Games Like The Fifth Day

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: Survival 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Open World 14%, Robots 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly matches the theme of surviving in an open-world post-apocalyptic landscape dominated by hostile machines.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.5% ★, Survival 17.1%, Open World 12.5%, Multiplayer 7%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep sci-fi survival and building mechanics where you must contend with robotic threats across alien worlds.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Survival 32.7%, Open World 24.5%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Sandbox 13.9%, Co-op 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex engineering and survival in a sci-fi setting, allowing for the construction of machines and bases.

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 33.6% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A high-tech survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world where you explore ruins from a custom airship.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Survival 29%, Open World 21.7%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Sandbox 12.6%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a heavy emphasis on building machines and surviving in an open world filled with rogue robots.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.4% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 11.3%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A session-based survival game that emphasizes sci-fi technology and harsh environmental challenges.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.9% ★, Open World 16.6%, Survival 14.3%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Sandbox 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a vast sci-fi open world with survival, crafting, and exploration elements that feel expansive and futuristic.

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 46.4% ★, Survival 20.1%, Open World 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Crafting 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging open-world survival game that emphasizes base building and resource management against AI threats.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Survival 20.9%, Open World 13.1%, Crafting 5.7%, Multiplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an immersive sci-fi survival experience that excels in atmosphere and environmental storytelling.

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 28.2% ★, Survival 27.2%, Open World 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for open-world multiplayer survival, offering the core sandbox and crafting loop found in The Fifth Day.

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 43.8% ★, Survival 19.3%, Open World 12.7%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi sandbox survival game that focuses on exploration and building in a hostile alien environment.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Survival 37.7%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Crafting 14.2%, Co-op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A complex survival game that requires deep knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems to survive in space.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49% ★, Survival 19.4%, Open World 8.5%, Sandbox 7.6%, Crafting 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in deep space that blends humor with the harsh realities of maintaining life-support systems.

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

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic survival mechanics and base fortification in a world overrun by 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 40.3% ★, Survival 25.8%, Open World 13.9%, Zombies 7.7%, Crafting 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a tense survival experience with a focus on base building and defending against threats in an open world.

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 47% ★, Survival 15.9%, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique sci-fi premise where you build and upgrade a train to survive in a mysterious interdimensional void.

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%, Open World 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Multiplayer 11.3%, Crafting 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game set in a post-apocalyptic Eastern European region with a focus on RPG elements and crafting.

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 31.9% ★, Survival 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Open World 9.2%, Robots 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival looter-shooter that emphasizes high-stakes combat and scavenging in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 29.5%, Open World 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Zombies 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that emphasizes detailed crafting and base building to withstand the elements and enemies.

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: Survival 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 8.3%, FPS 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that offers a wide range of crafting and multiplayer interaction in a post-apocalyptic world.

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 25.7% ★, Survival 25%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Open World 13.2%, Multiplayer 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic MMORPG that focuses on survival, crafting, and navigating a dangerous, ruined world.

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: Survival 24.5%, Open World Survival Craft 23% ★, Open World 17%, Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Zombies 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A singleplayer survival game that focuses on scavenging and surviving in a vast, ruined world.

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 41.6% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 7%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a classic open-world survival experience with a heavy focus on crafting and base building.

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 39.8% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 10.3%, Multiplayer 9%, Zombies 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer survival game that emphasizes exploration and scavenging in an open-world environment.

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 35.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Open World 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, FPS 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on exploration and crafting within a persistent open-world sandbox.

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 33.2% ★, Survival 18.7%, Open World 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that focuses on building and crafting in a harsh, post-apocalyptic environment.

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 40.9% ★, Survival 18.5%, Open World 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.2%

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 41.7% ★, Survival 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Open World 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.1%

[Alpha] Explore, hunt, be hunted, kill, destroy, build... Fight in a colorful, devastated world that everyone is trying to take for themselves. Do it yours, but remember your main goal at the start of the day; try to survive one last day.

Why similar: Survival 44.6%, Zombies 17.4%, Sandbox 14.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Action 9%

Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that emphasizes exploration and overcoming obstacles in a desolate world.

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 38.9% ★, Survival 17.6%, Open World 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Crafting 6.4%

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 26.1%, Open World 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Zombies 9.1%, Multiplayer 9%

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 24.9% ★, Survival 18.1%, Open World 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Multiplayer 7.8%

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 38.9% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 12.6%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Crafting 6.4%

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 25.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 8.3%, FPS 7.1%

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 47% ★, Survival 19.7%, Open World 10.2%, Multiplayer 7%, Sandbox 4.1%

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: Survival 32.9%, Open World 21.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Zombies 15.3%, Multiplayer 5.4%

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.7% ★, Survival 22%, Open World 11.6%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Crafting 4.3%

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 37.9% ★, Survival 16.9%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Crafting 6.4%

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 32% ★, Survival 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Open World 12%, Multiplayer 8.3%

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.9% ★, Survival 23.8%, Open World 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 5.4%, Crafting 3.2%

Survive in a harsh and dangerous world after an alien invasion. Gather resources, craft equipment, fight mutants and massive monsters, use weapons, vehicles and robots, explore territories, defend strongholds and fight for survival.

Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Robots 18.1%, FPS 11.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Zombies 10.9%

"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 35.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Open World 10.5%, FPS 6.1%

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 42.8% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 14.6%, Crafting 7.2%, Sandbox 7.1%

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 35.9% ★, Survival 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Zombies 6.9%

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 34% ★, Survival 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Open World 11.2%, Multiplayer 7.3%

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 37.4% ★, Survival 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, FPS 7.4%, Sandbox 6.9%

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 47.4% ★, Survival 20.8%, Open World 10.6%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Crafting 5.2%

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 40.7% ★, Survival 18.2%, Open World 12.4%, FPS 7.8%, Multiplayer 7.2%

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

Why similar: Survival 31.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Multiplayer 14.9%, Crafting 11.7%, FPS 10.6%

Gone Survival is a first-person survival game for one player. Where you have many opportunities and a completely open world

Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Open World 13.8%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Crafting 7.9%

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 49.8% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Crafting 4.4%

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 39.1% ★, Survival 17.9%, Open World 13.5%, FPS 6.1%, Zombies 6%