- #1 Survivalist
97% matchVery Positive80% of 2,569 reviews2015
Dev: BobPub: Ginormocorp Incorporated
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Open World Survival Craft 21.3% ★, RTS 13%, Survival 11.9%, Base Building 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor to the seed game, it shares the exact same core DNA of open-world community management, third-person action, and survival.
- #2 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
96% matchVery Positive83% of 70,161 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 39.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Base Building 26.2%, Open World 19.7%, Survival 17.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Online Co-Op 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same tense post-apocalyptic dynamic of scavenging, recruiting survivors, and building up a fortified base in a zombie-infested world.
- #3 HumanitZ
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,430 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Open World 11.3%, Survival 10%
Why You'll Like It: A top-tier open-world survival game focusing heavily on zombie survival, scavenging, and building a safe haven from scratch.
- #4 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
95% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Survival 10%, Crafting 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends colony simulation with post-apocalyptic survival as you manage a group of survivors, research technologies, and defend your base.
- #5 Project Zomboid
94% matchVery Positive94% of 484,416 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 89.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 41.8% ★, Survival 16.7%, Open World 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers an exceptionally deep open-world zombie survival experience with rich crafting, base building, and character management mechanics.
- #6 Kenshi
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 117,010 reviews2018
Dev: Lo-Fi Games
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 71.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Why similar: RTS 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Stealth 11.2%, Character Customization 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the unique hybrid of squad-based RPG, open-world exploration, and base building where you must carve out a living in a harsh, unforgiving environment.
- #7 Infection Free Zone
92% matchVery Positive81% of 18,697 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Why similar: Base Building 24.3%, Colony Sim 23.6%, Post-apocalyptic 23%, RTS 17.3%, Survival 8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to turn any real-world city into a base-building survival colony against hordes of the infected.
- #8 Dead State: Reanimated
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,564 reviews2014
Dev: DoubleBear Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Survival 34.7%, Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, RPG 21.8%, Open World 9.4%, Base Building 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Combines tactical turn-based combat with shelter management, focusing heavily on interpersonal relationships and community survival in a zombie wasteland.
- #9 Stranded: Alien Dawn
91% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 24.3%, Hunting 17.2% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary survival and colony management, challenging you to keep a group of diverse survivors alive and thriving.
- #10 Bellwright
91% matchVery Positive80% of 21,714 reviews2024
Dev: Donkey Crew
Windows
Median: 12.8 hrsMean: 41.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
Why similar: Open World 21.9%, Survival 18.8%, Online Co-Op 18.1%, Crafting 16.5%, RPG 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Features a similar blend of open-world exploration, base building, and recruiting NPC followers to establish a thriving rebellion and community.
- #11 Subsistence
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,861 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 40.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 51.6% ★, Survival 11.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox open-world survival game with heavy base building, AI enemies, and resource management elements.
- #12 Sheltered 2
89% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Base Building 17.3%, Survival 11.2%, Character Customization 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Puts you in charge of managing a post-apocalyptic shelter and its inhabitants, balancing resources, morale, and external threats.
- #13 Mist Survival
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,394 reviews2018
Dev: Dimension 32 Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.1 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: Open World Survival Craft 46.5% ★, Survival 15.3%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 13.8%, Crafting 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive single-player sandbox survival game featuring base building, community elements, and dangerous environmental threats.
- #14 This Land Is My Land
88% matchMixed68% of 4,660 reviews2021
Dev: Game-Labs
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Experience the frontier as a chief of a Native American tribe and resist the onset of the settlers. Explore the vast world full of hostile humans and animals while defining your narrative through the decisions you make.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.5% ★, Stealth 14.8%, Open World 11.2%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a distinct open-world survival experience centered around stealth, resistance, and managing your people against overwhelming odds.
- #15 SurrounDead
86% matchVery Positive91% of 27,054 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 16.9 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: Open World Survival Craft 25.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Open World 15.9%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world zombie survival game featuring detailed looting, base building, and modular crafting in a harsh wasteland.
- #16 Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville
87% matchVery Positive86% of 2,050 reviews2015
Dev: Northway Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 10%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A brilliant colony sim where you reclaim a ruined city block by block, manage survivors, and fend off zombie attacks.
- #17 Plains of Pain
86% matchVery Positive83% of 1,036 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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 26.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Online Co-Op 8%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic open-world survival craft game focused on rebuilding and surviving in a desolate wasteland.
- #18 Medieval Dynasty
85% matchVery Positive90% of 52,440 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Base Building 25.8%, Crafting 24.9%, Open World 18.9%, Survival 15.8%, RPG 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: Translates the open-world survival and village management formula into a medieval setting where you build a dynasty from the ground up.
- #19 State of Decay: YOSE
84% matchVery Positive82% of 13,199 reviews2015
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Base Building 23.4%, Open World 20.4%, Survival 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Third Person 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: The remastered classic that established the formula of community-driven zombie survival and base management.
- #20 Survive the Fall
83% matchMixed67% of 689 reviews2025
Dev: Angry Bulls StudioPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Explore, loot and fight in an open world action game set in a post-apocalyptic future after a devastating meteor strike. Assemble your team and take the fight to the enemy or choose a stealthy approach to gain the upper hand. Expand your base to research new gear and get ready to survive the fall.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Base Building 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Stealth 10.3%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends tactical combat, base building, and open-world exploration in a devastated post-apocalyptic world.
- #21 The Last Haven
84% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 24.7%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, RTS 13.5%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Survival 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A serious post-apocalyptic strategy and base-building game focused on managing resources and keeping a community alive through global collapse.
- #22 No One Survived
82% matchMixed64% of 7,844 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 22.7 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: Open World 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 19%, Survival 18.9%, Crafting 13.3%, Online Co-Op 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A co-op multiplayer survival game featuring detailed base building, crafting, and dangerous zombie hordes to overcome.
- #23 CryoFall
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 6,472 reviews2021
Dev: AtomicTorch StudioPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 28.9% ★, Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 8.5%, Character Customization 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony simulation and survival game where you build complex infrastructures and manage a community on a hostile planet.
- #24 Soulmask
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 22,506 reviews2026
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 69.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Hunting 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Open World 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive open-world survival game featuring tribe recruitment, base building, and commanding realistic AI companions.
- #25 The Last Plague: Blight
81% matchVery Positive88% of 1,514 reviews2024
Dev: Original Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Crafting 9%, Third Person 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game focusing on surviving a devastating pandemic and building a secure refuge from scratch.
- #26 Surviving the Aftermath
81% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Post-apocalyptic 26%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 11.3%, Simulation 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to build and manage a colony of survivors on the surface of a post-apocalyptic Earth.
- #27 Sengoku Dynasty
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,879 reviews2024
Dev: SuperkamiPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.4%, Base Building 17.9%, Open World 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Survival 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world RPG, city builder, and survival elements set in feudal Japan, echoing the community-building loop.
- #28 ASKA
78% matchVery Positive80% of 12,267 reviews2024
Dev: Sand Sailor StudioPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.8% ★, Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 12.8%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A tribal survival game where you build a settlement and assign tasks to intelligent NPC villagers to keep everyone alive.
- #29 Necesse
77% matchVery Positive93% of 29,166 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 49.6% ★, Base Building 9.9%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 7.8%, Survival 7.1%
- #30 Colony Survival
78% matchVery Positive92% of 9,016 reviews2017
Dev: Pipliz
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4%, Base Building 21.2%, Survival 11.8%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A unique voxel-based colony simulation where you build a thriving settlement and defend it against nightly monster attacks.
- #31 LifeZ - Survival
79% 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: Open World Survival Craft 39.6% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 9.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.5%, Crafting 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world zombie survival simulation focusing on scavenging, crafting, and staying alive against the odds.
- #32 Polylithic
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 353 reviews2026
Dev: polyperfectPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go it alone in a world where the apex predator is still a distant aspiration.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 18.7%, Open World 12.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Third Person 10.4%
- #33 Out of Reach
77% matchMixed57% of 3,051 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 46.9% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 8.9%, Hunting 8.6% ★
- #34 Sailing alone:Aftermath
75% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: MLStudio
Windows
You are just an ordinary person, with only a small boat serving as your home, struggling to find a way to survive in the ruthless ocean of the post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 6.7%, Third Person 5.5%
- #35 iZolated
75% matchMixed69% of 124 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: Open World Survival Craft 15.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Base Building 12.9%, Character Customization 10.9%, Procedural Generation 9.9%
- #36 The Last Disease Z
73% matchMixed56% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Bublig
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Last Disease Z is a harsh multiplayer survival experience where everything is against you. Abandoned cities, zombies and bandits, a struggle for resources and a place to live. Build, unite, and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Hunting 19.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Open World 9.3%, Crafting 8%
- #37 Crushed
76% matchMixed53% of 321 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 37.3% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Open World 10.3%, Survival 8.4%
- #38 The Survivalists
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 10,123 reviews2020
Dev: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.8% ★, Hunting 13.1% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Crafting 9%
- #39 VEIN
70% matchVery Positive88% of 12,706 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Base Building 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Open World 16.2%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 8.9%
- #40 Outbreak Island
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,124 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 15.3%, Open World 12.9%, Crafting 12.7%
- #41 Winter Survival
72% matchMixed63% of 777 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Winter Survival is a story-driven survival game where trauma turns reality into a reflection of your breaking mind. Battle cold, hunger, hallucinations, and adapt to the wilderness as it adapts to you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.3% ★, Hunting 19.4% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Open World 9.3%, Stealth 7.8%
- #42 Forever Skies
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 9,059 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 30.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.7% ★, Base Building 16%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.6%
- #43 Solace Crafting
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Open World 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%
- #44 Fragmented
74% matchMixed43% of 1,964 reviews2017
Dev: Above and Beyond Technologies
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 54.1% ★, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 7%, Online Co-Op 4.8%
- #45 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
73% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 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: Open World Survival Craft 54.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 5.7%
- #46 Night of the Dead
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,888 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 83%
'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 28.8% ★, Hunting 16.9% ★, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Open World 8%
- #47 State of Decay
72% matchVery Positive85% of 17,512 reviews2013
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Open World 21.4%, Survival 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Third Person 8.4%
- #48 Under A New Sun
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 406 reviews2023
Dev: New Horizon Games
Windows
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 45.3% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Open World 12.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 10.1%
- #49 MISERY
68% matchVery Positive84% of 26,185 reviews2025
Dev: Platypus EntertainmentPub: Ytopia
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 26.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Base Building 11.6%, Online Co-Op 10.5%, Open World 8.7%
- #50 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
68% matchVery Positive82% of 10,551 reviews2024
Dev: Max Ent Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Base Building 13.5%, Online Co-Op 9.2%, Open World 8.5%, Survival 8.1%
- #51 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
69% matchMixed54% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Open World 13.2%, Base Building 11.5%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 8.6%
- #52 Rem Survival
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 809 reviews2021
Dev: Immortal Hand Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 47.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 41.3% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 9.5%
- #53 Survival Log
65% matchVery Positive83% of 3,044 reviews2026
Dev: Midnight WorkshopPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is a zombie-apocalypse hoarding survival sim. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.4%, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 10.6%, Third Person 8.2%
- #54 Whisper of the Swallows
66% matchVery Positive87% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Blown Leaves
Windows
Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Online Co-Op 9.5%, Open World 9.2%
- #55 Taora : Survival
68% matchMixed59% of 421 reviews2024
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Taora is an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse !
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.3% ★, Hunting 14.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.1%
- #56 Aground Zero
66% matchVery Positive82% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Linux
The world has ended. You are deep underground, and all alone with a cheery AI companion. You will have to mine and build to survive, and search for other survivors to help you. Will you be able to reach the surface? And what will you find when you get there?
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Character Customization 11.1%, Open World 8.4%
- #57 Mr. Prepper
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 5,479 reviews2021
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.
Why similar: Base Building 33.6%, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 18.5%, Simulation 9.3%, RPG 8.2%
- #58 Wilderness
70% matchMostly Negative28% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Horizon Studios
Windows
Survive in the wild nature by playing as an animal or as a human. Play as an animal and survive by your own or build a herd to stay protected. Have babies and protect them from predators. Play as a human and craft items, build a house, customize your character and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Hunting 17.7% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Survival 8.1%, Open World 7.1%
- #59 The Infected
67% matchVery Positive84% of 7,020 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.2% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 10.3%, Survival 8.9%
- #60 Decision: Red Daze
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 905 reviews2022
Dev: FlyAnvilPub: Nordcurrent Labs
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
Why similar: Base Building 24%, Post-apocalyptic 23.5%, Open World 19.1%, Survival 16.5%, RPG 11%
