Games Like SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now

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 48.4% ★, Survival 15.4%, Open World 8.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.1%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar post-apocalyptic atmosphere with a strong focus on multiplayer survival and exploration.

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 24.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Open World 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive hardcore survival experience that mirrors the scavenging and tension of 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 38.5% ★, Survival 15%, Open World 8.5%, Post-apocalyptic 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival shooter that emphasizes tactical combat and realistic open-world exploration.

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: Open World Survival Craft 39.1% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 9%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Zombies 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep crafting and base-building with intense zombie survival mechanics in a fully destructible world.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Survival 23.2%, Open World 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for open-world survival, focusing heavily on crafting, base building, and player-versus-player conflict.

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: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 9.8%, FPS 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced survival game that balances crafting and combat in a harsh, unforgiving environment.

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: Open World Survival Craft 49.4% ★, Survival 22.1%, Open World 11.1%, Zombies 7.6%, Crafting 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a focused single-player survival experience centered on scavenging and defending against environmental threats.

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 Survival Craft 45.1% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 10.2%, Massively Multiplayer 7.8%, Zombies 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep survival simulation with complex mechanics set in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic open world.

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 54.2% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging survival game with a strong emphasis on base building and long-term resource management.

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: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Survival 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Zombies 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Prioritizes realistic survival mechanics and base fortification against zombie hordes.

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 33.8%, Open World 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Crafting 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a similar post-apocalyptic aesthetic and focus on multiplayer survival in a ruined landscape.

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: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%, Open World 7.7%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A PvP-focused survival game that incorporates looting and extraction mechanics in a dangerous open world.

Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.

Why similar: Survival 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Open World 11.6%, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible yet deep multiplayer survival game that features zombies and extensive crafting systems.

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 59.2% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 4.8%, Building 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a tense survival experience with a heavy focus on building defenses against hostile threats.

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: Open World Survival Craft 50.6% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that emphasizes crafting and exploration in a hostile environment.

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.1% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 9%, Multiplayer 5.5%, Crafting 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a harsh, fantasy-inspired survival world that requires constant crafting and adaptation.

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: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 12.1%, Multiplayer 6%, Crafting 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: An expansive open-world survival game that emphasizes building, crafting, and combat in a brutal setting.

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.3% ★, Survival 16.8%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Crafting 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that blends base building with exploration in a sci-fi setting.

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 50.4% ★, Survival 15.8%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes building and faction-based combat in a medieval setting.

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 56.4% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 8%, Multiplayer 6%, Crafting 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on survival and crafting in a hostile alien world with persistent multiplayer elements.

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: Open World Survival Craft 47.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Zombies 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that focuses on exploration and resource management.

CastleMiner Z is an infinite world filled with deep places to explore, and horrifying monsters to slay. Build structures out of blocks, craft weapons and tools from raw materials, and explore the vast and frightening world around you.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 6.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Zombies 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic voxel-based survival game that focuses on fighting off waves of zombies.

Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 7.8%, Crafting 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game with a focus on crafting and long-term world development.

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 46% ★, Survival 14.3%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 6.7%, Massively Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward survival game that emphasizes crafting and base building in an open world.

The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.1% ★, Survival 18.4%, Open World 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game that focuses on the struggle for resources in a ruined world.

Hide & Hold Out is a multiplayer survival game taking place in a devastated water world. Gather, build, team up with your friends and establish the foundations of your future floating empire utilizing the heavy guns of your battle ships!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Massively Multiplayer 7.3%, Open World 6.5%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes action and base building in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7.4%

"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 33.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Massively Multiplayer 11%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An indie survival experience that offers a simple, focused take on the genre.

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: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Survival 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Open World 9.1%, Massively Multiplayer 6.8%

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: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Survival 22.9%, Open World 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Zombies 11.1%

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: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Survival 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Open World 7.3%, Zombies 6.3%

An open-world post-apocalyptic survival sandbox. Scavenge, craft, build, and survive solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Survival 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Multiplayer 13.9%, Crafting 13.2%, FPS 10.1%

Try to survive the harsh realities of the cold Siberian countryside. Live long and always remember, man is man's enemy. You can trust no one but it is almost impossible to survive on your own. Choose your path and go to finish. Firefights, transport, crafting and survival.

Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Open World 13.6%, Massively Multiplayer 9%, FPS 9%

Open-world survival sandbox with base-building, crafting, farming and multiplayer. Explore a dangerous island, fight, build and stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Multiplayer 10%, Open World 9.5%

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Open World 9.2%, Multiplayer 6.4%

'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: Open World Survival Craft 45.5% ★, Survival 13%, Open World 9.5%, Multiplayer 7%, Zombies 6.8%

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 29.3%, Open World 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Zombies 10.2%

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: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 20.4%, Open World 9.8%, Zombies 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%

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 46%, Open World 29.5%, Zombies 13%, First-Person 3.7%, Crafting 2.5%

Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Survival 13.4%, Open World 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 7%, FPS 5.4%

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: Open World Survival Craft 42.8% ★, Survival 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Multiplayer 6.8%, Zombies 6.7%

Driven by community suggestion, 505 Games and EKO Software introduce you to a new single player 3rd person view experience that allows you to re-play the zombie crafting adventure "How to Survive" from a deeply immersive point of view.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45% ★, Survival 20.9%, Zombies 8.8%, Open World 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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: Open World Survival Craft 43.4% ★, Survival 21.9%, Zombies 9.3%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 55.3% ★, Survival 17%, Open World 8.1%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 5.2%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.4% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 8.3%, Crafting 7.5%, Multiplayer 4.8%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Open World 10.9%, Co-op 5.3%

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: Survival 27.1%, Open World 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Zombies 10.8%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion.

Why similar: Survival 29.4%, Zombies 18.7%, Massively Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%, Open World 8.7%, Multiplayer 6.4%

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 48.2% ★, Survival 13.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Open World 8.9%, Crafting 6.2%

“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: Survival 35.8%, Zombies 13%, Crafting 10.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Open World 8%

“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: Open World Survival Craft 42.5% ★, Survival 22.4%, Zombies 9.8%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 5.2%

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: Survival 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Open World 13.5%, Zombies 10%, Multiplayer 9.4%