environment.

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: Zombies 26.9%, Survival 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Open World 15.3%, Shooter 6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational open-world survival experience that shares the same scavenging and high-stakes tension as the seed game.

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: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Survival 20%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Open World 15.5%, Base Building 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that emphasizes tactical combat and looting in a large, post-apocalyptic map.

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 29.3%, Survival 23.3%, Open World 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Co-op 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on crafting, base management, and surviving against zombie threats in an open-world setting.

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 32.9%, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Open World 14.8%, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a fast-paced, parkour-infused open-world zombie survival experience with a strong focus on scavenging and crafting.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 27.1%, Open World 18.2%, Base Building 9%, Co-op 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game featuring persistent base building and AI threats that require careful resource management.

You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Why similar: Zombies 28.3%, Survival 18%, Post-apocalyptic 17.4%, Open World 15.6%, Shooter 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly accessible open-world survival game that emphasizes scavenging, crafting, and base defense.

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 34.8%, Open World 28.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Co-op 10.4%, Exploration 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A modern evolution of survival gameplay with advanced building mechanics and a vast, dangerous open world to explore.

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Survival 28.5%, Open World 19.7%, Zombies 7%, Exploration 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intense survival and base building in a hostile, isolated environment that forces players to scavenge to survive.

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 33.1%, Survival 21.8%, Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Open World 10.9%, Base Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that focuses on crafting, base defense, and cooperative zombie-slaying.

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 28.1%, Survival 19.7%, Open World 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Open World Survival Craft 10.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: An RPG-heavy survival game that incorporates community management and base building into its core loop.

Junk Survivor is a zombie post-apocalypse game where you loot, craft, build and farm in a struggle to survive. With a vast map to explore, a robust skillset to unlock this customizable sandbox awaits the adventurer. How long before you die!

Why similar: Zombies 29.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: An early-access survival title that leans into the scavenging and post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the genre.

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 48.4%, Open World 19%, Survival 18.4%, Co-op 7.6%, First-Person 2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented zombie survival game that emphasizes melee combat and scavenging in a tropical setting.

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 47.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Co-op 12.9%, PvE 5.5%, First-Person 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers visceral, high-fidelity zombie combat in a dense, post-apocalyptic urban environment.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Survival 23.8%, Open World 15.8%, Base Building 12.4%, Co-op 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game with deep crafting and building mechanics that reward careful preparation and resource gathering.

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

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.6%, Survival 20.2%, Open World 20.2%, Base Building 12.7%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that replaces zombies with hostile machines, focusing on scavenging and tactical exploration.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Survival 21.7%, Open World 18.9%, Base Building 10.1%, Co-op 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival exploration game with satisfying building mechanics and a focus on gathering resources to progress through a dangerous world.

Conan Exiles Enhanced is an open world survival game set in the mythical lands of Hyboria, now fully upgraded to Unreal Engine 5 with stunning visuals and improved performance. SURVIVE, BUILD, and DOMINATE alone or with friends in a world brimming with adventure!

Why similar: Survival 32.9%, Open World Survival Craft 28.1% ★, Open World 26.4%, RPG 3.6%, Co-op 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features robust survival and base-building systems in a harsh, unforgiving open world.

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 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Open World Survival Craft 17.3% ★, Survival 16.4%, Shooter 5.6%

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 35.9%, Survival 20.4%, Open World 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Base Building 8.9%

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 37.6%, Survival 19.6%, Open World 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Base Building 4.9%

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

Why similar: Zombies 26.4%, Open World Survival Craft 19.2% ★, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Open World 13.7%

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

Why similar: Survival 34.9%, Post-apocalyptic 26.1%, Loot 16.9%, Shooter 7.5%, PvE 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 29%, Open World 17.3%, Survival 16.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Base Building 6.9%

Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Zombies 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Open World 13.6%, Survival 10.3%, Base Building 9%

Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Zombies 23.7%, Survival 18.1%, Open World 16.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Base Building 10.7%

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: Open World Survival Craft 26.9% ★, Zombies 22.8%, Survival 20.7%, Open World 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Survival 20%, Open World 12%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Base Building 10.1%

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 30.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.5%, Open World 20.4%, Open World Survival Craft 18.4% ★, Shooter 3.6%

Zombie Survival Game Online is an open-world, post-apocalyptic, looter shooter. Craft, quest, explore, build, and fight for survival. Parkour up a mountainside, ramp a truck over a horde, and grab a gasmask to explore the sewers. Can you survive? Doubtful.

Why similar: Zombies 24.4%, Open World Survival Craft 17.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Open World 10.7%

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 38.1%, Survival 19.6%, Open World 15.6%, Base Building 9.5%, Third-Person Shooter 4.7%

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: Survival 18.7%, Open World Survival Craft 18.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Open World 14.8%, Base Building 9.3%

LifeZ - Survival is a third-person sandbox-survival game. Build your hideout, search for water and food, mine resources and fight against zombies and finally find ways to contact the outside world and leave Catastrophie Area.

Why similar: Zombies 28%, Open World Survival Craft 21.5% ★, Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Base Building 7.5%

Fallen Region is a third-person survival sandbox game in an open, post-apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 25.8%, Survival 17.6%, Open World Survival Craft 13.2% ★, Open World 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

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: Zombies 26.2%, Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Survival 20.5%, Open World 14.3%, Post-apocalyptic 4.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 23%, Open World 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Zombies 11.4%

Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world

Why similar: Zombies 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Survival 16.6%, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 9.3%

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 29.2%, Open World Survival Craft 19.6% ★, Survival 18%, Open World 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%

The open-world survival role-playing game "Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse" tells the story of Delta Team and his comrades as they work to rebuild a world devastated by humans and their race turned into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 23.3%, Open World Survival Craft 16.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Survival 13%, Open World 12.7%

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: Zombies 32.7%, Survival 32.3%, Open World 27.9%, First-Person 3.3%, Adventure 1.4%

You are on an island where everyone wants to kill you, ranging from weather conditions to dangerous enemies, your goal is to survive. Survive alone or together. Build, craft, grow, explore, fight!

Why similar: Zombies 29.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Survival 16.3%, Open World 15.2%, Co-op 5.7%

Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.

Why similar: Zombies 30.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 15%, Base Building 11%

SurrounDead Poly Construction is an open-world survival adventure game where players will solve puzzles, collect items, and defeat all enemies to reach the end.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 13.9%, Survival 12.2%, Third-Person Shooter 11.2%

After a rampant viral outbreak causes global society to collapse, you must survive the harsh wilderness of the Canadian Rockies amidst vast hordes of Infected and rival survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 27.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 15.5%, Open World 14.9%, Base Building 8.4%

You ever played a Sandbox Survival Zombie RPG? You heard it right. In "Stay Alive: Apocalypse" we will offer you an indie zombie survival game which is in a sandbox, random generated world and presents RPG elements.

Why similar: Zombies 30.5%, Survival 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Open World 12.8%, Loot 7.2%

Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 41%, Survival 36.6%, Zombies 11.7%, Shooter 4.4%, Exploration 1.4%

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: Zombies 22.8%, Survival 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Open World 14.2%, Base Building 9.8%

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 46.3%, Survival 22.5%, Open World 18.6%, Shooter 3.6%, Co-op 2.8%