- #1 Outbreak Island
97% matchMostly Positive79% of 963 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: RPG 48.4%, Action 31.1%, Adventure 20.5%
- #2 Polygeddon
96% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Digital Dreamworks
Windows
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: RPG 50.1%, Action 27.1%, Adventure 22.9%
- #3 No One Survived
94% matchMixed65% of 7,645 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: RPG 56.9%, Adventure 43.1%
- #4 Mist Survival
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,126 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Action 52.5%, Adventure 47.5%
- #5 INMATE: Survival
94% matchMixed57% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: SV Games
Windows
INMATE: Survival is an open world survival game, where you play the role of a prisoner sentenced to stay on a 4*4 km Island with many types of enemies both humans and animals.
Why similar: Action 53.8%, Adventure 46.2%
- #6 Apocalypse Island
93% matchMixed41% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Bettini Games
Windows
As an ex-scientist on a mission, you find yourself in a toxic and infected island, where humans are no where to be seen. Build, explore and survive.
Why similar: Action 60.5%, Adventure 39.5%
- #7 Survive The Island
92% matchMixed52% of 82 reviews2021
Dev: PhantomCore StudioPub: PhantomCore PUBLISHING
Windows
survive the island you survive from skeletons and humans you can build and mine and level up your stats you can build whatever you want you can raid enemies you can mine and cut down trees and you have to hunt for your own food and you can grow your own crops and you can craft weapons
Why similar: RPG 57%, Action 43%
- #8 Death World
91% matchMixed46% of 56 reviews2020
Dev: Millenium Games
Windows
After a long night you wake up alone in the bunker as a bunker security guard. Hunt, kill, gather. Do anything to survive.
Why similar: RPG 46.5%, Action 32.7%, Adventure 20.8%
- #9 Gone: Survival
91% matchMixed44% of 310 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world
Why similar: Action 63%, Adventure 37%
- #10 V1RUZ
90% matchMixed61% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: Polyverse GamesPub: Polyverse Studio
Windows
In V1RUZ, you see yourself stuck in the middle of an ever growing virus epidemic in the USA. Learn how to craft weapons, tools and fight against the living and the dead to survive in this cruel, rotting world.
Why similar: RPG 45%, Action 31.1%, Adventure 23.9%
- #11 SurrounDead
87% matchVery Positive92% of 24,802 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: RPG 56.4%, Action 24.2%, Adventure 19.4%
- #12 INCUR Survival
88% matchVery Positive82% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: INCUR
Windows
A survival open-world game, where you can gather resources, Hunt, Craft tools and armor, Tame Animals, Ride Animals, Build, and defend your base from creatures, and other players.
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Adventure 44.2%
- #13 Girl Amazon Survival
89% matchMixed43% of 246 reviews2016
Dev: Kobra Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Stay alive fighting with the bandits and zombies. Hunt animals, build houses.
Why similar: Action 56.1%, Adventure 43.9%
- #14 IfSunSets
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,232 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
「IfSunSets」 is a survival RPG adventure game. During the day, secure necessary supplies across the island, and survive the night against strong and terrifying monsters that track you down. You can utilize resources you've secured to build a base to fend off threatening monsters.
Why similar: RPG 59.2%, Action 40.8%
- #15 Winter Survivor Protocol
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 153 reviews2026
Dev: RECAST
Windows
Survive a zombie apocalypse: scavenge supplies, craft weapons, build a camp, repair your vehicle, and uncover its secrets amid unknown dangers. Switch between 1st and 3rd person views. Solo-developed. Multiplayer coming after testing. Hope you enjoy!
Why similar: RPG 56.4%, Adventure 43.6%
- #16 Dead District: Survival
86% matchMixed48% of 473 reviews2023
Dev: BadBit Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.
Why similar: Action 66.9%, Adventure 33.1%
- #17 Better Late Than DEAD
86% matchMostly Negative28% of 909 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Awaking on an island with no memory, you have just one memento of the life you led before… A child's photograph. Who is this? You must search the island for useful tools that will aid in your escape. As time passes and hopes of survival hang by a thread, you realise that this island is not as it seems.
Why similar: Action 56.4%, Adventure 43.6%
- #18 Endure Island
82% matchMixed44% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Izanabit
Windows
On a deserted island, a recurring phenomenon of large numbers of infected individuals appearing and disappearing continued. It was discovered that the cause was a virus, and efforts to uncover the virus and eradicate it have begun.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #19 LifeZ - Survival
83% matchMixed68% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: iDs Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: RPG 58.5%, Action 41.5%
- #20 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
82% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Action 59.8%, Adventure 40.2%
- #21 Project Cobalt
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: OxygenStudio
Windows
⚗️ 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: Action 55.4%, Adventure 44.6%
- #22 Radiation Island
81% matchVery Positive81% of 629 reviews2016
Dev: Atypical Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Action 52%, Adventure 48%
- #23 Ice Station Z
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 206 reviews2021
Dev: Wobbly Tooth
Windows
Thirdperson Open World Zombie Survival.
Why similar: Action 62.9%, Adventure 37.1%
- #24 Survival Nation: Lost Horizon
79% matchMixed58% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.Pub: indie.io
Windows · Linux
Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu.
Why similar: Action 56.9%, Adventure 43.1%
- #25 Afterinfection
78% matchMixed58% of 519 reviews2025
Dev: RePatrick21
Windows
Afterinfection is a brand new zombie survival game designed in Unreal 4 and being developed by a small team from Thailand. After creating your survivor, you’ll start with nothing and have to make your way across a large island searching for food, water, weapons, and crafting supplies.
Why similar: RPG 100%
- #26 DREADZONE
77% matchMixed52% of 1,188 reviews2025
Dev: Eshed
Windows
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: Adventure 51.6%, Action 48.4%
- #27 CHEMISTS: Area of infection
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 81 reviews2022
Dev: RPAXPub: GAMEPORTAL.CO
Windows
A year after the global catastrophe, you woke up in a hospital and don't remember anything. You have to not only find out what happened, but also try to survive in this harsh dangerous world.
Why similar: Action 57.4%, Adventure 42.6%
- #28 Zumbi Blocks 2 Open Alpha
73% matchVery Positive88% of 9,878 reviews2023
Dev: Adrian Kaminski
Windows
Loot. Kill. Survive. Can you escape ? (probably not) Zumbi Blocks 2 is the official sequel to the 2013 free browser zombie game. Stuck on an island, cut off from the rest of humanity, you wake up. The secret to breaking free from this place lies asleep, underground. From the soil, zumbies emerge.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #29 Shadows of Kurgansk
77% matchMixed66% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: Yadon StudioPub: Gaijin inCubator
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
“Shadows of Kurgansk” is an adventure game, where you need to survive in an area full of danger and mystery. Your goal is to stay alive and find the way out, fighting monsters and completing story driven missions. Fight zombies, build asylums, find your way back home!
Why similar: RPG 44.2%, Action 31.3%, Adventure 24.5%
- #30 KeepUp Survival
74% matchMixed64% of 743 reviews2024
Dev: Witte Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.
Why similar: Action 52.3%, Adventure 47.7%
- #31 Dread Dawn
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,217 reviews2024
Dev: Kioop
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: RPG 50.8%, Adventure 30.6%, Action 18.6%
- #32 Dead Matter
75% matchMostly Negative21% of 885 reviews2023
Dev: QI Games
Windows
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: Action 58.6%, Adventure 41.4%
- #33 VRZ: Torment
76% matchMixed70% of 235 reviews2017
Dev: StormBringer Studios OU
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Be immersed into Purgatory Island of undead and dying. Solve mysteries to escape while trying to survive. The undead are rising, zombie skags are swarming the land, and your end is fast approaching! Arm yourself, uncover what you need to survive, and escape the inescapable.
Why similar: RPG 42.9%, Action 34.4%, Adventure 22.7%
- #34 Story Of the Survivor
76% matchMixed61% of 64 reviews2016
Dev: Kamil SzczepanikPub: Akamari Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Story of the Survivor is an action RPG that takes place during a zombie apocalypse. Surviving isn't going to be easy, and zombies aren't the only things to worry about. You must also eat and drink to survive as well as avoid other survivors.
Why similar: RPG 44.5%, Action 30.8%, Adventure 24.7%
- #35 Last Hope Bunker: Zombie Survival
73% matchMixed60% of 348 reviews2024
Dev: Bazura GamesPub: Dreland Enterprises
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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: Action 55.2%, Adventure 44.8%
- #36 Herd is Coming
75% matchMixed68% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Proximity Games
Windows
"Herd is Coming" is a survival RPG set in a post apocalyptic world filled with zombies. It's the story of Mike who's survived for 10 years since the outbreak.
Why similar: RPG 64.9%, Action 20.1%, Adventure 15%
- #37 Junk Survivor
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 81 reviews2023
Dev: Neojac Entertainment Inc.
Windows
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: Action 59.9%, Adventure 40.1%
- #38 iZolated
71% matchMixed70% of 119 reviews2024
Dev: Crooked RoadPub: LT-Games
Windows
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: RPG 49.7%, Action 27.9%, Adventure 22.4%
- #39 V.O.D.K.A. Open World Survival Shooter
74% matchMostly Negative38% of 97 reviews2021
Dev: Guilty Pleasure Games
Windows
V. O. D. K. A. is a survival shooter in the open world, the game takes place in a fictional state in eastern Europe, most of the territory of which is infected with radiation. Your main task is survival.
Why similar: RPG 47%, Action 29.1%, Adventure 23.8%
- #40 HumanitZ
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,839 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: RPG 47.2%, Action 29.7%, Adventure 23.1%
- #41 Hand Simulator: Survival
71% matchVery Positive86% of 9,917 reviews2019
Dev: HFM Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Wild island. Thirst and hunger. Dangerous animals and insects. The perfect place to test your survival skills, especially if you only have empty hands, especially if it is a hand simulator.
Why similar: RPG 45%, Action 29.7%, Adventure 25.4%
- #42 Epicenter VR
71% matchMixed65% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: FiveVolt Games
Windows
Save the last survivors after a deadly zombie virus has taken over your island home. Protect those closest to you at all costs and evacuate before supplies run out.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #43 Jaws Of Extinction™
73% matchMixed54% of 388 reviews2019
Dev: Blood Eater GamesPub: Forthright Entertainment
Windows
The island of Eden-Nadir, has fallen to a vicious mind consuming fungal parasite. Fight through the ashes of humanity to track down the truth behind the infection as one of four playable survivors before the outbreak spreads throughout the world.
Why similar: RPG 45.7%, Action 30.1%, Adventure 24.1%
- #44 Far Lands
70% matchMixed65% of 167 reviews2024
Dev: Scalpel Softworks
Windows
Far Lands is an open-world survival game. Fight mercenaries, steal their loot and vehicles. Build and defend your base from zombies. Gather resources, craft better gear and loot different points of interest. Want to play with friends? Join them on Co-op!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Adventure 44.6%
- #45 Deadly Flare
69% matchMixed55% of 141 reviews2023
Dev: Green Grass Games
Windows
A solar flare has struck and every living soul is turning into a rotting and aggressive ghoul.
Why similar: RPG 49.6%, Action 29.5%, Adventure 20.9%
- #46 Welcome to ParadiZe
67% matchMixed67% of 1,274 reviews2024
Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: RPG 40.6%, Action 34.6%, Adventure 24.7%
- #47 No Man's Home
64% matchVery Positive87% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: radrunner
Windows
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #48 SurvivalZ
70% matchMixed59% of 318 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
A virus ravaged the planet, and you are one of the last survivors! Alone or in groups you will have to survive in a hostile world populated by living dead!
Why similar: Action 54.7%, Adventure 45.3%
- #49 Delivery from the Pain:Survival / 末日方舟:生存
68% matchVery Positive81% of 1,009 reviews2019
Dev: HuaYiTianXinPub: DigiPotato
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You'll play as a survivor in a world overrun by zombies. Explore and interact with other survivors, making tough choices about whether to help or exploit them. Defend against zombies, collect resources, craft, and fortify your shelter. Use strategy to escape this world and return to safety.
Why similar: RPG 44.6%, Action 29.3%, Adventure 26.2%
- #50 The Island
69% matchMixed46% of 103 reviews2021
Dev: Ibis Games
Windows
The Island - "Island") - a computer game with an open world and a first-person view in the genre of survival.
Why similar: Action 64.7%, Adventure 35.3%
- #51 DayZ
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 461,119 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.8 hrsMean: 275.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Action 56.1%, Adventure 43.9%
- #52 Invention 3
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 reviews2022
Dev: Falco SoftwarePub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
In this game you have to fight your way through hordes of zombies in search of a safe place.
Why similar: Action 77.6%, Adventure 22.4%
- #53 Last Whisper
66% matchMixed66% of 192 reviews2024
Dev: 12Studio
Windows
Last Whisper Survival is a cooperative zombie survival game where exploration of the open world is key. As you venture further, you'll need to upgrade your gear and level up your character and skill tree to handle the increasing challenges as you move through the world.
Why similar: Action 58.7%, Adventure 41.3%
- #54 Out of Reach
68% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Action 55.4%, Adventure 44.6%
- #55 Survival Nation
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 254 reviews2023
Dev: Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.
Windows
An open-world online RPG, survival game designed for VR. In this game, you will kill hundreds of zombies, acquire weapons, learn new skills, craft, explore the world, complete quests, and fight for survival. Choose from three modes: Solo, PVE, and PVP. Will you join a Survival Nation?
Why similar: RPG 42.8%, Action 33.8%, Adventure 23.4%