- #1 7 Days to Die
97% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.3% ★, Survival 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Base Building 11.5%, Online Co-Op 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive zombie survival game that masterfully combines base-building, crafting, and looter-shooter mechanics.
- #2 State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
96% matchVery Positive83% of 67,089 reviews2020
Dev: Undead LabsPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 9.1 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 22.4%, Survival 22.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Open World 13.5%, Online Co-Op 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a compelling mix of base management and zombie survival that mirrors the strategic elements of Taora.
- #3 Project Zomboid
96% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 33% ★, Survival 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: While isometric, it provides the most comprehensive survival and crafting simulation in the zombie genre.
- #4 Night of the Dead
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 11,732 reviews2024
Dev: Jackto Studios
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 32.6 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 23.8% ★, Hunting 18% ★, Online Co-Op 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It blends open-world survival with tower-defense mechanics, forcing players to build strong bases to survive nightly hordes.
- #5 No One Survived
94% matchMixed65% of 7,577 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Play Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.9 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: Survival 19%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Crafting 15.2%, Open World 10.8%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers deep crafting and base building systems that reward players for thorough exploration and resource management.
- #6 Deadside
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 40,013 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Pixel
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 44.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 24.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Survival 10.4%, Looter Shooter 9.2% ★, Third-Person Shooter 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore looter-shooter that focuses on survival and tactical combat in a massive open world.
- #7 SurrounDead
93% matchVery Positive92% of 23,544 reviews2022
Dev: ZurvivorPub: PlaySurrounDead
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 15.2 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 19% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Survival 15.8%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of a zombie looter-shooter with a strong focus on exploration and survival.
- #8 SCUM
91% matchMostly Positive74% of 122,922 reviews2025
Dev: Gamepires
Windows
Median: 11.9 hrsMean: 102.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 30% ★, Hunting 21.1% ★, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an incredibly detailed survival simulation with robust looter-shooter mechanics and character progression.
- #9 DayZ
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 456,703 reviews2018
Dev: Bohemia Interactive
Windows
Median: 39.6 hrsMean: 272.0 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: Survival 23.4%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Online Co-Op 19.4%, Shooter 13%, Co-op 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival experience that emphasizes the tension of looting and surviving in a hostile, post-apocalyptic open world.
- #10 Sons Of The Forest
89% matchVery Positive88% of 299,895 reviews2024
Dev: Endnight Games LtdPub: Newnight
Windows
Median: 14.9 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
Why similar: Survival 22.1%, Base Building 18.8%, Crafting 16.3%, Open World 12.8%, Co-op 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: It features high-fidelity base building and survival mechanics that challenge players to fortify against aggressive threats.
- #11 Mist Survival
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 14,042 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: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Survival 21.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A singleplayer-focused survival game that emphasizes base building and scavenging in a world overrun by the infected.
- #12 DeadPoly
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,800 reviews2022
Dev: TFL Games
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 19.5% ★, Looter Shooter 16.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Third-Person Shooter 10.4%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A low-poly looter-shooter that focuses on the core loop of scavenging, building, and surviving against zombies.
- #13 Winter Survival
88% matchMixed63% of 751 reviews2025
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 57%
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 27.9% ★, Hunting 22.2% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes environmental survival and crafting, providing a unique twist on the standard post-apocalyptic formula.
- #14 Subsistence
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,601 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.0 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 40.8% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.8%, Base Building 8.7%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore survival game that focuses heavily on base defense and long-term resource management.
- #15 Unturned
87% matchVery Positive91% of 561,138 reviews2017
Dev: Smartly Dressed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 30.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.5%, Shooter 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: An accessible yet challenging looter-shooter that features extensive crafting and survival elements in a zombie-infested world.
- #16 Survival Machine
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 669 reviews2025
Dev: Grape PickersPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 28% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.2%, Base Building 11.8%, Survival 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique co-op survival experience where players must maintain a mobile base while exploring a dangerous world.
- #17 Rust
86% matchVery Positive87% of 1,344,289 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.0 hrsMean: 416.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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 27.1% ★, Survival 20.4%, Crafting 17.2%, Building 9.8%, Open World 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: While more PvP-focused, its base-building and survival systems are among the most influential in the genre.
- #18 Outbreak Island
84% matchVery Positive80% of 906 reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Magicians
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: Driving 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 14.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Base Building 12%
Why You'll Like It: A survival horror game that emphasizes sandbox exploration and uncovering the mystery of an infected island.
- #19 Fargone
85% matchMixed69% of 559 reviews2022
Dev: RedDot Games
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 27.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Crafting 12%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A looter-shooter that incorporates sandbox building and survival mechanics in a gritty world.
- #20 Conan Exiles
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Survival 16.8%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 12.2%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a robust base-building and survival experience set in a harsh, unforgiving open world.
- #21 Valheim
82% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.5% ★, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.2%, Base Building 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an excellent survival and base-building loop that encourages exploration and character progression.
- #22 Miscreated
83% matchMixed66% of 31,585 reviews2018
Dev: Entrada Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 38.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 48.6% ★, Survival 17.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Open World 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival game with strong exploration elements and a focus on scavenging for gear.
- #23 Dysterra
82% matchMixed56% of 755 reviews2025
Dev: Reality MagiQ
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that features base building and combat against both environmental and human threats.
- #24 The Forest
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 665,921 reviews2018
Dev: Endnight Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 37.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 49.9% ★, Survival 17.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and base-building with a terrifying atmosphere and constant threats from mutant inhabitants.
- #25 Last Whisper
80% matchMixed66% of 191 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: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Third-Person Shooter 16.8%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Survival 12.6%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that supports online co-op and focuses on scavenging for survival.
- #26 HumanitZ
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 11,640 reviews2026
Dev: Yodubzz StudiosPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.2 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 20.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Crafting 12.7%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.8%
- #27 Crushed
81% matchMixed55% of 307 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 30.1% ★, Crafting 10.7%, Survival 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Base Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that prioritizes exploration and resource gathering to sustain your base.
- #28 Taora : Beginning
78% matchVery Positive87% of 2,228 reviews2023
Dev: Tulpar Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Taora : Beginning offers the limited introduction experience to Taora : Survival, an open world survival game with unique character building and crafting. Build and upgrade your base, and survive the zombie apocalypse!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 24.9% ★, Driving 13.2%, Third-Person Shooter 13.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Action RPG 8%
- #29 Road to Eden
81% matchMixed64% of 408 reviews2019
Dev: Zouking
Windows
Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.1% ★, Crafting 11.7%, Third-Person Shooter 10.7%, Building 9.3%, Survival 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on survival through crafting and building in a challenging, post-apocalyptic environment.
- #30 INCUR Survival
78% matchVery Positive84% of 103 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: Open World Survival Craft 37.8% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Building 13.9%, Survival 12.1%, Exploration 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure survival game that integrates building and exploration into its core gameplay loop.
- #31 Sunkenland
76% matchVery Positive81% of 22,996 reviews2023
Dev: Vector3 Studio
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 32.6% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
- #32 Gone: Survival
79% matchMixed44% of 308 reviews2020
Dev: Coden StudioPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 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: Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Crafting 14.9%, Base Building 13%, Survival 12.2%, Building 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person survival game that emphasizes the importance of crafting and building to stay alive.
- #33 Forever Skies
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 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 25.6% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Survival 9.8%
- #34 Volcanoids
77% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 27.1% ★, Crafting 11.8%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #35 XERA: Survival
76% matchMixed66% of 7,888 reviews2021
Dev: Spotted Kiwi Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 22.4% ★, Looter Shooter 13.9% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Crafting 9.6%
- #36 Survive the Nights
73% matchMixed66% of 6,335 reviews2025
Dev: a2z Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Looter Shooter 24.7% ★, Open World Survival Craft 23.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Online Co-Op 11.3%, Survival 10.3%
- #37 Zombie Survival Game Online
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: Zombie Survival Game Online LLC
Windows
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 21.1% ★, Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10%, Crafting 9.3%, Online Co-Op 8.6%
- #38 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
73% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 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 26.1% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Online Co-Op 10.8%, Survival 10%
- #39 The Infected
74% matchVery Positive85% of 6,893 reviews2020
Dev: DigX Studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 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 33.3% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Building 11.8%, Survival 11.3%
- #40 Plains of Pain
72% matchVery Positive85% of 692 reviews2023
Dev: Cobra Byte Digital
Windows
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 22.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Third-Person Shooter 10.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 9.7%
- #41 Drive 4 Survival
74% matchMixed65% of 303 reviews2020
Dev: M3M Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Drive 4 Survival is a struggle for survival mostly in the frozen wilderness, where you have to rely only on yourself and your car. Try to survive!
Why similar: Driving 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Shooter 9.7%
- #42 The Front
70% matchMixed68% of 10,753 reviews2025
Dev: Samar Studio
Windows
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.9% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.5%
- #43 Len's Island
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 7,615 reviews2025
Dev: Flow Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.9% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Building 12.8%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 11.3%
- #44 Shamania
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.5% ★, Crafting 14.6%, Survival 10.7%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Open World 7.8%
- #45 Voidtrain
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 9,176 reviews2025
Dev: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.2% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 10.1%, Online Co-Op 10.1%, Survival 9.3%
- #46 DREADZONE
71% matchMixed51% of 1,171 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: Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Crafting 16.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 14.2%, Building 11.7%
- #47 Once Human
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 167,251 reviews2024
Dev: Starry Studio
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 50.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.9%, Survival 9.5%
- #48 SmallZ
73% matchMixed47% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: skins.dog
Windows
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 26.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Crafting 11.7%, Building 9.9%, Base Building 9.3%
- #49 StarRupture
67% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 10.2%, Online Co-Op 9.5%
- #50 SURVIVAL: Postapocalypse Now
72% matchMixed56% of 8,877 reviews2019
Dev: TB Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 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 45.8% ★, Survival 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Crafting 8.1%, Open World 7.2%
- #51 IfSunSets
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,127 reviews2024
Dev: POLYMORPHPub: Smilegate
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.8 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: Open World Survival Craft 26.7% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Online Co-Op 11.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Action RPG 10.3%
- #52 Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
71% matchMixed48% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Tbjbu2 Originals
Windows
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Looter Shooter 18.6% ★, Crafting 9%, Base Building 7.6%, Online Co-Op 7.6%
- #53 Scrapnaut
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.8% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Building 11.7%, Survival 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%
- #54 Urge
69% matchVery Positive90% of 476 reviews2021
Dev: EnDrew
Windows
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 24.6% ★, Looter Shooter 14.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Base Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%
- #55 VEIN
65% matchVery Positive90% of 9,542 reviews2025
Dev: Ramjet Studios
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Survival 16.1%, Base Building 15.9%, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 10.2%
- #56 DARKEST DAYS
68% matchMixed49% of 4,678 reviews2025
Dev: NHN
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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: Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Survival 14.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 11%, Open World 10.6%
- #57 Nightingale
67% matchMixed67% of 17,841 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Online Co-Op 11.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.9%
- #58 Dune: Awakening
65% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.1% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Base Building 11.3%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Building 9.4%
- #59 Polygeddon
68% matchMixed42% of 64 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: Looter Shooter 19.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.5%, Third-Person Shooter 9.3%
- #60 PolyZ
66% matchMixed50% of 266 reviews2024
Dev: Thirteen37 Games™
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Imagine DayZ mixed with Escape From Tarkov, but in Low Poly. A persistent world survival game featuring PvP, PvE, crafting, base-building, and zombies infected with a contagious virus.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 23.1% ★, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Base Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Survival 9.9%