Games Like Survive the Nights

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 12.3%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%, Survival 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential hardcore survival experience that mirrors the atmospheric tension and scavenging mechanics of the seed game.

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 34% ★, Zombies 14.7%, Survival 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Massively Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly atmospheric post-apocalyptic world with a strong focus on survival and environmental storytelling.

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 21.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 10.7%, FPS 8.8%, Looter Shooter 8.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore tactical survival game that emphasizes realistic gunplay and dangerous open-world encounters.

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: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 16.5%, Zombies 13.4%, Survival 10.2%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Features an incredibly deep survival simulation with complex metabolism and realistic inventory management.

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 22.9% ★, Zombies 16.8%, Survival 13.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the most robust base-building and fortification mechanics for defending against nightly zombie hordes.

'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 27.4% ★, Zombies 18.1%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines intense survival mechanics with tower-defense elements that make base fortification essential.

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 23.7%, Survival 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Co-op 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a comprehensive survival experience with deep crafting, building, and character progression systems.

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 18.1%, Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a challenging survival loop with a focus on scavenging and managing resources in a hostile 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 45.2% ★, Survival 17.6%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Sandbox 7.9%, Co-op 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic survival game that focuses on long-term base building and resisting environmental threats.

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 36.9% ★, Zombies 24.9%, Survival 21.3%, Sandbox 8.3%, FPS 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique, atmospheric world where weather and environmental hazards are as dangerous as the infected.

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 23.5% ★, Zombies 21.5%, Survival 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The deepest simulation of zombie survival available, offering unparalleled depth in crafting, health, and base management.

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 24.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Survival 17.7%, Co-op 12.2%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: An emerging survival title that captures the gritty, realistic feel of navigating a zombie-infested landscape.

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: Zombies 28%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Open World Survival Craft 17% ★, Survival 16.3%, Shooter 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A loot-heavy survival game that rewards careful exploration and strategic combat against the undead.

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 35.1% ★, Zombies 16%, Sandbox 14.1%, Survival 13.7%, Realistic 12%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on base building and surviving against both environmental factors and hostile creatures.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends traditional survival mechanics with extensive base fortification and defensive combat.

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 18.5% ★, Looter Shooter 15.3% ★, Zombies 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Online Co-Op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible yet challenging survival game that emphasizes looting and multiplayer cooperation.

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: Looter Shooter 16.3% ★, Zombies 11.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic survival title that balances accessible mechanics with intense multiplayer combat and base building.

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 36.9%, Zombies 35.7%, First-Person 10.9%, Adventure 5.1%, Action 4%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a strong atmospheric horror experience in a post-apocalyptic setting filled with anomalies and zombies.

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 27.9%, Survival 20%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Co-op 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a layer of community management to the core zombie survival loop, requiring strategic base development.

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 22% ★, Survival 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Massively Multiplayer 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A gritty MMO survival game that captures the harsh, post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the genre.

No More Room in Hell 2 is a terrifying 8 player co-op action horror experience. Find your friends in the dark and survive - in a dynamic, endlessly replayable zombie apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 18.3%, Looter Shooter 14.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.5%, Co-op 9.3%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intense, high-stakes co-op survival against relentless zombie threats.

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 26.5%, Post-apocalyptic 24.1%, Multiplayer 14%, Co-op 9%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a hardcore survival experience in a post-Soviet setting with a focus on faction-based gameplay.

Build your base on a moving Machine, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.9% ★, Zombies 14.9%, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique co-op experience centered around defending a mobile base against waves of enemies.

Survival horror MMO. As one of the few survivors of the outbreak, you must scratch a living out of the decaying ruins of society. Scavenge for supplies, improve your skills, and trade with other players. All the while, keeping your eyes peeled for the infected lurking around every corner.

Why similar: Zombies 17.4%, Inventory Management 13%, Massively Multiplayer 12.2%, Online Co-Op 11%, Multiplayer 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror focused game that emphasizes scavenging and RPG-style character progression.

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 22.9% ★, Looter Shooter 14.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 11.2%, Massively Multiplayer 10.2%, Survival 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A loot-focused survival game that balances PvE scavenging with high-stakes PvP encounters.

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 36.9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 15.9%, Survival 14.8%, FPS 7.6%, Co-op 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the core pillars of crafting and base building within a hostile, zombie-filled open world.

Explore, adapt, and survive in Undawn, a free-to-play open-world survival RPG for mobile and PC developed by LightSpeed Studios and published by Level Infinite. Embark on an adventure with other survivors four years after a worldwide disaster where hordes of infected roam a shattered world.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Survival 13.2%, Zombies 9.6%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A large-scale survival RPG that provides a massive world to explore and survive in with other players.

MISERY is a 1–5 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 22.5% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Survival 11.5%, Co-op 9.3%

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 24.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Survival 14.6%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Shooter 8.9%

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 35.5% ★, Survival 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Zombies 6.7%

The Wild Eight is an intense survival action-adventure set in the frozen wilderness of Alaska. Team up with friends in online co-op or go solo, explore the mysterious land, craft weapons and fight to live another day.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 18.7%, Co-op 10.2%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Online Co-Op 8.3%

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: Open World Survival Craft 23.8% ★, Inventory Management 12.9%, Survival 10.3%, Sandbox 9.8%, Co-op 9.3%

In Fear the Night, you are a survivor in a world plagued with zombies. Team up with other survivors and work together to rebuild society from its ashes or choose to trust no one and go your own way in a lawless world.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 32.8%, Zombies 28%, Survival 16%, Sandbox 12.4%, Adventure 3.8%

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: Looter Shooter 19.3% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Zombies 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

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: Sandbox 19.7%, Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Zombies 17.1%, FPS 11.4%

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 32.6% ★, Survival 19.7%, FPS 15.7%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Sandbox 8%

「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: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Zombies 16.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 10.1%

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 29.3% ★, Zombies 27.5%, Survival 18.9%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Co-op 9.3%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.7% ★, Zombies 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, FPS 10.1%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 33.4%, Survival 16.9%, Massively Multiplayer 14.4%, Multiplayer 11.5%, FPS 8%

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 29.7% ★, Zombies 16.2%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%, Multiplayer 7.5%

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 31% ★, Survival 11.8%, Co-op 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Sandbox 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Survival 10.1%

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 34.7% ★, Survival 12.9%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, FPS 7.1%

(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.

Why similar: Zombies 27.4%, Survival 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Shooter 10.9%, Multiplayer 10.1%

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Co-op 5.9%

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 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Survival 14.7%, Co-op 13.1%, Multiplayer 10.8%

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 28.4% ★, Survival 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.7%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Sandbox 6.7%

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 39.5%, Survival 21.6%, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Sandbox 8.6%, Multiplayer 5.5%

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 38.1%, Survival 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Multiplayer 7%, Sandbox 6.5%

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 17.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Survival 12.3%, FPS 11.7%, Co-op 11.5%

"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 21.3%, Massively Multiplayer 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.2%, Multiplayer 10.3%, FPS 8.1%

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: Looter Shooter 17.8% ★, Zombies 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Massively Multiplayer 10.2%, Survival 9.9%

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Online Co-Op 12%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Co-op 8.5%

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world and uncover the origins of a mysterious disease. You are humanity’s final hope in ending the Blight

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Realistic 11.1%

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

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Survival 20.3%, FPS 15.5%, Multiplayer 15%, First-Person 7.6%